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yeah yeah Albany City hospital I've
never heard of that you know take my
phone
I bet you it would be fun Memorial
I know there's you know child's hospital
but
that was a long time ago
couldn't find anything
for her no but we found it oh yeah
wow
so was it her
liquor yeah
especially stillborn or buried in
Potter's Fields right right
so it's nice
I wonder if her dad was a um
in the war
yeah yes your father was
um
they were in that they were in the early
20s so he might have been out of just
out of the war I figure he just died
yeah that's interesting
I'd like to call to order the
Schenectady city council committee
meeting for Monday July 3rd 2023
uh the first committee is finance I'd like
to call to order the finance committee
there are six items on the agenda
tonight first of which will be the
supplemental Bond ordinance for North
Ferry Street Pump Station by Safari
city council uh what we have here is the
supplemental bond issue for uh the North
ferry Street Pump Station originally
back in uh 2019 we hadn't passed the
bond ordinance for 24 million dollars
for the for the project we are not
borrowing 24 million actually our
borrowing is going to be 7.7 but as
we're going through the process of
finalizing uh our grants and our EFC uh no interest loan and low interest
loans uh DEC and the new and the New
York State Environmental facilities
Corporation want us to to amend uh that
uh amend that uh Bond resolution to the
with the total cost will be which is on
the next page of 25 million 233 5 24 25
or 525. so what we're looking to do is a
amended to what that total cost project
was going to be and that will help us go
along and be able to receive our uh the
balance of our grants and our uh low
interest loans and uh zero percent
interest loans
perfect thanks for any questions or
comments
there's an ocean
a little bit second all is in favor all
right the next item on the agenda is the
bond ordinance for water resource
recovery facility resilience project
okay yes
um okay now uh uh we are you know as you
know uh with the arpa and the New York
State uh there's they're starting to put
a lot of money into uh uh grants for uh
water and sword infrastructure uh what
we're doing here is uh the pumps at our
wastewater treatment plant right now are
old they're uh from 1972 and actually as
we built our new uh our new pump station
it's actually not
um I would say it has enough capacity if
there's a big storm for us to put the
fluid water because it's on
gravitational now it wouldn't be able to
put it back into the river so what we
need is a new pumps and electricity so
that we can pump the affluence the
waters back into uh into the river
without having back up throughout the
streets uh again this is one of those
projects uh we are setting this uh Bond
resolution up so that we can go out and
uh see what uh the type of uh grants
that we can get through this and we're
actually hoping to get at least 90
percent of Grants on this so this will help us uh tour that despite
passive resolution again we'll come back
when we actually we're going to do the
project and ask and borrow money if we
have to or get money but I'm pretty sure
that we're going to get at least 90
percent grants
any questions or comments
the next item on the agenda is the bond
ordinance for Washington Avenue Pump
Station this again is the same thing but
we want to go out and get uh get uh
money and grasp for this but like I said
you could tell uh that that pump station
right now is not operational and these
all new electrical stuff that you can
tell when we have these large storms and
stuff on them just get an SEC parking
lot it's uh flooded and then uh below uh
behind uh what's that called the Frog
alley gets flooded down there it's
because the pot the pump station's not
turning on and so this is the whole week
to read get grants and money to redo it
and I know that this is one of the
projects that we have money put away too
if we can't get the total amount of
Grants and stuff we have this is going
to be done I think no matter what but
that's what we're asking for
so this um so giving this uh
is through this positions us better yes
okay yeah
any other questions or comments
um second all those in favor all right
and I don't love this one now but the
secret that they're going on the table
thing it is not here yes okay it is okay
so the next item on the agenda tonight
is the Seeker for kids
water resource recovery facility
resiliency project
right this is this is a uh uh the Seeker
uh this was uh VEC asked us to put this
on uh the Seeker for us to put on even
with our bond resolutions even though
these uh as you read it uh The Pump
Station stuff is mostly for uh
what what's it called for uh repairs and
maintenance and uh putting pipes so it's
a type two and really it's not gonna uh
it's not gonna affect the environment at
all but they want us to put they wanted
to put us in there to to see uh you know
