I thought you said 15 everybody.

Happy birthday, Susan.

Happy birthday.

Thank you.

I'm blessed to see 51.

Thank you.

I'm good to go.

Okay.

So item eight.

Do we have any resolution?

We'll know by Monday.

Okay, Councilman Cutwell.

Thank you, Madam President.

Um blessings to all today.

I have items nine to twelve.

All right, Rich.

How are you?

Good afternoon, Council.

Happy birthday, Council.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um, item nine is to enter in an agreement with um image integrator.

We've been working with them for a long time.

Um, they maintain our microfiche.

Um, I'm not sure if anybody knows what a microfiche is anymore, but um they maintain that machine for us for all of our records that have been stored on microfiche.

Um, and they do the maintenance and anything to keep that thing and running.

So I didn't even know they still have that.

We didn't have to bring up our age.

Yeah, I mean, if y'all want to walk down memory lane, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Our office is okay.

Back to the back with a ditto machine, right?

So that's what that is.

So any questions.

All right, thank you.

Yeah, thanks.

Item 10.

My baby right here.

Let's go.

Good afternoon, Janet Burke, director of research.

Happy birthday.

Thank you.

Um, this item is money from the city budget that has been allocated for the summer youth employment program.

Um, working with all kinds of different agencies, and there was a a list connected to your letter showing what the stipend will be and what agencies are going to be involved.

So I will totally 700,000.

I will piggyback on this one.

Um, all ex um full exposure.

Everyone else I works for the Allen Foundation.

This is a program that was created um about six years ago.

Um, actually, I graded it about six years ago to help um during COVID to help our young people get a chance to get a job readiness, career, and also have a chance to just you know express themselves.

And um, this program has expanded community-wide base as well as the school district.

I do oversee it.

Um, but I do not vote.

I get nothing off of it.

So there's just overseeing it.

So I oversee um the program, and we have so many great um resources in our uh community that our our children are going to be a part of, and it's a success every year.

So I'm um I just want to make sure everyone knows that.

And there'll be a um this year there'll be a big ceremony at the end.

So hopefully all the counselors will come and kids and all the organizations that basically volunteer their time.

I just had one quick question.

It says we have up to 800 kids.

How many do we usually get generally in a year?

Do we get sometimes it's more?

So where it is, what happens is um the organizations have application, they fill it out.

Kids from 10 age 13 receives 350, children from 14 to it could be 90, because there's most times they're in high school, receive 550.

So it depends on um who registers, who applies, and the money because they have to have money for the stipend, their food, and you know, their other, you know, if they're there's a group of children that will be doing learning how to cut here, right?

So they have to have tools and things, so it's around 800.

Yeah, I do.

Oh, you also have a quick question.

Go ahead.

So can youth in the community refer to those agencies in the list?

Absolutely that they can be registered, absolutely anybody can do this.

Anybody can do it.

The county has also been a part of this program.

So we have county um youth about it, and as well as the school district is so the kids that are not a part of the outer side of the program, the school district has the same that program that uh I'll receive that the children have opportunity to be a part of.

I have I have uh an ethics question.

You oversee the program, but you're also also authorizing the funding.

Would it be more appropriate for another member of council to take with this item?

No, because I don't get paid.

It's full disclosure.

I get nothing from this.

I don't really know.

But no, thank you though.

Any other questions?

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

We're all set with that one.

Yes, thank you.

Items 11 and 12.

Uh 11 is to extend our EAP, which is our employee assistance program one more year.

Um, we just completed the third year on their contract, so we're extending the first option on that contract.

Um, and the amount remains the same.

So um that 40,000 dollars for the one year extension.

And Rick, what's the utilization rate for DAP?

Um I should be getting this quarter soon.

But we're hovering around six percent, which is about two and a half percent above national average.

So it does get quite a bit utilized, quite a bit of utilization.

Thank you.

And I'll share those as soon as I get I'll share that information because it is they take out all the confidential information.

So item 12.

Uh item 12 is to amend so sorry, I had a question on item 11.

Yeah, back up there.

Sorry.

Yeah.

Um are we using this program?

Are people integrating with it?

Is it with E and I?

Yeah.

Yeah, we have a higher than national average usage.

Um they offer anything from financial counseling, concierge.

Like I used them when I took my trip to Japan, sent them a request saying, hey, I'm going to Japan, I need recommendations for a two-week trip.

They printed out everything from hotels to restaurants to eat at.

So they do simple things like that.

And they also do crisis management for folks that are struggling with mental health.

Um, it's not just catastrophic stuff, but both services are available or the wide variety of services.

So we have a higher than usual rate of utilization.

Have we asked our employees if they found it helpful?

Yeah, so uh we don't ask them directly, we get all that feedback in an uh we get a quarterly report from E and I, and they produce all of that with the satisfaction at the back or employee satisfaction at the back.

And E and I has been scoring, I don't think we've seen it dip below 97% uh satisfaction.

I understand, but I mean that we're getting that from the vendor who was getting the contract from us as well, right?

Correct.

Yeah.

Um but it's I mean they shouldn't be skewing data because it is through a data like you fill out surveys at the end, so that data shouldn't be coming back skewed in theory.

Um but from anecdotally, what I hear from our community that they love it.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Item 12, Rich.

Uh item 12 is to amend our agreement with Aetna um for this year.

Uh as you know, retiree health care is incredibly volatile right now.

Um rates are going up, so we're looking to increase that to continue to cover our retirees uh through the end of the year.

I do have one question on that.

Did we look at other plan options, or we just said they're going up, so we're gonna stay with it, or did we even explore other Medicare Advantage options for that?

So right now we're still in mid-contract with them.

Um we are looking at an RFP for January to look at what those options could be, but right now we're still in that first three-year contract with them.

Gotcha.

Any other questions?

Thank you very much.

I'm all set, Madam President.

Thank you.

I'll keep who's thinking uh oh, okay.

Thank you.

California has item 13 through 26.

Item 13.

Um, counselors Eric on us, mayor's office.

Um so we are still in the process of compiling uh information that's been requested by the council related to uh the road closure and the right-of-way utilization.

Uh so we are still putting that information together, so we would just ask for holding uh for this item for this agenda.

No problem.

Eric, can I ask a question on this?

Sure.

What is the advantage to the public taxpayers to be holding this and not collecting the fees right now?

So I know that there was clarification that was sought uh regarding the closure.

The there was a payment made for the initial 90-day closure, one of the and and the subsequent 90-day extension.

One of the pieces was really around the utilization of the right-of-way and making sure that we are reflecting what the current ordinance has as well as machinery equipment, some of the other elements within the roadway.

And so that information we've just been going through as part of the the period since the road closure began.

So some of that is just clarifying if there's any increase in the fees that are needed based on how the ordinance is written.

The initial payment for both the first 90 days and then a subsequent 90 days was made already, both a refundable and and non-refundable.

So there has been a payment submitted.

