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[14:18] I'd like to call the city Caucus meeting
[14:19] to order for Monday October 23rd
[14:23] 2023 we have six items for original
[14:25] consideration if the clerk would please
[14:27] read item number one item number one for
[14:30] final consideration an ordinance to
[14:32] amend section
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[14:57] 248-1829 discuss in committee with an
[14:59] objection on consent item number three for original
[15:03] consideration consideration a resolution
[15:05] authorizing an allocation of
[15:08] $750,000 of arpa funds for the 1913
[15:12] North Ferry Street Pump Station
[15:14] discussed in committee with objection on
[15:16] consent item number four item number
[15:18] four for original consideration a
[15:20] resolution confirming the appointment of
[15:22] Keith St John to the city of skty
[15:24] Civilian review board discussed in
[15:27] committee without objection and on sent
[15:29] item number five item number five for
[15:31] original consideration a resolution
[15:33] authorizing the settlement of a claim by
[15:35] Miguel Palmer discussed in committee
[15:37] with objection on consent item number
[15:39] six item number six under contract and
[15:42] Supply a resolution awarding the bid and
[15:44] contract for installation of Emergency
[15:46] Equipment for police vehicles to
[15:48] Automotive Solutions of New York
[15:49] incorporated in the total amount of
[15:57] $365,500 consent if there's nothing to
[16:00] come more to come before the city
[16:01] council caucus I ask
[16:04] yes well we already passed it so she
[16:07] when I I'll get to that and I'll call
[16:08] her when it's
[16:10] time if there's nothing more to come
[16:12] before the city council caucus I'd ask
[16:13] her a motion to adjourn motion by Mr
[16:15] Williams second by Miss Patrick all in
[16:17] favor I'd like to call the city council
[16:20] meeting to order for Monday October 23rd
[16:23] 2023 and I'd like to call on rever
[16:25] Ronald hunt for the prayer
[16:27] invocation
[16:31] I'm excited to offer this invitation for
[16:33] this meeting of this connected city
[16:34] council this week as I have for many
[16:37] years I moving my Ministry to Ames New
[16:40] York in November and I want to thank the
[16:41] many citizens and City officials that
[16:44] have the pleasure of working for and
[16:46] with over the years this is my wish that
[16:49] we always take something out of each day
[16:50] to be thankful for and something to
[16:53] improve upon tomorrow this opportunity
[16:56] to address our elected officials has a
[16:58] parallel
[16:59] you the citizens have elected them to
[17:00] serve the city you may not always agree
[17:03] with them but they do try to meet and
[17:06] exceed your expectations to do their
[17:08] best for our fellow citizens against
[17:10] many challenges not always of their own
[17:13] making or choosing we are thankful for
[17:16] this opportunity to seek to improve our
[17:17] city and its citizens this is my
[17:19] encouragement to those assembled tonight
[17:22] to not only address the challenges that
[17:23] we all acknowledge are present but to
[17:25] offer Creative Solutions where possible
[17:28] so they can serve you better please
[17:31] remember not only your personal
[17:32] situation but also our neighbors who are
[17:34] unhoused or housing insecure those who
[17:37] need employment or are
[17:39] unemployed those who are hungry or
[17:41] physically and emotionally challenged we
[17:43] must always remember to give thanks that
[17:45] we are healthy enough to be here today
[17:48] we give thanks for the education that's
[17:49] has prepared us for the responsibility
[17:51] of leadership we must find those
[17:53] Creative Solutions for the next
[17:55] generation of our neighbors children who
[17:57] are struggling in school or in
[18:00] struggling schools and pray that we
[18:02] would work to continue to increase
[18:04] access to an education will prepare all
[18:07] our children to succeed in life remember
[18:10] our neighbors who live with debilitating
[18:12] poverty and hope that we would work to
[18:14] increase the pathways at of generational
[18:16] Financial struggle we give thanks for
[18:19] the welcome we received this evening
[18:21] from colleagues and friends who valued
[18:23] our contributions to the life of our
[18:24] city let us dream for just one minute
[18:27] for a larger goal
[18:28] a city and a world where everyone
[18:30] flourishes and where no one knows
