Common Council - Regular Meeting

We don't have to wait for a minute address that. Okay. Call this to order. We're going to review the agenda. We have three consents tonight. Okay. Resolution 126. That is on 30 days that we're not supposed to be.

Resolution adopting the minutes from the last common council meeting. Any questions? No. Okay. Resolution 2526127. Resolution reappointing member to the city of Amsterdam and Planning Commission. Uh, Kelly. Uh, yes. Okay. Uh, we're going to reappoint Amy Joe Stewart, Six Cresnav, Amsterdam. Resolution 2526-128 resolution reappointing member of the city of Amsterdam planning commissioner uh or reappointing to the planning commissioner Kathy Tuso

here Chris will sponsor resolution 2526129 resolution authorizing payment of points totaling $149 to Peter Palano for damage to mailboxes at 15 cylinder [snorts] womans.

Uh yes, this is um a situation there um that's caused damage. you know, we're we're looking into rectifying the situation with um you know, the people who plow, making sure that it doesn't get hit in the future, but we are going to um the the constituent asked that we pay the replacement costs of this and um as an act of goodwill, we we're going to do that. Um would you so Peter told me to talk to you and and he told me about your idea

and for um like accountability and everything and I thought it was a really good idea. Are you comfortable sharing it now or do you want more time to talk about it? What do you mean which idea? Something about proactively um Oh no. Oh yeah, that would be so we become more safety conscious when we're going plowing and stuff. I don't know if I I mean I know that we're going to have the engineer come out [clears throat] and look at it. I looked at it. Yeah. [snorts] Honestly, if I may be honest. Of course. Please do. May I? Yes, sir.

We ought to buy three because we're going to hit it again where it's at. And I am not being glib. I'm just not. It's on a bend. It's a tough spot to plow. I'm not I'm not being sarcastic. I'm sorry it comes across that way, but it it's in a spot where with a wing when you're swinging like that. It may not happen every year. Um [clears throat] I live in the country so it's a different situation. I will say I have at least two mailboxes a year every year. It's a tough a little bit different. a lot more snow, but I can't guarantee that they're going to miss that mailbox next year or next week. And I'm really not trying to be rude.

Can he place it somewhere else on property away from the Honestly, if it was if it was maybe just a even a foot back, it might help a lot, right? I if even if it was just a foot further back into his lawn from where it is, I do believe that the postal carrier could reach it from the vehicle. Um that was his only concern because they don't have walkers there. They drive up. No, I know. I either Kelly or I can gladly talk to him about moving it a foot back. [clears throat] Honest if they move the P. You think if you think a foot went back a foot stop it?

I would definitely do that. Yeah. where it is is it's more or less a at where the at the edge of pavement are very close, right? And it's that edge of pavement is indistinct in in a snow especially a good snowstorm.

I mean, I'm sure the number of wheels on purpose at home, you know, it's the same way that certain curbs get torn up in during big. If if there is one complaint that I get consistently about the plow drivers, and everybody appreciates the job they do, so don't take this the wrong way, is that they go way too fast. And I and I understand why. They're they got a whole city to do and they only got so much time to do it, you know, but well, there's there I've heard it, too. And I'll tell you because of the narrow because of the layout of the city itself and the fact that we can't use large trucks on many of the streets either due to the steepness or the narrowness of the street. When we get deep snow, if you're not carrying some momentum with a one ton essentially a pickup line, you can't move that snow. Um, that's not the case with, you know, many snowstorms, but [clears throat] when you get a big snowstorm, if you're not carrying some read that to be some speed to plow, it'll stop it some. So, there's got to be um, you know, these guys have done it for a long time. I'm I'm not saying anybody's perfect, but I have to be honest. It doesn't make it easier.

If you're if we're driving it at tandem truck that that grosses out at 65,000 lbs with a load on it and a wing, you can crawl it. It makes it harder for them when we have cars not adhering to the alternate parking. And when [cough] and we were lucky. I mean, I've seen clouds go by, clear the street, and then an hour later seen people snowb blowing all their snow into the street. Well, you know, and Amsterdam police did a call. Really keep that very often. Okay. Really? [clears throat] I I tell residents all the time like did you call the police? Like, [clears throat] you respond to snow going back into the street or the parking

because it's against it's a vehicle in traffic. Okay. uniform traffic ticket and it's a violation of the city code as well. Got two questions, one for you and one for you if I may. Um, how many mailboxes, maybe a odd question, but how many mailboxes would you say that we destroy over the course of a given winter? And I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. I don't know if this is opening the door to fixing every single mailbox that gets broken. Um, but I don't Well, this is the third mailbox for him. Yes. Well, the previous owner, so prior to you guys on the council, the previous owner of this house had it knocked down, I think, and we talked about it.