We're just going back to make sure that that that's fully accurate.

Yeah, I guess I just have concerns because the public can't utilize this road at all, right?

And um, I noticed they're on the street sweeping uh list.

They're also on the list to get the um top coding, whatever we do on the roads to try to protect them.

And it's like we're not collecting, I don't think we're collecting what we should be collecting for this inconvenience to the public.

So I mean, I know we're gonna talk about this more, but that those are my big concerns right now.

Okay.

Yeah, it it is.

I think the biggest thing that what we are going through is really making sure that the fees that are being included, and we do have the ability to go and backdate those as well.

That's all part of how the ordinance is structured and written, and then making sure that those are reflected in the amounts owed.

So it's just been part of putting together that information that that needs to be um organized.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Uh Council President, uh 14 through 17.

Uh 14 through 16 has to be held.

14 to 16.

Yeah, there's public hearings attached to those.

14 through 16.

So 17, you're on 17.

You're on 17 too.

Oh no, no, not 70.

We're on 17.

I got item 17.

Yeah, items.

So item 17 is just to amend the ending date to our agreement with uh uh uh arcadis uh for parking spaces in the Washington garage.

Uh it was previously November 30th of this year, but they want to mirror that to their uh office lease agreement.

So we're gonna push it back to July 31st of 27.

So uh commissioner, um the parking the parking spaces and the the the minimum and the maximum spaces is changing, right?

Um yeah, yeah.

So 150 to 220.

So 150 parking spaces, the minimum is 30, and then 220 is going down to 100.

Yeah, this uh I'm sorry, I didn't put that in the short title.

Um, and we're gonna get a new letter soon uh with the correct one once we could like Ryan.

Yeah, so quick question on that.

I'm sorry to ask a lot of questions today, but are we utilizing all the spots we're paying for, or do we not utilize them all?

That we're paying for they're paying us air paying.

Oh, they're paying.

It was not necessarily worded.

I actually had to see clarification myself.

So this is just an addition to the timeline, yes, and uh reallocation of spaces.

So they're going down.

So was that 10-year agreement?

So I'm assuming that they are shipping out folks.

They're yeah, they already decreased in um ordinance number 560 with the new letter uh that's coming out today.

Um they already decreased.

So this right here is just um this just amending um to uh extend the contract.

Yep, and commissioner the letter states 100 per spot um per month per year per month.

I don't have that in front of me on file money.

Per month, yeah, okay.

Um if I were mentions that being market rate.

It actually only says being charged 100 per vehicle.

That's why I got a little confused.

It doesn't have a time unit there.

Um clarification that's 100 per month per vehicle.

Yeah, okay.

And it mentions that that is the current market rate.

What was the the term of the contract?

I guess going through from 2016 to 2026.

Is that been 100 the whole time?

Did that change?

Did that go up?

I would have to get that information to you.

And if I were uh a resident just kind of calling City Hall and said I want a spot in Washington Street Garage, how much would that be per month?

Would it be 100 dollars or how much would that be?

I can get that information to you.

I apologize, I don't have that off the top of my head.

Thank you.

18.

Oh 18 is also an amendment.

Um there's there was some language uh amending uh this ordinance here.

Uh it said reimbursement New York State, but it's reimbursement.

I mean it's local share 20 percent instead of 20 percent uh reimbursement to it's 80 20, 80 to fed, uh 20 percent local share instead of state reimbursement, just the language change 18.

Any questions?

No.

Okay, so before you go to 19, I just want to make a correction.

All right, um the amount not to the C for 18, 19 and 20 is 20.

I mean 200,000.

Okay.

So just want to let you all know that there was a I'm sorry, can you say that one more time?

Eight nineteen and twenty amount not to exceed is two hundred thousand.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

This is the next item, correct?

Yeah, okay.

The next item.

Happy birthday to the case.

Oh, so you're 19.

Okay, yeah, okay, that's fine.

You mean two million?

We're adjusting down from one eight million to two hundred thousand.

200,000, that was a typo.

Got it.

Okay.

Yeah.

Good afternoon, counselors.

Jeff Ravola, fleet director.

Um, I've got 19 and 20.

Um you just saved a million dollars.

Well, you know, I'm pretty quick.

Um they are to authorize the issuance of bonds to purchase a LIDAR scale system for our new salt barn.

Um it's a a newer technology scale that will help us track the in and out of salt between different departments and other municipalities coming in um so we can invoice properly and actually track what's going out on the roads.

Any questions?

I have a question.

What's your own?

So, how are we doing in terms of salt storage and use and how are we doing in terms of cost with that?

Um it's terms of cost.

I'll have to get some information back for you on that, but we are just about to start the construction project on the new salt barn.

Um, so we will be able to increase what we have on hand this upcoming season.

Um so I mean we should be pretty in pretty good shape on that.

Okay, so if we have another winter like this last winter, which was a real Syracuse winter again, yes, and you still think that rock salt is the way to go in terms of what we're doing.

We shouldn't be exploring brine or other possibilities.

No, we we use um regular rock salt, we also use treated for the extreme cold.

Um definitely the best options we have right now.

Okay, thank you.

Item 21 good afternoon, counselor.

So I'm Pat with the uh department of public works and item 21 is uh an amendment to uh increase the Penn Detroit or Penn Power Group um coordinates to 50,000 from 20,000.

Any questions item 22 good afternoon, counselors Mary Robison, city engineer.

Item 22 is an authorizing agreement with Barton and Lejudis for one of our TIP projects, preliminary design for Erie Boulevard West, paving improvements between West Genesee to South Franklin, and total cost for the agreement not to exceed 32,000 dollars.

So this is a TIP project, so it has the 80 percent federal reimbursement, the 15% march is selling, and five percent local.

All righty, item 23.

Oh okay, let's go back to 21.

Sorry.

Yep, not for you.

21 was the other guy.

21.

He's gone.

Sorry.

He left.

No, I'm not sure.

Oh, right here.

Yes.

Sorry, Pat.

Quick question.

Um, so this contract changed from 20,000 to 50,000 dollars, so that's more than double.

Did we have more vehicle service?

What happened?

Correct.

We did have more vehicle service, and um there was a lot of issues with this.

Is uh they do the transmission work on these big vehicles.

We had a lot of issues, and uh we've exceeded the amount of twenty thousand.

Okay.

Are we is this an ongoing contract with this group?

Pardon me.

Is this an ongoing contract?

Because there's people that we use every year.

These are the people we use every year.

Okay.

Yes.

All right, so nothing changed in terms of pricing structure, was just the volume.

Correct, yes.

Okay, thank you.

Yep.

Uh counselor, it's specified in the letter, yes, and that you know that.

Okay.

Item 23.

Item 23 and 24 is also a tip project.

We're amending the bond ordinance and project authorization for the RTC regional market area mobility improvements.

Uh this is for deep adding detailed design services for our $318,000 for a total design fee not to exceed $630,000.

