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I'd like to call the city Caucus meeting
to order for Monday August 12
2024 we have 10 items for consideration
if the clerk would please read item
number one item number one for original
consideration an ordinance amending and
restating the first supplemental Bond
ordinance for the right Road treatment
plant discussed in committee without
objection on consent item number two under final
consideration and ORD ordinance pursuant
to section 99 of the SEC second class
City's law to change the street name of
Barrett Village Lane to to Luigi Lane
discussed in committee without objection
on consent item number three item number
three for original consideration a
resolution adopting the 20124 2025
annual action plan discussed in
committee with objection on consent item
number four item number four for
original consideration the resolution
authorizing the mayor to accept a
transfer of
$40,000 and give Grant award monies from
the connected Police Department
discussed in committee with objection on
consent item number five item number
five for original consideration a
resolution authorizing the preparation
of a preliminary engineering report for
the downtown district Pump Station
monitorization project discussed in
committee with objection on consent item
number six item it number six under
original consideration a resolution
authorizing the standardization of
specifications for personal protective
equipment turnout gear for this
connected fire
department discussed in committee with
objection on consent item number seven for original
consideration a resolution awarding
contracts for the towing service for the
connected Police Department discuss in
committee with objection on consent item
number eight item number eight under
original consideration a resolution
amending resolution 2022-2023 to amend
the funding commitment for young women's
Christian Association of SKC DBA y YWCA
Northeastern New York discussed in
committee with objection on consent item
number nine item number nine for
original consideration a resolution
authorizing an agreement with the
Capital District YMCA for the 2025 HUD
Continuum of Care discuss in committee
with objection on consent item number 10 under contract and supply
resolution awarding the bid and contract
for the Central Parkway roadway
Improvement base bid and Alternate one
to William J Keller and Sons
Incorporated in the amount of 1,
74 100,000 um
34 discuss in committee with objection
on consent if there's nothing more to
come before the city council caucus I
will ask for motion to
adjourn second by Miss Patrick all those
in favor I we are adjourned
I'd like to call the city council
meeting to order for Monday August 12th
2020
2024 and I'd like to ask Father James
kiniki of Holy Name of Jesus for the
prayer and
invocation Lord we thank you for this
beautiful season a season of
Thanksgiving for the produce of the land
for flowers herbs and vegetables that
are so abundant we thank you for fairs
festivals and celebrations of our rich
culture we thank you for those who share
so richly so that the fruitfulness of
the earth Avail may be made available to
any in need thank you for food pantries
green markets and all those who
volunteer at and support them most of
all we thank you for your constant care
for us in all things amen amen I'd like
to ask uh councilman M to lead us in the
Pledge of
Allegiance my pledge aliance to the flag
of the United States of America and to
the Republic from which it stands one
nation under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for
all thank
you if the clerk could please complete
the roll
call Mr
Toro Mr Farley is absent Mr
Mancini Mr McAn pres Miss Patrick here
Mr Williams is absent Miss Porterfield
here thank you i' ask for approval of
the minutes for July 22nd
2024 move by m
mudaron second by Miss Patrick all in
favor I and I this time I'll call
council members for to provide any
committee
reports
okay that's okay no problem
at this time we'll have privilege of the
floor related to the legislative
agenda I do have one person that signed
up to speak on the legislative agenda
however um sir if I understand correctly
what you want to speak on is not on the
legislative AG agenda so it become under
regular City business okay all right no
it's not a
problem
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it's all
right okay since there's no one signed
up to speak I'll declare the public
comment on the legislative agenda
closed at this time I like to ask for
approval of the legislative consent
agenda move by Mr mudin second by m
Patrick all those in favor
I and now we will have privilege over
the floor regarding General City
business and Mr wadell I will call you
first because your online submission
came in days ago I have four people that
are signed up to
speak thank you good evening to the
mayor and the common
Council um I just want to take a second
to thank Mr Mutan am I saying that
correct L Mrs Carmel Patrick Dorene
Doro um Carl Williams and Maran
Porterfield all of who uh were gracious
enough to call me or my wife and take
the time to speak to us about our our
matter um with getting a ceremonial
street sign on uh the last Street of
Barrett the last block of Barrett Street
going into hon Street um we're looking
to get a cere monial street sign for
marleene Hill way so I really appreciate
the time you guys took to answer our
questions I know we were probably a pain
