[0:29] okay
[0:31] to convert gas light into electric and
[0:33] whereas his son Donald served as
[0:35] president CEO from 1982 to 1993 he grew
[0:40] a residential business and expanded into
[0:42] Light commercial industry grandson Larry
[0:44] stepped into lead from 1993 to 2008
[0:48] under his leadership the company grew to
[0:50] become the largest electrical
[0:51] contracting firm in the area and where
[0:54] as the business is now located as at 135
[0:57] Area Boulevard and the current president
[0:59] CEO Chris has been driving the business
[1:02] Forest since 2008 and like his
[1:04] predecessors is leaving his mark on some
[1:06] of the Region's most significant
[1:08] buildings and whereas for a 100 years
[1:10] connec hardware and electric has been
[1:12] lighting up the capital region as a
[1:14] premier Union El electrical contractor
[1:17] four generations of spans have proudly
[1:19] been at the home of skincity hardware
[1:21] and electric and each generation has put
[1:23] its Mark in the community the business
[1:25] has evolved immensely over the past 100
[1:27] years and on October 25th they
[1:30] celebrated their 100y year
[1:33] anniversary now therefore it be resolved
[1:35] that SKC city council and Mayor Gary R
[1:38] McCarthy du by hereby paus into
[1:40] deliberations to gradually concy
[1:42] hardware and electric on celebrating 100
[1:45] Years of business in the city's connec
[1:46] and to wish them continued success for
[1:48] many years quite the accomplishment
[1:51] would you so this resolution was
[1:53] previously passed at a earlier council
[1:55] meeting so there's no motion Rec needed
[1:57] would you like to congratul
[2:05] it's been an honor working in the city
[2:07] my whole career and uh being with
[2:09] everybody in this room working together
[2:11] and uh keeping our business our
[2:13] employees our customers happy um it's
[2:16] very appreciative of city council
[2:18] recognize our efforts and uh I love
[2:20] being a part of the community in the
[2:21] City's connecting
[2:23] so thank you another 100
[2:28] years I don't know about that but uh
[2:31] thank you so much for the honor we we so
[2:32] appreciate it it's been a long journey
[2:35] and um here we are 2023 100 years
[2:40] later no I guess what more could be said
[2:44] after another 100 years
[2:51] right take
[2:58] picture thank you
[3:04] again item number eight is the
[3:06] resolution recognizing breast cancer
[3:08] awareness month and I'd like to call on
[3:10] council member Patrick to present this
[3:12] resolution and if I could ask you to to
[3:14] please join us up
[3:16] here Madame President may I have the
[3:18] floor you have the floor thank
[3:21] you
[3:25] hello so breast cancer awareness month
[3:27] was actually in October um but we're
[3:30] going to recognize that uh this evening
[3:33] whereas breast cancer affects one in
[3:35] eight women in the United States every
[3:37] year and 2.3 million women worldwide and
[3:40] whereas about 30% of early stage breast
[3:43] cancers eventually metastasize spread to
[3:46] parts of the body away from the breast
[3:48] and there is a need for more research
[3:50] about Med metatastic
[3:53] disease and whereas according to the
[3:55] Centers for Disease Control and
[3:57] prevention breast cancer is the most
[3:59] common form of cancer diagnosed among
[4:01] women and the second highest cause of
[4:03] cancer death among women and although
[4:06] not as common men can get breast cancer
[4:08] as well and whereas regular breast self
[4:10] exams and annual medical exam and
[4:13] mammograms are important Tools in breast
[4:15] cancer detection especially early
[4:17] detection when cancers may be more
[4:19] treatable and whereas me mamography and
[4:22] x-ray of the human breast is recognized
[4:25] as the single most effective method of
[4:27] detecting breast changes that may be
[4:29] cancerous long before physical symptoms
[4:32] can be seen or felt and whereas in May
[4:35] 2023 the US preventive Services Task
[4:38] Force issued a draft update to its
