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I'd like to call the order the city
confus meeting for Monday March 26
2024 we have 16 items for original
consideration if the clerk would please
read item number one item item number
one for final consideration an ordinance
creating a special assessment District
on a portrait of North College
Street discussed in committee with
objection on consent item number two for original
consideration an ordinance amending city
code section 93-6 entitled civilian
police review board to modify the manner
of appointing vacancies to the civilian
police review board discussed in
committee without objection and on
consent item number three item number
three for original consideration a
resolution calling for a public hearing
on the Central Parkway sidewalk
Improvement project Plan D discussed in
committee without objection on consent
item number four item number four for
original consideration a resolution
setting forth additions to the community
benefits agreement between the city of
skty and West yard Properties LLC dated
February 15
2024 BR brok home by Mr
Toral item number
five item number five for original
consideration a resolution amending
resolution
2022-23 to reduce the amount of
additional funding commitment for young
women's Christian Association of skty
DBA YWCA Northeastern New York to secure
required Financial commitments discussed
in committee without objection and un
consent item number six item number six
for original consideration a resolution
amending resolution
discuss in committee without objection
on consent item number eight item number
eight for original consideration a
resolution authorizing the sale of a
garage on Bailey Street for
$5,000 discussed in committee without
objection and on consent item number
nine item number nine for original
consideration a resolution authorizing
the sale of 737 Bailey Street for
$45,000 discussed in committee without
objection on consent item number 10 item number 10 for original
consideration a resolution authorizing
the of a vacon lot on Daniels Avenue for
$10,600
discussed in committee without objection
on consent item number 11 item number 11
for original consideration a resolution
authorizing the settlement of a claim by
Niagara Mohawk power Corporation DBA
National Grid discussed in committee
without objection on consent item number
12 item number 12 for original
consideration a resolution appointing
Renee Bradley to the city of skincity
board of assessment review roll call by
Mr Toro
item number 13 item number 13 for
original consideration a resolution
recognizing Holly pagwa discuss in
committee without objection on
consent item number 14 item number 14
for original consideration a res
resolution recognizing Pearl tuer Hunter
for her service to the community this
item will be taken out of order and I
will presented to Miss Tucker Hunter
item number 15 item number 15 for
original consideration resolution
recognizing Sylvia Jimson for her
service to the city of SKC discussing
committee with objection on consent it
will be presented to miss Jimson at her
party on um March 28th item number 16 under contract and Supply
a resolution awarding the bid and
contract for the 2024 heating
ventilation and air conditioning
maintenance and repairs discussed in
committee without objection and on
consent if there's no further items to
come be um excuse me there's no further
items to be uh come before the committee
I ask for
AE oh I did that I ask for a motion to
adjourn move on Mr mudar second by Mr
Williams all those in favor
I I'd like to call the connected city
council to meeting meeting to order for
Monday March 25th
2024 and I'd ask Reverend James coni to
give us the prayer
invocation
Heavenly Father we turn to you in this
time of new life and hope as the Earth
awakens from coldness and darkness grant
that we too may come to see your way of
life and goodness light and warmth Aid
Us in perceiving the smallest indicators
of growth so that through them we may
strive for communal growth you have
bound us together in a common home in
our city cause Justice truth and peace
to Triumph in our community wipe away
the tears of those who are suffering and
illumin us as we strive to walk your way
amen amen I'd like I'd like to call on
council member Williams and to the rep
for stands one nation under God
indivisible with liy and justice for all
thank
you if the clerk could please call the
role Mr Toro Mr Farley here Mr Mancini
here Mr muan pres Miss Patrick is absent
Mr Williams pres Mr Porterfield
here we have one out of Ora resolution
recognized Pearl Tucker hun her for her
service to the community this time I'd
ask Mr Mutan to take the
de uh there she is come
on I didn't have to call her up if there
someone who wanted to take pictures you
can't do if you can't get it from there
you can come behind here it's up to
you may I have the floor please you have
the floor thank
you
welcome you're welcome this resolution
is recognizing Pearl L Tucker Hunter for
her years of service to the community
whereas there are people who have found
ways they that they can make a
significant impact on their communities
and do not do so for attention or Glory
but for the most humble notion of making
the world a better place they are most
likely among those of the dearest most
respected most admired and most
cherished people in the communities they
serve Pearl L Tucker Hunter is one of
those people and whereas Pearl L Tucker
Hunter has been doing things in skinc
County since she moved here with her
three children in the early 80s she's
built great friendships with a lot of
people during that time and whereas
Pearl is also known for being able to
handle
herself
which led to her three bees jobs bayth
with connected Police Department Bales
woman for law order and Justice Center
LJ in bartender
at at the 548 Mason club and whereas
today many people know her from working
17 years at the scum food pantry and to
this day operating Pearl's closet at
syum which provides clothing to those in
need Pearl meets people where they are
and does not judge them for their
current condition
and where as Pearl is a member of Mont
Olivet Missionary Baptist Church under
the leadership of Pastor Horus Sanders
where she serves on the Usher board she
does so much for her church and
Community when someone needs help people
say call
Pearl she always answers the call
organizes a team of people to help grabs
her bag of supplies and shows up and
whereas currently Pearl is still doing
what she loves doing and that is helping
others whether it's cooking for someone
taking them to the market Market or
helping them at family functions and
whereas this quote from George Bernard
Shaw embodies how Pearl El Tucker
lives I am of the opinion that my life
belongs to the whole community and as
long as I live it is my privilege to do
what it for it whatever I can I want to
be thoroughly used up when I die for the
harder I work the more I
Live Now therefore it be resolved that
the connected city council and Mayor
Gary R McCarthy do hereby pause in in
their deliberations to recognize and
thank Pearl L Tucker Hunter for her
years of continued service to the
community and to acknowledge her recent
celebration of 70 trips around the Sun
and wish her well in all her future
endeavors s I'd like to move the
resolution can I
have can I can I have a
second all those all all in
favor all right the motion is passed
congratul
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congratulations I just want to thank
everyone I I I I'm just overwhelmed but
thank you cuz what I do I do for God and
if anybody's at my door don't matter
when or what time I'm there to help them
God bless everyone that's in this room
today amen can we take a
picture
open
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I'd ask for approval of the minutes for
March 11
2024 moved by Mr mud by Mr Farley all in
favor I uh the clerk would please read
any Communications and
petitions Communications present to the
city council for Monday March 25th 2024
under official from Mayor Gary McCarthy
a list of appointments dated March 25th
2024 under General there was an email
from Mabel Leon stating that
she strongly urge you to approve and
support the resol solution for a
ceasefire in
Gaza can they hear you I don't know
he
sum an email from Mabel Leon stating
that she urges the city council to
support a resolution for a ceasefire in
Gaza she also wants to support the um
downtown
SKC uh Electric City Community Grocery
and establish a controlled grocery store
to serve the downtown area of skincity
which at present has no grocery
store under petitions there were none
thank you there are several people that
signed up to speak online and you'll be
heard during City business unless you're
here for something that is on the
consent
agenda pastor Mari if you're still here
I know that you signed up for something
that was on the consent agenda but so if
any if if what you want to speak on is
on the printed
agenda that does not count the
resolution that many people have come
for then we'd ask you to speak at this
time there was also someone that want to
speak on the Electric City Co-Op you
would be speaking during this particular
time if you've signed up who do you have
signed up okay oh good
lord okay all right well who is all all
the this is City business whoa okay well
the first person I have actually is
Elizabeth Walsh is
first I just want to say thank you thank
you for being Partners in opening the
community-owned grocery store in
downtown connec I want to thank all of
you who came out could I see a standing
of pleas address your remarks this way
thank you sorry uh for folks who came
out in support of the co-op I'd love to
see a standing first of current board
members and then uh past board members
to be able to stand
up and our larger member owner Community
would you please also stand
up on behalf of all of us and our 1,30
plus member owners and growing thank you
we have a lot of work to do together and
it's really exciting to keep this
incredible momentum going thank you
thank
you now Reverend Amari thank you thank
you good evening I rise in support of
several items coming uh to your
consideration item 05 on reducing the
amount of additional funding committed
to the YWCA item 06 on reducing the
amount for additional funding committed
to the electricity through Co-op item 14
in recognizing Miss Pearl for her
service to the community and we just did
item 15 on recognizing Miss jimson's for
her service in the city several of these
items across uh among themselves weave
these these themes solidarity
Cooperative development Community
resilience and collaboration M Pear's
service to the community has always been
distinguished by a commitment to dignity
and compassion for All God's Children
especially to those who make up the
Hamilton Hill Community Miss jimon
service to the city has been recognized
to in support of Community Development
and resilience and providing timely
guidance and committed support to
process and success of projects our
partnership with the YW is one of the
many testimonials of their ability and
capacity to be a space of dignity
solidarity and resilience to everyone
who participate in their programming
from children's in childhood development
programs to women who can begin
breathing safely and with the
opportunity of a new start and the
Electric City Community grocery has been
many years organizing the community to
tackle an issue that is impacting most
of the population of the city how to
have self-determined resilient reliable
responsive and representative
development that can be forged by for
and with the people who reside in the
city a yes vote on these items will
encourage solidarity Cooperative
development Community resilience and
collaboration in the singular way sket
