Common Council - Regular Meeting

me. We're laughing. We'll give that up. Okay. Exactly. I had a go over. We have seven resolutions and two. So, resolution one. Oh my god. 2526-150. Resolution adopting amendments from the last common council meeting. Questions? No. Resolution 2526-151. Resolution appoint Commissioner D. Lisa Blubber and Robin Waldron. These are just uh re reups. They're just reappointments. They're pretty standard.

They've they both were um commissioner of these prior. Okay. Resolution. Any questions? Go ahead. 2526-152 resolution appointing commissioner of deeds Chris Carpenter and same deal and Jimmy will sponsor that.

Okay. Resolution [clears throat] 2526-153 resolution amending budget for opioid settlement. City received $3,000 from Montgomery County general fund as part of the city's award of the 2026 opiate oasis settlement funds. Chief, would you like to add anything? [snorts]

Uh, no. We're just we did we had a prior resolution um for like the for a laptop like this before and we're just getting a second one for a second detective um because that skill set we want to make sure we have more than one person trained. Any questions? Resolution 25261 154 uh resolution appointing commissioner feeds for Ronald Rick. [clears throat] Uh this is also renewal before

resolution 2526-155 resolution of transfer funds for equipment purchase at the wastewater treatment plant. Yeah, it looks like we're buying some new equipment. Um you want to Yeah. So thank you.

The background to this is we have a Bobcat skid steer type loader. Now um we had to switch to a different type of polymer which dewater sludge further so we can achieve the right percent solids. I mean before it goes to the landfill. I'm saying this is absolutely as polite as I can. um that we've had to switch to to achieve our percent solids comes in totes um the that are about one ton or just a ton [clears throat] and a quarter I forget the current Bobcat we have won't lift them can't move them so it the one that we have now has still has a lot of uh resale value so this resolution is author would authorize a transfer from another line and I don't remember that within uh the wastewater plant budget to uh supplement the trade in so that we can replace the bobcat loader with a larger one that will lift them. [snorts]

Okay. Resolution 25 261 156 resolution approving an audit. The audit is signed. [clears throat] Resolution 2526-157 is a consent resolution renewing lease agreement for Port Jackson Botchi Club. And this is Alderman Barisello and he can discuss this when he gets back.

Yes, they've uh they asked they had a 10-year lease that they wanted to renew um and working with attorney Gali and Mr. Marcelo with inputs from Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Leiro um came up with a document that's a five-year renew. Um and uh the first lease was was written in a very though the first two leases were written in a very rudimentary way that did not clearly um define right did not clearly define the property as a city park which is what it is and did therefore did not tie that into all of the things that apply to our city parks which would be public use etc things like that. So, uh, again, [clears throat] they work together. I believe Tony, you talked to Jimmy about it and he was pleased with his what we'll be voting on tonight. I was expecting him to be here to talk about it. He probably will when he gets here.

He will. He has to run for pharmacy. Yeah. I like this lease having um obligations of the city and obligations of the club. Yeah. Um, I know this is something that the recreation commission, I hope, is that we're working towards like more clearly defining for all of our clubs that use our parks. [clears throat] This is great. And we have resolution 2526-158. Another consent resolution awarding contract WTP chemical bases. [snorts]

Uh this is for the water treatment plant. This is for chemicals for April 2026 to March of 2027. Uh their water treatment plant required chemicals. Uh this is the bids that came in. I explain that. [clears throat and cough] Yeah, it's just it's a routine.

Can I get my pills? Pick [clears throat] them up after a glass of water. [laughter] Jim, do you want to talk about the lease? the lease the club. Yes. Yes. Well, is everybody happy? Right. Sure. The only thing we added recent the reason why we tabled it last week because we want to put a clause in Tony number seven where we don't discriminate against anyone. If anybody wants to go down there, they can say because of you can't do it. So this way it's open. That's why we put that in there. Are you Everybody's happy. Are we okay? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

If somebody wanted to use it though, would they contact the city clerk? Okay. Department. The person that contacts is Mr. Gerald. He's a president of the club. He has a calendar, what's open, what's being used, when, and it's free unless you want to charge. It's up to you. They've had stag parties there. Yeah. They've had um clam dates. What's that? clam bakes for the fire department. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. [laughter] They've had clam bakes there and they've had they even had a shower down there.