And Mary, Marcia Shelley on tip.

This because this is not this is addressing pedestrian and multimodal, not vehicles, it's not Marchicelli eligible, unfortunately.

Um is there another companion piece?

Yes, okay.

There should be uh agreement with DOT.

Okay.

All right.

Which must have gotten lost in the mix.

So I'll send you I'll bring you down another original.

We we never got it.

Well, I have it, but I I don't have an original.

You said another original, so I I'm bringing you down and you bring me down.

Okay, someone has it.

Someone has it, that's right.

Sounds good, Mary.

Where um are we looking around?

Yep.

We had a meeting with the council a couple months ago, went over the whole project.

We went over to project, and then I met with uh Bill Fisher.

Him and I we walked through a whole area to week stall.

As well.

To our knowledge, he's happy with what we're doing.

Right.

And I'm I'm happy that we're gonna get uh more sale taxes with Burn Gary actually going into the city right by right across from the reasonable transportation center, Joe, so that's good.

Okay.

Um 25 is uh local law for uh permanent easement at the airport.

I came to you before with uh easement for the consolidated rental car facility for national grid, and now Aqua needs to extend their main eight-inch water main um to this same property.

I don't think so.

So it's our standard easement agreement at the airport ready.

Item 26, counselors Robert Brant, Commissioner Water.

This is to amend uh the agreement with municipal H2O for our hazardous training out at Scane Atlas Lake.

They uh handle our training and our uh emergency response plan for our chemicals we use for the water treatment.

Um to one year agreement to May of 27 for 10,800.

It's an EPA requirement.

Any questions?

No, all righty.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um Mary, if can I ask you a question?

Actually, I'm not certain if it's between you or if it's DPW, but I think um Jeremy stepped out.

Um I got a call about the sidewalks.

Well, there is no sidewalk.

Installation of sidewalk on Lewiston Drive.

Lewiston Drive.

Yeah, okay.

Um that's between Nottingham and Calvin.

Yeah, Coven and Cumberland.

Not in Hand Road.

Okay, and um, there's no sidewalks there.

Some of the residents are confused at why they're why there's some talk about sidewalks being put there.

So if you could follow up with me or inquiry turning it.

Yep.

So there's there's talk about the city installing sidewalks that aren't there, and they're asking why we want to put sidewalks in.

Yes.

Okay, got it.

Thank you.

All righty, thank you.

Um counselor Hudson, and moving to Councillor Aaronmick.

Thank you, Madam President.

I have items 27 through 42.

Good afternoon, Saisha Bird, Commissioner Parks.

Um, and I have oh, he sat behind me.

Chris Abbott's gonna come up and do some of the work today, too.

Um 27 is the application um to apply for the Dan's n grant um for a new playground or playground equipment at Elmwood Park.

Um apply for Barrie Park for a playground at Barrie.

Elmwood Park.

Elmwood.

It has an older park with a metal tube slide.

Pretty true.

Elmwood Glenwood.

If you've never been there, if you've never been there, Patrona, you should go take a walk there.

It's a beautiful park.

No, no, no.

I've I lived in Elmwood Park.

I'm just trying to remember where the playground is on the right of the river.

It's off all the way up on the right side.

Okay.

That's when we need to fix it.

If you don't know where you need to be, yeah, I don't know.

Commissioner will play on it anytime.

I know it's some swing.

Commissioner Bird, are we still thinking of putting a gazebo in that park?

Yeah, there's gonna be a pavilion in a playground.

Yep.

Okay, a new one.

Now, what about the baseball diamond?

I heard that it was recently abandoned, like they no longer use in it.

Not abandoned, no, they're baseball.

Are we baseball fans?

I shouldn't say this.

Um I don't know if y'all know like mo a lot of other than the inner city team, a lot of our baseball teams collaborated and they moved to town of Salina.

So Lincourt, um, there's like five groups that came together and they do baseball in the town of Salina.

So we have the inner um city league, as you know, we're all gone, but it's not as popular as it once was.

I want to build it back up, but we have to have the kids that want to play too.

So play ball.

All right.

After the council is Chris Abbott, Deputy Commissioner Parks.

Um I have item uh number 29.

It's with uh broadcast music inc, BMI for the ability to uh play performances of copyrighted music for the fiscal year.

Um questions there.

Uh number 30 agreement with uh the most, the Museum of Science and Technology for Educational Programming this summer.

Um that are will be for uh the children in our daily uh summer programs in the park in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars total.

Okay, okay.

Item number thirty-one is uh our annual agreement with qualified individuals um as instructors for various sports fitness yoga dance, uh wide variety of programs held in in a variety of parks uh throughout the city.

And um uh Chris, how are you guys advertising this to instructors?

Because um there was someone that I had um told that whatever they did, I was like you would be fitted you would fit the parks um activity program, but I didn't know how to do that.

Yeah, we need a wide uh kind of a range of ways to recruit qualified instructors, and that's uh the thing with if it's a fitness class, it's a yoga class.

We want to find certified instructors to do that.

If it's you know dance classes, it was like uh something with art.

So yeah, art, yep, um, just the people with experience.

So we do have it listed on um the the city's uh employment page as far as like seasonal uh temporary work.

Um it's listed there, but we also uh you know, for some areas we look to the uh certifying organizations, the national organizations.

If there's local lists of local instructors that have those certifications, we look there.

But we're uh yeah, if you've spread the word, we're always looking to build our roster of qualified instructors for these types of you know, wide range of programming that builds wellness, you know, in the communities.

Okay, in the parks.

Yep.

Um item number 32 is agreement with Syracuse Orthopedic Specialist to provide athletic training, uh safety services for our summer camp and clinics in an amount not to exceed 4200.

Questions there?

Item 33?

Item number 33, agreement with the YMCA of Central New York to offer the free education and wellness programming in city parks uh throughout the year.

Uh it includes the summer academic enrichment program that they do, the Power Scholars program in our summer programs and other programs through the school year.

There's no cost to the city for this partnership.

Any questions?

Item number 34.

Um an agreement or authorization to pay various individuals for uh refereeing and officiating services for our different leagues and programs that we offer.

Any questions there?

Five.

Thank you.

And I'll invite Commissioner Bird back up.

No, uh, this is this proposal.

Um, so oh, where do we leave off?

Here we go.

Number 35 is a bond ordinance um for 2526 CIP for pool park pool improvements, um, not to exceed 250,000.

So these are the pool improvements that will allow us to use the pools.

Yes.

I mean, Burnett's in the process of being think things to engineering team and water department partnering and helping us getting it done.

Um 36 is authorization for CIP improvement to repair replace.

Um it's the authorization for that 250,000.

They go together.

Yep.

37 is another bond ordinance for um city sidewalk or park sidewalks, paving, hardscapes.

Some of the list should be in your packet.

Um, it includes first ward cemetery, spirit of jubilee.

Um there's a there's a long list of projects.