Yeah, we had no record of that. Yeah. Um, no, but we paid it. We had no record of the check going to because it was the the I'm just saying we checked it. I mean, we passed a resolution for it and at the time we talked about how there's really aren't that many houses with mailboxes like that. So that's why we did it at that time. I don't think it's a lot of mailbox. I think we're I think it's most houses have it on the house. Yeah. Um so but in this particular one it got take tooken out last year too

because we discussed at the time like when I worked for Skinnct City County we you know counties they plow a lot and give a lot that get knocked down and we had a like $30 flat rate. If somebody reached out to the engineer and said I got knocked down they sent the receipt we would just give them $30. It was a budget line, but we didn't. We opted not to do anything like that because we didn't think we would really have this problem very often. Maybe it's worth considering putting it in a budget line and then just moving the money back.

Well, that was what Peter brought up about about one of Kelly's ideas that that seemed like a very good idea that, you know, we had a budget line to take care of things like this. Um, kind of like a contingency in case we had something that we had to take responsibility for. Um, and and I thought it was a great idea. um the town of Amsterdam, they don't pay for mailboxes either um by by charter, but whenever somebody calls them um they give them $25 towards a new mailbox because it's not, you know, you have some mailboxes that are only $25. But you have some in really nice neighborhoods. It might be $200, you know, but they it's for them it's a it's a it's a courtesy type thing, you know. They they they will do it out of courtesy. I checked with highway supervisor to do this. So, it's cool.

Well, we can check to see if he um we'll move his box. Yeah, we'll check if he moves the box. We got a question at the back. Well, it just might be something we might reach want to reach out to the post office because I believe that the post office tells people where they can and can't put their mailbox if they live in neighborhoods that don't have sidewalks, right? So, he was informed it must be there. Like, I don't have a sidewalk in my neighborhood. My mailbox is on my house. But I believe if a new build happened in there, the post office would say, "Oh, no. It has to be on the road." Even though the carriers do both, just to figure out how many you could be potentially open up the can for Yeah. So, Kelly, I could definitely have that conversation.

Thank you, Chief. For 150 bucks, huh? Looks like two two years of it. Okay. All set. Okay. Resolution 2526-31, resolution approving the audit. The audit is fine. We have our consents. Consent 2526-131 resolution authorizing the 2026 fees for recreation department events and activities. Kelly, these are the ones Rob gave us a couple weeks ago.

Well, yes. Yes. We had our recreation meeting last night. Um, everybody in the group um agreed with the prices, you know, um, Rob gave the same update that he gave to us about the the different vendors, the shows, how, you know, we're not selling out as quickly as we used to. So, we don't see any reason to raise it any higher for the vendor pricing. Um, and the event sponsorships as well. So, um, everybody was in agreement of it last night and that's what we were looking for, I think, to go forward. Any questions?

All right. Resolution 2526-132 consent resolution authorizing the issue issuance of 5 mill978,444 bond of the city of Amsterdam Montgomery County, New York to pay the cost of the construction of a new building to be used as community center in and for said city.

Dan, would you like to speak? So, I think this is more of a timeline issue, I believe. Um, but we're, you know, we have money set aside to do build a new community center. Um, we're looking to bring cost down right now. We don't know exactly when we get started, but we're looking to get the bond resolution passed so that we can when ready be able to actually borrow for the project. So, doesn't mean we're going to borrow this full amount either. So, this this is part of the DRRi project. So, we're getting this money back. Yes, it's DRI. Just I just want to clarify for the people watching. Yeah, it's it's it's DRRI uh ACR and and all the money back then. Yeah, this is this is all reimburseable grants.

Wonderful. Thank you. There's not an address on here. Um [clears throat] where the event would where where the community center would be. Uh it's right next to the current center building, right? Street from St. Mary's. Yeah. Does that need to be in there or something? Yeah, it would be a good idea to do that. When I read it, I was like, are we talking about the Creative Connections Community Center or the Central Community Center? So, because we do have the two projects that are you want to make an amendment I don't know. I don't know. Do we need it? I mean, I don't see any problem with clarifying in that manner. Okay.