[18:33] anything but peace thank you all it's
[18:36] been a pledge thank you I'd like to call
[18:38] on Mary mlan to lead us in the Pledge of
[18:41] Allegiance iedge Al to the flag United
[18:48] States
[18:51] stand God indivisible with liy and
[18:55] justice for all thank you
[19:00] I'd ask the clerk to please complete the
[19:02] roll
[19:04] call Mr muan is absent Mr Toro here Mr
[19:09] Farley is absent Mr Williams here miss
[19:12] Patrick here Mr palamini Miss
[19:15] Porterfield here there was a resolution
[19:18] passed recognized the hearts Family
[19:19] Cleaners at the last council meeting so
[19:21] no motion is needed and I'd like to call
[19:24] on council member Doro to present this
[19:26] resolution thank you madam president
[19:28] have the floor you have the floor I
[19:30] invite uh Sue and Steve and any guests
[19:33] they have to come forward inside the
[19:34] rail
[19:52] here
[19:54] whereas oh I need to make a mo motion no
[19:58] she asked for the
[20:00] floor I asked you ask for the floor go
[20:02] ahead now thank you at the end right yes
[20:04] at the
[20:06] end whereas 1714 Union Street has been
[20:10] home to dry cleaning business for many
[20:12] years before Sue and Steven Harts
[20:14] established Hearts Family Cleaners 25
[20:16] years ago this is a true family business
[20:19] with Steve doing all the operations and
[20:21] Sue handling the front counter marketing
[20:23] and whereas over the years each of their
[20:26] three boys have worked in the cleaner
[20:28] they have employed many people over the
[20:30] years and have always given back to the
[20:32] community and whereas this location has
[20:34] been a staple for people to find out
[20:36] what is going on in the
[20:38] community the community bulletin board
[20:40] is update always updated with services
[20:42] and events in and around concy selling
[20:45] tickets for various not for-profits such
[20:47] as the annual Garden Tour and
[20:51] the oh yeah
[20:54] sophomore sopis sophomores and
[21:00] s Optimus and whereas Hearts Family
[21:03] Cleaners has been recognized by this
[21:05] connected Chamber of Commerce at their
[21:06] annual good news lunch in and whereas
[21:08] they have consistently been awarded best
[21:11] of the best People's Choice from The
[21:13] Daily Gazette as best dry cleaner and
[21:15] whereas Hearts family cleaner has
[21:17] delivered their services in and around
[21:19] connecti serving Office Buildings home
[21:21] delivery and providing their services to
[21:23] Proctor shows and whereas Hearts Family
[21:26] Cleaners has been a collection site for
[21:28] annual coat drive coat for kids
[21:30] supplying coats to underprivileged
[21:32] children and adults now therefore it be
[21:35] resolved that the city of uh that the
[21:37] connected city council and may Mayor
[21:39] Gary AR McCarthy do hereby pause in
[21:42] their deliberations to recognize
[21:44] congratulate and thank Sue and Steven
[21:46] hars for their 25 years of providing dry
[21:48] cleaning services to scenc and wish them
[21:51] well in their Endeavor in their next
[21:53] life I'd like to move this yes I need a
[21:56] second second by Mr palamini
[21:58] motion passes
[22:06] congratulations well we have a lot of
[22:08] customers in this room right now and um
[22:12] the mayor is one of them and as we were
[22:14] going through our stuff I came across
[22:17] this picture of our other mayor with our
[22:20] other president and we didn't dry clean
[22:23] Obama's coat but we did O clean
[22:26] Brian's
[22:28] so thank you very much city of SKC has
[22:30] been very good to us thank you all
[22:33] thanks thanks thank you thank Youk
[22:37] you
[22:52] pictures and thank you for the years of
[22:54] service to our
[22:56] city ask for approval of the minutes for
[22:59] October 10th
[23:01] 2023 I'm sorry approval of the minutes
[23:03] for October move by Miss
[23:06] Patrick second by Mr Williams all in
[23:08] favor I ask the clerk to please read any
[23:11] Communications and
[23:15] petitions Communications presented to
[23:18] city council for Monday October 23rd
[23:20] 2023 under official from the mayor a
[23:22] list of appointments dat dated October
[23:24] 23
[23:26] 2023 from the mayor a letter
[23:28] recommending Keith St John to the SKC
[23:30] civilian police review board under
[23:32] General from Reverend James kikki and
[23:35] email requesting arpa funding for the
[23:38] construction of a halfcourt basketball
[23:39] court in the small pocket park on Main
[23:42] wing and pearl streets in Mount Pleasant
[23:45] and under petitions from the residents
