Common Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, welcome to the first meeting of 2026. Um, start off on the resolutions. Resolution 2526 106 resolution adopting the minutes from the last county council meeting. Resolution 2526 107 resolution waving 30-day advanced notice application for liquor license LPG Bar and Grill LLC.

Okay, you met that gentleman here. just there and the place that he's open up uh like the chief here and the old Lever's Tavern, the old Elks Club, Barcelo's Bar and Grill and he's going to open up a bar and grill and I'm going to Chris asked what kind of food we're having and what kind of Spanish and American. Spanish and American. So, yeah, I wish him the best of luck. Absolutely.

I really do. Okay. So, we have a bunch of resolutions that are full council. So, to just in the interest of fairness, I started out with Ward one and went around to W five. So, resolution 2526108, resolution designating meeting. Um, if Kelly wouldn't mind sponsoring that one. Sounds good. 6 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays.

Yep. All right. Resolution 2526-109, resolution appointing deputy mayor. I've got Rich down for that one. Resolution 2526 1110. Um I I put myself on that only because that's the appointment of the city clerk, but if Irene wants to do it, it's perfectly okay. Okay.

Resolution 2526-11, resolution designating official media. Alderwoman Collins. Resolution 2526 uh 112 resolution designating committee assignments. Um I put my I I have my name down but it depends on who's deputy mayor. I think they should do that. This one Resolution 2526-113 resolution approving recommendations from the Amsterdam property disposition committee authorizing sale of two parcels aldermanello. Well, first it says city previously advertised for the sale having notifies for property owners within 200 ft. Nine Gorski Street. All right. Minimum price was 2500 for two family and nine large street minimum price was 2500. So disposition committee went over those and as you'll see in the one to third whereas clause and the city clerk if you if you like these are the people who got them the names and this is what they offered 6500 and the number two was 2500 and these are people that offered the money for these properties. Okay, as you can read, we'll read resolution here three. Okay, and then four. Whereas resolution on a consent passed by the common council contained in accurate recital regards recommendations made by the PDF. So now we have to correct all that. So now it's amended. Nine live street had received a bid from American guy properties, America guy America properties for 5,000. These are the people who are

second and third biders. So then we have the people here and what we're doing is we're authorizing the sale of these two parcels on Borski Street and Arch Street. Okay. Any questions for Martis Resolution 2526-14 resolution authorizing sale of five parcels from art rema.

Okay. So once again, if you go down to one, two, three, the fourth whereas clause, you see, you'll see 92 Form Street, 77 Academy Street, 40 Lodge, 20 McDonald, and 3638. They're sold to the second biders. This is who I believe, and I talked to the auctioneer. They scrutinized certain people. They did not come in with the amount of money. So they went down the line to the next qualified bidder. And these were the people who were next in line. as you can see like on Lodge Street was sold to Conor McGuri in the amount of 134,000. The highest bid was 172. So they went down and they got the next bidder who was legit wanted to buy a property and they scrutinized him. They looked him up and that's what they awarded it to. All right. And it gives you an explanation. They did a great job, Tony. Good job. Great job. That explains it all right there. you know, Edwin Rodriquez on Eagle Street in the amount of 17,000. The highest bid was 21,000 for various reasons why they didn't come up with the money and this is what happens. So now we go right down the line and we find the biders. It's always good to find out where second bidder was, the third bidder was so we can go down and find out actually who really wants to buy properties. All right. Any questions for Alder Martisello? Thank you very much. Resolution 2526-115. Resolution approving audit. Always fine.

Thank you very consent resolutions this evening. Yep. You got them. Resolution 2526-116 consent resolution authorizing interfund loan for Southside Boardwalk. Alderman Martisello, I think in a nutshell, I think Louise will tell you we just didn't borrow enough money, right, Louise?

