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I'd like to call the city Caucus meeting
to order for Monday August 26 20
24 we have 10 items for original
consideration if the clerk would please
read item number one item number one for
original consideration a resolution
calling for a public hearing for the
close out of cdbg cares act funding for
and response to Corona virus through
increased Wi-Fi connectivity and in
underserved areas creation of
community in information Port portal
using public Wi-Fi and the launching of
StayWell teleah Health monitoring pilot
program discussed in committee with
objection on consent item number two for original
consideration a resolution amending
resolution 2022 214 regarding American
Rescue plan act Project
funding discussed in committee without
objection on consent item number three for original
consideration a resolution authorizing
the sale of a vacant lot at 115 Victory
Avenue for
$2,000 discussed in committee with
objection on consent item number four for original
consideration a resolution off
authorizing the sale of vacant lot at
845 Oakwood Avenue for
$2,500 discussed in committee with
objection and on consent item number
five item number five for original
consideration a resolution authorizing
the sale of 905 Francis Avenue for
$70,000 discussed in committee without
objection on consent item number six for original
consideration a resolution authorizing
the sale of 1044 helderberg Avenue for
$90,900
discussed in committee without objection
on consent item number seven item number
seven for original consideration a
resolution authorizing the sale of 1142
Cutler Street for
$26,500
discussed in committee with objection on
consent item number eight item number
eight for original consideration the
resolution authorizing the sale of 1210
First Avenue for
$50,000 discussed in committee with an
objection on consent item number nine under contract and
suppli a resolution awarding the bid and
contract for this connected City Hall
Clock Tower restoration to Midstate
Industries Ltd in the amount of
$58,000 discussed in committee without
objection on consent item number 10 item
number 10 under contract and Supply a
resolution awarding bid and contract for
this connected City Hall ventilation
replacement EC to S SW Burke electric
LLC in the amount of $39,375
discussed in committee without objection
and on consent if there's nothing more
to come before the city council caucus
I'll ask for motion to adjourn move by
Mr Williams
second by Mr mudin all those in favor I
we are adjourned I'd like to call the
city council meeting to order for Monday
August 26
2024 and I'd like to call on Pastor Gan
Nicole of duy Amy Zion church for the
invocation let us bow our heads
God as we come to this meeting tonight
we take a moment of
silence
recognizing that we serve those who have
a voice and those who have yet to find
their voice God we pray for all in this
community those who have been to City
Council meetings and those have yet to
come those who will learn of it God and
will take part and take their civic duty
and come Lord I pray tonight for every
council member and for the mayor I pray
for all the staff and those who work in
this building God lord I pray uh tonight
that as the business of the city Goes
Forth that you will guide lead and
direct that all things will be done in
the best interest of all residents
throughout the city Lord we thank you
for keeping us safe throughout the city
we pray for our young people as they
prepare to go back to school Lord we
pray that you would keep them safe
through the school year and we thank you
for keeping them safe throughout the
summer months Lord I pray tonight um for
all those who will speak all those who
will govern Lord I pray that you would
do this in all things in the matchless
and Powerful name of Jesus we do pray
amen amen I'd like to call on Greg
Davenport a former city employee to lead
us in the Pledge of Allegiance i al to
the flag United States am and
the one nation God indivisible with liy
and justice for all thank
you if the clerk could please complete
the roll call Mr Toro Mr Farley here Mr
manini here Mr muan pres Miss Patrick
here Mr Williams Miss Porterfield
here uh at this time I ask for approval
of the minutes of August 12th 202 4
moved by Miss
Patrick second by Mr Mancini all in
favor I if the clerk could please read
any Communications and petitions
Communications presented to the city
council for Monday August 26 2024 under
official there were none under General
there were none and under petitions
there were none thank you this time I'd
ask I'd like to call on council members
for any committee
reports go ahead Mr Toro
thank you so I just like to give the the
uh Council and uh those listening a
little update on the crane Street um
water main break that happened on August
12th so um it was reported on the 16
Hunter block of Crane Street our city
Crews quickly responded diverted the
water shut down any adjoining lines and
uh because of the location and the
severity of the Break um we hired in
Carver companies to look work along with
us so that that's all been uh maintained
and completed and uh the business that
was affected is uh has water back to it
again um last Friday we all received an
