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council committee meeting for Monday May
6 2024 the first thing on the item on
the agenda is a
presentation for the adoption of the Al
and crane streets complete Street study
uh Mr
W thank
you
um as you see on your screens the uh
City's connected receive funding through
a linkage study program linkage studies
are administered by the capital region
Transportation Council Council formerly
known as the Capital District
transportation committee uh they went
through a rebranding due to some
confusion with the cbta so um linkage
studies are um ideas federally funded
where the idea is to do a study and to
see um the merits of a project and to
try to flush out a project prior to
going actually for any kind of federal
funding
to hit
this there we go so before this we had a
project team uh project team was cap
region Transportation Council the uh
city is connected Alex fire Rec for team
fromo syvia uh myself and uh even
Christen de when she was here we had a
design team with fuss and O'Neal landard
Studios Mutual design great Manning
engineering and then we had a study
advisory committee study advisory
committee is is very important um as
they're usually made up of of the
stakeholders and the investors in the
area um they are essentially that bridge
between the public necessarily and the
city staff uh so we had a meeting with
the study advisory committee as well um
to a brief agenda overview with the
existing conditions Al Street Crane
Street christler remain have
Concepts um I'll show you the study area
probably have came before so the study
area you see here is Albany Street from
verer Avenue to Brandy line Crane Street
from Broadway up to O strander Norwood
uh Chrysler Avenue and Maine as you see
uh so most St primar on Pleasant but
then there is that Corridor and
Hamilton um so what is a complete Street uh is where we no longer
just think of a roadway as a place for
vehicles so a roadway is a place for
pedestrians Vehicles bicyclists dog
walkers it is a people place for people
to sit it should be inviting it should
be safe um complete Street studies um
really came around in the last decade um
if you've seen intersections that were
built in the 80s usually that was before
complete streets that's why a lot of
things that were built in the 70s and '
80s come out very cold a lot of concrete
not a lot of those complete streets
thing elements in it last complete
streets study that we did was the
linkage study for right in Maine and we
are implementing that now so you know
this is something that we are familiar
with um safety assessment so working
with the SPD we did uh you know safety
assessment of crashes in the areas so
you see the the left figure that is the Crane Street Corridor and the upper
right that that red and uh blue line is
Albany Street so you see it was a high
segment of crashes 20% of injury right
angle uh and then they had the BCE
crashes uh greater number on Aly Street
which is 14 key um and you know we like
to say that these corridors these are commercial corridors in the
neighborhoods and we are seeing
investments into them so you see the
library um we have the new depal housing
project Mosaic Apartments uh so there
are things happening on all of these
areas these are commercial corers um and
one of the things that we're trying to
break out of like we like to call it is
this vicious vicious circle of Po
walking and driving commission so if you
see up here you know everything has to
work together to really make it an
impact if you have no curbs then you
have people who Park up on the sidewalks
then you have people that don't walk on
the sidewalk so they may walk in the
road uh if you don't have the street
trees and you have what visually
perceived is a wide Corridor so parking
uh you know not parking but speeds may
go up so you know these are some uh
sample conditions along the corridor of
what we have and then you know this is
the impacts we're saying unsafe walking
uh lack of shade really unsightly you
know that's one of the things that we
get is that you know some of our street
corridors are unsightly a lot of
increased speeds uh and you know promote
speeding crashs and uh and bicyclist
don't like it as much so one of the
biggest things that we always do and I
think SCCY really stands out when we do
our projects is our community engagement
um we really strive with Community
engagement a lot of shetes um there was
even more information in this
presentation which I kind of took out
because I wanted to make this you know a
quicker presentation and all the
information is within the report itself
but these are just some samples of what
we did we do a lot with interaction
putting stickers on boards trying to see
um what people really want to see out of
the community and out of the project so
you know how we have our public Outreach
we did a lot of public Outreach things
we did meetings in both Hamilton Hill
and Mount Pleasant we did not pick one
location and say come to this we wanted
to make sure that we had locations in
both neighborhoods so we met at the
library we also met at Community
Ministries on all street so we went
there we also had our stakeholder
meetings there which were valuable um
and then additionally we conducted like
we talked about the more Focus
stakeholders meetings and the
stakeholders were with um neighborhood leaders and uh like it says
Emergency Services we met with both the
police and the fire department we met
with the CDTA we've had meetings with
the school district so we really wanted
to make sure that we engage with
everyone in this project um there you
see a picture of morrice you know he was
out with the development tent you know
