1 00:00:36,040 --> 00:02:28,750 [Music] 2 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:46,560 yeah 3 00:02:46,570 --> 00:03:58,670 [Music] 4 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:12,240 he 5 00:04:12,250 --> 00:08:28,230 [Music] 6 00:08:28,240 --> 00:09:11,190 he 7 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,710 okay somebody needs 8 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,480 it I'd like to call to order City 9 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,720 meeting for Monday September 11 10 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,160 2023 we have 20 items for consideration 11 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,079 the CL please read item number one item 12 00:09:27,079 --> 00:09:28,839 number one for original consideration 13 00:09:28,839 --> 00:09:30,760 and ordinance approving and authorizing 14 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,959 the supplemental Bond ordinance in the 15 00:09:32,959 --> 00:09:35,430 amount of 16 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,519 2,275 or 17 00:09:37,519 --> 00:09:40,320 25275 th000 for the North ferry Street 18 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,720 Pump Station discussed in committee with 19 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,440 objection on consent item number two for original 20 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,160 consideration a resolution calling for a 21 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,320 public hearing of the 2022 Consolidated 22 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,240 annual performance and evaluation report 23 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:55,880 discussed in committee without objection 24 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,160 on consent item number three item number 25 00:09:58,160 --> 00:09:59,560 three for original consent consideration 26 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:01,040 a resolution calling for a public 27 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,800 hearing of the proposed 2024 operating 28 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,160 budget and the capital budget for the 29 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,560 city of skty discussed in committee with 30 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:09,959 objection and on consent item number 31 00:10:09,959 --> 00:10:12,240 four item number four for original 32 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,720 consideration a resolution authorizing 33 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,720 acceptance of funding from the New York 34 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:18,440 State for the purchase of a new fire 35 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,320 truck discussed in committee with 36 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,120 objection on consent item number five for original 37 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,519 consideration a resolution referring the 38 00:10:26,519 --> 00:10:28,680 draft ordinance establishing a six-month 39 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:30,399 Mor atorium on the submission and 40 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:32,440 processing of building permits 41 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,760 certificates of occupancy certificates 42 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:36,839 of use and land use approvals for smoke 43 00:10:36,839 --> 00:10:39,720 shop vape shops and tobacco or vape 44 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,800 consumption businesses within the city 45 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,120 of sken to the sken County Economic 46 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,079 Development and planning department 47 00:10:46,079 --> 00:10:47,720 discuss and committee with objection on 48 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,240 consent item number six item number six 49 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,040 for original consideration a resolution 50 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,399 authorizing an easement to Niagara 51 00:10:55,399 --> 00:10:58,399 Mohawk power Corporation DBA national 52 00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:00,360 grid for the installation of an overhead 53 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,519 electrical service in Central Park for 54 00:11:02,519 --> 00:11:05,160 the new pool splash pad and ancillary 55 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,240 facilities discuss in committee with the 56 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,040 objection on consent item number seven for original 57 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,200 consideration a resolution amending 58 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,040 resolution 2023 029 to modify the time 59 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:18,880 period for Miracle on Craig Street to 60 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,560 secure required Financial commitments 61 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:25,040 roll call by Mr palamini item number 62 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,440 eight item number eight for original 63 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,279 consideration a resolution amend in 64 00:11:29,279 --> 00:11:32,920 resolution 2022 224 to modify the time 65 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,440 period for young women's Christian 66 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,720 Association of skty DBA YWCA 67 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,000 Northeastern New York to secure required 68 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,200 Financial commitments roll call by Mr 69 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,360 palamini item number nine item number 70 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,480 nine for original consideration a 71 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,680 resolution amending resolution 2022 72 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:56,240 024 or 224 to modify the time period for 73 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:57,880 electric city food Cooperative 74 00:11:57,880 --> 00:11:59,800 Incorporated to to secure required 75 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,560 Financial commitments roll call by Mr 76 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:05,160 palamini item number 10 item number 10 77 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:06,920 for original consideration a resolution 78 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:10,200 amending resolution 2022 224 to modify 79 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,320 the use of funds for SKC Community 80 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,040 Action Program Incorporated roll call by 81 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,880 Mr palamini item number 11 item number 82 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:19,560 11 for original consideration a 83 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,720 resolution revoking the appropriation of 84 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,160 American Rescue plan act funds for the 85 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,040 stock a Association of New York new 86 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:28,959 connected New York for a re 87 00:12:28,959 --> 00:12:32,000 revitalization project as authorized by 88 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,639 resolution 2022 89 00:12:34,639 --> 00:12:39,310 224 act funds for 90 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,000 this revitalization project as 91 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,680 authorized by resolution 2022 224 92 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:46,800 discussed in committee with the 93 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,240 objection on consent item number 94 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,519 12 item number 12 for a original 95 00:12:51,519 --> 00:12:53,440 consideration a resolution revoking the 96 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,279 appropriation of American Rescue plan 97 00:12:55,279 --> 00:12:58,240 act funds for Proctors reopening safety 98 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,760 upgrades as authorized authorized by 99 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,600 resolution 2022 100 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,040 224 discuss in committee with objection 101 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,920 on consent item number 13 item number 13 102 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:10,920 for original consideration a resolution 103 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:14,560 authorizing the sale of 4051 Street for 104 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:16,360 26,1 105 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:21,269 14851 roll call by Mr 106 00:13:21,279 --> 00:13:24,720 palamini item number 14 item number 14 107 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,639 for original consideration a resolution 108 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:29,279 authorizing the sale of 874 em Street 109 00:13:29,279 --> 00:13:30,040 for 110 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,360 $553 111 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,480 24.11 roll call by Mr 112 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,680 palamini item number 15 item number 15 113 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:41,079 for original consideration a resolution 114 00:13:41,079 --> 00:13:43,279 authorizing the sale of 105 Congress 115 00:13:43,279 --> 00:13:45,399 Street for 116 00:13:45,399 --> 00:13:49,360 $2,777 and10 roll call by Mr palamini 117 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,720 item number 16 item number 16 for 118 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:53,519 original consideration a resolution 119 00:13:53,519 --> 00:13:55,399 authorizing the sale of 1040 wendle 120 00:13:55,399 --> 00:13:57,759 Avenue for 121 00:13:57,759 --> 00:14:01,959 $16,999 7 cents roll call by Mr palamini 122 00:14:01,959 --> 00:14:04,519 item number 17 item number 17 for 123 00:14:04,519 --> 00:14:06,759 original consideration a resolution 124 00:14:06,759 --> 00:14:08,839 authorizing the sale of 1038 Glennwood 125 00:14:08,839 --> 00:14:11,000 Boulevard for 126 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,199 35,500 discuss in committee without 127 00:14:13,199 --> 00:14:16,480 objection on consent item number 18 item 128 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,639 number 18 for original consideration a 129 00:14:19,639 --> 00:14:21,360 resolution authorizing the settlement of 130 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,240 a claim by Nicholas 131 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,399 fio discussed in committee with 132 00:14:25,399 --> 00:14:28,240 objection on consent item number 19 item 133 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,320 number 19 for original consideration a 134 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,079 resolution recognizing the Junior League 135 00:14:32,079 --> 00:14:34,920 of sken and Saratoga 136 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,040 counties this uh item will be taken out 137 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:38,839 of order and presented 138 00:14:38,839 --> 00:14:42,079 by Mr 139 00:14:42,079 --> 00:14:45,360 palamini item number 20 item number 20 140 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,120 under contract and Supply a resolution 141 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:48,639 awarding the bid and contract for the 142 00:14:48,639 --> 00:14:51,440 2023 Harley-Davidson police motorcycle 143 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,040 to Brunswick Harley-Davidson 144 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:57,509 Incorporated in the total amount of 145 00:14:57,519 --> 00:14:59,519 $298.9 this discuss in committee with 146 00:14:59,519 --> 00:15:03,110 that objection on 147 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,079 consent if there's nothing more to come 148 00:15:05,079 --> 00:15:06,680 before the city council caucus I ask for 149 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,600 a motion to adjourn moved by Miss 150 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,279 Patrick second by Mr turo all those in 151 00:15:12,279 --> 00:15:14,560 favor I we are 152 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,480 adjourn I'd like to call the city 153 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,120 council meeting to order for Monday 154 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:19,839 September 11th 155 00:15:19,839 --> 00:15:22,000 2023 and I'd like to call on Reverend 156 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:27,590 James Ki for the prayer 157 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,720 invocation let us begin our evening on 158 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,000 this solemn day this 22nd anniversary of 159 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,560 the Attacks of September 11th 2001 in a 160 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:46,350 moment of 161 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,319 silence September 11th is a day of 162 00:15:49,319 --> 00:15:52,079 remembrance on this solemn anniversary 163 00:15:52,079 --> 00:15:54,120 pause to remember the many people who 164 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,000 died in New York Virginia and 165 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,240 Pennsylvania because of terrorist 166 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,720 attacks recall the trauma and 167 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,199 heartbreaking events that occurred that 168 00:16:04,199 --> 00:16:06,639 day and pray for those who lost their 169 00:16:06,639 --> 00:16:09,920 lives and those that continue to suffer 170 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,519 we turn to you then Lord for the help we 171 00:16:12,519 --> 00:16:15,160 need give us hearts that seek to love 172 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,000 all people regardless of race religion 173 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,199 or nationality strengthen our hands to 174 00:16:21,199 --> 00:16:24,480 do the work that lasting peace requires 175 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,759 help us to trust in you you are 176 00:16:26,759 --> 00:16:30,160 changeless and look after our needs we 177 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,040 listen to these words from the prophet 178 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,920 Isaiah we have a strong City he appoints 179 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,160 walls and bworks for open the gates that 180 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,880 the righteous Nation may enter the one 181 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,480 who remains faithful you will keep him 182 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,319 in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on 183 00:16:48,319 --> 00:16:51,639 you because he trusts in you trust in 184 00:16:51,639 --> 00:16:54,560 the Lord forever for he is God the Lord 185 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,399 we have an everlasting Rock The Way of 186 00:16:57,399 --> 00:16:59,399 the righteous is smooth smooth oh 187 00:16:59,399 --> 00:17:01,959 upright one make the path of the 188 00:17:01,959 --> 00:17:04,559 righteous level 189 00:17:04,559 --> 00:17:06,799 amen like to call on council member D 190 00:17:06,799 --> 00:17:08,480 Tor for the Pledge of Allegiance I 191 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,319 pledge allegiance to the flag of the 192 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:15,120 United States of America and to the rep 193 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:19,919 for which it stands one nation under God 194 00:17:19,919 --> 00:17:23,160 indivisible with liberty and justice for 195 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,390 all thank 196 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,320 you 197 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:35,270 clerk could please read call the 198 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:39,880 rooll Mr Mutan is absent Mr Toro here Mr 199 