[23:47] of Bedford Road a petition of 74
[23:49] signatures for installation of traffic
[23:52] calming devices such as speed bumps and
[23:55] stop signs and for stricter enforcement
[23:57] of city ordinance for violation of pet
[23:59] waste
[24:01] disposal thank you ask call on council
[24:04] members for any committee
[24:07] reports Mr Toro thank
[24:11] you so as I I as the uh chairperson of
[24:15] the public service and utilities
[24:16] committee I'd just like to announce some
[24:18] upgrades at the a diamond um as of right
[24:21] of today two 90 foot lighting poles were
[24:25] installed on the first Baseline two 90
[24:27] foot lighting poles were installed on
[24:29] the third Baseline and four 80 foot
[24:32] poles in the
[24:33] Outfield this lighting was chosen by the
[24:36] city is connec because it's approved for
[24:38] collegate play and each year in addition
[24:41] to the a diamond being home to Brian and
[24:43] Stratton it also hosts over seven
[24:45] tournaments a year each tournament
[24:48] believe it or not bringing 60 to 100
[24:50] teams a year to our city so not only is
[24:54] it a revenue to our city but also uh
[24:56] provides ancill support to our local
[24:59] econ economy and just as a side note um
[25:02] the SE diamond is undergoing some major
[25:04] Renovations now which will allow more
[25:07] play in 2024 but with the uh polls going
[25:10] up and utilities I just wanted to bring
[25:12] that to everyone's attention thank you
[25:14] thank
[25:15] you this time we have privilege of the
[25:17] floor related to the legislative agenda
[25:20] I have no one else signed up signed up
[25:22] to speak so I declare the public comment
[25:25] on the legislative agenda
[25:26] closed
[25:28] I ask for approval of the legislative
[25:30] consent agenda motion by Miss Patrick
[25:33] second by Mr Williams all in favor
[25:40] I now we will have privilege of the
[25:42] floor regarding General City business
[25:45] and I have five people who are signed up
[25:47] to speak just want to remind speakers
[25:49] that you have three minutes you will
[25:51] hear a
[25:54] timer first person is Bruce shell
[26:01] good evening I'm here to discuss a
[26:04] resolution um that went out for public
[26:06] comment in April but it's a resolution
[26:09] associated with property that borders
[26:11] our property over in uh the skn city of
[26:15] connected eastern boundary I think it is
[26:18] um it's a milia Street currently it's a
[26:20] paper Street um an Amilia Street our
[26:23] back property of our lot borders that
[26:27] street uh currently the proposal has
[26:29] kind of shut us out to have access to
[26:31] that back property because we have a
[26:33] structure on that back property that we
[26:36] mow and
[26:37] maintain um it was I guess public
[26:41] comment goes into the Gazette I would or
[26:43] notification goes in the Gazette the
[26:45] legal notification I don't read the
[26:47] legal notices in The Gazette every day
[26:50] but um my mother-in-law who is nice
[26:52] enough to pay her taxes on the
[26:54] throughout the year she's approached the
[26:57] city numerous times on this property on
[26:59] what the status of the property would be
[27:01] and every time she was told that nothing
[27:04] would be done with this street because
[27:06] first of all it was a secondary access
[27:09] to the Old City
[27:10] Landfill and it was just a paper Street
[27:14] in its history would remain that way uh
[27:17] recently a neighbor who just took over
[27:19] the trustee of his mother who has a
[27:22] house um that borders aelia Street uh
[27:26] put a proposal in or resolution
[27:57] of all partial owners that surround that
[28:00] property and we were never notified
[28:02] through the mail or anything so the only
[28:04] way I found out as a neighbor um found
[28:08] out and said hey Bruce you know this
[28:10] person's trying to purchase this
[28:11] property and you're not going to have
[28:12] access to it so I called Maurice uh Mr
[28:16] Maurice Brown immediately last Monday
[28:18] when I heard that and um he told me to
[28:21] come and speak to the council about this
[28:23] issue uh I've revi I've got a couple
[28:27] revisions to his proposal which should
[28:29] keep everybody happy you know including
[28:31] him um I think it's real important to
[28:34] him more than me because his driveway is
[28:36] actually on the paper Street and it's
[28:39] been there for 50 years that way that's
[28:41] where they've parked their cars um so if the paper street is not not sold to