we're really trying to get to people one
of the things that we have to do is we
have to find you you know we set up
these tents on the corridors and we go
right to you and we try to engage with
you just because we know that it's
difficult for people to understand and
coming to us so you see that here
collaborating with youth uh we work with
youth and we help hand out Flyers Flyers
try to drive you to the website when you
get to the website try to get some
interaction from them uh to fill out
some of our survey about what they'd
like to see um this is another uh sh on
Albany Street where we were just trying
to get people who were on Albany Street
to go through and and tell us what they
thought of their Concepts um and then we
have uh this was the one another one on
Crane Street where we have this was out
in front of the library where we're
still trying to get people to put down
their ideas uh and see what this
Corridor could
be so uh I will say go into the design
recommendations I will say one of the
outcomes uh that I will say with Albany
Street in particular was Al Street a lot
of people on that road felt that Albany
Street was the backyard of State Street
that State Street was the front the
facades the businesses and a lot of Aly
Street was just the rear end and the
access and the parking so we did we did
try to take note of that so we have our
design representations uh like I said
before and all the graphical uh
information all the backup to this
there's you know numerous appendices and
things that can be found in the report
itself so the first road that we start
with is Aly Street I apologize for the
size because we just did it but I'll
just kind of summarize here that let
again a lot of people just felt like Al
Street wasn't focused um here what we
have is we're going to start on beater
and we're just going to work our way up
to Brandy Wine so if you can see uh on
the right one of the things that we're
looking to implement was what's called a
climbing Lane for bicycles so we don't
have a lot of real estate on Albany
Street so coming down Albany Street
keeping up with traffic and feeling
comfortable go is fine but going up
Albany Street where you're probably a
little bit more struggling as opposed to
a car to get up that grade we proposed a
climbing Lane which you can see on the
bottom right climbing Lane goes all the
way from verer up to Craig Street uh you
can see another example here and at
Craig street we would then transition to
our Craig Street Corridor where we're
going to have our cycle track and more
bike infrastructure uh and then
something like this we did meet with the
owner of Newest Lunch because Newest
Lunch is one of the highest volume
turnover of parking and we talked to him
about how we try widen and not impact
his uh his parking so he was a active
par participant in this um one of the
things too you'll see is a theme as we
go is a lot of trees curb and sidewalk
um that's just a theme throughout that
having as much trees curb and sidewalk
as
possible um so here you see Albany
Street going up to Craig you still see
the climbing Lane strike parking another
thing you're going to see a lot of is
striped parking um the striped parking
gives that visual cue that the lane
isn't twice as wide as it needs to be
the strike parking shows that this is
the lane and this is the parking and to
try to really visually neck you down um
then you have the next segment which is
Craig the hin and you see there's not
too much going on here it's just more
streetcape trying to widen the parking
you can see one of the things that we
fight on all of these is the utility
poles you can see these unique little
bump outs it's a concept I'm sure that
I'd have to talk to Paul about something
like that because of the you know
uniqueness of having that but trying to
move utility poles and utility poles on
all these corridors are you know they
are a hindrance especially look of the
wires and things like that and how they
also affect you from actually planting
trees um then when we get up to stuben uh anyone's familiar with the
corridor stuen is kind of a transitional
Street on Albany uh stuen down uh to
verer it's more of your mixed use
commercial Corridor you have a lot of
businesses and things going on but
stuen to Brandy Wine it is mostly
residential multifam homes and that's
where you're seeing a lot of parking on
the sidewalk and a lot of the the
quality of the neighborhood just isn't
up to up to task because of you know
some of these things that we're talking
about so you if you can see that we're
really trying to focus on establishing
that straight curved line planting grass
trees and really trying to reestablish
the sidewalk on Aly street so then as we
move to um Crane Street Crane Street we
tried and we talked about you know
Craner same thing big hill going all the
way up not enough real estate to put in
something like a climbing Lane but still
to put in there the the parking area
striping and some Street trees and and
Landscaping um and as you see as we go
up that's really the focus on this
Corridor is to just better Define the
curve lines the parking lanes and and
try to add those Street trees into the
corridor so it is a business Corridor um
we did work work with Metroplex on this
Corridor as we get out because they are
always involved in our in our commercial
and business districts but not too many
substantial changes to Crane Street uh
as you go now this portion here you'll
see the intersection the intersection is
actually part of the project that we're
actively pursuing right now which is to
improve the crane price to main
intersection that project is underd
design and that was funded partially
through a Sam Grant from Santa Barbara's
