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like to call to order the city Caucus

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meeting for Monday July 24th 2023

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we have four items for original

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consideration if the clerk would please

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read item number one item number one for

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original consideration a resolution

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calling for a public hearing on a

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moratorium on smoke and vape shops and

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similar uses in the city of Schenectady

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for purposes of developing modifications

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to the zoning ordinance regarding such

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discussed in committee with objection on

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consent item number two item number two

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for final consideration a resolution

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authorizing the abandonment of a portion

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of large Street

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this will be Mr palomini roll call

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be a roll call vote

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item number three for original

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consideration a resolution authorizing

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an amendment to the collective

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bargaining agreement 2021-2025 between

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the city of Schenectady and afscme

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Council 66 local 1037a

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discussed and committee without

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objection on consent item number four for original

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consideration a resolution amending

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2023-136 regarding an endorsement of the

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clinical conservation for the Southern

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Pine Community recovery program Grant

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discussing committee with objection and

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if there's nothing else to come before

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the city council caucus I ask for a

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motion to adjourn move Aaron

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Reverend James konicky for the prayer

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Heavenly Father we come before thee in

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our need grant that we welcome the

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stranger the Immigrant for we once were

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as well Strangers In a Strange Land

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grant that the scourge of addiction and

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addiction-related deaths be removed from

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our city provide healing where needed

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and comfort for survivors as well in thy

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great grace help us in accomplishing our

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common mission of service to your people

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give us always thy Abundant Blessings

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like to call council member Patrick who

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is the Pledge I pledge allegiance to the

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one nation under God indivisible with

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if the clerk would please read the I'll

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absent Mr Williams is absent Miss

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the clerk would be please read excuse me

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I've asked for approval for minutes of

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July 20 July 10 2023.

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mobile Miss Patrick second by Mr

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musubair all in favor thank you

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the clerk would please read any

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council for Monday July 24 2023 under

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official there were none under General

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an email from Mark Baker president of

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the soft lights Foundation regarding the

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health hazard of LED street lights and

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thank you as council members for any

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we have announced privilege of the floor

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related to the legislative agenda and I

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have no one signed up to speak

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so I will declare the public comment on

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we do have a roll call vote

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if the clerk would please read item

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a resolution authorizing the abandonment

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of a portion of large Street

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I'd like to move that make a motion that

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we table this item so that the language

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second all right all those in favor

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excuse me roll call

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all right the motion path

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privilege of the floor regarding General

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I have seven people who are signed up to

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just to remind speakers that

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the time limit is three minutes

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first person is Ed Levin Jr

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good evening Mr Mayor Cherry woman at

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Porterfield council members Mr Mayor you

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are responsible for reinforcement of the

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law in the city and to ensure Justice

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you are mandated by your oath of office

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and the Constitution look into my

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complaint of obstruction of justice and

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treason by these three judges

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you and these council members are

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obstructing justice by covering up these

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crimes committed by these corrupt judges

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keeping me out of the newspaper on my

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ethics complaint is not ensuring Justice

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it is a cover-up

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and a conspiracy would probably be my

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constitutional rights it is also a crime

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committed by everyone in front of me

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please don't look into this I want you

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all to go down with valetico because you

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are all corrupt and you all belong in

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jail for obstruction of justice

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judges oath of office include the

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undertaking to uphold the laws and

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Constitution of the United States any

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judge violating such undertaking loses

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jurisdiction resulting in his orders

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being void and he himself commits a

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reasonable offense against the United

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federal offense in the United States

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mispersion of treason is a federal

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offense committed when someone who has

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conceals such knowledge and does not

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inform the president federal judge State

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which none of you have done

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okay Mr Harper is here

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I'm not up to speed

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look I'm going to ask Gary there to give

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I want to talk to the folks that do the

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where that hydrant was taken out months

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it needs some attention and I don't want

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to I want to speak to the people that

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so that we can have a discussion about

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um so you could tell Donna

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I don't know I don't want him to just

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that'd be the proper thing call get a

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hold of me we'll set up a time and then

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I can meet with the people that actually

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what do you think you just can nod your

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no you can't say nothing

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yeah I think I'll leave it there I've

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had a rough day

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okay thank you thank you

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thank you president Porterfield

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right up the street at this very moment

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the skanky County Legislature is finally

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declaring a state of emergency regarding

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the New York City migrant crisis that's

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been going on for months now in the

