Common Council - Regular Meeting

I of the United States of America, to the republic which it stands, our nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Our next item is to recognize the hard work and valuable work that has been put in place over its two. I'd like to turn this over to Jocelyn Foglandry to read a proclamation.

Thank you, ma'am. I'll just walk to the crossing guard room here today and tell them you all are, as I said, right there in the background.

Raise up your seatbelts. So this is a proclamation that the city has for the crossing guard.

I want something to say anywhere.

Thank you.

We expect to finalize our recommendation and move the item to the city center for drafting in the near future. The committee voted to move all seven state-appointed policies into an agency input phase. The chair will be reaching out to the relevant department heads of the community to ask questions, recommendations, and copies of any current policies that exist. Finally, the committee identified a few potential charter modernization items that we may wish to consider going forward. Thank you. Thank you.

Councilman Leff.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

The technology committee met on the 4th of June and reviewed the city's security posture identified a critical gap in Microsoft 365 cloud monitoring and increased risks associated with identity-based attacks and remote access. Including, this is just being a little confusing. So, just along that, key issues are a lack of real-time Microsoft 365 monitoring and alerting, increased risk of credential compromise and data exfiltration. Just to put this in a little bit of perspective, I attended a statewide cybersecurity conference in Albany last week as well, right before the meeting, so that's my meeting to kind of speak to your flavor. Anyhow, another key issue is security considerations for meeting access and gaps between endpoint protection and cloud visibility. So we are working with our vendors to practice some best practices, including we've got We're requesting from a few of our vendors a quote for cloud security on Microsoft 365, stronger entity controls. We have MFA in place right now, but it needs to be more in terms of conditional access and least privilege.

principles.

So, like, if we don't know who you are, then I'm based on a principle, and that, other than that, will get you further access. This is because a lot of the compromises now aren't from, like, hitting zero-day exploits. It's from, oh, I found your email. somewhere i saw a password associated with it so i'm going to try to get into your system and see if i can you know take take advantage of your roles so we've had a lot of instances in the past where people get off boarded from the service but their their account doesn't get retired or Somebody has left, but they've worked in several different roles, and some of those roles are still active.

Moving along from that, we want to deploy data loss prevention and establish controls for AI tools such as Copilot.

I can get further into detail on any of these points for the reasons why, but just Follow-up actions are evaluating plan alerts and alternative vendors, reviewing our security configurations that are in place currently and identifying gaps, accessing and securing secure online access, especially for meetings, um developing an implementation plan budget estimates to share with council and reporting back to council and technology committee with the recommendations our next meeting will be july 2nd 2026. And I don't know if anybody who's on the quality of life community wants to read what Sean was asking.

Oh, you've got a phone. Thanks. I have a short one, but I don't know if that's good.

Sorry about that.

When you were first. Quality of Life Committee met on Tuesday, June 2nd at 5 p.m. to give seven five-minute presentations from applicants who applied for the occupancy tax grants. We will hear from two more applicants at our next Quality of Life Committee meeting on June 15th at 5 p.m. along with a presentation regarding a buyer's club co-op. Currently, we are tallying the results and will advise by the end of the month.

Thank you. I'd like to thank all of you for how hard you're working with your committees. I really appreciate it. You're a very active council and it doesn't go unnoticed. Now we will move to the consent agenda. Is there anything that anyone would like to pull for discussion?

Anything else? All right. So my concern is the location of the non-spirited land on itself to people taking shelter there. So I just wanted to ensure that there's a lock on it.

Okay. I don't see anything specific to that in the application.

Would you like to, let me see, would you like to amend, amend it to approve this with the condition that they put a lock on them? That's what you're asking for? Okay.

Is that possible? We could all the time or maybe at night or

I think it would be, like, women as part of the program.

I'm just saying during the day, during the event, it might be easy to access. That's one of my ideas.

You know, just for me, you know, overnight. Right. Yeah.

But it's not being actively used, you know what I'm saying? Okay. Do you want to put that in the form of a motion? Do you like some of that?