office so what you see in the upper
right corner that or some configuration
of that is actually taking place because
that is probably the most important
Lynch pin in all of this is to make sure
we get that intersection safe because it
is a very unique and I wouldn't say a
great intersection in the city um next
we
have I'm sorry
crane we on crane again this is just
continuing up with the same so I just
kind of interest of time so so price Avenue was an interesting one that
we're hoping to do sooner than later if
anyone's familiar with Chrysler Avenue is a very odd Street
between Norwood and Crane Street it is a
two-way road that is extremely narrow um
we met with the fire department the
police department and the school
district and we are looking to make
Chrysler Avenue one way from the
intersection crane to norw um and that
would allow us you see you see how tight
that top visual is with the two vehicles
in the parking we we are looking to keep
the width uh do a better job defining it
stripe parking and have it one way uh
out of the intersection not into the
intersection um that does work that was
the preferable way for emergency
services because they're mostly coming
from the intersection in so they don't
have to loop around they can actually go
and then the Bus Loop um luckily they
have uh both Maple and norw they can Loop it okay around there so we
did meet with the school district's bus
because this is the area that they're
looking to turn into the Freshman
Academy so we wanted to be with them but
when it comes to recommendations this is
one that is higher on the list and also
with a lower cost because you know we
can make it one way with just an act of
legislation uh and some
signs um similar with Main Avenue Main
Avenue this is a kind of a hold over
from the Craig main study but we really
wanted to look into this one more Main
Avenue we have two concepts uh that we
haven't decided on what's going to I
just want to also say that what we're
doing today is it's a study it's a
grouping of ideas and guidelines to go
forward this is not a commitment of
funding this is not anything that you
know there would still be design and all
so on Main Avenue we couldn't really
make a decision on which way to go so we
left both in so you see here we call
this option three on Main Avenue which
was to um narrow the road a little bit
eliminate the on street parking between
where you see Crane and will it add some
Street trees uh and then on the op will
at the forest where there was some
parking they Remain the parking but they
still try to widen it so we can get the
street trees we can see the unique
little bump out for the utility poles so
on this one you know the pedestrians are
on the sidewalk and everyone else shares
the road on the other option that we had
uh option two you can see that the trees
are removed but we have more of a shared
path uh trying to allow a spot for
bicycles um we were trying to do
something where we could have a oneway
with bicycles in the roadway with a
shared Lane but it got very complex uh
because then the other way was to send
them on to Forest Road Forest Road is a
very busy road um with the bridge
traffic and everything we weren't
comfortable sending them there so we
were trying to find the best way to
connect Craig Street where Mount
Pleasant and pleas Valley Elementary
School are to the corridor so this was
one of the options that we have here was
to just narrow the road and try to widen
the sidewalk as much as possible to get
some of that space for bicycles so
that's why with this one there's the the
two options um implementation like I
said this is It's a study it's something
that we wanted to do we feel that crane
Albany and and cray we really feel that
this was uh an area that we wanted to
focus on that's why we've investing so
much time and resources into the area um
what we have right here I know it's hard
to read this is our implementation chart
um it has rough cost figures the ISS is is that you know cost figures are
okay today but by the time these things
are implemented they're you know they're
old um we are looking to do like I said
cryor Avenue uh when we do part of the
crane main intersection however if you
can look cost for things like Albany
Street you're you're over $7 million
because Albany Street I mean it's a long
Corridor it's commercial Corridor Albany
Street is very long Crane Street
similarly it's probably three4 size $5
million so um the priority ation that we
said is we really wanted to focus on
Maine and Chrysler we think that those
have the most overlap between all the
projects and they also are one of the
lower cost and then move into kind of
discussing what we want to do with
Albany and Crane Street however I would
say that there isn't at this Venture and
this you know a an application or
anything that we have to go forward with
it um it's just it's kind of just an
idea of what we could do uh when
necessary and some of the things that we
talked about too were um you know local
funding uh you know me and the team here
were pretty good at finding funding
sources so we usually get together but
you know not to not to say Craig Street
did take us a while to put together what
they call the funding quilt for that
project and it end up being a it's going
to be about a $10 million project when
it's all said and done the dot just uh
added some more money to it to fix the
bridge more it's their Bridge we're
going to help fix it they're going to
pay for it um so there's a lot in there
and then we have the idea of you know
maintenance uh snow pling maintenance
tree maintenance you know trying to make
sure we put the right things in place in
the right areas uh when we get there um
