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I'd like to follow the ORD conect city

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council committee meetings for Tuesday

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January 2nd

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2024 we have um and then now elect

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Council order City development and

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planning we have two uh items on the

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agenda the first item is a ceremon

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ceremonial resolution recognizing

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National mentoring month J in January um

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the resolution will recognize 518

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elevated formerly known as Capital

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Region adopt

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scholar Miss Harver

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good evening city

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council Happy New Year I am asking for a

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resolution um in honor of Mentor

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National mentorship month which is which

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is in January 5 elevated forly known as

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Cal region adop scholar has been serving

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the capital region for over 25 years

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offering different programs throughout

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the city of scity and the capital region

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for mentorship Financial College uh fund

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and guidance um currently we have alumni

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and 51 elevated serving in leadership

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capacities within the city of skincity

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including myself and um Maryann from

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human resources and we also have

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colleagues who serve as mandators for

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this program so I am bringing that to

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you um today offering and asking for

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your support for ceremonial

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resolution any questions I'll motion I

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move this second all in favor

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hi hi hi thank you thank the next item

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on the agenda is to authorize the mayor

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or his designated to enter an agreement

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with New York State Department

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transportation for the cran stre Bridge

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Rehabilitation Mr W thank you for all

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being here for this not realize special

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meeting uh this is a preliminarily

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designed agreement for the design of

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possible repairs or even possibly

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replacement of CR Street Bridge overseas

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CSX at Amtrak uh as a lot of you were

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aware the city has several bridges over

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rail uh I've been successful enough in

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my tenure to get funding for every

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single one of those bridges this is the

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last one um and what we're going to be

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doing is studying what the bridge needs

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um it's not in good shape it is posted

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for load which is a step that you take

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before possibly closing the bridge so we

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want to address and get a design in

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place before we have to do anything with

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that like closure um this is a federal

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fund project um it is on the tip for

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design and we're going to be going out

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for funding once we have a an Avenue and

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approach of what

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it's so so you said there was an

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agreement for

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363,000 y so just for preliminary design

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yes so uh that's just for the design so

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this is and I I put in there a note that includes $100,000 for am tr to uh

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work with us on the design um so really

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usually design design is roughly 10 10

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15% of the construction this is going to

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be very similar to Kings Road if it

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would need to be a replacement Kings

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Road was a $6 million project so that is

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second budget and we actually did

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negotiate that down due to a bunch of

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the factor that we've been working with

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because I've kind of done this before

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but we're confident that it's a it's a

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good price it's a good group um they'

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worked on these types of bridges before

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uh it's going to be a long road working

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with the railroad but we Mo it

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there any questions when when when will

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you when will it what's the timeline

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when do you think it's going to start

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and well we're going to design is going

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to that's why I'm trying to push is that

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this is this takes months to just get

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the design going so we have the

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agreements this is the next step State

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we're going to get it to the state for

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with the resolutions that'll give us an

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authorization we can't spend a dollar

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till the federal government gives us

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authorization once we have that so I'm guessing design is going to take the

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better part of 9 months and then they

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have to review it give us a sign off and

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then you know so there's two Avenues

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which is a major rehab which is

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essentially we take the bridge right off

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the opments and we put it back uh or

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it's you know what it's just take the

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whole Bridge away and do it one of the

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issues that we're going to face is

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Amtrak has new clearances so there is uh

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let's say 20 ft of clearance from the

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track to the bottom of the bridge the

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new standard is 22 ft so you have to get

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2 ft

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more of clearance and it's tough you

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know to get a bridge a new bridge to get

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two feet more you can't make it that

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much thinner you got to raise it a

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little higher as you raise it higher the

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approaches get steeper so that's that's

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what we're going to be looking at and if

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you guys are aware of this bridge I want

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some Sportsman's Bowl was right there

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and then right when you get on reram

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there's another Bridge you got to go

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under so this is this is compated

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yeah Mr I'd just like to take the

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opportunity to thank you for your

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commitment and dedication I know that

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you go through a lot there's a lot that

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comes in and out of your office with some staffing issues but always

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right on top of things so thank you so

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much you're welcome look forward to

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working with you

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again you have again no she asked it

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about the

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timeline well the phase the design phase

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nine months and then like when so this

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is momentary design so once we have

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preliminary design uh then there's a

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final design phase typically this would

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be the Bol however usually it's say a

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road or a bridge that we know it has to

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done we know what the process is this is

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an actual honest preliminary design we

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do not know where we're going so I

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talked to the state and said let's just

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get going we're exploring you know three

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options one is don't do anything Bridge

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closes which is never an option really

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but then it's replacement and Rehab so

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we're going to do do some costs we're

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going to see what we can do and then

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once we have an idea of where we can

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actually go then we go to final design

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and actually start thinking construction

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but we have to get this phace done no

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wor about what would have warrant for

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the bridge to be closed again the rating

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right now is pretty low rating so three

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tons right now yeah and um well you know

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gets inspected by annually every other

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by the state does have flags that we

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have to address uh it's a pre-stress

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Concrete box which means it's not steel

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it can't be supported once it starts to

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go there are some ways to repair it I

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don't know if they're a great investment

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um but we will be aware as it gets

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monitored we're hoping that being we

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have a couple more years of life the

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issue is we don't want an O Street

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situation where Oak Street got the D May

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Clos we weren't prepared for Oak Street

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where in this one I'm trying to be

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prepared there just bridg York there is

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one right now Bridge New York uh which

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we are eligible for which we are

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okay any other questions I'll move this

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second

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favor thank you thank you very much

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motion to ad CL second

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by all in favor we're thank you thank

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you have a good night

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[Music]

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everyone

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be