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state of New York

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exactly two months to the day I called

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upon mayor McCarthy to put forward a

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resolution declaring a state of

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emergency here in the city

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he did nothing

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hundreds of undocumented immigrants now

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sit on our doorstep at the Super 8 hotel

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they came as I predicted they would

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courtesy of the Democratic mayor of New

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York City Eric Adams

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still mayor McCarthy did nothing

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Glenville passed a resolution calling on

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the county to act on this matter still

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we did nothing

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doing nothing it seems is what we do

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best at this point some of the city did

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do something however a gentleman named

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Danny alasha he owns the Schenectady in

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the Suites

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or on the same time the Rotterdam Hotel

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displaced American citizens some of them

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homeless some of them destitute

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to replace them with undocumented

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immigrants Danny was offered the same

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deal by the city of New York

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the only reason we're not in the same

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position today is Rotterdam tonight is

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the courage of Danny alasha if our

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do-nothing mayor had his way we would be

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dealing with the same crisis that

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Rotterdam is right now

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this will not be a new Schenectady until

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we have a new mayor thank you

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Tom Kennedy

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good evening everyone

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my name is Tom Kennedy I live in

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you know I watched uh with some trepidation in the last committee

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there was discussion about changing

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the zoning laws for the new

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location of the Cannabis place

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for those of people who aren't familiar

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a lot of residents that are

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there's nothing we can do about that horse is out of the barn

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I was just at my doctor's today and he

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told me that there's some people and he

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lives he's a doctor on Union Street

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there's some people that won't walk on

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that side of the street because they're intimidating this is usually the

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older uh older residents

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uh

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if you take a look at right next to it

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there's a picture

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there's a dance studio there and then

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there's a salon on the other side you

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can't see it but there's an elementary

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school very close to there

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so I think

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for those people who were in this

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Council

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who kept talking about lenses

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there's only one lens that we should

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have and that lens should be the

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residence of Schenectady

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the problem that we have is that every

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time I come in this place we're looking

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at the wrong lens

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the lens here is that we have to make

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sure that the kids

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that the older people

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that people have businesses in Union

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Street

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Unfortunately they have to live with

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that there

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but let's not have that again and I'm

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being told the next place is downtown

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Schenectady

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and I don't care if some council member

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here watch one of those buddies to have

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a place down on on State Street that's

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not where it should be that's for

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families and for residents

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and businesses

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and I tell you

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well we better start looking at is the

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nuisance that this marijuana is causing

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in this city because I don't think

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anybody could walk around here on summer

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league it was absolutely disgusting you

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couldn't go anywhere without smelling

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marijuana

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and that you had kids with babies you

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had a young uh girls with babies in

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their hand that had to suck in that

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smoke is ridiculous

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so I understand that you know that the

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Democrats you know thought it would be a

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good idea to do uh marijuana as a recreation thing

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I only have to find some way to spend

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you know find money to spend on their

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spending tax

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agenda

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but I would hope that this city council

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would put the residents of a city of

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Schenectady first

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and make sure that the next place if God

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forbid there is a next place

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that it's in a position where it doesn't

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impede business or affect children

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and or older residents

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and that's my only message tonight thank

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you thank you

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Rod Huber

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hello everybody I was here for maybe

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about a month ago and I talked about

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some things and I didn't get a call back

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from anyone am I chaplicker or what you

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know it's just awful

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my main concern is the roads

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nobody does anything

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you get 10 million dollars for a pool

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that you're going to use three months

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where are the taxpayers what are we

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going to get out of it anything and they

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call this new Schenectady really all

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they care about is at the casino and

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maybe Upper Union Street and whatever

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but I wish somebody would call me maybe

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we can get a plan in place and another

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thing it's too bad that these Council

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meetings aren't televised anymore

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because then the rest of the taxpayers

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would know what is going on

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it's very sad

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everybody have a good night thank you

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I'm sorry I know that you're leaving but

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I just want you to know that the council

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these Council meetings are televised

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they are televised

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um

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00:28:40,559 --> 00:28:42,659
yeah it is but it's not 16 anymore but I

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if you leave your name and a phone

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00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,279
number I can tell you how you can get it

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okay

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all right thank you

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Robin Barnhill

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good evening everyone

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um this is I'm Robin this is my husband

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Jerry

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um we live in Schenectady over 25 years

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and we own a house on Locust Avenue a

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beautiful home

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we spend a lot of money updating it and