Okay. So, it's it's for use. But you check with Richard Gerald. He's the president and he'll tell you. You say we have a [clears throat] date. If it's being used, he'll tell you when there'll be alternate dates and it's it's open to the public. Okay. There any other question? All right. Thank you very much. Sorry. I had a they said pick it up 5:30. So do you want to speak about this? Sure. I put together um we're going to the the safe Yeah. I have some things to add to this. So I apologize for being part of it. So you can add that to your calendar. I [snorts] will. Yeah.

That's at least three hours. [clears throat] Um I have

they put a copy on there. Sorry, chiefs. I didn't make enough copies um of the list that the original list that I got um regarding some of the streets of concerns and different wards. So, I listed the street who referred it and then the concerns and then there's a blank, you know, possible solutions which we can work on later. But, um I think we still can pull together some more. and then um meet to talk about some options or solutions after that. Not sure. In your I only gave you this because in your email you said you wanted a starting point.

Yeah.

So I just took the ones that are the biggest headache priority um or opportunity. Think you want to look at it and and gave you those. And I think what it it it had it does start to show like common concerns like winter parking, [clears throat] speeding. So we can talk about those like as a whole as an what what the issues of speeding are, what the winter parking type um issues and then then go back and fly. It's going to be street by street. Maybe we go topic by topic. um as we hear that but I'll wait for a couple some more uh feedback and then I was thinking about like when we would have these gatherings. Uh we could do them after our council meetings if that's easier for people that are already here. Um, I don't know that we have time really in the cow to do that or it could be another Tuesday night, but I don't, you know, I don't want to like have people have to come after work, especially like our co-workers or, you know, the staff on that work at city hall.

I'm open to anything. Is this something you would consider doing like Zoom or phone kind of meeting? [snorts] It could be a Zoom one, too. Yeah. Okay. I would personally, this is speaking for myself, would rather do it on another day rather than staying after a meeting, but it's just my two cents. What would be easiest for like the department heads if you were to have people from your staff or things like that would be like during the day over Zoom or Zoom work [clears throat] on your team? Any during the day? Yeah. Honestly, it's be like

I'm not rooting for the opposite to this. Okay, that's good to know. Well, I know Chief knows all about mine. Those are those are the same ones every year for the past couple of years. They haven't changed. I mean, I got speed signs on [clears throat] Guy Park. So, we got that put up.

Um, we've had the speed sign on Grant Place by the school. We we've done that and that kind of helped slow people down coming up and down that um that area. So those uh type of things do work with speeding. People do see them and think they're getting photo tickets or something. They just stop. So there's a major improvement like Church Street after Mike had that sign put in down by um crane the uh funeral home and chief, you know, we've had a lot of cars being pulled over lately and everything. It's just the consistency of it, right?

Um it it it's needed. But like even the even in mind the winter parking and everything in in a month, we're not going to have that issue, right? But tonight, you know, we're going to have that issue either on Broman or Matias and God forbid there's a fire or something and Chief needs to get down that street, they're not going to be able to.

Well, that's a hard one because everyone doesn't have a driveway anymore. They don't have one. The houses just [snorts] don't have them and then there's no where to park. I I think the on the flip side of it, the biggest thing is everybody's like when when they're complaining about it, it's it's not enforced. It's not enforced. They get a ticket, but after that it's not enforced. So, they're just not taking it seriously. They're gambling. So, you got to remember times change also. Families used didn't even have a car or just had one car. Now, families have three cars. I can't entertain that excuse when it's a snow emergency and there's no parking on the street. But for alternate parking, there's still a park.

Yeah, that's fine. Alternate parking.

