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>> They're going to be made here.
I'd like to call the order connecting
city council committee meeting for
Monday, December 15, 2025. And the first
committee is public safety. Mr.
Williams.
>> Thank you. Uh we have one item on the
agenda tonight. That is
a reminder the redirection portion of
Front Street to a one-way street from J
Street to Mohawk Avenue and for Monroe
Street to become a one-way street from
Front Street to Gary Boulevard. The
public hearing will be December 22nd. Um
it's just a reminder to the public that
this is going to be taking place. Um
there are no other items to fall before
public safety. May I have a motion to
adjourn.
So move.
>> I will second. All those in favor?
>> I I
Okay. Um I will call to order government
operations
and the we have there's one item on the
agenda, the alignment of weekly hour
requirements for public safety managers
include inclusion of public safety
commissioner, Mr. Turo.
>> Thank you. So uh I'd like to just bring
this back briefly uh this evening before
I defer to uh Miss Barash. Um I know
that um the council wanted to speak to
um Chief Burns regarding uh their 35h
hour work. So if I could ask Chief Burns
to come up and
uh discuss that please.
» Good evening, Madam President, council
members, mayor. Uh so when I came to the
office a couple years ago, I was told it
was a 35 hour work week. We do not get
paid for lunch. Um most of the times we
really don't get lunch. we'll eat at our
desk or whatever, answer emails. Uh I
will say sometimes in the summertime we
get to go out in that picnic table, but
a lot of these lunches turn into
business meetings, right? You're out
there with the rest of the staff. You're
discussing the day or or the plan or
what's going on.
» Chief, of the 19,000 calls that you
handle, do any of those get in the way
of your lunch?
>> Oh, all the time. All the time. Y
>> phone calls from the mayor gets in the
way once in a while.
Uh, any questions for Chief Burns?
[clears throat]
>> Uh, thank you, Chief.
>> You're welcome.
>> At this time, I'd like to defer Miss
Mash.
>> Thank you.
>> Sure. So, um, it's my recommendation
that this be tabled um until next cycle.
Uh there are several other items that
need to be dealt with in chapter 87 of
the code and the law department would
like to uh well needs to be able to
review the entire chapter uh so that
it's all done consistently uh and
accurately with regard to whatever it is
the council decides to change.
>> Thank you.
>> The entire chapter 87.
>> We're going to be taking a look at the
whole chapter.
Okay.
>> Thank you. So,
>> is it that there'll be a recommendation
on whether to adjust or not adjust or
just a review?
>> Uh, the law department won't make a
recommendation on that. The law
department will be reviewing that uh
chapter uh for other things that have
come up as well and so we might we would
like to look at it as a whole and handle
uh amendment of that chapter
together
all the items together.
>> Okay. So anything else come before
government operations
>> Mr. Mair?
>> So as you go into that um to look into
chapter 87 can your recommendation also
look at across the board on management
all management.
>> We are not going to make a
recommendation on the hours. We will be
we will take the council's
recommendation and make the changes but
we are not going to make a
recommendation.
We are going to be looking at it
relating to some other issues that have
come up, but it's beyond the scope of of
our office to make a recommendation of
how many hours a particular department
should work.
>> So, currently the council doesn't have a
recommendation.
>> It's up to the council. It's just not up
to the law department.
>> Okay.
All right. Thank you.
>> Are there any other questions or
concerns?
>> Is there anything else to come before
government operations?
>> Motion to adjourn.
Second. All's in favor. I
>> like to call to order city development
and planning. We have eight items on the
agenda. The first one, city of
connecting Metroplex parking services
agreement, transition to law school
mobile payment technology. Mr. Wallen.
