Good afternoon.

We're gonna start our sporty station.

And with that, we're gonna go to Cody Williams, Councillor Williams.

Item A, which is our biometric surveillance plan.

Um I will call this tentatively ready for Monday, and wanted to let my colleagues in the public know that we'll be having a committee meeting Thursday at 11 a.m.

And that will be with Dan Schwartz with the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Um Dan is a member of our surveillance tech working group for the city.

Um unable to be here in person.

It'll be a virtual meeting.

Um appreciate Eric and Vinny, wherever Vinny is for helping with the technology, making sure that we'll be able to pull it off seamlessly.

Um tentatively ready, pending, you know, results of the committee meeting on Thursday.

Thank you.

Um do we have uh clerk uh Patricia?

Do we have um any resolution?

Cancel Catwheel.

Yes, uh thank you.

Uh Madam President, blessings to all today on this beautiful rainy day.

Um I have items nine and ten.

Nine is with Anadaga Earth Corps.

This is a training program and supervision for youth hire.

This is something that we typically do every year.

Um with the Anadoga Parks Corp um Clean Street crew for 55,000.

I don't think there's any questions.

Anybody any questions?

Because this is a uh a thing that we do every year.

You guys sign show?

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

All right.

I was looking on weekend line.

You've been on one today.

Should we try to figure out how to make his items take as long as possible?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We already had a conversation, not today.

Um, number item 10.

Um, this is something dear to me, and I'm pretty sure most of the counselors will want to sign on.

Um this is about United States Senator Schumer and Gillibrand, Congressman, Governor Holko, the New York State Assembly, and the New York State Senate to act to protect to protect voting rights.

The voting rights act and how congressional districts are created to make sure we protect that people are still being able to vote regardless of who they are and where they live, and not to create division, but to create unity.

So I would hope the rest of the country is a good idea.

Well, Matt, thank you.

Thank you.

Since I already got threatened, I got item.

I have item eleven to twenty-two.

We are going to hold item eleven.

Eric is working on that, so I would say if you have a question.

Item twelve.

Who's taking that?

Commissioner U.

Jeremy!

Thank you, thank you.

Uh blessings to all like my fellow bulldog says.

Let's go.

Thanks for all the prayers.

Uh thanks for all the phone calls.

Didn't get unnoted.

Um but item 12.

And how you know Madam President.

Uh item 12 is uh basically a joint effort of DPW and fire applying for a grant that will analyze crash data and update quarters around the city.

Like striping and um traffic control boxes and stuff like that.

Any questions?

All right.

Item 13 is us updating our HVAC system in the MM garage.

I guess our air quality is a little bad in there, and it's not up to code, and we need to bring that up the code according to New York State.

Okay.

Any questions?

Uh we got item 15, 16, 17, and 18.

I guess it's gonna be uh a public hearing on those.

If you got any questions, that I can answer our sweeping program and the slurry sale program.

We have we have four right four right now that's working nonstop.

And that's just due to manpower.

Obviously, we're down 30 drivers.

We have nine in the fleet.

Five will be optimal for us.

Six will be wishful thinking.

Would you have nine?

We have nine.

Jeremy, while I have you up there, um I think I might have asked this question before, but I don't remember the answer.

Do you will you train CDL drivers or do they never need to come already licensed?

No, if you come in as a laborer, we do train you.

Okay.

But you have to get into actual city for us to train you.

Yeah.

I wish it was a program that we can train you know, high school folks like SPD and S SFD, uh, those guys going in and fouler and stuff like that, but we don't have we don't have the uh resources or the funds to do that.

Well, that's a good bug to the city.

I think it's coming in the air, Jeremy.

It's a good bug to put it.

I think it's coming in the air.

Oh, I love that.

If we can get that, then our pool will get a little bigger.

But right now, just in the city of Syracuse, we don't have a big pool.

Yeah, I'm working on uh trying to improve that for you through my other job, trying to get more people interested in CDL driving stuff.

I would I would uh welcome that, counsel.

Yep.

So you you help prepare people so when the when it's time to take the exam, they're ready.