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,600 Farley here Mr Williams is absent Miss 200 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,720 Patrick here Mr palamini here M 201 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,000 Porterfield 202 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,160 here we have one out of order resolution 203 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:52,720 uh recognizing the junior Leos 204 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:54,600 connecting Saratoga counties and I call 205 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,400 on Mr palini to present this 206 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:18,950 resolution 207 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,000 here may I have the floor you have the 208 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,159 floor this is a resolution to recognize 209 00:18:23,159 --> 00:18:24,799 the Junior League of skincity in 210 00:18:24,799 --> 00:18:27,320 Saratoga counties whereas the 211 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,080 association of junor leagues 212 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,520 International is a global women's Civic 213 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,440 leadership organization that was founded 214 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:34,600 in 215 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,880 19901 by Mary Harman with the support of 216 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,520 elanar Roosevelt and whereas the Junior 217 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,240 League of skty and Saratoga counties J 218 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,880 LSS was founded in 1932 by a group of 219 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,640 SKC women including Katherine s or K 220 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,039 rosendal and whereas J LSS has worked 221 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:56,320 for more than 91 years to Build a Better 222 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,200 Community by launching lasting impactful 223 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,799 Community programs such as operation 224 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:04,240 back to school kids in the kitchen 225 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,000 discreet dignity community hospice the 226 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,640 league room at Proctors Dominion house 227 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,320 courta appointed special Advocates and 228 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,880 children's grieving Center at Haven and 229 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,039 whereas the Junior League of skincity in 230 00:19:17,039 --> 00:19:19,640 Saratoga counties is helping lead the 231 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,280 efforts with ajli to launch the 232 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,919 inaugural F the good day on September 233 00:19:24,919 --> 00:19:26,520 14th 234 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,520 2023 and whereas find the good day as a 235 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,919 special day of unity and compassion that 236 00:19:31,919 --> 00:19:34,840 aims to spread kindness uplift others 237 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,039 and Inspire positive change across the 238 00:19:37,039 --> 00:19:39,240 capital region and the nation and 239 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:40,919 whereas find the good day as an 240 00:19:40,919 --> 00:19:43,640 opportunity for individuals families and 241 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,360 organizations to come together as change 242 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:48,720 makers and create a ripple effect of 243 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,159 positivity throughout our community it 244 00:19:51,159 --> 00:19:53,000 is a day to reflect on the goodness 245 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,480 within ourselves and find inspiration in 246 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,679 the acts of kindness we have witnessed 247 00:19:57,679 --> 00:19:59,360 and particip ipated in throughout the 248 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,960 year and whereas the Junior League of 249 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,919 skincity in Saratoga County invites 250 00:20:04,919 --> 00:20:06,960 everyone to make a difference on this 251 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,440 significant day whether it is through 252 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,320 acts of service volunteer initiatives or 253 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,880 simply spreading positivity through kind 254 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,320 gestures every contribution has the 255 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,799 power to create lasting change and 256 00:20:19,799 --> 00:20:21,880 whereas the Junior League of SKC and 257 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,880 Saratoga counties is honoring Mohawk 258 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,320 Honda as their first find the good 259 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,320 awarde for their commitment to the 260 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,720 junior League's Mission and whereas 261 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,120 Mohawk Honda serves as a valuable 262 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:36,159 partner to dozens of community-based 263 00:20:36,159 --> 00:20:38,559 organizations throughout the region and 264 00:20:38,559 --> 00:20:41,000 has provided valuable resources and 265 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 support to the junior League's operation 266 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,440 back to school and discreet dignity 267 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,000 programs now therefore be it resolved 268 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,679 that the city of skincity and the city 269 00:20:50,679 --> 00:20:53,440 council and Mayor Gary R McCarthy pause 270 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,600 in their deliberations to encourage all 271 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,080 scadian to celebrate Thursday September 272 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,640 member 14th as the Junior League of 273 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,400 skinc and Saratoga counties find the 274 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,640 good day and encourage all residents to 275 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,679 find the good in our community I'd like 276 00:21:07,679 --> 00:21:10,120 to move this I'd like need a second 277 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:12,279 please second by Miss Patrick all in 278 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:20,520 favor I motion passes congratulations 279 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,760 I the councilman just said would you 280 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,679 like to speak so I don't have to I know 281 00:21:24,679 --> 00:21:27,720 that was like a a Hall of Fame level of 282 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,360 uh words there but thank you very much 283 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:33,000 to councilman palamini to Mayor McCarthy 284 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 who has always been a a trusted and good 285 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,919 friend to the Junior League of SKC and 286 00:21:36,919 --> 00:21:39,120 to the entire city council what an honor 287 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:42,799 this is for us this is our first ever um 288 00:21:42,799 --> 00:21:45,559 do the good day and we thought no better 289 00:21:45,559 --> 00:21:47,440 way than to try to launch it here in 290 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,200 these city council chambers so thank you 291 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,000 all very very much for your ongoing 292 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,240 support of our community programs and of 293 00:21:53,240 --> 00:22:02,480 our Organization for thank you 294 00:22:02,490 --> 00:22:09,269 [Applause] 295 00:22:09,279 --> 00:22:11,600 have six six 296 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:26,950 roll 297 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,520 sales 298 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,840 one two three four 299 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:37,990 five six seven eight got it thank 300 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,630 you thank 301 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,880 you the clerk I like to ask for approval 302 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,230 of the minutes of August 28 303 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,240 2023 mve by Mr 304 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,000 Farley second by Mr Turell all in favor 305 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,159 I if the clerk would please read read 306 00:22:58,159 --> 00:23:05,950 any Communications and 307 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,400 petitions Communications presented to 308 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,679 city council for Monday September 11th 309 00:23:10,679 --> 00:23:13,360 2023 under official there were none 310 00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:15,200 under General there was an email from 311 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:16,919 pety Boris stating that some people are 312 00:23:16,919 --> 00:23:19,600 allowed to speak While others are not 313 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,240 the continuous word of the used 314 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,240 marginalized and her feelings of 315 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,480 betrayal regarding the Public's costs 316 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,960 and why her social security retirement 317 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,799 was cut by 45% under petitions there 318 00:23:30,799 --> 00:23:33,039 were none thank 319 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:35,760 you this time we have privilege of of 320 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,400 the floor related to the legislative 321 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,559 agenda and I have two people signed up 322 00:23:39,559 --> 00:23:41,360 to 323 00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:44,400 speak first uh Judy W Meer from the 324 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,760 Capital District tobacco free Coalition 325 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,880 hello good evening I'm the director for 326 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,240 the Capital District tobacco free 327 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,360 communities and I just wanted to share 328 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:55,159 some information I know you are 329 00:23:55,159 --> 00:23:58,440 considering um some work with um smok 330 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,039 and vape shops in the city so I just 331 00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:03,360 wanted to share some information that's 332 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:07,000 new um I know that you know 333 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,240 that there's more tobacco and vape 334 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,960 retailers in neighborhoods with the 335 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,559 lowest income and we know that this 336 00:24:13,559 --> 00:24:16,480 leads to health disparities I years a 337 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,440 year or so back we presented some 338 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:19,640 information from neighborhood 339 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,320 conversations that we had um we know 340 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,159 that those with less education and less 341 00:24:24,159 --> 00:24:27,159 income smoke at much higher rates uh the 342 00:24:27,159 --> 00:24:29,240 state rate right now for tobacco use is 343 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,440 about 12% those with education with low 344 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:34,880 education with just a high school 345 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,440 education smoke at a rate of about 346 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,679 19.4% those with incomes less than 347 00:24:39,679 --> 00:24:42,320 25,000 smoke at 348 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,440 20.4% and those with mental distress at 349 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,120 about 19% so we know that there's these 350 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,120 Health disparities that occur we also 351 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:53,200 know that tobacco retailers are not 352 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,159 evenly um spread throughout the city and 353 00:24:56,159 --> 00:24:58,760 the county um we we know that 354 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,240 municipalities can do things to address 355 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,559 these Health disparities they can change 356 00:25:03,559 --> 00:25:05,640 how their City looks and I know you all 357 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,840 are very um you know very well aware of 358 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,039 that so by implementing policies that 359 00:25:11,039 --> 00:25:12,919 can limit the time place and manner of 360 00:25:12,919 --> 00:25:15,279 tobacco sales and there's about 19 361 00:25:15,279 --> 00:25:17,399 communities so far across New York state 362 00:25:17,399 --> 00:25:19,960 that have done licensing zoning have 363 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,799 done things to limit where tobacco and 364 00:25:21,799 --> 00:25:25,559 vape retailers are the city of of 365 00:25:25,559 --> 00:25:27,799 Syracuse is the most recent one just 366 00:25:27,799 --> 00:25:30,880 last week they unanimously passed a 367 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,640 resolution to have licensing for all 368 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,039 their tobacco and vape retailers and 369 00:25:36,039 --> 00:25:38,679 with that licensing you they will not be 370 00:25:38,679 --> 00:25:41,679 allowed to have um a tobacco or vape 371 00:25:41,679 --> 00:25:45,399 retailer within 750 feet of a school of 372 00:25:45,399 --> 00:25:48,320 a public park or of another tobacco uh 373 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,440 retailer Vape retailer and they also 374 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,120 will have a process with that licensing 375 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:56,760 for every two that close only one will 376 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,000 be provided so ultimately the total 377 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,000 number in the city of s Syracuse will go 378 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,640 down um so I just wanted to share that 379 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,360 information with you and let you know 380 00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:08,480 that if you have any questions you can 381 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,960 always reach out to us we have a 382 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,480 wonderful piece that goes through how 383 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,440 municipalities can address um their vape 384 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,480 shops their smoke shops and the like so 385 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,399 thank you very much for the opportunity 386 00:26:20,399 --> 00:26:23,990 thank 387 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,080 you Carol Delamar from The Stockade 388 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:32,510 Association 389 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,919 good evening mayor and city