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well of course the Schenectady city
council committee meeting for Monday
August 7th 2023 the first committee is
finance
thank you I would like to call the
finance Community department on the
course item is the give Financial year
2023 2024 Grant award assistantship
good evening
I am here to request the acceptance of
the give
2023-2024 Grant award this will be the
10th year that we've receive the funding
the total funding amount for the city of
Schenectady is 481
687 dollars
any questions
comments go ahead please and so the
total brand of 1.2 million part of it's
going to be shared by the police it's
the police department D.A probation and
Sheriff as well yes ma'am
I I wasn't used to seeing the sheriff on
the GitHub yes we the sheriff's been on
there for a small amount 30 or 40 000 I
think
any other questions
all right thank you the next item is The
Grand Tour Community hiring panel
research and evaluation
some food
so this is a new Grant fraternity for us
with the amount of forty nine thousand
nine hundred and seventy seven dollars
given by DCJS in partnership with the
Flynn Institute to conduct research on
our new community hiring panel that we
instituted a few years ago they want to
know kind of the history of it and what
difference it is making if any so the
other agencies can duplicate it around
the state
so all this money would go to Finn
Institute we would accept it and then
we'd pay them out as they work on it and
they would conduct a uh the research
provide a formal report that would be
made public as well all right thank you
any other questions
so all if you ever the next item is
discussion passport
thanks to Williams
thank you so I wanted to bring this item
up for just a discussion to understand
if it's been an issue that's been
identified among some of the other
council members but also with the mayor
I was actually brought forward to me by
a resident who's sitting in the room
tonight ran into a bit of an issue with
getting conflicting information when
parking in the last parking lot now
after bringing conversations with Mr
colon recognizing that there's a
difference between parking issues Within
These private Lots but also within the
city I thought that that would be an
important
talking points I understand whether or not these types of
applications and the persons that
individuals are being directed to speak
to so this resident had an issue
reference one of the lot members and
they told them completely information
which ultimately resulted in them
getting a ticket and as I imagine you've
all also recognized with some of the
kiosks that are located in our downtown
areas I've experienced issues myself
with the coins not being received or the
dim Lighting on some of the receptacles
is
cope for my Able Body eyes so I can
imagine for members of our age Community
I want to make sure that we're not
putting in place barriers that are
inhibiting people from patronizing some
of our local small businesses that are
relying on this foot traffic and I think
anything that is cumbersome or putting
in place restrictions to that is an
issue so I would like to just open it up
for conversation I know for myself I
would absolutely like to see whether we
can update all of our kiosks to
incorporate having cash I know for
myself
I there's another point in my in my
day-to-day that I'm carrying quarters
and I don't even know how feasible it is
for you to go to a local Deli or corner
store and get quarters so I think that
alone kind of warrants us to pause and
then ask that as we're Expediting this
technological Revolution within
Schenectady making sure that if one is
meeting our intended outcomes but also
two not leave them behind in each
Community which is so important and
vital to our just long-term longevity
so um I can add to that that I have
encountered where the kiosks are not
working
and they I didn't want to use the credit
card because that's your option I don't
want to download another app on my phone
um and so it wouldn't take the quarters
and what I ended up doing was actually
taking a picture of it and showing
because I didn't get a ticket I showed
the picture it's like it's blocked it
won't work
um so you know that's what I did in that
instance but in other institutions I
found the ticket because it just didn't
work
um so
I I think that we need to do something
because there are people who don't
cannot Avail themselves to the app or
choose not to
um
and they're not always working sometimes
they're out of order they're not working
I don't know what how it works when
people aren't using
um their credit cards or we there's
nothing even honored that I can see to
report if there's a problem so um I did
ask Mr Williams if he had spoken to the
chief of the police about this and if
they he had any input so I didn't have
the opportunity to speak to Chief
Clifford I don't like speaking on behalf
of individuals but in our brief
conversation he mentioned that he's also
uh had personal issues with the system
himself so I don't think that's in an
area of concession I think it's more or
less how do we put in place the
appropriate solution uh definitely uh
adding apps to my phone is not nothing
it's not it's nothing that I am
uncomfortable with as a up-and-coming 33
year old but making sure that I'm not
answering only for my vantage point
