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[2:58] got
[3:13] I'd like to call the city Caucus meeting
[3:14] to order for Monday August 12
[3:17] 2024 we have 10 items for consideration
[3:20] if the clerk would please read item
[3:22] number one item number one for original
[3:24] consideration an ordinance amending and
[3:26] restating the first supplemental Bond
[3:28] ordinance for the right Road treatment
[3:30] plant discussed in committee without
[3:33] objection on consent item number two under final
[3:36] consideration and ORD ordinance pursuant
[3:39] to section 99 of the SEC second class
[3:41] City's law to change the street name of
[3:43] Barrett Village Lane to to Luigi Lane
[3:46] discussed in committee without objection
[3:48] on consent item number three item number
[3:50] three for original consideration a
[3:52] resolution adopting the 20124 2025
[3:55] annual action plan discussed in
[3:57] committee with objection on consent item
[4:00] number four item number four for
[4:01] original consideration the resolution
[4:03] authorizing the mayor to accept a
[4:05] transfer of
[4:06] $40,000 and give Grant award monies from
[4:09] the connected Police Department
[4:11] discussed in committee with objection on
[4:13] consent item number five item number
[4:15] five for original consideration a
[4:17] resolution authorizing the preparation
[4:19] of a preliminary engineering report for
[4:21] the downtown district Pump Station
[4:23] monitorization project discussed in
[4:26] committee with objection on consent item
[4:28] number six item it number six under
[4:30] original consideration a resolution
[4:32] authorizing the standardization of
[4:34] specifications for personal protective
[4:37] equipment turnout gear for this
[4:38] connected fire
[4:40] department discussed in committee with
[4:42] objection on consent item number seven for original
[4:46] consideration a resolution awarding
[4:48] contracts for the towing service for the
[4:50] connected Police Department discuss in
[4:53] committee with objection on consent item
[4:55] number eight item number eight under
[4:57] original consideration a resolution
[4:59] amending resolution 2022-2023 to amend
[5:02] the funding commitment for young women's
[5:05] Christian Association of SKC DBA y YWCA
[5:09] Northeastern New York discussed in
[5:12] committee with objection on consent item
[5:14] number nine item number nine for
[5:16] original consideration a resolution
[5:17] authorizing an agreement with the
[5:19] Capital District YMCA for the 2025 HUD
[5:22] Continuum of Care discuss in committee
[5:24] with objection on consent item number 10 under contract and supply
[5:29] resolution awarding the bid and contract
[5:31] for the Central Parkway roadway
[5:33] Improvement base bid and Alternate one
[5:35] to William J Keller and Sons
[5:36] Incorporated in the amount of 1,
[5:40] 74 100,000 um
[5:44] 34 discuss in committee with objection
[5:46] on consent if there's nothing more to
[5:49] come before the city council caucus I
[5:51] will ask for motion to
[5:52] adjourn second by Miss Patrick all those
[5:55] in favor I we are adjourned
[5:59] I'd like to call the city council
[6:01] meeting to order for Monday August 12th
[6:03] 2020
[6:04] 2024 and I'd like to ask Father James
[6:07] kiniki of Holy Name of Jesus for the
[6:09] prayer and
[6:14] invocation Lord we thank you for this
[6:17] beautiful season a season of
[6:19] Thanksgiving for the produce of the land
[6:22] for flowers herbs and vegetables that
[6:24] are so abundant we thank you for fairs
[6:27] festivals and celebrations of our rich
[6:29] culture we thank you for those who share
[6:32] so richly so that the fruitfulness of
[6:34] the earth Avail may be made available to
[6:36] any in need thank you for food pantries
[6:40] green markets and all those who
[6:42] volunteer at and support them most of
[6:45] all we thank you for your constant care
[6:47] for us in all things amen amen I'd like
[6:52] to ask uh councilman M to lead us in the
[6:54] Pledge of
[6:55] Allegiance my pledge aliance to the flag
[6:58] of the United States of America and to