White oak stone throwers, Lincoln Park, and then others stone throwers is he because and it's a trip hazard, so we have to do that one as well.

Yeah.

Um these were all approved in the CIP, correct?

Yes.

38 is the authorization for that 550,000.

39 is a bond ordinance authorizing um the selling bond for um park vehicles and equipment storage, not to exceed 445,000, and then the authorization of that money.

Um 41 is appropriate funds.

It's uh it's for the conservancy for 2526 and the amount of 25,000.

We haven't had any luck with the schools.

That's what I was about to add.

I mean, we've been we've been doing what we can.

Our our staff, our aquatics crew just offered yet another recertification and training.

They're doing what they can to get as many students from the district in.

The hard part is you know, a lot.

Well, I'll speak for myself.

We didn't grow up with a swimming pool in our backyard or access.

We had public pools, but we didn't, I didn't learn how to swim until I was a grown-up.

So it's getting most of our kids that attend our centers right now in the water, comfortable with the water, and I'm also focused on the grandmas and the moms because most kids do what their parents do.

So we can get families to get so we're gonna start doing some family days at our pools.

If we can get families in our pools, they watch the adults learn how to swim, then they're not scared, then our kids start to learn how to swim and not be afraid.

My goal is to have every kid in our centers or in Syracuse knowing how to swim.

It's a life skill.

It is we should be dedicating um some of the winter time, you know, for training for specifically for that.

So that's something to do.

I think one of the biggest issues and I can maintain I've been working with the school district and they're trying, but it's honestly culturally, people don't want to get in the pool because I don't want to get my ear wet, right?

So you know it's the true swimming package for that.

They don't have good ones yet.

So, but we I mean, I thank you.

And I think the aquatics director, because he was working really hard trying to get more kids.

That's how I lost all my hair.

I will say the salt systems, we're working on them.

So Valley is up and running on the salt system, and we're working on all the other pools.

So we'll keep you posted on that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Should well have you at the microphone just for the public's thing.

Yeah, can you address the mowing issue?

I know you've corrected it now, but there's been a ton of complaints, and I kept telling people it's not your fault.

So um, if you could just address it for the public.

I'll it's not my fault, but as the commissioner of parks, I have to take the blame, right?

Because, but I did jump in and have some of our crews cut.

If you see a park that you're like, who cut this?

My kid, some of our crews jumped out and tried to get some of it done.

Um, they're not professional grass cutters, but they did what they they could do.

Like grosso, I know needs to be recut.

There's a couple more parks on the north side that have not been touched.

We just had a contract, you know.

We go through the bidding process with the county, we get who we get.

We had um a younger contract contract a really nice young man, small business, apply.

He got a large amount of sites.

It's hard, especially when the grass is already, you know, six, eight inches, four inches.

It's hard to keep up with it.

Um, so we were able to decrease his load, work with other contractors to take it.

So you'll see it this week.

We should level out, and we shouldn't have any other issues.

If you have an issue with grass, call me.

Call me, see click fix it.

We're fine with that.

We'll get it done.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

And before you leave, um, parks and DPW.

I just want to state this.

Yeah, we're talking about a clean city, correct?

Yep.

And we talk about that a lot.

There's always trash dump off of Kirkpatrick.

And we ride by it every day.

What's the intersection?

Down by you?

Down by Kirk Patrick?

Down by the street.

Down by me.

Down by you.

Okay.

And parks drive by every day.

And it's like this bag of trash is just sitting here.

Yeah, we have a problem.

People bear, they did on my street.

People just take bags of trash and they dumped it on my street, too.

But even if it's not, I mean, everybody can pitch in DPW parks.

If you see it, pitch in.

Let's pick it up and let's get it cleaned up.

And our guys, I think our trash crew has been doing a good job.

We are doing a little bit different.

We ordered, I know this sounds corny stickers to go on our garbage bags, especially for our cleanup.

So similar to Okra, now you can identify when there's a cleanup in a park, and my crew knows what to pick up and what was dumped, so they can keep track of that.

So before you leave, Saisha, um I gotta call.

I don't know if Chris might be having that's her, but I got a call concerning the young lady who has done like this snowshoeing um stuff.

Well, basically, I think she has uh some a deal that she's gonna be doing something in Thornton Park with some hay.

No, her name, uh Laura Reader.

Yes.

It's gonna be a combined project.

It was presented last night at the art commission.

It went through.

Um it is a um it's two artists, Sydney and Laura.

They will be doing a piece on the Thornham Park Hill up in front of the water tower.

So the concern is that how long is it gonna sit there?

And is there a possibility that it would kill the grass?

That so that's something to look into.

Okay.

Well well, part of her, it's a lamb riff, so part of it is pat in the grass down to create this lamb riff so people can walk, and then the other part is gonna be on the willow, similar to what's down at Light Bart Park.

Is this a temporary?

Yeah, it's all the installation is temporary.

So that's what the concern is that if it kills the grass, then we at parks will have to replant it.

All right.

Is that historic grass?

It's not historic grass.

All right.

That was good.

Okay.

Council now.

That's the best one ever.

Yes.

I have 43 through 53.

Wow.

Counselor's uh Vinny Scipion, Chief Information Officer.

Um, happy birthday.

Uh certainly.

Um item number 43 and 44 are related um for capital funding uh for some uh various equipment upgrades, including security cameras.

We've got like 425 security cameras throughout the city, and over time they either need to be upgraded due to just standard life cycle uh upgrades, but also adding new ones.

I think we have today, I think six new ones going online for the water department.

We're outfitting some of our reservoirs as those uh you know haven't had cameras there before, and we should have cameras there.

So um, so again, standard upgrade cycles, uh phone system upgrade related to that as well.

Uh we just did a new phone system at 1153 when that move occurred, and uh the rest of the city will uh follow uh as it relates to that.

So um that's specific to uh you know 43 and 44.

The cameras um or is there are those the ones also we're connecting with the police, right?

Uh these are they're different.

Uh these are more just gent, you know, general security cameras, as you know, like there's some in here and throughout our other municipal facilities, and then the police uh um also have their uh cameras network as well.

No, but it are they oh do they connect with each other in the systems?

Um I'm gonna have to get you a better answer on that one.

I don't know if those ones connect uh you know speak with each other.

I I wouldn't think so, but yeah, I don't want to make any promises.

Yeah.

All right.

45, we get to go on to, yeah.

Uh which is uh more capital funding related to some cybersecurity upgrades, network infrastructure improvements, yeah, more like standard lifecycle uh um equipment that as time goes on, we need to uh keep up with them and make sure we're not operating on out of light or end of life uh out of service equipment.

Okay, uh 46.

I'm just gonna keep going.

Please stop me if uh uh you know um is more capital funding.

Uh implementation of uh some modernized enterprise solutions.

So this is actually related to one uh item later on, which I'll call out.

Uh as we look to the key word here is enterprise, right?

Uh systems that are used across uh the entire organization.