because you always say how you see the
situation is based on where you sit but
definitely recognizing that hey is there
an opportunity for us to
revisit
these parking kiosks to see if there's
the ability to upgrade our current
devices
or can we just have designated roads
that are solely metered or how do we
just provide more additional education
to visitors and also residents just
identifying through signage here's how
you properly download the app if you
have any issues here's a real-time
person you can speak to to help walk you
through some of your concerns and it's
not just pushing someone to another
operator who's not available
no one else has ever happened any other comments on this so I would
like to know and I guess this is the
question for the mayor our
there like two generations of the
parking meetings I don't mean the older ones but it was quarters only but
the newer kiosks are there
ones that are newer than the ones like
they're right out in front of me selling
oh well
so glad you're here I used to be in
charge of the future
so there are two generations
um the new generations I believe it was
last year we upgraded at Mathis Chris is
10 or 15 of them um some new silver
panels and two I'm assuming those are
the ones that are better lighted than
the other ones uh the other ones are the
original that have been working
regularly daily we get a report in our
parking division that says what kievps
are working and which kiosks are not
working and the reason for it and that
usually one of our parking guys goes out
and fixes them so this morning we ran a
report and of the 45 kiosks we had one
that has been dead since June 19th that
they're working on and then we had six
other ones that alerted us status one
that will not accept money because it's
full and the other ones are three of
them need the batteries replaced soon
because they're about to die uh one of
them was a paper feed error and another
one was a coin unit error so those came
in between August 4th and this morning
and then they usually fix the morning
Monday through Friday and then the uh
one of the parking Vision members come
in they'll fix them and then they'll get
a new report ramp
so out of the 45 there's only
um seven that aren't working properly
well actually it's not really seven
because one of them just needs to be
emptied with its money is that yes
there's one that shows a percent of max
amount of coins has been reached that
was as of the fourth at 2 40 in the
afternoon and so and the parking people
are able to go out on the same very same
day and fix them because of this report
is that yeah so usually they run this
report in the morning
um the supervisor comes in so they I
don't think she runs it in the afternoon
every morning Monday through Friday when
she comes in she wants to report and
then they'll try to fix whatever the
issue is
I guess then what happened with the one
that has an injunction since June 19th
what's the problem it says communication
failure failure total error so that's
down in The Stockade I do not know what
that is but I can certainly look into it
tomorrow morning
I do not know what the uh I think the
communication failure was similar to
what we were having two years ago when I
was in traffic we had six or seven of
them that kept on causing issues over
and over again and that's when the
engineers helped us replace the I think
10 or 15 units for the new the doors and
guts on them and so that report include
all of the newer New Generation yeah
doing an old ESPN I can leave this video
if you'd like
um another question just in terms of so
in terms of complaints that you receive
has that how have you found the
complaints in terms of these machines
versus the
so I just I asked the traffic Lieutenant
today um ourselves on the agenda if the
complaints have been up and they said
that they have preceding reducing
complaints they haven't received as many
usually it is people have errors on
using the machines
um not the machines themselves but
actually trying to figure out how to use
the machines
equipment
to cross-check against
a federation yeah so we cannot know it
right now that the traffic I'm sorry the
parking enforcement officers when they
go down there they are starting not to
issue tickets when they when they're not
functioning
so there's usually one officer that
works downtown in this area and that's
where the most the kiosks are and he
does not do tickets when they're
malfunctioning
go ahead please is there a number that
the community can contact if they're
running into any issues or have any
concerns so Monday through Friday nine
to five or eight to four I'm sorry we
have our Traffic Division which
unfortunately I do not have that phone
number off top of my head
either be on our website and it's also
on the kiosks I believe in the tickets
if they unfortunately receive one when
they should be coach foot yes it's the
uh eight to four Monday through Friday
there's somebody live there that can
answer their questions
in this follow-up discussion um would
you be able to provide or suggest the
differentiations between both of those
generations and then is there any
projected plans to fully upgrade to the
second generation of remote models I can
get with engineering and see if they
have
thank you
uh yeah so I've been working with SPD
since we got the kiosk report
um we did operate I can get a quote to
see what it would be to upgrade