you I would love to see less utility
lines and more trees but that's just not what we have sometimes in the city
um and they do get in the way of trying
to you know have a
more green and wash landscape when we
get into our commercial corridors I
always know that I would love to see you
know Eastern Avenue with less lines you
know and less and less power lines and
things like that so this is a quick
15min recap uh if anybody has any
questions now I could I could take them
over what what we're talking about so um
first of all I want to thank you and the
team that you been working with I know
this has been year project that's G
years for all the work and it's um I'm
happy to see it's finally coming to um
for fruition and I also um want to thank
you for making sure that the community
was is was engaged I think that's huge
part of making sure what the end result
is is something that the community you
know supports and it just works the
people's lives and I think that the the
team being you know with mutual design
and Jo how and everyone coming uh from
the Craig Street project really has a a
field for how to engage with the
community and I really think from that
the SKC has been doing a really cutting
Ed's job of really trying to engage
people and do something different you
know uh and that that even showed for
Craig Street where we had a uh public
meeting there and we had you know the
involvement there you're trying to pull
people from the community and uh and
we're we're making we're making a good
effort with it but you know and these
are these are good good results and good
conversations absolutely I attended a
few of the meetings so you did get a a
good Bo out um I just wanted to quickly
ask so the timeline is that we will
start so the timeline
is I guess it's it's indecisive in a way
there are overlap in here so the the
intersection we had funding for
previously it was kind of a Lynch pin
the intersection so we're going to work
on that the reason that we were waiting
on the intersection to start this was
that we wanted some of the
recommendations to be done and approved
before we really started so for instance
if we're going to redesign the crane
Chrysler intersection and we're going to
implement what's recommended here which
is a one way of chry order the
intersection gets designed to make sure
that it has a configur for a one way
that we tell the engineers that upon the
completion of this project price will be
one way if the council were to say you
know what we're not comfortable with one
way we like to keep it two-way then I go
in that direction um so that's why we
kind of were waiting for this point to
get to the next point so we've kind of
been in a sit and wait perspective uh
Main Street we were really hoping that
this study would find a way to make Main
Street one way and Forest one way but
the more we got into it it was just very
complex to do it um so that we were
trying these other options so Maine is
probably going to be the most difficult
decision of them all but it should not
affect the intersection because I
believe it's going to be two-way either way we do
it
questions uh so regarding the Chrysler
one lane uh with one side of parking do
you or can you speak to whether there'll
be a stronger on safety or parking CU I
know definitely having both sides it's
very tight and it's dangerous at times
but making this I think will improve
just those conditions especially for the
workers both
sides you can't park on both sides now I
believe I think you w because it's it's
you can we're not going to change the
side of the parking we're just going to
disallow to because if we were saying if
a school bus were to go down that road
and you're coming the other way you have
to drive up on the sidewalk you have to
get out of the way because the lanes are
just too narrow and it's unfortunate how
the development I'm not familiar with it
but when you're coming down chry from
say reram or Altimont Avenue it's
appropriately with when you hit Norwood
it's a hard transition to you know you
lose about 8 ft of Lane width and so it
will be a um what were we trying to say
a transition for the for the
neighborhood but I just you know talking
everyone and seeing it we think it's a
smarter move and what we'll probably end
up doing is making sure that anything we
do with the intersection does not
preclude us from ever changing it either
going the other way you know you can see
that um for instance you know I've
gotten a lot of questions about Franklin
Street right outside and Franklin and
Clinton people have asked why is there a
signal facing the wrong way if this is a
one-way Street well part of the dri was
a study to make sure that we know what
we're doing around this area and I did
not want to build a brand new $200,000
signal that was not capable of of doing
that um so similar to this is we're
going to make sure that you know modern
controllers everything's going to be new
that we can do that but um we we do
think that that's the best way to go
right now just given the width of
price Miss I noticed that there was
someone from the school district
involved in the on the committee I was
just wondering you know what they think
of the whole peace up by Pleasant Valley
and
Forest so the school district um I I've
learned a lot about school district
lately in some of the meetings because
I've been involved with their
infrastructure structure meetings and a
couple of these um under uh you know Joe
deao who I grew up with and you know and
some of the me we've talked to we've
been talking about I've met some of
their principles and some of their
administrators and it seems to be that
postco um transportation is not the same
that it was preo there is a lot more
