Common Council - Regular Meeting

Yep. They take I take them out and put them back in like the meeting that they pass with a new date and everything. Yeah. Um No, pretty much the same. No date is on there. Oh, okay. Well, there's a date on the when where we sign where you have to put on it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You Yeah. You put the the date that you sign on it. Oh, okay. Even if we don't pass it that day, we put that day in there like like if if it don't pass like we held at this meeting, right? Right. It's a withdrawal that I put a little note there. Yeah. So then so the next meeting the next meeting is when you put that date.

It is it is 1:00. We're going to start our regular meeting. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible.

Thank you. Uh at this time I would like to recognize Commissioner Tyaw in the room. Thank you for being with us today and the celebration of the Heritage Month of the Asian-American Pacific Islands. Uh congratulations on your celebration. And we would like to invite Cove uh from the Vietnamese community to join us uh in the microphone for the blessing.

Absolutely. uh to offer FA uh for the AAPI uh month and this time I want uh Mr. T address later of F. Yeah. for a Ache. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. for Buddha.

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Uh first uh to say thank you Rita and coming council. This is the first time our Vietnamese community have been honored to have the uh invocation. So we're going to thank you and this what the Buddha is saying. Namu Buddha. Today, we the Vietnamese Buddhist community of Syracuse are sincerely grateful and honored to be invited to partake, participate, and offer prayer during this special AAPI Heritage Month gathering. In this peaceful moment, we offer our heartfelt prayers for the leaders of our city of Syracuse that they may be blessed with good health, strength, compassion, and wisdom as they continue to serve the community with dedication, peace, and growing prosperity. We we pray for the continued prosperity and flourish of the United States. We also pray for peace throughout the world and for all the people who live happiness, harmony and safety. What's that?

Thank you.

And uh would like to have come down like to present you something from the temple. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. So, moving on into our agenda. Sorry. All right. Uh, would the clerk uh please uh roll call? Yes, madam president. Councelor Codwell present. Councelor Macho here. Councelor Aaron right here. Councelor Hudson here. Councelor Nave here. Councelor Moore here. Councelor Williams here. Councelor Jones Rouser here. Councelor MTO here. All present. May I have a Thank you. May I have a motion to approve the minutes? So move.

Second for May. For May 4th. Yes. On May 8th. All in favor? Oppos? And May 8th separately. Oh, again. So then again a motion to approve the minutes for May 8th. So moved. Second. Second. All in favor? I oppose. Unanimous. All right. Moving into an Are there any petitions? No, Madam President. Any committee reports? Yes, Madam President. Um on May 14th at 11:00 a.m. the finance committee held a conversation with Dan Schwarz from Nichloo um to discuss local law AA which we're voting on um related to biometric surveillance.

Thank you. Any any other committee reports? Okay. Any communications? Yes, madam president. I have one from the underdog environmental institution. A letter acknowledging the terms and conditions outlined in ordinance 206 this year. Any unfinished business? We we withdrew. Right. Item number eight. Yeah. No, this is not finished business. Oh, okay. Councelor Williams. Thank you, Madam President. Um, on behalf of myself, councelor Monto and Council Joke, I would like to introduce and urge the adoption of item 8A. Okay. Any discussion? Any objections?

Any discussion?

Yes, Madam President. Um, first of all, I would like to thank my colleagues, Council Joke and Councelor Monto for co-sponsoring this legislation. Um, I would like to thank our partners at the county for for moving on a biometric technology uh limitation um prior to us and I'd like to thank all of my colleagues for considering this legislation today. Um, what we're voting on today is the culmination of a lot of work. We began conversation around this legislation back in the wintertime. Um, I'm glad that our efforts are finally coming to fruition today. Biometric surveillance can create very tangible harm for our residents. During the unrest this winter in Minnesota and Maine, we witnessed a collection of biometric data being used as a tactic of intimidation. This demonstrates the power of this technology. We know that algorithms used to identify individuals have a hard time with people who are young, people who are old, persons of color, members of the LGBT LGBTQ community. In many ways, these are descriptors of our city. The misidentification of these individuals opens them up to greater levels of harm. As technologies evolve and emerge, lawmakers are always trying to play catch-up. With this vote today, we have the ability to define the conditions that we want to see in our city and to push back against corporate actors who are collecting our biometric data sometimes for their financial benefit. In the interest of our residents privacy and all of our civil liberties, I urge all of my colleagues to vote in favor of this legislation. Thank you.