[7:01] the Republic from which it stands one
[7:04] nation under God indivisible with
[7:07] liberty and justice for
[7:10] all thank
[7:12] you if the clerk could please complete
[7:15] the roll
[7:15] call Mr
[7:18] Toro Mr Farley is absent Mr
[7:23] Mancini Mr McAn pres Miss Patrick here
[7:28] Mr Williams is absent Miss Porterfield
[7:31] here thank you i' ask for approval of
[7:34] the minutes for July 22nd
[7:37] 2024 move by m
[7:39] mudaron second by Miss Patrick all in
[7:41] favor I and I this time I'll call
[7:44] council members for to provide any
[7:46] committee
[7:53] reports
[7:56] okay that's okay no problem
[8:06] at this time we'll have privilege of the
[8:08] floor related to the legislative
[8:19] agenda I do have one person that signed
[8:21] up to speak on the legislative agenda
[8:23] however um sir if I understand correctly
[8:27] what you want to speak on is not on the
[8:28] legislative AG agenda so it become under
[8:30] regular City business okay all right no
[8:34] it's not a
[8:35] problem
[8:37] [Laughter]
[8:40] it's all
[8:43] right okay since there's no one signed
[8:47] up to speak I'll declare the public
[8:48] comment on the legislative agenda
[8:51] closed at this time I like to ask for
[8:54] approval of the legislative consent
[8:56] agenda move by Mr mudin second by m
[8:59] Patrick all those in favor
[9:06] I and now we will have privilege over
[9:08] the floor regarding General City
[9:10] business and Mr wadell I will call you
[9:12] first because your online submission
[9:14] came in days ago I have four people that
[9:17] are signed up to
[9:18] speak thank you good evening to the
[9:20] mayor and the common
[9:22] Council um I just want to take a second
[9:25] to thank Mr Mutan am I saying that
[9:29] correct L Mrs Carmel Patrick Dorene
[9:33] Doro um Carl Williams and Maran
[9:37] Porterfield all of who uh were gracious
[9:41] enough to call me or my wife and take
[9:43] the time to speak to us about our our
[9:46] matter um with getting a ceremonial
[9:50] street sign on uh the last Street of
[9:53] Barrett the last block of Barrett Street
[9:55] going into hon Street um we're looking
[9:58] to get a cere monial street sign for
[10:01] marleene Hill way so I really appreciate
[10:04] the time you guys took to answer our
[10:05] questions I know we were probably a pain
[10:08] uh we were confusing ourselves with all
[10:10] the information we were getting uh the
[10:13] clerk was helpful the mayor's assistant
[10:15] was helpful um and we appreciate your
[10:18] time we did take the time to uh
[10:24] yesterday me and my wife spent better
[10:27] part of the full day uh traveling
[10:30] through that neighborhood and getting
[10:32] signatures we got 65 here and another 30
[10:37] that we didn't get a chance to get be
[10:38] prior to this this meeting they're all
[10:41] from Barrett Street Park Place hon
[10:45] Street um the people at the Sawmill
[10:48] Tavern were extremely helpful I'd like
[10:50] to thank them take a second to thank
[10:52] them L was she knew Marlene some of the
[10:56] people in the neighborhood remember
[10:57] Luigi's and they referred to it as being
[10:59] a city
[11:01] landmark and uh they also remember
[11:05] Marlene and a lot of people had kind
[11:07] things to say that neighborhood there's a wide variety of people ages
[11:11] racist everybody was we got two NOS one
[11:15] person said no because his dogs were
[11:17] trying to get out of the house and
[11:19] another uh person I don't think really
[11:21] knew what we were trying to accomplish
[11:22] but the overwhelming support we got
[11:25] walking the streets of that Community we
[11:27] on honestly we were yeah shocked so I I
[11:31] just want to thank that neighborhood for
[11:32] being so receptive uh our first
[11:35] signature happened to be by Chance the
[11:37] mayor's
[11:38] brother um Barett Village Lane there's
[11:42] about five residences there that are
[11:44] currently occupied the rest I believe
[11:47] are being sold but they're not currently
[11:49] occupied we got two out of the five the
[11:51] other three were not home the rest of
