We are going to start our study session.

Counselor Hogan.

Thank you, President Hudson.

This local law is ready.

Thank you.

I have 10 and I am withdrawing it.

Counselor Carwell.

See?

Thank you, Madam President.

Blessings all.

I have items 11 through 22.

They're already, but I was hoping Commissioner Bird or someone from parks was here.

Anyone?

Anyone?

No fun.

I wanted to talk about 14.

Okay.

We'll come back.

We'll come back to it.

Yeah, we'll come back.

Unless you have some information on it.

Um top of my head.

Do you have a question that I can follow up on?

Um just like it has 450.

The bid came out.

I already told them out to see 500,000.

Like what happened?

Do we know?

And then we found it for 6,000.

It um by looking at the short description, it appears that the original project cost was 450,000 and with a slight increase, and I'll get that information back to you.

No.

She's here, she can explain it.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

Thanks, Commissioner Burr.

You made it.

Sorry, Commissioner.

Okay.

Saisha Bird, Commissioner Park.

I had to find parking.

Um I think the question I had was um thank you for sending the email and Iverson for sending the email on the trees.

That was um understandable.

But the 14 the skate park?

Yes.

So there was only one bidder um for this project, and it came in high.

And so we had to increase the amount we were asking for.

So let me ask you a um uh question, and me and you talk a lot about the parks and how we're gonna how we want to make sure that they're beautified.

With this going with the skate park, this is just the five the 450,000, 500,000 is just for that one piece.

It's it's to the expansion of um the entire park.

So there's already one park laid out, one part of the skate park, it's to increase the size of the skate park to add more elements.

And do we have any other plans on doing anything else at that park?

Um, not that I'm aware of at this time.

Okay.

Do we have to accept that bid?

Um Joe, is that something like is it are we able to put it out for rebid to extend the extend the the time to make it something?

Yes, uh Joe Barry, first assistant corporation counsel.

Uh with competitive bidding, you uh you're not bound by the middle of the bid.

The purchase division can rebid it.

Um you can also negotiate with the low bidder to try to get them to come down, but that can prove to be difficult.

Um do you know the time frame that the the process was going on?

I don't I don't have it with me.

I can send it to you, but it was open for a while.

We thought we would get more bidders, but only we only got one to bid on it.

How much is committed from Sonic?

200,000.

The total project is um 750, right?

It's um I believe so, yes.

Any other questions?

I would look I would like I got a lot of uh emails and texts from the skate park community.

So I hope you guys are I'm looking, um paying attention.

I appreciate you sending the renderings and the rest of the information.

When we first received it, we had none of that.

All we had was it looked like a metal piece um that was going in a park with no explanation.

So with that being said, that's not this part.

That's not this.

I know.

I'm not just another.

I just want to make sure we address this to this skate park piece.

But with this being said, it's not on agenda.

We could move forward and try to get it on maybe next agenda to talk about um what where you want to put that piece that renderings.

Um, but I just want everyone to know it's not being talked about and what we're gonna do with it.

Okay.

Yeah, because they've been sending email gallure all weekend.

Yes, about they it was a uh donation from the everson.

It was a part of their installation.

Yeah, well, when we got it, it was just a metal piece, and we're like, well, what are we doing with that?

Like we didn't get all the information, we didn't know anything about what it was.

So um thank you.

So that's any other questions on my part over here.

Council, any other questions?

Any other concerns?

Is that nope?

Anything else you need to tell us?

No, I also sent you the list of um emergency repairs for the facilities for park facilities.

So you should have received that.

I would like to also let everybody know.

Um, Commissioner Bird and City Hall has worked um diligently.

We had an issue at Westmoreland Park on the east side um with some um drug use you lies in the parks when people need to know that the parks is uh that is like no limit.

We're not having that, we're not having no drugs, we're not having none of that.

So we need to get the word out.

That is not happening in our parks.

Our kids need to play, and I I commend that and the staff is pushing forward and getting people out because we do not want to lock our parks.

Our parks are supposed to be a drug safe free zone.

So thank you for making it happen in all the parks too.

So we we're working on a plan.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um yeah, yep, council.

Thank you, madam president.

I have item 23 to 30.

Uh items.

Item 23, 24 already.

Item 25 would be held for a committee meeting, which has it's getting scheduled potentially for the 17th at 1230.

Uh September 17, uh September 17th at 1230.

We'll confirm that, but that's the pending date for that meeting.

Um for the uh committee meeting, right?

Um, you're talking about um you're talking about item 22.

DFR.

Yes.

So and then and then after that, once that public hearing happens, we will have it will be followed by the committee meeting shortly after.

Um the other questions at all the other items are ready.

Thank you.

Anyone with questions?

No.

Thank you, madam president.

That's some joke.

Will you run through that timeline again in terms of the public hearing?

So public hearing is getting scheduled for the 17th.

It is scheduled.

I mean, it is actually scheduled as in the waiver agenda council.

Okay, what time is that scheduled?

1230.

Is it 123?

No, it's five o'clock is for the public.

Five o'clock.

I'm looking at 530 p.m.

And then we're going to be able to do that.

And then the committee meeting will follow.

It's gonna be scheduled at least two days after that.

We need public hearing.

Okay, public hearing.

Thank you.

