The Syracuse City Council convened to review public works code amendments, discuss urgent changes to 911 dispatch services due to county consolidation, explore new ambulance service models under state law, and conduct a comprehensive municipal budgeting overview. The meeting also featured the adoption of new citywide branding guidelines and the collaborative assignment of council lia roles to various committees and schools.
So we have a reason to stop traffic. Yeah. It's it is kind of awkward if you put a signal up there and black it out and people all go, what's when? What why is it not working? Yeah. So and hopefully that'll bring a developer in. Yeah. You know, once we get that improved, then it's like we're ready to go. Yeah. Anybody have any objection to this one? All right. I'm just going to move that to the consent agenda too. Now we have item D, which is public works items. We have one proposed amendment to Syracuse Municipal Code, Section 4.15 and 4.25 pertaining to water meter meters, proposed engineering standards updates related to water meters and proposed policy related for existing meters. Yeah. Robert, if you come forward and share with us just a little bit of insight as to why this is important. Yeah. So when a new lot is built, the floor lines are all stubbed to the center lot, and then and then the house gets built, they build the driveway. And sometimes the water meter ends up right where they want to put a driveway. And generally they are to about the center of the lot. Anyway, um, what we don't want is for the driveway to be built around the water meter and have it built around concrete. Couple of reasons why, mainly for serviceability, if we've got to get into it, dig around it. It's going to take us longer to get to it, especially if there's an emergency urgent situation. Also, um, it's harder to determine if there's a leak. So if there's a slower leak, it may just leak underneath the concrete, create a big hole under the concrete, and it'll only take a moment of time before a truck drives over it and collapses. So uh it is better to not have them encased in concrete. Um the so that the proposal on the ordinance reflects language that um could be considered to be changed for city code to uh you know to improve that situation. Also, the engineering standards uh would supports it with a note that was added to the drawings for both the culinary and the secondary. And then the policy would be if there's already an existing situation where there's a meter in concrete and we have to get in there and work on it. Uh we're not going to put concrete back in because it's just bad practice. So that's the policy just allows us to work in there. We would put it back, you know, in good shape, whether it's uh gravel. We try to match best as we could with what's kind of around that area. So whether it's gravel or um grass or mulch or um uh even brick pavers, you know, something something. So we'd certainly uh try to work if that's good with residents who might be concerned about it as well. But this allows us to do that. So if it's so Robert, if it's in the driveway approach already, there's no required requirement to move it. But if it needs maintenance, you would remove the concrete around it and then replace it with pavers or something. Yes, yeah, okay, but they would not be allowed to put concrete back, right? Right. That could be in the middle of the driveway. Uh generally they are. We've only seen just recently one come across where they didn't want to move it. Um, but we've always had them move it before we accept uh the home for occupancy. Um they grumble, especially if they've already poured the concrete, because then they got to rip up the concrete and move it. But we just tell them that's our standard is we can't put them in the driveway. Um I don't know of any right now, unless say, like unless someone has widened their driveway for an RV pad and we're not really aware of that. That's a possibility. One of the good things about having it in our standards is if a developer is smart, they read through that and they don't do something because that's kind of our fallback is it's written and you received that when you filed for a permit. So you should know that these are the rules you have to.