uh we were confusing ourselves with all
the information we were getting uh the
clerk was helpful the mayor's assistant
was helpful um and we appreciate your
time we did take the time to uh
yesterday me and my wife spent better
part of the full day uh traveling
through that neighborhood and getting
signatures we got 65 here and another 30
that we didn't get a chance to get be
prior to this this meeting they're all
from Barrett Street Park Place hon
Street um the people at the Sawmill
Tavern were extremely helpful I'd like
to thank them take a second to thank
them L was she knew Marlene some of the
people in the neighborhood remember
Luigi's and they referred to it as being
a city
landmark and uh they also remember
Marlene and a lot of people had kind
things to say that neighborhood there's a wide variety of people ages
racist everybody was we got two NOS one
person said no because his dogs were
trying to get out of the house and
another uh person I don't think really
knew what we were trying to accomplish
but the overwhelming support we got
walking the streets of that Community we
on honestly we were yeah shocked so I I
just want to thank that neighborhood for
being so receptive uh our first
signature happened to be by Chance the
mayor's
brother um Barett Village Lane there's
about five residences there that are
currently occupied the rest I believe
are being sold but they're not currently
occupied we got two out of the five the
other three were not home the rest of
the block there's a lot of vacancies
there's some empty lots on the other
side so we did the best we could to get
signatures from everybody that's
actually living on that block I think we
did extremely well considering here on
Street same thing a lot of empty lots a
lot of vacant
apartments uh we did the best we could
there as well so we spent a lot of time
you know it was kind of like let's just
go see what we can do we started with no
signatures and by the end of the day
we're
enthusiastically uh happy with the
outcome so we put in some work yesterday
I don't think there's anybody in that
neighborhood that's going to be I highly
doubt will get any arguments on on on
our proposal I guess one of our
questions would be do we still have to
file an application because we received
some news from uh Mr Matan and uh Mrs
Porterfield prior to the meeting so do
we still have to file an application or
is it going to be put on the agenda I'm
a little confused on that so um this
it's not a it's we don't have a
conversation here so we you could put
the question before us and then we'll
get back to you with the information
okay okay okay uh I guess you know we
receed that sorry I keep dropping the
pen uh we received that information
prior to the meeting so I don't know
that there was a whole lot of reason for
us to get up here but we did want to
talk about the signatures and the
support we got in that community so
altogether if we get the other three
sheets we're almost at 100 signatures in
one day so if we press a city I'm sure
we could get 500 if need be I'm hoping
we don't don't need the 500 but if we
have to go out in the city is connec and
get 400 more we'll do that but so I
appreciate your time thank you thank you
thank
you Ed Leen
Jr good evening I've been here several
times seeking your help with corrupt
civil court judges you all swear an oath
to the Constitution I brought you
positive proof of their crimes of
obstruction of governmental
Administration and conspiracy deprived
me of my constitution rights of due
process and a fair hearing mayor has
said he has no jurisdiction over judges
really he appointed Tanica Frost to be a
judge he awarded phao his judgeship
because he tore down a building on State
Street I'm sorry he ran on
opposed mayor is chief law enforcement
officer in SK
how can you refuse to meet with me how
can you refuse to press charges against
Frost and falo Hoffman retired he can
still be charged because the obstructed
Justice tenica Frost signed a motion
without proof of
service clerk waited out motion need
proof of service she signed a second
motion and forced the clerk to mail it
to me Frost knew she was breaking the
law she was chief administrative law
judge and director of The Office of
administrative hearings at New York
Department of State
valo cannot act on Frost motion there is
no Affidavit of service defendant cannot
get back in court without reason for not
appearing at first Herring where I was
awarded a default judgment valo cannot
vacate my default judgment without a
hering mayor you have kept my ethics
complaints out of the paper and had them
denied without them being heard County
attorney Gardner has kept my ethics
complaints away from County ethics board
even though he doesn't have the
authority to do so da Carney has said IO
and frost have not committed a crime as
has us attorney
Barnett you all may think I'm wasting my
time here I'm not there's no time limit
for a conspiracy to deprive
constitutional rights and all of you are
co-conspirators for not honoring your
oath of office and helping me I'm going
to use these uh Council meetings as
evidence I promise if you if Trump gets
elected you will all be out of a job and
mayor instead of you being in a bar at
lunchtime you will be behind bars
you are the most corrupt mayor in the
United States of America ASK 1100 St
Clair's pensioners what they think about
all the help you have given them or the
amber alert for a 14y sir there's no