for them again uh what I was told was as
we put this as a Seeker it'll help us
put her higher on the list
for that so uh Miss uh Porterfield had mentioned one of the
things that we will conduct a secondary
by your move when it's completed uh but
like I said I think as we go through it
before before the end of the stuff it
will be satisfied our review
so there's no impact on it now and it's
a type two so any questions
I just want to clarify that in the uh
evaluate evaluation analysis it said
that the city is going to conduct a
secondary environmental review to verify
the findings and I just wanted to
clarify Mr because I've not seen that
before so I just want to make sure
before we sign this assign this or if
that's something you know I'm going to
get clarity on that correct and I'll
give back to you and I'll talk to Mike
Miller on that to get back to us but
this is something they want us to put in
the both of the resolutions and they
want us to have the secret
on as a resolution also this came from
director from Duc right so with that
being satisfied the number yeah uh so if
there are no other questions or concerns
can I get a motion with having that
clarification also yep I'm a little bit
second always a favor all right uh the
next item on the agenda is the 2023
budget reallocation pursuant to
agreement between the city of
Schenectady and the police benevolent
Association for 2023 yes in March of 20
2.3 we the city council passed a
resolution for the labor and agreement
between the PBA and the city of
Schenectady which included a raises and
a different Financial issues uh at that
time even though we uh put in that what
we thought was going to cost us
for some reason we forgot to actually
come to appropriate the money at the
council to appropriate that money so
we're here actually asking you know to
appropriate the cost of of uh of those
raises and stuff
and I have a list I think on the second
page or sort of where it's going
and the total amount thank you any
questions or comments
and the last item on the agenda is a
follow-up on the article contracts uh Mr
Ferrari yes Miss Diaz not going to be
here today I thought more Reese was
going to be here by things coming later
uh on the contractor issues uh we've
actually have a we're out to contract
with the bcni and with the Schenectady
foundation for the food and also with
Proctors for for uh uh putting in the
handless washers and stuff like that so
we're moving forward on that the two
weeks went by so fast that we had so
much to do I didn't get really get in
contact as we spoke I didn't really need
contact the other agencies but I'm
you're working on it so we got these
three with three more moving in so every
week when we're trying to get at least
another one in to figure it out
so uh you know and but you know like I
said I told Proctors and all these
agencies come in do the work let's go we
got a contract time I'll go out there
and get it done right
so we want to we want to get spend the
money as soon as possible
thank you I wish I wish I had more
fulfilling uh stuff I try to just went
by it so fast I didn't even realize that
it was two weeks already
questions or comments
hearing nothing I'm just going to keep
this on the agenda absolutely yep any
other items that will fall for finance
committee we should do it during a
second all's in favor all right hi and I
want to thank you very much
so the next I'd like to call to order
Public Safety Committee we have one item
on the agenda tonight instead of
discussion producing City speed limits
at 20 miles per hour
thank you this was a carryover from two weeks ago
um and I'd like to ask Mr Lucio if you
could talk to us about
um
the results or the information that he
has from the Kings Road demonstrations
project
thank you so invest Community meetings
uh the before of information
um went back and one of the requests
that was made was to look at data
earlier so that we could do
comparison from the earlier information
so this is somewhat of an abbreviated
version of it we were able to
movement
hmm
so we were able to collect some data
from March 13th through March 19th it is
not totally Complete because that wasn't
the time period when they were
installing it and testing them but I
think we got sufficient enough
information that you can look at and uh
take some data so just as a refresher
there were seven nodes there two on
different sections of Kings Road we're
ready to go one
um mean that there's limited data on
there so it's just going to show that
um
you can read this but I can get any
copies of it so this is comparing the
volume
from the march to the May dates give you
an example we'll go to uh
drive and in March there were 10 000
Vehicles going Southbound for the week
and
the neighbors 15 000. so it's in the
same area and there's definitely reasons
for fluctuation but uh
just wanted to be able to give you that
information
setting the average
the 50 highest speeds
some of them are very similar some of
them are a little off one's down by