Yeah, we we actually were awarded um 4.1 million in grants, but we only borrowed 3.9. Um so, this is just to cover us in the mean to get the the final the project's essentially finished just to get the final bills paid and then we'll start um putting in for grant reimbursements. And I did give everyone a a summary as I always do of our outstanding uh loans. And I do want to mention that the million dollar demolition project in a fun loan, we we that's pending. We may not even need that because the reimbursements are expected to come in pretty quickly from that grant. I just have one question. Sure.

Um 916 2025 chips program 2.2 million. Okay. They gave us 2.1 million. Now, are we going to get that 100,000 bounce or not? Oh, we don't know. Uh I mean eventually we'll get it right. Probably in the Say it again, please. Okay, Mike. And in the CHIPS program for the 25.6 year, it says we're going to get $2.2 million. That's what our allocation was. Okay. We did not understand we didn't spend 2.2 million on the 25 uh project. We spent 1.7 I forget next but they gave us 2.1

the our allocation for so what you're looking the difference in those numbers first of all there was a little bit of rollover from the previous year that you see there okay right that's that's kind of the gap between 2.1 and 2.2 too. The other thing is there that there's a little bit of a rounding error there. Not an error, but our total allocation for 25 was 2.17 and I forget the rest, but it was so it's there there's about a there was a 30 or $40,000 rollover from before the year before. All right. So, that's why those numbers don't always look the same. All right. Thank you very much.

I'm sure we'll pay the rest of it down in the coming season, season. All right. Thank you. Questions for Martisello. Resolution 2526 117 consent resolution appointing an ADA compliance officer. This is a HUD issue. So I thought Kelly wanted to sponsor this one because she's on leazison for HUD. Yes.

Mike, if you wanted to speak on that call. Um this is a requirement. Um we haven't had one. We need to get one. Um it's a requirement for a grant that we are we have received and we are uh we're appointing a grant most qualified qualified person to to take the role. But this was something previously almost like what Nick Zabaski used to do for us. Oh. Is there a stipen for this too? No. Okay. No stip.

Yes. So, when I was researching the handicap parking space, they said like talk to the ADA compliance officer and um I didn't see that we have one. So, it's good that we're we're putting that in there. And um there's people at the state to work with as well. Totally. Good choice. That's it for the resolutions. U Mike, do you want to go over your engineering report?

I'd like to go back to we went we went over 109 and 112 pretty quickly. um if we could go back to those um to discuss them further because 109 um is a resolution appointing the deputy mayor and it's currently blank in there. So I do think we need to have a name in there. Um I'd like to take the opportunity to nominate Irene Collins for this position. Um I've been working, you know, with Irene. were in the council. She's been on the council for over seven years and you know I've been working with her since then um since her first election in that um and I find that she has a lot of financial experience a lot of leadership um I find her to be a mentor somebody who remains calm and helps me see the big picture when sometimes I am not seeing the big picture and it helps um you know bring like a sense of calm and organization and I think these strengths um would make her a a strong leader this council and give her the opportunity to do that this year. Um, so I would like to to put her name in the ring for this.

I guess on that note, can I nominate Chris to this Tony? Is that how we do it? We're just having a discussion so Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So then I can do that, too. Then I don't have anything prepared, but Chris has done a great job. Irene, you're a fantastic individual as well, but Chris has been super helpful as well. and he's great for it. So maybe we could take a straw poll. Yeah, I think that's a smart idea. I don't want to make it messy.

No, I think you guys are all making good points. I mean, if if if there's going to be multiple nominations, I've heard two nominations come forward. And if I were to try to on the spot create what I would think is a fair process, I would say that there that for each nomination uh there should be a second to the nomination and then there should be a if there is a second to the nomination then there should be a vote. uh the nominee in each situation would not be voting because they're the subject of the vote. Uh

we always vote and then we would have no because if it's for you for example if someone nominates you to be the council member that was being that was the prospective appointee has always voted. Yeah. You can't vote for yourself. They've always voted. We we did that the last time. I'm sorry. You can't vote. And is that your opinion or is that your is that what's in the chart that you can't vote for yourself? Is that what's in the charter? Chris, I'm asking you.