[4:41] mamogram recommendations proposing that
[4:44] women at average risk of breast cancer
[4:46] start mammograms at age 40 and have a
[4:49] mamogram every other year and whereas if
[4:52] you are higher than average risk for
[4:55] breast cancer have dense breast or have
[4:57] had breast cancer in the past your
[4:59] doctor May recommend that you also get
[5:01] other breast Imaging tests such as
[5:03] breast MRI or ultrasound and whereas in
[5:06] order to facilitate early diagnosis and
[5:09] prompt treatment of breast cancer in
[5:11] women and men public education awareness
[5:14] and understanding of the diseas is
[5:16] necessary now therefore be it resolved
[5:19] that the sked city council and Mayor
[5:21] Gary R McCarthy hereby pause in their
[5:24] deliberations to remind individuals to
[5:26] speak to their health care providers
[5:28] about breast cancer screening and in
[5:31] remembrance of those who have lost their
[5:33] lives to breast cancer and in support of
[5:35] those who are currently fighting this
[5:37] disease and of the more than 3.5 million
[5:39] breast cancer survivors in the United
[5:42] States um we pause to recognize breast
[5:44] cancer awareness month and I want to
[5:47] just mention that our skinc fire
[5:49] department has a uh Cancer Foundation
[5:52] our our two officers here are
[5:53] representing uh that here this evening
[5:56] and I'd love to ask you if you would uh
[5:59] take the microphone U may I uh get a
[6:01] motion to pass this resolution you make
[6:03] the motion I'll make the motion okay and
[6:05] so may I have a second second by Mr
[6:07] Farley all those in favor I motion
[6:10] passes
[6:16] congratulations uh tonight we're here on
[6:19] behalf of disc connect firefighters
[6:20] Cancer Foundation as everyone knows in
[6:23] this room cancer does not discriminate
[6:25] specifically breast cancer um we are
[6:27] very honored and proud to be the
[6:29] recipients of this award so thank you
[6:31] very much thank
[6:33] you to
[6:35] see thank you so
[6:41] much thank you thank you very much thank
[6:44] you
[6:49] again I'd like to ask for approval of
[6:51] the minutes from October 23rd
[6:54] 20123 mve by Mr
[6:58] Williams moved by Mr Williams second by
[7:01] Miss Patrick all those in favor
[7:04] I the clerk could please read any
[7:06] Communications and
[7:09] petitions Communications presented to
[7:12] the city council for Monday November 13
[7:14] 2023 under official from the mayor a
[7:16] list of appointments dated November 13
[7:18] 2023 under General there were none and
[7:21] under petitions there were none thank
[7:23] you I'd like to call on council members
[7:26] to provide any committee
[7:28] reports committee
[7:31] report this time we'll have privilege of
[7:33] the floor related to the legislative
[7:35] agenda and I have one person signed up
[7:38] to speak Robert
[7:47] Sanders good evening mayor council
[7:50] members
[7:51] um I see uh number two original
[7:55] consideration for public hearing on uh
[7:58] the Upper Union Street um I understand
[8:01] this great leaders businesses and you
[8:03] always got to do your thing up there but
[8:07] how however where I live in woodon okay
[8:11] there's Kings Road and I'm sure you've
[8:12] heard a lot about that
[8:15] there's you know where I live in saraphi
[8:18] apartments there's Megan Gardens there's
[8:20] Court Royal there's a lot of traffic
[8:22] going down that road it's just not the
[8:24] traffic but we don't get anything like
[8:28] this one bit at all all now I don't know
[8:30] if the woodon leader has to apply for
[8:33] that but why is your union always
[8:36] getting it you know um that's my main
[8:41] question uh haven't spoken in a while so
[8:45] I'm a little bit
[8:46] nervous but it's important that on
[8:50] King's Road there's been some things and
[8:52] I notic is
[8:53] about you know about Union Street but if
[8:56] there was another ESS for you for the
[9:00] people going down Kings Road there would
[9:01] be no speeding problem I said that to
[9:04] the president at the city council I