So, what what I was in thinking about this, you know, thinking about um we talked about a toolkit and I thought that we should define what's in our toolkit, you know, in in terms of what measures we have, and we've mentioned several tonight. Um and you know, I'm kind of researching it because I I think this is a great idea. And one of the things that I talked to Mike about were speed humps instead of speed instead of speed bumps but making a crosswalk elevated crosswalks in the city in certain you know trying them because they are a pain with plows they are a pain could be a pain with drainage. So we can't just say okay put a speed hump there but we can look at the situation and say would a speed hump work you know try in a couple spots because that would solve two problems. help solve two problems. Pedestrian crossing area and also slow down a car. Um, and and the research that I've looked at indicates that they're effective. They the research indicates that our streets, the the speed signs we have are are effective in slowing people down. That's kind of what I was thinking was let's assemble what we can do and let's pick maybe a bunch of these not you know we pick a a portion of these streets maybe one from every ward per meeting or whatever and just attack them attack them with uh that kind of a and and chief I was thinking maybe if you could look at the records and show and tell us you know

Yeah I did I did prepare something quick so this um for this winter November alternate parking season November 1st to today. Uh we've got 30 tickets issued on Groman, 45 issued on Locust. Um and now Matias and North both south and north. We are lacking there. There's only been a handful. So I've directed them to pay more of a focus on there. It's a bit of a side streets on the main thoroughfare. So right, but those are those are our numbers so far. And then like all Roman Collins said, we have speed detail went up for a week long on Henrietta and we have another one that's coming up on Brand near Major um for the school. So,

right. So, if we had, you know, we had a plan for each street that included these types of thing like here here's here's what's happening on this street. These are the other thing we're doing is we're going to be enforcing our tickets more with a with a you know if you if person cannot no longer throw the ticket away they've got to pay it or when they go to Fonda uh they're going to have to they're not going to be able to re reregister their car. Is that initiated? No, it's [clears throat] moving. Yeah, we're working on it. It's It's going to take time to get what, right? Three tickets. Three three tickets in 18 months, but we bet on it. And the first the first batch already went out and the second second batch went out, too.

So, all of these things that we are doing are like I call this a toolkit. All these things that we are doing is are are pushing us towards more traffic and pedestrian safety. And I think that, you know, taking this approach would be a really good thing. uh because we can look at the you know we can look at the track records and we can apply these things in a in a in a cohesive manner in a strategic manner with the police chief's help. Yeah. Get inventory of like the speed signs. A lot of them are move we move around, right? There's the permanent ones on Church Street and then what do we have like three or four that are only one that one?

We only have one that can be moved. It runs off two very big batteries that have to be recharged. Um, we tend to have a couple, right, left over. Well, those ones I I do have two left over, but those would be permanent. Exactly. So, we have two left. Those are $9,000 investments. Yep. Wow. Um, so they're not cheap left to assign. But they do I mean I I feel and I want, you know, I want the council to understand and agree that they do work, that they are effective, and and that we've been applying them. we should apply them based upon um you know where we feel the speed the most speeding is occurring and and then we can always buy more. I'm not saying we can't buy more but we've got two that we can apply now. So [cough and clears throat]

but the one that moves around is is night is is and then you do speed checks. You do speed details. you know, monitor a street for a week and and that scared I shouldn't say scares people, but it puts people on notice that this we're not ignoring this street. And people realize that, too. Like I've had, you know, people ask about that. Chief Spencers put people there. And then like a week later, they said, "Oh, I saw I saw the police there. They they were right where you you know, right where I asked them to be." So, exactly. People do notice that

and appreciate it. So, this council has made a lot of investment in traffic and pedestrian safety in the last few years and it is paying dividends and we will continue to pay more. But I think this is a great idea now trying to just really focus on what we've learned and apply it. But I I think if you you try to do too much in one meeting, right? You know, you you really need to decide to to to narrow it down to what you want to talk about. maybe one street per alderman or maybe one ward or whatever the case may be. But yeah, so the next step would be to then you know bring up compile kind of the toolkit. Yep.