[28:47] him he's not going to have a driveway
[28:49] for his house so um my proposal would be
[28:51] to divide the paper Street in half for
[28:53] the length of it that goes to the Old
[28:55] City Landfill and um
[28:58] we would get one half he would get the
[28:59] other half or because of the fact that
[29:02] we've maintained twoth thirds of the
[29:04] property for 33 years um that we would
[29:07] get the back 2/3 and split the front um
[29:11] third so I think that's fair I think
[29:13] it's fair to him it gives him access to
[29:15] what he needs and it's I think it's fair
[29:17] to us that gives us access to the
[29:19] property we maintain behind our our shed
[29:23] which has been there for probably over a
[29:24] hundred years my the neighbors tell me
[29:26] at one point it was a chicken cpop it
[29:28] was there when we bought it we didn't
[29:30] tear it down or modify it or anything
[29:32] but it still exists there and we still maintain the 2/3 of the
[29:35] property we mow it on on Saturday you
[29:38] know so I think just a fair proposal for
[29:41] this resolution would be to divide it up
[29:44] where we have access to our back
[29:46] property from 1870 Grey Street because
[29:48] we drive around with our riding mower
[29:50] and do the Mowing and the raking and
[29:52] cleaning the garbage and unfortunately
[29:54] for us the backside or the two-thirds of
[29:57] the of the property is where the wind
[29:59] blows all the garbage and all the leaves
[30:01] and each year we take a full-size dump
[30:04] trailer out of there of leaves and the
[30:06] proposer approached us actually in the
[30:08] spring when we were doing our spring
[30:10] cleanup and said boy this is a lot of
[30:12] work and then went back to his mother's
[30:14] house so okay I'm going to need you to
[30:15] summarize please so I would like to give
[30:18] a revision to his proposal I have a
[30:20] written revision here um for you guys to
[30:23] um look at and decide whether you know
[30:26] this is fair than his proposal or that
[30:30] we could still have access to our
[30:31] property all right thank you thank you
[30:34] very
[30:39] much Ed Leen Jr good evening news
[30:43] connectivty same corruption it's not
[30:45] Captain Nora of the police department
[30:47] it's the mayor three corrupt judges and
[30:49] the city council
[30:50] members I can throw in the Gazette and
[30:52] Times Union and news stations I've been
[30:55] to all of them the mayor who was
[30:57] supposed to enforce the laws of the city
[30:59] and to ensure Justice refuses to meet
[31:01] with me after I have given him and the
[31:04] council members proof of my
[31:06] allegations city council members are
[31:08] supposed to help citizens when they have
[31:09] problems with the government Farley has
[31:12] tried to get a car with a flat tire and
[31:14] no plates returned with no fine imposed
[31:17] palamini has told me you can't do
[31:19] anything to us I spoke to an attorney it
[31:22] is your job to help me you swear an oath
[31:24] to the Constitution it's a color of law
[31:27] violation conspiracy to deprive someone
[31:30] of their constitutional rights and you
[31:32] were all complicit after the fact of
[31:34] pho's crimes and tus Frost I SOA denies
[31:39] my ethics complaint without a
[31:41] hearing just like valo who vacated my
[31:44] default judgment before hearing any
[31:45] evidence it's called due process I've
[31:48] been to Sheriff's Department City police
[31:50] five six times
[31:51] each they fail to uh meet with me so
[31:54] I'll do my report online Mr Mayor I have
[31:58] a problem with isopo denying my ethics
[32:00] complaint without a hearing I also have
[32:02] a problem with all council members in
[32:04] the paper says I must go to the mayor
[32:06] when would you like to meet with me you
[32:09] are running for reelection don't tell me
[32:11] you don't have to meet with me that is a
[32:13] mayor's job valo is running for Supreme
[32:16] Court keeping his crimes of obstruction
[32:18] of justice is a crime that is if
[32:21] convicted of you can no longer hold
[32:23] public office I will expose all of you
[32:26] that do nothing I am not going away I
[32:29] will start going to new stations in
[32:31] different states and to YouTubers that
[32:33] have 3 to 500,000 views
[32:35] daily again how do you justify doing
[32:38] nothing about pho Frost and Hoffman at
[32:41] least Hoffman was smart enough to
[32:43] retire I will make this my life's
[32:45] mission to nail you Mr Mayor Pho Frost
[32:49] and the city
[32:50] council thank you thank
[32:56] you Tom cap