personal attacks here no personal
attacks no personal
attacks how is that a personal attack
it's a truth it you may not do that okay
I have the right to be heard when I have
a crime committed against me yes he must
me with me so I am not going to argue
with you but well I will state again no
personal attacks you know right and if
it continues then I will ask you to
remove yourself from the
podium can I finish as long as there's
no personal
attacks or the cop who uh shot a citizen
in the back of the head killed him no
charges I had been Stonewall for four
years I have the right to have my
complaint heard when there's a
conspiracy to deprive me of my
constitutional
rights New York panal law 195 fisherman
conduct
a public servant is guilty of official
misconduct Wang with intent to obtain a
benefit or deprive another person of a
benefit he commits an act relating to
his office but constituting an
unauthorized exercise of His official
functions knowing that such his act is
unauthorized that's valo and frost he
know knowingly refrains from performing
a duty which is imposed upon Him by law
or is clearly inherent in a nature of
his office that's attorney's carder
Garder Barnett FBI Commission on
judicial conduct attorney grievance
committee the mayor and the city council
your time is
expired thank you you're
welcome
San oh my
God this is not a short friendly Podium
okay hi my name is SWA KH and I don't
have much else to say except yesterday
was one of the deadliest days in Gaza
surpassing the day before that and the
day before that and every day for the
last 10 months I am also currently
selling crocheted keychains hair
accessories and flags all proceeds going
to a Palestinian family who need the
funds to leave their besieged Homeland
including an 11-year-old girl with
cerebral paly who has not received
adequate Medical Care in the last 10
months so far we've raised over $600 and
are still accepting orders through my
social media first name last name 22 I
want to thank this connect Albany and
Saratoga community members who made all
these donations possible um I said that
I wasn't going away until we got our
bare minimum request met by this body um
so until you all passed a ceasefire
resolution um I will continue reading
the names of the murdered the lives that
are too controversial for this body to
take action be in behalf
of and I'm picking up where I left off
last time these are all from Al jazer
you can find them
online KH
muhamed less than one years
olda B YF Abu
M less than one years old L
Mahmud Alami less than one years
oldan Abdul rman Jad massan less than
one years old Ana Mahmud Ahmed Ali
less than one years old Hamza Muhammad
Abdul Hamed as less than one years old
Salma ibraim bam Shaban less than one
years old Muhammad Hussein Muhammad Abu
hammed less than one years old Aid
Hussein Muhammad Abu hammad less than
one years old Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed dul
less than 1 years
old Muhammad Fadi Jihad rdwan less than
one years old ail Muhammad J de less
than one years
old Muhammad n Al Yahya alad less than
one years old Muhammad Hamed nidal aliwa
less than one years old Elena Muhammed
Nabil mam less than one years old ABD
rman Samir Sal less than one years old
Omar Jad Omar
altini less than one years old wa yya
khed Abu less than one years old mik
Abdul Salam Ali Abu less than one years
old Huda Mustafa Haim Abu less than one
years old Miss Abdul Sami
Ali less than one years old Omar Ahmed
Abdul Nasser sham less than 1 years old
ibraim Amar sad alar less than 1 years
old
may they rest in peace you have the
power to do
something thank
you Frank
Wicks we can see now how much how
important why is leadership
is the day after October 7th the United
our President should have caught up the
Prime
Minister and
know convey our sorrow for the attack
and uh off tell you all to have better
security on that wall that
separates Israel from their the people
caged in on the other side also suggest
that
might stop building those provocative
settlements on the West Bank and uh also
offer to work with Israel for an
exchange of hostages for political
prisoners
uh our president was not that wise and
probably not enough people were wise
what he did was he boarded
our Air Force One went over to Israel
hugged to the Prime
Minister offered to give all the support
and weapons they need what have they
done since then they've killed about
40,000 mostly
innocent know women and children some es
me might be under up to 200,000 if you
look under the rubble and where they
stand right now Israel is no better off
they're far worse off than it would be
otherwise and where in the last week
they assassin they basically murdered
you know Palestinian leaders in Iran and
in
Lebanon and uh to provoke a to to
provoke a war with
Iran uh the way it stands right now is
uh the world believes that uh Iran's
ready to attack uh they they may be wise
enough not to and uh Iran does not want
a war Lebanon does not want want a war
United States does not want want a war
Israel wants a war Israel wants a war so
the Prime Minister ST power because the
only way Israel can exist is continue
War so long as the war continues they'll
continue to get support from the United
States once that stops uh Israel is
going to have to you know basically make
peace with the
neighbors uh thank you
thank
you I have no one else signed up to
speak so I declare the public comment on
City business