I don't think there's an express provision in the charter, but I also think it's a pretty resolved premise that you cannot vote on any piece of legislation or that piece of legislation directly impacts you. Uh that would apply for everybody. Well, that's your opinion. But president has always said that the the person that was that was going to perspective appointee was always getting a vote as well because we've never in the history of this city have done that. This is all right. Precedence is there. So you guys will have to decide how you want to do it. I just worry about a two and two vote. That's all.

Let me just try to finish while I have the floor because I was asked to establish how to do it. I wasn't asking to get into a debate with anyone because you guys sure have to figure it all out, not me. Uh, but it seems to me that the most fair and accurate process would be nevertheless, and let me try to finish saying without being interrupted, is that for each nominee, the first nominee I heard was Irene, the second nominee I heard was Chris. So for Irene, there should be a second to that nomination. If there was a second to that nomination, then it should go to a vote. Now, in this instance, Irene would be the subject of that vote. So I would say that Irene should not vote. Uh it should remain silent on or recuse herself from that vote. And that would render it to be uh a threshold of three of the no the four you have to get to three. Three out of the four would have to be in favor. Uh and if that happens then you have a winner of your uh alderman at large. If that does not succeed then we have a second nomination of Chris Carpenter that would have to be seconded. If there was a second to that nomination, the same process would come forward. Now, if anyone can think of a more fair process than that based upon what's transpired here today, have at it, guys. I mean, here's what I can tell you guys. Let me leave you with this. No, how no matter how many or how much any of you may try to bring me directly in the middle of this, I don't care. So, figure it out. I can only share with you what I think is the most fair and arbitrary process. The rest is

up to you guys to figure out for this ceremonial position. Well, I don't think we should start a precedence now by telling the nominee that they can't vote. We're all in equal partnership in this council. Can we take a straw poll on on that? First of all, if you do it this way without due respect, honey, you're going to be it's going to be locked into two, right? You're not going to get Well, if you're not locked in a two or it might not have three, which wouldn't be a which wouldn't be a I can see you. I think I see the Don't you think there's enough adults in this room to figure out that if some person can't get three, they're going to have to compromise and make a third vote? I mean, wouldn't that be the way that the process works?

Personally, I think we should just do it the way it should be done with a resolution on the floor and you make a you make a Kelly makes an recommendation and you vote on it. If not, which is what we're doing, right? If not, then you make an amendment to it. Then you vote on the amendment. Correct. I don't know. Well, there has to be an amendment to it either way because it's a blank, right? Well, yeah. It's on the same decide here in the council and the cow whose word of name we're going to put in there when the meeting comes

through our resolution. I don't see any other way. I I don't want to see my resolution. Pursuant to the provision of the article, you make a motion. You put a name in there, you vote on it. It's if it's voted in favor of and there it is. It's not you ne another amendment and they put it in there. They vote on it. But everybody should vote. I don't see how you can abstain. I don't if your name is up there and you don't vote. That's not right, you know,

and then his name is up there and you should have a right to vote for your own person. Well, couldn't we just make a decision prior to, you know, make the decision now and not have to have two different votes in the That would be nice resolution. I mean, in the in the official You want to take control poll vote for Irene. You should vote. You vote for Irene.

All right. You have anything to say, Irene? Well, I think um each one of us is entitled to an opportunity in this position and it's not judging you in any way, Chris. It's a learning experience for each of us. It strengthens us because we are all learning something. Well, there's only two of us left.