[9:06] texted her and I told her that so I
[9:07] wanted to say that and Mr parley lived
[9:10] over in Wood La for some time he knows
[9:12] what I'm saying so it's not wood law
[9:14] it's not you know Union Street it's
[9:17] Belleview it's The Stockade everybody
[9:19] has an issue I just want to say that
[9:22] it's a good idea and next year I think
[9:24] everybody should get on the action thank
[9:26] you thank
[9:28] you
[9:29] I have now no one else signed up to
[9:31] speak so I declare the public comment on
[9:33] the legislative agenda
[9:35] closed I'll ask for approval of the
[9:37] consent leg legislative consent
[9:41] agenda motion by Mr Farley second by Mr mudaron all in favor I thank
[9:50] you uh now we'll have privilege of the
[9:52] floor regarding General City business
[9:53] and I have two people signed up to
[9:57] speak jeie
[10:01] or good evening mayor and council
[10:04] members I'm jeie or I know you've seen
[10:06] me here before I'm the program manager
[10:08] for Capital District tobacco feed
[10:10] communities and for the past few months
[10:12] I know that the city council has been
[10:14] considering how to address the
[10:15] proliferation of smoke and vape shops in
[10:18] the city whether it's through moratorium
[10:19] or through zoning and my colleague and I
[10:22] have been attending these meetings to
[10:23] provide information on how the number
[10:25] and location of tobacco retailers
[10:26] matters to Community Health and in
[10:29] August I spoke about the
[10:30] disproportionate presence of tobacco
[10:32] retailers in low-income neighborhoods
[10:34] with Hamilton Hill having more than five
[10:36] times the tobacco retailers per capita
[10:38] as Nuna in September my colleague
[10:41] presented on the fact that low income
[10:42] communities have a higher proportion of
[10:44] tobacco retailers located near schools
[10:47] increasing youth exposure to Tobacco
[10:49] marketing and promotion and increasing
[10:51] the likelihood of tobacco use among
[10:54] youth in October I spoke about the
[10:56] importance of considering all retailers
[10:58] that sell tobacco on vape shops in the
[11:00] city not just vape and smoke shops that
[11:02] primarily sell these products today I
[11:05] bring you preliminary data gathered in
[11:07] the city of SKC that supports the fact
[11:09] that the location and density of all
[11:12] licensed tobacco retailers including
[11:14] convenience stores gas stations discount
[11:16] and grocery stores influence young
[11:18] people to start and hinder young adults
[11:20] who want to quit from
[11:22] quitting our team just completed visits
[11:25] to 31 licensed tobacco retailers located
[11:28] within5 UND ft of one or more schools
[11:31] and the highest poverty ZIP codes in the
[11:33] city of
[11:34] SKC we observed an alarming number of
[11:36] violations of state law 16 were related
[11:40] to the sale of flavored Vapes containing
[11:42] nicotine which was banned by state law
[11:45] in um last year and then 19 related to
[11:49] the display of exterior tobacco ads
[11:51] which are also banned by state law
[11:53] within 1,000 ft of schools all have been
[11:56] or 1500 ft of schools I'm sorry all have
[11:58] been reported to the connected County
[12:00] Public Health
[12:01] Services we also observed an alarming
[12:03] amount of marketing and promotion that
[12:05] were perfectly legal legal legal but not
[12:08] necessarily good and actually not good
[12:10] for public health and we observe tobacco
[12:13] displays that take up one half or more
[12:15] of the space behind the checkout counter
[12:17] in 75% of the stores we visited and
[12:20] that's important because everybody has
[12:21] to come to the checkout and that's where
[12:24] young people and people who are trying
[12:25] to quit um have to go in order to check
[12:28] out of the store
[12:29] we also observed exterior and interior
[12:31] ads that were disproportionately for
[12:33] flavored cigars and cigaros which are
[12:35] increasingly popular among high school
[12:37] students particularly among