Yes.

Yes.

I have a silly question.

Question silly.

Since the amount of sweepers that we would need to keep our streets absolutely clean and to your standard, I believe.

Yeah, uh, is somewhat of uh pipe dream.

If we were to replace some of the equipment in street sweeping with people, what do you think the cost benefit would be kind of confused on your question?

You're saying if we just stop buying sweepers and update more.

We the problem is we don't have CDL drivers.

That's the problem.

If we if we had abundance of CDL drivers, we can but I think the council is asking, so take take the machine out.

Okay, give the people the broom, right?

Yes, basically.

A broom?

A hundred years ago.

That's that's people if we wanted to clean the room.

And the actual roadway?

I know you I'm I'm not talking about like major highways.

I'm not saying we're gonna kill the street.

I think that'd be a safety team.

I don't know.

We're kind of money, we're gonna pay that.

We do have, but we do we we have a team of litter pickers that we send out every day, all day in the right of way.

But in the actual road, I think that would be frowned upon if we're gonna be able to do that.

How did they do it before before the machines?

I don't think 1955, I don't know.

I got you.

Why not a time?

Hold on.

Mighty, hold on.

Okay.

Please continue.

I'm sorry, but I understand what you're saying, Council.

I just don't think it's easy.

I think the the easier solution would just get more drivers and we can have eight, nine plow uh eight or nine sweepers on the road, as well as cloud drivers.

I'm also sure there's gotta be some kind of liability issue to that.

I'll take one.

I mean, I can talk to Lisa about it, uh who's our safety coordinator.

I'm just asking the question because equipment costs money, CDL drivers cost money, certifications for CDL drivers cost money, and we know that there is a national, local, statewide shortage of CDL drivers, right?

And it's going to continue to be a shortage as long as the federal government refuses to certify marijuana as a safe substance that people can use recreationally while not at work.

So if we've built ourselves into this situation where we can't get enough CDL drivers to run the kind of equipment we need to keep our streets safe, I'm wondering if there's an alternative that involves us being able to partner with groups like in my father's kitchen or other work development progress organizations where we could do something different.

We do that already.

Yeah.

No, I know that you do.

I'm just wondering if this program specifically might have that capacity.

When I think of something, I'll definitely uh shoot that back at you.

But right now, I have to talk to Lisa about it to see if there's any liability uh things that we would have to uh you know jump over.

But I I don't I don't think that's uh that that's already got something.

I appreciate your entertainment question.

Yes, okay.

So yeah, that was before there was corners, uh uh.

Marty gone.

Martin, go ahead.

So as I remember, a gentleman used to come along with a big broom and a come along with a big broom, and he sweep the curbs and he goes through the true they put it right in the garbage.

And that's what they did.

He had a roller.

And he used to come around.

They had a lot of them back in the yeah.

Wow, we're going back to my childhood.

1997.

All right, let's move on.

Let's move on.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Go ahead.

So that took care of item 15, 16, 17, and 18.

Yes.

Okay.

I'm sorry, is something being held for a public meeting?

Is something so the public meeting is so the advertisement, right?

Madam Clark.

Yeah, you can add a couple that's gonna be held by Yeah.

So we're gonna hold this.

Uh-huh.

Go ahead, Brian.

16, 18, and 19 have to be held until after the public meeting.

Okay, so we're gonna pay for the 19.

And 19.

Okay.

And 19, okay.

Okay.

Uh, but the rest uh good.

Mary, you want to talk by the 19 or what we 20, three.

Okay, go ahead.

Good afternoon, counselors.

Mary Robison, City Engineer.

Items 20 and 21 kind of go together.

Item 20 is approving participation in the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board's uh CNY Stormwater Coalition program, which helps our uh stormwater requirements under BEC.

Um, and that's at a total cost uh not to exceed $3,600.

It's been that same fee for years.

Um $21 is kind of an accompaniment because it this also helps our um municipal separate stormwater sewer system, and this is doing an IMA with the county for some services that are free and other services.

If we use them, we would be charged.