I think we should. Dan, do you know the physical address? The actual address. Is it going to change though? Main Street, right? It's a new address. Well, the the lots behind it. I don't know if Dan will no longer

Can we identify physically corner something like that since we don't have a address number for sure? That's Hamilton Street there and Washington Street. The other one the block. So, so address you could just describe located formerly known as Johnny Yeah. [laughter] Okay. So, like maybe in section one, we're paying the cost construction of a new building to be used as a community center at the former site of what was formerly there. Well, [snorts] that it's been a couple of things, but

Johnny Seafood has been it has it was, but I mean there's people who don't know who where Johnny Seafood was or what it is. Hamilton located in the vicinity and Hamilton. So, can we just say Main Street? East Main East Maiden and Hamilton. East Maid and Hamilton. Yes. Okay. So, we're going to 149 East Main Street. That's going to be the official address. That's the That's the official address. Yeah. Okay. There you go. 149 East Main Street. Okay. So, it's going to go after a community center. But isn't the front door on that facing Hamilton? Hamilton? I don't think so. Yeah. Um, for the new design, there's going to be doors and both,

but the main entrance is facing Hamilton if I remember correctly from the from the original. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, was so the old address was [clears throat] 149. Exactly. I think for purposes of this resolution, all of the above, I mean, whichever way you want to do it. All right. So, it's going to be after used as a community center located at 149 East Main Street. 149 including incidental expenses and connection wherein Yeah. and Hamilton.

Okay. So, so how do we change this? Can we change it now or? Yeah. Do we do at the meeting? We'll do it later. Okay, [clears throat] we have to make a motion. Make a motion to amend and vote on it.

Any other questions? No. Okay. Resolution 2526-133 consent. Resolution authorizing the issuance of $725,000 additional bonds of the city of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York, to pay a portion of the 4,199 estimated maximum cost of the reconstruction of roads, part of the complete street projects in and for said city. Any questions? Dan did a great job explaining it.

So did Mike. Okay. Do you want to just do a quick summary of it, Dan, for the record? Yes. Put some [clears throat] money aside for um to do the uh complete streets project, which we'll [clears throat] be doing on East Main, East Main, and Brit Street. Um in addition um to be able to close down uh Route 5 Eastbound, which we hope to eventually do. Um DOT is asking that we uh make the the part of Skylar that is I guess you'd say south of Main Street uh a two-way street. So this is to cover the cost of the the um police streets and to make that into a two-way road.

And just this is the part in front of Dr. Row's office where you stand next to Stewarts and you can't go towards River Street to go to River Park. Um, it actually opens it up better for for vendors and everything to the park, too. Okay. It makes more sense for people who don't live here and can't figure out our wonky streets.

Okay. So, that takes care of our consent resolution. Uh, committee reports. Any committee reports or updates? Ward updates? Um, would you like to talk about the recreation convention last night that Rich and I were both at? Sure. Um, we did was a nice meeting. We talked about a lot of things. Uh, soccer was there, so we went over that. Um, plan, I guess, moving forward and whatnot. Um, see what else did we speak about after [clears throat] that? The resolution on the table tonight was something that we went over post. Um, you know,

charges and whatnot. There's going to be a public meeting for elections for soccer if any parents are interested. We also threw around the idea, which I was really a big fan of personally to be too partial, but we threw around the idea of streamlining um the registrations throughout the city, which I think would be a nice idea for community members, parents, and coaches because someone brought up a point last night. It's a lot of the times it's the same 40, 50 coaches that are coaching multiple sports. So, it's nice to have one app for registry, one app for communication. Keeps it all streamlined for background checks. Yep.

Different trainings for like who has CPR training and those types of things. There's a lot that we can

collaborate on that would save each league money and also help parents and community members know what's going on. And I don't know, it was a really exciting start of it. And it's the same program that the well one suggestion was a program that is the same that the school district uses for their um registrations for sports. So yeah, if if we're able to use that same program, there would be a lot of continuity for people and we are trying to to keep that continuous. Um, I've been communicating with the with CDTA about the Five Corners project um and trying to make sure that the businesses in that area have an opportunity to discuss the project with them for clarification. Um it seemed to me and I don't know if you guys got this impression that CDTA is open to discussion about the entire project. Um you know like putting a bus stop someplace else and you know a more convenient place that works better for that whole intersection for safety. Um so that's those meetings are taking place this week.