[33:05] capano Mr Mayor and City Council Members
[33:08] my name is Tom capuano I'm here about
[33:11] the Hans Groot kill I addressed you last
[33:14] month on the same subject but since then
[33:17] I've learned a lot more about the feal
[33:21] contamination of that Creek and what I
[33:24] learned is really really disturbing
[33:27] because I attend Sunday services at a
[33:30] church right on the banks of the Hans
[33:33] group kill now granted my personal
[33:36] exposure is
[33:39] minimal but imagine the consternation of
[33:42] those whose homes border the creek and
[33:45] of those who live Downstream and of
[33:48] those who drink Mohawk River water
[33:51] tinged with polluted Hans Gro kill
[33:54] outflow if they only knew what I just
[33:57] learned
[33:59] recently that the federally established
[34:02] regulatory limit for
[34:04] ocus is 60 parts per sampling I repeat
[34:08] the limit is
[34:10] 60 while the presence of Interra
[34:14] cookus a fecal indicator pathogen has
[34:18] been measured on the Hans group
[34:22] kill at
[34:25] 40,000 parts per
[34:27] sampling now those are extreme days of
[34:30] heavy rain but even so it is chronically
[34:34] in excess of the 60 parts for sampling I
[34:39] fear that this may indicate a disaster
[34:41] just waiting to
[34:43] happen especially with all the heavy
[34:46] rains that we keep getting as the
[34:48] climate keeps
[34:50] warming now I also learned that the city
[34:55] is taking this threat serious
[34:57] seriously that's a good thing and that
[35:00] further testing has been and is being
[35:03] conducted and that results are
[35:05] anticipated soon maybe even as soon as
[35:08] the end of this
[35:10] month I and my fellow congregants here
[35:14] with me today we do not expect the
[35:17] findings to be pleasant or reassuring at
[35:21] all but we do continue to insist that
[35:25] they be made public as soon as they are
[35:28] available so that the city and The Wider
[35:31] Community can address this problem head
[35:34] on and maybe begin to look at other
[35:36] Creeks such as the cow horn
[35:39] Creek and work to bring about
[35:41] remediation of The Chronic discharge of
[35:44] sewage into the creek Creeks that flow
[35:48] through this
[35:50] city thank you thank
[35:55] you
[35:57] Tom
[36:10] Kennedy good
[36:15] evening just a couple notes I was going
[36:17] to do something different tonight but
[36:20] after a coming here I found out some
[36:21] things that were said in the news today
[36:24] about last uh last uh week's meeting and
[36:28] I I have to say this that I've been
[36:32] through a lot of budget type
[36:35] meetings and I got to tell you that one
[36:37] was the biggest joke that I've ever
[36:40] seen uh you know if you're going to had
[36:44] the fire chief and the police chief
[36:47] there at least ask him questions on what
[36:50] is the best way to handle
[36:53] overtime you know we had one councilman
[36:56] who said he want want to digest it well
[36:58] here's the thing I I can I can lay this
[37:01] down just as quick as possible 500 grand
[37:04] out of the police budget 500 grand out
[37:06] of the firefighter budget and another
[37:09] $100,000 out of the police digest
[37:13] that the problem you have is you have
[37:16] seasoned professionals with the fire
[37:19] chief and the police chief bringing
[37:21] numbers to this Council they're not
[37:25] fluff they are based Bas upon available
[37:27] Manpower contractual obligation Trends
[37:31] special events in the needs of our city
[37:34] they're not there padding anybody's
[37:36] pension or trying to uh spend money that
[37:40] they don't have I hear another C
[37:42] councilman say he's tired he doesn't
[37:43] want to throw bodies at it well those
[37:45] bodies happen to be police officers
[37:48] those same people who protect our city
[37:51] so to even mention them in that way I
[37:53] thought was a disgusting U uh a
[37:57] disgusting way to to refer to these these
[38:01] professionals and just make another
[38:03] Point U the city council doesn't throw
[38:08] bodies at anything the only people who
[38:10] assign police officers and firefighters
[38:12] are the Chiefs under direction of the
[38:14] mayor unless there's something else that
[38:16] I don't know what's going on that's the
[38:18] way things go
[38:20] so if we are going to have any kind of
[38:24] credibility going forward into a budget
[38:26] that they're already calling for a
[38:27] shortfall we're going to have to start
[38:29] taking realistic views of this and to
[38:33] make a million.
