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shoot it's
time I'd like to call the city council
meeting to order for Monday May 28
2024 and I'd like to call on
pastor excuse me I'm sorry I'd like to
call the clock as the order for Monday
May 28th 2024 and we have 21 items for
original
consideration the clerk would please
read item number
one item number one for original
consideration a resolution calling for a
public hearing to extend the temporary
moratorium on the submission and
processing of building permits
certificates of occupancy certificates
of use and land use approvals for smoke
shops V shop vape shops hookah lounges
and vape consumption businesses as the
city council considers changes to the
connect city code chapter 264 discussed
in committee with objection on consent
item number two item number two for
original consideration a resolution
transmitting to the SKC County Planning
Department proposed changes to the SKC
zoning ordinance entitled the regulation
of vape shops smoke shops Vape lounges
hookah lounges and vape consumption
businesses discussing committee without
objection on consent item number
three item number three for original
consideration a resolution calling for a
public hearing on June 24th 2024
regarding the amendments to the city of
skty zoning ordinance relating to the
Hamilton Hill Redevelopment plan also
referred to as the SKC 40 project in the
area of Albany page State and SKC
streets discussing committee without
objection on
consent item number four for original
consideration a resolution transmitting
to the SKC City Planning Commission an
application for a zoning ordinance
Amendment regarding properties located
on Albany page State and SCC streets for
the Hamilton Hill Redevelopment plan
also referred to as the SKC 40 project
discussed in committee without objection
on consent item number
five item number five for original
consideration a resol resolution
declaring that the city council is the
lead Agency for the amendment to the
skan City Zoning code for the Hamilton
Hill Redevelopment plan also referred to
as the sk40 project discussing committee
without objection on consent item number
six item number six for original
consideration a resolution confirming
the appointment of Megan HK as the
representative of the League of Women
Voters of SKC County to the civilian
police review board discussed in
committee with objection on consent item
number seven item number seven for
original consideration resolution
authorizing fee waivers for exterior
building repair permits discussed in
committee with objection on consent item
number eight item number eight for
original consideration a resolution
authorizing a swimming swimming pools
operating agreement with the Boys and
Girls Clubs of scnc Incorporated discuss
in committee without objection and on
consent item number nine item number
nine for original consideration a
resolution authorizing the city to enter
into a three-year home Consortium
agreement with the city of Troy and the
town of colony discussed in committee
without objection on consent item number
10 item number 10 for original
consideration a resolution adopting the
pro housing communities pledge discussed
in committee without objection on
consent item number 11 item number 11
for original consideration a resolution
authorizing the issuance of revocable
permit number 683 to MTX Group
Incorporated for a sign that will
overhang the city's right of way at 400
State Street connected in New York
discussing committee with by objection
nonc consent item number 12 item number
12 for for original consideration a
resolution authorizing the issuance of
revocable permit number 684 to Maverick
Quantum Incorporated for a sign that
will overhang the city's right of way at
400 State streets connected in New York
discussed in committee without objection
on consent item number 13 item number 13
for original consideration a resolution
authorizing the sale of a vacant lot at
302 SKC Street for $2,500
discussed in committee without objection
on consent item number 14 item number 14
for original consideration a resolution
authorizing the sale of a vacant lot at
310 concy Street for
$2,500 discussed in committee without
objection on consent item number 15 item
number 15 for original consideration a
resolution authorizing the sale of a
vacant lot at 1815 Albany Street for $
3,
$3,500 discussed in committee with
objection on consent item number 16 for original
consideration a resolution authorizing
the sale of 1755 Avenue B for $90,000
and0 cents discussed in committee with
objection on consent item number 17 item
number 17 for original consideration a
resolution amending resolution number
2018-25 authorizing the sale of 130
Front Street discussed in committee with
objection on consent item number 18 item
number 18 for original consideration a
resolution recognizing Sparrow zul
and Steven Harris for their leadership
in revitalizing Wood La Park this item
will be taken out of order and I will be presenting that item number 19 item
number 19 for original consideration a
resolution recognizing National
Caribbean American Heritage Month
discussed in committee with objection on
consent this will be presented at a
later date item number 20 item number 20
under contract and Supply a resolution
authorizing the issue of a purchase
order for hydrlc acid 2024 discussed in
committee without objection on consent
item number 21 item number 21 on item
number 21 under contract and Supply a
resolution awarding the bid and contract
for the SK police locker and toilet room
Renovations rebid mechanical