I would like to make a motion to approve the temporary encroachment for the direct dumpster. We're going to submit the encroachment permit to include a simulation that the dumpster be locked during off-hours summers.

So I'm just restating the proposed resolution to approve Resolution 5.10 to approve the temporary encroachment for the out-of-their-own compster. Okay, so the motion is on the floor made by Councilman Rice. Is there a second?

Do you want to do a rural po-po or do all in favor?

I think we can do the whole thing. They grow considerably in smaller trees that are shed from the lake because of these large red line trees and the dense population of them. that opening up all this forest to that. Now the whole reason for this was because of the decline of the Red Rye because of the Red Rye State. They would die within a year, no value, become a fault hazard in the fire hazard. I spoke to him just once before, you know, you're taking a session along with the . So that answers the questions. I know Councilman Lattman said you're nice and humble. Is that what that is? 341? Yeah. Does anybody need a copy of the . Yeah, specifically about environmental quality review and the inventories we may have done on species before engaging in any of these contracts. But that's basically what we hire at the forestry program. They go in, they look at the harvest, they look at the basic species. I know they found a few of the different patients in the none within Army or Shedd area. Okay, I'll follow up with you. And then some wildlife habitat, and if you look at some of them, it actually increases.

I know specifically of areas where there's blue movement that were completely scraped off and it was done at a scale that I don't think was acceptable. I can forward you some of the pictures of before and after.

But I'm just saying blue because that is an obligated species for feeding for the blue-collared butterfly, which is better.

So that's where I'm concerned about the environmental quality review that we did prior to and maybe during this activity.

Are they planning on monitoring the area for invasive species? Is that part of their plan?

Do they have a plan? They do have a plan. Before we identified the red pine, the red pine scale, we were just up in the contract for a maintenance program to look at the whole watershed properly. It had been discussed for years, but never done. correspondence to look at what they want to do, a program to do the meetings, honoring all of our worship. So that would be part of it. That's a separate contract that we're looking at. Is there any way to announce it? We will look at it.

So Tom Gilman, right, from FMW Forestry, he comes to the Water and Sewer Commission meetings and reports to us regularly. And also, when we were going through the initial stages with deciding to report for this tree harvest, we also had input from Warren County Water and Soil and others. And we also did a significant amount of outreach in terms of publicly noticing that we were doing this on Facebook and the paper. So we did try very hard to vet the process. We got input from experts. And the last report we had is that the undergrowth is already returning at a pretty nice rate, is what we were told at our last water and sewer commission meeting.

Yes, you can see if you take a look around, the areas that were done some of the greens . If you walk along Road, and you go all the way up there, there's an area that was harvested. So you can see some green coming up there. If you look directly across, you can see because the logs are there blocking any way you can get into these areas. If you look directly across, if you go north on the left-hand side, you can see regrowth there from three or four years ago. It's 10, 15, 20, .

I'm just a little confused on these contracts and the requirements because I know a number of times it would happen like somebody wants to do something construction-wise. And then the council has to go on as a reporting agency for the state environmental quality review. And we have to make negative declarations or positive declarations. But I don't remember any of that being done with this. I don't know who is registering with the state as being the responsible party for the environmental quality review.

We'll find that out. But this was all run through DBC. All this water treatment was run through DBC. And again, we own the property, but the property isn't .

We can talk with our water and sewer attorney about that as well.

oversees those resolutions yeah i'm just concerned because i feel there was a number of protected species on the properties in question and i don't remember anything that was done as an environmental yeah so i vaguely remember uh my hometown think that it was a change made recently that requires us to take the services We do endow services.

There's a threshold. We have a purchasing policy and we do that. Yes. Any other questions? Okay, thank you, Bill. You'll get back to Councilman Lappamart with other questions, right?

Yeah. Also, before I forget, Tom Gilman is having a tour Wednesday, July 24th at 530. Okay. So the council is welcome to attend? Yes. Great, thank you.

all right is there anyone else from the public that wishes to address the council bill can't get enough of us okay um at this time i would like to ask for a brief executive session taylor will tell us why

I have a motion. Second. All in favor? Any opposed? Okay, thank you. We are going to start the discussion.