And you know, I think it's it's only fair that it rotates among the council people. you know when I expressed an interest Mr. Marcelo was couldn't have been kinder saying absolutely anybody who wants a chance to do it should get a chance to do it and you know he stepped aside after many years of of having the opportunity and I think that kind of set the stage for anyone here getting a chance to do it and then when Mr. Carpenter came to me wanting to do it it it became his so Mr. Carpenter, you have anything to say? I just I I don't think it should be by turn because I don't think there's people that should be deputy mayor. I don't think there's qualified people to be deputy mayor

in this room. No, I'm saying in general and if we set a precedence and that's the precedence we're setting and then what we're doing is we're we're basically setting a term limit for a deputy mayor because not everybody wins reelection and you can't be a deputy mayor but once every five years if you take turns by the time you rotate around. And I I think I've said it I I think I've said enough um through our our email systems and everything. And I think you all know how I feel about it. And I I I said that I'm comfortable with the council's with the council's position on it. And we took a straw poll for for Irene. I think we should take a straw poll for me. I think it's

Yeah. Can't be fair one. Incredibly hypocritical. You can't be fair one way and then switch the rules and say that it's okay to do it that way and now you don't like the decision. So you're switching the rules. You don't even know what my sentence is going to be. So if you could let me finish it. I think it is, you know, hypocritical to say that you should have a turn doing it la this last year and not afford that opportunity to anyone else because there was no reason why I couldn't continue on. And and everybody has a right to do it, right? Everybody has a right to their opinion and everybody has a right to put their name up, right? Isn't that what you said? So, I put my name up again and I think we should I think we should vote on it.

Well, I just don't know why you can't give the same grace and consideration to others that was given to you. Because I don't want to. Because you deserve it more. Because I don't know. It's got nothing to do with it. He doesn't want to. And it's got nothing to do with that. This is his choice. I don't think we should be having this debate. If you think you're going to vote for Chris, I'm going to vote for Chris. Chris wants to do it. Chris has done a fine job. I think Irene's fantastic, but we should just put the name on as is Chris Carpenter and move forward. The Bros have it. Thank you. It's not how it goes, Kelly. Unfortunately, we're not going to feed into that. But fact of the matter is that he does a fine job and uh he wants it again. So, give another chance. That is not giving anyone else on the council an opportunity.

Maybe he won't do it next year. There is voters. Look, if no one has you you can't say everybody's got a fair shot and then and then take that away and and argue that you didn't like the the the decision. No, it's being a courtesy, Chris, to your being a team. It's being a team and being the leader of the team. Thank you for your opinion. You're very welcome. Appreciate it. I know. I think we can move.

All I'm going to say is we need a council that's unified. We need a council that works together as a team. We do not need walls separating our council. Uh and we should have a leader who does not build walls if he tears them down. So hopefully that's what's going to happen with this council and because we really cannot be uh divided. We have to look together. Are you saying that I don't Chris Christopher? You keep saying am I saying I'm not saying anything other than that's what we need is a unified council working together. That's what we need. And we need a There's the deputy mayor's position is a ceremonial position. It is not. What's it say on the resolution? I did you write the resolution? I don't What's it say on the resolution? It says per the city charter.

Says per the city charter. Are you But what I'm asking you, do you think she's not as qualified as you? I do not think that that's all. And and don't put those words in my mouth. Put words in my mouth. You just put words in my mouth. No, I asked you a question. Yes. I'm not saying that you won't. I'm saying this is what we need moving forwardations issue. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I don't think you want to work as a qualified because that Well, that that email you sent was ridiculous. It was argumentative and it was insulting. Chris, why are you getting this? I don't know what you're referring to. You know exactly what I'm referring to. You got you can compose yourself. You can exit the room and recompose yourself.

You have no right to tell me to exit this room. I think you might want to You have no reason, no right to tell me you're calm down, Chris. You're listening to what I said. We need to have a unified council moving forward. Now, we need to put this decision once it's made behind us and work together. We need to do that. I'm hoping I'm hoping that's what happens after this is done. But, you know, I I don't want any Well, okay. But for the record, I'm not aware of any qualifications that any one of you carry that the other one doesn't in terms of Tony with all due respect as deputy mayor. No one's asking, right? But no one's no one's asking. We've already made a decision.