construction to eert Mechanical LLC in
the amount of
$94,500 discuss in committee without
objection non consent if there's nothing
more to come before the city council
caucus I ask for motion to adjourn move
by Miss Patrick second by Mr M all those
in favor I we are adjourned I'd like to
call to order the city council meeting
for Monday May 20 excuse me Tuesday May
28
2024 and I'd like to call on Pastor
Nicole John Simone of duri Amy Z church
for a prayer
invocation let us
pray Our Father who in heaven be th name
thy kingdom come thy will be done on
Earth as it is in
heaven Lord you have done your heart
today the sun is in the sky the clouds
are there and yet for another day you
have kept the Earth in
order so God help us to do our heart
today here
on Lord I pray for each counc they are
here tonight to do their
part they're here tonight to make
decisions for the city of
SC to Serve the
People
Lord we come before you myself included
none of us Perfect all of us with our
fors but each of us have a
heart so help us to use our heart to
make decisions with compassion and love
for all
people I pray that you would be with all
those in attendance tonight who have
come here to make a statement or to just
listen that we would all be able to work
together citizens and elected official
from one side of the city to the other
let us work together and live together
in harmony this is my prayer in Jesus
name I pray
amen I'd like to call on Moren Obi to
lead us in the Pledge of
Allegiance i al FL of the United States
of
America
stand
na
indivisible
andice thank
you if the deputy clerk would please
complete the roll
call Mr
Toro Mr Farley is absent Mr manini
present Mr muirin pres Miss Patrick here
Mr Williams pres Miss Porterfield here
thank you we have one other order
resolution recognizing spirro Zulus and
Steven Harris for their years of service
in woodlum park and I asked the majority
leader U Mr John bar please take the
chair
thank you I'd like to ask SPO Zulus and
stepen Harris to join me behind the rail
please how are
you
so may I have the floor yeah please
proceed thank you a resolution
recognizing Spiro Zulus and stepen
Harris for their leadership in
revitalizing woodl park whereas woodlon
Park is located on Kings Road in concy
New York in the spring of 2011 after
years of neglect and limited city
funding a small group of residents led
by spirro Zulus and Steve Harris
reclaimed the park and whereas in 2012 a
master plan was developed after the
first cleanup the excitement enthusiasm
in the community began to grow more and
more residents came out to help the
efforts which included an annual spring
cleanup and annual fall rake day and
whereas over the 13 years of renovation
the park has installed a playground a
pavilion an area of reflection Memorial
Garden a rehab basketball court exercise
stations a sculptural bench a volleyball
court a horseshoe pit area pavement
games picnic tables benches grills and
trash and recycling receptacles some of
the work was accomplished with numerous
grants and in-kind services from the
city and help from small businesses such
as media well done and Matthew signs and
whereas throughout the process sparo
Zulus kept things organized and could be
seen with his everpresent Flipboard
keeping track of progress and securing
various
grants Stephen Harris who is a
woodworker by Hobby and trade made signs
for the park including the main entrance
and Arbor post signs which greet
visitors coming into the park and the
woodlon park stencil sign on the park
building and whereas in 2019 a splash
poop pad and cooling Cent was installed
almost 20 years since the since the park
pool had closed and whereas funding came
from a myriad of funding streams
including the city of skincity the
skincity foundation's thriving
neighborhoods Challenge caran Foundation
right Family Foundation and the William
G brownon charitable foundation and
private donors including Trustco Bank
and whereas the dedicated group of
volunteers also ra raised funds through
their numerous pasta dinner fundraisers
at the woodlon park annual garage sales
which had its final sale this year and
whereas the Total Restoration and
renovation of the park was an investment
of more than
$300,000 and whereas for those involved
the project became more than just a park
Improvement but rather a symbolic CI
civil engagement of what happens when a
group of volunteers hand band together
to transform what was a overgrown and
neglected hatch of urban Wilderness into
a crown Jewel Vilma fuzzy Elliott was
one of the faithful founding volunteers
who passed away in
2022 she said this about the grueling
work volunteers spent restoring the site
we never complained we became a
family now therefore it be resolved that
this connected city council and Mayor
Gary arm McCarthy through hereby pausing
their deliberations to recognize and
extend heartfelt gratitude to Sparrow
Zulus and Steven Harris for their 13
years of dedication and leadership in
the restoration and Redevelopment of
woodlon Park I'd like to move the
resolution may I have a
second all in favor I resolution is
passed
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congratulations thanks Maran
um uh so I first would like to thank um
everybody for recognizing us our
committee members some of whom are here
with us um I also would like to thank um
Marian um for who also worked at some of
our garage sales and volunteered um I
also particularly want to thank uh the
Mayor Gary McCarthy because he sat with
me through numerous meetings when we
first formed our committee and kind of