council um 390 00:26:34,919 --> 00:26:36,960 my name is Carol D marer and I am chair 391 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,880 of the preservation committee for the 392 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,039 stockid 393 00:26:40,039 --> 00:26:42,559 association 394 00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:45,840 um I I wanted to I'm here to comment on 395 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,440 item number 11 um on the agenda which 396 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,159 has to do with the revoke revoking of 397 00:26:51,159 --> 00:26:53,480 the arpa funds that were originally 398 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,080 awarded to The Stockade Association um 399 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,120 for a revitalization project 400 00:26:58,120 --> 00:26:59,559 what I want to make sure everyone who is 401 00:26:59,559 --> 00:27:02,000 aware of is that revitalization project 402 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,279 is for the historic pumps northberry 403 00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:08,159 Street Pump Station I see on the agenda 404 00:27:08,159 --> 00:27:11,080 there's also the $25 million bond for 405 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,159 the new building that new building bond 406 00:27:14,159 --> 00:27:17,799 does not include any funds for the his 407 00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:20,880 preserving protecting revitalizing 408 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,440 making use of the historic pum station 409 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,799 so but I want you to know that this the 410 00:27:26,799 --> 00:27:30,039 Stu associ a fully supports the money 411 00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:32,120 returning to the city because it is a 412 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:34,919 city-owned building property and while 413 00:27:34,919 --> 00:27:37,159 was stock Association has been very 414 00:27:37,159 --> 00:27:40,240 active in in pursuing and making 415 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,159 recommendations about this building we 416 00:27:42,159 --> 00:27:44,240 aren't in a position to do any work 417 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:45,919 within within that so I want to make 418 00:27:45,919 --> 00:27:48,679 that want to make that clear um and but 419 00:27:48,679 --> 00:27:51,000 since the initial award was made back in 420 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,600 September 2022 The Stockade Association 421 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,600 preservation committee has been meeting 422 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,200 with the city's staff 423 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,200 about how this how to carry this project 424 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,279 forward um we are aware that city city 425 00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:05,880 staff has begun discussions with an 426 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,279 outside consultant to create bid 427 00:28:08,279 --> 00:28:11,760 documents for exterior maintenance work 428 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,840 um restoring the historic windows in 429 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,799 that building and for any of the 430 00:28:17,799 --> 00:28:20,240 exterior sort of repair of the the 431 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,840 stucco and all that stuff the intent was 432 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,039 that was coming out of the 433 00:28:25,039 --> 00:28:28,000 750,000 but the other part of this 434 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,240 um need is for an evaluation of the 435 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,120 interior of this of this building um 436 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:37,080 because in order to order in order to 437 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,080 fulfill sort of the feasibility of the 438 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,120 ReUse of that building that was spelled 439 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,840 out in a in a report two years ago 440 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,000 through technical assistant Grant from 441 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,200 the preservation League that the city 442 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,559 got it required quite a bit of work in 443 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:54,159 understanding what needed to be done on 444 00:28:54,159 --> 00:28:58,200 the inside um so I want to so a lot of 445 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,039 those tasks are outlined in that report 446 00:29:01,039 --> 00:29:07,509 that the city generated two years ago 447 00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:11,720 um so so back in March the stockage 448 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,559 association preservation committee 449 00:29:13,559 --> 00:29:16,399 worked with the development office um to 450 00:29:16,399 --> 00:29:18,159 secure a grant from the preservation 451 00:29:18,159 --> 00:29:20,919 League to create a building condition 452 00:29:20,919 --> 00:29:23,200 report on the interior of that building 453 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,120 the funds did not come to the city for 454 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,399 that but we feel even though that um 455 00:29:28,399 --> 00:29:30,640 that that that funds 456 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,799 $34,000 should come out of the 750 so we 457 00:29:33,799 --> 00:29:36,039 can move this project along the purpose 458 00:29:36,039 --> 00:29:38,120 of the condition report was to create 459 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,200 planning documents because this is an 460 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,399 extraordinary detailed 461 00:29:43,399 --> 00:29:48,480 project and so I want to make sure that is on clearly on the agenda of the 462 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,080 people that are that are working on this 463 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,360 at the city level it's a 464 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,480 $34,000 grant proposal that was received 465 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,760 by preservation AR from preservation 466 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,039 architects who did the original re reuse 467 00:30:02,039 --> 00:30:04,440 feasibility study of that of that 468 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,320 property and we just feel it's like it 469 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,039 they're very familiar with the property 470 00:30:08,039 --> 00:30:11,360 and it would be a good use of 34,000 out 471 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:12,279 of the 472 00:30:12,279 --> 00:30:15,399 750 to to move that project along I need 473 00:30:15,399 --> 00:30:17,600 you to summarize please the the our 474 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,360 original proposal and award from the 475 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,120 city was to seek funding to repurpose 476 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:23,880 this historic Pump Station into a 477 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,880 community interpretation Center event 478 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,000 space similar to what's in some of our 479 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,000 other Parks I'm sorry I really hate to 480 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,720 interrupt you again but your time is 481 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,240 I've let you go over your time so 482 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:35,679 where's the lights for all this oh we 483 00:30:35,679 --> 00:30:36,799 don't they I don't know what that 484 00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:38,360 happened to the lights anymore I 485 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,029 apologize thank 486 00:30:42,039 --> 00:30:44,279 you I have no one else signed up to 487 00:30:44,279 --> 00:30:46,399 speak for public on the public comment 488 00:30:46,399 --> 00:30:48,919 on the legislative agenda so I declare 489 00:30:48,919 --> 00:30:51,000 that public comment 490 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,399 closed I at this time I ask for approval 491 00:30:53,399 --> 00:30:55,120 of the legislative consent 492 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,880 agenda motion by Miss Patrick second by 493 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,000 Mr 494 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,960 Farley all in favor I okay we have eight 495 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:11,789 items for roll 496 00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:15,600 call First is item number 497 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:23,029 seven if the clerk would please 498 00:31:23,039 --> 00:31:25,600 read item number seven for original 499 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,360 consideration a resolution amending 500 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,279 resolution 2023 029 to modify the time 501 00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:32,919 period for Miracle on Craig Street to 502 00:31:32,919 --> 00:31:45,750 secure required Financial 503 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,159 commitments is there any 504 00:31:49,159 --> 00:31:51,840 discussion 505 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,639 call all right move I need a motion to 506 00:31:55,639 --> 00:32:01,950 move that Mr Po second by Mr turo all in 507 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,919 favor okay so this point in time we'll 508 00:32:04,919 --> 00:32:11,440 have the roll call Mr Toro no Mr Farley 509 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,080 yes Miss Patrick 510 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:19,960 yes Mr palamini no Miss Porterfield yes 511 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,389 so the motion 512 00:32:24,399 --> 00:32:30,480 fails okay item number eight for original 513 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,000 consideration a resolution amending 514 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,519 resolution 2022 224 to modify the time 515 00:32:35,519 --> 00:32:37,840 period for young women's Christian 516 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,120 Association of SKC DBA YWCA North 517 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,559 Eastern New York to secure required 518 00:32:43,559 --> 00:32:44,919 Financial 519 00:32:44,919 --> 00:32:47,320 commitments I need a motion to move that 520 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,080 Mr palamini to the agenda second by Mr 521 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,760 Turell all in favor 522 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:58,320 I roll call yes we need a roll call 523 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,639 discussion oh is there any discussion 524 00:33:00,639 --> 00:33:05,760 for the roll call all right okay Mr Toro 525 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:11,279 no Mr Farley yes Miss Patrick yes Mr 526 00:33:11,279 --> 00:33:15,200 palamini no Miss pteri yes so we need 527 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,080 just for for the audience we need at 528 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,159 least four votes to pass it so that 529 00:33:19,159 --> 00:33:24,110 motion that motion also 530 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,840 fails item number nine need a motion to 531 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,399 move this Mr 532 00:33:30,399 --> 00:33:34,320 palamini second by Mr tur all in favor 533 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,960 I any 534 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:38,880 discussion the clerk would please read 535 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,279 the call the 536 00:33:41,279 --> 00:33:44,200 role Mr turo 537 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:50,120 no Mr Farley yes Miss Patrick yes Mr 538 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,799 palamini no Miss Porterfield yes motion 539 00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:59,470 the item fails item number 540 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,480 10 need a motion to M Mr pal movees it I 541 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,080 need a second second by Mr Turell all in 542 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:07,679 favor 543 00:34:07,679 --> 00:34:11,000 I is there any discussion on this 544 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,399 item the clerk would please call the 545 00:34:13,399 --> 00:34:19,560 rooll Mr Toro no Mr Farley yes Miss 546 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,560 Patrick yes Mr 547 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,800 palamini I want to explain the votes on 548 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,839 these last several resolutions including 549 00:34:28,839 --> 00:34:32,320 this one so I'll speak to this one in 550 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,879 particular we had an arpa process put in 551 00:34:35,879 --> 00:34:41,320 place uh last year uh and quite frankly 552 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,119 it was never followed we had a review 553 00:34:44,119 --> 00:34:46,119 process asked people to go through the 554 00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:49,560 process of taking their their time and 555 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:50,720 reviewing 556 00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:54,399 applications in which we were supposedly 557 00:34:54,399 --> 00:34:56,960 going to look over those and talk over 558 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,599 them that never happened uh we came 559 00:34:59,599 --> 00:35:01,200 together and all of a sudden money was 560 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,599 being doled out at that time or shortly 561 00:35:04,599 --> 00:35:08,160 later I should say a series of 562 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,839 contingencies were put in place to 563 00:35:10,839 --> 00:35:13,680 actually designate the money to various 564 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,800 organizations such as um the connect the 565 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,880 action Community Action 566 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,200 Program the contingencies were put in 567 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:27,560 place for basically a year to allow the 568 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,880 organizations to meet the requirements 569 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,040 to get the 570 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,760 money some of these organizations came 571 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,920 back asking for more time uh others 572 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,200 didn't may not even know that they could 573 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,520 do that um there's other applications 574 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,359 where the original application has been 575 00:35:48,359 --> 00:35:52,400 changed completely from what has been 576 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:53,960 now given money 577 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,240 for or allowed money for that that's not 578 00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:00,040 fair to organizations who've put in 579 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:04,319 applications whose uh funding might not 580 00:36:04,319 --> 00:36:06,960 have happened if you change your 581 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,280 application from the initial to the end 582 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,920 you should be put back into the pile and 583 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,560 looked at with the entire group none of 584 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,000 that happened everything here has been 585 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,839 