[12:39] African-American male
[12:40] youth we also observed that all the
[12:44] stores almost all the stores sold
[12:45] flavored cigars and cigaros in packages
[12:47] that sell for $150 or less this leaves
[12:51] tobacco products that are all too
[12:53] affordable for young people and they're
[12:56] very sensitive to price and that's very
[12:58] affordable
[13:00] uh we're currently compiling a document
[13:02] that will provide details and photos of
[13:04] what we observed in the field and at a
[13:06] future meeting we plan to take you on a
[13:08] visual tour of that tobacco marketing
[13:09] and promotion and what it actually looks
[13:12] like in the highest poverty
[13:13] neighborhoods in the city of skty and
[13:15] why it has such a profound impact on the
[13:17] people who live there we look forward to
[13:19] sharing our findings in more detail and
[13:21] welcome the opportunity to Dialogue on
[13:23] the various ways in which other
[13:24] communities across the state and the
[13:26] nation have been addressing the health
[13:28] iniquities resulting from the abundance
[13:29] of tobacco marketing and promotion in
[13:31] lower income neighborhoods thank you so
[13:33] much thank
[13:36] you Robert
[13:42] Sanders good evening my name is Robert
[13:45] Sanders I live in the city of
[13:47] SKC
[13:48] um I would just like to follow up on the
[13:51] last speaker because uh myself I smoked
[13:54] four cigarettes my whole lifelong I
[13:56] don't drink anymore I haven't drank 5
[13:58] years years um but cigarettes cigars all
[14:04] these things are probably no good for
[14:05] you I I smoke cigar every now and then
[14:08] but it's constitutional okay no matter
[14:11] what you think no matter how you do it
[14:13] it's constitutional you can do this now
[14:16] I'm not saying that we should put out
[14:18] ads they put out ads for gambling at the
[14:20] casino that's not the most healthiest
[14:22] thing for you but everybody has a
[14:23] freedom of choice I always hear my body
[14:26] my choice okay that's for everybody okay
[14:30] now besides just that I want to go on to
[14:34] another thing
[14:36] um you gave the uh resolution away for
[14:39] breast cancer awareness month um that
[14:42] you said was last uh month it was this
[14:46] month is for epilepsy epsol epilepsy
[14:49] awareness month okay you have the right
[14:51] colors
[14:52] on that's the color you know so um I was
[14:56] trying to find a tie that color I
[14:57] couldn't do it but I want to let you
[14:59] know that because so many people suffer
[15:01] from this ailment and well there's a
[15:04] month for everything and I'm sure you
[15:05] guys know it because you hand out the
[15:06] resolutions be it's St Patrick's Day for
[15:09] the Hibernians epilepsy is something
[15:12] that's
[15:13] uncontrollable okay and when I say that
[15:15] I mean it like this myself they had me
[15:17] on all this medication they had and now
[15:20] I'm down on just two pills and I told
[15:22] them for 25 years that it's was being
[15:25] overdosed not till I saw something by
[15:27] Angela Santa Barbara when he held out a
[15:29] Nar narcon thing that I know that I was
[15:33] taking too much medicine so I feel so
[15:34] much better today I am so much better
[15:37] today but it's just a stigma around
[15:40] epilepsy people's neurological
[15:42] conditions you know we tend to shake a
[15:44] little more get a little nervous odd
[15:46] things like that but it is something
[15:48] that's major not only in New York state
[15:51] but you know I should have hit the
[15:52] lottery because one in a million get one
[15:54] in a million get the lottery but it's
[15:56] something that's this month the color is
[15:59] purple so in two weeks I'll be back okay
[16:02] I'll see you all in purple have a good
[16:04] day thank
[16:09] you I have no one else signed up to
[16:11] speak so I declare the public comment of
[16:13] City business
[16:14] closed this time we'll have
[16:16] miscellaneous business from the
[16:19] council Miss