As well we can discuss that in the meeting um the next meeting which we'll I'll kind of put out a survey or something where we can figure out when we would do that and that would be a public meeting. you know, we could post that because all five of us would be able to be in it, but that would mean like the public could be on it too, right? And say you guys could found things that you might consider, you know, methods that other communities are using and bring it and we can discuss those things as well. Yeah. Like I was hoping like Zach could be in it because he's got some uh different things that some ideas um from an engineering standpoint. Um,

so speaking of traffic, tomorrow at 6 o'clock I'm having a meeting with uh two representatives from CDTA and the business owners at Five Corners to discuss the um proposed changes for Five Corners. That's a big project in We had a couple of blips, you know. Um they had sent some geologists to do some uh core samples and unfortunately they were in Mrs. Slesc's entrance to her station and there was just some communication issue between CDTA and her and she didn't know they were coming. So it uh it's all handled now but um I I expect good things to come out of this tomorrow. Yeah. Anything else? Mike, mayor, can Mike do his uh go over his agenda? [laughter]

Mike, to go over your report. You want to do the engineering report? [clears throat] I would love to. I'm the one who's right behind you. How much time do I have? Hour and a half. 10 minutes. We spread it out.

Second Tuesday. Thank you. Uh, so I want to mention right now to everyone that we've, if you don't know already, we have hired a new chief operator finally for the wastewater [laughter] treatment plant. Great. His name is Paul Leon. He's a uh licensed 4A operator and he comes with really good experience and I'm happy that we have them. Um I will at some point try to soon try to get him to a meeting so he folks can at least put a name to the face. Um we've discussed the the consent resolution tonight about the water treatment chemicals. Anyway, that's routine [clears throat] [snorts] commodities bit that we do. I didn't include in here about the uh trade in and new Bobcat needed for wastewater. Um but we talked about that uh Broadway Hill Senator Sewer. We discussed that previously. We had passed a resolution to award conditional upon receipt of the uh money in escrow uh for construction and I'm told that that'll be here next week. I don't I don't see them starting before April 1st anyway. Um water breaks. Yeah, I've been getting uh calls from folks now. I expect we're going to see them. We've got a repair schedule for tomorrow night for a small league. Of course, on Market Street.

Um, it's not that Have you gotten a call about 195 Guy Park app? Remember the pink house now? Looks fantastic. Um, there's a It looks like there's water bubbling up there. [snorts] No, I haven't heard that yet, but I'll make sure that we look at that as well.

Um, yeah. So, we're going to have a there will be a traffic detour tomorrow night uh on for both lane both directions on uh Market Hill at least almost in front of Stewart's. Um it's not a it's not a major break, but because if it was on those lines, we wouldn't have a street left. It's those are big lines and you know it's a little bit cumbersome [clears throat] because it's right in the middle of our beautiful paving from last year. So that's too bad.

I'm going to make sure that we have it done redone uh properly. The the the demolition projected through CDBG is going actually going very well. Making good progress for construction. Uh I have 12 listed here ironic because I didn't realize they had moved they completed one on pine yesterday I think and now they're on I think they moved over to division I already told me that I hadn't followed up with them right this morning they're almost touching the two backyards touch [snorts] each other 102 division 18

yeah so that makes makes perfect sense I didn't realize they had moved across um so yes we're make a very good progress of that. I expect we'll be by the end of this month, we'll be pretty well complete with that work. And you've got the uh two new ones. Yes. And I have I have that underway. Um I they'll be they'll be added to this contractor's I've already I've already done that. I I we got quotes for 21 street 11 in the clean up of debris pile 21 second to demo in hollowway office y and

you could have gone in the other one jar the previous we had the hollow 75 or $80,000 there was a lot big ticket but uh they quoted us 50 that combined was 80 right for the two I believe no closer 9090 99,000.