[11:53] the block there's a lot of vacancies
[11:55] there's some empty lots on the other
[11:56] side so we did the best we could to get
[11:59] signatures from everybody that's
[12:01] actually living on that block I think we
[12:03] did extremely well considering here on
[12:05] Street same thing a lot of empty lots a
[12:08] lot of vacant
[12:09] apartments uh we did the best we could
[12:12] there as well so we spent a lot of time
[12:15] you know it was kind of like let's just
[12:17] go see what we can do we started with no
[12:19] signatures and by the end of the day
[12:21] we're
[12:22] enthusiastically uh happy with the
[12:25] outcome so we put in some work yesterday
[12:28] I don't think there's anybody in that
[12:29] neighborhood that's going to be I highly
[12:32] doubt will get any arguments on on on
[12:34] our proposal I guess one of our
[12:36] questions would be do we still have to
[12:37] file an application because we received
[12:39] some news from uh Mr Matan and uh Mrs
[12:44] Porterfield prior to the meeting so do
[12:48] we still have to file an application or
[12:50] is it going to be put on the agenda I'm
[12:52] a little confused on that so um this
[12:56] it's not a it's we don't have a
[12:57] conversation here so we you could put
[12:59] the question before us and then we'll
[13:00] get back to you with the information
[13:02] okay okay okay uh I guess you know we
[13:06] receed that sorry I keep dropping the
[13:08] pen uh we received that information
[13:10] prior to the meeting so I don't know
[13:12] that there was a whole lot of reason for
[13:13] us to get up here but we did want to
[13:15] talk about the signatures and the
[13:16] support we got in that community so
[13:18] altogether if we get the other three
[13:20] sheets we're almost at 100 signatures in
[13:22] one day so if we press a city I'm sure
[13:25] we could get 500 if need be I'm hoping
[13:28] we don't don't need the 500 but if we
[13:31] have to go out in the city is connec and
[13:33] get 400 more we'll do that but so I
[13:36] appreciate your time thank you thank you
[13:39] thank
[13:49] you Ed Leen
[13:54] Jr good evening I've been here several
[13:57] times seeking your help with corrupt
[13:59] civil court judges you all swear an oath
[14:02] to the Constitution I brought you
[14:03] positive proof of their crimes of
[14:05] obstruction of governmental
[14:06] Administration and conspiracy deprived
[14:09] me of my constitution rights of due
[14:10] process and a fair hearing mayor has
[14:13] said he has no jurisdiction over judges
[14:16] really he appointed Tanica Frost to be a
[14:19] judge he awarded phao his judgeship
[14:21] because he tore down a building on State
[14:23] Street I'm sorry he ran on
[14:25] opposed mayor is chief law enforcement
[14:28] officer in SK
[14:29] how can you refuse to meet with me how
[14:31] can you refuse to press charges against
[14:33] Frost and falo Hoffman retired he can
[14:36] still be charged because the obstructed
[14:38] Justice tenica Frost signed a motion
[14:40] without proof of
[14:41] service clerk waited out motion need
[14:44] proof of service she signed a second
[14:47] motion and forced the clerk to mail it
[14:49] to me Frost knew she was breaking the
[14:51] law she was chief administrative law
[14:53] judge and director of The Office of
[14:55] administrative hearings at New York
[14:56] Department of State
[14:59] valo cannot act on Frost motion there is
[15:02] no Affidavit of service defendant cannot
[15:05] get back in court without reason for not
[15:06] appearing at first Herring where I was
[15:08] awarded a default judgment valo cannot
[15:11] vacate my default judgment without a
[15:13] hering mayor you have kept my ethics
[15:16] complaints out of the paper and had them
[15:17] denied without them being heard County
[15:20] attorney Gardner has kept my ethics
[15:22] complaints away from County ethics board
[15:24] even though he doesn't have the
[15:25] authority to do so da Carney has said IO
[15:29] and frost have not committed a crime as
[15:31] has us attorney
[15:33] Barnett you all may think I'm wasting my