So it basically um formalizes our relationship regarding the hotline when there's an illicit uh sewer discharge into our storm sewers.

Um it also gives us the opportunity to have um the Onadaga County Soil Water Conservation Program do inspections for us if we want them, and that's requirements of our storm sewer outfalls into our creeks.

We currently do them on our own.

Um, but if we have a staffing problem, we have the the ability to ask them to do them for us.

That's also free.

And then the items that they would charge us for if we request it would be to track down an illicit sewer discharge at a cost of $60 an hour, or doing lab samples for us, which we really do need the lab samples.

We don't have an avenue to test samples when we need to.

And that's when we're doing inspections and we notice cloudy water or something with the smell fragrance.

Um so that's just the lab cost.

So just out of curiosity, Mary, with that $60 per hour in the previous year.

Do we know if we ever got to that point where we've never charged um done this IMA?

It was kind of we we have used their lab services before, so this is kind of formalizing um an agreement that is required.

Um I don't anticipate nor I think we would be able to track down, but in the event it would just be $60 an hour, which is never happened so far.

Okay, okay.

We've only done some a couple lab samples, a few lab samples.

All right, I had a quick question.

Sure.

It's not directly on this topic.

I don't know if you know this, but during the pandemic, there was somebody was doing um uh wastewater testing for coronavirus and some other things like that.

Do we know if that's still happening in Onondaga County?

I don't know, but I do know the county was doing it.

Other questions uh 22 that you may have 22 is uh one of our county one-on-one sanitary sewer offset acceptances, and that's for um 311 Gannant Holdings, which is the owner of the Icon Lofts project at 311 Ganant Drive, and we're accepting lining up three sewer manholes and replacement of frames and covers at three different locations.

That is supposed to be good, right?

It's gonna be good.

Okay, okay.

Uh question.

Uh should be good.

Okay.

Look at that, huh?

Five minutes.

Good job.

Councilor Harry Mag.

Thank you, Madam President.

I have item number 23, which is a resolution urging the governor of New York, the New York State Senate, and the New York State Assembly to support the New York State Senate bill S 5684 and the Assembly Bill A 6543 by passing the bigger better bottle bill.

Anyone like to sign on to that with me?

Can you give us a little background on that?

Sure.

So um many people are familiar with the bottle bill and our redeemable returns for cans and bottles.

It hasn't been updated in some time.

And this bill uh was introduced, I believe, by Senator May, and it would allow not only for a 10% 10 cent redeemable bottle rate, but also assist recycling centers and redemption centers to continue to operate since there are dynamic market pressures against them.

This absolutely has helped a New York state control litter.

It also provides dignified work and income for a number of our citizens and residents, and uh it also tremendously helps push us towards the environmental regulation levels that we are looking for in terms of recycled materials in our industrial processes.

So I would really like to see Syracuse benefit from an increase in redemption rates and support for our redemption centers.

And I would love to have the support.

You get my you got mine.

Find me up to Henry.

Uh Councilor Hudson.

Yes, ma'am.

I have item 24 through 27.

Good afternoon, counselors.

Amory Deegan, first deputy commissioner of finance.

For item 24, this is uh an amendment to the ordinance for mosaic consulting group, which is our payroll modernization consultant.

This is just to align with the uh signed contract, which it wasn't in the previous version.

So this just extends the period because we started out two months late, right?

So we still got that, and then we just uh changed how we're aligning to the contract terms for how we're paying them.

So that that's all we're doing updates on the work being completed by Mosaic.

Sure, we've had several meetings with them.

They're in uh collection of understanding what it is that we need.

Um, and I think that we are quickly moving in the right direction.

I don't know if anybody else wants to speak to that, but it's been uh they've been very supportive and they're very engaged with us, and so is our team with them.

So seems to be moving in the right direction.

So far we have no invoice from them yet because it's still in the meeting pace that that yeah, we probably have an upcoming invoice, but we haven't um haven't received it as of yet.

Okay.

Questions?

No, no, but at some point in the not terribly distant future, we should have a larger meeting and figure out where we're at, where we're going and progress being made to make sure that we're on track.