Okay. Cool. Great. Thank you. Are they like public meetings or they they're just coming and meeting businesses. Okay. Interesting. The the business the the business owners are working. Yeah. And they got a they they couldn't I tried to arrange a meeting for them for all of them to come to city hall so we get have an open meeting, but it's too hard. And they they said that in no time they're going to be able to all come together at the same time. So it made more sense to speak to CDTA Mike the taller guy that was here. um for them to go in and and I'll go with them to to talk to all of these business own these business owners, meaning three.

Well, that's great. Okay. All right. That's it for our agenda. Um Michael, you want to do the engineering report? Sure. [clears throat]

I mentioned at the last meeting uh we had a bid opening coming up for Broadway Hill sanitary sewer improvements. Uh we did have that uh if you recall that is a project 100% funded by the developer for engineering plus construction plus construction inspection. So, uh we are waiting for at this point for uh the developer to escrow the money um for the construction plus the construction administration services. Um I intend to bring a resolution to award to the next meeting assuming we have that have received that money by then. Uh low we received five bids. low bidder by a little bit was uh for contracting at $250,970. Uh I I carried this one over. Water break season is on us. Well, now it's really on us. Um [clears throat] they're starting to show up when we've now got temperatures in the 20s. I keep saying it just because it's worth it. If you notice water running down the middle of the street in this weather, it's probably not melt water. just let somebody let DBW off hours let the police know or call my office, you know, um probably a water break. We we know we have them out there. We can't identify them yet. We're doing that based on the uh telemetry that we have at the water plant and watching the you when you see usage at the plant change rapidly in high service or low service. is it's a clear indicator that there's a demand out there that we're not accounting for it. So this time of year, it's probably water break. So just anybody sees it, any constituents see it, definitely pass it on and appreciate

that. Um the CDBD gate demolition project is underway. We're under the fifth house right now. I think we're on 79 Forbes at this point. They're moving the equipment over. I don't know if it started [laughter] there today, but they're walking it down the street. Um, so, you know, we're moving along. They're still on track, I believe, for an early April completion. Um, street paving, I'm still keeping this one here. Uh, again, I know it's not the ideal time, but everybody knows where the potholes are at least. So, even if you got a scrap of paper in your car when you're driving around, please think about it in your ward. I I would like to put that together sooner than later. Um,

Mike, what if we need a curb on the street? We can do we can I mean, we can do curb, but we can do curb over the entire city. It's it's there's certain types of curb we can do and then there's certain the traditional granite curb is so expensive it's almost not worth paving. Um but we can do like a concrete curb on if it in a place where they they don't have they never curb

where they've never had a curb. Yeah. I would want to look at that first because because if you if you're putting a curb where we don't have one, we then have to consider the drainage networks in those areas as well as uh the all the handicap uh accessibility points at the sidewalk corners. Um

so yeah, it's possible cost for the corners. It is. And and every year we um if we were to do it, it would be in conjunction with the the ADA compliant um handicap ramps that we have at the at the intersections. The the corner and this is more mine and Rich's board because it's right where they come together on Sanford

and [clears throat] the corner of Sanford. Um down a little further we have a we have a flooding problem and that section where kids are coming up they get dropped off on the bus down the street um there's no safe place for them to walk because they're walking down Kisby with no curb no sidewalk nothing

and it's for and there's quite a few kids that live [snorts] in the Colonial Square apartments and that would be Virginia Lane and um something to think about. Sure. No, we'll certain certainly take a look at it. And again, you know, a lot of those are are good ideas and they're needed. It's just it's worth bearing in mind that it's rarely just a curb project. It it's quite often a curb and storm drainage project to to deal with those situations because really what a curb does other than keep someone's front lawn nice and neat, which is I understand the benefit, um it keeps water in the street. So now you've got to steer that one way or the other to a structure and and remove it from the street. So it you got to look at it a little more holistically than just one specific swath of u of any given street.

And again I mentioned uh filter work at the plant continues. Uh Crescent Avenue Bridge is on winter hiatus. Uh I expect that work to resume hopefully here by mid-March, God willing, and the creek doesn't rise too much. Um and we're we're still going through the review process with New York State DOT or DFT New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for our wastewater treatment plant upgrade. they have final plans plans before them and we're in that review and comment phase right now. Um, so I'm hoping

in earnest that we have a permit to construct here soon and of course any questions you may have. We got some stuff going on for us a this morning into evening. We got water break water break. Thank [clears throat] you.

