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committee without objection on consent
item number
two item number two for final
consideration a ordinance amending the
zoning map as referred to in section
of the connected city code AS amended as
it affects the classification of seven
Parcels to be rezoned to C4 downtown
mixed use District discussed and
committtee without objection on consent
item number three item number three for
original consideration a resolution
calling for a public hearing regarding
the renaming of city of SKC Street
Barrett Village Lane to Luigi Lane
discuss in committee with an objection
on consent item number four item number
four under original consideration a
resolution calling for public hearing
regarding proposed 2024 d225 HUD annual
action plan discussed in committee with
objection on consent item number
five item number five under original
consideration a resolution declaring no
environmental impact for the resoning to
C2 mixed use commercial district for the
properties located at 783 Albany Street
785 Albany Street 787 Aly Street 302
scity Street 303 SKC Street 308 SK E
Street and 310 connected E Street
discussed and committee with objection
on consent item number
six item number six under original
consideration a resolution authorizing
an agreement with the Capital District
YMCA for the
2024-25 HUD Continuum of Care discussed
in committee without objection on
consent item number seven item number
seven under original consideration a
resolution authorizing the sale of 919
Strong Street discussed and committee
with objection on consent item number
eight under original
consideration a resolution recognizing
the youth auxiliary group of alari court
number 28 discuss the committee with
objection on consent this item would be
presented at a later date item number
nine item number nine under contract and
Supply a resolution awarding the bid in
contract for the SKC little leag and ker
Street fencing improvements to spal
construction resources Incorporated in
the amount of
9842
a82 discussed and committed with an
objection on consent there's nothing
more to call come before the city
council caucus ask for a motion to
adjourn moveed by Miss Patrick second by
Mr mudaron all in
favor I'd like to call the city council
meeting to order for Monday July 8th
2024 and I'd like to call on Reverend
Felicia Collins for the prayer
invocation let us pray gracious and
loving God We Gather today to seek your
guidance and blessings for this city its
leaders its people we lift mayor
McCarley the city council the police the
fire department and all our elected
officials grant them wisdom courage and
compassion as they lead and make
decisions that affect our community we
especially pray for our children during
this summer season protect them and keep
them safe provide opportunities for them
to stay engaged and healthy through Pro
programs like the summer camps and free
launches may they find joy and learn
valuable lessons during this break teach
us how to love each other and value our
differences help us to address violence
in our neighborhoods and get illegal
guns off our streets Empower us to feed
the Homeless and provide shelter for
those in need guide us in creating
employment opportunities and ensuring
access to health care for all help us to
clean up our streets and neighborhoods
so our children can run and play freely
Empower our city to achieve great things
and to become a place that people will
want to visit and enjoy teach us the
power of teamwork and help us to set
aside our divisions may we be a city
that is open to discussing the issues
that affect our citizens and committed
to finding Solutions help us to
recognize the greatness of this city the
talents and the strength of his people
and Inspire us to work together knowing
that every idea counts and that we can
solve problems as a United Community
bless this meeting and guide questions
discussion and decision may they be in
the best interest of all your people and
your holy name we pray amen amen I'd
like to call on councilman manini to
lead us in the
pledge I to the United States of America
andice thank
you if the deputy clerk could please
complete the roll
call Mr
Toro here sorry Mr Farley is absent she
didn't say here oh I thought you said
here my bad Mr
Soro Mr Farley is absent Mr Mancini here
Mr muin present Miss Patrick here Mr
Williams is absent Mr Porterfield
here I'd like to ask for approval of the
minutes for June 24th
2024 move by Miss Patrick second by Mr
Mancini all in favor I ask the clerk to
read any Communications and
petitions Communications presented to
the city council for Monday July 8th
2024 under official none under General
none and under petitions none thank you
this time I'd ask uh any c council
members to provide committee
reports now we will have a privilege of
the floor related to the legislative
agenda so anyone who want to speak on
anything that's on the legislative
agenda would have signed up here and I
have no one signed up to speak so I