remaining kiosks because I know the new
upgraded screens
more vibrant and colorful I just wanted
to also address the cash issue I will
ask about that but at the time of these
the issue with the caches in order to
take bills it is in power issue it
of energy to take bills for you to
disperse the bills so we didn't do that
because in order to do that they want
them to actually be hardwired so right
now they're solar powered so we move
them around we actually have both of
them every couple of years we see what's
making money we move them around
and they're just mounted into the
sidewalks but if they require power
that's a whole other animal that we
really weren't prepared for so coins are
easy because it's just a tumbler you
know it records it credit cards actually
use very little power you know you slide
it it just it sends a message to the
modem and then that goes out what the
readers for money that that's a whole
other thing that's why they said that if
you want solar we don't know so many businesses now
we're going cashless you know blowing
this back everything's going cashless
and I'd also say that the app has been
really successful you know we are
partnered with Metroplex with the app
that actually we kind of have a we have
an agreement with them to use it and it
has been very successful even Mike Fahey
our traffic enforcement officer out
there he's seen the app as being very
successful he thought he'd get a lot
more pushback a lot of people are using
it but I do also understand that even
people such as my hand
have talked to me about the difficulties
in the app and they don't want to use it
and you know they just want to come down
and do it with some Kettle so I I hear
it as well but you know I'll look at it
upgrade it and see what that would be to
see that the newer screens I do think
sometimes people struggle seeing them
you know I think people prefer to almost
be hired but they're Ada so that if
you're in a wheelchair you can see them
whereas if you were six feet tall you're
kind of doing this which is also tough
but a parent wheelchair it has to be at
that bike so that you're not
the information is yeah we do sometimes
have issues with communication failures
things like that but lately we've been
on a good Street for a few operation
what is that is that okay good I'll get
a quote for you we're doing our capital
budget right now I can just kind of roll
that in so we can talk about what it is
and which ones we could upgrade if we're
just talking about downtown too we've
been doing selective upgrades to upgrade
certain ones and ones that get the most
because really we have some that get
very high generating revenue and then we
have some that are really low generating
Revenue so we're trying to put the money
into the ones that generate Revenue
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sometimes we forget to do like continued
audits so I think as we look to continue
to improve on the city schenectady's
recent developments I think this is an
area that we should definitely look into
to make sure that we have continued to
identify as some of these concerns to
make sure every member in our community
feels right
any other questions so would you like to
follow up with us or you I can get the
information back from AC Whipple and Mr
salon and I can come back to the concert
okay
thank you thank you thank you thank you
the next item is Paulo artwork contract
and let's Super Auto
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city council mayor again we're talking
for Arco as our last meeting we
discussed about sending letters which we
did I sent out letters and emails uh and really uh I think we woke some
people up because we've got a lot of
responses the only people who did not
respond to us was Cocoa house the
Kiwanis Club uh the habitat and the
Empowerment Center but a habitat just
contacted me uh recently they says you
know because of the all the new uh
employees and stuff you know they're
just a little slow to responding but
we're an ethical habitat they type in
today today we just signed another
contract our contract with Sikkim uh
Schenectady Foundation is going to be
right behind them we're really close to
the contract for Schenectady uh Green
Market uh C and uh
just lost my train of thought here but
uh like he says the letter that we sent
out uh we asked them to uh in fact
should I would you guys like a copy of
it yeah yeah
so I'm just gonna take it fast out so
where we asked them to send a letter uh
by August 16th uh just to put us in the
process of where there are and where we
want to go I asked them too is to let us
know uh thank you
let us know if there's any changes or
problems that they're having or if
to let us know so that we can continue
with this process going forward
well I thought I thought the letter was
very successful going out because we did
get such a good response
anybody have any other questions about
Arthur yes yes
did we get a response from the
environment
uh
the aquatics not after I sent this thing
out but we got the response a week
before where to ask you once again to
reconsider funding them
which I think we spoke about last time
I had them look back at their
application because you know they were
saying oh no we when we applied we said
we were going to do this I asked them to
re-revaluate their what they saw in
their application and call me back which