knows how and the larger Community is
watching the Hamilton Hill Neighborhood
Cooperative is committed to finding ways
to encourage these values in the Carver
Center a call for peace to all residents
of Gaza and for the hostage held by
Hamas including the Liberation
encourages these values the challenge
however is to make these decisions in
support of the singular ways connected
knows how to be Community My Hope for
everything that will be said tonight for
the decisions that are made by this
council is that they seek to sustain and
encourage the profoundly beautiful and
complicated diversity of our beloved
City Beauty and complexity cannot be
legislated but wellth thought policies
and processes that truly seek the voice
of the Brock Community can encourage and
sustain diversity solidarity peace
resilience and cooperation thank you
madam president thank
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you Rick
maler thank you very much for allowing
me an opportunity to speak tonight in
support of Electric City Food Co-op um
it's always easy to go last here I guess
maybe if I am last I don't know but
anyways um we really appreciate the
support you've given us in the past we
encourage you to support our mission
going forward and support the resolution
to give us a just a little more time to
push this across the Finish Line uh I've
had the opportunity to join the board
about a year ago um one of the skill
sets I bring to a very skilled board is
that I had the opportunity to work a
Price Shopper for 40 1 years and before
I did that I worked for Honest Weight
Food Co-op for six years so I have a
little bit in the food knowledge
business that will help us push this
across the Finish Line as I said and we
are working very closely with Metroplex
who's helping us on this endeavor and
some of local developers that have past
successes in downtown skincity we think
this would be a wonderful Community um
Endeavor not only for our Co-op but for
the entire city disc connec and we very
much ask for your support tonight thank
you very much thank you
[Applause]
Kimberly
Gonzalez I think I'm tall enough all
right thank you so much I guess yeah I'm
last or second to last or whatever um
thank you for so much for having us here
I'm going to speak a little bit from a
personal experience I am a recent
Resident of skti I moved here four years
uh four months ago and and I fell in
love with the city I love everything I
mean there's a movie theater there's so
many activities to be had so many things
to do it's quite amazing but there's one
huge thing missing and it's a grocery
store um we have the farmers market
that's in incredible uh I think SKC
trading company has some you know fresh
available food for folks but those
aren't substitutes for a grocery store
uh I don't even have a car and that is a
real barrier for some folks I'm lucky to
have a partner with who has a vehicle uh
but this downtown area desperately needs
a grocery store not just for Community
uh but it's also an opportunity to
energize the economy attract new
residents like myself uh it's really the
one thing I and many others see missing
and so you know I as a new Resident I'm
really thankful for your support in this
project and hope that you continue
to thank
[Applause]
you
I have no one else signed up to speak on
the com public comment on the
legislative agenda so I declare this com
public comment
closed at this time I ask approval of
the legislative
agenda motion by Mr M second by Mr
Williams all those in
favor we have two uh resolutions two
pieces of legislation for a roll
call resolution number four if the clerk
would please
read
item number four for original
consideration a resolution setting forth
additions to the community benefits
agreement between the city of SCCY and
West yard Properties LLC dated February
15
2024 I need a
motion there's no motion to move this
forward move by Mr Williams any
second
you second I understand that
but there's no second to this
motion
okay so this can't move back
to to a have to do a
okay you still have aoll
so we without the second then this
motion dies is there no
second okay so the motion
dies uh item number
12 roll
call item number 12 for original
consideration a resolution appointing
Renee Broadley to the city of SKC Board
of assessment review
I need a
motion
second Mr mancy all those in okay we
need a roll call at this
point discuss oh I'm sorry is there any
discussion on this item thank you Mr
Williams thank you uh once again we are
met with having a vacancy on one of our
boards and I think it is our
responsibility when it is uh uh allowed
to us to present an opportunity for a
member of the community to replace that
vacancy uh I don't know who recommended
the individual uh but upon looking at
Miss Bradley's credentials uh she is
more than qualified in her Progressive
uh professional career I'm confident
that she will be able to uphold the
duties of this position uh faithfully
and uh dedicatedly uh based on the need
to have a roll call I I again I do not
understand the intent I would openly uh
welcome any comments or feedback uh but
again we have another C from the
community who is willing to do the work
of this board and yet again we have
another roll call uh at this point that
is known of why this individual should
not be able to continue forth in this
manner uh I hope this is not a theme uh
but to uh Miss Bradley uh should we pass
this definitely I wish you all due of
respect in this position and again to
any other member that's interested in
pursuing one of these vacancies uh I I I
deeply apologize for the manner in which
these roll calls are coming out but
please do not deter your interest
32 uh opportunities moving forward thank
you thank you any further
discussion Mr Toro thank you president
Porterfield so again um uh our job here
is to represent the entire community so
um roll calls can be made
without yes thank you Mr Williams uh
roll calls can be made um on any of the
uh agenda items put forward um so again
as I I as I mentioned that our committee
meeting uh Miss Bradley has a most
extensive and well-qualified
resume uh
unfortunately um no one else on the uh
Council had a chance to submit a name um
there was a letter issued to president
Porterfield honor about January 8th um
uh announcing that Mr anakal uh position
expired on September 30th of 23 she had
the letter in her possession
um in January never sent it to any of
the council members so again um nothing
against Miss Bradley by any means uh but
um I would have liked to have gotten the
letter knowing of him not being able to
fulfill his position and um had an
opportunity to put someone forward thank
you um just to clarify the letter the
letter stated that Mr they were going to
reappoint him but we did not know until
he responded to the entire Council that
he had moved out of the city so everyone
was privy to
that at this time maybe have the roll
call Mr Toro no Mr Farley
yes Mr Mancini yes Mr Mutan yes Miss Patrick is not here Mr Williams yes
Miss Porterfield yes motion passes 5 to
one this time uh this time we have
privilege of the floor regarding General
City business I have 45 people signed up
to speak so I just want to lay little
ground rules because I see many people
signed up to speak are not necessarily
from our jurisdiction and therefore you
may not know the rules of how this works
uh you have three minutes you will hear
a timer when your time goes off and we I
ask respectfully ask that you if your
mid-sentence complete your sentence and
then leave the podium we have 45 people
signed up to speak uh if you read what
was before you in terms of signing up
there are no direct comments to other
groups or the other individuals allowed
and we ask all of your comments may be
made directly to the um to the
chair is this
one okay this is the first one
okay uh the first person I have signed
up to speak these submissions were
online is Susan Rosenberg is Susan
Rosenberg present
yes come right up
ma'am thank you uh my name is Susie
Rosenberg I'm a retired emergency
Psychiatry physician having served in my
career as medical director of Crisis
services that included support for
citizens of Albany skincity and rensler
counties my specialty included the
assessment of individuals posing danger
to
themselves or others a big influence on
my clinical practice practice was the
work of a French sociologist named Emil
durkheim he lived between 1858 and
1917 his major contribution was to
conclusively demonstrate that when Ties
That Bind Society together unravel both
violence and suicide rates spiral
upwards further destabilizing
communities so I learned to highly value
the impact of a healthy Society on the
mental health of individuals and the
communities around them and the impact
of an unhealthy society as well
I open my remarks with these thoughts as
a way of understanding the profound
negative impact of the proposed
resolution on the communities you serve
first it increases Discord in an already
uncivil Civic Square second it puts your
Jewish constituents in danger on the
streets in their houses of worship and
on college campuses acts of hatred
towards Jews are on a rocket trajectory
and these anti-israel resolutions and
municipalities fuel those acts what to
do with all this energy swirling around
this hot hot issue in the town of
Bethlehem where I'm from members of the
Muslim and Jewish Community have begun
gathering on an informal basis to build
bridges of understanding and friendship
and having hard conversations in an
atmosphere of mutual
respect I would recommend that you do
not pass this resolution you do not put
your Jewish constituents in danger and
you do not burn Bridges you build them
thank you so
[Applause]
much I just want to make a point of
clarification at this time there is no
current resolution before this Council
so just so everyone is clear on that
thank
you Eric Cooper
Ginsburg is Eric Cooper Ginsburg
present
gay
Griffith I am here to voice my opinion
to the to the position proposing a
resolution for a ceasefire between Kamas
a recognized terrorist organization by
the United States and a multitude of
countries worldwide and the state of
Israel
as of yesterday Israel agreed to the
terms of the
ceasefire Hamas has rejected it it
should also be remembered that Kamas it
was Kamas who reneged on the last
ceasefire agreement by not returning the
last agreed upon groups of hostages thus
resuming the fighting 134 hostages
remain inhumane and cruel conditions for
172 days now Kamas has refused to also
provide a list of the living hostages
the resolution that they are petitioning
barely mentions October the 7th when
5,000 Hamas terrorists breached the
border and proceeded to commit
atrocities leading to the largest
one-day loss of Jewish life since the
Holocaust if Hamas had not attacked
Israel on October the 7th Israel would
not have attacked Gaza the resolution
will do nothing to help residents of
Gaza but cause more divisiveness among
constituents fuel more acts of
anti-Semitism against Jewish
constituents here in the greater Capital
District anti-Semitism has spilled into
schol school from high schools all the
way to elementary schools some of which
have been physical attacks Jewish
children do not feel safe and their
parents are afraid for them no child
should feel unsafe at school the only
thing that can help the residents of
Gaza is to rid them of all terrorist
organizations especially Hamas which was
elected in 2007 and has remained in
power as a dictator-like regime since
then Hamas has no interest in any kind
of Peace negotiations with Israel in
fact in its May 2017 Charter it
advocates for the complete liberation of
Palestine from the river to the sea in
plain English their stated goal is to
destroy Israel not to live in peace not
for a two-state solution they simply
want to eradicate Israel Israel on the