Somebody get in touch with Emory or whomever regarding that.

Happy to have uh some sort of study session with you as your yeah, they would get in touch with the secretaries to get attached.

We are paying after they deliver services and not before.

Yep, so we actually in the contract, they actually they provide us the invoice, we verify the invoice, and then we pay the invoice.

Thank you.

Staying within the 900,000 work.

Correct.

Okay, and and when we have that meeting, eventually, could we abstract the deliverables from the contract and so that we have to do that?

Yep, all of the the way that they're paid is all based on the the deliverables that are outlined in the contract.

Yeah, so yeah, thank you.

Sure, thank you.

I'll pull it back on the deliverables so you can see what uh on what Corey said.

We can get in touch talk with council um Helen and um Council Hudson.

Good afternoon, Counselors Day Project, Director of IT.

Um item 25.

Um research, we're applying for a cybersecurity grant that is specifically targeted at utilities, and we uh proposed using the $50,000 grant to supplement our current security camera system that is in place at our three reservoirs.

Is it does this have a um we have to match?

Yeah, no match.

No local match requirement.

Oh no local match.

Okay.

Oh, brilliant.

All right, 26.

Item 26.

We're asking permission to extend our current agreement with the com source.

So we issued an RFP in August that would replace all of our current contracts.

It's been a bit of a road to get it awarded.

I would expect you to see the see the legislation for the award at your next meeting.

So on the interim, we would like to extend the not to exceed amount that we have for comms.

So if we issued the RFP in August, we had no responses to it.

Oh no, exactly the opposite.

We had a lot of responses, and we feel very uh we're excited about the group we're gonna award this to.

It's just taken us a little while.

So you want the extension for this is just an extension of the current contract to play to pay one of the vendors that uh is on the current award.

Okay, so you'll have that next one around for us, right?

Yes.

Okay.

Any more questions?

This is to pay uh comms, right?

Right.

Yes.

Okay, so all right, uh you said, and items item 27.

Uh we're we are would like to enter a lease agreement with the owners of the state tower building, the pioneer companies.

They have some um specialized equipment up in their building.

There, what's known in the networking world is a carrier hotel, so that's where all the big pipes for the internet come in.

Time Warner, Cogent, Bluen, ATT, everybody who's in that business is there.

So we're we have some equipment in space there now.

We would like to add to that, and this specific equipment will support uh the expansion of Surge.

So this is the place to be if you do cool networking stuff.

So we need to lease um some space in one other racks over there.

We're asking for permission to do that.

This will support our surge?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay, so you you've given prior in prior meetings.

You've given permission for surge to expand, to expand the number of locations we go to, the number of people we're able to serve.

So you have to have a bigger and more robust network to do that.

This is placing some equipment in a key IT location in the city, what's called a carrier hotel to support that effort.

There's two carrier hotels in Syracuse, State Tower Building and the Chimes Building down the other end.

Okay, this is gonna support the expansion northeast.

Uh I may have the directions wrong, but our the expansion you've already approved.

So this is our it's already in the budget.

This is just giving us permission to enter an agreement.

Uh state tower building to rent half a rack of space there.

The actual term will end up being less than five years, and it'll be less than a thousand dollars.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right, Councillor Navy.

Thank you, madam president.

I'm asking for my colleagues to support me in this resolution of awareness month, which begins on May 15th through June 15th.

I want to now thank Mayor Owens and the administration.

Um they're gonna light up until City Hall will be led until in recognition.

And I want us to know you to know that the city of New York earlier this month passed a resolution of Tourette Awareness Month with the support of New York's uh public advocate Jumon Williams, who was the first elected official in the state of New York to have Tourette syndrome, and I believe I'm the second.

So this is very personal to me, and I asked for your support.

Excellently.

You got it.

All of us.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Navy.

Council Moore.

Thank you, Madam President.

I have items 29 through 31.

29.

Um let you speak, Chief.

Hello, I'm not the fire chief.

Uh item 29 uh the fire department's accepting 12 flags from Eric Hart, who designed the city flag to fly at our fire stations.