We're not asking you. All right. So, we're not asking you asking me. No. You want to ask? No. Mayor, you already gave your opinion. Okay. And I did. Yes, you did. I think we made a thorough enough record that everyone knows. mayor gave a thorough recommendation. Very thorough. Thank you. Okay. So, you you will be the new deputy mayor. Thank you.

Okay. So, I'm going to read what I have to say and I'll read it at this point. Members of the council, although disappointed in the results of this vote, I am not discouraged. I look forward to understanding the reasoning behind your decision today. I know that we each represent our boards with thoughtful commitment and care. We bring we each bring specialized skills and knowledge that are useful within the deputy mayor position. In my opinion, a rotation of the role of the deputy mayor provides an opportunity for each elected colleague to obtain additional knowledge and experience. Today, those who voted no impu impeded this process. In spite of this vote, my dedication and service to the people of the city of Amsterdam remains undeterred.

Thank you. Very good. Very good. Kelly, there was another resolution 112 you wanted.

Yeah, I thought we could discuss 112 now as a as a group um for the areas um of the responsibilities of the committees. um you know I we haven't really discussed this as far as what everyone's interests are um or like a e a more equal distribution of these as well. Um and I also had a concern about the commissions um that we have two alderman assigned to each of the commissions but if both of those alderman attend those meetings then the other alderman really can't because of quorum rules. So I'm wondering if there is a way that we can either appoint one person and then have just a junior member that goes out of their interest or if we can communicate if somebody that's not on the committee wants to go to a meeting that we could come up with a way that they could do that. Um and another person could step aside. Um or if somebody is like say some there's two people on the recreation commission, one can't make it, they tell the other members, hey, I'm not be able to make it to the meeting. Would anybody like to be there in my place? Um so that that like recreation can have a quorum because they've had quorum issues. Um, so I I wanted to kind of talk about those things and how we can, you know, you know, what what even are the roles of these committees and um, you know, is everybody on ones they want to be on and is there a way to to make sure that all fits.

Uh, Kelly, you do make a good point. I agree with you. There should be one leazison because there was a bad situation we had at the golf commission. I know you wanted to speak and everything and uh so I think going forward there should be one leg. Okay. Like you said just the point one if that person can't make it, it should be a backup. Okay. Like a lot of times like that's why I have to step off the recreation commission because that falls out at night usually when I'm babysitting truthfully and I had couldn't make it. So I'm glad you can.

So I have no problem with that. And you're right there is a point that comes when there's two aldermen all the time there and they can't do that because maybe the third alderman has something to contribute and we can't do that because of the price. So I have no problem adjusting this to one member and then someone else fills in and like the meeting notice comes out like for ADA and someone says like you know you say oh I wanted to go to ADA this week is anybody else going besides the liaison and everyone will be like oh no Jimmy go ahead you know or something like that like we could kind of talk about I think it's a good idea all right so I have no problem if you want to if we if we just table this for now and withdraw it we come back I have no problem that

we kind of discuss it amongst ourselves outside of here or because we probably don't have enough time to everybody okay with tableabling this resolution. Yeah. Sorry Tony. Do we need to table it or withdraw it? What if you table it? It comes back at the next meeting. Withraw it doesn't. I think we can figure that out amongst us between the next meetings. I'm going to make a motion we table. Okay. All right. All right. You want to say yes, I could. Does anybody else want to talk?

It's a little bit wea to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Alderwoman Chris Mars here. Alderman Holiday here. Alderwoman Collins here. Alderman Carpenter here. Alderman Martisella here. Make a motion motion. If not, make a motion to adopt the agenda.

Yes, I was making a motion to adopt the agenda with 12 resolutions and two consents. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Alderwoman Quest Mars. I Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. There are no proclamations and no communications and presentations. Would anyone from the public like to speak at this time? Nobody going to do that. So, Mike, you the engineering report, please.