Uh so several weeks ago um I presented
up here with uh David Hogamp of the
Metroplex Development Authority about
Metroplex transition from the passport
um to the Lazo platform after 5 years uh
via the RFP. Um we did that presentation
here. We met with LAGO. Um we've had
some internal meetings. We discussed
with the mayor and the enforcement
provision and Metroplex and we would
like to move forward also adopting the
Lasco platform. Uh under the similar
agreement with Metroplex that we've been
working on that Metroplex would act as
we would be under Metroplex essentially
working uh they would handle most of the
collection and then disperse to the
city. Uh we would use that program uh
starting on January 1st. Um, I have
I'm sorry. I I have a sample of what
we're looking at. We went through some
iterations working, but the signs after
January 1st that say passport would be
replaced with this is a sample. The real
sign would be bigger um with with this
system. So, you would not need to
download any kind of an app. What you
would do is you would see this on a a
post or a sign and you would scan that
QR code there that is, you know, custom
QR code with the city logo in it and
that would immediately take you to the
website where you would pay for your
parking and you would just set it up.
So, we've been working on um setting up
the system. We simplified it with zones.
So, we simplified the city into five
zones. The reason for the zones is it
helps us track where people are parking
and where revenues are coming in. Um
it's very easy to track Put this down
for a second. Um where people are
parking with kiosks because kiosks are
individually accounted for. However, if
we did not use a zone system of some
kind and all we would get would be one
revenue number for the entire city and
we do like to know if people are parking
around city hall, State Street, Lower
State Street, uh or the Broadway area or
upper union. So we've kind of broken
them out into five zones. Um, so we
would like the the council to authorize
the mayor and the and the law department
to enter an agreement with Metroplex for
the LASCO um program.
>> Are there any questions,
Mr. Toro?
>> Thank you. Yes. So, I've read through
everything and and people can still pay
by cash
>> at the kiosk, but it's coin or credit.
>> Coin credit.
>> We do not take cash as that would
require a separate reader and some other
mechanicals that we don't like. We're
trying to get away from cash.
>> You mean coins as cash?
>> Coins as cash.
>> Yes. Yes. So, just for those listening
that they're
>> Yes. The kiosk people know a QR code a
lot of people. So, at least they can go
to the kiosk and take care of things
there.
>> And and I know in the budget was some
new kiosk to replace some of ours. And
we do we did work with um PD and we are
looking at you know uh a little bit of
an upgrade moving some around really
trying to uh make some of them more
efficient and put them in better
locations um in coordination with this.
>> So that would happen once uh once
approved.
>> Thank you.
>> Any other questions?
>> I'll move this item.
>> I'll second. All those in favor?
>> I thank you Mr. Wallen. Uh item number
two, the city council to assume role of
secret lead agency for the Drake a
street connector.
>> So um JC Street connector is a DRRi
project as we've talked about before.
>> Um due to the size and scope of the
project, it required the city to do a
full EAF and declare itself lead the
agency. Um we did that several cycles
ago. Uh after we declared that the city
sent out um letters to all of the
possible involved agencies, DOT, DEEC,
Metroplex, County Planning, uh we got
back responses from all of them
regarding uh no exception to city
assuming lead agency. So I'd like to ask
that the council officially assume lead
agency uh for this project so that we
can move forward as this is a
requirement that we have to have before
we can bid it. Um we are looking to bid
the project in mid January. Okay. Any
other any questions?
>> I'll move the item.
>> I'll second. All those in favor? I
>> I
>> uh item number three, award the bidden
contract for the Craig Mort
replacement to American Evergreen
Incorporated.
>> So, uh as you're probably aware, Craig
Street is getting a very large rehab
come next year. Um that is the main
project. That project, it will be going
out to bid within the next most likely
10 days, if not 5 days. Um that is a $13
million project, one of the largest in
the city. Um it was agreed upon by the
commissioner, city engineer, and the
mayor that the idea was that we we
videoed all the infrastructure below was
in good shape. We made some repairs, but
the water line cannot be videotaped. Uh
water lines are essentially pressurized
systems. So it was decided to replace um
the existing distribution water line.
And then we would also replace any
foundled services which is part of the
state's mandate that if we find any we
will replace. So this is a uh pretty
large project but it's a it's you know
by value but also by scope. We're going
to be going Craig Street essentially
from Strong to Albany replacing the
distribution uh yeah distribution main
there. So
>> yeah. So
>> we when we just you know we did call
references. This is a a group that uh is a large commercial group that we
don't have any um hesitation about. We
don't work a lot with them.