they will do but I I know that they had
done other work in you know with the air
ducts which was part of the thing that
says you know let let me know where that
where you are with that and how far
they're gone with that because it would
have I think it would have fell into
that time period which they said they're
going to start the project
um we have uh bids are going out for
Miracle on Craig Street and maybe by the
end this month or the beginning of
September they're doing we have the
Hamilton art centers get ready to uh us
we're going to run the bid out for that
uh we just spoke with the boys and girls
club during the week and they uh they didn't realize they had to go
out the bidding but he says no you have
to go out today so so we got that
working uh I again
we can't find this contact information
for Kiwanis Club so you guys on the
Qantas Club please let us know I think I
was supposed to let you know that I I
will try okay yeah okay tomorrow
yeah that's right in the meantime you
got picnics on the blanket
uh
All In All In All I thought the response
was very well uh with the Harbor House
with the YWCA they're going to come and
meet with us to let us know I also asked
the Miracle on Craig and Hamilton to
maybe come in and present
to to the council and stuff uh you know
going forward or what you know we'll
it looks like for them and their project
so what is the Harbor House it's
actually come and do uh we're going to
come and discuss the numbers you know
they're coming to actually to meet with
us at you know and financing to see what
the numbers are
because I believe uh they're very close
to getting their commitment and I and I
think maybe they might ask for the
extension so that they can get that to
fulfill the Gap is this the meeting on
the 24th that you're talking about uh I
don't I don't know
well I know I don't know how many
meetings there are yeah okay maybe
that's the one
is that the one
yeah
so at this point in time we um we're
giving people until the 16th to respond
yeah and then by then by our next
committee meeting we will know it's from
everyone but sure yeah we should know
but like I said got people moving and
you know we're getting responses and
they're starting to talk to us more so
it must not not enough and actually too
the other big thing that happened is you
know uh
we've learned who's in charge now
because there's really some
organizations went through two or three
different uh people Boys and Girls Club
you know the the gentleman Scott just
started a couple uh at the end of April
May you know he wasn't even you know uh
blank said he didn't know that he had
these things out so we're working on
that but they already they got
information in and uh the pre uh the
previous uh paperwork and so we're all
working on that to move forward so it's
a big question you know I think they were surprised
that you know we're calling to call and
writing and emailing them so we're
trying to hit all uh trying to hit all
the Avenues
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so I just want to make sure we don't
gloss over the I guess the status of the
Aquatic Center just because it is one of
the public products that I've noticed
um has there been a formal response from
the council or are they waiting for us
to perform the respond and caveat were
you able to determine whether we are
even able to have that discussion to
start some funds outside of the city I
do not know if you guys have finally
sent anything to them but not not that I
know of them and we would we wouldn't as
a council from from them everything
would come through the city okay so so
are you saying that the council would
not formally tell them that they're not
eligible we wouldn't we would make that
decision and then later we have people
would make that yes we would make the
decision and then whatever came in
writing would come through all right so
I'll go contact again tomorrow I'll say
something out today
or email anyways
double check yeah and the same thing
that we recommend they get one
absolutely
so I mean
I don't know when you really need to
have that discussion again about how the
money whether the money could be spent
outside the city as we've already come
to the conclusion that that cannot
happen
do we come to the conclusion it was not
part of our game plan
go ahead please I don't think that it's
formally that we can't spend the money
outside that's going to be a constant
decision I would think I don't I think
that what you indicated was that it
wasn't necessarily part of the Opera
regulations that we couldn't spend the
money outside the city it's really a
judgment call on our part that we have
to decide well I'll double check it
um but I'm not really 100 sure but I
would say that what our rules are what
we how we enter how we decided to do it
was within the city you know
that um
they were there were people at the
applications that were outside the city
and so that was like immediately they
weren't even consider it so that's what
they did at the beginning of the
application
so we went to work on that because it
was that internal kind of thing that
happened I'm sorry we would not have
known that it was part of the internal
process that the office went to went
through before we saw it right so if
that so in this case if they made the
decision already to be out and Rotterdam