[38:36] one uh budget cut is only going to make
[38:39] a structural deficit that you're going
[38:41] to pass on when you don't have the
[38:44] Democratic slush fund uh AR the arpa
[38:46] money that's gone so then the only thing
[38:49] that could is out the old back pocket of
[38:51] the
[38:52] taxpayers so you know we got to stop
[38:55] this rhetoric and these these these you know bodies and you oh
[39:01] you know I'm going to digest this and
[39:03] all you know the bottom like that that
[39:05] councel wasn't even at the meeting all
[39:06] whole time and and again we look back to
[39:09] what what kind of messag are We given uh
[39:11] by people not being here tonight so I
[39:14] mean if this is going to be a real thing
[39:16] we got to start we have to start uh
[39:19] listening to the people who are
[39:22] responsible for protecting us and that's
[39:25] the police chief and the fire chief and
[39:27] cutting a million1 out of our budget for
[39:30] that that's only going to pass a budget
[39:32] on a deficit next year is a disgrace and
[39:35] as far as you want to be leaders take a
[39:37] pay cut you guys take a pay cut take
[39:41] your health insurance take that off the
[39:42] board you don't have to pay for your
[39:43] health and maybe that pension that you
[39:45] get so I mean a lot of people don't
[39:47] realize uh the city council gets that
[39:49] those things and they do so why don't
[39:51] you push them to the side until we get
[39:53] the budget fixed and then take a pay cut
[39:56] instead of taking a pay raise as far as
[39:58] I'm concerned you don't deserve a dime
[40:00] thank you thank
[40:02] you Mary
[40:13] mlan good
[40:15] evening I know the city like the palm of
[40:19] my hand for 40 years I regularly
[40:24] attended City Council
[40:26] meetings regarding the council race the
[40:31] office comes with a salary medical
[40:35] coverage and a pension plan when I ran
[40:39] for City Council in
[40:42] 2011 one of my issues was to raise the
[40:47] salary and eliminate the medical
[40:51] coverage for Council Members it costs
[40:55] the tax payers less to in salary than it
[41:00] does for medical insurance medical
[41:05] insurance
[41:07] increases every year there is also
[41:11] another
[41:12] perk if the council person has coverage
[41:17] from another source the office holder is
[41:21] given the cash instead of the
[41:24] coverage as for the noise maker
[41:27] unfortunately he is not here tonight Mr
[41:31] Farley he says he reads
[41:35] contracts I too read the contract I was
[41:39] given my own
[41:41] copy the contracts are filled with
[41:46] pork I was told the SKC firemen have the
[41:52] best Pension Plan of any group group in
[41:57] the country on another item a policeman
[42:02] does not retire on his base salary he
[42:07] can use the last three years of his
[42:12] income for his retirement
[42:15] benefit therefore a potential
[42:20] reti can approve unlimited overtime
[42:25] toward retirement benefits
[42:29] unfortunately many of these workers do
[42:33] not live in
[42:36] SKC which brings me to another Point
[42:42] residency must be
[42:45] mandatory for anyone who wants a job in
[42:49] the city your recruiting methods are
[42:54] flawed you can not recruit in Albany or
[42:59] Glen PS and expect people to
[43:04] relocate recruit in
[43:06] Ohio Virginia Maine they have no choice
[43:11] but to move to the
[43:13] city on another note I was interested in
[43:18] the dialogue printed in The Gazette
[43:22] between Mr goem and Mr Gillan
[43:26] on the night that the forer resigned
[43:30] from
[43:31] Metroplex Mr Gillan insisted that
[43:36] Metroplex job is to bring businesses to
[43:40] the city sadly the businesses are not
[43:45] required to keep their businesses
[43:50] clean this is an item where council
[43:54] members have been remissed the litter
[43:57] problem in sceny has gotten worse since
[44:01] you have been here if I can see the