That's one that showed up. Thank you for taking and and that may be so we have to your point we've had u last week we had our at the at the w at the water treatment plant we had our flow spike almost 400,000 gallons in in the space of five minutes and it's and it stayed there for a week that's pretty clearly a water break we couldn't find it I suspect that this leak on uh forest is going to is going to be Some more may hopefully all of it but there's probably more out there. Where was it in forest? Huh? Where in forest was it? Right near San right below.

Okay. Uh let's call you stand for [clears throat] the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Alderwoman Chris Demar here. Alderman Holiday here. Alderwoman Collins here. Alderman Carpenter here. Alderman Martisella. Get a motion. She will not be joining us. Motion the agenda. Yes. Motion to adopt the agenda with consent. [laughter] With consent. Alderwoman [clears throat] Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderwoman Christoars. Hi.

Alderman Holidayiday. Hi.

Okay. Uh we have no proclamations this evening. [clears throat] Um so we have time for communications and presentations. I do want to [snorts] uh I do want to talk because Mike made the engineering report and we did talk about the streets program and I do want to bring up to the council right now something that we're considering. Uh this weekend we had or this week we met and did a uh we did a thorough review of the capital projects that are going to be in our capital projects plan. They amount to over $60 million but 30 million of that is the wastewater treatment plant and 7 million of that is u getting rid of the dam at the reservoir which is not a a high priority but is something that we would do if we could get funding for. But that puts us in the $25 million range. And we have a bunch of things and we're we're timing them out and and and one of the things that we need to do is to uh replace our existing DPW garage.

Yes. Uh we need to knock it down and we need to build a new one. Uh they've looked at the the the our engineering department, DPW, Phil Brocky, and the guys have all think it's best if we stay right where we are, knock down the old one and put up uh what we need, a storage, a storage facility with some additional rooms and functionality inside. And we are looking at a 4 million, right, Mike? Right around four million. Four million is the budget fake investment. So um part of that is down and build up. I'm sorry. Would you say, M, Chris? Four million to tear down and build up.

Yeah. So, a million of it is to demolish the building. Um, and one of the uh one of the abilities that we would have is to utilize CHIPS's funding for that. Now, we don't know if it's going to be a million dollars. We don't for sure. Mike, you're going to get a demolition. [clears throat] I'm working on that.

He's working on it. And we'll have a hard number. Um, but because we have $25 million worth of other projects, we we and we we got three ways to go that we're we're looking at using surplus money, using grants, and borrowing. Um, so we're we're we've got a lot to balance out. And one of the things that we can do is utilize CHIPS funding for the DPW garage if we we this year because we did not spend $470,000 of our last year's CHIPS. And because we're getting an additional we're getting the same amount as we did last year, we're anticipating to have as much as $2.7 million in the CHIPS fund. So that if we needed to use a million dollars of it to demolish a garage, which is permissible under the tips, it would give us 1.7 million to do on the streets. So I wanted you to start thinking about that because like we did last year, we took a big chunk of it and used it on Market Street. Um Mike has got your list of streets. Uh he's asking you for recommendations. continue to give them those recommendations, but I'm going to rep approach the council most likely at some point with a, you know, with a with a recommendation that you take a look at it and say, "Do we want to do this or not?"

Okay, that's all I wanted to bring up. Just Mike, with the the CHIPS funding, you can't we can't pave a road that's been paved in the last 10 years. Correct. 10 years. Yeah. Yeah. So, we have hit a significant 36 miles portion. Yeah. And I know we used to have that. Um, Zach made that map. Maybe he could update that too. Um, as we do update that we have just recently, if you want me to share that at the next meeting that Yeah, because I think the most recent one I have is a couple years old. Um, that can really show constituents, how old the paving is on the streets, and whether we can use it for the chips funding or not. I don't want to say we're running out of streets to use, but um, we have hit

certainly spend all 2.7 on streets. There's no doubt about it. But we are under uh the insurance company, I mean, literally wants us to not to get out of that building. It's been it's been a disaster. It is a disaster. Yeah. And we need to get out of there. We need to give them a clean new building to work in. And um it's also a big entryway to our city. Also an entryway to our city. And so we certainly want to like in the design factor that in it's it's it's not the best working conditions. It's terrible working conditions. Yeah. That's I wanted to bring that out now so you could think about it because we probably will be coming back to you with with a recommendation that you will ask your vote on. Okay.