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the reason why we're here because and

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I've been fighting this battle for over

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a year because we have a huge tree which

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is the city tree and it's overgrown and

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it's

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leaning on top of our roof and also

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I've lived in eight we live in 803

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locusts so 801 is actually that bad

407
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where the tree the limb of the tree is

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hitting

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the neighbor window and when it's a

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windy day out right and that's where her

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son bedroom is it's actually hitting the

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glass window

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and um I'm not asking for the treat if

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you cut down because I was told I went

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to General Services out on the first

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floor and like in the corner and I was

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told that it was a healthy tree that

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they would not put it down we're not

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00:30:09,899 --> 00:30:12,120
asking for the city to cut down the

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healthy tree what we are acting is for

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them to at least trim it

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you know I'm like past the retirement

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00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,120
age so I'm still working and I want to

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retire within the next year and I don't

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want to have to worry about

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the damage from the roof

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so I'm asking the city to please trim it

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and like I said I've been going back and

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forth over a year

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so that's what I'm asking

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thank you thank you

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Jamaica miles

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good evening I'm happy to have this

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opportunity to come and speak tonight

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00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,200
and there are so many things to talk

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00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:05,720
about but I'm gonna try to keep it brief

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one I'd like to remind folks I'm a proud

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00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:09,960
business owner here in the city of

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00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,340
Schenectady as a matter of fact our

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office is right across the street

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um and as a business owner it has been

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00:31:17,159 --> 00:31:19,200
an interesting journey to recognize what

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it means to be a business owner here in

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00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,440
the city of Schenectady and I appreciate

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that on Union Street there has been

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00:31:24,179 --> 00:31:26,760
increased traffic and so I imagine that

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00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,200
business owners want increased traffic

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00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,480
for the individuals to come and stop at

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their shops and know what's happening

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00:31:31,799 --> 00:31:34,080
going on there because we look for

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00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,240
opportunities for individuals to invest

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00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,760
in Schenectady and to open businesses so

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I hope that we can continue to do that

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with any multitude of businesses as it

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00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:45,240
comes to the safety of our children we

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00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,919
have bars and restaurants all throughout

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00:31:46,919 --> 00:31:48,059
this city

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00:31:48,059 --> 00:31:51,240
also people smoke cigarettes I don't

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00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:52,919
like the smell of smoke not even one

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00:31:52,919 --> 00:31:55,260
little bit not any cigarette or any type

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00:31:55,260 --> 00:31:57,360
of smoke but I recognize that when we

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00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,279
are in public places outside of our

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00:31:59,279 --> 00:32:01,799
parks where children are and no one is

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00:32:01,799 --> 00:32:03,960
supposed to smoke anything that we've

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00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,760
not come to a position where we can just

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00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,559
stop people from smoking walking down

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00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:09,779
the street unfortunately that's not

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where we are but more importantly I want

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to talk about what's happening on Becker Street between Brandywine and

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00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:19,260
Snowden it has long been known that

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00:32:19,260 --> 00:32:21,240
speeding and aggressive driving happens

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00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:22,740
down that street

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00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:26,279
constantly on a daily basis Sean Young

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00:32:26,279 --> 00:32:28,380
sent an email he's unfortunately not

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00:32:28,380 --> 00:32:30,120
able to be here this evening talking

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00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,700
about the most recent accidents that

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00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:36,059
have happened one in June a child from

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00:32:36,059 --> 00:32:39,649
Central Park was hit by a car

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00:32:39,659 --> 00:32:42,899
child was hit by a car the good news is

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00:32:42,899 --> 00:32:44,820
that child recovered she was able to

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00:32:44,820 --> 00:32:46,980
return to school it was not just the

482
00:32:46,980 --> 00:32:48,840
trauma of that child but also of her

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00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,840
friends who then were in fear oh my

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00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,460
goodness is she going to be okay are we

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00:32:53,460 --> 00:32:55,320
going to be okay and then let's go back

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just a couple weekends ago where at the

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corner of Linden and Becker two cars

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00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,179
collided ended up on the property of a

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home at the corner of Becker and Linden

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00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,820
inside that home less than 20 feet from

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where the cars were

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00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:11,700
laid

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Roman miles Malia miles a mean Lane

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00:33:15,679 --> 00:33:20,519
Aaliyah Lane and Emilian Lane five

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00:33:20,519 --> 00:33:23,700
children were inside that building just