Thank you, ma'am. Uh, I'll be brief. Uh, last meeting, uh, you authorized the clerk to advertise the Broadway bill cemetery sewer upgrade itself to bid. Reminder, that's being funded, uh, via uh, Estro developer money uh, at no cost to the city. bid opening is the 22nd of this month and earlier today we had a pre-bid conference. There's a lot of a lot of interest in the project. Um, this may seem like it's out of nowhere, but we have uh currently we have plenty of uh a salt stockpile seem to kind of be relevant, but every winter at some point after a series of big storms, uh the supply chain seems to shut down for a few days and folks uh during a heavy winter wind up using table salt. I'm exaggerating, but you know, we run tight. Mike, what's the pricing like on salt?

Uh, it's in the high 60s right now. Is it up or is it? It's not down. It's But it hasn't it hasn't gone up over previous years. So, budget wise, we're okay.

Yeah, we are. Um, one one thing about salt is kind of boring, but we we can easily spend more in a year putting down salt and when we just get a series of drips and drabs of snow storms than when you get a few of the massive snow storms uh that are really deep. Mainly because whether there's two inches or 22, crews still have to go out. You got to cover, you got to lay it down on the roads. Um, and generally ice ice storms are will eat up far more salt than a the snowstorm will,

right? Um, also I'm sure you all know by now we're it's water break season, not baseball season, it's water break season. Anybody in the really cold weather, you see water running on one of your streets in your ward, whatever, just give my office a call or Sure. it because it shouldn't be running when it's 10 degrees or 15 degrees. Um, and we've a lot of people have now know what to look for and then we get those calls every every couple of days like um like we pay 70 I just bill $70 a ton.

Okay. The CDBG funded demolition project is uh set to begin very quickly. The contracts in place with Gore construction. Remember that we're doing all 23 structures in that project. Uh I've issued a notice to proceed. We have a pre-demolation meeting to establish the rules of the road for the project. uh on Thursday and I would expect them to be in town and working here as early as next week. Uh upcoming paving program. I mentioned it the end of uh last November, December. Um, I'm going to circulate with everyone at the next meeting just um some a list of the streets that we didn't get accomplished uh in 25 and also some thoughts for 26. I just saw Marticello had a list of a couple streets. I know things are covered and icy and snowy, but you know, you remember from last year, uh if you've got anything new definitely um over the course of the between now and the end of February or so, let me know and let's try and get it in the program. Uh Crescent Bridge, we've got a winter shutdown. Demolition's done. Uh the piles are in. uh concrete work will be in the spring and we're still on track to have that open uh uh in July. And also you you've seen these last couple of items before

filter work continues at the water plant and we are still in review with uh New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for our wastewater treatment and upgrade project. Um, we've had a bunch of meetings on it. It's going well. So, I'm I'm hopeful that we will uh be able to uh get a design approval uh sooner than later. And that's all that I have.

I just want to I want to uh augment what Mike is talking about. The council, all the chips and our infrastructure money comes from the federal government. And uh I don't know if anybody saw it today in the newspaper, but I did that five blue states are not getting funding for um food aid. Um so we have to be very careful moving forward uh not to assume that we are going to be getting the federal funding that we have been getting previous years unfortunately because we live in a blue state. So, we I just want to caution there may be changes and I want to I want to caution the the council to make sure um they make their constituents aware of the fact that uh we don't really know what the funding levels are going to be like. Thank you.

Um thank you, Mike. Um we don't have a controllers report tonight. So, we have any old business, Stacy? No, we do not. And so we have some new business and we'll go to the resolutions. Resolution number 2526-106 resolution adopting minutes from last common council meeting by Alderman Carpenter. So moved. Any questions on the ro? Alderman Carpenter. I. Alderman Martisella. Hi. Alderwoman Quistamar. Hi. Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Resolution number 2526-107. Resolution waving 30-day advanced notice application for liquor license LPG Bar and Grill LLC by Alderman Martisello.

So moved. Any discussion? Thank you. Alderman Marticello. Hi. Alderwoman Quistamar. Hi. Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi.