other hand has demonstrated its desire
for peace with the peace treaties with
Egypt and Jordan the Oslo Accords the
Abraham Accords and the multiple peace
negotiations with fatak over the decades
the responsibility of this council is to
ensure for the safety and unity of the
cons constituents of this community as a
Jew I do not feel safe as many other
Jewish institutions our synagogue now
has armed security during Services
religious school and events every
citizen in the United States has the
right to feel safe practicing their
religion right now that is not true for
American Jews a permanent ceasefire is
not a bilateral ceasefire as it only
calls on Israel to cease without putting
any pressure on Kamas it leaves the
remaining hostages in the hands of Kamas
and leaves Hamas in power to commit more
attacks Kamas has vowed to repeat the
atrocities of October 7th over and over
again kamama should surrender a
ceasefire will follow immediately this
is the only acceptable outcome for
Israelis and the larger Jewish Community
anything else will continue this cycle
of violence and therefore the
existential threat to our
people the leadership of the mainstream
Jewish Community was not contact
regarding this propos proposed
resolution
the Jewish group that is included in
this p in this petition does not
represent or speak for the mainstream
Jewish community and they especially
don't resp represent or speak for me
thank
[Applause]
you Jonathan
Rubin good good evening Mr Mayor
president Porterfield members of the
city council I'm Jonathan Rubin
president of congregation Gates of
Heaven here in SKC I want to thank you
for the opportunity to have this
conversation tonight uh we anticipate
that there will probably be a petition
brought forward to you tonight seeking a
ceasefire uh between Israel and Hamas uh
we are here tonight to ask number one as
we saw tonight there's a lot of
important business that comes before
this connected east city council as
comes before all of local government is the form of
government that is closest to the people
we deal with infrastructure we deal with
Industrial Development we deal with
transportation we deal with housing we
deal with all of the things that make a
city and a community click and issues
such as the one that's before you that
is likely going to be before you tonight
are ones that are respectfully outside
the purview of local governments which
is something handled by the federal
government and to a lesser extent to
state governments as well and we would
ask that we not interfere with the
really important work that is done here
in the city of skincity to the extent
however that the council does decide
that it wants to entertain such a
position and get into issues of
international relations we would ask
that you consider that the resolution
coming before you is one that calls for
a permanent ceasefire as you've as
you've already heard from others already
tonight and I'm sure you'll hear from
others as well the ability to have a
permanent ceasefire is not something that is achievable as long as
the terrorist organization Hamas remains
in operational power on October 7th they
crossed the border engaged in a massacre
of over a thousand innocent Israelis
children women adults seniors even pets
and animals those who they did not kill
they've maintained as hostages some have
been released over a 100 remain we share
in a position of thoughtfulness and
compassion and Care those who are going
to bring a resolution should they do so
tonight we are not questioning their
desire to want to see peace we are not
questioning their desire to want to see
an end to suffering we share in that
stated goal and we would imagine
everybody wants to see that to happen
but we're not going to be able to
achieve that as long as the as the Gaza
Strip is under the control of a
terrorist organization I thank you for
your time tonight and I hope that you
take this these words into consideration
thank
[Applause]
you Michelle
greenblat is Michelle green blat
present good evening
and thank you for giving me the
opportunity to speak
um I know that the ceasefire resolution
has not yet been brought before the the
council um I know that there is a
petition to bring such a resolution I
ask you as a proud member of the Jewish
Community to not entertain um the
possibility of a ceasefire resolution in
your town it is very divisive it causes
members of your community and connect
and elsewhere to be pitted against one
another we all don't none of us want to
have people dying um
over um these uh these threats by a
terrorist
organization um for 75 years Hamas which
is a terrorist
organization has been planting the seeds
and manipulating the Palestinian people
in the Gaza Strip to believe that
they're value um is greater dead than
alive Jews value life and we want life
for everyone even people that we are at
odds with we who have different um
theological
differences
um
anti-Semitism
is uh rampant these days AC across
communities and college campuses and in
our
schools
um having passing such a resolution um
increases the the rate of anti-Semitism
making your constituents feel unsafe and
unheard the ceasefire
resolution um is an
international issue and not one that
affects
um local politics and I would really
hope that you consider the concerns of
your
constituents a ceasefire resolution in
Gaza and between Hamas and Israel will
not help the Palestinian people the
Palestinian people have no regard for
their lives as they have
built miles upon
miles of cement tunnels under Gaza not
for the safety of their um civilians who
are not allowed into the tunnels during
bombing it is only for the Hamas members
and to keep their stores of food which
they also do not allow um their
civilians to have even though
humanitarian Aid is free and should be
given to the Palestinians they are
selling
it um so I really hope that um we can
come together and help support one
another in our efforts to make the
situation better for the Palestinian
people thank you thank
you suzan
11 well thank you for allowing me to
speak I'm Susanna lvin from Albany um as
a member of the Jewish community of the
greater capital region I implore that
this connected common Council refrain
from taking up this or any ceasefire
legislation we je are a family a family
that stretches around the world and
across 4,000 years of history in every
generation we've been singled out as a
nation apart scapegoated with dangerous
rhetoric this rhetoric always leads to
actual Danger from the Crusades and
pogroms to the Nazi Holocaust to the
horrific massacres rape torture and
kidnapping of October 7
we take seriously the words of our
detractors how D poog groms against Jews
even happen who allows such a thing
first there are those who want to kill
Jews and they do in this case Hamas
terrorists who murdered Innocents and
promised 10 times more October 7s and
then there are the supporters those who
will provide rationale for those acts of
violence in the name of the greater good
these are groups that promote
legislation like the one that you may be
petitioned a resolution that outlines
freedom and dignity for anyone but
Israel anyone but
Jews and finally there are the
indifferent those who would enable
violence against my people simply by not
opposing
it a call for a ceasefire is a call for
violence against Jews council members
please do not feel the pressure to join
the historic ranks of the indifferent do
not allow this legislation to cast a
shadow on your good work and your good
names calling for ceasefire is a call
for Jews to surrender their National
Defense there is no reasonable
compromise to this demand as it's a
demand for National Suicide calling for
ceasefire does not bring the
Palestinians closer to nationhood
unfortunately it prolongs their
suffering under the oppressive Hamas
regime which neither protects nor
provides for them calling for ceasefire
does not bring peace this call for
ceasefire does not call for an end to
Hamas aggression it does not guarantee
the return of the innocent hostages
without hamas's defeat or Surrender the
war will continue because Hamas doesn't
follow rules of War they don't engage in
diplomacy they will keep fighting
finally a call for ceasefire results in
the scapegoating of Jews Everywhere by
gaslighting self-defense as aggression a
local legislation that promotes this
language is bringing Prejudice and
threat of violence to their constituents
here at home to Jews Israel is not a
farway place not a speck on the map it
is where our family lives it is our
homeland and what happens there affects
us deeply here I pray that your family
should never be in danger while the
world demands that you cease fighting
for them please oppose this or any
ceasefire legislation that comes before
you thank
[Applause]
you jury
Stillman I'm a Jewish American I'm
Israeli I'm a two-time survivor of the
suicide bombings during the second inata
in 2001 I have dear family and friends
in Israel and myself and every Jew from
left to right want peace for all the
Jews Israeli Arabs and Palestinians who
seek to live side by side in true peace
and mutual recognition of each other
tonight I intend to shed light on Jewish
voices for peace since they're likely
speaking here jvp is an organization
that despite its name is neither NE
necessarily Jewish nor peaceful and has
garnered significant critique for its
actions and stated vociferously
anti-zionist objectives in the surface
on the surface jvp might seem to
epitomize the values of love and a
desire for peace however it's crucial to
examine the substance behind this this
perspective is echoed by Allison summer
in the far-left Israeli publication
haret who
noted to many mainstream moderate and
even left-wing groups and and certainly
for the Israeli government jvp is beyond
the pale aiding and abetting those who
would harm or even eliminate Israel if
it were possible jvp's Focus agenda is
to dismantle the state of Israel this
Miss mission of delegitimization
diverges sharply from the Jewish
community's diverse but generally United
support for Israel's right to exist as a
Jewish State and for Jewish
self-determination jvp has been linked
to global terrorist regimes including
the Islamic Republic of Iran
and groups like sidun associated with
the popular front for the liberation of
Palestine on a specific note the
glorification of terrorists who
committed heinous acts against civilians
including children under the guise of
decolonization is abhorent such actions
do not align with the principles of
peace and Justice they embolden and
legitimize violence under the misleading
Banner of activ
activism jvp's messaging firr promoting
peace SS Division and misrepresents the
rich diversity of Jewish thought thought
in closing I urge us to approach such
discussions with a commitment to truth
dialogue and the pursuit of genuine
peace let us be wary of those who would
co-opt the language of peace and Justice
to advance divisive agendas our
Collective future depends on Building
Bridges of understanding not walls of
Separation thank you for your time and
[Applause]
attention Jil Gail
sackle is G ale sacko
present hi my name is Gail sacko I've
been part of the Capitol region Jewish
Community for over 40 years can you hear
me louder louder okay I just want to say
in our services we have something called
the morning CSH and we stand to honor
the dead and The Grieving I'm grieving
for all of the innocent
Palestinians I am grieving for all the
innoc innocent Israelis I am grieving
for all the innocent
Americans because I stand at every
service for that um I want to wish the
Muslim people I hope it's appropriate Ed
Mubarak you say it in the middle as well
as at the beginning because I know
you're in the middle of ma'am can you
need to please address I wish you
no ma'am ma'am you need to address the