fleshed out what we wanted to foresee
for the for the park um I also want to
thank the woodlaw neighborhood
association um for backing us in our
efforts um they were with us 100% uh
also thank a shout out to Janet Chen
given um the the chair of the friends of
The woodlon Preserve who served as our
Fiscal Agent to help us secure all the
funding for for the grants we applied
for um and I can't go without saying all
of our volunteers past and present who
work tirelessly to redevelop the park um
it's become one of the most blighted
Urban spaces um in 2011 to something
that a lot of the community uh has pride
in now um and I would I mention this we
had a dinner a couple weeks ago um and I
mentioned this to our committee people
but I would uh mention it to all the
council members Google woodlon parks
connecting New York for Google reviews
we are the top rated Park in the city of
skinc um and just read through the
comments um with the parents who bring
their children into the park um so it's
definitely a testament to all of the
work that we've put forth hundreds and
hundreds of hours um so I extend our
appreciation and thanks to the city for
their support and another shout out to
the office of General Services um Floyd
from the past and then um uh Lewis
currently who uh gets back to us
immediately so um and just the the staff
at the at City Hall um they've been
phenomenal so thank you
all thank
you sure
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I'd like to ask for approval of the
minutes of May 13th
2024 moved by Mr Williams second by Mr
manini all in favor I if the clerk would
please read any Communications and
petitions Communications presented to
the city council for Tuesday May 28th
2024 under official from mayor McCarthy
a list of appointments dated May 28th
2024 under General from PD Voris an
email expressing concerns about the
locker room contracts for the connected
Police Department referencing Ronald
Reagan with a pun and mentioning her
ongoing displacement and difficulty
locating her
belongings under petitions none thank
you I'd like to uh call on any c council
members to provide committee
reports this time we'll ask for
privilege of the floor related to the
legislative agenda I have no one signed
up to speak so I declare the public
comment on the legislative agenda
closed I ask for approval of the uh
consent legislative agenda mooved by
Miss Patrick second by Mr manini all
those in favor
I this time we'll have privilege of the
floor regarding General City business I
have four people signed up to speak just
a reminder the time to speak is 3
minutes and I will if if you can't hear
the timer from here from there I'll
remind you when your time is up the
first person signed up to speak is
Ronald
Sorano I don't see Mr Sorano
present Edmund Leen
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Jr good evening I was here on 3 25 2024
when I again asked for your help with
corrupt judges valo and frost both
appointed by the mayor I left you all
proof of my allegations tenica Frost
signed both of these motions without
proof of service that is obstruction of
governmental
Administration but you all had
I never received a penny more from
garnishment after 910 and he said my
lean on her house was satisfied trial
was held 11 days later the mayor and now
County attorney Gardner have denied my
ethics complaints before a hearing that
is obstruction of governmental
Administration and part of the
conspiracy he prived me of my
constitutional rights of due process and
a fair hearing all of you are complicit
after the
fact there is no time limit to prosecute
for conspiracy deprive me of my
constitutional rights to doe process in
a fair hair mayor is chief law
enforcement officer in the city of SCCY
and must ensure Justice not cover up for
corruption council members are to help
taxpaying citizens with governmental
problems not cover up for corruption
County attorney Gardner and district
attorney Carney are mandated by law to
hold phal accountable when the laws he
broke are proven to them when they don't
they are obstructing good governmental
Administration and I did give them the
proof also us attorney Barnett is also
guilty of obstruction of governmental
Administration for refusing to prosecute
Pho and frost what do I have to do in
SKC New York identify as a black
transgender woman to have my
constitutional rights upheld by the way
mayor I had to tell da Carney the
obstruction law in New York he didn't
know what it was in New York state which
he improperly used to arrest Daniel of
YouTube New York State audit for walking
up to caution tape he was arrested for
not moving back I guess the cop couldn't
do his job but refused to move the tape
and instead arrested
Daniel Mr Mayor you have been able to
keep FBI sheriff police chief from doing
their job when the axe Falls it will be
your head that falls in a basket council
members better contact me it is a color
blw violation which you are all guilty
of and the prayer was nice by that woman
but no one's going to get Justice out of
you people unless they force it on
you thank you Lori
Hoy good
evening um I live at 8:15 Lake wet
Avenue so right next to the park um
Central Park that is and I'm really
excited about the new pool that is
coming going to be open at the park
we've been watching it um be built over
the winter um and I'm including some
ideas that I emailed last summer um that
were then forwarded to the park director
at the time but I'm following up just as
I'm not really sure where you know some
of that lies um and some of these ideas
are probably too late for this year but