Anyway, I've done a change order. I've added the work to the contract. We'll pay that additional work from our demolition line and uh they've already done the notifications with Department of Labor. So, that work is underway too or or will be. It's in the works. Um the 2026 street paving. Uh, I've received list of streets from some of the council members and I know it's still the end of winter and it's hard to tell, but if you if you have an idea of some of them, if you can if you can get those lists to meet your lists sooner than later, uh, it'd be a big help. Um, the reason I say this and the reason why I'm pushing even more than normal is our our contractor for 2026 has uh stated that they will be ready to go the beginning of May and they can dedicate May and June to us um right out of the gate, which is would be a real breath of fresh air because normally we wind up at the end of the season and we're always scrambling. to complete things before the weather cools off again. Uh I would love nothing better than to get the majority of our paving done early in the year. Um, so you know, as you're around your ward, yeah, I know some of them you got snowbanks, some of that, but if you know, we're going to be warming up here in the next few days. So, just keep an eye open and piece of paper in a car or whatever. Uh, uh, let's see. The Crescent Air Bridge, they're going to they're going to resume construction uh on the foundation work. uh the last week of this month as a tenative schedule

and the other two items are repeats. They've been on there for a long time. I'm happy to take any questions as always. And Mike on Crescent AB, you're you're uh it does look like it's going to impact on the Mohawks baseball season at this point. So, well, yes, Mayor, the the the substantial completion date [snorts] for that is right now is the second week of July. So, it's going to have some impact on the Mohawks. Um, just communication is the key there. So, that's

they're aware of that. But again, communication regarding, you know, parking, etc., and how to get in and out of the park during that is going to be key. And so, um, I'm sure we'll work closely with them. The the good thing is that when this is done in July, it's going to be a lot easier and out of there. We're going to have a two lane bridge with a sidewalk. Absolutely. Worth the aggravation, but just, you know, modern standards. Absolutely. No, it's Can those big light up signs be changed in any way to direct [clears throat] traffic or is that the state? I don't know if it's the state like if that's [snorts] what I'm have to put we can we can update the message boards. Yeah.

Okay. Um we are at 105 I believe or 106. Why don't we stand for the pledge of allegiance? And before we do I just I'm sorry. I I usually call the order and it was 106 not 106. Oh, okay. 64 [laughter] Chicago.

Well, before we begin, I I was asked that at the end of the pledge of allegiance that we remain standing in a moment of silence for former alderman of our city's fourth ward and our one time Montgomery County Supervisor, David Dyus. I aliance to 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. Thank you very much. On behalf of our city, I would like to recognize the contributions that Dave made to our city [clears throat] as a county uh supervisor and as a fourth ward alderman of course and an active community volunteer. I I want to thank him for his service of course and may he rest in peace and if any council member would like to reflect on David [clears throat] welcome to do that. You know, I I had said in a in a post earlier that um you know, you really had to know Dave to to really understand the message that he was trying to convey. And you know, and all of us um knew him pretty well. And you know, he would I I always joked with him that when I asked him a question, I I I would get I wouldn't get a straight answer. I I'd get something like ask like pick a number between one and 100. and cuz any number didn't matter. He was trying to teach me to look at the entire problem instead of focusing on one little detail of the problem. He was extremely knowledgeable. Um he was a good neighbor. You know, we we got along well and I was I was sad to to to [clears throat]

watch what happened, you know, with um this illness and and ultimately succumbing to it. And um I I you know what I I don't normally I'm I'm not a big guy that likes to get in front of a casket when you go to a service. And when I when I did tonight I did for him and I just thanked him for everything that he taught me because he did teach me a lot and he did he did care and um that's really all I have to say. He's going to be missed in our ward. He was a big part of it. Anyone else? Could you call the role please? Alderwoman Quist Mars here. Alderman Holiday here. Alderwoman Collins here. Alderman Carpenter here. Alderman Marticeller

here. Did I have a motion to adopt the agenda? Motion to adopt the agenda with with seven resolutions and two consents. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martisella. Hi. Alderwoman Christoars. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. Hi. Okay. Communications presentations.

Okay. So, that brings us to bear with me one second. Uh public participation portion of our meeting like to address the council. Please address come to the podium. [laughter] State your name and address and you have five minutes to tell us what you want to tell us. Thank you very much. [snorts] Christian Rivera, James State, New York. I want to urge anti- US imperialists to collect signatures and run this year for the five boards which are up for election in Amsterdam. For the four major [clears throat] parties in New York, you have until April 2nd to collect signatures and you'll need about 42 signatures at most. We need a completely new council. And let me tell you why. Every person here has been able to protect people, animals, and environment. I mean the council and mayor. I have for the post past two months through multiple contacts been urging this council to pass a resolution.