drop offs and then this is a trend
probably Nationwide and it's leading to
a lot more confusion um so for instance
one of the things that came up during
this study when we talked about one way
was not necessarily price for one way it
was um the school the roads around the
school particularly when you're talking
about forest and how we can manage it
because of the amount of conflict areas
that happened parents dropping kids off
both ways cars stopping um there were
some neighbors who brought up the
concerns about traffic in those areas
because of it so it was a different look
similarly um I'm just to tell you this
is the best example of how things are
changing prior to co we did a federal
aid project on gildin Avenue gildin
Avenue there's an elementary school at
the end of gild Avenue um Name Escapes
me right now um they had zero
involvement and zero issues with the
complete streets project that we did
they said it's great we look forward to
the road being paved thank you very much
now postco um the city in cooperation
with the crtc in the town of roddam is
doing a second study because roddam
wants to improv Curry Road and the
school district reached out to me and
said we want to be involved we have a
lot of issues going on on the road with
drop offs so same quor same studies
different time frame different reaction
so we are looking at possibly teaming up
on some kind of a traffic study um to do
it because they weren't as concerned
with the one way as they were forest and
some of their drop off areas and uh so
that's something that was that that was
something that we took out of this and
they are now now actually participating
in the uh reram study with the city with
crtc
so there was one did you say that there
would be no on street parking on will
Street was there one street that there's certain blocks that are narrower
so the first block of Willet I don't
believe we had
any so if you see here the first block
Clos us to the bank there was we looked
like we're trying to eliminate and make
the sidewalks a little wider to include
those trees and then as you get back
more into the neighborhoods we would the tough thing about Main Avenue is
honestly that no one I don't believe no
one really lives on Main Avenue everyone
lives off the Main Avenue and parks on
Main Avenue the houses are actually
facing all the perpendicular streets for
the most part um so it's kind of an
interesting street but people still are
utilizing it for parking taking off stre
parking away it is a is is an issue cuz
that's what we were looking to do if we
were going to put a bike lane we're
going to put some kind of infrastructure
something has to go which is either
going to be a bike lane I mean the
parking lane or a driving lane so are
you talking about all Main Avenue
because if you start main like a Forest
Road there are definitely houses where
people live there this houses on the ho houses on the whole lake there are
houses there okay the density is not
anywhere greatest but but there're
definitely so that's what we're going to
leave we're going to proposing the leave
parking oh okay but just this one block
like what you can't see on this one
particular block is that there is like a
very large parking lot for trusco right
there and you know we were talking about
how we can you know manage that um but
that block then when you do the next one
is you're into on street parking so I
know with Trustco they had issues with
people parking in their lot so that
would definitely be a conversation we
have if we eliminate the
parking anyone
else so at this point in time um you're
asking for us us to to actually adopt
the correct that's the the final step in
the study is for us to actually close it
with the crtc is to have the city
council adopt the study and that way it
would be essentially approved that the
information here is accurate as approved
okay so we would um actually take this
up in City development planning unless
someone has any some input or questions
or
concerns right we'll take it up in City
development plan for the actual
adoption thank you Mr wall thank you
uh the next committee is Public Safety
First committee is Public Safety so I'd
like to call the word of the Public
Safety Committee we have three items on
the agenda tonight the first of which is
the grant award for law enforcement
equipment and officer Wellness
uh good
afternoon on of the city of s Police
Department we're asking and hoping that
you will accept two grants that were
awarded to us first is a technical team
Grant from New York state division uh
excuse me New York state division
Criminal Justice Services they have
awarded us
$75,000 to purchase equipment in support
the Department's counterterrorism
meths and there is no matching fund
required for that
one thank you question or comments he
none have a motion so
second second all those in favor hi on
to the second agenda item it's a grant
award the Tactical Team Grant
prr I'm sorry I've got it in reverse the
first one I spoke of was the Tactical
Team Grant so the second one that's my
apolog going to be for the law
enforcement and Equipment of Officer
around us no so that one is also by the
New York state division Criminal Justice
Services they have of the city uh SP
Police Department $70,000 to support the
department office of wellness program by
making improvements in the gym and again
there are no matching funds required for
that thank you any questions or comments
on motion I'll move it second all in
favor Hi and then last item is going to
be the appointment
ofate thanks the last agenda item is
going to be the appointment of Harin
Andre the civilian police police review
board thank you Mr chairman uh
recommendation of the municipal Housing