chair sorry um ID mabarak because I know
they're in the middle of
Ramadan I wanted to talk I had a a
chance to look at the resolution that
you're being asked to take a look at and
I wanted to talk about the local the
Jewish the established Jewish Community
leaders in connecti we not consulted
we're not part of part of putting this
together there is no mention mention in
it of except for a mention of
anti-Semitism there is no mention in it
of either Kamas or israelies or the
hostages except for the hostages who are
released it's it's divisive in the
community um there have been incidents
there has been an incident in the SKC
City School District where teacher where
a group put out an email suggesting that
um Israelis be called Ethnic cleansers
and genocide people there has been a
middle schooler who was told that he
could not go to school because he was
Israeli and in fact his family had to
leave the community and this is a family
that lost someone October 7th there was
it encourages somebody who wants to
shoot at a synagogue which has happened
in the capol
region it's it's it's divisive to a
community that needs to be coming
together um today is
171 of the hostages the youngest hostage
is one year old the oldest hostage is 80
many of them went to a music festival
when Kamas was asked to identify them
they were unable to identify them or
unable to tell where they are it's it
what this resolution does not reflect
all of the constituency of this
community and it adds to the amount of
anti-Semitism that we are already seeing
thank you thank
[Applause]
you Bonnie
Eisenberg hi um thank you for letting me
come and speak I've been a lifelong
resident of the Capitol region and am a
proud Jew and a proud Zionist um
my direct connection as somebody prior
to me said this what happened on October
7th isn't something that happened far
away to other people for the Jewish
Community for me personally my family
grew up in kabut raim which is the
Cabots that was right near the was the
closest Kuts to the music festival that
was um attacked and kabut re was
destroyed this is very personal it's
very painful and
as others have also said we don't just
cry for the Israelis we cry for the
Palestinian suffering as well we want
peace but you can't have peace with an
organization that promotes the idea that
it's better to die than to live
peacefully with your Israeli and
Egyptian
neighbors
um your proposed resolution shows that
or the proposed resolution that you will
be seeing soon shows that it does not
blame the aggressor Hamas but instead
blames the country who wants peace but
will defend its citizens against
annihilation in I don't know if you've
seen it before but in that um proposed
resolution the words are some of the
words are um you're calling for peaceful
diplomacy that protects the security of
all innocent civilians I call for that
too but there's only one party that's
interested in living in peace with their
neighbors in Gaza with their Palestinian
neighbors and that's Israel Hamas has
made it incredibly clear they will
prefer the death of all
Palestinians before they would be
willing to live peacefully with Israel
so um so if you take on this proposal
and you decide to approve it what you're
doing is not helping Palestinians the
only way to help Palestinians and
Israelis and everyone in the area is to
hold Hamas accountable and this cease
and any ceasefire would do exactly the
opposite it would be empowering Hamas so
I I just wanted to mention that what's
personally painful is that my social
justice partners are supporting Hamas
war criminals instead of holding them
accountable in demanding their Swift
removal and replacement with a
Palestinian government that wants to
live in peace with Israeli and Egyptian
neighbors
um and that's pretty much what I wanted
to say thank
[Applause]
you um Laura
wisl
hi please bear with me because I lost my
voice my name is Laura Weiss spot and I
am a local resident I am an active
member of the Jewish Community here in
the greater Capital Region I am Gravely
concerned about the petition for a
proposed ceasefire resolution pertaining
to the Israeli Palestinian conflict that
is going to come before you
today such resolutions are one-sided and
place the blame for this war solely on
Israel which is misguided at best and at
worst it is dangerous to Jews globally
and
locally the proposed resolution is
extremely
divisive and misinformed it parrots the
anti-israel propaganda machine that is
unfortunately driving much of the
current mainstream
media as Jewish constituents reading
this resolution I'll tell you how we
feel threatened isolated intimidated
alienated 95 5% of the global Jewish
Community it loves Israel we consider it
to be our Jewish homeland it is a safe
haven for Jews from all over the world
to come and be safe when we can't be
safe in other countries that have
expelled us or actually ethnically
cleansed us which has happen many many
times in our
history the demon demonization of Israel
and of the Jewish people is exactly what
fuels the hatred against us and it makes
violence against us palatable the
external pressure that we feel to divest
ourselves from our love of Israel and
our belief in its right to exist is
terrifying and
heartbreaking as some of us said we're
proud zionists it's not a bad word it
just means that we believe in our right
to self-determine in our ancestral
Homeland that we have had a presence
continuous presence in for 4,000 years
my husband and my three-year-old son
were inside Temple Israel in Albany when
a man came and fired a shotgun several
times outside the temple he yelled
threatening
statements my husband had to hide in a
storage closet with my son for two hours
on lockdown in fear of their lives for
what was
happening We Are Forever traumatized by
that event and my family an event that
happened right here in Albany for the
sole reason that we are Jewish and
therefore targets of hate crimes and
Terror
attacks at a time of heightened tensions
I ask that this resolution not be
considered at all the attacks of October
7th perpetrated against the Jewish
people of Israel by Hamas terrorists
continue to affect our daily life right
here in our local schools our children
have been experiencing anti-semitic Acts
including those who had family members
murdered in those attacks whose children
were told in a school in a middle school
your family deserved what happened to
them on October 7th it would be Beyond
irres responsible of this Council to
inflame these tensions anymore Israel is
in an existential war against Hamas an
enemy sworn to its destruction this is
not a war against Palestinians or other
Muslims Jews and supporters here in
concy and around the capital region and
in the world want peace between
Palestinians and Israelis and you just
summarize ma'am such a peace can begin
right here in skincity by our city
council members refusing to engage with
a ceasefire resolution thank you thank
you
Rabbi Rafi
Spitzer good evening Madam president
thank you for hearing me I just want to
thank you for listening to speaker after
speaker I represent congregation aod one
of the largest Jewish communities in SKC
County uh with many members in the city
of SKC uh and I'm here to support the
Jewish Community as they come uh to
share their deep concerns and their
fears with you um I just wanted to say a
little bit about what Zionism is Zionism
is the pro Progressive Movement for
Liberation and National
self-determination of the Jewish people
in our ancestral Homeland the land of
Israel a movement that not only
guarantees Jewish sovereignty but also
Jewish security Zionism is the
embodiment of the incredible racial and
cultural diversity of the Jewish people
the physical and spiritual descendants
of the Jews of antiquity who were driven
from Israel otherwise known as Zion or
Judea into Exile and Scattered across
the globe yet remained United generation
after generation in custom peoplehood
and prayer directed toward Jerusalem
Zionism is an inherent and Inseparable
part of Jewish identity for the vast
majority of Jews on Earth and for my
Jewish community and the Jewish
community of the city of
SKC once again thank you so much for
being here and listening and making
space for everybody to be able to share
their perspective and point of view and
uh good
evening thank
you Jeffrey
Handelman
good evening Madame President and mayor
McCarthy and members of the council my
name is Jeffrey Handelman I'm chair of
the board of Jewish Federation of
Northeastern New York I'm not an
activist being here is uh really outside
my comfort zone but I felt compelled to
speak tonight because I hate to see the
division in our community I see it
online I see it in the comments I see it
in the newspaper and I do not understand
why this uh elected body is being asked
to debate uh intern National Affairs
beyond your scope of
control I just want to tell a story
about Esh Esh Cole is a region it's a
sister region for uh the Jewish
Federation of the Capitol District it's
an agricultural community that borders
Gaza uh filled with the most
left-leaning liberal Jews in in Israel
peace-seeking innocent people um my wife
and children have been there I've been
there my children actually spent a few
weeks there of making friends we've
hosted uh students from Esh Cole um one
beautiful woman young woman who stayed
with us on October 7th both her parents
and her younger brother Sagi were
murdered by Hamas so this is really
close to home uh it's just a horrible
situation what's going on in Gaza is
beyond indescribably horrible I
understand that my point in speaking is
to remind everybody that it's a complex
nuance moned difficult situation it
can't be simplified by a one-sided
resolution that is uh more complex than
most people really understand there are
many innocent Palestinians who have
suffered and it's horrible um but the
problem in this is comes down to Hamas is a terrorist organization that
can't be allowed to exist because that
means no security for Israel no security
for Palestinians I've taken up enough of
your time it's going to be a long night
I want to thank all of you for your time
I'm sorry that you're in this position
um please do whatever you can to bring
healing and peace to our community
because that is something that is in
with your your purview thank you thank
you Ed
Leighton I thank you I'm here to oppose
any resolution uh regarding the
ceasefire and I'd like to bring my
perspective to this debate um my wife
and I have our oldest child his wife and
our three grandkids live in a town
called
natana and in their apartment building
they have a safe room the safe room is a room made of concrete extra inch of
concrete steel door on the outside steel
Shutters on the exterior window and
ventilation system that can be shut off
in the event of a gas attack this is the
life in Israel is Israelis are
constantly under pressure from terrorist
organizations Hamas in Gaza Hezbollah in
Lebanon the Islamic Jihad in in other
parts of of other countries and to have
a resolution
asking Israel to stop to not protect
themselves is an injustice to the Jewish
Community um my wife and I were just
there for the entire month of February
we were on a solidarity Mission with
some members here from from the Jewish
Community we were down in the eso region
we saw the terror attacks that had
occurred in the kutes where the um the
terrorists came in and attacked women
children men and uh horrific events that
had happened um what we learned on this
trip is that we we had a tour guide and
he explained that in
Egypt um the the Egyptians celebrate
October 6th as a holiday to represent
their terror attack which was the six
day yam Kapur war in 19
73 Egypt still celebrates that and what
happens over in the Middle East and
Israel being the only democracy
terrorist organizations try to one up