Because we want public hearing to happen first.

Um other questions.

Okay, that'll be all madam president.

Thank you.

Um, who's taking council gathers?

I can take them.

Uh thank you, madam president.

For counselor gathers items 31, 32, and 33.

Uh City Clerk, you might have to make help me here, but 31, we're gonna hold.

We're gonna withdraw 32 and 33 is ready.

Uh-huh.

Um thank you.

Thank you.

Councilor Holman.

Uh thank you, President Hudson.

Uh, I have items 34 through 39.

Uh 34, as we all know, we had a special the dead dead is ready.

That's a special permit.

We had a public hearing on it as the 27th.

Uh 35 is ready uh post our uh public hearing today.

Um 36 is ready, 37, 38, and 39.

We're gonna schedule some uh we're gonna get scheduled committee meetings for them.

We're gonna try to get them on uh board this week.

They're all housing tax exemption agreements.

I think it's incumbent of the council.

I have a public committee meeting on there, committee meeting hearing under hearing committee meeting.

So thank you.

Thank you, councillor Williams.

Thank you, Madam President.

I have items 40 through 53.

Um item 45 is going to be held.

And commissioner are hoping that we can touch base after this.

Thank you.

Um 5253 with discussed executive session is already.

Um so with the exception of 45, which is being held, all items are ready.

Okay.

Counselor Jones Rowser.

Thank you, Madam President.

I have items 54 through 59.

And all of my items are ready.

Is that you can keep the um contribution?

Oh, yes, I'm sorry.

Um we will be holding item 55.

54 and 55, right?

Yeah.

54 or 55, I'm sorry, will be held.

Um, I don't know if Michelle, we're waiting on the resolution.

Yeah, Michelle Sapansky, Deputy Commissioner of Neighborhood Development.

Um, items 40 or 54 and 55, I think, um, based on conversation with the city clerk, she was looking to see the final Surah resolution.

So we're scheduling that meeting and agreement.

Yeah.

Well uh that meeting will be scheduled and then we will uh I anticipate that we'll be ready for the next vote.

You have a draft agreement agreement with that as well, right?

Yeah, we'll make sure that that's included.

Yep, okay and I just want to mention that you know, based on 56.

We've um we've talked about um uh 5657.

We've had conversations and um this item um moving forward now, but we will be having um some follow-up meetings or conversations um on a regular basis to um so that the council can be updated on a regular basis for the program.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

Thank you.

What's that counselor?

Yes, councillor McJook.

Thank you, madam president.

I have item sixty and sixty-one uh with with my fellow counselors.

Item 60 is is the clarification of the public hearing or advertisement of clear uh public uh public hearing, and then following that two days after that, as I said, we will have a committee meeting.

So that is that six to one um is an appointment for desire to fill in a CRB uh board board position.

Um questions that's the uh large at large, yeah.

And then uh councillor Nave.

Yes, thank you, madam president.

So for item 62.

Uh we're gonna hold this.

Yeah, we're gonna hold it.

Um one of the reasons the main reasons why, because we thought we had a I thought I had a resent resignation letter, but we didn't have a resignation letter.

Uh we need that to move forward with this.

Other than that, we would have to put um if you don't uh Oliver, if you don't resign, we would need to put um the you know removal on the agenda, and then we would give him our opportunity um to um respond to a hearing or whatever, and then you know, we go from there before we put this back on.

Oh, we didn't get a resignation letter.

So I guess we have spoken with Don Johnson.

Okay, so Madam President, I have something else to say.

So I would like to also say um this is it is still is a part of the Syracuse community.

Um Pam Odom, who is a former Nottingham graduate, city of Syracuse, played for St.

John's uh full scholarship.

My teammate, a good friend of mine, is now going to be um replacing Tony Davis as a new superintendent of schools, and I am honored as uh a former teammate, but also someone who watched her uh be a part of this community and grow from teaching to coaching to principal, um, and then to come back into the community and do what she knows best.

I appreciate it and I support her, and I just want to say wants a bulldog, always a bulldog, and congratulations, let's go.

Woo, woo-foo.

Thank you, madam.

President, I would I was just one we were talking to a few of the counselors, and I don't know somebody from the administration, Connor, Greg, or whatever.

If we could ever get a list of the vacancies that exist in all the city departments, right?

You know, we continually get calls from people for some reason that they have trouble accessing uh the ability to apply for a job there.

So if we could just get a concise list maybe every week or two weeks.

Of the uh departments that exist in each building, vacancies vacancies by department by department, yeah.

Okay, okay.

Do we have that?

Not easily, not easily obtained, but we can but we can get it.

Okay.

That's why we need uh our new HCM system.

But yeah, that's right.

We were happy to get that information.

So we'll we'll get it sometime, I guess.

We'll figure out.

So um just a question, just so doesn't each department sort of have like their own um HR, like administration person who sort of oversees whose works for them.

Some of the larger departments do have uh specific staff within the department okay that help with with HR processes.

Okay.

All right.

Otherwise, they just go through our general HR.

Correct.

So all right, well, we'll just wait for it to come.

Okay, and then we'll talk from there.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

So move.

So move.

Second.

Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Adjourn.

Let's go.

My teammate, we grew up together.

She is phenomenal.

She is baby giving her a little bit of a