they would have never made it to this
table because they were outside so
um it's just now that things have
changed and now they are out of Sun City
so how does that work
since we have those rules in place we've
had them in place I think it would be
appropriate for us to resend that money
and
make a motion
in that uh
so yeah
is that we're doing right now are we
waiting for the not that are we waiting
for them to come through with the letter
to tell us whatever they may make that
decision on their own
um
Patrick to fund the Aquatic Center but
it's unfortunate that it went out of the
city line and I don't
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well I think that um I'll support what
the majority of the council
sports but I do think that there will be
an economic impact to the city of
Schenectady because I don't think that
the hotels and the restaurants outside
um you know basically less than a mile
outside of the city we'll be able to
handle the crowds that will be coming
into the Aquatic Center but I will
support
majority of the council and I wasn't
sure if anything ever happened in terms
of talking to the county about an
increase
receiving an increase in the bed tax
which is what part of our contingency
was originally on the Aquatic Center as
well I don't know you know whether that
occurred as well
so as far as the economic impact goes
it's going to be muted anyway because
they're still being a lot of them will
be using our hotels we'll still get that
same percentage without giving them the
money secondly we could use that two and
a half million to fund various projects
in the city which will Garner people to
come in our hotels and our restaurants
travel baseball is a multi-million
dollar industry if we update our B and C
diamonds as well as the Babe Ruth field
we would have a facility that nobody in
the northeast or maybe the Atlantic
coast except for the South could
come up with there's the hockey arena
possibly which
could as well bring in millions of
dollars so we're talking about
percentage of money that we're getting
from the county you know two and a half
million dollars the return on investment
for that would be quite large so we can
use that in the city and do the projects
so I think the economic impact outside
the city is is moving I definitely see I
mean I think we have infrastructure
needs for example uh that that money can be used for so I totally right
just drop Eastern Avenue yeah yeah they
will be useful
I definitely understand that um
all right
so I think the majority is a
to not fund it
yeah yes all in favor
aye thank you okay so we formally uh
listen that uh
um any other questions for AI go
oh do we send a formal letter to them
through from your office or from the
company well the original Department
my question is
originally
where their letter sends out saying that
you will funded this money is that how
that works yes yes
I couldn't hear you oh originally that
we send letters out to each um
organization to say that this is what
they were awarded based on whatever
contingencies is that how that went I
don't think we sent letters of telling
people they have the award the
resolutions were
fantastic were made available to the
group
s council members have individual
conversations with different groups
telling you that it was generally will
cover in the Press is
this board
so there's no correspondence of the new
government development with directly
with them
I I agreements
when we were asking for the
documentation and putting contracts
together but was there a specific letter
saying you've been awarded X dollars I
don't know
would we need to um
to do formal resolutions yeah
it was an appropriation of funds for a
particular project rather than a
resolution authorizing a contract so the
council can pass the resolution and if
you're going to look to reappropriate
the funds at some point revoking the
appropriation of funds specific to this
project
thank you okay thank you very much thank
you
so is that the resolution
um
we'll be moving to revoke the
appropriation of funds to the Aquatic
Center pursuant to the resolution
identified as 2022-214
to revoke the appropriation of funds
specific to the Aquatic Center for
2022-214
do you need are you asking
if we can do that let's just do that
right now
um
thank you
any other business local Finance
second all in favor
aye thank you thank you I'd like to call
to order City development and planning
there are seven items on the agenda
first item to authorize the issuance a
remote permit number 677 through Kirby's
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Mr wallan
thank you this is a revocable permit on
pedestrian J Street about a block away
from here for a restaurant called
Kirby's Burgers Herbies Burgers I did
some little quick research on it they
have four locations in the Capital
District this will be their fifth they
were not aware of this process they
thought site plan approval was the
permit so the awning is actually up if
you go down J Street the sign is not but
the awning is so they have a very large
pinkish yellow trimmed awning out there
which was hard to miss for us to walk by
you know does that have a permit and did
some contacting of them and they didn't
have a problem coming in for it but they
weren't aware I don't have any
information on the restaurant itself
opening and things like that but
development has looked at this the