email regarding a um 7day shutdown on
Albany Street between South Brandy Wine
and South M uh South Elm Street due to a
um Wastewater sore line breakage so
after visiting the site on Friday and
then again today and speaking with Scott
the situation is is basically still
being addressed uh what happened was
last year uh that section of Albany
Street needed some repaving because of
humps in the road and of course the city
did their due diligence and set the
camera truck down into the into the
sewer line and there were no breaks and
everything was fine um the uh the uh
company that we hired out to did the
repair and there was a break reported on
Friday um at this time we've hired in
again Carver companies to uh assist with
the repair of a large blowout in the
line um I know there are currently no
residents or businesses being affected
by this um and it's expected to be
completed repair by Friday August 30th
um again I'd like to reiterate the the
fact that the city store division
consists of 43 full-time employees and
is responsible for maintaining over 320
miles of sanitary and storm Source
throughout the city as well as the 247
operation of the city's Water Resource
and recovery facility
wrrf and i' just like to say that I I'm
always grateful to all of our City's
employees and every department for the
diligent work that they perform whether
it be days nights weekends good weather
bad weather their unwavering unwavering
commitment to our city does not go
unnoticed and I thank them for their
hard work dedication and the countless
hours that they all put in to ensure our
city runs smoothly and
efficiently their efforts make a
significant difference here in the city
and they are always greatly appreciated
thank
you thank you Miss
Patrick yes just want to say that the
health and Recreation committee met
again uh a week ago uh August 19th um
and continues to uh come up with
thoughts about uh pool fees and pool
rules of course n nothing would go into
effect until the 2025 season with our
pools um but it was uh great to have
another meeting and we will still be
having at least one more meeting and
also looking for recommendations from
City staff uh thank you thank
you this time we'll have privilege of
the floor related to the legislative
agenda and I have two people signed up
to
speak first P first person is Pastor
Nicole John
Simone and
Emily um I just wanted um to say I I
stand here tonight to say thank you um
when I first came to connected as the
pastor of dor Memorial 5 years ago now
almost 6 years ago um I was amazed with
the amount of Outreach and Community
work that the members were able to do
with such little resources I mean
putting their own money together um
giving their clothes to people when they
needed clothes feeding people and things
like that and I just want to thank uh
city council I want to thank the mayor I
want to thank you for helping us to
expand that that now we'll be able to
help even more people and so I want to
thank you for that support and I want to
invite you to be with us on this journey
um and I know I send emails out you know
whenever we have events and things like
that you're always welcome to come
you're welcome to come as the work
starts on the building on everything
that we do because um we want you to see
this as it unfolds and we're excited to
be able to do this and I thank the
members of dor Memorial that are here
tonight um just to show that we are
appreciative and that um you're we're
going to show that this was this was a
good thing so that's what we wanted to
say thank you thank
you Lois
Mitchell good
evening I really uh wanted to step
forward on behalf of my church and the
fact that I live in skincity uh to thank
the city council and committees for the
effort they have made to be supportive
of our foundation's effort in the
Hamilton Hill
Community um as our pastor just said our
church has been in this community for
187 years and we have always reached out
to the members of our community in need
this opportunity that these funds are
providing will allow us to be even more
available to the members of our
community community in need I especially
want to remind us all of the difficulty
we all came through with the pandemic
our community in particular was hard hit
as were many other communities of color
in this state but we held together we
held clinics we held vaccination
programs just what we always do at Durie
and with these new funds that are coming
to us both from the city and the county
we hope we will be able to do so much
more so I just wanted to come forward
and thank you for the effort of
supporting us in this thank
you thank
you I have no one else signed up to
speak so I declare the public comment on
the legislative agenda
closed this time we'll ask for approval
of the uh legislative consent agenda
move by Mr M Baron second by Mr Williams
all those in favor I
now we will entertain business um
privilege of the floor regarding General
City business and I have two people
signed up to
speak Shane
wadell good evening common Council and
mayor
McCarthy I think you guys know at this
point what our proposal is I think we've
called or
emailed uh all of you and spoke so I'm
going to keep I'm going to make this