arbitrary four months here 6 months 586 00:36:20,839 --> 00:36:24,119 there it it it's completely pulled out 587 00:36:24,119 --> 00:36:27,800 of the air and yes the organizations 588 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,000 asked for some of those but again the 589 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,760 fairness and and the process here 590 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,760 following our procedures just didn't 591 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,480 happen and to those organizations that 592 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,960 didn't get funded you should look into 593 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,599 this 594 00:36:44,599 --> 00:36:47,480 seriously I mean you you've been not 595 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,040 awarded money other organizations were 596 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,119 awarded money for a a a proposal that 597 00:36:53,119 --> 00:36:55,760 was put in that was completely changed 598 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,680 and still allowed the 599 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,000 money this entire arpa procedure has 600 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,680 been screwed up from the the start and 601 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,480 it's really Troublesome I understand 602 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,240 these resolutions will pass likely in 603 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:14,119 two weeks when other members of the 604 00:37:14,119 --> 00:37:15,319 council 605 00:37:15,319 --> 00:37:21,240 attend but the reality is there's a process that we need to to 606 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:23,400 hold to and we just didn't do that we 607 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,000 didn't even come close it was just 608 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,200 willy-nilly 609 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,119 here's I like this 610 00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:31,319 group I'm going to give money to that 611 00:37:31,319 --> 00:37:35,240 group and so forth and just completely 612 00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:38,920 arbitrary So my answer is 613 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,400 no Miss Porterfield thank you I just 614 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,400 like to lend some clarification to the 615 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,200 statement that was just made first of 616 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,560 all there was a process and let's also 617 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,200 keep in mind that during this all of 618 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,720 this um there things change people's 619 00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:57,640 timeline change things in increased so 620 00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,440 for people to come for to ask for an 621 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,720 extension just makes sense for us to 622 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:03,240 consider that and that have this hard 623 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:06,000 and fast role the two hard and fast 624 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,920 dates that we have are from the um from 625 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,000 the federal government which say by the 626 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,680 end of sept by the end of 2024 we must 627 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,920 have allocated all of the money and by 628 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,400 the end of 2026 all of that money must 629 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,319 be spent one of the things we did with 630 00:38:24,319 --> 00:38:26,000 this arpa was to try to make sure that 631 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,240 organization who don't normally get an 632 00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:31,200 opportunity to be funded or have that 633 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,040 opportunity to be funded and we are 634 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,880 working with those those organizations a 635 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,400 large amount of the money as you all 636 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,680 know has gone to the city and the city 637 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,640 has the capacity to do those things and 638 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,960 every council member who sits here today 639 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,200 had an opportunity to participate in the 640 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,079 process and if they felt that the 641 00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:53,119 process wasn't all they wanted it to be 642 00:38:53,119 --> 00:38:55,119 had an opportunity to uh instead of 643 00:38:55,119 --> 00:38:58,440 offer criticism to offer some solutions 644 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,079 to the things they thought were not 645 00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:02,839 working well so our staff has been 646 00:39:02,839 --> 00:39:05,880 working with the um and we have our 647 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,560 staff has a lot to do and this is 648 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,680 additional on top of what they already 649 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,760 do so our staff has been working 650 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,160 diligently with these organizations and 651 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,440 let me also State these are 652 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,599 organizations that have been serving our 653 00:39:17,599 --> 00:39:20,160 community for a very long time and doing 654 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,839 a very lot a lot of good work in the 655 00:39:22,839 --> 00:39:24,680 community and serving people who really 656 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,119 need the help one thing I've said from 657 00:39:27,119 --> 00:39:29,880 the beginning of these coid funds is it 658 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:33,200 h Co impacted every single person in 659 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,359 this world not just in this country so 660 00:39:35,359 --> 00:39:37,160 when this money came 661 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,680 in we had discussions about how that 662 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,599 money should be spent and I was very I 663 00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:44,079 feel felt strongly then I feel strongly 664 00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:46,119 now that not all of it necessarily had 665 00:39:46,119 --> 00:39:48,200 to be spent on City projects but those 666 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,680 organizations who lost funding uh lost 667 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,480 staff and all all those things during 668 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,960 coid would have the opportunity to do 669 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,240 move forward the projects that they 670 00:39:57,240 --> 00:39:59,880 needed to move forward so that is what 671 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:02,440 we did I still feel that we did that 672 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:09,430 properly and um I will vote Yes on 673 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,760 this the motion fails we don't have 674 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,560 enough votes thank 675 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,839 you item number 676 00:40:16,839 --> 00:40:21,560 13 I need a motion to move it Mr 677 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,359 palamini second by Miss Patrick all in 678 00:40:24,359 --> 00:40:30,710 favor by okay um any discussion on 679 00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:33,040 this 680 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,119 discussion all right then we'll have the 681 00:40:36,119 --> 00:40:39,000 vote Mr Toro 682 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:44,920 no Mr Farley yes Miss Patrick yes Mr 683 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:52,069 palamini no Miss Porterfield yes motion 684 00:40:52,079 --> 00:40:55,319 fails item 685 00:40:55,319 --> 00:40:57,920 number 686 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,440 that was number seven right 14 item 687 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,680 number 14 that's 688 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:09,040 right I need a motion moveed by Mr 689 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,280 palamini second by Mr Toro all in 690 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:16,550 favor any discussion on this 691 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,160 item the clerk would please call the 692 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:24,480 role Mr Toro no Mr Farley yes Miss 693 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,880 Patrick yes Mr par 694 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,480 no Miss Porterfield 695 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,760 yes the resolution 696 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,839 fails item number 15 any a motion to 697 00:41:34,839 --> 00:41:36,760 move this to the agenda move by Miss 698 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,520 Patrick second by Mr palamini all in 699 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,079 favor 700 00:41:41,079 --> 00:41:44,480 I any discussion on this 701 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,839 item the clerk could please read the 702 00:41:46,839 --> 00:41:52,480 role call the role Mr Toro no Mr Farley 703 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:57,640 yes Miss Patrick yes Mr palamini no Miss 704 00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,520 Porterfield 705 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,040 yes and item number 706 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,640 16 motion by Miss Patrick second by Mr 707 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,119 palamini all in 708 00:42:07,119 --> 00:42:11,670 favor is there any discussion on this 709 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,800 item the clerk please call the role Mr 710 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:20,000 Toro no Mr Farley yes Mr Patrick or M 711 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,720 Patrick 712 00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:25,150 yes Mr 713 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:29,319 palamini so just so the the audience and 714 00:42:29,319 --> 00:42:31,599 people watching at home understand 715 00:42:31,599 --> 00:42:34,720 usually housing sales go relatively 716 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:38,440 smoothly no issues at all these four are 717 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,000 quite different these houses were 718 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,359 foreclosed on by the 719 00:42:43,359 --> 00:42:49,040 city um and to me this sets a very bad 720 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,359 precedent now just because we've done 721 00:42:51,359 --> 00:42:52,839 something in the past doesn't mean we 722 00:42:52,839 --> 00:42:55,040 need to continue doing that but in this 723 00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:56,960 particular case 724 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,480 we're creating an incentive not to pay 725 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,720 your taxes what we have here is four 726 00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:05,720 houses that were foreclosed and and I'll 727 00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:09,079 speak to this one on Wendel Avenue for 728 00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:10,920 example and it went through the 729 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,119 foreclosure process it has started the 730 00:43:14,119 --> 00:43:16,079 city has the 731 00:43:16,079 --> 00:43:20,480 property so now the council has decided 732 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:25,280 that they want to allow the homeowners 733 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,280 or some family member the ability to 734 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,240 purchase the home back by paying the 735 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:37,280 back taxes any fees and $1,000 on top of 736 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:43,760 that now some might say well hey this makes the city whole well does it 737 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,920 the fact is in order to get a 738 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,599 foreclosure it takes generally speaking 739 00:43:48,599 --> 00:43:51,920 3 years some of these houses were much 740 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,160 longer uh certainly because of coid that 741 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,319 not the um the problem with the 742 00:43:58,319 --> 00:44:02,200 homeowners in this particular case but 743 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,200 during that time we've always been told 744 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,839 that if you pay your taxes if everybody 745 00:44:07,839 --> 00:44:10,440 paid their taxes and did it on time we'd 746 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,160 have a 10% tax cut so what we have now 747 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,480 is people who haven't paid their taxes 748 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,040 now having their house financed or their 749 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,240 lifestyle financed by the city and that 750 00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:26,200 city is paid by the rest of the 751 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:30,800 taxpayers so as taxpayers we are now 752 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,880 financing the lifestyle the housing of 753 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,920 these individuals who've had their house 754 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,119 foreclosed 755 00:44:38,119 --> 00:44:41,000 on because for several years they didn't 756 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,119 pay their taxes so instead of having 757 00:44:44,119 --> 00:44:46,720 extra money the city had to either 758 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:50,240 borrow which in case the city has to uh 759 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:53,760 pay interest on that and the rest of the 760 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,319 taxpayers instead of getting addition 761 00:44:56,319 --> 00:45:00,240 services or a tax cut now didn't get any 762 00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:04,200 of that because we have a a number of 763 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,000 individuals not paying their 764 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:11,520 taxes so what we have is the rest of the 765 00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:12,960 city 766 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,839 financing individuals the city as acting 767 00:45:16,839 --> 00:45:18,640 as a bank in 768 00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,839 essence that's just not right but it 769 00:45:22,839 --> 00:45:24,200 gets 770 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,920 better at least one of the individuals 771 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,839 if not more wants to sell their house so 772 00:45:30,839 --> 00:45:33,720 now we've acted as essentially a pseudo 773 00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:37,839 morgage company where we've 774 00:45:37,839 --> 00:45:40,839 paid interest we've not allowed they 775 00:45:40,839 --> 00:45:43,640 didn't pay their taxes so we've taken 776 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:47,440 that and they've