McDonald Avenue compared to the March
was 32.39 miles per hour and in May it
was 38.33
again some of them are very similar
going the other end at Albany and Kings
Road in March it was 19.96 and in May it
was 21.4 and not a huge difference the
largest difference you're seeing is that
the MacDonald Avenue patch
this is the difference in traffic
volumes between the two dates the
blue ones are from March and the brown
and tan ones are from May so you can see
the difference in the count
relatively similar but not you're never
going to see exactly
and this is 85
percentile speed so this is really
important this is what we're looking to
see you know what the difference would
be
through relatively close to each other
not major changes
um
the Note 7 which is on the bridge that's
sort of shows the largest discrepancy
between 30 and maybe three and six for
37 miles an hour
I believe that's all I have for you
um if you look at the speeds overall
in March the March numbers with about
nine percent of total vehicles that were
over 35 miles an hour
um and in the May it's about uh
15 or maybe 15 over the speed limit so
if that only did increase
14 percent
so again a March nine percent of the
traffic was driving over 35 miles an
hour and in May 15 14 right
yeah
goodness questions on that information
I'm going to ask Chris if he could uh
chime in on this we've had some
discussion of cetc and they provided a
little guidance for us
so for our last meeting I reached out to
the executive director at the Capitol
Regional Transportation Council it's the
new name of the cdgc they provided me
with the D.O.T speed limit guidance
paper that they're going with that kind
of lays out what we need to do to be
able to change it generally we have to
with States here cities and Villages
sets speed limits on highways with under
jurisdiction New York state vehicle
contraction while we enter and I talked
about it section 1643 right here we will
need an engineering study by an engineer
first in traffic which I worked with
quite a few of them and they do have
some methods that they State here that
they want you to go by to determine if
it's an applicable situation to reduce
the speed limit so that is the next step
that I'll be taking is working with the
dot and one of our Engineers on retainer
to complete these steps under the
vehicle traffic law so that we can move
forward with this corridor
and if I can just add for a second
although it's not radar well we're
hoping that the information that we're
collecting here would be acceptable a
new uh radar that's one of the questions
we're going to ask
yeah oh I don't know if I can call him
do we need to do that piece before we
can do the demonstration project on
Kings Road yes
yeah I don't I think it's smarter to
just go and then the college
demonstration because that could set a
precedent of what's demonstrated you can
do a demonstration and then we're kind
of
you know sub
going going around a lot so I would
rather keep them in place so that the
mpo has sent me to this
go to the pde I'll work with the dot who
I work with all the time anyways and
we'll we'll get something set up
any other questions or comments
yeah
that's okay so um so are you saying that
after the the speed signs were put in
traffic went off
it was there was a higher percentage of
class people going over 30. what I said
is is in the March numbers nine percent
of the total on the traffic were going
over 35 miles an hour and that could be
I had to go to that number because the
buckets that that information is
provided goes by five then it goes and
since 30 is a legal speed limit yeah I'm
stuck in the middle there I can't say 25
to 30 or 30 to 35 so if I'd pay 30 to 35
to be fair because
so the March numbers were
nine percent of the total Vehicles were
exceeding 35 miles an hour and 14 in the
medium but we're talking a couple
hundred thousand feet
all right so once we do this we'll take
some more numbers
all right thanks any other questions or
comments
electric um I just want to get a sense
of whether you guys think we
think we're just back on in two weeks or
should we wait um I could put it back on
when I have something concrete I'll just
put it on Michael's okay yeah it would
give me two weeks might be two types but
I know that actually
you know we yeah it might be a little
quick but we also have a big break after
which is good with a dark Friday coming
up so Monday I mean so we'll be able to
get something hopefully by August we'll
get it and I I want to work with John
who really haven't sat down and gone
through all this and how much this data
is going to be acceptable by like John
was saying if if we can if we can get it saves us a lot of time because this
data is so readily available right but
it is new to a lot of people a lot of
communities do not have this kind of
technology so readily available right
I'm just using video detection as
opposed to here we go
right thank you very much uh definitely