We're looking to upgrade uh to a newer solution than IPS.

I'm sure a lot of you uh the codes system of record that's been utilized for a long time uh and will be RFPing this uh fiscal year.

We have a dedicated resource who's going and uh scoping out that entire prog uh project, as I'm sure you know that's a large uh undertaking.

It's a system that touches many departments.

But you said you're gonna be RFP and so is that gonna be July?

No, we're not gonna be we're in this fiscal this upcoming fiscal year.

We will be RFPing it.

The uh the person right now is going through an entire analysis of uh end to end that whole life cycle of what happens in the life cycle of either an event within codes, not everything is a you know a violation.

There's property tracking aspects, uh, you know, just inventorying uh a lot of different components of that life cycle, which are being uh kind of evaluated, gap analysis being done, so then we can adequately release a uh uh you know uh RFP that will be comprehensive of all of these and taking this as an opportunity to where are there other systems that we've used in tandem with IPS that should really be all encompassing, etc.

So it's a large undertaking, but these would be related to implementation services, this funding uh when we do go out for uh an RFP to you know help with the upgrade of that you know to a new system.

We don't have we haven't RFP for it yet.

So okay.

The system is IPS uh um that's by uh I think Edmonds GovTech is the name of that company.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right.

Uh next here, we've got a handful of waivers, which I know uh uh can not uh isn't or not everyone's favorites.

Uh just to uh provide shed some light on there.

A lot of these are coming now because we've gone through an effort to co-term a lot of our agreements, uh and there still will be more, but meaning we're aligning the start and stop of our uh contracts with the fiscal year.

This makes it a lot easier for uh budgeting and forecasting to make sure that we're not overlapping and coming up short or you know, uh having uh a few thousand dollars difference because of an increase over a given year, et cetera.

So uh that's why just some explanation of why you're seeing so many of them uh and probably we'll see more in future years just being realistic.

But um a lot of these, which uh and I'll say items 47, 48, 49, and 50 are uh all appearing as waivers.

They're really authorizing uh renewal options for each of those platforms.

So they uh are pre-existing agreements, which we are just looking to exercise the option for uh the renewals, but given that they were waiver items in the first place, these are uh you know shown as waivers, but still again uh essentially uh looking to exercise renewal options for them.

Um and we have taken a look through multiple departments to make sure that we don't have duplicative contracts for these software items, correct?

Correct, yeah.

We actively the part of our lifecycle uh um you know software kind of evaluation lifecycle, we look at all of those things when they come up for renewal.

We say, okay, you know, who's the department using it?

Or is it multiple departments?

Is it only one?

Is it an enterprise agreement?

Meaning we just pay a price and everybody gets access, or is this per seat, they call it, where there's an individual license assigned to a person.

If there is, we go and say, okay, do you need the 50 licenses that you have, or can you really get away with 40?

And uh so yes, it's part of our uh ongoing efforts, the you know, year round.

I don't think Joe Barry likes it when you say can you get away with 40, but that's fair.

And uh the payment ends of some of these softwares, they do integrate with our other payment systems.

They do.

Uh as necessary, the ones that have payment components.

Uh we have uh our primary payment processor is um now it's escaping me, invoice cloud, and uh that is one that has connections through uh a variety.

Yeah, like uh for example, I think on here the first one, 47, is uh for AIMS uh, which is our um parking enforcement platform.

And so when people pay online for a uh parking violation, it sinks through our payment processor.

All right.

That was 4748, 49 to 50, 51 uh is similar, but looking to extend an agreement previously uh procured via waiver.

Uh this is what I was referring to before, IPS, uh the platform that we are seeking to RFP that is uh um we're just looking to buy ourselves some time so we can get through that RFP process.

So uh seeking for uh a one-year extension and uh option for one year to renew after that if uh necessary, as we will know more when we do this RFP, what the overall transition timeline would look like to upgrade to a new one.

So 52.

This is uh a platform called Open Cities.

This is the one that runs our city website.

You may recall seeing this just a couple months ago.

That was because we were uh working to co-term that so three maybe three-ish months ago, we had uh extended that agreement through the end of June 30th, now looking to start July 1 and have that uh aligned with the fiscal year moving forward.

So this is uh this was procured via RFP handful of years back.

Uh we are you know content with the uh you know platform itself.

It's uh you know, still within its useful life in our opinion.

So uh seeking to extend that agreement so we can continue to uh utilize that as a provider.

And it's useful life.

How long do we foresee?

We were in a useful life with people soft.

So uh I there's a lot of ways to interpret that.

Yeah, I would say uh this platform itself, I could see us easily using for another three to five years.

Uh, you know, I I don't think and because taking into consideration the uh the internal capacity that would be necessary to migrate to a new platform as well when all the features, it's a it's a modern system, right?

Uh where right now it is correct, yeah.

And I would foresee it to be uh modern uh uh for at least another three to five years, if not longer.

Uh yeah.

Uh alrighty.

Last one I think I have for you, 53.

This is uh uh the entity is called Azteca.

They make a platform called CityWorks.

This one is uh arguably part of the backbone of the water department.

Uh they use this for uh service requests and uh work orders, and we are looking to uh you know, we're currently planning to utilize this platform throughout other departments as well, including uh parks and DPW coming up.

So right now, as I'm sure many of you are aware, there's paper work orders that get passed around, and we're looking to digitize that to make things a lot more streamlined and uh this is something, for example, that also integrates with um C click fix or City Line, you know, to where uh when a constituent puts in a request there, it'll connect uh behind the scenes with CityWorks, which is an internal facing platform, right?

That's not one that the public necessarily interfaces with, and that will make it so they can um uh you know, again, streamline those requests as they come in and take care of them in a timely manner.

Our sister City G uh was very interested in the C click fix and the City Line data collection.

Yeah, at lunch had a great conversation with them about uh you know um ways that uh they currently uh you know facilitate their 311 operations as well.

So very cool.

With the integrated yesterday, also very cool opportunity.

Sorry, um Petrona, no problem.

With the extension to other departments, did that um does that uh would that include us having to like enter into agreement with for different modules to um not particularly, no.

Um the solution itself is service requests and work order management, right?

And then some asset management in there as well.

So we're also undertaking, you know, every asset that the city has essentially every bench, every fire hydrant, right?

We want to be able to uh monitor and and uh or well I say monitor, essentially monitor the life cycle of that.

So uh when a new bench gets installed, you go into CityWorks to say new bench installed, this date, then as time goes on, if a leg breaks on that bench or something of that nature.

Uh we have that history of what you know that asset uh, you know, what work that asset needed performed, etc.

So this is a lot to take in.

It is and as I spoke to you and to Evan, Evan is checking on some information for me.

So I think related to 43 and 44, yeah.

Maybe 45 as well, I think.

Yeah.

So we're going to hold those, and we're gonna call a committee meeting.

Okay.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks.

What was that?

Which one is that?

45 and what?

No.