Authority board submitted to the council
appreciate your favor
consideration any questions or comments
May none may have a motion so second all
those in favor and then before we
adjourn I know during our last council
meeting uh the league of wom voters
spoke about their nomy I didn't know if
there was a formal update regarding
that uh hear other items unless there are any
other items before Public Safety may
have motion to adjourn so move second
all in favor hi we are thank you I'd
like to call the finance committee to
order on the fourth item is a grant
award Financial year 2021 cyber security
grant
program Mr may can take
us yes this is an
award uh
this which one this one
is it's pretty this this
50,000 yes this is actually the second
one of these that we've
gotten and uh G thean and the team
implementing that some of that has been
some of the uh online testing that's put
out for people uh to review appropriate
protocols for you get a phone call you
get an email you get other uh contacts
uh we also do testing through that to
send things out to see what people's
reaction is hopefully training people to
just be ever Vigilant and they
other components of that that I wouldn't
discuss in a public session if the
council wants further details we can get
into that or have ban come in in a other
time and do a more detailed
update and you got a questions seeing n
i i just comment that I think those
trainings are really good and I've
learned a lot um by doing those
trainings so I think it's you know I'm thrilled that we get a chance to
participate in those as well
any other comment saying none may have a
motion to move this item forward so
moved second all in favor I I the next
item is a restore New York round eight
Grant application we had a public
hearing on the 22nd of April and I will
hand us over to Mayor McCarthy for an
update uh again this is
uh one where we've been fairly
successful in these grants and now just
looking for a resolution in support from
the
Council questions comment seeing none
you have a motion to move this item
forward so moved second all in favor I I
any other business for finance may have
a motion to adjourn so moved second all
in favor I Mr you took the order government oh
okay call to order government Ops on the
first item is um discussion amending
section 161 regarding residential policy
ways M thank you Mr chairman again
uh here went through some of the
scenarios we're looking at uh again have
to come back to the council for some of
the decisions in terms of size a
container some modifications in terms of
what we're going to collect and then
also uh possible variances in the fee
structure so I don't know if uh
anybody's
any input from residents or uh ideas
that you may have but again we uh remain
open and it's a dynamic process as we uh
move forward to refine what's in the
code and uh we have a practical and cost
effective
implementation uh the modifications our
waste
collection you said we have one or no I
said as we have one it's still open and
Dynamic
process any discussions we're holding
this for two more weeks is that correct
all yeah I'm not I'm not ready to move
forward on the specific proposal it's
still ongoing disc discussion correct
okay so are we at some point at some
point we're going to I mean we can
gather information like anecdotally from
people but are we at some point going to
pull together um some public forum
whether it be the neighborhood
associations or or specifically for this
so that we can kind of get um some input
from the community and um
additionally we are with the in terms of
public notice I know that we are essent
already we we're starting to um find
people what's already in the code that
we if we put your garbage out to early
we're already doing that uh I think we
really public um having some public
service announcements are
ke to making sure that this is
successful so I think we need to like
have that again some still to narrow it
down and use the example of the size of
the container so we've talked about
different size uh garbage cans whether
you do uh certain size plastic bags
clear bags uh opaque bags uh some of
that we have to come together I think
conceptually and say we're going to talk
about a 32 gallon garbage can and when
we go out people are going to say yes oh
that's great or
no we want a bigger one we want a
smaller one and it's to have that uh
outline in place Mr O'Brien has uh gone
through and outline some potential
modifications to the code that was
circulated a
ccil uh the last cycle cycle before and
uh
can uh look forward to working in a
collective manner as we bring it all
together but as you point out the public
education is key to it it is and I I
just want to make sure we don't lose s
of the whole jackpot thing which is
really what got us here yes and that we
make sure that we are addressing that in
some way as opposed to you know like
spreading it all out because I don't
think that'll do away with the jackpots
or what major piles of trash so in case
you don't understand that that term is
for the major piles of trash they're out
on a contined
basis thank you Mr any go ahead please
so I definitely had time to go through
more in depth and I appreciate the
volunteering this information I think my
biggest Focus areas where what's the
additional uh work hours look like for
code enforcement who are ready appears
as they're replacing some lost
experience I imagine they're best
intentions in mind but definitely this
added element I imagine is going to to
have burden on on their role and
responsibilities um I think to your
point of identifying what that ideal
trash can looks like I think it's uh
seeing if the city is in a position to