awning uh is similar to the awnings that
are on there and the sign will look that
there will go with this guy with a fun
face so looking forward to having a
quick burger and Fry place on the street
questions any questions
item number two award-based contract
with the connecting Municipal Golf
Course irrigation system installation so
this is an Arco project the funding was
approved during the initial round of
applications uh 3.5 million dollars for
the replacement of the original manual
single row irrigation system
so this was designed several years ago
we put it out to bid updated it put it
out the and we received two bids
from two of the larger more qualified in
this area so we have George way company
and National lawn sprinklers if you look
the bids are very close both bids were
also under budget so what we are looking
to do is award base bid one and
Alternate bid one together
and move forward with the pride
any questions
no one has the general question of when
it's amazing I was prepared for
questions
we had the meeting with them before this
and it looks like they will be able to
fit Us in April 1st of next year which
is ideal we thought we might be April
1st of 2025. so with this award we are
going to
start doing what's called shot drawing
approvals in order for the package Pump
Station which is you know the pump
station pushes the water that has a six
month leap time so that's why this
timing is good we are going to approve
we're going to get that thing ordered
and hopefully everybody's going to be
ready to go April 1st so very exciting
to have something like that ready for
the summer early you usually need water
Maybe
oh
I guess you'll let me go from here
all right
oh I'll move it oh we did it already
Okay so thank you thank you thank you
item number three is a ceremonial
resolution recognizing like business
month which is August so we just wanted
to be able to
um have a couple of businesses maybe the
city come in and to recognize that
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an exciting discussion of the zoning
cannabis shops
um
I just wanted to kind of get an update
are we where we are with that
I believe Mr Marnie has
talked to some folks in development I
know you know obviously I was out for a
couple weeks and I know he I think may
have been in a contract with some of the
city council people during that time
Scott's potential for what the zoning
would look like
um
I'll have to check with Mr Marty
tomorrow I didn't see any directive that
the council was looking for us to draft
anything certainly because this would be
something legislative coming from the
city council the input from the council
which would obviously be significant in
passing something
happy to talk to Mr Mony tomorrow
schedule a time for us to sit down and
get into the the meet and so to speak of a draft I think having a draft before
the council to look at and obviously
running it through
Departments of the city that would be
impacted with enforcement would be
necessary to have you know a discussion
over a proposal an actual proposal
so I thought that um
that he was going to be working with the
Department of development with that
I there wasn't there was yes uh my
understanding was
um you know Mr Money wanted to talk to
the development department I don't know
what meetings if any have happened
um over the you know since I've been
back obviously you know
um
there's some change happening you know
in the development there has been some
change happening in the development
department
um so we want to make sure that you know
the the people who you know um
I think are the most expert in in
drafting are around the table
um and we obviously for the purposes of
enforcement that's going to have to
obviously involve descending officer as
well
okay just wanted to know where we are
with it I know it's going to take a few
months and my understanding mayor you
could say the last meeting that there's
already someone who had something
already in the works so this isn't going
to apply to them you know one may or may
not really works and
there's an ongoing review with that
which is part of the general discussion
to
the ones that have decided that they
haven't gone through
these are the ones that these are
different this is smoke shops we're
talking about
um oh this is their enforcement
department
part of it where that's not a clear line
in terms of what some of these stores
are doing
so but at the last minute you said that
there was already a business that had already started
their process so this wasn't going to
apply to them
that would be my understanding somebody
is in the works it depends where they
are in the pipeline of getting approvals
um you know I don't know of any I don't
know of an application that is currently
before any body of the city of
Schenectady whether that's the bza or
the Planning Commission I'm not aware of
that because we don't do the intake of
those applications but if there's an
application that is pending they would
be excluded from any zoning requirement
potentially well they would have to
comply with whatever the zoning will be
currently currently right right they'd
be pre-existing non-conforming if they
get approvals and all that and then the
council passes some you know zoning code
changes that would say that where they
currently are where they're supposed to
be is now not an allowable use