Mr Wallen uh one of the things I was
going to ask is I know there are
probably residents within this area of
the city within Kings Road specifically
watching for updates do you feel
comfortable providing just that estimate of how long they're having
realistic timelines and expectations
will help gauge their understanding of
how much additional time is needed is
there a ballpark yeah if you give me
the month of July I should have a whole
program for this area because like
because the people I know and the
information I already have and all the
steps just give me until the first
committee meeting in August when I
should have a plan put together thank
you you got it any questions or comments
hearing none I will wait for Mr wallet
to provide that new information We'll
add it back to the agenda okay if there
are no other items to look forward uh
Public Safety Committee can I please
have someone
thank you
all in favor
I'd like to call to order City
development and planning we have nine
items on the agenda uh the first item is
to authorize the issuance of a local
permit number 676 to Destin chartered
Prep School
for 530 Franklin Street where there is a
Charter Prep School it is the building
one block up behind us on Franklin
Street
they would like to install a blade sign
as we call them typical you would see on
the 400 block of State Street and some
of those
bladesign will overhang it right away on
Franklin Street Planning and Zoning has
approved it and we see no reason to say
otherwise
any questions comments
second all's in favor aye
item number two call for public hearing
to authorize the city to abandon and
sell a portion of the public right away
at the corner of State Street and South
Church Street that one are we pulling
that one
so this one we're going to push off for
the next uh the next meeting as we get
some more information for the council
okay item number three authorize the the
mayor or his designated to enter into an
agreement with New York State Department
of Transportation for the Craig Street
pavement and Bridge Rehabilitation
project yeah so this is an exciting one
because this is a long time coming this
is to enter into a master agreement with
the D.O.T for our Craig Street project
this was our four-year project that
started with a the most successful
linkage study in the Capital District
history on Craig Street uh it's also
known as the corridor of Hope linking
Main Avenue and Albany Street along
Craig this was right into some funding
issues in the middle covid you know did
not help us necessarily but we were able
to secure all the funding it is now a
roughly nine and a half million dollar
February Fund in progress project so
this is the master agreement for design
uh 95 paid for by the federal government
and state in the amount of
938 thousand dollars so once we have
this master in place we can start with
our survey and design we're hoping to
have the project designed this year in
the next bid for next year instruction
most likely due to the size of the
project we will be doing work to the
bridge over 890
um reducing the width you know we have a
lot of things that we're looking to do
on this quarter probably making um the
largest Public Works projects I've done
since Erie Boulevard so it's an exciting
project and this is step one
any questions comments
Miss Williams Oh Mr one what does that
mean with Daniel because I know
definitely hear your office job is a lot
you can see a lot of that from the
projects that you're managing definitely
going toward the city does that mean
you're having more people tied it's one
project for longer or for this project
this is just more on you to manage so
we're going to be working with a team of
Engineers led by MJ Engineering in
Clifton Park and they are going to be
dedicating you know an engineering staff
of you know three or five people full
time to designing it and then I'm just
gonna have to stay on this but also this
is going to be a big project with the
development department because they were
so you know growing it but this is you
know out of all of our projects even
though this has been one of our top
priority projects for you know five
years so we're really just excited to
just see it because you know we've
talked to the community about all these
projects and really try to deliver and
this has been four years of talking
computers understand necessarily how
hard it is to fund a project of this
size but we were able to do it so we
just want to get going and you know and
do it and this is in the vein of you
know cotton Hollow Bridge four and a
half million dollars and did that you
know we're just starting next month
actually two weeks we're starting
Francis I mean Forest Holland and Forest
and Maine you know so we're really
putting a lot of investment into the
communities there Mount Pleasant no but
uh no I don't think this is going to be
a problem for me bandwidth-wise
hopefully too I'm going to have some
projects
sun setting you know unless there's some kind of an