Took a tour of there once mayor to your point and I was actually astonished at the condition that it was in. So there something definitely needs to be done. So thank you for bringing that up.

Um that's all I have. Has anyone else had anything at this part of the meeting? Then we're on to the public participation section. And so if you have something to address the council with, please approach the podium, give us your name and address. You have five minutes to make your case. [snorts] Your statement, there remains a need to have meeting space in city hall for constituents to meet with council members. The bench, while useful, is not adequate and there should be room made available. Consider making a space available to the county legislators with districts in Amsterdam to get the county to put in some money on this. Also, a clear time limit should be made available after council meetings to allow the public to lobby slashfridize with the council administration and among themselves. We need access for all without ambiguity as to how long we can meet after council meetings. [clears throat] And to that end, I suggest a 30-minute limit, attendance being optional for all of you. I demand the technical information for the new and old street lights be made available to city residents. Put this information on the city website so all can see. Light pollution is a real problem. The fact that the city government and administration has not yet done these done so tells me two things. One, you do not care to make basic information available to city residents. And two, the city government is not treating environmental concerns with the attention they deserve. I demand two train quiet zones be implemented in the city one at qu in the one guy park mansion. If you made the director of community econom e economic development position held by Daniel Gray a residency requirement then I'm sure he would be working on this issue and respond to the public. I demand the dog barking ordinance be changed to actually stop owners from letting their dogs bark. I demand the council pass the quote

protecting animals and reducing fireworks noise pollution resolution unquote because animals don't deserve to be tortured and the environment needs protection from the explosions and air pollution. I advocate for the green corridor across the city and protection of trees. Enough with deforestation. Now on to the urgent subject of never the neverending criminal impunity by US presidents whose actions speak for all of us whether we like it or not. As it has been 250 years of criminal impunity and today has been 30 years I mean 30 days since the invasion of Venezuela. 30 days. And has anybody called for his release in the Democratic party or Republican party? No. No. I continue to demand a letter by his council and mayor to be sent to every state and federal legislator above you, President Trump, demanding the immediate freedom of the kidnapped democratically elected president of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro. The letter must also include the demand for the legalization of the coca leaf, a native superfood that has been on this continent before the arrival of Europeans. The charges and lies about drug trafficking are bogus. How much longer will we allow US military and presidents to invade countries and murder over this drug war fabrication and attack our domestic population by the way which you also see don't seem to care about US constitution gives impunity for US president president's war crimes impeachment is near meaningless and international treaties are resisted ignored by both halves of the duopoly there is no justice in this country that is possible from above or by either half the duopoly winning elections That is why this council must act and why the public must back this letter which must spread nationally. Stop attacking Venezuela. Stop attacking Cuba. [clears throat] Stop murdering

Iranians. Stop murdering Palestinians. Stop murdering Somalians, Lebanese, Syrians, and stop facilitating Israeli crimes. Stop US imperialism by all means necessary. Thank you. Anyone else have anything to present? Okay. Uh, we did the engineering report. Any old business, please? Okay. So, we're on to new business and we start with the resolution. Resolution 2526-126. Resolution adopting [laughter] minutes from last common council meeting by Alderwoman Collins. [clears throat]

Alderwoman Collins. Hi, Alderman Carpenter. Hi, Alderwoman Qumers. Hi, Alderman Holidayiday. Hi, Resolution 2526-127. Resolution reappointing member to the city of Amsterdam Planning Commission by Alderwoman Chris. Whereas a member on the planning commission's term has expired. Therefore, be it resolved the following individual is hereby reappointed to the planning commission effective immediately with a term expiring April 30th, 2030. Amy Joe Stewart, 6 Crescent Avenue, Amsterdam, New York 12010. So moved. Any discussion? Have a roll. Alderwoman Quest. Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins.

Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Resolution [snorts] number 2526-128, resolution reappointing member to the city of Amsterdam Planning Commission [snorts] by Alderman Carpenter. Whereas a member on the planning commission's term has expired, therefore be it resolved, the following individual is hereby reappointed to the planning commission effective immediately with a term expiring June 30th, 2030. Kathy Paluso, 284 Guy Park Avenue, Amsterdam, New York 1210.