Chief Austin.

I appreciate you know Eric's desire to recognize your team and the work that you do.

Why don't we just buy them if they're only 260 dollars?

I feel like as an entrepreneur as a small business owner, you know, the 260 dollars out of the fire budget.

Yeah, I know that we give parts the budget for flags.

Why don't we just buy them?

I didn't have that budget in my proposal that I gave you guys, so he he reached out and wanted to donate them, but I typically I'm not gonna have the money in the budget right now at this time going to the end of the year.

I could find it and move money around, but $200, Chief.

I'm telling you, I I am drilling down on our budget tomorrow morning with our team on Friday's the last day.

We can put requisitions in and we're making sure we get all the things we need for the calendar year.

If we can do it, I will certainly try to do that instead of getting a donation.

Yeah, I just think they're 259.

Maybe they're maybe I'm not sure if it's a piece or for the 12 of them, but I'll figure that out.

But I'd like to support the budget director also.

I'll talk to the budget director also.

Thank you.

Okay.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Um item 30.

Hello, Jim Lana, Deputy Chief of the Police Department.

Item 30 is our annual uh traffic safety grant that we receive from the governor's traffic traffic safety committee that funds overtime dollars to address dangerous driving behaviors behaviors in high crash areas.

That's straight grant, no matched funds, right?

Correct.

Okay.

Have we received this grant before?

Yes, for several decades.

Routine grantation for us?

Okay, cool.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Think you're good.

Item 31.

31 uh funds our highway traffic safety program.

It's a countywide program.

We have a traffic safety coordinator.

It's uh Lacey Leonardi.

It funds her salary in addition to outreach and educational efforts aimed at traffic safety.

Does that include Mike Helmic giveaways?

Yes.

How successful are we at that?

This is our third year, and everything we've done so far has been very well received from well attended.

Any other questions?

Okay, we're all set.

Thank you.

Excuse me.

Um sir, the two letters I gave you uh for CRB old bills for investigation.

Do I bring them up even though they're not on the agenda?

Yeah, you can bring them up because I'm gonna throw them on the agenda.

So anyway, so everyone can uh get clarification that they're all billed down anyway.

Don, do you want to speak on these?

Yes.

Good uh good afternoon, everyone.

Uh those were bills that were um that freelan had an investigation that had prior to uh us starting to understand the uh system on bill paying.

So they got lost in the uh the shuffle.

So we're just bringing them up now so Freeland can get their uh payment on there.

All right, just to give a little background to those that don't have the letters in front of them.

This is um for expenditures for year 25-26 not to exceed $18,832.90 cents.

Um, and they're they are within the budget limit.

So correct.

One is um one is from um 20 24 25 and the other one is 20 25, 26.

So you see 25, 26 asking for an increase in a certain amount of dollars, and the other uh 23, 24, 25, it's just asking for authorization uh to pay, and they do have the money to pay it.

So um I just wanted to bring it up now.

So instead of slapping it on the waiver agenda and you guys just seeing it, it'd be gosh.

You would get the letters today.

Okay, so it will be added to the agenda.

Yeah, we'll get out of the agenda.

You guys will get a copy of the old letters when I get downstairs.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Any other questions?

We're good.

Thanks, Done.

Uh, do you mind if I interject one thing?

Um, I was just listening to the councilwoman there about the street sweepers.

Um the thing is that the city needs to start to be prepared because AI is gonna start replacing a lot of jobs that people are doing now.

So in the future, we need to start thinking about what we're gonna do with all those excess people that have been retired by AI.

So I'm gonna just thank you for that.

You guys all have a great afternoon because I'm planning on it.

And work is dignity.

Work is dignity.

That's right.

Thank you.

Thank you, Don.

Thank you.

Um counselor Williams.

Thank you, Madam President.

I've got items 32 through 35.

Um item 32 is 21,000 for the Ear Canal Museum.

Um every year we there are certain organizations that we put into the budget.

We actually have to give them the money as well.

Um, so this is just formalizing the the process of making sure that the museum gets the money that we had budgeted.