declare this public comment on the
legislative agenda
closed ask for approval of the L
legislative consent agenda moved by Mr
muin second by Miss Patrick all those in
favor
I this time we'll have privilege of the
floor regarding General City
business and I have six people signed up
to speak
and the first person the first name is
Ashley and I'm not sure the last
name hello council members um Madame
President mayor um my name is Ashley
ryby R um this is my first ever time
speaking at a council meeting
um I'm here today as a deeply concerned
Community member um mother of two small
children
um I reside in the city of
skincity I just am here to say How
Deeply disappointed and in some cases
ashamed I am of my elected officials
from the top of the federal level down
through the state to the
county for nine months I have witnessed
our government Aid and a bet the Israeli
government in Waging War and D
destruction and death with
impuy think two meetings ago I listened
to the most ridiculous claim made over
and over in pre-written scripts that
calling for a cessation of this violence
equates to Jew
hatred it is insulting to the
intelligence into the notion of Peace
itself to say that the Mass Slaughter of
children and innocence is
necessary I wish peace and safety for
all but we are never going to get there
by obliterating entire cities with bombs
and dispossessing people of their land
their home their livelihoods their
dignities and their basic human rights
what kind of precedent are we setting
for our future and for our
children it is absolutely absurd the
starvation the torture the maming of
children children the depraved levels of
violence and callous cruelty here go
beyond the
imagination yet those who speak in favor
of stopping this violence are vilified
we are called divisive we are called
terrorists we are called
anti-semitic what kind of precedent is
this
setting I've called countless times
Congress people my Senators I have
written letters I have signed petitions
I have done everything Avenue to hear
people at the federal to have people at
the federal level hear me and it's
falling on deaf ears I see it falling
mostly on deaf ears
here I come to you as our elected
officials to hear your community's voice
because this is not just a federal issue
this is something that affects us all over the planet it's a human rights
issue it's an environmental issue it's a
national security issue it is a mental
health issue it is anti-Semitic and
islamophobic issue it is a taxpayer
issue it is a personal family
issue so please hear us a diverse group
of people directly impacted by the
ravages of this country's War
campaign advocating for peace Justice
and
diplomacy innocence all over the world
must be protected but really for the
children if you cannot see the humanity
and a child and do the bare minimum I
genuinely question your ability to be an
elected official and I question the
humanity at all ceasefire is the minimum
it should be an arms embargo and end the
occupation
please thank you thank
you Jamaica miles
I stand here today as I have many days
um to talk about a number of things and
to make some corrections the people's
resolution does not dissolve this body
of its duties and responsibilities to
address the call for resolution it is a
transparent call and response about the
language City residents employees and
visitors approve of which
includes whereas the uned United States
has supplied the state of Israel with
more than 122 billion doar in military
aid since October 8th 2023 with those
while those funds could have been used
to support local communities including
the more than
28,000 households in the city of SKC who
do not earn enough to afford the basic
necessities where they
live y'all are having conversations
about the budget process already y'all
are having conversations about what you
need to buy here in the city and funds
that are needed
including the need for signage at our
pool a pool that I've attended with my
children on multiple occasions so I
don't know if anybody else has actually
attended gone inside and swam in the
pool I have and with my children the
placement of the pool rules the signage
that is there that list which you can
and can't do and when there's Adult Swim
which hopefully will also be for seniors
as well um there needs to be more
signage that's going to cost money I
wonder where that's going to come from
the pool Fe fees and rules and security
that was discussed it referenced
localities such as nkuna gildin and
Colony as M municipalities around
us what about Amsterdam Troy and Albany
and their rules either current or in the
past that more reflective of the city
that we have here than the ones that
were already
discussed we also talked you also talked
about speeding for years community
members have asked for Action regarding
the speeding in the city and various
communities and on very specific streets
including Becker we've asked for both
temporary and permanent options so
options have been given and it includes
and none have been received up until