Thank you. Please call the role. All in favor? I oppose. Unanimous. Okay. I I have I

Thank you. Item eight is being withdrawn. Council. Thank you, Madam President. Um blessings to all today. I have items nine and 10 and I would like to introduce them urgently adoption. I um item nine. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? I Yes. I have to abstain. You abstain. One abstension. One abstension. Okay. All right. So, the item passes with a eight 8 Z with one abstension. Uh, councelor Jones Browser, would you like to state the reason why you abstain? Abstaining. Vice President of the board.

Okay. Thanks. All right. We're all set. Okay. Uh, item nine. Any objections? No. Item 10. I'm sorry. Item 10. Thank you. Any objections? Any discussion? Yes. Go ahead.

Yes. Um, this right here resolution is something that is very um um emotional and saddened too that we even are in a place that we have to talk about voters rights and redistricting across the country. So, I'm so glad that the whole team is supporting it just as well as we supported um the last item that this has to stop. We have to come together as a community. We have to come together and and stop fighting and bickering, but stop making it hard for people, you know, from different classes to make this have the right to vote. Everyone has the right to vote. And um I just thank everyone to be a part of this resolution. Thank you, CO. Please call the vote. All in favor? I opposed. Michelle.

Thank you, Madam President. I have item 11 to 22. Item 11 will be held. Item 16 will be held. Item 18 will be held. Item 19 will be held. Uh the rest of the items I would like to introduce them and urge the adoption. Thank you. And counselor, I just wanted to make sure you all notice that um there was a a new piece of legislation for well not a new uh piece of legislation. It was a typographic error on um 13 and 14. We corrected in between sessions and that is what's on your desk now. It's corrected. Okay. Thank you, Madam Cler. Thank you.

Item 11 will be held. Item 12. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? Opposed? Unanimous. Item 13. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? Opposed? Unanimous. Item 14. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? I. Opposed. Unanimous. Item 15. Wait, what? You okay?

Oh, yeah. I'm good. I'm right. I'm sorry. I'm just bugging. Item 15. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? I oppose is unanimous. Item 16 will be held. Item item 17. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? Opposed? Unanimous. Item 18 will be held. Item 19 will be held. Item 20. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? I oppose. Unanimous.

Item 21. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? I. Opposed to unanimous. Item 22. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? Opposed is unanimous. Thank you, Councelor Erin Rick. Thank you, Madam President. I have item number 23, resolution urging the governor of New York, the New York State, and the New York State Assembly to support New York State Senate Bill S5684 and the Assembly Bill A6543 by passing the bigger better bottle bill. And I would like to introduce it and urge its adoption.

Thank you. Item number 23. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? Oppos? unanimous. Councelor Hudson. Thank you, Madam President. I have item 24 through 27. I would like to introduce them all and adoption. Thank you. Item 24. Any objection? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? I oppose. Unanimous. Item 25. Any objection? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? I

oppose. Unanimous. Item 26. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? I oppose. Unanimous. Item 27. Any objections? Any discussion? Please. One discussion. I want to go backwards. Item 24. I will be holding a committee meeting at 1:00 on Thursday. Oh, okay. Thank you. Yes. And we'll make sure the minutes reflect that. Nothing changed with the vote or anything? No. Okay. Now, item, what item is that? 24. Okay. 24. All right. Thank you. So, we left it uh 27. Yes.

Item 27. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the vote. All in favor? Opposed? Unanimous. Councelor Nav. Thank you, Madame President. I am introducing this resolution in recognition of Tourette's syndrome awareness month in support of an effort to raise awareness and offer encourage encouragement to individuals and families throughout the community. Okay. Do you have and I'm going to have discussion? Do you Okay. So, any objections? Any discussion?

Yes, madame president. And I want to thank you. From May 15th to June 15th is Tourette's awareness month. And this is very personal to me. So I'm thankful that my brother Chuck, my sister-in-law Betsy are here to recognize my friend Rick Tito and others who know uh who live with Tourett syndrome. It is a very misunderstood disorder. Uh the movie I Swear came out recently and for me personally it was very emotionally because Rick and I know personally uh we've lived through that journey with a lot of hardships, people putting us down say we couldn't do it but somehow we raise up and we say no we can do it and against all odds we accomplish what we are and against all odds I'm sitting here before the common council as an elected official. I am the second elected official in the state of New York to have Tourett syndrome. Earlier this month, the New York City Council pass a resolution of Tourette's syndrome awareness month. Their city advocate Jaman Williams is the first elected official. So, I take uh I take pride that I'm the second official in the state of New York to hold this position and to make awareness and that for all of us sometimes they don't understand us and I know as a counselor it gets emotional for me. So, I'm always thankful for councelor Caldwell to holding on to me at meetings and I thank uh President Pantiago keeping you know to keep it tone down be careful what I say sometimes because I get emotional but that's we're very high strong in in how

we are so I do want to I do want to thank everyone who was here and I'm now going to ask for its adoption before then I will read the resolution. Thank you. Please hold the vote.