Okay.

And I'll work with the chief on those flags.

Thank you very much.

Um item 33.

Hi, good afternoon, counselors.

Diane Astry, uh Commissioner of Finance, and I brought our subject matter experts uh from fiscal advisors to help explain what we hope to do with JSCB bond refunding.

So the uh JSCP uh JSCB through the IDA currently has roughly 66.9 million outstanding debt from 2018.

Brendan Ryan with fiscal advisors.

Oh we're proposing or recommending that the IDA, JSCB School District City uh calls these bonds and refunds with refunding bonds.

Um we would normally recommend whatever the savings potential is two and a half to three percent.

Currently it's at 7.4%, uh, which would equal roughly uh 4.9 million dollars in present value savings or just about $600,000 a year over the next nine years.

Would you mind walking through that again with one additional level of detail?

But when's the what's the final maturity?

Final maturity is nine years out in 2035.

So the new refunding bonds would not extend the duration any further.

Um the principal amount would not be larger than the 66.9 million currently outstanding.

It could only be less dependent on the sale, the pricing.

Um currently the schedule would be looking to price around May 29th with a closing of June 11th to keep it in this current fiscal year for the school district, so the savings are realized currently um with the bonds then going out to 2035.

What what's the cost associated with restructuring the product?

Um all of it is built in to the bond issuance.

Um I don't have the numbers for all the different uh parties involved, um, but that 7.4% savings factors in all costs.

Okay.

Great, thank you.

Thank you.

Corey, you know, this is just one of the last right afternoon, counselors.

Matt OJ, Commissioner of Assessment.

Item number 34.

We are requesting a modification to the current tax roll 2627 for the property at 416 West On and Daga Street.

This is um well, kind of simple.

The case where the the valuation and the inventory both were wrong, did not make it onto the roll, and we want to set that right.

That's it.

Thanks a lot.

Great.

Thank you.

And finally, 35.

Yes, good afternoon, counselors.

Joe Barry, first assistant corporation counsel.

Uh council press are specialty legal printers.

We use them for work in the appellate courts, and of course, when the fiscal year starts, it's hard to predict the number of cases we'll have going through the courts.

So we're requesting an additional nine thousand dollars to finish out the fiscal year.

So has the cases risen, Joe?

I'm sorry.

Has the cases risen?

Are they higher?

Yes, the cases are in progress.

Joe, you're at the mic a lot, but not off not often asking for money.

I'm sorry, I said you're at the mic a lot, but not often asking for money.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, and then item 36.

And we're doing a lot a lot of urging of the governor today on our agenda.

Um but the item 36 would be to show council support for Senate bills 8004, 8623, and 8872.

Um, one of the one of these is the the legislation that we drafted our local law related to the biometric ban off of, and then the other two are related to algorithmic wage or pardon me, price setting.

Um, one would be a ban of digital shelf price labels, and the other would be a ban on the ability to change that based upon who an individual's identity is and what their shopping patterns are.

Um the attorney general was here two weeks ago um to rally support around the two bills that we are not talking about here.

Um, you know, we're talking about the biometric ban, but the AG was here with Senator May to support the two related to um the marketplace and and consumer pricing.

Come on.

100%.

Right.

Thank you.

And then we've got the corresponding assembly bills in there as well.

Thank you, Madam President.

Okay, um, thank you.

Councillor Jones Browser.

Thank you, Madam President.

I have items 37 through 39.

Um foremost where we are with 37.

Good afternoon, council.

Jake Dishwell, Deputy Commissioner of Code Enforcement and Zoning.

Item 37 was on hold last time.

Uh we did finally hear back from the general manager of the Century Club regarding this encroachment for a sign.

So he is agreeing to he understands that they may have to remove it for uh both the city's project through engineering, but also Central's BRT.

They understand that they're willing to do it.

They want to install it right now for the time being at location two, which was preference, original preference of City Engineer.

Um they do understand this is under dime, right?

Totally.

Okay.

Yes.

So what what's under their dime?

The full replacement.