[15:36] time here I'm not there's no time limit
[15:38] for a conspiracy to deprive
[15:40] constitutional rights and all of you are
[15:42] co-conspirators for not honoring your
[15:44] oath of office and helping me I'm going
[15:47] to use these uh Council meetings as
[15:49] evidence I promise if you if Trump gets
[15:51] elected you will all be out of a job and
[15:54] mayor instead of you being in a bar at
[15:55] lunchtime you will be behind bars
[15:59] you are the most corrupt mayor in the
[16:01] United States of America ASK 1100 St
[16:03] Clair's pensioners what they think about
[16:05] all the help you have given them or the
[16:07] amber alert for a 14y sir there's no
[16:09] personal attacks here no personal
[16:11] attacks no personal
[16:14] attacks how is that a personal attack
[16:16] it's a truth it you may not do that okay
[16:20] I have the right to be heard when I have
[16:21] a crime committed against me yes he must
[16:23] me with me so I am not going to argue
[16:26] with you but well I will state again no
[16:27] personal attacks you know right and if
[16:29] it continues then I will ask you to
[16:31] remove yourself from the
[16:32] podium can I finish as long as there's
[16:36] no personal
[16:38] attacks or the cop who uh shot a citizen
[16:41] in the back of the head killed him no
[16:43] charges I had been Stonewall for four
[16:45] years I have the right to have my
[16:47] complaint heard when there's a
[16:49] conspiracy to deprive me of my
[16:50] constitutional
[16:54] rights New York panal law 195 fisherman
[16:57] conduct
[16:59] a public servant is guilty of official
[17:01] misconduct Wang with intent to obtain a
[17:03] benefit or deprive another person of a
[17:05] benefit he commits an act relating to
[17:07] his office but constituting an
[17:09] unauthorized exercise of His official
[17:11] functions knowing that such his act is
[17:13] unauthorized that's valo and frost he
[17:16] know knowingly refrains from performing
[17:18] a duty which is imposed upon Him by law
[17:21] or is clearly inherent in a nature of
[17:23] his office that's attorney's carder
[17:25] Garder Barnett FBI Commission on
[17:28] judicial conduct attorney grievance
[17:30] committee the mayor and the city council
[17:33] your time is
[17:34] expired thank you you're
[17:40] welcome
[17:48] San oh my
[17:51] God this is not a short friendly Podium
[17:55] okay hi my name is SWA KH and I don't
[17:59] have much else to say except yesterday
[18:01] was one of the deadliest days in Gaza
[18:03] surpassing the day before that and the
[18:05] day before that and every day for the
[18:07] last 10 months I am also currently
[18:10] selling crocheted keychains hair
[18:12] accessories and flags all proceeds going
[18:14] to a Palestinian family who need the
[18:16] funds to leave their besieged Homeland
[18:18] including an 11-year-old girl with
[18:20] cerebral paly who has not received
[18:22] adequate Medical Care in the last 10
[18:24] months so far we've raised over $600 and
[18:27] are still accepting orders through my
[18:28] social media first name last name 22 I
[18:32] want to thank this connect Albany and
[18:34] Saratoga community members who made all
[18:36] these donations possible um I said that
[18:39] I wasn't going away until we got our
[18:41] bare minimum request met by this body um
[18:44] so until you all passed a ceasefire
[18:46] resolution um I will continue reading
[18:48] the names of the murdered the lives that
[18:50] are too controversial for this body to
[18:53] take action be in behalf
[18:56] of and I'm picking up where I left off
[19:00] last time these are all from Al jazer
[19:01] you can find them
[19:03] online KH
[19:06] muhamed less than one years
[19:08] olda B YF Abu
[19:12] M less than one years old L
[19:17] Mahmud Alami less than one years
[19:20] oldan Abdul rman Jad massan less than
[19:24] one years old Ana Mahmud Ahmed Ali
[19:29] less than one years old Hamza Muhammad
[19:32] Abdul Hamed as less than one years old
[19:35] Salma ibraim bam Shaban less than one
[19:40] years old Muhammad Hussein Muhammad Abu