this point up until this day Becker has
not seen speed feedback signs speed
activated speed limit reminder signs
additional stop signs or speed bumps all
of which are things that have been
implemented in other localities but not
in a lowincome high majority
area such as the Becker Street there
also happens to be the safe streets and
roads for all grant program at the
federal level since we're all worried
about money and thinking about money and
don't want to talk about that the
federal government should invest more of
its money in investing in our
communities and not in bombs that are
killing babies in Palestine over $3
billion doar is still available for
future funding rounds that's enough but
not enough we need to invest more and
the federal government could if it
wasn't supporting Israel's genocide that
is internationally recognized too many
communities face harmful racial
disparities in traffic enforcement and
preventable roadway deaths our goal is
to make sure everyone can make it to
their destination free of harm
discrimination and violence Safe Streets
and roads for all Grant is an option and
it lists a variety of ways that we can
make sure that we have a safe system
approach that includes safer people
safer Vehicles safer speed safer roads
and post crash care so if it's something
that this council is not aware of I do
hope that you into it as well as
consider that while the people's
resolution has not been passed by this
Council yet it is not too late thank you
thank
you sah
shaima so I'm standing here today on
behalf of the Muslim Community more
specifically in the city of skex
after a council member used our own IM
and the word
terrorism in the same sentence and we
know that's
intimidation that's how we feel as
members of the community knowing the
history of bringing any
it's funny how we talk about inclusion
but while we are supposed to feel
protected we feel
intimidated as we stand here to ask for
a simple thing and that is to preserve
lives for us to see police
officers
here with the claim that somebody's not
feeling safe and then using our own
IM and accusing
him whether it's called verbal or
emotional we
know when Muslims are mentioned and
terrorism is mentioned we know that it
has a history in this country and that
was used
knowingly and I want to mention
something we will never be intimidated
disappointed
yes but I don't think surprised
this week great things
happened the people in the UK spoke the
people in France spoke I didn't know the
people in this city in this County in
this state and this country will
speak some of you might have known me as
a school principal this is my last year
as a school principal because this what
I'm doing today is going to be my
full-time job so I'm not going away I'm
even more motivated I'm even more deted
determined to fight for the people in
this city and to fight for the people
around the
world two days ago somebody gave me a
gift what you're seeing here this is not
the one that I usually
wear somebody who actually went to the
holiest place on Earth for us Muslims
felt the need to buy me this because
they know what they stand for Friday the
holiest day somebody gave me this which
says free
Palestine and I know because I stood for
a free
Palestine yesterday we attended an event
myself and my kids that was the safest
space with the safest people organized
by none other than the Jewish voice for
peace call him anti-semetic go ahead
call him self-hating Jews go ahead but
that event was for
Palestine I felt
safe within that group Jews Christians
atheists agnostics
my kids my three and 5 year olds they
were walking around in that parade with
other kids of all colors all religious
backgrounds calling for free
Palestine free
Palestine thank
you s
KH good evening good evening my name is
s wakon and before I continue honoring
those murdered by the Israeli military
and government I wanted to ask you all a
question do you know what it is like to
try and speak when you can't be heard or
understood for your words to bring you
nothing but pain but are still
incoherent to those around you because
this week I couldn't answer that
question until I saw a video of a
12-year-old Palestinian girl from the
elnet refugee camp with her job blown
off her jaw was in her
hand in her
hand as she was trying to speak to an
overwhelmed and understaffed medical
crew and Personnel many of whom have
been hostages tortured by the Israeli
military and she could not speak I can
speak and it is only right for those of
us who do not have our Jaws in our hands
for those of us who have the freedom of
spech speech to speak up for those who
are being silenced unfortunately Faith
leaders and elected officials those who
are meant to empower the community were
published in the editorial section of
the Daily Gazette last week calling for
this body to forbid people like me from
speaking to forbid our community to
continue to at the very least bear
witness to the destruction being brought
down upon the Palestinian people that we
are complicit in as American taxpayers I