Right, the replacement which is always the case, honey.

These these are these are revocable permissions.

So if let's say this wasn't planned and something else happened, and we were like, hey, we you know, you have to remove this.

It's always general language for these that they're revocable permissions.

Um but they totally understand that and they're willing to do it and they want to install it for now.

And at a second location.

Yes.

They'll prefer location for okay.

That's correct.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

There it is.

Afternoon, counselors, Michelle Sabiansky, Deputy Commissioner of Neighborhood Development.

Uh items uh 38 uh is a request to amend uh the ordinance recently adopted for our annual um allocations for HUD entitlement grant programs, CDBG, home and ESG.

Uh so we uh received our final allocations for HUD and are just looking to amend those line items kind of commensurately according to the adjustments that we got.

I don't know if any anybody had significant time to look over it, so we'll know by Monday for sure what um great it is.

Um occasionally they have to come back.

Yeah, they do get the money.

So everything they'll be fine to me.

Right.

Uh and then item uh 39 uh is a request to authorize um pool of contractors for the emergency repair program.

So um I did just want to clarify we did do an RFP process uh to fully kind of reset the pool.

Um, as uh you all are aware.

We've been bringing back kind of on a periodic basis uh contractors uh that we're looking to add in to our pool of contractors for emergency repair projects.

So we get got six new firms that uh submitted newly for it.

Uh and then we are looking to carry over a batch that we had previously adopted, and then there were two additional firms we've had to call for recent projects.

So any questions?

Thank you.

Thanks, Michelle.

Councilor Monkey.

Thank you, President Baniagua.

I have items 40 through 43 back quickly.

Jake Dishaw, Deputy Commissioner of uh zoning and codes.

Uh item 40 is a special use permit to approve a commercial food preparation use type business at 3001-three three thousand twenty-three James Street.

This is uh the Zaman Coffee Um business.

They have a look they don't have a storefront in the city of Syracuse.

Um this would serve as like their their bakery to uh ship to their stores.

So they have one out in Cicero at Sweetheart Corners, and I believe they're either open or opening in township.

Um so not open to the public to walk in, it's just to make their their goods to send to their stores, and that I think they're gonna do some employee training, but this would be to the left of the ice cream shop, yeah, kind of the middle two tenant.

They're gonna combine two of them, two of the center uh tenant spaces in that.

So left of Fifi's ice cream if you're facing it.

Um between the lawyer and thifies.

Okay.

Um that's all any questions on that one?

No.

I may I make a comment.

Uh, Jake, I did speak with Mr.

Neis this morning about the proposal on Wall Street.

And um it's fine.

I yeah, he'll be on um next Monday night's planning commission agenda.

So we'll be back before you.

Okay, I may not be able to make it, but I do support it.

Very good.

Just for the record.

Got it.

Okay.

Good on that one.

Yeah.

Uh 41 is a special use permit to uh approve and sort of re-establish uh a uh a corner store, but it's now known as a neighborhood market uh business use type in the zoning code at 901-917 South Geddish Street.

Um no one spoke in favor of opposition, but what I will say is they went through the Syracuse Police Department septiet evaluation, crime prevention through environmental design.

Uh they had a number of recommendations.

The the business owner is agreeing to all of those.

Their hours are somewhat limited, they're not open past 10 p.m.

Uh, no uh alcohol, no tobacco, and they want to be more of like a deli and have food and stuff.

So across from Delaware.

Yes.

In in where that CEDRA market was before.

Is that the exact space they're going into?

Yes, it is.

What about the rest of the building?

Is it there's another tenant space to the south um that is vacant, and then there are four, I believe there's four apartments upstairs that are occupied.

Uh that we've gone through it.

It has a currently has a valid certificate of compliance.

Um they would have to do a number of things for the store, like uh trash dumpster screening in the back and um some other stuff, but it meets the criteria for the special use permit.

So being that you said they're gonna be more like a deli.

What's the um what I mean?

I know there is parking, but how because there's gated, so how people um they're supposed to come from if you're facing it from Gaddis from around the back on the right side.