[19:43] hammed less than one years old Aid
[19:46] Hussein Muhammad Abu hammad less than
[19:49] one years old Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed dul
[19:53] less than 1 years
[19:54] old Muhammad Fadi Jihad rdwan less than
[19:58] one years old ail Muhammad J de less
[20:03] than one years
[20:05] old Muhammad n Al Yahya alad less than
[20:09] one years old Muhammad Hamed nidal aliwa
[20:13] less than one years old Elena Muhammed
[20:17] Nabil mam less than one years old ABD
[20:20] rman Samir Sal less than one years old
[20:24] Omar Jad Omar
[20:26] altini less than one years old wa yya
[20:30] khed Abu less than one years old mik
[20:35] Abdul Salam Ali Abu less than one years
[20:38] old Huda Mustafa Haim Abu less than one
[20:42] years old Miss Abdul Sami
[20:46] Ali less than one years old Omar Ahmed
[20:50] Abdul Nasser sham less than 1 years old
[20:55] ibraim Amar sad alar less than 1 years
[20:58] old
[21:02] may they rest in peace you have the
[21:05] power to do
[21:06] something thank
[21:08] you Frank
[21:24] Wicks we can see now how much how
[21:27] important why is leadership
[21:29] is the day after October 7th the United
[21:34] our President should have caught up the
[21:37] Prime
[21:38] Minister and
[21:41] know convey our sorrow for the attack
[21:45] and uh off tell you all to have better
[21:48] security on that wall that
[21:51] separates Israel from their the people
[21:55] caged in on the other side also suggest
[21:58] that
[21:59] might stop building those provocative
[22:01] settlements on the West Bank and uh also
[22:06] offer to work with Israel for an
[22:08] exchange of hostages for political
[22:12] prisoners
[22:14] uh our president was not that wise and
[22:17] probably not enough people were wise
[22:19] what he did was he boarded
[22:22] our Air Force One went over to Israel
[22:27] hugged to the Prime
[22:29] Minister offered to give all the support
[22:32] and weapons they need what have they
[22:34] done since then they've killed about
[22:38] 40,000 mostly
[22:40] innocent know women and children some es
[22:43] me might be under up to 200,000 if you
[22:45] look under the rubble and where they
[22:48] stand right now Israel is no better off
[22:52] they're far worse off than it would be
[22:54] otherwise and where in the last week
[22:59] they assassin they basically murdered
[23:02] you know Palestinian leaders in Iran and
[23:06] in
[23:07] Lebanon and uh to provoke a to to
[23:12] provoke a war with
[23:14] Iran uh the way it stands right now is
[23:19] uh the world believes that uh Iran's
[23:22] ready to attack uh they they may be wise
[23:25] enough not to and uh Iran does not want
[23:29] a war Lebanon does not want want a war
[23:32] United States does not want want a war
[23:35] Israel wants a war Israel wants a war so
[23:38] the Prime Minister ST power because the
[23:41] only way Israel can exist is continue
[23:43] War so long as the war continues they'll
[23:46] continue to get support from the United
[23:48] States once that stops uh Israel is
[23:51] going to have to you know basically make
[23:54] peace with the
[23:55] neighbors uh thank you
[23:59] thank
[24:00] you I have no one else signed up to
[24:03] speak so I declare the public comment on
[24:04] City business
[24:06] closed uh we did Overlook Communications
[24:08] and petitions so I'd ask the clerk to
[24:10] give us any Communications and petitions
[24:11] at this time Communications presented to
[24:15] the city council for Monday August 12th
[24:16] 2024 under official there were none
[24:19] under General there were none and under
[24:20] petitions there were none thank you
[24:23] miscellaneous business of the
[24:25] council Miss Patrick
[24:31] thank
[24:32] you I'd like to uh acknowledge and thank
[24:35] Reverend kikki um the the new food
[24:38] pantry that I've mentioned here uh in
[24:41] previous weeks is actually housed at
[24:43] Holy Name of Jesus and I appreciate uh
[24:45] you and your uh parishioners allowing
[24:48] the food pantry to come in and and use
[24:50] the space at Holy Name of Jesus so thank
[24:53] you for that um so music Haven had its