So moved. other discussion and I know the council joins me in thanking these people for again taking on this responsibility. It's not an easy responsibility. It takes a lot of time, effort and they take a lot of flack at times and uh they do it for free. So uh really appreciate both these ladies uh saying we would do it again. Call please. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderwoman Chris Demar. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins.

Hi. Resolution number 2526-129, [clears throat] resolution authorizing payment of claims totaling $149 to Peter Calfano for damage to mailboxes at 15 Sylvia Lane by Alderwoman Quistam Mars. So moved. Any discussion? You please call the RO. Alderwoman Quistamar. Alderman Holiday. No. Alderwoman Collins abstain. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. [snorts] Uh, does not carry.

Resolution number 2526-130. Resolution approving audit by Alderwoman Collins. So moved. Any discussion? Call the roll. Alderwoman Collins. I. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderwoman Qua Mars. [clears throat] I. Alderman Holidayiday. Hi.

Resolution 2526-131 consent resolution authorizing 2026 fees for recreation department events and activities by alderwoman clusters. Whereas the tourism marketing and recreation department is requesting to finalize rates for all 2026 events and activities. Whereas the common council can discuss, edit and ratify the attached rates for all 2026 events. Now therefore be it resolved that the above reference rates as seen in attachments are accepted and authorized by the common council. So moved. Any discussion? We'd like to thank Rob and Michelle for their hard work on this. We call the role. Alderwoman Twist Mars. Hi. Alderman Holiday.

Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Resolution number 2526-132. Consent. Resolution authorizing the issuance of 5,978,444 bonds of the city of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York to pay the cost of the construction of a new building to be used as a community center in and for said city by Alderwoman Collins. Okay. I'm going to make a motion to add an address.

Make the motion. I'm going to add uh located at after uh let's see a new building to be used as a community center located at 149 East Maine and Hamilton Avenue is to be added. Any discussion on the motion? Can we get a roll call, please? On the motion. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderwoman Christomer. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. I vote on the resolution. Okay. And then to vote as amended, Alderwoman Collins, I, Alderman Carpenter, I,

Alderwoman Christomer, I, Alderman Holidayiday, I. Resolution 2526-133 consent resolution authorizing the issuance of $725,000 additional bonds of the city of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York to pay a portion of the $4,199,000 [clears throat] estimated maximum cost of the reconstruction of road [snorts] part of complete street projects in enfor city by Alderwoman Collins. Okay, you can read them at the result. Now therefore be it resolved. Yes.

By the Now therefore be it resolved by the common council of the city as follows. Section one for paying $725,000 portion of the cost of the reconstruction of roads part of complete street project in incidental expenses in connection therewith. There are hereby authorized to be issued $725,000 bonds of the city pursuant to the provision of the local finance law. So move. Any discussion? [clears throat] Call the roll. Alderwoman Collins. I. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderwoman Chris Mars. I Alderman Holiday.

Hi. That's it. Right. Okay. Mayor Squad, did we want to speak about Yes, you can. you can do it. Well, I don't know the details, but I'll give like the grand overview, I guess, to everybody. So, the state passed a law that's going to be enacted uh and I guess go into effect in 2027. It's going to be late 2026. Effect now. We have to adopt it. And so, that's what he was trying to get at is saying if we adopt it, we'll act in the

2016. Yeah. I I spoke with him. We said it wasn't even going to go into effect until October. But beside the point, yes, uh it we have to adopt it as a city. So this so the state came up with the uh law and essentially what it is is that it allows 100% disabled veterans to receive a property tax exemption uh full and complete. Now granted, it's the bar is kind of high, but um I feel like it would be personally a wonderful um thing for the city to extend that it is a state law and it's up to each municipality to pass. So we're going to discuss this more and hopefully

we, you know, again, the assessor looked at it. He came up with the actual cost. We'll send that out to the alderman so you'll see it. Yes. But I do think uh you know, Alderman Holidayiday's idea is a good one and uh you know, we'll get it out to you and we'll have a resolution ready for that. I mean, as I understand it, you're sponsoring a legislation to introduce this. It would probably be the Yeah, that would be the route. Yes. Yeah, I'll I'll get with you. Happy to do it for Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. That's all for me. It's good. Any anything else? No. All right. So, motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. All the roll. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderwoman Mars. Hi.

Alderman Holiday. Hi. Yeah, I didn't um bring I didn't have Stacy pronounce a thing, so my bad on that. But [snorts] Danger.