ARP around two which is gonna inundate
me again let's hope actually not for
them
thank you you got it yes so
yes Mr so I was just thinking that I
know being a part of someone who's
planning meetings um that really had a
pretty significant Community engagement
I would say it's really impressive I was
wondering are you know you have to kind
of communicate that back out to the
people who are part of that group or
something we're going to have another
Community engagement session once we get
to it so what we have to do is remember
um much like everything else a linkage
study is a linkage study you know you
look at it you engage with the community
and you find out what they want but now
this is engineering so this is a you
know this company is going to do a
complete survey of the entire right away
you know what can we actually do how do
driveways affect it what are our sight
lines there's going to be a lot so
certain things may change certain things
may you know not be ideal and then we're
going to have to go and say okay this is
what we're doing because we've been
holding these meetings at the Electric
City Bar and they've been very
successful I think we have a good plan
of how to engage with the community at
this point through a series of you know
almost entertainment and trying to uh
you know we do Raffles now we try to
make it interactive and fun and we're
going to have another one of those once
we have our realistic uh design and not
just
make sure yeah we have to we can't just
show up and say okay now here it is
it'll be it's too much also some people
probably don't remember this is going
back two years ago to what we talked
about so uh and I think it's a good uh
good time to do it because we've just
had two Community meetings uh one at
Sikkim and one at the Mount Pleasant
Library for our second Lincoln study
which is for Albany Ukraine which we
touched on this and gave them the update
so I think the community is kind of
they're ready to see some progress but
we will not believe that we will engage
with it
anyone else right so thank you very much
for that and yes it has been a while but
it's coming it's happening that's
exciting
all right so instead of motion
second all in favor aye
okay
you're Paul okay all right item number
four to award bidden contract uh request
for approaching annual thing uh the sodium hypochlorite
okay so like it says we use this uh
sodium hydrochloride every year the
chemical is used for uh City Wastewater
we received a bid from GCI Jones to
Sarasota the amount was uh ninety one
thousand dollars is that correct
one of the things that we did have a
note on is that um the company's gonna
hold pricing the pricing on
chemicals right now is just
exponentially growing so one of the
things we're going to do is Bid this now
twice a year again take a semi-annual
bid to try to mitigate the cost of
increases as we go forward so for right
now uh this is where we're going but
we're looking to authorize GCI Jones for
91 800.
second Allison Davis
item number five award and business
contract for two contracts for the Rice
Road fluoridization Improvement project
yep so this is down at our Rice Road
water treatment facility that we have
there uh the facility is in need of some
repairs it says the fluoride it's
a chemical it uh it degradates things
down there so what we're hoping to do is
demolish and reconstruct bulk storage
and the buildings and the associated
infrastructure uh as if you were to go
down there you would see that the
constant
chemical down there it just starts to
break down the facility as you need so
we haven't done this in quite a while we
did put it out we have uh Facebook let
me show you what we had we had two
general contractors good and three
Electrical uh Schultz we have worked
with before put in the low bid in
O'Connell electric we're working with
O'Connell right now at our pool project
uh they've been great to work with so
the two bids that we're looking award
would be Schultz for our general and
O'Connell for our electrical
a second all those in favor aye have a
great fourth all right you do the same
thank you thank you
well the next item on the agenda is the
municipal endorsement for Sikkim
applications for the near to New York
State Department of Environmental
Conservation so Sikkim is trying is
doing a project where they're going to
be doing
um
converting 82 000 pounds of food waste
over the next three years so they're not
asking us for any money but in order for
them to apply for this grant they need a
resolution of support from the
municipality so that's what this ask is
all the information is there in your um
in your packets
and so I'm asking tonight if we would um
support their application
any questions comments
a little bit yes second all those in favor aye
the next three items are for property
sales item 789 which will be done in
executive session
so um I'll move that we go into
effective session second
um
we're an executive session the public
would have to leave