lived there for free 777 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,000 and now we'll profit on the 778 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,720 sale where's the fairness in that to the 779 00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:54,880 rest of the city 780 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:58,910 taxpayers 781 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,520 and the other issue is we haven't 782 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,960 created any sort of policy we are doing 783 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,359 this without any policy put into place 784 00:46:09,359 --> 00:46:11,599 so therefore anybody who wants to write 785 00:46:11,599 --> 00:46:15,280 a letter in and says hey my property 786 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:16,760 taxes I'm at 787 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,960 foreclosure I had circumstances you 788 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,400 should uh look at these and allow me to 789 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:27,910 purchase my house back 790 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,000 well we have no grounds now to turn 791 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:32,520 those individuals 792 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,680 down because we didn't create a policy 793 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,720 first so if the casino decides not to 794 00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:41,520 pay their property taxes or some other 795 00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,400 business owner and a bunch of property 796 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,280 owners what does that put the financial 797 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,400 situation of the city in it puts us in 798 00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:53,680 complete chaos and on the verge of 799 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,079 bankruptcy the argument will be well we 800 00:46:56,079 --> 00:46:57,480 don't want to create 801 00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,119 homelessness that argument holds no 802 00:47:00,119 --> 00:47:03,440 water if these individuals are coming up 803 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,559 with the money whether it's themselves 804 00:47:06,559 --> 00:47:10,240 or from somebody else to pay off the 805 00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:14,839 mortgage um the uh foreclosure 806 00:47:14,839 --> 00:47:18,800 costs then they had money presumably to 807 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:19,760 live 808 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,160 elsewhere several of these individuals 809 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:23,920 also had 810 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:29,480 opportunities to get help and they 811 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,359 refused so this is just a bad precedent 812 00:47:33,359 --> 00:47:36,480 it sets a bad example and it really 813 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,480 creates a situation where we're now 814 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:40,960 acting as a 815 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,319 bank and that's just not fair to the 816 00:47:43,319 --> 00:47:45,559 rest of the city and I vote 817 00:47:45,559 --> 00:47:48,960 no thank you Miss Porterfield thank you 818 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:50,640 just want to add some clarity to the 819 00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:52,559 statements first of all I just want to 820 00:47:52,559 --> 00:47:54,720 say there were extenuating circumstances 821 00:47:54,720 --> 00:47:56,640 where the individual idual who were 822 00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,400 forclosed on are not the ones that the 823 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,440 property is being sold back to so I just 824 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,839 want to make that 100% clear and most of 825 00:48:04,839 --> 00:48:07,440 them were elderly people and their 826 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,079 families found out the situation they 827 00:48:09,079 --> 00:48:11,240 had gotten themselves into and I will 828 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:13,480 say I don't want to create a homeless 829 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,520 situation for anyone but especially for 830 00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,040 elderly people so I don't think it's 831 00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,960 beyond reason that a city council would 832 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,119 get them all of the taxes back so it's 833 00:48:25,119 --> 00:48:27,960 not as Mr palamini has stated that we're 834 00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:29,520 not getting the taxes and they have a 835 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,240 free ride they are paying every dollar 836 00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:34,520 that they owe and we've also as added 837 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,359 additional money that they have to pay 838 00:48:36,359 --> 00:48:38,800 in addition to court costs so this is 839 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,119 not a free ride and we are not asking 840 00:48:41,119 --> 00:48:44,079 tax payers to pick up the dime for for 841 00:48:44,079 --> 00:48:46,119 individuals yes we did consider these 842 00:48:46,119 --> 00:48:48,000 PKS they came to us and as I told you 843 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,960 they had extenuating circumstances there 844 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,240 were older people they didn't do what 845 00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:53,599 they should have done their family found 846 00:48:53,599 --> 00:48:55,720 out didn't want to see their family in 847 00:48:55,720 --> 00:48:57,280 the street and we did take that in 848 00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,319 consideration didn't give them any kind 849 00:48:59,319 --> 00:49:02,280 of deal or anything like that to but you 850 00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,799 have to pay every single penny so um we 851 00:49:05,799 --> 00:49:07,240 have done this in the past and Mr 852 00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:09,200 palamini knows and he probably voted for 853 00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,280 it yes at the time because there was an 854 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,319 extenda circumstance so um you know Mr 855 00:49:15,319 --> 00:49:17,040 palamini talks about you know we the 856 00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:20,160 taxpayer when frankly Mr ta Mr palamini 857 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:23,400 is now paying his taxes in roddam so you 858 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:27,000 know that's all of us that are here that 859 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,680 are taxpayers as well are to consider 860 00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,480 this so I just want the public to know 861 00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,440 that is although it sounds like we're 862 00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:35,839 asking you to pay something for someone 863 00:49:35,839 --> 00:49:37,720 else we are not they are asked to pay 864 00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:39,440 that and another thing is they will 865 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,040 never be able to be in this situation 866 00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,680 again it is not something that can 867 00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,359 happen over and over and over again so 868 00:49:45,359 --> 00:49:48,910 we in we I beg your 869 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:55,799 pardon okay I'll something no no when it's your time you certainly can so 870 00:49:55,799 --> 00:49:57,480 that the city council did decide to do 871 00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,480 that to take into consideration the 872 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,359 extenuating circumstances for these 873 00:50:02,359 --> 00:50:05,680 families and to all allow them to retain 874 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,440 their um property by paying back all of 875 00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:12,000 the taxes not some not a portion and in 876 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,440 addition to that they have to pay every 877 00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,280 closing cost that goes along with it and 878 00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:16,799 there's an additional that the city 879 00:50:16,799 --> 00:50:19,480 council put with it so I think that in 880 00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,079 trying to keep people in their homes 881 00:50:21,079 --> 00:50:22,319 it's some it's a good thing that we're 882 00:50:22,319 --> 00:50:25,119 doing we talk about the shorting hous uh 883 00:50:25,119 --> 00:50:27,000 excuse me the housing shortage that we 884 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,319 have and all of those things so all of 885 00:50:29,319 --> 00:50:30,640 that take in consideration that we've 886 00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:32,040 gone through coid people have gone 887 00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,440 through all of this yes we did allow 888 00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,720 these people to return have these homes 889 00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:38,960 returned to individuals but not the ones 890 00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:40,799 that they were foreclosed on so just 891 00:50:40,799 --> 00:50:43,200 want to make that 100% clear with that I 892 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:44,520 vote 893 00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,920 Yes the measure fails we do not have 894 00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:54,430 enough votes to pass it thank 895 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,000 you this time it's privilege of the 896 00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,480 flooor regarding General City business I 897 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,559 have five people who have signed up to 898 00:51:02,559 --> 00:51:06,319 speak uh Mark and Marge laqua I always 899 00:51:06,319 --> 00:51:12,789 I'm not sure if I say that 900 00:51:12,799 --> 00:51:15,760 properly good evening um honorable mayor 901 00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,520 and honorable city council uh I'd assume 902 00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:21,160 that we come up here to to give thanks 903 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,200 to everybody um I'm one of the people 904 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,839 the last one that Mr pal just spoke on 905 00:51:25,839 --> 00:51:29,839 number 16 um and you know when someone's 906 00:51:29,839 --> 00:51:32,119 on disability when someone's not able to 907 00:51:32,119 --> 00:51:33,480 pay their things they going through a 908 00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,040 pandemic and they're living paycheck to 909 00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:37,760 paycheck even less than that to the 910 00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,599 point she can't pay for her own diabetic 911 00:51:40,599 --> 00:51:42,599 medication you have to consider people 912 00:51:42,599 --> 00:51:45,000 Mr pal Mar and rest of the city council 913 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,359 consider people you may not have that ex 914 00:51:47,359 --> 00:51:49,839 that extenda circumstance you never been 915 00:51:49,839 --> 00:51:52,880 there never felt it but consider people 916 00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,079 have a heart there's an underbelly in 917 00:51:55,079 --> 00:51:56,680 this world world but people are trying 918 00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:01,720 to do the right thing we were scrambling we got the money to pay 919 00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:04,079 everything back plus whatever they added 920 00:52:04,079 --> 00:52:05,799 on so I was I thought it was going to be 921 00:52:05,799 --> 00:52:06,520 a 922 00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:08,599 congratulatory and thank you to the news 923 00:52:08,599 --> 00:52:12,640 connecti but Mr pal Mar I I really am 924 00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,400 disheartened to hear what you had to say 925 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:16,200 you don't consider people and I hope you 926 00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,359 do from this point I pray to God for you 927 00:52:18,359 --> 00:52:20,079 and everyone us I pray to God for you to 928 00:52:20,079 --> 00:52:22,040 that you open your hearts up we are as 929 00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:23,760 connected Deans we've been here for 12 930 00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,079 years and for one one small time when 931 00:52:27,079 --> 00:52:28,839 people could not afford to pay their 932 00:52:28,839 --> 00:52:31,520 taxes so that they could survive and you 933 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,119 want to throw them out their houses on 934 00:52:33,119 --> 00:52:36,200 the on outside it's not right I ask you 935 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,079 open your hearts up open your eyes up 936 00:52:38,079 --> 00:52:40,240 and see what's going on in Connected you 937 00:52:40,240 --> 00:52:41,920 want to change you put Billboards for 938 00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:45,359 news connecti let it be that there can 939 00:52:45,359 --> 00:52:47,480 be policy there can be precedent but let 940 00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:51,040 it start now and as our dear president 941 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,079 said these are other people who are 942 00:52:53,079 --> 00:52:55,680 stepping in to help the family it's not 943 00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,440 that they're abandoning them we're not 944 00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,960 saying forget you I don't I'm not 945 00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:02,119 putting a dime out for you the taxpayers 946 00:53:02,119 --> 00:53:04,720 are not seeing anything and truly 947 00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:06,960 speaking if you took a a a whole 948 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,440 countywide vote they would vote in favor 949 00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:10,640 because they don't want to see people on 950 00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:13,000 the streets the homelessness I just came 951 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,760 from Texas the other day for a funeral 952 00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,440 homelessness all over the country is 953 00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,599 egregious but for a place like Upstate 954 00:53:19,599 --> 00:53:22,079 New York the place that hous the people 955 00:53:22,079 --> 00:53:23,880 that takes care of people you need to 956 00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,670 show that you're here to help the 957 00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,200 people I have nothing you know else to 958 00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,440 say I thank you I love you all with my 959 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:34,720 heart and God bless you all thank you 960 00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:35,839 thank 961 00:53:35,839 --> 00:53:41,910 you Ed Le 962 00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,520 Jr good evening Mr Mayor chairwoman 963 00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:47,079 Quarterfield council members I'm here 964 00:53:47,079 --> 00:53:49,359 for another council meeting knowing full 965 00:53:49,359 --> 00:53:51,880 well none of you will do anything for me 966 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,359 the criminals are not in the streets 