[44:04] litter on the streets When I visit the
[44:06] city so can you please clean it up thank
[44:10] you thank
[44:11] you I have no one else signed up to
[44:14] speak so I declare public can I
[44:17] speak I'm going to make an exception
[44:19] this time but I you know the rules and
[44:21] you were supposed to sign it when you
[44:22] first came in sorry that I didn't get a
[44:24] chance to write down my my name I
[44:26] apologize I'm Karen Zuki junis I live in
[44:28] the city and I want to just congratulate
[44:31] my friend Sue hars and her husband Steve
[44:33] for their 25 years of uh longevity in
[44:37] the city and their on to their
[44:39] retirement um I'd also ask that each and
[44:42] every one of you take a hard look at the
[44:45] budget and what you're doing with the
[44:47] budget in reference to the police
[44:50] department and the fire department the
[44:52] overtime is something that should not be
[44:54] cut I think that we need to really dive
[44:58] deep into this and understand that we're
[45:00] at the fourth quarter of the year and
[45:02] those funds are going to be used very
[45:04] quickly over the next several months so
[45:06] cutting the budget by NE by a
[45:08] significant amount and overtime for next
[45:10] year I think is not prudent so I would
[45:13] instill you to all look at those numbers
[45:16] and you know have faith in what the
[45:17] mayor puts forth I think he's done a
[45:19] good job I think the commissioner's done
[45:21] a good job and I would hope that there
[45:23] would be some sort of consensus made
[45:25] where the police and fire time overtime
[45:28] is not cut thank you thank
[45:31] you I have no one else signed up to
[45:33] speak so I declare public comment of
[45:34] City business
[45:36] closed miscellaneous business of council
[45:42] members Miss
[45:45] Patrick yes I'd actually like to um talk
[45:49] about our police and our fire um our
[45:52] fire department I know that this weekend
[45:55] was particularly
[45:56] um tough for both our police and our
[45:59] fire department um actually between
[46:02] Friday morning and uh this morning there
[46:05] were 144 calls that our fire department
[46:08] responded to um obviously needed to use
[46:11] overtime for for some of that um it's
[46:14] only going to get worse for the next
[46:15] couple of months which is one of their
[46:17] busiest times of year and then also the
[46:19] police department dealt with a homicide
[46:22] and actually made arrests um in that
[46:25] homicide so I think that really it's our
[46:27] duty to um respect the work of um all of
[46:31] the folks that are in the police
[46:32] department and the fire department um
[46:35] and I just want to thank them for
[46:37] everything that they do uh the service
[46:38] that they that they provide to keep our
[46:40] residents safe thank you thank you Miss
[46:44] Patrick Miss
[46:46] Doro thank you so I just want to um
[46:49] congratulate uh the city of connec and
[46:51] the dsic for the Spooktacular event this
[46:53] weekend that uh Proctor
[46:56] um it happened to coincide with Encanto
[46:58] and I happened to be at the fire uh
[47:01] house station one and um they were
[47:03] running back for all kinds of supplies
[47:05] because they were just running out of
[47:06] everything uh also coming up this week
[47:08] is Union College they're doing an event
[47:10] for all our little ones and big ones uh
[47:13] at the college uh trick-or-treating and
[47:15] of course scarcity which will happen on
[47:17] Thursday night and I'm thankful for the
[47:20] uh Fire Department police department and
[47:22] for us uh supplying that money in the
[47:24] budget so that they're able to do the
[47:25] things with our community so I think
[47:28] that's it thank you thank
[47:30] you
[47:34] mayor thank you Madame President uh
[47:38] follow to council member Doro this
[47:40] Thursday we'll have a scar NEC which is
[47:45] uh coordinated with the uh fire
[47:46] department and the police department