closed uh we did Overlook Communications
and petitions so I'd ask the clerk to
give us any Communications and petitions
at this time Communications presented to
the city council for Monday August 12th
2024 under official there were none
under General there were none and under
petitions there were none thank you
miscellaneous business of the
council Miss Patrick
thank
you I'd like to uh acknowledge and thank
Reverend kikki um the the new food
pantry that I've mentioned here uh in
previous weeks is actually housed at
Holy Name of Jesus and I appreciate uh
you and your uh parishioners allowing
the food pantry to come in and and use
the space at Holy Name of Jesus so thank
you for that um so music Haven had its
summer social yesterday um our city
engineer Chris Wallen was honored this
year as the music Haven Maven uh which
is our annual uh our annual award um for
all the work that he has done not only
at music Haven not only at Central Park
but uh throughout the city park so uh we
had a very nice crowd largest crowd that
we've had there are still uh three
concerts left uh at music Haven and if
you haven't ever been to a music Haven
concert I really encourage you they free
really fantastic uh music this week on
Friday there's a Blues Barbecue with the
blood brothers that's Friday August 16th
uh on Sunday night uh it's band Magda
this year uh which is a Greek uh group
coming in came in from Greece uh Sunday
August 18th and then the last um season
the last event at music Haven is going
to be our own SKC mopco improv show so
that will be on Saturday August 24th
there are however three films we started
a film series a couple years ago um so
there's a Bollywood night on Friday
August 23rd there's Reggae on Friday
August 30th um and then paint the park
pink on Friday September 6th it's just a
coincidence that I'm wearing a pink
Blazer but uh that is going to be a
showing of the Barbie movie so I think
that'll be a lot of fun as well um and
then I wanted to also mention that the
health and Recreation committee is still
working on making
recommendations um for fees and rules um
for the pools and that will not take uh
none of that will be in effect until
summer of 2025 but I just wanted to let
folks know that uh that's still an
ongoing discussion thank
you thank you Mr
Toro thank you
so I just like to um I chair the public
Serv services and util ilities committee
so I just want to give a brief overall
of you know uh the water and sore here
in the city um I'd like to do that every
so often just to keep uh the residents
and uh everyone informed of what
happened so just some facts about what
we
doou okay um so the the the Department
of Water and sore oversees all aspects
of the city's Water and Sewer
infrastructure including the operation
of the city's Water Resource and
recovery facility also known as
wrrf they oversee seven sewage pumping
stations and the operations of the
city's water supply and pumping system
from 12 water wells located on Rice
Road the city's sword division consists
of
43 full-time employees and is
responsible for maintaining over 320
miles of sanitary and storm sores
throughout our city including manholes
and catch
basins sewer wrrf Personnel are also
responsible for the
247 operations of the city's
wrrf as a result this is very
interesting of the August 9th 2024 rain
event the city's
wrrf recorded flows through the plant at
52 million
gallons which was a record for the
plant in 2024 the city was awarded over
$26 million in Grants for major Capital
Improvement projects the Washington
Avenue storm water pump station and the
wrrf project since the start of the 2024
s department has made again some
interesting facts over 20 sewer
repairs over 50 catch Basin repairs and
again with our aging infrastructure here
in the here in the city it's um
important that we have the personnel and to to handle all these things
they've responded to over 300 emergency
SE calls cleaned over two 200 catch
basins and performed
$2,000 plus of $20,000 plus feet of
closed circuit TV and inspections
through pipes and they've provided
numerous water utility
locations our City's water department
which we all know we're we're famous for
our water drinking water here in the
city um the city's Water Division
consists of 19 fulltime employees and
it's responsible for pumping water
reservoir distribution meter readings
and plumbing inspections of the city's
drinking water system Water Division
staff is responsible for Main
maintaining over 180 miles of
distribution throughout Mains throughout
the city and approximately 2500 fire
hydrants and over 1,000 10,000 line
valves
2500 fire fire
hydrants in
2024 the city completed the drilling of
three new water wells at the Rice Road
well Fields capable of providing over
9,000 gallons per minute to the system
also in 2024 the drinking water fluoride
system upgrade was completed um talking
to some some of my uh daughter's friends
had stopped over last night on the front
porch and uh I said something about a
Tootsie Roll pulling out cavities and
they're like well we never had cavities
so my daughter's growing up in the city
had never had cavities so we have a
great fluoride
system um since this started 2024 the
water department has correlated and or
addressed 20 water main brakes which
I'll get to one that happened uh today
in a moment and replaced over 20 fire
hydrants and I also like to mention um
you know in going through the city if
you see a fire hydrant with a nub off or