967 00:53:53,359 --> 00:53:54,960 they're in the office and for the work 968 00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,480 for the city of skincity because it is 969 00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,400 far more important to cover up for the 970 00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,240 crimes of these three judges that 971 00:54:01,240 --> 00:54:02,400 corruptly deprive me of my 972 00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:04,760 constitutional rights and committed 973 00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,280 obstruction of justice in the process 974 00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,240 the same crime the mayor is guilty of by 975 00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:11,200 not meeting with me and acting on the 976 00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:13,799 crimes and proven in these meetings it 977 00:54:13,799 --> 00:54:15,960 makes all of you and the mayor complicit 978 00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:17,960 after the fact especially when the mayor 979 00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,799 keeps my ethic complaints out of the 980 00:54:20,799 --> 00:54:23,319 Gazette the mayor is responsible for the 981 00:54:23,319 --> 00:54:25,359 enforcement of laws in the city of his 982 00:54:25,359 --> 00:54:28,520 concy and to ensure Justice is provided 983 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,920 kind of hard to do his job when he is 984 00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:32,240 covering up for the 985 00:54:32,240 --> 00:54:34,440 criminals same thing you council members 986 00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,720 are doing you all swear an oath to the 987 00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:38,799 Constitution when all of you do nothing 988 00:54:38,799 --> 00:54:40,599 it becomes a conspiracy to deprive me of 989 00:54:40,599 --> 00:54:43,119 my constitutional rights and the mayor 990 00:54:43,119 --> 00:54:45,000 is keeping me out of the Gazette no 991 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,079 matter there are other ways to expose 992 00:54:47,079 --> 00:54:49,599 you I knew before I came to the first 993 00:54:49,599 --> 00:54:51,440 meeting all of you would do nothing for 994 00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:53,839 me what have any of you done for the 995 00:54:53,839 --> 00:54:56,720 1100 St Clair pensioners who have worked 996 00:54:56,720 --> 00:54:59,760 10 to 50 years at St clar's why would 997 00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:01,839 the mayor do anything for me he has done 998 00:55:01,839 --> 00:55:04,000 nothing for the 1100 innocent workers 999 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,640 victimized in concy by the Catholic 1000 00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,920 church has the Mayor found some money 1001 00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:11,200 from the budget has the mayor City 1002 00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,079 Council Members held a fundraiser 1003 00:55:13,079 --> 00:55:15,359 started to gofund me 1004 00:55:15,359 --> 00:55:17,920 anything what did you do have I sh say a 1005 00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:19,160 prayer for 1006 00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:21,599 him the mayor and City Council Members 1007 00:55:21,599 --> 00:55:23,160 want to distance themselves from the 1008 00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,079 criminals and will do nothing for the 1009 00:55:25,079 --> 00:55:27,960 innocent victims maybe because someone 1010 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:29,520 will find out the mayor and council 1011 00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,000 members are not here to help they are 1012 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,200 only here to cover up and keep it out of 1013 00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,400 the news you are all part of the problem 1014 00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:38,359 not the 1015 00:55:38,359 --> 00:55:42,039 solution thank you thank 1016 00:55:42,039 --> 00:55:45,789 you Tom 1017 00:55:45,799 --> 00:55:47,839 capano hope I didn't really mess it up 1018 00:55:47,839 --> 00:55:50,000 too 1019 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,480 bad Mr mayor council members I'm here 1020 00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,599 tonight Tom capuano to express my 1021 00:55:56,599 --> 00:55:59,720 concern about the leaking sanitary sewer 1022 00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:01,640 pipes that have been contaminating the 1023 00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:05,240 Hans Groot kill the levels of bacteria 1024 00:56:05,240 --> 00:56:07,839 are dangerous for everyone living in the 1025 00:56:07,839 --> 00:56:11,240 area along that Creek and even more 1026 00:56:11,240 --> 00:56:13,119 dangerous for those taking drinking 1027 00:56:13,119 --> 00:56:15,400 water from sources 1028 00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:19,160 Downstream I attend Sunday services at a 1029 00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:22,440 church right next to this Creek and our 1030 00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,160 ministers shared with us a letter from 1031 00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:26,319 the city of 1032 00:56:26,319 --> 00:56:29,119 skincity written several months ago that 1033 00:56:29,119 --> 00:56:33,039 reads in part like this quote sample 1034 00:56:33,039 --> 00:56:35,319 collecting and testing for the Hans gr 1035 00:56:35,319 --> 00:56:39,039 kill will continue through July the 1036 00:56:39,039 --> 00:56:41,039 samples will be collected from a 1037 00:56:41,039 --> 00:56:43,160 selection of storm structures in the 1038 00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:44,520 watershed 1039 00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,039 area it goes on to say that MJ 1040 00:56:47,039 --> 00:56:50,039 engineering and the city with closed 1041 00:56:50,039 --> 00:56:52,839 circuit TV and dieet testing will come 1042 00:56:52,839 --> 00:56:55,480 up with some answers about about where 1043 00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,079 the pollution is coming from most 1044 00:56:58,079 --> 00:57:00,680 significantly the letter closes like 1045 00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:04,799 this I quote a report summarizing the 1046 00:57:04,799 --> 00:57:07,799 results will be prepared and provided to 1047 00:57:07,799 --> 00:57:13,680 the city in late August 2023 end quote 1048 00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:15,680 I've looked on the website it could be I 1049 00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:18,640 just didn't find the results but if they 1050 00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,760 have come in uh I would like to know how 1051 00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:26,680 to how to access them and uh uh I urge 1052 00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:30,960 the city to make those results public 1053 00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,680 and that way discussions can begin 1054 00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:38,400 immediately on how to address the 1055 00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:45,150 contamination thank you thank 1056 00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:53,789 you Tom 1057 00:57:53,799 --> 00:58:05,510 Kennedy 1058 00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:07,319 good evening 1059 00:58:07,319 --> 00:58:10,359 everyone uh I wish I can better terms 1060 00:58:10,359 --> 00:58:11,319 but I 1061 00:58:11,319 --> 00:58:13,760 can't uh first like to start off with 1062 00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:16,039 the tax thing you overheard me say why 1063 00:58:16,039 --> 00:58:18,480 not when you said well they can't do it 1064 00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:21,160 again unless I know unless there's a 1065 00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:24,200 policy that's been established then why 1066 00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,559 can't they do again but I would like to 1067 00:58:26,559 --> 00:58:29,440 thank uh councilman P manyi for at least 1068 00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:31,039 looking out for the taxpayers in the 1069 00:58:31,039 --> 00:58:33,200 city uh there's a lot of people out 1070 00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,240 there who can't pay their taxes they 1071 00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:37,799 scrim there's a lot of older elderly 1072 00:58:37,799 --> 00:58:40,240 people that go out eating so they make 1073 00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:41,839 sure that they pay their tax for I know 1074 00:58:41,839 --> 00:58:44,039 a lot of them so there's a lot of people 1075 00:58:44,039 --> 00:58:45,280 out there that are 1076 00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:47,799 hurting let's let's face it Biden's uh 1077 00:58:47,799 --> 00:58:50,079 Biden's America is not putting food on a 1078 00:58:50,079 --> 00:58:52,839 table for many people so I don't want to 1079 00:58:52,839 --> 00:58:54,440 hear about you know I I understand we 1080 00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:56,079 everybody has to have a heart and you 1081 00:58:56,079 --> 00:58:57,880 want to have uh you want you want to do 1082 00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:00,440 this establish a policy cuz then 1083 00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:02,760 everybody can be not just the your 1084 00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:05,440 friends and your donors and your buddies 1085 00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:09,000 everybody in the city is connected so 1086 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:10,440 that's what I got to say about that and 1087 00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:11,680 we'll deal with we'll deal with the 1088 00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:15,520 media and the rest of it um I by the way 1089 00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,280 I'm the chairman of the Republican party 1090 00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:21,400 as far as the uh arpa money I want to be 1091 00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:26,829 very clear uh I heard the the uh 1092 00:59:26,839 --> 00:59:30,799 Council president's uh I don't I don't 1093 00:59:30,799 --> 00:59:36,039 know how to describe it but uh her U 1094 00:59:36,039 --> 00:59:39,000 remarks her take there thank you I 1095 00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,240 appreciate it I'm kind of a little 1096 00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:45,520 remarks I'll give that to you um what 1097 00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,319 we're going to do as a party is we're 1098 00:59:47,319 --> 00:59:49,000 going to ask for United States Treasury 1099 00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:52,000 Department to look into your process I 1100 00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,200 think again there's a lot of people have 1101 00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,319 a lot of problems with the way you 1102 00:59:56,319 --> 00:59:59,200 didn't follow the rating of the things 1103 00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,319 you pick Cherry Picked again your 1104 01:00:01,319 --> 01:00:04,480 friends donors buddies people who work 1105 01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:08,720 on your campaigns etc etc so we're be 1106 01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:11,039 asking for them to take a look at it and 1107 01:00:11,039 --> 01:00:13,640 uh we can you can uh give them your 1108 01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,520 remarks I'm sure they will Enlighten uh 1109 01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:20,520 the fellows in DC secondly uh another 1110 01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:23,559 issue it seems like we got a lot of 1111 01:00:23,559 --> 01:00:28,160 them I think we can all agree that the 1112 01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,000 emergency uh Communications in the city 1113 01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,720 is essential for the safety of our 1114 01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:37,880 people I think when you look at the U 1115 01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:39,480 our heroes are out there every day 1116 01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:42,160 firemen or First Responders our officer 1117 01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:44,559 our police officers uh that is their 1118 01:00:44,559 --> 01:00:47,160 Lifeline many times in a terrible 1119 01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:50,240 situation it's also Lifeline of our city 1120 01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:53,319 residents that are in trouble so when we 1121 01:00:53,319 --> 01:00:55,280 get reports that 1122 01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:58,799 councilman Farley hared and 1123 01:00:58,799 --> 01:01:02,559 harassed a city employee responsible for 1124 01:01:02,559 --> 01:01:05,480 the communications because some car that 1125 01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,359 either he owns or doesn't own or knows 1126 01:01:07,359 --> 01:01:11,000 or whatever car was towed let me see if 1127 01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:12,520 I can get this 1128 01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:15,440 right words to the effect do you know 1129 01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:20,280 who I am Iden then identifies himself as 1130 01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,920 councilman Dean fary now I don't know if 1131 01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:25,039 these things are true I I can just say 1132 01:01:25,039 --> 01:01:28,960 the reports that we got from people 1133 01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:32,200 who've been affected by this now what I 1134 01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:39,079 would ask for is simply the city du a 1135 01:01:39,079 --> 01:01:41,359 investigation you 1136 01:01:41,359 --> 01:01:44,000 have you know Gary who I think about 1137 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:47,240 today Charlie Mills I used to see him 1138 01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:50,200 for lunch every once in a while great 1139 01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,240 guy tell you like it is so I think of 1140 01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:57,390 him today 1141 01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:01,319 uh I called my congressman three times 1142 01:02:01,319 --> 01:02:03,000 the Washington office when I was over 1143 01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:05,359 there in Albany 1144 01:02:05,359 --> 01:02:07,839 picketing never heard from 1145 01:02:07,839 --> 01:02:11,039 Paul I didn't really expect to he's not 1146 01:02:11,039 --> 01:02:13,640 really good at getting back to Veterans 1147 01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:16,200 World War II veteran disabled combat 1148 01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:19,599 veteran myself went to try to see him 1149 01:02:19,599 --> 01:02:23,000 never could accomplish it so I hope that 1150 01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:24,920 well he's another 1151 01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:28,839 darling of of the political 1152 01:02:28,839 --> 01:02:31,680 system so the only way he'll leave is if 1153 01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:32,559 he 1154 01:02:32,559 --> 01:02:39,430 expires or he decides not to 1155 01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,160 run I want to read I got a fan club 1156 01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,039 going well it's the same person two 1157 01:02:44,039 --> 01:02:46,079 letters I want to read the 1158 01:02:46,079 --> 01:02:48,520 letter I got it Saturday morning I tell 1159 01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:50,400 you I get a good chuckle out of it keep 1160 01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,880 those letters coming if you're watching 1161 01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,480 Mr busy person shows up at committee 1162 