[47:49] where uh their uh Personnel will go to
[47:52] uh seven different locations in the time
[47:55] available on the city website uh want to
[47:59] have people come out have a safe
[48:01] Halloween season it kicks it off uh
[48:03] recently learned that Halloween is the
[48:07] second most decorated event so people
[48:11] spend Christmas is the first one and uh
[48:14] Halloween has now moved up to be number
[48:16] two and so when you go around the city
[48:18] you get to see a lot of uh great
[48:20] displays that are uh very festive and
[48:23] some are just downright scary so that
[48:26] want people to come out and be able to
[48:28] enjoy that this weekend uh Mr Toro M
[48:32] Patrick myself had the opportunity to
[48:34] meet with the uh Representatives the Red
[48:37] Cross Fire Department for Sound the
[48:41] Alarm they have uh pretty much made that
[48:43] an annual event where they come into
[48:45] scnc to work with the fire department in
[48:48] terms of messaging the replacement of
[48:51] batteries and smoke and uh carbon
[48:54] monoxide sensors and then to actually go
[48:56] out in buildings where people don't have
[48:59] the proper equipment in place and
[49:02] actually install it so I think they did
[49:04] 32 different uh residences this weekend
[49:09] uh then pointed out we had uh number we
[49:12] had four fires in the last three days uh
[49:16] again everybody that is here people that
[49:19] are watching this it is a cheap
[49:21] investment it's common sense but make
[49:24] sure that your smoke alarm your carbon
[49:26] monoxide sensor is
[49:29] operable then this morning we also had
[49:31] the opportunity to do a ceremonial
[49:33] opening for FW web it's a plumbing
[49:36] supply house that's located uh just off
[49:40] Broadway and uh it's just another great
[49:43] addition to our commercial activities
[49:45] that's going on in the city of SKC thank
[49:47] you Madame President thank you mayor uh
[49:50] first of all I'd like to offer my
[49:51] condolences to council member Farley and
[49:54] the loss of his father Herman
[49:58] Farley and um you know I was with the
[50:00] family today so it's it's a difficult
[50:02] loss for them and so um my prayers go
[50:05] out to
[50:06] them I'd like to thank everyone for
[50:08] coming tonight to giving for giving your
[50:11] input and letting us know about things
[50:12] that are going on in the city and what
[50:14] your concerns are greatly appreciate it
[50:16] we definitely listen to what's going on
[50:19] and uh Mr Shell is it pronounced I think
[50:22] so um I'm asking our Corporation counsel
[50:24] if he could just kind of go over that
[50:26] particular um resolution with you all
[50:29] right so if you if you just wouldn't
[50:30] leave okay thank you um and in terms of
[50:35] uh you know our police and fire I just
[50:36] want to say and just make it clear that
[50:38] we all do have respect for the work you
[50:40] do the difficult job you do and we do
[50:42] appreciate that and um so any you know
[50:45] as we're making these decisions we're
[50:46] taking into consideration all of the uh
[50:49] the services all over the city and our
[50:51] residents as well so we still have one
[50:54] more meeting and before before we pass
[50:55] this budget so just keeping that in mind
[50:58] and uh want to thank council members for
[51:00] their input and for um you know the
[51:03] opportunity to have discussions around the budget so we will be meeting
[51:07] tomorrow to for our final budget meeting
[51:10] and with the hope that we will pass the
[51:12] budget but keep in mind we have till
[51:14] November 1st but our goal is that we
[51:16] will be able to pass the budget
[51:19] out uh with that I have nothing else and
[51:22] I would ask for a motion to adjourn
[51:23] moveed by Miss Patrick second by Mr
[51:25] Williams all those in favor I we're
[51:28] adjourned have a good
[51:30] night you got all your
[51:38] papers