>> Okay. So this wasn't initially a part of
it but after you started doing looking
at the project realized you should this
is something
>> this was not part of the federal federal
won't pay for infrastructure like this
but this was something that we decided
uh that we should do. Um this is
actually just to give you a little bit
more information. This is actually the
rebid. Ideally, we would have had this
done a little earlier instead of doing
the but um when we originally bid this,
the top three biders all did not have
the necessary paperwork in the correct
order and it caused some confusion. And
the best thing that we did is we all got
together as a group and we said we
should just rebid the project with a
very strong focus on making sure
everyone and it did work. All the three
biders that did submit all did have uh
coerent packages as compared to the last
time. So that did work out. Um but we
just lost time
>> and and the um the cost of the project
is accounted for.
>> Yes, the cost of the project is going to
be out of the water fund with some
support from engineering codes that have
been set up.
>> Okay.
Any other questions?
>> I move this.
>> I'll second. All in favor?
>> I.
>> Thank you, Mr. Roll.
>> Thank you. Item number four is a
reminder about amending uh ordinance
161, article 5, section 21 of the code
ordinance to temporarily suspend payment
uh for excess residential waste and
bulky items. Public hearing will be on
December 22nd.
Item number five is a reminder uh
reminder amending chapter 264 for the
reszoning of certain parcels on Maxim
Road. Uh the lots the lots are
identified um in your on the agenda and
they will go from um commercial to which
is C3 to light industrial and the public
hearing again will be on December 22nd.
Item number six is a reminder adding the
definition of better energy storage
facilities to section 264-2 of this
connecting city code to allow battery
energy storage facilities in designated
districts and the public hearing will be
on December 22nd, 2025.
Item number seven is the appointment of
Dan Flynn to the Skenctity Industrial
Development Agency. Mr. Williams.
>> Yes, thank you. Uh excited to bring this
individual forward. I think as we've
heard of vacancies of this board for an
extended period of time, I think
identifying people who are interested in
volunteering their time, but also
volunteering the willingness to learn
and be a part of these decisions
throughout the city of Senate. Um, in
the time that I've known Dan um just
trying to be [clears throat] uh
considerate, uh he has only showed me
that he cares very much very deeply
about the interest of the city and has
pointed out himself uh to to do that
work moving forward. He does it
collaboratively, but excited to have
this individual be considered. He's
sitting directly behind me with the
beautiful locks. Um, if you have any
questions or concerns, please let me
know.
>> Are there any questions,
>> Mr. Toro?
>> They both have beautiful locks rather
than [laughter]
>> There you go. Thank you.
>> Oh, no.
>> Pardon me.
>> This one.
>> I'll move this.
>> I'll second. All those in favor? Hi.
>> Hi.
>> Thank you.
>> Item number eight, an ordinance amending
chapter 183 of Skenki City Code, Miss
Barrage.
>> Chapter 183 of the Skenctity Code um
relates to uh nuisance abatement.
>> Exactly. Wait a minute. and the laws
changed recently and we need to update
the so it would be you have a sample
ordinance in front of you sample
amendment ordinance um if you look at 1B
it's now labeled 1B or B1B uh article
221 is now article 222 of the penal law
>> uh so we need to update that
and then also So we look all the way at
the bottom. We want to include uh we
want to make it clear that any uh that
under the point system uh any violation
of New York state law or the city code
is connected to the S3 points. So uh
these are basically some housekeeping
matters to update the code uh so that we
can continue to do some statements
without issue.
So, we're call we are requesting that
the council uh call a public hearing.
» Are there any questions?
So, this is just a call for a public
hearing to amend.
>> Yep.
>> Okay.
>> So,
>> I'll second. All those in favor?
>> I thank you.
So, I'd like to call the order of the
claims committee. We have one item on
the agenda. We just have to close the
point.
>> Oh, I'm sorry. A motion to adjourn city
development and planning. So,
>> vote.
>> Second. All those in favor?
>> I. Thank you.
>> So, I'd like to call to order the claims
committee. We have one item on the
agenda tonight. That is the discussion
of all state uh ASOS versus that is an
item that needs to be discussed in
executive session. We have a motion.
I'll second it. All those in favor? All
right.
>> All right. Members of the public will
have to leave at this point.
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