01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:58,160 meeting council 1163 01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:04,190 meeting knows knows nothing 1164 01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:08,359 issues knows nothing issues are dumb 1165 01:03:08,359 --> 01:03:10,880 Dum well I'm not so dumb that I don't 1166 01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:14,039 know that dumb ends with a be stay home 1167 01:03:14,039 --> 01:03:18,400 nobody cares what you say senior said I 1168 01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:20,720 got to laugh at this the senior centers 1169 01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:22,440 are centers are 1170 01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:25,680 open I probably will run into them there 1171 01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:27,599 if I was to go and who knows you know 1172 01:03:27,599 --> 01:03:30,720 you never know what's in your future so 1173 01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:32,520 come on down introduce yourself now 1174 01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,079 where is 12309 that that's that's a 1175 01:03:35,079 --> 01:03:36,960 better neighborhood isn't it you and who 1176 01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:39,440 somebody here in 12309 that's where it 1177 01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:41,119 comes from I'm thinking they're over 1178 01:03:41,119 --> 01:03:43,640 there in nkuna or some place but I'm 1179 01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:45,279 glad they're watching me and they know 1180 01:03:45,279 --> 01:03:47,640 where I go when it comes to the meetings 1181 01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:49,760 and I'll continue to do it because it's 1182 01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,000 my civic duty and there's a lot that 1183 01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,520 could be corrected the only thing thing 1184 01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:57,920 is they need to line up here can't do it 1185 01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:00,640 by myself an army of one it's hard to 1186 01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:04,079 pull off thank you 1187 01:04:04,079 --> 01:04:08,029 Mariam thank you Mr 1188 01:04:08,039 --> 01:04:10,400 Harper I have no one else signed up to 1189 01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:12,520 speak for public comment on City 1190 01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,599 business so I declare this 1191 01:04:15,599 --> 01:04:17,920 closed this time any miscellaneous 1192 01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:22,069 business of the 1193 01:04:22,079 --> 01:04:28,870 council I'm Miss Patrick 1194 01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:29,960 well I just wanted to say I'm 1195 01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:31,920 disappointed that those measures failed 1196 01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,520 this evening I think that we had uh 1197 01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:36,720 quite a lengthy discussion at our 1198 01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,200 committee meetings last week uh where we 1199 01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:41,279 went through all of this and certainly 1200 01:04:41,279 --> 01:04:43,920 we all uh can disagree on issues but I 1201 01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:45,640 also think that as public servants it's 1202 01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:47,279 important for us to understand that 1203 01:04:47,279 --> 01:04:48,599 sometimes you can make arbitrary 1204 01:04:48,599 --> 01:04:51,039 decisions I think also we discussed 1205 01:04:51,039 --> 01:04:54,520 setting policy around the um notion of 1206 01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:56,520 foreclosure um and I'm sure that that 1207 01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,480 discussion will happen uh in a future 1208 01:04:58,480 --> 01:04:59,920 committee meeting I'd like to see that 1209 01:04:59,920 --> 01:05:02,720 happen um but I think that we all 1210 01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:05,720 discussed the fact that um they were 1211 01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:08,640 extenda uh circumstances with those 1212 01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:11,599 foreclosures I think we all understood 1213 01:05:11,599 --> 01:05:13,520 and as uh the gentleman here said I 1214 01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:16,240 think we all were trying to have a heart 1215 01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:19,039 and understand that um you know like it 1216 01:05:19,039 --> 01:05:21,039 is it's not black and white everything 1217 01:05:21,039 --> 01:05:23,039 that happens um we talked about the fact 1218 01:05:23,039 --> 01:05:24,160 that we might have been setting 1219 01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:27,319 president but we also um did say that we 1220 01:05:27,319 --> 01:05:30,599 needed to make sure that we were um you 1221 01:05:30,599 --> 01:05:32,520 know thinking with our hearts thinking 1222 01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:34,400 with our heads but also understanding 1223 01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:36,359 that we were going to need to have some 1224 01:05:36,359 --> 01:05:38,559 guidelines going forward but also have 1225 01:05:38,559 --> 01:05:40,839 some flexibility as city council people 1226 01:05:40,839 --> 01:05:44,119 and as public servants um I'm very 1227 01:05:44,119 --> 01:05:45,680 disappointed about some of the arpa 1228 01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:47,760 decisions that that failed this evening 1229 01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:49,359 especially in light of the fact that one 1230 01:05:49,359 --> 01:05:50,960 of them in particular is preventing 1231 01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:52,559 homelessness another one is preventing 1232 01:05:52,559 --> 01:05:55,559 food insecurity and another one is um 1233 01:05:55,559 --> 01:05:57,200 working with people who are victims of 1234 01:05:57,200 --> 01:06:00,079 domestic violence so I have to also say 1235 01:06:00,079 --> 01:06:01,799 I didn't think the process was a good 1236 01:06:01,799 --> 01:06:04,559 one necessarily uh that we followed 1237 01:06:04,559 --> 01:06:06,400 right from the start of the Opera funds 1238 01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:08,119 but I do think that last week we put a 1239 01:06:08,119 --> 01:06:10,559 lot of consideration into these uh 1240 01:06:10,559 --> 01:06:13,520 decisions and again um I can think in 1241 01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:15,599 one of those instances where the 1242 01:06:15,599 --> 01:06:17,680 organization itself had actually had to 1243 01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:20,119 wait so long for us to make a decision 1244 01:06:20,119 --> 01:06:22,760 that they had actually taken care of um 1245 01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,079 what they needed which was in fact coid 1246 01:06:25,079 --> 01:06:27,839 supplies um so in changing their 1247 01:06:27,839 --> 01:06:29,480 proposal to something that all of us 1248 01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:32,760 actually voted on for a few weeks ago uh 1249 01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:35,039 to give them money for that very same 1250 01:06:35,039 --> 01:06:37,640 project um you know which is going to 1251 01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:40,279 prevent homelessness um it's just 1252 01:06:40,279 --> 01:06:42,359 disappointing so I just wanted to say 1253 01:06:42,359 --> 01:06:45,119 that uh thank you anybody 1254 01:06:45,119 --> 01:06:48,829 else Mr 1255 01:06:48,839 --> 01:06:51,079 palamini so in regards to the 1256 01:06:51,079 --> 01:06:54,359 Foreclosure certainly nobody wants to 1257 01:06:54,359 --> 01:06:57,079 have anyone kicked out of their house 1258 01:06:57,079 --> 01:07:01,400 that's absolutely The Last Resort and is 1259 01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:02,760 a horrible 1260 01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:05,000 situation but the fact 1261 01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:07,520 is we didn't create a 1262 01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:10,119 policy it is 1263 01:07:10,119 --> 01:07:13,480 arbitrary and without the policy anyone 1264 01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:16,870 can now come 1265 01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:20,520 forward what do you tell the elderly 1266 01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:24,000 lady in Hamilton Hill that says to me 1267 01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:26,960 John I have to pay my taxes you know I'm 1268 01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:30,039 struggling food costs are up but I'm 1269 01:07:30,039 --> 01:07:30,960 doing 1270 01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:35,359 it the Widow the widower in the north 1271 01:07:35,359 --> 01:07:39,119 side who John come look at my 1272 01:07:39,119 --> 01:07:42,400 property look I'm keeping it up nice I 1273 01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:45,079 want the neighborhood to be 1274 01:07:45,079 --> 01:07:49,589 proud but I'm struggling 1275 01:07:49,599 --> 01:07:55,640 too or the Widow in Belle viw 1276 01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:58,760 who to even though it's been years since 1277 01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:00,640 her husband 1278 01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:02,799 died 1279 01:08:02,799 --> 01:08:06,480 is at the mere mention of him 1280 01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:09,520 cries and is struggling 1281 01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:12,000 to pay the 1282 01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:16,239 bills but is making sure she pays the 1283 01:08:16,239 --> 01:08:18,400 mortgage we have to consider those 1284 01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:20,520 individuals as 1285 01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:25,199 well that's having a heart too 1286 01:08:25,199 --> 01:08:28,920 and without the policy in place prior to 1287 01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:30,960 doing these 1288 01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:35,279 things we've now created a bad 1289 01:08:35,279 --> 01:08:37,799 situation 1290 01:08:37,799 --> 01:08:40,880 period now you want to mention paying 1291 01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:44,080 taxes in reram I also pay taxes on my 1292 01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:45,640 address in 1293 01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:49,120 skety unlike you who accepted benefits 1294 01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:52,120 you shouldn't have received so if we 1295 01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:54,319 want to go down that road we can 1296 01:08:54,319 --> 01:08:57,199 mhm but the reality 1297 01:08:57,199 --> 01:09:00,159 is people are struggling they're doing 1298 01:09:00,159 --> 01:09:01,279 the right 1299 01:09:01,279 --> 01:09:03,440 thing and we should have created a 1300 01:09:03,440 --> 01:09:04,600 policy 1301 01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:08,040 first that would have prevented anything 1302 01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:11,080 going forward in terms of unequal 1303 01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:14,640 treatment or unethical 1304 01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,520 Behavior probably not the right word but 1305 01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:19,199 I'll stick with 1306 01:09:19,199 --> 01:09:24,199 it so here we have a situation where yes 1307 01:09:24,199 --> 01:09:26,799 we have a heart for people but we also 1308 01:09:26,799 --> 01:09:28,880 have a heart for those individuals that 1309 01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:32,239 I spoke about who are paying their taxes 1310 01:09:32,239 --> 01:09:34,679 and are 1311 01:09:34,679 --> 01:09:36,319 struggling 1312 01:09:36,319 --> 01:09:39,359 this the arpa situation you want to say 1313 01:09:39,359 --> 01:09:42,159 oh well you could have put things 1314 01:09:42,159 --> 01:09:44,440 forward we did you just ignored them 1315 01:09:44,440 --> 01:09:46,640 just like the application the of the 1316 01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:49,719 review process we told you some things 1317 01:09:49,719 --> 01:09:51,679 you chose to go forward with 1318 01:09:51,679 --> 01:09:55,120 anyway that's fine 1319 01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:56,600 but if you want to correct things at 1320 01:09:56,600 --> 01:10:01,189 least get it 1321 01:10:01,199 --> 01:10:08,830 right Mr 1322 01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:11,560 Farley not even sure where to start here 1323 01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,360 okay so I guess we'll start talking 1324 01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:18,040 about the arpa funds um you know the ARA 1325 01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:20,600 funds that the city has received was a 1326 01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:23,960 response to a once in a generational 1327 01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:26,600 crisis that did impact the entire world 1328 01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:30,000 that's why that money showed up um when 1329 01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:33,159 you have that type of uh money show up 1330 01:10:33,159 --> 01:10:34,960 to the city it's really important that 1331 01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:35,920 we 1332 01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:38,400 recognize the money doesn't belong to 1333 01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:39,800 City 1334 01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:43,560 Hall the money belongs to the people and 1335 01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:45,239 the effort that you 1336 01:10:45,239 --> 01:10:47,880 saw the unprecedented effort that you 1337 01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:50,640 saw to engage the community in a way 1338 01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:52,960 that hasn't happened before was a way to 1339 01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:55,080 respond to be be responsive to the needs 1340 01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:57,080 of the community and include their voice 1341 01:10:57,080 --> 01:10:58,520 in the 1342 01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:01,880 process and if it didn't go 1343 01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:05,440 perfect guess what that's what happens 1344 01:11:05,440 --> 01:11:07,960 when you try to be Innovative and you 1345 01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:10,199 don't allow tradition to stifle 1346 01:11:10,199 --> 01:11:12,000 Innovation when you're welcoming people 1347 01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:15,110 into a 1348 01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:17,679 process I find it 1349 01:11:17,679 --> 01:11:20,280 troubling to hear Mr Palin's point of 1350 01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:22,159 view on 1351 01:11:22,159 --> 01:11:25,120 extensions for 1352 01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:28,080 nonprofits who apply for this funding 1353 01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:32,360 knowing that he was a part of the same very governing body that voted 1354 01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:35,719 unanimously to double the price of the 1355 01:11:35,719 --> 01:11:39,000 Central Park Pool to almost to the $210 1356 01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,880 million and we did that in good faith 1357 01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,520 understanding that during the process 1358 01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:46,920 price of materials have gone up as well 1359 01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:49,760 as availability for those materials so 1360 01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:51,320 it's important that when you give these 1361 01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:53,199 