each other and Israel's goal at this
point in time is to completely eliminate
the terrorist organization so that they
have no Bragging Rights going forward
and they can live in peace and even to
this day Rockets are still being fired
from the North in Lebanon and that's
going to be the confrontation area so as
much as you want to cease fire from Gaza
there's going to be other conflicts in
the north uh out of
Lebanon um and with with that
um the Israeli people um the ceasefire
is is really um an injustice to them
they are looking to defend themselves
against the terror organization they
want to live safe lives uh like everyone
else um in in in uh Democratic societies
so I Rise that you um do not entertain
any ceasefire resolution thank
you Eileen
handlan mayor
McCarthy
honor uh city council members and
residents of
skincity I'm standing here before you
tonight not just sharing concerns as a
resident of SKC but as someone whose
family history and personal Journey are
deeply intertwin with the very issues
unexpectedly surfacing in our local
discourse the inter in the introduction
of the divisive symbols the
rhetoric from the River to the
Sea being here tonight with this
possible
proposal particularly those linked to
the tragic events of October 7th and the
actions of Hamas has not only reopened
Old Wounds but has starkly reminded me
of the personal battles that I fought to
overcome a legacy of trauma a legacy I
painstakingly worked to not pass down to
my own children
my family's story is one of resilience
in the face of adversity marked by a
history of violence and survival my
mother who worked at the Y here in skinc
for many many years was basically an
orphan at 12 and she ended up a fighter
amidst The Siege in of Jerusalem at 17
serving in the palmach under
rabine when that war broke up my father
was shot on the front line during that
war and remained in a for more than a
week surviving the first surgery of its
kind on a battlefield the subsequent
Shadow PTSD that has followed our family
to connecti in 1972 we got here has been
a constant reminder of this cost of
conflict I've lived a life grappling
with this
inherited trauma navigating through a
childhood I can only describe as
tumultuous at Best Yet through sheer
determination I've made managed to
Shield my children through this from
this Legacy striving to provide them
with a sense of peace and stability that
I never had but here we are today I'm
confronted with a painful
irony the symbols the slogans the
echoing the violence and Cher from a
region thousands of miles away have
infiltrated our community discourse
challenging the very peace I've fought
so hard to secure for my family it's a
stark reminder that the work of
overcoming trauma is never truly done
especially when the Echoes of trauma are
come are Amplified by the actions of our
own Community this isn't merely about
International politics or distant
conflicts it's about the impact right
here right now on our community's fabric
on individuals like me who've worked
tirelessly not just to contribute to the
betterment of
skincity but to over come personal
histories of violence and
Trauma thank you thank you for giving me
the opportunity to share my story but I
need you to remember these things as we
sit here in these Chambers conducting
the business of skincity not the Middle
East thank
you Susan
unman hi hello
um this is very hard for me um I just
want the room to go back to applauding
for Pearl and feel that unite
unification because that's that is
possible
um I have a really long history of
Israel I I'm a resident of the Capital
District and since I was a child uh my
grand parents came from Russia I we're
all
interconnected um but since I was a
child I was always felt and was brought
up that Israel out of anywhere was a
safe haven for any Jew from anywhere we
have a home after thousand 4,000 years
of being forced out of anywhere we lived
I learned about the Holocaust and was
grateful that my people survived again
we've been hated literally from the
beginning of time
why I've been to Israel eight times the
first time I was 12 my bus our bus our
tour bus broke down in GA the Gaza Strip
and one of my Fondest Memories of my
life was playing for three hours with an
Arab girl my age 12 years old we played
ball I we fell in love with each other
we became friends that was the beauty of
Innocence um I lived on and worked on a
kibutz for four Summers and I've been to
Israel seven times I have many many
friends and many many family members who
live there served in the IDF and um
thank God most of them are okay the last
time I was there was February 11th I was
there from the 11th to the 18th and I
was on the solidarity Mission with the
Jewish
Federation I also am a product of trauma
um but I felt it was my duty to Bear
witness to the events of
107 and no matter how prepared I was and
I watched it all I was not prepared for
what I
experienced there was so much pain so
much shock so much suffering because
since my first visit I have been very
passionate about the plight of the
residents of Gaza that is with my soul I
am a social justice Warrior and I am
vocal about injustices no one can shut
me up that is the truth I stand to the
best of my ability claiming that I am
known in this area for confronting
racism and I have had the rudest
Awakening as those who I have supported
and stood up against intentionally and
wholeheartedly have turned their backs
on the Jewish
population I was at the site of Nova my
heart was torn open looking at the site
seeing this seeing these beautiful faces
of these
kids that were dancing and and playing
and listening to music knowing that they
were raped and tortured and kidnapped is
that my time that is your time man' okay
um I thank you all and I wish I could go
on we want peace and we want to work
with the go people of Goda we really do thank
[Applause]
you Amy
bloom
thank you so much for having us here you
might wonder why so many of us have come
out from Albany to skincity the reason
is like of course I do the reason is
because we lost the fight in Albany in
alony in November Mo ped was brought to
speak in our local library Mo presents
himself as a Jew and instead he is a man
of hate pure hatred we begged our local
library to please not bring him into our
space and instead he came and at that
moment hatred between Jews and Muslims
in the town of Bethlehem began hatred
that we now need to work very hard to
find a partnership to overcome then the
Albany city council was meeting we were
promised there would not be a vote on a
resolution and instead the vote happened
and the resolution passed and we're here
today to say to you please do not make
skincity Albany please do better than
Albany did you can't really have an
impact on anything by voting yes to the
potential resolution that's going to
come before you the only thing that will
impact is negative your children the
Jewish children in this conected County
will suffer there will be hatred that
will re upon them for no good reason I
was the past preschool director at
Temple Israel nursery school until
August
students 100 students 40 staff of mine
spent a day of sheer Terror locked in a
building eight children one teacher
locked in a building while a gun man ran
loose and why simply because of hate
against Jews those children will never
be the same and I can tell you my staff
will never ever be the same we were a
solid staff that had been there quite a
long time together they're now down to
eight remaining staff eight simply due
to trauma of Jew hatred please we can
make peace together you guys have an
opportunity to allow your Jewish
constituents to feel loved supported and
cared about but simply passing a
resolution that sken county is in favor
of a a peace in this Middle East has no
true impact it just serves to pit
Muslims against choose and we don't need
to do that there's already enough hate
in the world please help bring
peace thank
you Valerie T
Toriano good evening council members I'm
here tonight in support of a ceasefire
resolution to call for a permanent
ceasefire an end to the Israeli
occupation of historic Palestine I felt
guilty knowing that Palestinians blood
are on my hands from a federal New York
State and connected taxes funding
Israel's weapons and genocide against
Palestinians an estimate of
$962,500 starvation of Palestinian men
women and children imagine with that
$962,500 it's an ethnic cleansing and
genocide of Palestinians that has been
going on for over 75 years Palestinians
haven't known Freedom or peace in over a
century between both the British and
Israel occupying Palestine this isn't a
Judaism versus Islam conflict either as
Israeli military have also been killing
Palestinian Christians and Jews too as
well if this was about Israel defending
themselves from the October 7th 2024
attack then why did the flower Massacre
happen where Israeli military shot
starving Palestinians rushing to the
food Aid trucks why are they bombing
hospitals why is Israel bombing Rafa
refugee camps after forcing gazin to
leave Gaza and into Rafa this is not a
defense conflict or a war on Gaza this
is an ethnic cleansing and genocide of
Palestinians to conclude I'd like to
remind those who are followers of Christ
that Jesus was born in Bethlehem which
is in historic Palestine which makes
Jesus a Palestinian Jew and he's
heartbroken watching his people being
bombed shot and starved we are all human
beings who who believe the same and
deserve basic human rights decency
respect love connection and to feel safe
I have hope we'll see a free secular
Democratic Palestine in our lifetime
thank you council members for your time
to listen to my
words
thank you Michelle
Sanders thank
you okay I got a chance to look at the
proposal and in this in the proposal it
the Cesar resolution saying
anti-Semitism is
unacceptable that's complet completely
disingenuous these statements only serve
to promote divisiveness in our
communities and misrepresent what is
actually
happening Hamas attacked the state of
Israel in the most brutal of ways
attacking people in their homes killing
parents in front of children microwaving
babies shoving guns into women's vaginas
and discharging them gang rapes of women
and the kidnapping of babies young
children and infirm elderly
victims Hamas started a war with
Israel the leaders of Hamas who live in
luxury in Qatar are not interested in
peace with Israel not interested in a
two-state solution or living alongside
Jews at
all their goal is to erase the Jewish
people from existence by making it
impossible for us to defend
ourselves World War II and the current
events
globally have taught us that without the
ability to fight back Jews would again
become the scapegoats for all the ills
in society in my life I never thought I
would see far-left progressives side
with an organization that uses their
most vulnerable population as human
Shields citing the belief that madom is
to be
exalted uses the humanitarian Aid that
is sent to Gaza as a means to make money
in the open
market glorify the rape and
brutalization of innocent
civilians supports the immutable Refugee
status for three generations of a
portion of their population and blames
it on
Israel supporting resolutions like these
incites the anti-jewish rhetoric which
can lead to violence against Jews it
does nothing to actually help
Palestinian Ians but proves that our
concerns for safety fall on deaf
ears thank you thank
you Andre
Gerard Andre
[Music]
Gerard Ramy
Salah Ria we have people outside
there's people in the
hallway
okay I believe it's
romea
Peter
[Music]
Cook thank you madam
speaker my name is Peter Cook I'm ser
serve as executive director of the New
York State Council of churches which
represents nine
denominations and
7500 churches including some in
skty in a spirit of openness I'm here to
call on this body to consider all