All in favor? I oppose. Unanimous.

Thank you. Resolution to recognize May 15, 2026 to June 15, 2026 as Tourett syndrome awareness month in the city of Syracuse. Whereas Tourette's syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized or by repetitive involuntary movements and or sounds called ticks. And whereas according to the Centers for D the disease control and prevention CDC approximately one in 50 school age children in the United States are affected by Tourett syndrome or another persistent tick disorder. And whereas it is a genetic condition and symptoms often persist into adulthood and many children and families in the city of Syracuse are affected by Tourett syndrome. And whereas despite this prevalence, Tourett syndrome remains widely misunderstood which often leads to bullying and can create social and academic barriers. And whereas by raising public awareness of Tourette's syndrome, there can be a greater understanding of the disorder which will create compassion and support for individuals leading living with this condition. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Syracuse Common Council as dwey elected representatives of the proud citizens of the city of Syracuse do recognize May 15, 2026 to June 15, 2026 as Tourett Syndrome Awareness Month in the city of Syracuse and encourage everyone in our community to learn more about Tourett syndrome and always promote kindness and inclusiveness. adopted by unanimous vote of the Syracuse Common Council. Signed by the Honorable Rita Paneiagua, President of the Syracuse Common Council.

It may also acknowledge that city hall is lit in teal every evening through June 15th as a symbol of Tourett awareness. And I want to thank Mayor Owens and the administration for agreeing to have the city lid and kill. Thank you. Thank you, Marty. On behalf of our council, it is an honor and a blessing to serve the city of Syracuse by you and with you. Thank you. God bless. Thank you. All right, Council Moore. Thank you, Madam President. I have items 29 through 31. 29 we're withdrawing. 30 is um ready. I'd like to introduce and urges adoption

and 31, right? Okay. Item 29 is being withdrawn. Item 30. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? I oppose is unanimous. Item 31. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? I opposed. Unanimous. Thank you. Councelor Williams. Thank you, Madam President. I have items 32 through 35. I would like to introduce and urge their adoption. Item 32. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor?

Opposed? unanimous item 30. Any objections? Any discussion? Yes, Madam President. I would like to abstain from this vote as a employee of the Syracuse City School District. Thank you, councelor. Please call the abain. I'm sorry. Somebody else you would like to abstain? Yes. I'm on JSCB. Okay. Great. All right. All in favor? I oppose. is unanimous with one with two extension. One from councelor Williams and the other one's from councelor Hudson. Excellent. Uh item 34. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role.

All in favor? I oppose. It's unanimous. Item 35. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? Opposed? Unanimous. Councelor Williams and Monto. Thank you, Madam President. Um, on behalf of myself and councelor Monto, we'd like to introduce and urge the adoption of item 36. Item 36. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? Opposed? Unanimous. Councelor Jones Rouser.

Thank you, Madam President. I have items 37 through 39. Um items all items are ready. I introduce and urge their adoption. Thank you. Item 8 37. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? Opposed? Unanimous. 38. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? Oppos? 39. Any objection? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? I have discussion. Did you say discussion? Yes. Go. Right ahead.

Um I just wanted to state on this one for people who are um watching um or possibly get word from someone else um that um this item is for the city to um contract with different contractors for a plethora of work that needs to be done. um within our community um throughout the city and um they're always looking for contractors to add to this list. Um and I know that there's plenty of work to be done in the community and so I just wanted to make sure that people understand that the um the city is always looking to add new contractors to their list of um of of contract contractors for work particularly around housing. But there's other things as well. Thank you, councelor Montto.

Thank you, President Piagua. I have items 40 through 43. I will introduce them and urge their adoption. Item 40. Any objection? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? Opposed? Unanimous. Item 41. Any objection? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? Opposed? Unanimous. Item 42. Any objection? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? Opposed? Is unanimous. Item 43. Any objection? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? Opposed? Unanimous.

Thank you. Moving into the supplemental agenda. Councelor Moore. Thank you, Madam President. I have item 44. Motion to motion to introduce and approve item 44. I'll second that. Councelor, can you um can you make a motion to wave for the waiver of the rules required to introduce 44 and sorry, I'd like to make a motion um to wave the rules required to introduce second. Thank you. 44 and 45. Second. Okay. Uh item 44. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the RO. All in favor? I oppose. unanimous.

Item number 45. Any objections? Any discussion? Please call the role. All in favor? I oppose. It's unanimous. Motion to close this meeting. Second. Second. All in favor? It. Okay. Thank you everyone. Yeah. Oh, hi.

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