short and sweet um what started as a
small slice of hope for us to honor her grandmother and their grandmother
and and my father-in-law's mother
and uh my children's Grand great
grandmother
um has turned into a movement and we've
got a ton of support we started two
weeks ago the the guidelines for our
proposal stated that we had 180 days to
get a 500 signature minimum we got 688
in two
weeks uh I'd like to present them to the
clerk at this time if possible to record
them um so I I also want to thank all of
you we spoke to deanii somehow we missed
you on the sheet and I apologize that
wasn't an intentional slight uh and
everybody that's taken the time to
respond to our emails or or our calls I
want to thank you um we really just want
to see marleene Hill I want to stress I
just I do want to stress a point and
then I'm going to
close this proposal is not uh about
anything else but but honoring marleene
Hill for her contributions to a
community for over 50 years that's it
it's not about a business specifically
there's obviously a business that tied
her to that area for a long time but
this is about her and her contributions
to the community and we got hundreds of
signatures from the northern Corridor of
Union going from the bottom all the way
up to basically the NIS uni border and
that's the community that's going to
look at that sign if it goes up and
they're the ones that want to see it and
we hope that you
people you council members and the mayor
we hope you guys do the right thing and uh help us honor her the way she
should be honored so with that I thank
you for your time and God bless you
guys thank you
Frank
Wicks after after the attacks of October
7th our president our country really
felt the need for
solidarity so our president uh got an
Air Force One Flew Over to Israel hugged
the uh prime
minister uh pronounced himself to be a
proud
Zionist uh whatever that means what
means uh uh Israel ought to be uh a
parthe eally pure offer their weapons
and and in
support uh President also
noted uh what's been conveyed much is
the uh uh Hamas beheading
babies the record of that on October
11th he the president say he saw
pictures of terrorists beheading
children uh November 16 16 I saw
pictures of cutting baby heads off to
burn December 12th beheading infants
completely inhuman none of this ever
happened how do we know it never
happened every Israeli baby and Shout is
accounted
for so that's never happened it's a lie
but how many people believe
it
uh so so what what what has happened
is it's not a lie is Israel has used
their weapons to kill about 20,000 women
and
children
uh we have the no corpse and body parts
to prove
it
uh the president can't do anything
conquerors can't do anything the jobs
depend upon no no conveying the lies
whether they believe it or not they God
believes uh Israel wants no ceasefire
why don't they want a
ceasefire uh they their their endgame is
total cleansing of the entire land
territory from The River To The Sea
Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea
every day that every day without a Seas
fire is another opportunity to kill more
Palestinians and seize
land uh
so we we offer we suggested a a ceas
fire to the resolution to the uh City no
city council here I guess we thank them
for giving it some consideration even
though it hasn't happened uh it should
be uh it should continue to be
considered uh it probably won't result
in a ceasefire but it will show that
goingn cares
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 miscellaneous
business of the city council Mr
Williams thank you uh before I begin I'd
like to thank everyone that came out and
spoke tonight uh it's definitely your
right and privilege uh to come before us
and to present any issues or ongoing
business in the city uh and it's one
that I don't take lightly uh I wanted to
take a moment to announce
uh there's some sponsors for an upcoming
event I'd like to thank the sky Police
Department Sky fire department the sky
foundation and the SK city school
district for all partnering together to
offer dollar haircuts to all Sky City
youth uh under the ages of uh 18 so
School AED uh youth I'd like to thank uh
some barber shops uh for participating
uh so cuts and blinds high-profile and
Union Street Barber Shop uh and I also
want to take a moment to thank uh just
some shared thought Partners throughout
this entire process U Marian Porterfield
deanii Farley Johan Matthews and uh
Kenneth Brooks uh definitely this was a
collaborative effort and also I want to
make sure we highlight that there will
be uh food and entertainment uh hosted
by kitchen love in DJ
550 so upcoming events for the days um
anyone that's listening in September 1st
you can get a dollar haircut at cuts and
blends from 12: to 5: September 2nd you
can go to high-profile barber shop from 10: to 3:00 p.m. and on September
3rd at Union Street Barber Shop you can
get a haircut from 10: to 300 p.m. as
well uh so very excited uh in similar
fashion to Reverend John saone uh
definitely congratulations to the
students for going to an upcoming school
year I know for some of you School seems
like a daunting task uh but very much uh
you never stop learning I can say that
uh confidently as as someone in their