sides debate and amend the resolution
and not just take it cart blun
and also just to acknowledge The Bravery
of the people who have brought this
resolution before
you for many years now our denominations
have advocated for the rights of both
Palestinians and
Israelis my wife was born in East
Jerusalem to a father who devoted his
life to resettling Palestinian refugees
she had to leave in 1968 during the
war we have friends in the West Bank who
are incarcerated in Israeli prisons for
speaking out in my family and my church
we have been at this a very very long
time most recently the National Council
churches and our denominations have
called for a
ceasefire joining Senator Schumer and
also who was also called for a
ceasefire while condemning the actions
of Hamas on October 7th and calling for
the release of all hostages and
political prisoners as a condition of
the ceasefire our executive committee
made such a statement a few weeks after
October 7th with many hostages captured
by Hamas and many more prisoners in
Israeli jails still not returned and the
death of over 31,000 Palestinians not to
mention countless injuries and death by
starvation the foot dragging and
equivocation to stop the
violence to not stop the violence is
unconscionable as long as avoidance
continues it will be impossible to heal
wounds and reopen a
conversation for a new future for
Christians Jews and Muslims in this land
who have struggled with
Injustice so I'm just going to ask this
body not to just take this resolution
but support an open open process by
which the language is discussed amended
and debated and do that in a most open
and
transparent um way possible and we
cannot be chilled by a PA of
intimidation and we must be gathered
together as a body that seeks the truth
and that only happens through robust
public conversation thank
you
has anyone entered the room Ria
Salah
no okay Ed Leen
Jr sorry I'm not
Jewish
sir comments up here please may God
bless and protect the Jewish people give
them peace of heart and mind Mr Mayor
it's time to ask if any voters who had
voted for you speaking to the microphone
please thank
you it's time to ask if any voters would
have voted for you had they known that
you were covering up the crimes of
corrupt judges Frost and
falo please tell me how it is ethical to
not meet with a taxpaying citizen that
had the crime of conspiracy to deprive
you of my constitutional rights of due
process and a fair hearing perpetrated
by the two corrupt judges you appointed
to their
positions Andrew Cen must have must have
some morals and Scruples you didn't
reappoint him good for him don't worry
you still have your corrupt da and
County attorney Gardner to pull my ethic
complaint I have a copy of his nonsense
for you and council members I guess
there is no Ethics in skincity it goes
along with government transp parency
missing police chief wouldn't meet with
me Sheriff also Clifford's wife was your
secretary when you refused to meet with
me in your office John de Augustine is
on your smart City advisory
committee of course you have
uh nothing about salary or meeting
scheduled I guess that's why I'm not in
the Gazette pho's wife works in the
finance department I'm not the only
person deprived of help by you ask with
the hum girls relatives think of you no
Amber Alert didn't meet the criteria
really how about the 1100 St cla's
pensioners that you went to bat for oh
that's right you didn't do jack for
them either continue to cover up for the
criminals to hell with the victims I am
not going away sir no no swearing please
no
swearing there
is I'm not there is no time limits on
the crime of conspiracy a private
citizen of their constitutional rights
and since you are doing nothing but
covering up for Frost and falo I guess
you are part of the
conspiracy I will start sending my proof
to neighboring states and news stations
I found one honest state policeman to
take my complaint us attorney would not
accept it da Carney says there was no
crime which he is now guilty of
obstruction of governmental
Administration and will be back outside
of City Hall what these judges did is so
egregious for a judge to do that is a
mandatory jail
sentence that's why no one is willing to
do
anything I have the proof here for all
the council members the mayor and
chairman thank
you Assad
Ali hey everyone thank you for giving me
time to speak um as being a US citizen
honestly speaking I'm just a regular US
citizen who came um who got a message
and was deeply saddened to see what is
what was going on in Gaza for past few
months little children get died like
every day and you know like we can I can
make up stories over here that you know
things happen and you know like I was
attacked by several people which is not
the case social media in today's era
speaks a lot it is there are videos of
young five year six year old children
getting died getting like hurt you know
so I suggest like a ceasefire and when
we do the ceasefire we need to
understand the history of Palestine and
Israel 80 years ago how was the map of
Palestine look versus it looks now
Palestine people were forced out slowly
by slowly out of their land and it's a
natural instinct that if someone enters
my house and start taking control over
that you know I will raise my voice as
much as I can to get the justice and uh
for all sake Justice for Palestine
people whose land it was 80 years ago
and what is the picture of the map right
now in in the
world's map I suggest a ceasefire and
immediate stopping of killing of small
children ladies on both hands on Israel
and Palestine so that's all I have
thank
you Susan
Rosenberg Susan
Rosenberg I beg your pardon she spoke
that was oh oh yes she was the very
first one thank you signed up
twice okay um let's see we're down to
Matt
I'm not sure how to pronounce your last
name it looks like oil it is oil
okay oil kind of oil the US wants to
steal for
democracy all right as my last comment
might indicate I'm here to support voice
my support for a ceasefire resolution uh
as of this weekend approximately 32,000
people mostly women and children have
been killed in Gaza since October and
about 74,000 have been injured and this
is only what's been Rec recorded the
real casualty rate is probably even
higher with not only the continuous
bombing of the region but also the mass
starvation due to the blockading of Aid
by the IDF not to mention bombardment of
the West Bank something that on its own
should dispel the notion that this is
purely about stopping Hamas as Hamas has
no presence in the West Bank despite
this President Biden continues to
provide the Netanyahu regime with
unconditional military aid making making
ceasefire resolutions such as those that
have been passed in numerous cities
across the country including Seattle San
Francisco Chicago and even Albany
important and thus I urge the city of
sken to follow in their lead and while a
ceasefire resolution will be critical
for the current situation it is the bare
minimum of what must be done no
ceasefire will truly last as long as the
occupation of Palestine Land by the
Israeli State remains this occupation in
Siege has displaced and brutalized the
Palestinian people for 70 5 years and
only seeks to benefit the capitalist
system via War profits by the ruling
class working people in the US and
around the world including the including
in Israel itself have nothing to gain
from this occupation and the funds are
only and the funds going towards the
military aid could easily be used for
funding services for communities around
housing and healthare Etc and therefore
I would like to urge that a ceasefire
resolution also include language around
ending US military AR Aid and ending the
occupation and Siege thank you thank
you deal
sha thank you all for giving us this
time and space uh before I get started I
do have 98 C5 signatures here that I
would like to share with you if that's
okay this is nine days worth of work so
100 people per day uh I'm not going to
go
into 100 plus years of History we're not
here for a history lesson but I will say
uh as the Imam of the SKC Islamic Center
the biggest uh Muslim organization in
the city of SKC and really representing
a lot more than just Muslims in for this
particular
issue what we're calling for in that
resolution is an end to violence it's an
end to the murder of children on both
sides it's an end to the blockage of Aid
diapers insulin things that every human
being every family need that we take for
granted but that those Palestinians in
Gaza right now wish they could have we
can walk to the grocery store get what
we need and walk right out they don't
have that
option they a a trucks are being blocked
by families of settlers Zionist settlers
who block those a trucks with smiles on
their faces and they've been on
record as wanting to introduce death
upon all the citizens of Gaza because
there's this infatuation that every
Palestinian happens to be a Hamas
terrorist I don't need to remind you how
hateful and how dangerous racist
rhetoric can be we know that firsthand
as the Muslims in America you know that
firsthand being an African-American
woman of color and we all know that in
our own capacity have had experience
with
that I think the most pertinent thing
today to take away from is that the
ceasefire resolution that's being
introduced here that we're asking you to
uphold simply as a gesture of elected
officials on behalf of the people you
represent is one of inclusion a
ceasefire accomplishes an exchange of
hostages under the guise of safy and
security for both sides not just for one
side we are not here to talk about Hamas
unlike some others who have come here
and apparently are obsessed with Hamas
we're here simply to talk about the fact
that the Israeli Defense Forces are not
only bombing indiscriminately not only
shooting
indiscriminately but after they bomb and
they shoot they will then go and pillage
the homes that they've just destroyed
riding a dead kids bicycle on Tik tock
and laughing about it stealing the
lingerie of women that they just
murdered for the world to see and they
have no shame whatsoever about it and
for anyone to say that they
support the most moral army in the world
quote unquote goes to show you what
their version of morality is what their
definition of morality is for us again
Beyond just
Muslims we see something happening
Against Humanity a crime against
humanity and I look at this side of the
room and I see more than just Muslims I
see more than just one color of people I
see people that recognize Truth for what
it is and want to speak out against the
Injustice that suppresses that truth
which is that violence Upon A group of
people simply because they happen to be
from a certain part of the world simply
because their nationality happens to be
Palestinian simply because their their
language happens to be Arabic is
completely wrong there is no room for
this in 2024 there's no room for it ever
in the world but since need you
summarize please sir thank you very much
I will end with
this if you guys pass this resolution
you will do a great thing for the
constituents that you represent I
understand some people may be upset but
at the end of the day the city of skty
you as elected
officials all we want you to do is just
say there has to be a stop to the
violence a stop to the genocide that's
all thank you very much thank
[Applause]
you
uh so he I'm I'm I'm I might be not
saying your name properly so he
shakima if you could pronounce it
correctly for me I'd appreciate
it yeah it's so
cha let it be said on record that all of
us here are against the killing of all
innocent
lives it is imperative to put everything
in perspective since the Zionist
movement and his sympathizers always
start from October 7th along with many
debunked lies while all facts
Palestinians have been checked and