I'm horrified to know that the Israeli
government can silence young Arab girls
with their genocide which apparently has
the support of our community so-called
leaders who want to silence Young
American women in skty let me remind you
what these so-called leaders do not want
you to hear this is a continuation of
the names of those murdered by the
Israeli government since October
7th Nabil Bal Nabil Al less than one
years old Alma
mam Muhammad hamedan less than one years
old M Muhammad KH gu less than one years
old Bal Muhammad Kamal hamadan less than
one years old Abdul Raheem Ahmed Abdul
rahee Awad less than 1 years old tahani
as Al Ahmed
less than 1 years
old Muhammad nalam atalah less than 1
years old Mustafa Han Asam Sak less than
one years
old Abdul rou ibraim Abdul Ru Al less
than one years old Muhammad Omar Mustafa
shahab less than one years old SAR faaty
Abdul Karim
alarah less than 1 years
old I may they rest in peace I will
never be silenced free
Palestine thank
you Tracy
Collins good evening I know you guys are
meeting next Monday night regarding spe
and other safety issues in the city I
just want to bring some things to your
attention so you have a consideration
for next week I want my neighbors to
know why we are requesting stop signs on
King's
Road our house was built in 2006 by the
company I still work for my wife and I
bought it in 2019 we love our
home 10 we had 10 AR VES on on Kings
roadside that was taken out by a
speeding car our sprinkler system taken
out by a Sweden car replaced our fence
on King's road side four
times our storage shed was pushed off
the foundation due to a speeding
car our siden our down spout and other
items had to be replaced due to a
speeding
car our patio door had to be replaced
due to Flying debris from a car hitting
our
fence a speeding car hit in our
landscape stones where I had to call and
pay for a back hole to come and put them
back in
place we had our mailbox taken out two
times on Queen Phil Amina by cars
speeding making the turn too fast not
slowing
down a truck sitting in my driveway
total by a car turning on Queen Phil
Lina coming up from Kings Road not
slowing
down the best one our gas meter hit by
flying debris last year by a car
speeding doing over 80 M hour on King's
Road now National Grid had to come for
two days to inspect the gas
meter per Verizon telephone poll taken
down three times on my lawn had to be
replaced our home our property my family
were all in danger on this
road The Daily Gazette on
42923 President Porterfield Dr quoted as
saying give them stop signs give them
what they want the Times Union on
9201 and 23 willing kucho and masterani
in the committee meeting told you folks
Kings Road was a straight road straight
in Flat Road you went off their
information nothing was done the
accident of March of this year should
never happened the city had over a year
to correct the issue on King's
Road also the accident of March of 2023
took me 9 months to get a police report
which I had to foil which is still not
correct so I'm out of of money there
still on March 25th 2024 WTN Channel 10
city leaders stated that speeding is
everywhere in the city but city engineer
Chris will stated Kings Road is the
worst but still nothing's been done on
this
road the city put stop signs on Council
Road and in stock on unit Street and a
stockade to slow traffic down and all
other safety measures
that's three minutes
already let me let me summarize on
something else real
quick I I request the
foil of the uh the sensor report from
June 16th to June 24 of this month of
this year on 616 346 cars doing anywhere
between 35 and
60 on 617 459 cars 5 to 65 I need you to
summarize sir one minute please it get it gets better on 618 479 four
cars over 70 M an hour this is
ridiculous please do something about
this road thank you thank
you Frank wix
see we started back in March calling for
a
ceasefire there in uh Gaza since then
about 30,000 people Palestinians have
been killed the estimate maybe go up to
180,000 they've destroyed culture
they've destroyed university schools
it's uh Israel is not protect themselves
this is sadistic uh but it's too too
late to talk about a ceasefire uh what
do we ought the thing right now is
cutting off all funds uh to Israel now
the uh I I I remember
1948 I may be the only one remembering
1948 but uh in May of 1948 har Truman
recognized Israel he came from behind to
get
elected uh his secretary of state George
Mar maral warned against
it and for good reasons we now know uh
he he was called
anti-semitic uh Albert Einstein a Jew uh
thought the Arabs and
uh Palestinians Jews ought Liv together
he he he was called a self-hating Jew
they're still using those terms comments
in The Gazette the other day over why we
should not use this forum it talks about
anti-Semitism and uh suggesting self you
know self-hating Jews when they first
came here uh I came with I came with a
Jewish friend of mine who shares my
feelings so I my my impression is most
Jews are totally upset over what's