Wait, can you do me a favor? Yes. Can you talk without you're getting confused between looking into your stopping US crimes and talking and I'm getting confused.

Has a resolution stopping US crimes. the war criminal Trump regime and US military commits against Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. Is unconscionable that this council and mayor refuse to act on the criminal attacks and murder of thousands of people in Venezuela and Iran, in the starvation, warfare committed against Cuba and Palestine. The excuses not to act are baseless and only demonstrate that they don't care about the US military murder and overthrow of country after country. Not even when not even when it's when it's the opposite party, the Republican party doing it. Do you care to pass a resolution? They don't recognize or care that federally and at the state level we do not have a democracy. We have autotocracy. We do not have mechanisms of justice for war criminal presidents. We have criminal impunity. That is why you must have local action. I spent years making the rocks case why this council of mayor should pass the quote protecting animals and reducing fireworks noise pollution unquote resolution to protect animals from the torture of caging and coraling in the city of Amsterdam. The council refuses to bring up any of these things for a vote. [clears throat] The Democrat council does not care about animals welfare. On the issue of environment, the council among many of its failures refused to do anything about ineffective ordinances such as dog barking, light pollution, or big glaring white fence problem among many other ordinances. They refuse to limit the six destructive city firework shows a year down to one and refuse to push for enforcement of legal fireworks. The council refuses to protect and promote the health of trees, refuses to

implement two train quiet zones, refuses to provide the public with information on the new street lights. The council mayor do not do environmental oversight on any of the projects that happen here in Emp New York. Yet look at what the council does do. It gives itself and the mayor a race. A raise for what? When this council fails to care for people, fails to care about stopping US imperialism, fails to protect animals, fails to do any oversight, fails to protect improved environment, then what should we do? Replace them and replace them all and join an anti-imperialist coalition who cares about people, animals, and the environment. Contact and join a local anti-imperialist movement at anti-usimgmail.com. That again, that's anti-usimgmail.com. The council mayor unanimously passed a resolution supporting Ukraine independence, which is their way of saying that they support the war in Ukraine. The so-called Democratic Party is willing to fight Russia right down to the last Ukrainian. [clears throat] The local Democrat politicians only act if the DNC tells it what to do and cares and cares not about the slaughter of people in Venezuela, Iraq, Cuba, Lean, Palestine. It's not going to stop. This is what you don't understand. You understand that's not going to stop until you put a stop to it. Does anyone on the council want to address why that is? Why the GNC? We only do what the DNC says and don't care about other people. Anybody? Open floor. Your time.

Okay. My time is this. There is an ordinance for barking dogs. I suggest you go in the clerk's office. No, I'm talking about why other people. I'm not talking my time. Talk about Ukraine and why you want to protect the people of Palestine, Iran, so on and so forth. Christian, [clears throat] don't try don't try to Yes. Um I agree with a lot what you're saying. Thank you, sir. I am anti-war. I don't believe in imperialism. I think it's terrible. Thank you, sir. But I also want to say with all due respect to you, A I think what you're doing is fantastic. B what I want to say is I took this job and took the oath of this office particularly to help local issues because I feel like it's a grassroots effort that we all

politics local of course if I may finish to be as local focused as possible and as much as I don't agree with some of the as you call imperialistic efforts uh I feel that my place as a second word alderman is to take care of the people of the second war. And I wanted to highlight a little bit of that for you because I'm sure a lot of us do agree with you. We do, but it's not necessarily where our focus is. Why don't they do that? And I said this in an email as well. You you can do that as well as an American citizen. Why don't you do it? Why isn't this council do as a point of order? This is not the debate portion.