help subsidize or if there's any
opportunity to help some of our renters
where I can say myself as a homeowner I
invested in trash cans because I think I
understood the importance was making
sure I had uh reliable receptacles but
I've heard of trash canes being taken uh
so I I think it's understanding that
reality for some of our city members um
and then also I I want to just point out
I thought that excess solidly stickers
was a really nice way to offer residents
an opportunity to just have that ability
to put out that excess um in advance but
making it more available outside of the
city FKS office so I don't know if we're
able to tag in with local libraries or
if we're able to have a partnership with
some of our local groceries just where
people frequently go I think some to Mr
W's point of being in the community but
also being engaging I think it's going
to be important simar to that public um
volunteering of information making sure
that we don't just rely on the community
come to us but we truly have to make
sure we're going to
them I agree with you completely on that
for the ease of
access makes the
implementation uh that much smoother so
it's doing the education and you can't
say we're going to have a sticker system
everybody agrees to it and then the
stickers aren't
available you know so
it's and again the general uh consensus
when we had meetings is that we would do
a period of soft or transitional
implementation so that uh if we went to
a a
rigid number for the size of the
container the might be a year time frame
where we would you know we' recommend
people have a certain size but allow
them the opportunity to uh kind of
depreciate their
existing
uh uh trash can and purchase a new
one thank you any y go ahead um I just
want to say that you know with the new
trash and and and when we roll it out
softly and it goes on yesterday I was at
a big chain store and I was buying
things and I remember when we weren't
going to get bags any longer and I said
to myself how are we going to deal with
this but in the Walmart everybody's got
their own bags and they're taking them
out and they're whatever so I guess it
just comes with time and and we'll be
able to to work through it like we did
with
bags any other comments okay so we have
the back the next item is Step 4.2 o c
for transmission line
Mayar this is National Grid is asking
for a easement their upgrading from
their high voltage lines they have a
major transmission line that is
immediately adjacent to uh one of the
parcels property that we own in the town
of reram so they're looking for an
easement to come onto our property a
little bit this is the site that we have
entered into
a uh potential
sale for a solar site uh it's been held
up because reran put a moratorium in
place uh they had originally offered one
number and gone back to them and they've
upped that by about
20% uh so I think we're at the best
number and I believe that this will will
actually increase the value of our
property in roddam because having this
transmission line there and they also
have a major substation that is
uh can't immediately adjacent to it or
slightly skewed from what our property
is and for all practical purposes this
is unbuildable property in the town of
reram go ahead please so the 61 $ is
once or every year
once any other
questions seeing none as a motion to
move this item
forward second all in favor I I any
other business or government
operation seeing none ask motion to
adjoin so Mo second all in favor I like to to order City development and
planning uh the first item on the agenda
is to authorize the amendment of a rable
commit 682 for social on state for a
sign that's going to will overhang the
cities right away at 4:47 State Street
Mr
W thank you um this is more of a
modification to an existing rocal permit
um there was an issue with the owner's
name with their insurance
as it outlines that the what does it say
here it just didn't match so they had to
change it soal on State uh so that we
could actually issue the permit so this
is a modification to permit
682 uh to who the issuer is
okay any questions
com move this second all those in favor
I uh the second item is to authorize
issuance of reval permit 683 to MX MTX
group the sign the overhang C right away
at 400 State Street this is a sign at
400 State Street for a new tenant MTX
group uh it will overhang the side
doorway that is up the block from the
bowai cinema main entrance um this sign
just to let you know is almost a pair
with the next sign so if you were to
look at the rendering that's there the
two signs both are to be located above
the door at 400 State Street
so this is the first for MTX group
okay questions comments motion so moved
second all those in
favor item number three auth authorize
the issuance of reval permit 684 to Mau
Q for assignment overhanging cities
right away at 400 State straight so this
is a second sign m q uh will also be
utilizing the same door on 400 State
Street this sign will be set up uh
adjacent to the other
sign com motion
so second all in favor I item number
four award contract connected police
locker and toilet room
renovation toal amount 5
57145 Mr W so uh this is a um facilities
project uh anyone who has been to the
police station knows that the existing
locker and bathroom facilities have not
been improved uh since the original
construction of that building um the
facilities are worn with regard to the
women's facilities they are inadequate
and the station does not have any gender
neutral areas um in it it is a men's
room it is a women's room it is not have
any facilities for anyone who does not
identify as one of the other um so this
uh working with the architect and the
chief and the the PD uh we came up with