happening and most young people are it's
people of my own age who have been
brainwashed and uh indoctrinated to
thinking Israel was a good thing until
we learned otherwise
uh they got their Adam Bomb by stealing
uh uranium from Apollo Pennsylvania in
1966 uh it's it's beyond uh denial uh
they uh 67 they basically attacked
killed Sailors on on one of the ships uh
the uh the the 911 attack on the United
States was done by enemies that made by
the United States by supporting Israel then baited us into a a war in
Afghanistan and
Iraq and right now they're trying to
beate us into a war in Lebanon and
Iran so uh he'll give Joe Biden credit
for you know resisting this but at some
point you know so so right now the best
thing we can do is cut off all funding
to Israel it's going to be hard but it
has to start with partitioning our local Congressman Paul tono and uh
Senator Schumer and Jilla brand uh it's
going to be a tough sell but it's best
we can do and conect to Y to think about
a resolution to uh basically defund
Israel thank
you I have no one else signed up to
speak so I declare the public comment of
City business
closed at this time any miscellane
business of the
council Miss
Patrick thank you madam
president just find My Notes
here I'd like to thank uh all the folks
that came out last week for the reading
of the Declaration of Independence we
hope that this will become an annual
tradition in the city uh and it was so
well attended it went well beyond our
expectations um so I I thinkk my
colleagues here uh that also
participated in that in that reading I
wanted to um remind people that if you
go to SKC County uh n.
n.gov um the county has its uh listing
of all the cooling stations throughout
the city um which include all of our
public libraries um but there's many
other uh cooling stations as well and uh
just as a because it's going to get even
hotter uh as the week goes on so I hope
that everybody will stay safe with that we are trying to work on the uh
speeding issue um I would uh as our as
our guest uh Minister this evening said
I would just really ask people to please
watch what you're doing especially now
that school is out um and we want to try
to keep our children safe on the streets
so um we're doing what we can we are
going to continue to work on trying to
get the speed limit lowered uh in the
city on certain streets um and uh we're
working on that diligently
um I wanted to announce that U music
Haven had its first concert last night
it was standing room only I mean it was
just it was crazy in terms of how many
people had show showed up at the concert
the next concert um is uh well they're
every Sunday night so this upcoming
Sunday night it's a a zido uh group
buckwheat zido they're fantastic so I
hope that folks will come and enjoy uh
those free concerts in music Haven for
the rest of the summer Su on Sunday
evenings as part of that I am excited to
announce um that there's a baseball
tournament next weekend um it's going to
well on Saturday night at uh July 13th
at 6:30 p.m. there is a free concert at
music Haven featuring The Joe Roy
Jackson band and DJ Rumba um that's at
sort of towards the end of the baseball
tournament there's going to be food
trucks in the Park from 2:00 p.m. to
9:00 p.m. located near the music Haven
stage the event is being held in
conjunction with the firecracker sports
baseball tournament that will be taking
place July 12th through the 15th on all
three fields in Central Park as well as
the connected Bay Ruth field teams are
going to be coming in from uh
Massachusetts Vermont Connecticut New
Hampshire New Jersey as well as teams
from all over New York State um over the
four days 60 games will be played on the
fields games start every day at 9:00
a.m. with the last one starting at 5:30
so if you're a baseball fan uh you can
get out and uh see these see these games
it's just another thing that's happening
along with the the new pool that Ms
miles um I went up the other day to
check out and talk to some of the folks
that were up there and everybody's just
having a great time so um I hope that
folks will continue to you know enjoy
that pool especially this week when it's
going to be so hot um
and that uh that's all my notes thank
you
thank
you
mayor thank you madam president
appreciate uh people coming out and
expressing their opinions uh again we're
going into some warmer weather uh urge
people to use caution drink fluids uh
don't overexert yourself uh and also
check on any of your neighbors who might
be senior citizens or otherwise need a
little extra Assistance or uh help in
dealing with warmer weather thank you
madam president thank you mayor I'd like
to thank everyone for coming out this
evening and um expressing your concerns
and continuing to do the work there's
nothing more to come before the city
council I'd ask for a motion to adjourn
moving by Miss Patrick second by Mr M
verin all those in favor I we are
adjourned have a good evening
you were off by three minutes I
know but you said the meeting so I put
wasn't there