30s uh it is a process that continues on
throughout your life uh but definitely
understanding importance of starting the
school year off right and hopefully with
a fresh cut so if you have some time uh
please stop by uh and enjoy uh meeting
some of the sponsorship teams and
understanding that skanky truly is a
community that cares and uh enjoy uh
just the sponsorship of these prominent
organizations within our city so again
thank you to the sky Police Department
Sky fire department uh Sky foundation
and skti city school district for
stepping up thank you Miss Patrick yes I
just wanted to um read reate that we
still continue the council is still
looking at uh various uh things related
to Traffic Safety and that conversation
will continue we've had some
presentations by City staff uh and we
will be discussing that again uh at our
committee meeting on Monday as well and
then I also wanted to of course wish
everyone a a happy labor day uh thank
especially all of our uh union members
uh Labor Day is a a day to to to
celebrate all the work um especially
done by our by union members um and uh I
hope everybody enjoys a day off on Labor
Day as well
thanks Mr
Farley thank you thank you madam
president I just want to uh first of all
thank everyone that came out today to
speak um and those who are here your
presence has felt me uh appreciate it
greatly um as been said the school year
is starting up um and that means we have
a lot of exciting kids excited kids
going to be walking I just again kind of
to piggyback on what uh council member
Patrick was talking about is just that
um we want to just be safe morning
routines will look a little different so
through that adjustment period just make
sure that you're given some Grace and
remember I watched everyone's eyes light
up as Pastor Nikki came in with her baby
to remember that those those are
somebody's babies outside you know um so
just to be mindful of that um as in your
travels thank you
mayor thank you madam president follow
to Mr Farley with the school year
starting again we put in place a a bus
safety program when a school bus stops
and it turns its flashing lights on you
have to stop we have all too many people
who are driving by it in some of a
really Reckless manners uh they have the
cameras in place now they're documented
and it's a $250 fine it's a lot easier
if people would just comply you see a
school bus come to a full and complete
stop uh I also want to wish everyone a
happy labor day coming up this weekend
enjoy the holiday the weekend after that
uh September 7th big day in SKC uh we
have the Greek Fest the Little Italy
Fest uh The Stockade art show the
Caribbean fest in Central Park has
turned out to be uh Mr M and it's the
largest in the state we want people to
uh maybe we'll keep that a secret but
just don't tell anybody
Jen uh but uh and we also the city does
a health fair around City Hall that day
so want people to come out enjoy it
there's a lot of good activity uh
hopefully you get to uh see some old
friends meet some new friends and just
enjoy the uh things that are happening
in skty thank you madam president thank
you so every people have covered most of
what's going on uh coming up and you
know we did have a great summer I have
to say with so many activities with the
518 Unity cup so shout out to will Rivas
and the police department and the fire
department for uh organizing that
throughout the summer and having young
people having some and older people too
having some place to go um I'd like to
congratulate uh Pastor Vincent Teague on
the uh day that he put together in
Central Park for this past Saturday
Vincent teag Community everybody's using
the word community and I like that um
Community Day it was great um and they
honor people who were who have serving
the community so it was a really nice
day um we've talked about school and
about the the cameras uh um excuse me
the buses but I also want to just
reiterate about the speeding as Miss
Patrick talked about the children will
be Crossing and sometimes they won't
look from side to side so if we could
keep in mind even though we haven't got
gotten everything in place in terms of
lowering the speed limit but use use
caution please and um good sense in
terms of um making sure that our young
people and anyone is hurt by um a speed
car as they cross the street I'd also
like to offer condolences for in the
passing of several people actually uh
first of all Jim Conroy who was a member
of this city council actually for six
years many years ago but for six years
he served here and also Alice green who
was a person who labored in the field of
social justice for many many years and
there was a memorial to her this past
week this past Friday many people turned
out but just to honor the work that she
did in this community and also
condolences go out to the family of Gary
Hughes our a fellow colleague at the
Cy's in the County Legislature and the
loss of his wife Susan so I just wanted
to to mention that to know that um at
least my my prayers and thoughts go out
to all of those
families with that I'll entertain a
motion to
adjourn move by Miss Patrick second by
Mr Mancini all those in favor I we are
adjourned have a good evening
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