I'm actually gonna hold all of them.

Okay, all right.

So 43 through 53 we're gonna hold.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you.

All set, Council Husley.

Counselor Navin.

Thank you.

Thank you, man.

President.

I've been called worse.

I can call worse now.

Sorry.

Okay, I'll take it.

That's okay.

So if the crown fits someday, you will be so in line.

So uh resolution 54 is not uh number of 54.

It's a resolution to uh recognize and celebrate Kelly's touch for many who do not know what it's about.

Dale Johnson is the founder, he found it in 2009, and he has an after school program where kids are playing soccer and they're getting an education, and it's located on Catawa Street.

You took the old assumption school uh gym, and it's a tremendous program.

And for all the knocks uh we get on the north side, there's a lot of good comes, and this is one of the outstanding programs uh that we have in the city, and I want to acknowledge them.

Thank you.

And Councillor said, I know Dale from his work in the school district, and and he does an incredible, incredible job with our students.

He's a very amazing, he's an advocate for the that community.

Um, but Dale is the stand-up guy.

He is also a part of the Summer Fellows.

Yeah, and he does a lot um with the community, and he's a big soccer person, so he loves soccer.

Should go up there.

Everybody else want to join in on that one.

Go ahead.

Yes, okay.

Yeah, I know.

Thank you, counselor.

Uh counselor Moore.

Thank you.

Counselor Monto.

I have items 55 through 57.

And I like mine because I get to accept money in two of them.

I don't have to pay anything out this time.

So nice.

It's so nice.

Good afternoon, Council.

Um, I'm Mike Monza for Chief 55 and 56.

Um, they're both the same type of request is to authorize an agreement uh with Anadaga County.

They're gonna get funding uh through FEMA that's gonna go to directly support our hazmat um team for training exercise costs and equipment.

So the first ones is uh through a fiscal year 23 grant, the second one is through a fiscal year 24 grant.

They're gonna both be running concurrently, so they end in August 27.

Does anybody have any questions?

Okay, thank you.

No, we're always happy to take money.

Right.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

Um, 57 is a resolution that uh we'll be um talking about Monday.

I have a woman that has multiple sclerosis coming in um to speak.

And May 30th is multiple cirrhosis awareness day, and so we're going to acknowledge that here in the city.

Everybody else want to get on that one too.

Yes, also if everyone wanted to join me in uh honoring the resolution for Dale Johnson colleagues.

There we did that.

Uh Counselor Williams and Councillor Caldwell.

Thank you.

President Pro Tem Um for item 58.

I'm actually gonna ask Commissioner OJ to give a quick overview.

Um his son is one of the page flippers.

And yeah, um and the commissioner can give us a little bit more detail on what exactly went down and how it happened.

Learned something new every year.

Uh Matt OJ, Crawford Avenue, also Commissioner of Assessment, but I think here with the former hat on uh proud parent of a son who with two uh teammates or two team teammates with my son recently advanced to the super regionals for the battle of the books with the Syracuse City School District.

Um yeah, they they uh they read several books, they were quizzed on them, and uh they advanced farther than their predecessors had in the previous uh want to say eight years of the uh of the competition.

So uh we we and uh other parents are really proud of our kids and uh really really proud of everyone involved with the Syracuse City School District who supports, I think uh what one of the most fabulous groups of of uh diverse, thoughtful, and talented kids around.

And really appreciative counselor Caldwell, Counselor Williams for uh opting to uh remind me that we should be honoring our kids in a more formal way than uh Pat on the back and some ice cream.

So here we are.

Yeah, yeah, and then and they uh thanks to the district will be down here on Monday, I believe, to do some reading and be honored in this room.

We have a charter for them to just dig right into.

Beautiful.

Beautiful, yeah.

We're hoping to do that.

It's not okay with the resolution for now.

I would like to add to the resolution.

You know, the students competed in and matched and be a lot of our suburban counterparts that we often think of as being the um you know more prestigious school districts in the area, and and this group of students showed that um, you know, we got really smart, great, wonderful kids in the city as well.

Maybe Counselor Williams just wants to say booya to that terrific.

Sorry to interrupt terrific educators, um fabulous librarian at Ed Smith, um, and and really great faculty there as well.

So thank you for sure.

Thanks to everybody involved.

Thank you.

And if I could just piggyback on that since we're talking about the schools just a little bit.

Um, last week, several of you guys know we had the um the Syracuse City Schools had the civic engagement um day um for the middle schools, and um, for those who did attend, it was I know a couple of y'all went on the wrong day, wrong to the high school.

Um, but it was phenomenal.

Um, you know, what those students um did and what they presented.

Um they worked in groups, some of them worked uh cleary school, they worked individually.

Well, no, they worked in groups as well, groups.

There was a smaller group, but the like at um Percy Hughes, they worked in large group, like a class group, and um, and they were very attentive to collecting certain data um throughout different school districts um around um Syracuse and surrounding um neighboring uh I don't know what do you call them?

Uh yeah, Jamesville DeWitt and Manlia stuff like that.

Um I would probably recommend that we bring them in to give us more information.

Um it was very, very good.

They were very good.

So hopefully we can make it to the high school ones for those who did it, but um, I think we should have a second round of that.

They do a phenomenal job, every yeah.

Yeah, it's been amazing.

Our school district is doing a great job with our babies.

Counselor Williams, thank you, President Pro Tem.

Um item 59.

Can I be added to that resolution?

Absolutely.

Everyone want on for the edge of kids.

Right.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Council.

Amory Degan, first deputy commissioner of finance.

Happy birthday, Commissioner Coffee.

Um, item 59 is for uh a six-month agreement with Kathleen Wilson.

She's instrumental in our support of the AS400 and our payroll project.

We're only asking for six months because that'll give us time to do an RFQ process.

Whereas for contracts adding at the end of June, and so we wanted to get this on, knowing that we'll be doing an RFQ or this service.

They extend the contract and add an additional 2500.

23.

2300.

Um Madam Clerk, the letter submitted states 28,000.

The short title says 48,000.

Okay, the short title is an amendment.

Okay, so that's the that's an amended.

That's the ordinance that's being amended.

Um, in the short title, uh, it doesn't have the amount, uh, the additional amount um uh to exceed by and you say that says in the letter 23 or 28.28.

So it should be um so they're amending to extend the contract and increase the amount not to exceed by 20.

You say 28.

Uh total cost not to exceed 28.

Yeah, so yeah, so that's six months gonna be an additional 28,000.

Well, I'll wrap my reminder on that.

Thank you.

Um item 60.

Good afternoon, counselors.

Uh Diane Astry, uh Commissioner of Finance.

Uh, item number 60 is uh to enter into an agreement with Bus Charles Chambers.

They we went through the RFP process, and uh we are requesting uh contract to for accounting services and consulting services.

And so this contract is annual at this point.

We we have year after year after year.

I believe that through the RFP process we get an option to a expensive um why do we continue with the service right now?