I'm just hoping for the
future um first I would love for funding
to be made available or a business to
offer free or very reduced lifeguard
training for connected City School
District students to become
lifeguards I'm sure some of them are
already but I know that's cost
prohibitive to get the training
sometimes too and we do have a pool um
at the school where even if this were
over next winter developing more guards
um such a big pool is going to need a
lot of
lifeguards um I hate when you see
section of pools closed because there's
not enough guards uh number two it would
be great if the city could coordinate
with
CDTA um or something else to have a bus
or trolley running routes to the pool
for better access for both Youth and
adults throughout the
city um then maybe this third thing I
don't know how many people non-residents
are coming to the pool I know many
non-residents are using our tennis
courts and disc golf at no no cost um
and I think many of them are not
residents which is great but you cannot
use other um parks in Suburban
neighborhoods for free um in many cases
so I would love um if non-residents were
charged a fee to use the pool to help
offset the cost of running the pool over
time um as a city resident I'm unable to
swim at the nkuna Town pool the col Town
pool the tenta town pool unless I go
with a resident and I pay a higher fee
um these are policies that just like
I've read online so I don't can't tell
you what their policies are this year if
some of those have changed but just as
an idea the nisun town pool at least
last year listed $10 um for an adult to
swim as a guest and you need to come
with a resident though residents also
pay $10 for an individual swim um though
that's discounted if those residents buy
a pass for the year in Colony Town Park
it's $12 for an adult non-resident to
swim and you must come with a resident
so even if you have the the the fee you
can't just decide to pay that um an
adult resident pays
$7 uh residents pay $2 to get into that
Park and nonresidents pay
$10 um so again I think oh is that time
up it is okay thank you thank
you mag Lavine
good
evening mayor president Porterfield and
members of the council I signed up to
speak in the event folks in favor of a
ceasefire
resolution um uh which I oppose would be
appearing tonight as has occurred in
recent meetings but so is not to
interrupt the business of the council
which in my view is critical to the
welfare of the city as opposed to the
Affairs in the Middle East which are
beyond the council's legislated scope I
decline to speak I don't know if there
are other speakers but I respectfully
request that if someone tonight is
speaking in favor of a ceasefire
resolution that I may exercise my
privilege then thank you thank you I
have no one else signed up to speak on
the public comment of City business so I
declare this public comment
closed at this time miscellaneous
business of the
council Miss Patrick thank you um well
we had two um great ceremonies today um
our fire department this morning um had
a ceremony at which um four of our
officers were received promotions and uh
now uh the police department was having
an award ceremony for many many of the
officers who um had meritorious service
and other types of awards so I just
wanted to congratulate um all of those
uh officers in both departments and also
thank them for the service that they
provide uh to all of our residents in
our city thank
you thank
you
mayor thank you madam president
apologize for being a little bit late
was at the uh police
ceremony uh always appreciate people
coming out do want to thank the team
that uh you know did so much for the
woodlon park uh that was a a Great Park
in the 60s went in a period of Decline
and it's really a true model of
neighborhood and government
participation where people stepped up
made a difference and turn that into a
uh great resource for not only the
neighborhood but the city as a whole and
so I thank the whole group that's here
and appreciate your time and effort and
I know some of transitioning on to other
things in life so I wish you the best in
whatever you choose to do and those that
are still going to be here helping out
we uh thank you for that and look
forward to working with you thank you
Madame President thank you I'd also like
to thank everyone for coming out tonight
to speak and uh to again to also to the individuals who helped in
Woodlong Park we honored Spiro tonight
and Steve but there were a lot of
volunteers some were who actually no
longer with us and so I want to tell you
I truly appreciate what happened in that
Park and thank you for allowing me to be
a part of it from time to time so um you
know we're going to miss you not being
here anymore SPO but uh the park will be
there for us to remember all the
wonderful things that you did so thank
you all for coming out tonight just want
to remind folks about a couple events
that are happening this weekend kids
artsfest is going to be happening around
City Hall from 12: to 4:00 p.m. and then
Pride day is taking place over um near
uh skiny County Community College and
I'm not sure of the start time but I
think it's s like 9 in the morning it's a long day so there'll be
opportunity to bounce back back and
forth between the two but there's those
couple events are going on this um this
Saturday there's nothing else to come
before the council ask for a motion to
adjourn moved by Mr Mutan second by Mr
Mancini all those in favor I we're
adjourn thank you and have a good night
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