this concept essentially just renovating
uh the existing men's uh bathroom
facilities and showers um all the work
is essentially taking place in the same
footprint we are constructing a new uh
gender neutral uh area with locker rooms
and handicap accessible showers uh
taking some space out of what was used
as a kind of a break room uh so we'll be
doing that and then we will be expanding
the women's um shower and locker room
facility into uh the adjacent men's room
and utility room um to make a larger
facility for the women that is more
appropriate uh and and up to up to the
standards that we like to think the
police and all of our emergency fire
live to so uh it's a good project as you
see there's only three um mechanical
electrical and plumbing we did not get a
bid uh for the uh for the mechanical um
we did reach out to some Mechanical
Contractors they simply weren't aware it
was out so it is out to bid right now um
similar to what happened with the pool
if we do not have a bid the second time
that I will work with Sarah and try to
negotiate with someone similar than we
did with the pool but we think that we
have some interested parties and we did
have a meeting already about it and
hopefully um we get it but these are for
the mechanical electrical employment any
questions comments I'll entertain a
motion so second all those in favor I
thank
you next item on the agenda is a
ceremonial resolution of disc connect
the Heritage Foundation Mr Juro yes so
may is on National Historic preservation
month so um the uh Gloria nern and um
folks will be at the uh our meeting next
uh next Monday uh to uh to receive this
resolution so
questions comments I'll move it second
all in favor I thank you next uh is a
ceremony resolution recognizing teacher
appreciation
month U thank you um so this week marks
the national uh teacher appreciation
week I'm really excited to make a
recommendation that we present and
recognize Lisa Fagan as one of our great
and very passionate Educators within the
city questions comments a motion I'm
mooving second all those in
favor thank you item number seven is
being pulled from the
agenda item number eight would be a
ceremonial resolution of recognizing
Alisa adamac for her many years of
service to the city of SK Le she uh as
you know well she actually retired on
April 20th it's hard to to pin her down
to uh ask her and she's very excited
about doing this so any questions or
comments I'll move it second all those in favor I thank
you and item number nine is review of
the addition of section 2 26411 3 of
disconnected city code regarding the
regulation and location of smoke shop
big shop cooka lounges and big
consumption businesses public hearing
was held on April 22nd uh Mr
Raj um
so we public hearing um we're looking
for the council's input on the proposed
legislation does the council have any um
changes any
thoughts no no changes from
my okay so um the Planning
Commission uh passed a resolution and it
will be issuing a memo
so um that will come next legislative
cycle so perhaps um hold on this until
next legislative cycle and then we
consider it in conjunction with the memo
from the Planning Commission from the
county from the county from the City
Planning Commission plan yeah all right
we'll hold it for two we'll bring it
back in two weeks Mr are we expecting
any from the
county I've not been uh told anything
about the from the county so no
I thought we didn't we have to go send
this to the county I think did we not
send this to the county for
recommendation yes I think we did we did
and they they responded didn't want
anything didn't have
anything it was up to us we have that
then you'll have that for us as well
that will be for next week I'll include
that yes okay all right okay we'll bring
that back in two weeks thank you very
much um the next item the agenda is uh
Mr um Mr Brown here but a correction to
resolution 2024
d89 which is amendment to schedule a of
the co Cooperative agreement of with the
city's
connect I
hear he
comes good
timing how you do
that you don't have a you don't have any
no this first one should
be y it
is so um the landbank cooperation
agreement was passed in a previous
resolution uh for an amendment to add
some additional properties there was an
error on there for the section block and
lot number uh for two properties and
then one of the properties just had um a
correction that needed for the the
property
address
yes legisla request that's specified on
okay all right we got it all right just
wanted to make sure that on the LR that
we have the um yeah addresses that the
SPL and correctl number we do so thank
you we
have no we this one so it's just this is
the only one we have for this one right
M yeah just that any other questions any
question concerns no I'll move it second
all in favor hi um are going to
take so on the remainder the item done
executive
session oh I'm sorry thank you very much
uh we do have to um adopt the um Au and
CR Street study so that Mr W went over
with us to adop the study
some uh oh in this in this yes I'll
second it sorry I forgot that we were
moving it into this committee yes uh all
those in favor I I thank you thank you
right the remaining items will move in
the regular session so I ask for to
recess so move second all in
favor like to call the order of the
claims committee we have one item on the
agenda tonight and that is discussion
about Lo daily first the city of
s needs to take to session so if I can
have a motion
ex and i' I'd also like to be able to um
ask a question regarding personnel and
executive
session I have to say
have a motion enter EXA session mov I'll
second all in favor I
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