So you don't want to say anything, but you're you're well on board with what's happening. Sir, you're given a chance to address the board. That's your answer. Your answer is you don't care and you're not going to do anything. Thank you. Whatever. Whatever you want to take away, but thank you. No, that's not what I want to take away. That's Thank you very much. That's the fact. All right. Um, so we are now on to the engineering report, which we just did. We're on to old business, which we have none of. So, we are on to new business, which we'll begin our roll calls on the resolution. Resolution number 2526-150. Resolution adopting [clears throat] minutes from last common council meeting by Alderwoman Collins. Any questions? Some move. Call the RO. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi.

Alderman Marttoello. Hi. Alderwoman Quam Mars. Hi. Alderman Holiday. Hi. Resolution number 2526-151. Resolution appointing commissioners of deeds Lisa Luber and W Robin Waldron by Alderman Carpenter. So moved. Any questions? Call the roll, please. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martisell. Hi. Alderwoman Mars. Hi. Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Resolution number 2526-152. Resolution appointing Commissioner of Deets Christopher Carpenter by Alderman Martisello. So, [clears throat] so move. You have any questions? Call the role, please. Alderman Martisella. Hi. Alderwoman Quam Mars. Hi.

Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. I Alderman Carpenter this vote. Resolution number 2526-153 resolution amending budget for opioid settlement by Alderwoman Collins. Whereas the city received $3,000 from the Montgomery County general funds as part of the city's award of the 2026 opiate Oasis settlement funds. Um you could go down to the resolve.

Resolve. The controller is authorized to amend the 202526 fiscal year budget as follows. Increase revenue prescription drug settlement $3,000. Increase expense police equipment $3,000. Question. Call the roll. Alderwoman Commons. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martiscella. Hi. Alderwoman Christo. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. Hi. Resolution number 2526-154 resolution appointing commissioner of deeds Ronald Reco by Alderman Carpenter. So moved. Any questions? Call the roll please. Alderman Carpenter. I. Alderman Martisella. Hi. Alderwoman Christomar. Hi.

Alderman Holiday. I. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Resolution number 2526-155. Resolution to transfer funds for equipment purchased at the wastewater treatment plant by Alderman Holiday. You can just read the last two whereases in the uh result. Sure. Cool.

Whereas a new proper a new properly sized compact track loader from Milton Cat was determined to be the best overall piece of equipment for the water wastewater treatment plant. And whereas Milton Cat is on the list of vendors under state contract and proposed a purchase price of $82,99269 for a CAT 265 CTL with a tradein of $35,000 for the current skid steer bringing the total purchase price to $54,99269. And now therefore, be it resolved that the following transfer of sewer funds is authorized. That's good right there. Thank you. so much. Uh questions. Okay. Call the role, please. Alderman Holidayiday,

thank you. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Alderwoman Custom Mars. Hi. Resolution number 2526-156. Resolution approving audit by Alderwoman Collins. Any questions? Call the vote. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Alderwoman Quistam Mars. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. Hi.

Resolution number 2526-157 consent. Resolution renewing lease agreement Port Jackson Bachi Club by Alderman Martisello. Whereas the Port Jackson Botchi Club has leased the land located on Eerie Terrace for the past 20 years. And whereas the Port Jackson Botchi Club is seeking to extend their current contract lease agreement with the city of Amsterdam for the next five years from July 1st, 2026 to July 1st, 2031 for the cost of $1 per year for the next five years. And whereas lease term of five years will automatically renew unless notice of termination issued by either party within 90 days of advanced notification. Resolved. The mayor is authorized to sign the attached lease agreement with the Port Jackson Botchi Club for the property on Eerie Terrace for a period of five years effective July 1st, 2026 at a cost of $1 per year.

So moved. Call the role, please. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Alderwoman Quamarz. Hi. Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Resolution number 2526-158 consent resolution awarding contract water treatment plant chemical bids by Alderman Carpenter. So move any questions roll please. Alderman Carpenter I. Alderman Martisello. I uh Alderwoman Quam Mars. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi.

Could I get a motion? And I'd like to go into executive session uh for a brief moment to just talk about potential litigation to be under section power counselors law section 105 sub one subd discussions regarding proposals pending current litigation. Make a motion to go into executive session. Um Alder Ben Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Alderwoman Quimmer. Hi. Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Thank you. Mike, could you stick around? Yeah, sure. Thank you.