They're providing consulting service to update our grant procedures.

Um so from soup to nuts, we're tightening up those operations uh with their help.

Um, and also in the Bureau of Accounts, we receive accounting service as an accounting staff until we're able to fill some vacancies.

Is that gonna help with tracking the grants per department?

Yes, it should it should.

Uh I can confirm that I'll follow up and let you know.

Oh good.

Um item 61.

And Maria Amory Deegan, first deputy commissioner of finance.

Um 61 is for uh basically a six-month agreement with Central City Data Services.

They are also helping us with our payroll project.

Um doing again six months, so we can do have time to do an RFQ process for these services moving forward.

Is that Trevor?

It's true.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Yeah, okay.

Okay, which is valuable.

Thank you.

Hello again.

Could have grouped these a little differently, huh?

Yeah.

Um we are asking to extend an agreement with Systems Inc.

They systems east, they act as a third-party payment processor.

Um there are our backup to invoice cloud for how we collect payments through CPC.

Great.

Seven dollars per month.

Yes, plus additional chargeback fees for processing.

I think we can probably handle that.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Um 63.

Okay.

This is also to uh enter into our amend an agreement with electronic data corporation.

Uh this is to look up out of state licensing uh for our automated ticketing process.

Uh if there are more questions, I can get some more information.

So commissioner, that is uh um that is uh waiver competitive bid, and you're actually you're actually asking to renew to to renew that contract, right?

So we're making amendment to the legislation, right?

Is that a because I didn't take you, yes.

Thank you for correcting.

Yeah, can you can you shoot us another letter that says that?

Okay.

And I think this was where we got into a little situation the year prior with um data accessing and opting accidentally opting into data sharing.

Um so just want to make sure that that's not happening.

Oh, hi, counselor Vinny Scipio and Chief Information Officer.

Um, this is not uh relative to uh well, let me say what it is.

The service is when we have uh parking violations that occur and there is a uh a license plate that is outside the state of New York.

We have a direct lookup system with uh the New York State DMV when we need to find registered owner information for the ticket to get issued.

Uh this queries uh uh this e-rolls we call it for short EROLS system, which then returns the uh registered owner information for plates outside of New York State.

Uh and so it's not that we're providing any information necessarily in this instance.

So it's directly DMV.

Uh this is uh for it's a service that aggregates register uh you know registered owner information from other DMVs because we have we have an account with the New York State DMB that we can uh query for, but this is a third party that then instead of us having I don't even know if we could, but uh instead of us having an individual relationship with every single DMV, you know, the 49 other state DMVs, uh this is one service that uh allows us to query all of them.

With this so well, Patrona, that this is not interface at all with the LPRs.

This has nothing to do with license plate readers.

This is just when we get somebody to look up the out of state plate.

That's yeah, you know the um the item that one of the items I spoke to earlier, EDC or AIMS that platform, this is directly tied to that platform.

So but the timing was immediately after the license plate reader controversy, then this popped on the agenda of the next cycle, and it was flags went up.

Yep, yep.

Thank you.

Um item 64.

Right, hello again.

Uh this is to uh authorize the levy that was passed in the adopted budget.

Uh this action will opt on operationalize the budget and formally authorizes us to place and collect taxes.

Thank you.

All right.

Have a good one.

Happy birthday.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um item 65, 66, 67 will be executive session.

Um can we request to meet on Monday, Joe?

Or should we run a little you can't stay today?

Uh do people have places to go?

We normally do on Wednesday.

Are you Wednesday or Monday?

Okay, today there's another question.

Okay.

Well, I guess we'll go today.

Um item 68, please.

Okay, Joe.

Good afternoon.

Happy birthday.

Leah Whitmer, director and chief administrative law judge at the municipal violations bureau.

Um 68 and 69.

I just want to clarify one is for parking, one is for BAA, so the letters that were submitted um reflect that.

So this is to amend the local law for each department to expand our ability for our part-time administrative law judges in part-time hearing examiners to rather than just live in the city, it's live or work in the city to give us a little bit uh more opportunity for more candidates of a more diverse nature with the influx of the automated enforcement tickets.

There's been a large influx of disputes.

Um, I've been, as most of you know, short a deputy director for a year.

Um my other deputy director is gonna be transitioning out.

So I'll be the only full-time attorney that can act as a judge on staff.

And a lot of my I have a dozen part-time attorneys right now who help me adjudicate these cases.

Some of them can only work an hour a week, some of them work 20 hours, but again, we have close to 4,000 pending parking and automated enforcement cases.

Um so we just want to ensure that we're providing constituents with you know, due process, they're getting their disputes in, we're getting their cases heard and decisions issued.

Um, and this I think expands it to again, it's just the part-time positions.

They still have to live in or work in the city.

I know I have a handful of candidates who are interested should this legislation go through that provide diversity across a number of areas, as I outlined in my letters, and you know, help us go through.

So when you say live or work in the city, by work in the city, you mean that they're attached to a law firm that has a brick and mortar inside the city limits.

Either a law firm or they're a solo practitioner that has you know rent office space.

Okay.

Um, and I have some of those now.

Um, but I feel like I've tapped most of the people that I know.

I think I like to think I'm pretty well connected to the local legal community.

Um I advertise with all the local bar associations, alumni associations, I'm part of the court, the fifth judicial district access to justice committee.

Um so I've really tried, and again, it hasn't been a pro.

I mean, it's always been a problem, but now with just the influx of automated enforcement, I need more hours.

Um so it's either do this or we explore opening it up for the deputy director for my full time.

So I thought this would be the most sense as a starting point.

Um, since they're part-time, the law department, you know, their um contractors that they use, they don't have this restriction.

So I thought it was pretty much akin to that.

Leah, what was the um when has it been posted?

Because we get the um what is it like weekly or monthly?

The part-time it's been can my understanding is I've had it continually posted for like over a year now.

What is do you know what is listed under?

It would be part-time administrative law judge or part-time hearing examiner.

No, this is not an amendment to the local law to the local law, it's uh similar to um uh the lifeguards, right?

No, it is in the local, it is in for parking, it is no no.

I'm I'm just saying uh we're not amending the local law.

It's traffic code.

I'll have to double check.

Yeah, because I I um thought I talked to you about that, and uh and you mentioned it to me that we wasn't amending a local law that it lines up with the way we uh do the lifeguards.

Yeah, I'm talking about the overarching local laws and ordinances that control parking in BAA.

It has you know, live in the city in that that we add it in.

Yeah, yeah, I understand.

Yeah, one is for traffic.

And then just on our end, we're gonna need to change short title to include BAA rather than park relationships.

We got that.

All right, thank you.

That's public C it already.

So any other questions I can answer about it.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Council Jones Rousser.

Thank you, Councillor.

Um, I have items 70 and 71.

Um 70 is ever okay.

Good afternoon, counselors.

Um items 70 and 71 are companions.