type of statements that you provide 1362 01:11:53,199 --> 01:11:55,400 their appropriate context so if you're 1363 01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:57,280 going to make those type of 1364 01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:00,560 considerations and understanding for the 1365 01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:05,560 city then you are morally I would say 1366 01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:07,920 obligated to make the same type of 1367 01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,159 considerations if not more for those 1368 01:12:10,159 --> 01:12:12,800 small nonprofits who are doing the very 1369 01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:15,639 work on the ground in the community 1370 01:12:15,639 --> 01:12:16,920 every 1371 01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:19,920 day I would also 1372 01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:22,480 say to this conversation around 1373 01:12:22,480 --> 01:12:25,199 foreclosures 1374 01:12:25,199 --> 01:12:27,080 what I would say to 1375 01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:30,960 the people that you talked about and the 1376 01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:34,520 lady in Hamilton Hill and the Widow in 1377 01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:37,480 Belleview I would like to 1378 01:12:37,480 --> 01:12:42,080 say you have a body a governing body 1379 01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:44,080 that not only is responsive to your 1380 01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,719 needs but takes into 1381 01:12:46,719 --> 01:12:48,760 consideration the fact that there was 1382 01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:50,040 just a 1383 01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:53,600 pandemic and that if you are in a 1384 01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:57,840 position to now pay your taxes in full 1385 01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,120 that's the part that we need to talk 1386 01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:01,920 about this is not a hand out this is a 1387 01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,719 hand up which makes our city 1388 01:13:04,719 --> 01:13:08,040 whole and keeps people's in their house 1389 01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:09,840 while we heard our entire city talking 1390 01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:11,800 to us about the housing crising that 1391 01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:13,800 crisis that we're facing right 1392 01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:17,400 now so I would like to tell them that we 1393 01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:21,159 listen to you we care and based on the 1394 01:13:21,159 --> 01:13:23,040 information that you've given us we're 1395 01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:25,840 being responsive but unfortunately I 1396 01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:28,880 can't say that to the theoretical person 1397 01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:30,040 that you're making up your head or the 1398 01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:33,510 really real person that is listening 1399 01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:36,199 today I'm not really 1400 01:13:36,199 --> 01:13:39,120 sure how 1401 01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:43,920 we get to a place where someone 1402 01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,520 is putting together the resources to 1403 01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:49,320 save their home in the midst of a 1404 01:13:49,320 --> 01:13:52,840 housing crisis and we prioritize our 1405 01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:55,080 commitment to bad 1406 01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:58,400 practices that will only amplify the 1407 01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:00,360 very housing crisis that's on our hand 1408 01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:02,520 when we don't have 1409 01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:06,400 to I invite you to be really clear about 1410 01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:08,560 when you make these statements and sound 1411 01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:10,560 like it's some fiscally irresponsible 1412 01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:12,639 thing when you know it's not the city 1413 01:14:12,639 --> 01:14:14,159 the the first thing here is that the 1414 01:14:14,159 --> 01:14:16,480 city is made whole and people get their 1415 01:14:16,480 --> 01:14:19,199 home that's called a win-win doesn't 1416 01:14:19,199 --> 01:14:20,719 happen often in politics but when it 1417 01:14:20,719 --> 01:14:22,560 does we really should grab a hold of it 1418 01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:24,280 and celebrate the fact that we are being 1419 01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:26,440 Equitable responsive to the needs of the 1420 01:14:26,440 --> 01:14:28,920 people that live in the city the people 1421 01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:33,280 that live in the city because it's their 1422 01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:35,159 money thank 1423 01:14:35,159 --> 01:14:37,120 you 1424 01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:44,880 mayor thank you Madame President it's a 1425 01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:46,239 always interesting to come to us 1426 01:14:46,239 --> 01:14:48,719 connected city council 1427 01:14:48,719 --> 01:14:51,719 meeting uh just on the Central Park pool 1428 01:14:51,719 --> 01:14:53,520 the pool cost really didn't didn't 1429 01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:56,840 double uh it was additions to the pool 1430 01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,480 that drove it up so I think the actual 1431 01:14:59,480 --> 01:15:02,600 pool costs were up about 30% but uh 1432 01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,040 Community input and uh investment in the 1433 01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:08,159 future brought the price tag up and uh 1434 01:15:08,159 --> 01:15:09,679 it'll be something that I think when we 1435 01:15:09,679 --> 01:15:12,239 look back in 10 years and 20 years that 1436 01:15:12,239 --> 01:15:13,719 people will say we made the right 1437 01:15:13,719 --> 01:15:17,520 decision to make that investment on the 1438 01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,080 uh sampling of the creek through the GE 1439 01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:23,960 plot uh we did map out a timeline for 1440 01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:28,159 that to be done by the end of August uh 1441 01:15:28,159 --> 01:15:30,120 High Water Events dilute the 1442 01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:31,960 effectiveness of the 1443 01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:35,960 sampling and so the uh rain uh this 1444 01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:39,239 summer has slowed that process down but 1445 01:15:39,239 --> 01:15:41,480 uh the report is being compiled put 1446 01:15:41,480 --> 01:15:44,440 together uh and again that condition has 1447 01:15:44,440 --> 01:15:48,000 existed for decades uh we're working on 1448 01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:50,880 it to identify where the sources are 1449 01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:54,360 coming into that Creek uh they could be 1450 01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:56,960 in the city uh they could be one of our 1451 01:15:56,960 --> 01:15:59,600 neighboring communities uh but it's a 1452 01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:02,280 slow methodical process to track it back 1453 01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:05,760 and then to be able to put in place uh a 1454 01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:09,040 solution for that uh want to thank 1455 01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:11,440 everyone who came out this weekend we 1456 01:16:11,440 --> 01:16:13,840 did the health fair around City Hall 1457 01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:16,280 Stockade art show the Greek Fest the 1458 01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:19,120 Italian Fest council member Doro thank 1459 01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:22,760 you for that the uh Caribbean fest uh I 1460 01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:24,920 think that was the maybe the largest 1461 01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:27,440 crowd I've seen in Central Park since 1462 01:16:27,440 --> 01:16:30,199 I've been there uh I know Mr Mutan spent 1463 01:16:30,199 --> 01:16:32,159 a lot of time on that apparently had to 1464 01:16:32,159 --> 01:16:35,239 take tonight off to rest up from uh all 1465 01:16:35,239 --> 01:16:39,480 his uh efforts on that but uh again it 1466 01:16:39,480 --> 01:16:41,400 is really a great day for the community 1467 01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:43,480 where we get to see uh the strengths we 1468 01:16:43,480 --> 01:16:45,760 get to see the diversity people come out 1469 01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:48,159 have a good time and generally the 1470 01:16:48,159 --> 01:16:51,199 weather was cooperative uh little bit uh 1471 01:16:51,199 --> 01:16:54,080 warm but not as warm as it has has been 1472 01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:56,400 and so I thank everybody who made that 1473 01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:58,760 possible uh especially the city staff in 1474 01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:01,280 terms of supporting it but again it's a 1475 01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:03,360 uh just a good Collective message for 1476 01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:05,520 the city of SCCY thank you madam 1477 01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:07,960 president thank you mayor and I I want 1478 01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:09,360 to Echo those comments it was a 1479 01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:11,800 wonderful I I made almost all of them uh 1480 01:17:11,800 --> 01:17:13,239 events we had around the city and it was 1481 01:17:13,239 --> 01:17:14,639 just really wonderful to see all the 1482 01:17:14,639 --> 01:17:17,320 diversity that we um have within our 1483 01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:19,600 city and people who came to to be a part 1484 01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:21,280 of that it was just a great great 1485 01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:24,040 weekend um all the different foods and 1486 01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:25,400 you know people just having a really 1487 01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:27,760 good time and I heard no incidents and 1488 01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:28,800 sometimes you know when there's MTH 1489 01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:30,840 crowds you think perhaps but people were 1490 01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:32,440 just enjoying themselves so much it was 1491 01:17:32,440 --> 01:17:34,520 wonderful to see and really wonderful to 1492 01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:36,719 be a part of so I congratulate all the 1493 01:17:36,719 --> 01:17:38,560 groups that put those things together 1494 01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:40,960 because they clearly took a lot of work 1495 01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:43,520 um so thank you for that I just wanted 1496 01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:45,679 to just remind folks that this Council 1497 01:17:45,679 --> 01:17:48,440 uh operates by majority rule so anything 1498 01:17:48,440 --> 01:17:50,719 that passes as though sometimes it's 1499 01:17:50,719 --> 01:17:54,600 presented as though uh Madam president did that it takes a majority 1500 01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:56,199 of people on the council to make move 1501 01:17:56,199 --> 01:17:57,960 these things forward we have discussions 1502 01:17:57,960 --> 01:17:59,600 we move them forward or as you saw 1503 01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:01,000 tonight sometimes things don't move 1504 01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,239 forward so this is a a group decision 1505 01:18:03,239 --> 01:18:06,159 that we make um and to Mr Kennedy's 1506 01:18:06,159 --> 01:18:08,440 point if you have a person who has a 1507 01:18:08,440 --> 01:18:11,000 concern please have them uh give their 1508 01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,719 concerns directly to City Hall I 1509 01:18:13,719 --> 01:18:16,080 appreciate you bringing that here um but 1510 01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:18,520 we can't operate on hear say so if that 1511 01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:20,880 person would like to make that um 1512 01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:23,080 complaint certainly um ask them to do 1513 01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:26,510 that so we could look into 1514 01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:30,520 it um and also in in terms of uh people 1515 01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:32,920 that um in terms of council members and 1516 01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:34,840 people saying that you know they they 1517 01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:37,080 have different needs we all or most of 1518 01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:38,480 us know about the different programs 1519 01:18:38,480 --> 01:18:40,239 that are out there so when someone comes 1520 01:18:40,239 --> 01:18:42,280 to you I encourage you to say if you're 1521 01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:44,000 in need of food there's this program to 1522 01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:46,000 help or that program to help so that we 1523 01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:47,960 can make sure that we direct them to 1524 01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:49,480 that we know that we have a lot of needs 1525 01:18:49,480 --> 01:18:51,639 in our city which is why we also have 1526 01:18:51,639 --> 01:18:53,719 those programs in our city which is also 1527 01:18:53,719 --> 01:18:55,760 why we fund those programs in our city 1528 01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:57,560 so I encourage people to do that I know 1529 01:18:57,560 --> 01:18:59,320 that people have needs and the reason 1530 01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:01,239 that these particular properties came to 1531 01:19:01,239 --> 01:19:03,360 our attention is because not because 1532 01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:05,400 they're our friends or our donors or all 1533 01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:07,040 the other things that are said but there 1534 01:19:07,040 --> 01:19:08,880 are people that came to us that said 1535 01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:10,080 this is my 1536 01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:12,920 situation um so I just you know want 1537 01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:14,280 people to understand that we are a 1538 01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:15,360 council that 1539 01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:17,679 listens and addresses 1540 01:19:17,679 --> 01:19:20,639 issues and there are people who would 1541 01:19:20,639 --> 01:19:23,360 want you to believe otherwise but one 1542 01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:25,080 thing I can say about us is we come up 1543 01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:28,120 with Solutions and not just problems so 1544 01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:30,199 I thank you again all for coming and 1545 01:19:30,199 --> 01:19:32,400 with that entertain a motion to adjourn 1546 01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:34,880 mve by Miss Patrick second by Mr Farley 1547 01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:37,159 all in favor we are adjourned have a 1548 01:19:37,159 --> 01:19:46,110 good 1549 01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:49,120 night