Resolution number 2526-108. Resolution designating meeting by Alderwoman Quistamar. Resolution. This meeting is designated as the first regular meeting of the common council for the year 2026 and be it further resolved hereafter. Regular meetings of the common coun council shall be held on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. with the next regular meeting being scheduled for January 20th, 2026. And be it further resolved, the regular scheduled meeting for Tuesday, November 3rd, elect 2026, election day, will be held on Monday, November 2nd, 2026. So moved. Any discussion? Can you please call the RO? Alderwoman Christom. Hi. Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins.

Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Resolution number 2526-109. Resolution appointing deputy mayor by Alderman Holidayiday. Resolved that that the pursuant to the provision of article 3 section C24 of the Amsterdam city charter, Christopher Carpenter is hereby designated as deputy mayor to serve as presiding officer of the common council in the event of the absence or incapacity of the mayor and to serve as acting mayor as provided for in the charter. So moved. Any discussion? Did we need a motion to fill in that blank first? There was no amendment. We need to fill in the blank. We need an amendment to

Yeah, I'd like to make an amendment to add Chris. Motion. Yes. Motion. Okay. To the amendment. Vote on the amendment. All right. So, to vote on the amendment, um, Alderman Holiday, I. Alderwoman Collins, no. Alderman Carpenter, I. Alderman Martiselloo, hi. Alderwoman Quistar, no. I vote on the resolution. Okay. So, do you need to read it again? Resolution as amended. Okay. Resolution as amended. Do you want me to read it again? Um, no. Thank you. So, um, so moved. Any discussion? Okay. Call the RO, please. Alderman Holiday. I. Alderwoman Collins. No.

Alderman Carpenter. I. Alderman Martiselloo. Hi. Alderwoman Quistamar. No. Resolution number 2526-110 by Alderman Carpenter. Resolution appointing city clerk. Resolved. Stacy Ortiz is hereby appointed city clerk pursuant to the provision of article 7 section C7 of the Amsterdam city charter to serve at the pleasure of the common council. So moved. Any discussion? Call the role. Alderman Carpenter. I. Alderman Martiselli. Hi. Alderwoman Christos. Hi. Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Thank you everybody.

You're welcome. Resolution number 2526-11. Resolution designating official media by Alderwoman Collins. Resolved. Amsterdam Recorder is designated as the official newspaper of the city of Amsterdam for the purposes of publishing all official notices of the city. Be it further resolved. WCSS radio 1490 A.M. is designated as the official radio station of the city of Amsterdam. Be it further resolved, the city website www.amstramny.gov will serve as the official publishing location of all emergency notices. So move any discussion.

Alderwoman Collins I. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Alderwoman. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. Hi. Yep. Resolution number 2526-112. Resolution designating committee assignments by Martisell. Alderman Martisello. I make a motion to take any discussion call the table. Alderman Martisella. Hi. Alderwoman Quistar. Hi, Alderman Holidayiday. Hi, Alderwoman Collins. Hi,

Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Resolution number 2526-113. Resolution approving recommendations from the Amsterdam Property Disposition Committee authorizing sale of two parcels by Alderman Martisell.

Sir, please read our last resolution. Are there last four as clause? Whereas resolution number 2526-105 consent passed by the common council on December 16th, 2025 contain inaccurate recital and regard to recommendation recommendations made by the PDF and said resolution made an erroneous award which which all of which are hereby amended to be as follows. That with regard to nine lark street, the city having received a total of two bids as follows. Guy America Properties offered $5,000. Siad Latif offered $2,500. And the PDC having recommended sale of said parcel to Sed Leif for $2,500. And now therefore be it therefore be it hereby resolved that the recommendations of the Amsterdam Property Dispos disposition committee are hereby accepted by the common council of the city of Amsterdam as set forth here and above. and is further resolved that the sale of each of the parcels as set forth here and above is hereby authorized.

So move discussion call the roll please. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Alderwoman Christomer. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Resolution number 2526-114. Resolution authorizing sale of five parcels from REMM auction where winning bid failed to close on parcel by alderman Marticello.

