Remarks by Ronald Zorrilla
61 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
“Oh, sorry. Getting used to the new mic. So when we get a report with the alternatives, then we like decide next year whether we want to pursue them? Is the goal to just know the alternatives?”
“Is this something that was negotiated with the county, or is that something the water authority offers all municipalities? Because I know during the budget hearing, I think we spent 600,000 on new Windsor taxes, and I'm just curious, is that something we can negotiate? Or is this just an existing program that we're taking advantage of?”
“Actually, quick question on the auction. Are those items, like, picked up when they're sold? What does it look like?”
“I know that we mentioned the construction estimate was like higher than the grant amount. What happens in that case? Is it just like we get it as shovel ready until we apply to other funding?”
“real quick on item six, these drawings were the same ones we received last, they haven't changed? Yes, absolutely.”
“Okay, in item seven, I know that it looks like the deadline passed, are we retroactively?”
“The bonus points adjust the price so that it changes the bid?”
“I just had one more question. Is River Realty, are we having an agreement with them for listing all our properties?”
“I agree with the sentiment about transparency and process. I think I need to learn more about the actual process. I am concerned about this young man losing a pre-approval and interest. And then just interest changes and it might hurt his potential and financing package. I understand that an offer, we need to learn the timeline and all that. The offer was still lower, it's like this offer was double what the person. We can't make the person that's investing in our community, that lives in our community pay for whatever happened here and the offer is still higher. And I think I'm just…”
“During the budget season, I asked the clerk about how we expand this service. I was concerned that in our office building, the courthouse, a lot of records are living in the basement. This is not for expanded services, this is just for what we have right now.”
“Next we'll hear from Councilman Zoria. Thank you everyone for coming out. I'm always inspired to see young people show up to council meetings and hear their voice. I understand the frustration and would love to find out where the communication breakdown happened. I don't think it's fair for parents counting on this program to have a locked storage shed, but also want to make sure that everyone knows nobody's trying to shut down this program mean we're investing two million dollars in the recreation department i want to thank marcos for his years of service for participating in the vision for…”
“I'm not sure if this is old business or new business, but to avoid situations like we have today, I think anybody who's engaging with our city assets and places should have maybe not a standardized agreement, but at least an agreement so that we avoid...”
“if there are people that are working with our city and are using our resources and don't have an agreement then they should have one and they can only have one where the local laws allow them to have them okay if if there are people that are using city property, an example today, and they have a permit and it's not an agreement, then someone in the city must know. I'm not gonna debate whether they should, what local law. I'm saying if there's anybody else in the city who may have no agreement to avoid this in the future, let's figure it out. I'm not saying the process is flawed. We might have…”
“Thank you, everyone that came out. Speaking of money and votes, October 21st, there's a poster board session at the library, or the, The upstairs community room, the Stewart Air National Guard Base polluted our water. We're spending millions of dollars a year that are millions of dollars every year subsidized by the state of New York and they're trying to push off the clean up for 25 years. People from the National Guard will be there and they should answer to the community. We need people to show up and let them know that we care and we do not want them to push off the potential cleanup of…”
“The MGT guarantee requires documented performance review inside of the 12 months. Are we prepared to do that or do we have a process for that to just make sure we are able to take advantage of the guarantee if a candidate doesn't work out for whatever reason?”
“I think this is a great idea to hire a firm to do this. I know there's been some concern of people just saying, don't we have an HR director? So why not just let them do it? But I think in 2025, there were multiple searches for this position. And just from getting the feedback from the public, I think 102 out of the 126 people that shared feedback 80 of them said skill and city finance is their top concern for the city so i think this is a great idea to hire a firm to for this high level position that's so important for our city mayor harvey yeah i want to um agree with my colleagues i think…”
“Have we worked with this vendor? Yes. Is it the one that has the existing contract?”
“During the budget hearing for the rec, you mentioned five other cameras. Is this the same or is that different?”
“I think that since we have underage residents spending a lot of time, minors, youth, you can't compare the wreck to the police department. These are minors and in today's day there can be all kinds of accusations so i think common areas where we have a lot of kids congregating entering and the potential of you know any allegations it's important to cover our backs councilmember monteverde”
“Council Member Zaria. I'm just curious, what's the lifetime of a vest? How long do they last in general?”
“the the the resolution says august 2027 to august 2032 and the the quote and the contract say april 1st 2027 to may 31st 2027 I mean, to May 31st, 2032, is it the way it's billed?”
“On page 4, it has the same dates, start date and end dates. Page 4. On every item. I mean, it's probably a minor fix, but I don't know if it's... Page 4? Maybe our... Oh, I see what you're saying. Of the quote. Right. They all say April to May. I don't know if we have to correct that, if we're going to sign that contract or if we should.”
“These credits that we're getting, the $21,000 and $14,000, that's for like unused things or it's part of the discount that if you bundle everything?”
“So that's the savings from bundling it all together?”
“I think in the last presentation you mentioned you were going to get 80 of these, but we're getting 65. Are those the civilian ones that you didn't? Correct. Okay.”