some some problem um to always call the
fire department or the mayor's office so
we can have that fixed and
replaced um they replaced to repair over
20 system line gate valves over 20
Residential Water Service disconnects
and replace S yard hydrants perform
numerous sore Line locations and 60% of
the Citywide annual water flushing has
been completed already this
year and getting to the uh water main
break so I uh frequently drive around
the city um I really think it's my
responsibility also uh to stop and talk
to the um um workers um that are are our
crews that are out there on the street
um in all all kinds of weather whether
it's winter summer spring doesn't matter
uh fixing the uh water lines that may
have an issue um this morning I was
informed of a report of a low water
pressure by some residents in the 1600
block of the crane Street um quick drive
over and I was alerted of a water main
break below the
overpass um on Crane Street close to the
rer Dam line our water department was
able to shut the the lines down going to
the brake however the brake is very deep
and the city crews are not able to
handle that depth in
digging uh Carver was contacted to move
forward with an assessment and repair
and I spoke with the supervisor from car
uh Carver and they will bail into the
dense foliage to make a path down the
Ravine uh in the embankment to repair
the uh water main breake
uh the railroad tracks run light right
alongside the break and Amtrak visited
the site and will most likely have an
individual there viewing as Carver digs
and repairs the main this is a major
break and fortunately there is only one
business that is currently without water
on Crane Street as of 5:00 tonight
Carver had Manpower and equipment on
site and at this time uh they're not
able to give us um an appropriate time
frame for
um but I will keep the U mayor's office
updated when I find out and I'm sure
he'll be able to put out um some
information regarding that thank
you thank you other council
members
mayor thank you Madame President uh
appreciate everyone coming out uh the
weather has shifted a little bit uh
where it's more pleasant hopefully
people will get to uh enjoy the last
days of summer enjoy the Investments
that we've made in our Park system the
venues that are in downtown and that a
lot of the good things that are not only
happening in the city of SKC but
throughout the capitol District thank
you madam president thank you uh I want
to uh thank everyone for coming out
tonight to making your concerns heard um
this is your place to do that so
appreciate you coming and we'll address
those that um we're able to address I do
also want to make a couple of uh
announcements in terms of things that
are going on through the rest of the
summer and first I'd like to
congratulate Community fathers on their
um father Festival that that they had
this this weekend it's an annual event
that they do held around city hall and
um just making awareness of the
organization and the service that they
provide to fathers probably um more than
um uh others but to fathers who are you
know the heads of families and so it's
uh it was a good event so I I just want
to congratulate them on that
wanted to remind people of a couple of
things that are happening a few things
that are happening that throughout the
summer first of all the common Unity cup
which has been ongoing for five weeks is
having their next event tomorrow it's
going to be held at Jerry Burell Park
and this sport will be volleyball
dodgeball and we're going to throw in
some tennis so it's going to be held at
Jerry Burell Park tomorrow evening I
believe starting that at that it's going
to started at 5 o'clock on
um August 17th this connected living
history 19th century
African-Americans uh event is going to
be held at the Historical Society at 32
Washington Avenue and it starts at 300
pm. and um on the 24th the new bethl
Community Church is having their
inaugural Community impact collaboration
in Central Park starting at 11:00 a.m.
going to 400 p.m. food trunks f food
trucks face painting vendors and
Community leadership awards will be
given out so it's uh free and open to
the public and it's given Again by new
bethl Community Church which is at 2020
Broadway and then finally I would like
to announce uh something in um
initiative that's been put forth by
council member Carl Williams $1 haircuts
for kids going back to school uh they
have three barber shops that that's
going to be offering these haircuts and
this has been funded by the sponsors of
the SKC Foundation the SKC City School
District the SKC fire department and the
SKC Police Department so again there is
some investment on behalf of the
families they do it is a dollar but
haircuts cost a lot more than a dollar
so this is an event for people to be
able to bring their children back to
school and have them um you know looking
good to return to school so $1 haircut
starting on September 1st so it's over
three days at different shops September
1st 2nd and 3D
and we'll I'll have Flyers at the next
meeting and uh you can also find those
flyers online at least on my Facebook
page and um on the Facebook page for
councilman Williams as
well uh that is all I have and with that
I would ask for a motion to adjourn
moved by Miss Patrick second by Mr
manini all those in favor I we are
adjourn thank
you have a good evening
is that everything
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