confirmed since this is the only live
broadcasted genocide in the history of
mankind I would like to mention a few
facts we so we may have a clear
understanding of situation in the
occupied Palestine and our ask for the
passing of the ceasefire resolution at
hand the same British Empire that our
founding fathers fought off this land
decided to hand over another occupied
land called Palestine to a group of
terrorist zionists who killed and forced
almost 1 million indigenous Palestinians
out of their homes and land in 1948
Muslims Christians and Jews have
continued to suffer in their occupation
the struggle has always been between the
Zionist occupiers and the Palestinians
occupied for anyone who states that
Israel has a right to defend itself I
say read up on the un's position in
regards to the occupying entity and the
occupied and who has the right to
self-defense for anyone who says Hamas
started this on the 7th of October I say
read up on what happened to Palestinians
between 1948 and the year Hamas was
established in
1987 oh yeah also read up on what is
happening to Palestinians in the West
Bank where there is no Hamas for anyone
who says Israel is eliminating Hamas I
say look at the evidence widely
available of Israeli leadership calling
for the elimination of the entire
population by all means why calling
Palestinians animals and terrorists
don't forget the zionists claim that
occupied Palestine belongs to the
zionists with no place for the
indigenous Palestinians for anyone who
says Israel has no choice but to keep
killing and starving Gins simply because
it will eliminate Hamas I ask the
council members if they would accept
that for our own skty residents do you
accept the collective punishment of all
the residents of skty including your own
loved ones I will even pretend that you
are not aware of the number of killed
children mothers fathers elderly
journalists Medics and NGO workers I
will further pretend that you are not
aware of the orchestrated starvation of
gazin which is predicted to be the
leading cause of the death of the death
in Gaza what the heck I'll even pretend
that you're not aware of the
assassination of
civilians as a father an activist an
educator a school principal a counselor
a police chaplain and a community leader
but most importantly as a human being I
know that we must call for an immediate
and permanent cease f
immediate delivery of unrestricted
humanitarian Aid the ending of us
funding of the genocide and
reinstatement of the onra funding and
the release of all hostages all hostages with this call I know you I
know you are our representatives and I
know that you will vote in favor of
saving lives while both politicians may
vote against it when I last checked I
was told that we have more
Representatives than politicians this
resolution will tell thank
you thank
you Asar ATA ashar
ATA good evening and uh thank you very
much Council persons for giving me the
opportunity to speak here so I speak
here um as a Muslim as a citizen of
United States as a citizen of New York
State and as a community member here and
I also speak here as a father
professionally I a man of numbers I'm a
statistician so I draw I like to draw
your attention to some numbers some very
small numbers and we for for for helping
us understand the scale of the
devastation that's going on in Gaza the
Gaza Strip is 141 square miles skti
county is 209 square miles so we can
imagine that Gaza is within skincity it
is a small part of skincity now imagine
until December as of October to December
20 299,000 bombs coming over this 141
square mile area just imagine around you
over a period of 2 to 3 months
29,000 bombs this is why we are asking
for a ceasefire all the rhetoric apart
this is why it needs to stop the next
number I'm going to talk to you about is
a number that actually or incident that
stopped entire
America if it's a number that made the
comedians stop their show and talk about
it which was the Sandy Hook crisis
everyone who is a father grandmother
grandfather knows can feel the pain of
loss of life of
children the number of kids again as of
December 13,000 kids over a period of
about 150 days if you do the math it
comes down to
about 80 to 90 kids a day that's 3 to
four Sandy Hooks every day three to four
Sandy Hooks happening every day this is
precisely the reason we want ceasefire
and we want it now thank you very much
for taking up the
resolution thank you thank you Frank
Wicks Frank wix
okay start by noting I'm neither
Palestinian nor Israeli I have no
personal involvement with the either
side if the Palestinians were doing to
the Israelis what the Israelis are doing
with the Palestinians I would be up here
defending the uh the
Israelis uh I I support the
ceasefire and uh kind of the future
dream of Einstein that a s a single
state there with the Jews and uh
Palestinians living together in in peace and cooperation but
meanwhile
uh see here
again two weeks ago I was here I had my
Jewish friend Larry on one side and my
musim friend Muhammad on the other side
and who we you know as humans we saw
everything the same
way now the
uh okay the uh probably the uh the
biggest lie is that uh Israel is only
trying to defend
itself a month
before prime minister Netanyahu was the
United Nations with is a map of the
future of Israel showing no
Palestine the only way that can happen
is by killing every
Palestinian or by displacing
them this required United States weapons
and
support which we Prov provided
uh now with second thoughts about it uh
and we're providing it and we're getting
told not there none of our business how
it's getting
used uh so where we stand right now is
the best we can do is right now seize
fire you know again that doesn't that
doesn't address the force
starvation uh that now the uh so so the
seege fire ought to be the minimal right
now stopping the weapons ought to come
next
uh and I guess the people of skti I
think the good people of
skti should have no problem supporting
this and I guess you know sometime in
the future I think the Israeli leaders
and Israeli army forces they're
committing know the war crimes ought to
be tried in a International tribunal
with the support of the United States
and the good people of skti thank you
thank
you Leila
kaaga great thank you you're
welcome all right okay thank you for
having us tonight you've listened to a
lot of voices and I appreciate that um
so my name is Leila kaaga I'm a resident
and a local business owner I stand here
a little confused how people can say
they want peace but oppose a ceasefire
when you oppose a ceasefire you're
standing with the occupation you're
standing with oppression and you stand
with killing 32,000 individuals in 170
days you stand with starving 2.2
million uh citizens of Gaza half of
which are children 50% our children you
prioritize 100 hostages over 2.1 million
lives and over 10,000 Palestinian
hostages that no one has ever seemed to
mention that Israel has captured within
the past 170 days you stand with killing
my family and my people I'm not going to
stand here and give you guys a 75 year
history lesson what I'm going to say is
I'm sick to my stomach seeing my people
carpet bomb daily starved to death and
massacred in one of the the most modern
live stream genocide that we've ever
seen and the world leaders are just
sitting back this is not just an
international Affair I disagree with
prior statements this is a local issue
it starts local everything starts local
because it is closest to the people
unfortunately I can't stop my tax money
from going and killing my own people so
what I can do is stand here and share my
story and share my community's voice my
Palestinian Muslim community's voice
that has been severely underrepresented
in this area and frankly in this
country I learned from Malcolm X you
can't be so blinded by your patriotism
and your religion and culture to see
what is wrong is wrong and what is
happening is wrong hurting my people
across AA strip is wrong killing them
carpet bombing everything is wrong
stopping the humanitarian Aid going in
and while on the other side they're
celebrating and dancing while starving
children they're on the verge of the
worst famine in this Century that is
wrong we unfortunately in Palestine do
not have the luxury of special rooms
that protect us from our oppressors
aggressions my father did not have a
safe shelter in 1967 when he was
forcibly expelled and made a refugee my
mother's family did not have a shelter
and a safe room when her family was
forcibly removed in the Great Neck of 19
48 I cannot remember and I'm sure many
Muslims here also agree we can't
remember a Friday prayer that a police
officer was not present that is our norm
since probably 2001 don't quote me on
that but that's how it felt we don't
know of Friday prayer without police
presence Mrs Pearl said earlier no
matter who is at my door you help them
this body represents connecti the Deep
diversity and resilience of this what
this city stands for I am painfully used
to my voice not being represented by
elected officials and I hope this body
will finally represent my people's voice
and on the day that Albany common
Council passed the ceasefire resolution
we were there majority of us were there
and a council member stood up and
thanked us for opening his eyes to the
other side of the story there's three
sides to every story right there's
always the truth you guys can use your
eyes and go read on the history and read
up on everything but as of right now a
ceasefire tells us that you care about
our community and you care about peace
so please do not keep repeating history
let's learn from history and do the
right thing and giving the oppressed a
voice thank you for your thank
you Jamaica
miles
a lot going on
here yeah we're just
gonna okay we're gonna leave
it Lila Watson said if you have come
here to help me you are wasting your
time but if you have come because your
Liberation is bound up with mine then
let's work
together Doctors Without Borders Amnesty
International the international court of
justice which found in its initial
ruling that the allegation by South
Africa that Israel was engaged in
genocidal actions in Gaza was plausible
and that action had to be taken to avoid
a genocide UNICEF euromed rights Human
Rights Watch and unit United Nations
human rights just some of the groups and
organizations that call for a ceas fire
someone said to me recently that they
feel that if they do or do not say very
specific things that they will be judged
to be different than how they see
themselves I've thought about this
deeply who are we can be seen in our
words and our actions
Therefore your words or the absence of
them do carry weight who are we if we
are silent to Injustice who are we if we
turn a blind eye we are complicit the
loss of Israeli life on October 7th is
heartbreaking to those who have been
impacted by the death or kidnappings I
humbly share my deepest condolences and
a wish for the safe return of those
still remaining that one day was a
painful loss since that day we have seen
the Relentless disproportionate and
dehumanizing attack on the Palestinian
people in Gaza thinly veiled as an
operation to free the hostages when
there was a temporary ceasefire both
hostages held by Hamas and political
prisoners held by Israel were released
but not all What followed was the
continuing bombardment by the state of
Israel of schools hospitals churches MOS
universities historical sites and
residential areas as well as putting
back in prison people they had
previously released the death tollen
Gaza currently stands at more than
30,000 31,000 32,000 because the number
is bigger right now than it was when we
started approximately 70% of them being
women and children journalists murdered
and arrested and a man-made famine that
has consumed the lives of children and