[16:21] Patrick I just want to thank everyone um
[16:25] who came out to vote last week it's very
[16:27] important in our democracy see that
[16:28] folks do vote so for everyone that did
[16:31] cast their vote uh thank you very much
[16:34] and um hope everyone will continue to do
[16:36] so in upcoming elections uh as the years
[16:39] go by and I just want to wish everyone a
[16:41] Happy Thanksgiving uh coming up next
[16:43] week as well thank you thank you Mr
[16:48] Farley thank you madam president I just
[16:50] want to again Echo thank everyone for
[16:52] coming out to speak I think um some
[16:54] information uh that we heard today was
[16:56] uh pretty compelling that and you know I
[16:59] urge uh my uh council members and the
[17:02] broader Community to just think about
[17:04] ways that we can um increase the
[17:06] likelihood of having a healthy Community
[17:08] I for one and all I'm all about freedom
[17:10] of choice for people I also know that um
[17:13] depending on the proximity um of
[17:16] available things in your community that
[17:18] can increase your likelihood to make a
[17:21] unhealthy Choice by just mere proximity
[17:23] and we want to make sure that we're
[17:24] being mindful um that we are uh
[17:27] designing um because city is in
[17:29] continual in design while designing
[17:31] Healthy Communities by uh increasing the
[17:34] likelihood of healthy choices and um
[17:37] decreasing the likelihood of unhealthy
[17:39] choices and anytime you have a community
[17:42] that it's easier to get um uh tobacco
[17:45] product than as a apple then that's not
[17:47] really uh the type of community that's
[17:49] not the setting conditions for a healthy
[17:51] Community um and with that respect
[17:53] understanding that we all make unhealthy
[17:55] choices from time to time because that
[17:56] is with our practives but but um just
[17:58] being mindful of the setting conditions
[18:00] for healthy Community thank
[18:03] you
[18:07] mayor thank you madam president
[18:09] appreciate everyone that came out uh
[18:11] also want to thank everyone who uh came
[18:13] out and Tuesday and voted encourage
[18:16] everyone to come out next Saturday for
[18:18] the holiday parade as we kick off the uh
[18:21] season in downtown SKC to come out enjoy
[18:24] the parade uh and then come back during
[18:27] the season to take advantage of the
[18:29] venues and the different activities that
[18:31] are happening not only in downtown but
[18:33] throughout the city of SKC thank you
[18:35] madam president thank you I'd also like
[18:37] to thank everyone that came out tonight
[18:39] and also to the all of the voters that
[18:40] came out to uh take part in doing their
[18:43] civic um Duty and I'd like to
[18:46] congratulate uh the reelected council
[18:48] members as well as our council member
[18:49] elect Joe Mancini and also the mayor to
[18:52] uh on being reelected so um as we move
[18:55] forward we have other things to do and
[18:57] for those of the were watching earlier
[18:59] I'm just going to mention that we are
[19:00] still in our budget
[19:02] talks and uh we do have another meeting
[19:04] coming up but we anticipate that it will
[19:06] be done within the week that's that's
[19:09] our anticipation I have to say we are
[19:11] much closer than we've been in week so
[19:14] uh keep I know that people have been
[19:16] sending at least to me comments and you
[19:18] know what things they're they have to
[19:21] say about how we're doing on the budget
[19:22] so you know continue to do that um but
[19:25] you know our goal is to do the absolute
[19:27] best budget for our city residents our
[19:30] businesses that are here and also to
[19:33] make sure that we um we are able to
[19:35] carry on the business of the city so uh
[19:37] just know that we are continuing to do
[19:39] that work and I'd just like to say Happy
[19:42] Thanksgiving to everyone and with that
[19:44] I'll ask for a motion to adjourn moveed
[19:46] by Miss Patrick second by Mr M all in
[19:50] favor we're adjourn thank
[19:55] you have a nice Thanksgiving