So move start with fourth whereas clause please. Whereas as it pertains to these five parcels and following next highest biders, remain ready to proceed with the acquiring same which are recited by address together with the current highest bid and parenthetically referring to the initial war winning bid for which the bidder did not close. 92 Forb Street to be sold to Asher Aby in the amount of $46,000. Highest bid at auction was $47,000. 77 Academy Street to be sold to Shazad Nawaz in the amount of $31,000. Highest bid at auction was $33,000. 40 Lodge Street to be sold to Conor McGregor in the amount of $134,000. Highest bid at auction was $172,000. 20d Street to be be sold to Michael Quinonz in the amount of $48,000. Highest bid at auction was $70,000 and 36 through 38 Eagle Street to be sold to Edwin Rodriguez in the amount of $17,000. Highest bid at auction was $21,000. Now therefore, be it hereby resolved that the sale of each of the par parcels as set forth here and above is hereby authorized. So,

I will I I will say that I'm slightly disturbed about the fact that people can bid and then back out. Um and and literally you can get in into an auction to bid up the price and back out. That seems to be taken advantage of to an extent. You think so? And I I there should be some penalty uh something that they have to pay I think for doing that because you know this disrupts lives. It causes hayw, you know, craziness in our our mayor. When they bid, do they put the deposit?

They do. But again, um, we don't see anything. It's nothing. We get nothing. We and and we're the ones who take it. We We're the ones who get hit. We're the ones who, you know, lose the money. So, there should be something some kind of penalty that they have to pay that would prevent them from just bidding up a price security. Right. Is that something we would do legislatively? No, I think I think when we are going to do an auction again that we put an RFP together that really spells out the things that we need to have. Okay. So we would Yeah. So that'll be like an administrative piece that we could do. Yeah.

Have you want to move it or move it? Call the role. Excuse me. Where? I just got to move it. I'm sorry. I was Okay, just for your indulgence, I asked this controller that we should see what other cities are doing. Make you make a good point. Let's see what they do with their Washington. Okay. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Any other discussion? Good. So move. All right. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Alderwoman Christos. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Resolution number 2526-115 resolution approving audit by Alder Alderwoman Collins. So move.

Any discussion? Call the vote. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Alderwoman Quistamar. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. Hi. Resolution number 2526-116. Consent resolution authorizing interfund loan for south southside boardwalk by Alderman Marticello. So Louise you can explain that real quick. The boardwalk. The boardwalk. I'm sorry. Just for the record.

Yep. Just uh we didn't uh the um amount we borrowed was just shy of the amount that we were awarded and the intent the intention originally was to borrow the amount that we were awarded in full. and we just uh I think left off the national grid grant that was included. So, we're just uh just to get through the last final expenses, we're just doing this inter fun loan to ourselves. 450,000. Yes. Thank you very much. Okay. So, move. Any discussion? Call the RO, please. Alderman Martisell. Hi. Alderwoman Quam Mars. Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. I Alderwoman Collins.

Hi, Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Resolution 2526-117 consent resolution appointing an ADA compliance officer by Alderwoman. Whereas the city of Amsterdam is the recipient of federal funds under the HUD community development block grant CDBG program. And whereas HUD regulations require that recipients of CDBG funds appoint an ADA compliance officer pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Now therefore, be it resolved that Grant Egleston is hereby appointed to serve as the ADA compliance officer for the city of Amsterdam. So moved. Any discussion? Please call the RO. Alderwoman Christomer.

Hi. Alderman Holidayiday. I want to say Grant's a wonderful choice for this position. I Alderwoman Collins. I alderman Carpenter. Hi, Alderman Martisella. Hi. Anybody have anything else? That it motion to adjourn. Alderman Carpenter. Hi. Alderman Martisello. Hi. Alderwoman Twist. Hi. Alderman Holiday. Hi. Alderwoman Collins. Hi. Thank you everyone.