The Syracuse Common Council met on October 14, 2025, to discuss several agenda items, including a contract for parking garage beautification, holdovers for items related to the SDC project, and authorization for an appraisal. The meeting concluded with adjournment to executive session.
Fifteen regarding the last contract, if we saw so the request from the council was to look at a shorter term for that contract. Yes. Right now, based off of the RFP for a three-year contract, they're proposing a hundred thousand dollar contribution for entry-level beautification and landscaping. If we did a shorter contract, a one-year contract, they would amortize that accordingly, and so they would only contribute thirty-three thousand dollars, and then a mid-level period would be a two-year contract for sixty-six thousand dollar contribution. So it's a sliding scale based off of the length of the term and how much they'd be willing to contribute as sort of an additional cost, additional contribution as part of the length of the contract there. Um we're looking at all of our garages, but emphasizing some that are in more pressing need. Those are really large scale capital investments of you know millions of dollars to replace or improve foundations or walls or things like that. The 100,000 dollars is really more about making it more attractive on the entry level for for our our users. Okay, because I'm just wondering more or less like as far as landscaping, what does that look like? I don't are there like open areas or is it all uh bricked? I don't know. It depends for each each garage. Um there's different uh ways to utilize those dollars. I think our preference would probably be on some of the you know just upgrades to the painting and lighting of the entryways, make it feel more welcoming to to users, things of that nature. If there's any you know, landscaping or other things that we would also be able to fit into that budget, we'd be happy to consider those as well. Yeah, I I mean, you know, my only issue with what it was at the original contract would lock them in for at least nine years, just given the fact that we just want to make sure that everything that we're getting a bang for our buck here. Um I'm not saying that they haven't been doing a good job, we just want to lock in with everything, but just you know, new administration coming up and the terms that uh with the contract. I just want to be fair to make sure that we all can agree to say we want to do it that way. Um so I guess by today we can talk about this before voting session. Great. Thank you. Um and uh number 17. If there's no other questions uh in regards to that, Madam President Mosset. Thank you. Councilor Hogan. Uh thank you, President Hudson. I have items 18 and 19, and uh that we'll hold uh pending our meeting tomorrow. Uh all righty, Councillor Hogan and Councillor Gathers, which one are you taking it? Uh councilor Hogan can go ahead. Yeah, I well I asked Councillor Gathers uh the agreement holding us. This will be 2324, once again, because we have a meeting tomorrow regarding SDC. All of them okay, all the way down to 24. Okay. Um Councillor Monto's for Councillor Williams. Thank you, President Hudson. Uh Counselor Williams has 25 through 29. We're gonna hold 25. Counselor Hogan, you want to hold 26 for the right. Right, it's all part of the C package. Uh 278 and 9 are ready. Thank you. Counselor Jones Rouser. Thank you, Madam President. I have items 30 and through 57. Um item 30 was um introduced in table. We'll continue to table that until we have yeah, you you say that uh county right. Okay. You're gonna take you gonna introduce it. And we'll have a committee meeting. Wait a second.