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00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:27,179
feet away from two cars that crashed

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00:33:27,179 --> 00:33:29,960
through a gate destroying the property

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00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,380
just inches from the front door

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00:33:34,380 --> 00:33:36,659
individuals have asked that speed humps

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be added onto Becker Street as well as

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additional stop signs there are plenty

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00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,980
of police that police that area on a

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00:33:43,980 --> 00:33:45,539
regular basis they are not stopping the

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00:33:45,539 --> 00:33:48,059
cars at all hours of day but the humps

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that exist over about MLK they stop cars

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00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,220
from going quickly we need those same

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humps on Becker Street and I am sure

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00:33:55,019 --> 00:33:56,220
there are countless other streets in

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this city that would benefit from those

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humps as well so if safety of our

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00:34:00,899 --> 00:34:02,640
children and our community and the

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property is a priority for this Council

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and our mayor please look at how quickly

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we can add speed humps to Becker Street

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as well as additional stop signs thank

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00:34:12,540 --> 00:34:17,450
you

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I have no one else signed up to speak

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00:34:20,220 --> 00:34:23,460
so I declare the Public Public comment

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00:34:23,460 --> 00:34:26,639
on City business closed

520
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:31,550
miscellaneous business of the council

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00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:36,179
no one okay mayor it's all you

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00:34:36,179 --> 00:34:38,159
thank you madam president I appreciate

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00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:39,359
everyone when they come out in their

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00:34:39,359 --> 00:34:41,220
thoughts and comments for the city I

525
00:34:41,220 --> 00:34:44,460
just want to remind people that uh we

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00:34:44,460 --> 00:34:46,740
are preparing to hold an open

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00:34:46,740 --> 00:34:49,320
competitive exam for police officers in

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00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,899
the city of Schenectady both the

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00:34:51,899 --> 00:34:53,639
generalist and then Spanish-speaking

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00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:56,520
officers the last day to file for that

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00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,300
exam is July 31st and the exam is going

532
00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:03,660
to be held on September 9th so we

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00:35:03,660 --> 00:35:06,240
encourage individuals who are interested

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00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:07,740
in a career in law enforcement working

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00:35:07,740 --> 00:35:10,500
for the city to file for the applic or

536
00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:12,839
file the application for the exam take

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00:35:12,839 --> 00:35:15,180
the exam and hopefully that we'll be

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00:35:15,180 --> 00:35:17,040
able to hire him and they can join our

539
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,780
Police Department thank you madam

540
00:35:18,780 --> 00:35:20,880
president thank you mayor I also would

541
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,079
like to thank everyone for coming out

542
00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:25,380
tonight to voicing your concerns and I

543
00:35:25,380 --> 00:35:27,000
did mention at the last committee

544
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,220
meeting about we all did get the email

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00:35:29,220 --> 00:35:31,680
regarding the speeding and the accidents

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00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,040
plural that happens on Becker street so

547
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,900
um as I said then I'm not sure exactly

548
00:35:36,900 --> 00:35:38,339
what we could do about because the our

549
00:35:38,339 --> 00:35:40,260
city Engineers says that we have have to

550
00:35:40,260 --> 00:35:41,760
have traffic studies and all of that but

551
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,980
I think we're in a very crucial time

552
00:35:43,980 --> 00:35:45,480
right now because we're seeing speeding

553
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,640
all over the city so

554
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,260
um I have to look into what can be done

555
00:35:49,260 --> 00:35:51,420
more immediately and definitely that's a

556
00:35:51,420 --> 00:35:53,880
conversation with the mayor I would like

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00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,960
to miss um Mrs Barnhill I will refer the

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00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,260
your concern onto the department that

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00:36:01,260 --> 00:36:03,900
would take care of that and we could see

560
00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:07,670
hopefully we can get that taken care of

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00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,180
just want to again thank everyone for

562
00:36:09,180 --> 00:36:12,950
coming wish you a good evening

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00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,119
oh yes

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fifth Monday next Monday so there will

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00:36:17,460 --> 00:36:19,859
be no meeting so everybody gets the

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00:36:19,859 --> 00:36:22,380
Monday off and of course we'll be back

567
00:36:22,380 --> 00:36:24,660
here in August

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with that ask for a motion to adjourn

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Ed by Mr motiveran second by Miss

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00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:32,940
Patrick all those in favor I we are

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00:36:32,940 --> 00:36:35,960
adjourned have a good evening