Oh the left side is fenced off completely going down Delaware.

Um tobacco, no alcohol.

Correct, and that's that's they've admitted to that, like they've come to the table like we're not gonna be that type of business is right in the zoning resolution.

So we won't eat they won't even qualify to get a tobacco license, but we'll do all these inspections.

They'll still require a certificate of use as well.

Um, I believe we have a number of ways to kind of hold them accountable if there's issues.

It looks like from the image the parking was gated on Delaware.

Um trying to get in.

Yeah, I think the entry points on Gutes.

Easy access.

If you go east of the building, there is a gated fence there.

Um you mean not along Delaware, there's a separate gate?

Correct.

Okay.

Yeah.

It it feels like I'm not sure if if the environmental design component recommended a single point or multiple points, but I feel like from a traffic perspective, having multiple points.

Yeah, but I will defer to I feel like it would be harder to get out onto Geddis versus Delaware.

But is there I don't know this?

I don't even know if there's a drop curb there.

No, it looks like there's a there is yeah, okay.

In entry, but anyway.

Counselor Morrett's your district, do you have questions?

Yeah, I mean, my only concern would be the traffic on get a street if people stop in front of the store.

That would be my big concern, but people are walking.

Well, there will be a lot of people that walk from the neighborhoods, but kind of in a food desert.

Yeah, absolutely.

Okay, I don't I don't really have any strong objections.

My worry is just if people start parking on get a street because it's in a school zone.

Spaces out front at that location.

That doesn't make their own spaces.

All right.

Um item 42 is a zone change for uh uh property at 539 Colvin Street.

Um it's this is we had a resubdivision with the land bank, and it created a split zone parcel.

So the best way to explain is uh it used to have like a shared driveway or not a shared driveway, uh driveway access off of hope, and that part of hope um with the resubdivision, it's gonna create a split zone parcel.

So as I've done a number of times before uh this body, we we're just asking to rezone it so we don't have the split zone parcel.

Questions?

All right, thanks, Jake.

43.

Good afternoon, counselors.

Michael Lehman, Deputy Commissioner of Assessments.

Uh the department is requesting authorization to enter into a purchase and sale agreement for the city-owned property at 1939 East Fiat Street with Parkside Commons.

Property's been appraised, uh agreed upon value, went through the property disposition review committee, and we are looking to sell it to Parkside Commons for its appraised value plus the cost of the appraisal.

Is it the vacant lot at the northwest corner?

Like the Westmoreland.

No, this is um uh between Westmoreland and what was just Burnbaum Funeral Home.

Uh it's if you look at a map, it's pretty much a vertical line from uh Genesee down to Fayette.

It's um small parcel there and what had been Ives, which is uh Paper Street abandoned in the late 70s.

What's the size of this lot?

Uh I don't have that with me.

But it's uh it's attached to the letters.

Is that tiny strip patrona?

Is that any strip patrona or is that strip between the patrunal home and uh right here okay legal discussion yeah thank you yeah it's an old paper roll right is that what it is yeah it's just that stripes okay gotcha I understand any other questions on that one so of course that comments is all reference right so that's I my understanding yes and they also do section eight and subsidized housing uh I don't want to comment on that without all the information Commissioner Collins can answer those questions thank you uh Commissioner Michael Collins neighborhood business development the project is entirely project based vouchers so uh in other words every single unit has uh essentially a section A voucher attached to it email um madam president uh thank you Michael thanks Mike just wanted to let the council know and and counselor more in particular um item 29 which is the donation of the first blight flags I did hear from the chief and he spoke with the budget director um we will find funds to purchase those flags and so um again to Eric Hart we are appreciative for the offer um but that item will be withdrawn thank you um before we close I would like to um make comment about the incident that happened this weekend um to let the police officers know there in our thoughts and prayers as they heal um from their wounds at this incident and um just to applaud the professionalism and the patience that was shown that day um and also getting the um perpetrator out of the home safely and into custody without any injury so just wanted to let them know that we're all thinking of them thank you thank you we all right so at this point we are gonna adjourn motion to adjourn it