[24:56] summer social yesterday um our city
[24:59] engineer Chris Wallen was honored this
[25:01] year as the music Haven Maven uh which
[25:04] is our annual uh our annual award um for
[25:08] all the work that he has done not only
[25:10] at music Haven not only at Central Park
[25:12] but uh throughout the city park so uh we
[25:15] had a very nice crowd largest crowd that
[25:17] we've had there are still uh three
[25:20] concerts left uh at music Haven and if
[25:23] you haven't ever been to a music Haven
[25:26] concert I really encourage you they free
[25:28] really fantastic uh music this week on
[25:32] Friday there's a Blues Barbecue with the
[25:34] blood brothers that's Friday August 16th
[25:37] uh on Sunday night uh it's band Magda
[25:41] this year uh which is a Greek uh group
[25:45] coming in came in from Greece uh Sunday
[25:47] August 18th and then the last um season
[25:51] the last event at music Haven is going
[25:53] to be our own SKC mopco improv show so
[25:57] that will be on Saturday August 24th
[26:00] there are however three films we started
[26:02] a film series a couple years ago um so
[26:05] there's a Bollywood night on Friday
[26:07] August 23rd there's Reggae on Friday
[26:10] August 30th um and then paint the park
[26:14] pink on Friday September 6th it's just a
[26:16] coincidence that I'm wearing a pink
[26:18] Blazer but uh that is going to be a
[26:20] showing of the Barbie movie so I think
[26:22] that'll be a lot of fun as well um and
[26:25] then I wanted to also mention that the
[26:27] health and Recreation committee is still
[26:29] working on making
[26:30] recommendations um for fees and rules um
[26:34] for the pools and that will not take uh
[26:38] none of that will be in effect until
[26:39] summer of 2025 but I just wanted to let
[26:41] folks know that uh that's still an
[26:43] ongoing discussion thank
[26:46] you thank you Mr
[26:49] Toro thank you
[26:52] so I just like to um I chair the public
[26:56] Serv services and util ilities committee
[26:59] so I just want to give a brief overall
[27:01] of you know uh the water and sore here
[27:04] in the city um I'd like to do that every
[27:06] so often just to keep uh the residents
[27:09] and uh everyone informed of what
[27:10] happened so just some facts about what
[27:13] we
[27:16] doou okay um so the the the Department
[27:20] of Water and sore oversees all aspects
[27:23] of the city's Water and Sewer
[27:26] infrastructure including the operation
[27:28] of the city's Water Resource and
[27:30] recovery facility also known as
[27:34] wrrf they oversee seven sewage pumping
[27:38] stations and the operations of the
[27:40] city's water supply and pumping system
[27:43] from 12 water wells located on Rice
[27:47] Road the city's sword division consists
[27:50] of
[27:51] 43 full-time employees and is
[27:54] responsible for maintaining over 320
[27:57] miles of sanitary and storm sores
[28:00] throughout our city including manholes
[28:03] and catch
[28:05] basins sewer wrrf Personnel are also
[28:09] responsible for the
[28:11] 247 operations of the city's
[28:15] wrrf as a result this is very
[28:18] interesting of the August 9th 2024 rain
[28:22] event the city's
[28:24] wrrf recorded flows through the plant at
[28:28] 52 million
[28:31] gallons which was a record for the
[28:34] plant in 2024 the city was awarded over
[28:37] $26 million in Grants for major Capital
[28:41] Improvement projects the Washington
[28:44] Avenue storm water pump station and the
[28:47] wrrf project since the start of the 2024
[28:52] s department has made again some
[28:54] interesting facts over 20 sewer
[28:58] repairs over 50 catch Basin repairs and
[29:03] again with our aging infrastructure here
[29:05] in the here in the city it's um
[29:07] important that we have the personnel and to to handle all these things
[29:12] they've responded to over 300 emergency
[29:15] SE calls cleaned over two 200 catch
[29:19] basins and performed
[29:22] $2,000 plus of $20,000 plus feet of
[29:26] closed circuit TV and inspections
[29:28] through pipes and they've provided
[29:31] numerous water utility