The city is seeking to abandon a portion of its right-of-way, um, just south of the property at 3316 Midland Avenue by Florence.

Um, this is a request from the resident who owns the property at 3316.

Uh basically they'd just like to expand their property a little bit more room for their for their family.

So um when I looked the property up in between is the walk path.

Yes.

So we're so what it I'm there was no map in here to show like what you're asking.

Uh I'm I'm happy to redistribute what what the appendix that accompanied um is in there isn't it?

The letter.

So if if the plans according to the uh the survey are the exact ones that play out, the remainder would be six feet on either side of the walking path.

Okay, thus not obstructing any pedestrian access.

Okay.

Um I need to get with you about a paper trail um for somewhere else.

Okay.

Okay.

Any other questions?

This is a this is advertising a public hearing on June 15th at 1 p.m.

Yes.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any questions about that?

Um I just want to ask uh legal question.

Joe, um, with uh with the abandonment, right?

Um is it uh is it uh considered a local law with the advertisement uh and their advertisement is required because of city owned property, or is it a city right uh I can't do that?

Yeah, so the Joe Barry, first assistant corporation counsel, the public hearing comes first, right?

And then the actual abandonment is done by ordinance, regular ordinance, regular ordinance.

But if we sell the property it to a third party, it's a local law.

So this is not a request for a sale.

I can't recall in the Yeah, that's what I was about to go back to.

We normally know that before.

So Brian and I was going back and forth with this now.

We normally know that before this point here, so we can know whether it uh whether it's a local law or whether it's a uh regular ordinance.

And so we are fine now.

We can find we can find we can talk more off about that.

Actually, I think there's typically three pieces of legislation.

Okay, all right.

Authorize the public hearing and ordinance abandoning, and then the local law to whomever it's going to be sold to.

So Joe, when is when do we have the um we would need that the assessment?

Um don't we have to have it a surveyed or something?

That usually comes with the request from the commissioner of assessment to sell the property.

We need all three of them.

I don't know if that letters in the packing.

As far as as far as the survey, the appraisal.

I'm sorry, appraisal, not assessment.

So we need uh we need uh we need legislation on the book for the ordinance then as well, but for the sale to the third party.

We can talk about it afterwards if you want, but if it can be.

Item 71 should be an ordinance.

Okay, because that's for the abandonment.

Okay.

Then I think you'll need a third item, but we can't act on it Monday.

That will be whatever sale the commissioner of assessment is asking.

I thought they all go all together.

Nope, they're they're separate.

Okay, always separate.

Okay.

All right.

Because the the sale, you have to abandon it first before you can sell it.

Oh, so you can't do it all at once.

All right.

Well, it's a kind of a three-step process.

That's the um, that's the step we got to remember.

We was trying to figure out what step we had to remember.

We was missing we both do we was missing something.

Yeah, okay.

So we'll we'll do an ordinance for the only act on Monday will be to uh vote on number uh agenda item 70.

And it will, yeah, yeah.

So 71 will be held, and we'll we'll get it ready for June 15th.

Got it.

And 71 would be then you'll you'll add a third ordinance for the sale.

And local law.

Yeah, and 71 will be the ordinance, right?

Instead of the local okay.

And hopefully by then we can add the local law.

All right, sounds good.

Sounds good.

I'll set.

Thank you, Martin.

I have items 72 through 75.

73 and 74 are not, those are duplicates, Brian.

Okay, so 72.

We're gonna 73.

Good.

Good afternoon, Counselor Zoom Kearney, deputy commissioner for planning and sustainability.

72 is a request to amend a contract uh with colliers uh and engineering, planning design engineering firm.

We are currently working with colliers on progress on the design of Progress Park.

We wish to continue working with colliers on that contract.

So our request before you today is to increase um their contract amount from 117,000 to 153,000.

Uh extend the contract date through uh next summer.

And perhaps most um important uh that increase in funding will be covered through a New York State uh Department of State grant.

So no increase cost to the city basically using funds that have been awarded to us for some additional services.

We're gonna spend that whole grant close to us.

I think the the total grant total is about 160,000.

So it gets a closer.

Um this was kind of our intention from the beginning.

I think we had to get most of the way through the project to determine where we needed some extra services.

We've done that, and so this is just a formally ask uh for your authorization to make that amendment.

What are some of the visitor amenities that you're adding?

Sure.

Um the the park uh is new.

We're looking at the whole park, and we we've essentially have a complete design.

We're really working with city staff to finalize across Ts and dot i's, but um new park signage, uh some new trails in the park, um, reconfigure the parking lot slightly, have some flexible space area up on the northern end of the park, have a greater connection and cohesiveness with the parks led playground project that that they're working on.

These will be our intentions to bid the parks project, which is city funding and and this project, which is state funding, bid them together, build them together, really have a cohesive look.

So not completely re-reconfiguring the park, the parking lot and the open space are still gonna be there, but what are amenities like seating, lighting, the electric vehicle chargers, which we've talked about at length a few months ago, um, all of those things that can really just take this uh and increase uh the usability of the park and just the comfort in the park and amenities for visitors and as you all are aware, there's a variety of things happening in the inner harbor, the city and otherwise to really we expect more visitors, have this be a bigger destination, and what are those things to make it more comfortable for people to to use it?

When you tie it in about comfort, I'm sorry.

No, go ahead.

Are there gonna be restrooms agate?

Not as part of our project, no.

We need restrooms.

Yeah, we do.

My understanding yesterday from doing a tour of the aquarium is that they're uh planning on having boats come in to the inner harbor to be able to go to the aquarium.

So are we thinking about that kind of traffic?

They're gonna have places for them to tie up, apparently, and get off and be able to come visit the aquarium.

We are um and I know that uh the parks department uh I think is working with city engineering looking at frankly working with a lot of city departments looking at amenities like new lighting.

Uh we know fire department has new uh a new uh dock out there, new railings, new lighting, um, new amenities in in both the existing park and in the playground.

City proactively trying to make that whole area um safer but also more desirable for visitors.

We know there's gonna be a lot lot more people out there over the coming years.

We own the piers again too.

So that's correct.

And and we I should note we have we'll be back to you before long.

We out I will be back to you before long with a contract to with a design planning and design firm to think start thinking about the reuse of the those piers.

That's also state funding.

So that will be sometime this summer.

Thanks.

Thanks, thanks, Owen.

73 and 74 will be withdrawing.

Uh 75.

So again, counselors, Michael Lehman, Deputy Commissioner of Assessments.

This is our request to hire an appraiser.

Um Ruckner Tillett, Ross Cahill and Associates to appraise the uh lands located at 115 South Getta Street and 116-18 South Getta Street.

Michael, are we using that for parking or what are we using that for?

Uh contemplated for parking, yes.

All right.

I'll make a motion to go into executive session to discuss settlements for taxes.

Uh so move.

All in favor?

Aye.

You need me to do anything with this?

One's interview.

Oh, really?

Thanks for having me.