because I was I received a phone call
that there's at least one other that
they said they got their license from
New York State I wanted to know the
question was it was our Zoning for the
city so I sent them to zoning because
that's you know so and our office hasn't
been in contact with that whoever it is
that reached out to you so we haven't
heard anything done that so I don't know
where they are in the you know the the
pipeline at the city level right I just
learned a Photoshop Etc right did you
have something to spell me no
okay so I just you know just wanted to
have an update and let us know where we
were
okay
um
it's okay separate from what I was
originally going to ask but there was a
discussion about putting an ant one and
then two zoning
um so when you go forward with that that
please do look into that there is a
zoning map online
granted I colorblind so it's hard for me
to differentiate the tweets the colors
but it looks fairly substantial the M1
and M2 zones um so I would appreciate
that being part of the discussion and
looked into
anyone else
okay thank you uh item number five
discussion polylorian
wings thank you so I just wanted to
bring this up just as a quick heads up
I've had really good conversations with
the whole Glory from Buffalo a few
months ago and I recently followed up
with the poet laureate for the state of
New York and I truly believe that this
position has
beneficial opportunities for our
community with respect to literacy but
also providing other people the
opportunity to use their voice to
magnify just that some some issues or
concerns and both a positive and I think
just area of improvement way so I wanted
to see if the council be open to me
scheduling a presentation
oh I would be open to that um I think
that I did some research after I saw
that this was back on the agenda and
went to the academy of American poets to
see
you know the various things that they
recommend around this and I know that
the politorium in the city of Saratoga
has been doing a lot of work I think
it's I think it's kind of brings to
brings attention to
you know sort of in a ceremonial way
that we care about the Arts in the city
that we care about literacy I did notice
that some of the um sometimes in
municipalities that have public worries
they're through the library system which
is obviously in our in our area of a
county
um he's there's usually an application
process
and a committee
so I you know we had some great people
in town that might be able to be part of
the selection committee if we move
forward with it but it really needs to
have like a meaningful role with the
school district as well in terms of
really trying to get into the schools
and teach
and Foster a love of poetry among youth
of all ages so I think those are also
places that you know I don't know if
you've had conversations with the school
district but
um you know I can see them being
involved as well
yes this way and just for clarification
this is not for someone who says I go to
Haiku once
again it's very much showing and ongoing
history of being invested in this style
of communication so I'm definitely
looking forward to reaching out to the
library and also the school district to
see how we can work collaboratively to
identify the right person
and I definitely don't have any problems
having them some someone coming to a
presentation
same here very supportive
I personally think it'd be better placed
up at the county level um
as the body at large for all of us it
would be they would be able to obviously
wear the biggest piece of the county but
that person would be able to participate
in the school district locally but also
the benefits some of the smaller areas
around
place at the county level
s share them with us at County
absolutely
because as you said the city is the
bigger piece of this so I would
as long as we could I don't know that
they necessarily if it had to be there
if it could be here and they could you
know the person could also do things
throughout the county
any other discussions around that
so Mr Williams furniture
okay
um item number 60 uh authorized the
abandonment of a portion of large
streets thank you
um another person I appreciate the
council uh tabling the resolution at the
last meeting
um we already did a public hearing on
this nothing's changing as it relates to
that it was just that the what had to be
passed as an ordinance not a resolution
so looking to put it on for the next
meeting as a as an ordinance it's going
to really contain the same language
identify when the public hearing was and
move forward with the abandonment
so we need to move this as an ordinance
correct
second all those in favor thank you
item number seven is just the reminder
of the public hearing for regarding the
moratorium on smoke shops and vape shops
and similar uses all that's there for
you it refers to and the mayor provided
some information about places that um
code enforcement has already gone out
and looked at so that ties into item
number seven and public hearing will be
on August 14th
is there anything else to come before
City development and planning
Motion Picture second all is in favor
bye thank you
I'd like to call to order
um claims
and we have one item on the agenda
um and we will need to discuss that item
in the executive session so I'd like a
motion to go into the executive session
second all in favor