[29:34] locations our City's water department
[29:36] which we all know we're we're famous for
[29:38] our water drinking water here in the
[29:40] city um the city's Water Division
[29:42] consists of 19 fulltime employees and
[29:45] it's responsible for pumping water
[29:48] reservoir distribution meter readings
[29:51] and plumbing inspections of the city's
[29:53] drinking water system Water Division
[29:56] staff is responsible for Main
[29:58] maintaining over 180 miles of
[30:01] distribution throughout Mains throughout
[30:03] the city and approximately 2500 fire
[30:07] hydrants and over 1,000 10,000 line
[30:10] valves
[30:12] 2500 fire fire
[30:15] hydrants in
[30:17] 2024 the city completed the drilling of
[30:20] three new water wells at the Rice Road
[30:23] well Fields capable of providing over
[30:27] 9,000 gallons per minute to the system
[30:31] also in 2024 the drinking water fluoride
[30:34] system upgrade was completed um talking
[30:38] to some some of my uh daughter's friends
[30:41] had stopped over last night on the front
[30:43] porch and uh I said something about a
[30:46] Tootsie Roll pulling out cavities and
[30:48] they're like well we never had cavities
[30:50] so my daughter's growing up in the city
[30:52] had never had cavities so we have a
[30:54] great fluoride
[30:56] system um since this started 2024 the
[30:59] water department has correlated and or
[31:02] addressed 20 water main brakes which
[31:04] I'll get to one that happened uh today
[31:07] in a moment and replaced over 20 fire
[31:12] hydrants and I also like to mention um
[31:15] you know in going through the city if
[31:17] you see a fire hydrant with a nub off or
[31:19] some some problem um to always call the
[31:22] fire department or the mayor's office so
[31:24] we can have that fixed and
[31:25] replaced um they replaced to repair over
[31:28] 20 system line gate valves over 20
[31:32] Residential Water Service disconnects
[31:34] and replace S yard hydrants perform
[31:37] numerous sore Line locations and 60% of
[31:41] the Citywide annual water flushing has
[31:43] been completed already this
[31:46] year and getting to the uh water main
[31:48] break so I uh frequently drive around
[31:51] the city um I really think it's my
[31:53] responsibility also uh to stop and talk
[31:56] to the um um workers um that are are our
[32:01] crews that are out there on the street
[32:03] um in all all kinds of weather whether
[32:05] it's winter summer spring doesn't matter
[32:08] uh fixing the uh water lines that may
[32:10] have an issue um this morning I was
[32:12] informed of a report of a low water
[32:14] pressure by some residents in the 1600
[32:17] block of the crane Street um quick drive
[32:20] over and I was alerted of a water main
[32:23] break below the
[32:25] overpass um on Crane Street close to the
[32:27] rer Dam line our water department was
[32:30] able to shut the the lines down going to
[32:32] the brake however the brake is very deep
[32:36] and the city crews are not able to
[32:38] handle that depth in
[32:40] digging uh Carver was contacted to move
[32:43] forward with an assessment and repair
[32:45] and I spoke with the supervisor from car
[32:48] uh Carver and they will bail into the
[32:50] dense foliage to make a path down the
[32:53] Ravine uh in the embankment to repair
[32:55] the uh water main breake
[32:58] uh the railroad tracks run light right
[33:00] alongside the break and Amtrak visited
[33:03] the site and will most likely have an
[33:05] individual there viewing as Carver digs
[33:07] and repairs the main this is a major
[33:10] break and fortunately there is only one
[33:13] business that is currently without water
[33:16] on Crane Street as of 5:00 tonight
[33:19] Carver had Manpower and equipment on
[33:21] site and at this time uh they're not
[33:24] able to give us um an appropriate time
[33:27] frame for
[33:28] um but I will keep the U mayor's office
[33:31] updated when I find out and I'm sure
[33:33] he'll be able to put out um some
[33:35] information regarding that thank
[33:39] you thank you other council
[33:42] members