increases as we debate whether or not
the Palestinian people are worthy of
food Water Shelter electricity or
medical care a ceasefire is necessary
for all of those things to end the
Bloodshed for everyone Dr King known for
being quoted in these walls and in this
country spoke out adamantly against War
racism and capitalism he was highly
criticized for his opposition to Vietnam
War it didn't stop him but King knew
what many of us claim yet not all of us
stand up to do it is always the right
thing to the right time to do what is
right the right thing to do in this
moment is to stand on the side of
history that honors all life and speaks
against the ongoing genocide which has
been supported by US Dollars our
resources have been used for the death
and destruction of Palestinian people
while right here there was a need for
food shelter Healthcare and more instead
of investing in helping people in need
our resources have been used to create a
wider Gap internationally of people in
need people suffering people
marginalized destroying instead of
building making millions unsafe let us
not be silent and complicit to a global
Cry For Justice the Irish were honored
in these very Halls two weeks ago let's
stand with Ireland who for St Patrick's
Day declared that Ireland will always
stand with Palestine and called for an
immediate ceasefire as a growing number
of cities across the US do let us too
send a clear message to Muslim Jewish
and Palestinians that it is safety for
all not just for some a cease fire
resolution is connected he does that if
this body does not believe the loss of
life at this scale is on and the ongoing
Siege is worthy of your attention then
what is necessary for it to matter to
you thank
you
Sean sha
young sha
Young
no okay oh okay
sea uh good evening everyone um I was
outside watching this live
um man I heard so much tonight I heard
so much from so many and and clearly um
to me this is not just an international
issue um this is an this is an issue
that impacts every single one of us in
this community and everyone that showed
up here to speak about their feelings
about what's happening um in Palestine
and Israel's um I feel that it's
important for me to speak up and on
behalf of a ceasefire um in Gaza we have
seen
day after day um indiscriminate boming
of people of women of men of children I
remember as many of us do October 7th
and what happened um to Israelis and the
slaughter by Hamas on that people and
the kidnapping of so many back into Gaza
and I watched day after day as Israel
took Vengeance on Gaza and bombed and bombed that Community
including the West Bank um to today
where we're have tens of thousands of
people that have been killed we are
simply saying as I stand here that a
ceasefire is necessary for all the
things that we want for peace for people
to have the things they need
for the exchange of hostages for any
kind of diplomatic I think moving
forward of this issue Cesar ceire has to
happen I'm not here to give a 75 year
history as you've heard so many others
speak about I'm looking look at the
situation today we're in March and we
have numbers reaching up to 30,000 plus
people killed and I think that our
community and this is like once again
not just an international our community
is responsible for our feelings and our
thoughts and this is what we're doing
today we've brought this to our we
brought this to our our local leaders
these are the issues that we have we
wanted to share them with you and let
you know this is where we stand we've
heard it from both sides of this from so
many people that are passionate and our
are feeling a lot of pain you all
represent the entire community and we
hope that you're listening with open
ears from every single person that spoke
up tonight there's a lot of pain in our
community the ceasefire is not going to
cause division this discussion isn't
causing division this is bringing us
together how else are we going to come
together unless we are communicating
having open dialogue with one another we
have to do this this is important and I
appreciate your time thank you thank
you
Muhammad Rya
Mohammad good evening everyone thank you
Mayor Gary McCarthy Madame speaker and
other council member for giving me the
opportunity to speak here before I start
I wanted to read a article posted on CNN
on November 8 2023 an eyewitness to
genocide this isn't a propaganda from
hamus this isn't a statement from
Palestinian Authority this this account
cannot be spared by Israeli government
and its collaborators this is an
American nurse from medicine s fronti
speaking of a firsthand experience of
being in Gazza there's no place in
there's no safe place in Gazza she says
there there were children with just
massive massive um burn down their faces
down their necks all over the limbs they
are being discharged of these camps with
no running water there are 50,000 more
than 50,000 people are at Camp right now
and only four toilets and they are the
children they have these Fresh open
wounds and perial
ambulations so I encourage I encourage
everyone to watch this um interview in
CNN it was posted on November 8
2023 my my name is Riyad and I'm a
resident of his conect and I moved here
about two two and a half years ago from
uh Brooklyn New York City I used to live
in borrow park in Brooklyn and which is
a heavily Jewish uh Jewish neighborhood
I can tell you most of my then Jewish
neighbors don't support what is
happening in gadza right now and they
want to Cee fire I chose esan because it
is peaceful people love peace and and a
apart from many other great things a lot
of families been moving here because
people are very friendly they want peace
so I don't want I I do not want my
children to go up seeing and witnessing
what is happening in gadza many of us
might have a question how and why this
war was started well we all know the
answer but it's not about how it was
started or whose fault it was this is a
long debate Palestinian people have been
suffering for many years and faced you
know they are forced out of their home
for 75 years to or close to 80 years so
like I have mentioned earlier this is a
long debate and we do not want to go to
that debate what we want is very simple
just a ceasefire so that Aid such as
medical and food supplies can get into
gadza I'm asking our fellow Jewish
Community if it was other way around and
Je would Jewish
people wouldn't they want a ceas fire if
they were the one that got killed by the
other other side of course they would
right so why I'm asking for a ceasefire
in Gazza the innocent Gazza resident
don't deserve to die and be killed like
this why should they be suffering
because of someone else we not we need
to think about it I'm I'm fasting for
about you know 11 and 13 years um today
is the fifth fast that I have I was
fasting and I just broke my first year
with a with a date but those people in
gadza the kid the CH children the
women's they have been like fasting for
months days months if not years you know
especially since no October 7th they
have been they have very very limited
food there's no there's no a
being got into gadza so I don't I do not
want my children to suffer like this and
to go through like this I don't think so
any of us here would want to see our
children go through this as well so if
you don't I'm asking and requesting you
your honorable chair to pass a
resolution for a ceire in GZA this is
the least we can do for our future
generation and I'm sure none of us want
to see and our future generation to see
what is happening in gadza and by waking
up every day to see the people the
children the innocent children and women
they are being killed in GZA for no
reason I need you to summarize sir Alban
County thank you Alban County and many
other neighboring country um County have
already passed a resolution for ceire
and gadza so I'm asking you and
requesting you our requesting our es
city council to join them and pass this
resolution for ceasefire thank you so
much thank
[Applause]
you for the last time I'm going to call
Ria Salah if you're
here if
not I have no one else signed up to
speak for the public comment of City
business so I declare this public
comment
closed this time any miscellaneous
business of this Council miscellaneous
business of the
council
mayor thank you madam president
appreciate everyone coming out tonight
and uh understand the level of emotion
that's attached to that and uh again we
all hope that uh things will be
different different and that peace will
prevail in the end thank you madam
president
okay was there a council member that
wanted to speak
okay what is your name
sir oh oh Peter
okay let's see it looked like Peter Cook
who already
spoke
Peter look yes here you are cross out
but here you are I apologize for that we
had a lot of
duplicates thank you
um I just want to say that
uh I speak from a personal moral
practical human
perspective um I was taught Thou shalt
not kill when I was growing up and uh in
church I took pece studies in
college uh if I'm in a bar with two guys
fighting
um I will step in and say hey guys
what's the matter and and try and break
it up rarely to get anything seriously
done there um I would not give them a KN
one a knife and another one a
gun
um 55 years years ago I decried the
killing of innocent people in in uh
Vietnam and these hundreds of thousands
of innocent
Vietnamese died and um I don't think
that brought peace to
Vietnam I decried the September 11th
attack I asked my
Governor Schumer and Clinton at the time
my Senators not to attack Iraq and
Afghanistan and syri Syria and Yemen uh
they ignored my
request um and actually had me arrested
for trying to talk to them and over a
100 people were killed for every one
death on September 11th and peace is
still not obtained
there I decry the October 7th attack by
Hamas I also decry the killing of 100
innocent Palestinian children by Israeli
military for every single one killed on
SE on October 7th 100 to
one
um Gandhi said Peace is not the target
peace is the way I ask that all moral
and practical people call for permanent
ceasefire now thank you thank
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you thank you chuie is there anyone else
that whose name I did not call that
signed up to speak because we did have a
lot of duplicates that we crossed out
okay with that then I declare this
public comment closed really
closed uh we've had heard from There's
No Business from the council members
we've heard from the mayor um I just
want to thank everyone for coming out
tonight I know that everyone is very
passionate about their particular
position in this and uh we've heard a
lot tonight from from everyone that came
to speak so we appreciate you coming and
uh coming out I know that we did receive
an email council members from Dr shakima
yes and I did respond and so my
particular position is this is that if there's going to be a conversation
then all voices need to be in the same
room having a conversation on both sides
of it as opposed to us just hearing
individually and then um moving that
forward so do the doctor asked us for a
meeting I personally said that I am
willing to have that meeting and attend
that meeting I'm not willing to call
that meeting I'm willing to attend that
meeting provided both sides of the uh
people on both sides of the issue are
present because hearing a one-sided
discussion is not helpful so that's
where I am right now with that I again
appreciate you all for coming out and again there is no resolution
currently before this Council but thank
you for call coming tonight and to for
hearing your voices heard and with that
i' ask for a motion to
adjourn second okay motion by Mr Mudan
second by Mr Mancini all those in favor
I we are adjourned have a good night
thank
you I have
a organizations I'm involved
with
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