[33:45] mayor thank you Madame President uh
[33:48] appreciate everyone coming out uh the
[33:51] weather has shifted a little bit uh
[33:53] where it's more pleasant hopefully
[33:55] people will get to uh enjoy the last
[33:57] days of summer enjoy the Investments
[34:00] that we've made in our Park system the
[34:02] venues that are in downtown and that a
[34:05] lot of the good things that are not only
[34:06] happening in the city of SKC but
[34:08] throughout the capitol District thank
[34:10] you madam president thank you uh I want
[34:13] to uh thank everyone for coming out
[34:15] tonight to making your concerns heard um
[34:18] this is your place to do that so
[34:19] appreciate you coming and we'll address
[34:22] those that um we're able to address I do
[34:25] also want to make a couple of uh
[34:28] announcements in terms of things that
[34:30] are going on through the rest of the
[34:31] summer and first I'd like to
[34:33] congratulate Community fathers on their
[34:36] um father Festival that that they had
[34:37] this this weekend it's an annual event
[34:39] that they do held around city hall and
[34:42] um just making awareness of the
[34:43] organization and the service that they
[34:45] provide to fathers probably um more than
[34:48] um uh others but to fathers who are you
[34:51] know the heads of families and so it's
[34:53] uh it was a good event so I I just want
[34:56] to congratulate them on that
[34:58] wanted to remind people of a couple of
[34:59] things that are happening a few things
[35:01] that are happening that throughout the
[35:02] summer first of all the common Unity cup
[35:05] which has been ongoing for five weeks is
[35:08] having their next event tomorrow it's
[35:10] going to be held at Jerry Burell Park
[35:13] and this sport will be volleyball
[35:15] dodgeball and we're going to throw in
[35:17] some tennis so it's going to be held at
[35:19] Jerry Burell Park tomorrow evening I
[35:21] believe starting that at that it's going
[35:22] to started at 5 o'clock on
[35:25] um August 17th this connected living
[35:30] history 19th century
[35:32] African-Americans uh event is going to
[35:34] be held at the Historical Society at 32
[35:37] Washington Avenue and it starts at 300
[35:41] pm. and um on the 24th the new bethl
[35:46] Community Church is having their
[35:49] inaugural Community impact collaboration
[35:51] in Central Park starting at 11:00 a.m.
[35:55] going to 400 p.m. food trunks f food
[35:57] trucks face painting vendors and
[36:00] Community leadership awards will be
[36:02] given out so it's uh free and open to
[36:04] the public and it's given Again by new
[36:06] bethl Community Church which is at 2020
[36:09] Broadway and then finally I would like
[36:11] to announce uh something in um
[36:13] initiative that's been put forth by
[36:15] council member Carl Williams $1 haircuts
[36:18] for kids going back to school uh they
[36:21] have three barber shops that that's
[36:23] going to be offering these haircuts and
[36:26] this has been funded by the sponsors of
[36:28] the SKC Foundation the SKC City School
[36:32] District the SKC fire department and the
[36:34] SKC Police Department so again there is
[36:37] some investment on behalf of the
[36:38] families they do it is a dollar but
[36:40] haircuts cost a lot more than a dollar
[36:42] so this is an event for people to be
[36:44] able to bring their children back to
[36:45] school and have them um you know looking
[36:47] good to return to school so $1 haircut
[36:50] starting on September 1st so it's over
[36:53] three days at different shops September
[36:55] 1st 2nd and 3D
[36:58] and we'll I'll have Flyers at the next
[37:00] meeting and uh you can also find those
[37:02] flyers online at least on my Facebook
[37:04] page and um on the Facebook page for
[37:07] councilman Williams as
[37:09] well uh that is all I have and with that
[37:12] I would ask for a motion to adjourn
[37:15] moved by Miss Patrick second by Mr
[37:17] manini all those in favor I we are
[37:20] adjourn thank
[37:22] you have a good evening
[37:29] is that everything
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