Common Council - public_hearing

We're good? Yes. All right.

I'm going to call the work session to order. Anyone with questions for tonight's agenda?

Jim Evans, trustee of The, oh my gosh, I just had it.

The one thing. The one thing.

So 1815, we separated it from the town and we became the village. And then this body was trustees until 1902. Yep.

I guess. He just likes us.

Not to mention that we don't get to vote, but that's sorry. Any other questions for tonight's agenda?

Now it's very thin.

Yeah.

On set, I didn't have anything. Nothing? I didn't.

I don't have anything to do with the agenda, but Mr. Cassatt, a constituent in actually Jim's work, contacted me. I just haven't had the time to talk to Jim about it. Obviously, the whole paving thing was on Elizabeth and Molly and Johnson where it was a little bit rough, from what I understand. But somebody from Elizabeth Street was perplexed that they were unable to get back to their house until after 6 p.m. And the issue was not that it was the note that you left on the door was not more specific related. In other words, she thinks that you should have kind of put in the note that if it's not cool enough, you can't drive down that kind of thing. So I'm just throwing that out there.

Yeah, well, I know it's funny. So for whatever reason, this last section of the value, for whatever reason, way more difficult. Procedure is about to switch. You know, we've done the last two years, we've done 35 shoots. The last eight years, I've done a hundred different models. We want that if they need to get out of the center of emergency, they need to go to the particular person that's on the street, find someone in the safety vest and speak to them and we'll do our best for whatever reason, certain people in that neighborhood had difficulty with it. I wish I could have better, you know, unfortunately, with painting. We're fighting against weather. And I say weather, we're fighting against our weather here, but also because we don't do it from the house, you know, the house, you know, placing the asphalt, that contractor just suddenly sort of led to where they've been before. So I'd like, you know,

is out there speaking well like I said it's not about the fact I guess that you that it took a little bit longer than anticipated it was that they felt maybe putting something additional in the papers that you hand out or the things that you put on the windshield their doors or just something like that they thought maybe something I am just passing this on however I will say I commend because you guys were out there on both ends of the streets when they could not drive down there. You had best people that were out there.

We pushed really hard too. I'll help you out a little on this because the school sold me. So we pushed really hard to get those done before school. And we had the threat of rain the next two days. So I think we went a little later than we had originally planned.

Well, the window usually is 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Give us that window. We met at I wish we could have one time where we had rain in the forecast, too, and we wanted to get done before school.

I mean, can we imagine trying to do Monty Street after school started?

I guess that's the other thing. There's a couple of ways to look at this. Obviously, mapping is always important. What we also try to do Three days ago, as far as the assault.

Oh, well, circumstances definitely happen. So it's Thank you.

And the other

May I ask a question? Ben did have something he wanted to bring up. He's turning bright red, so I don't know. Okay.

So with the parade route that's allowed for the high school for homecoming, I know a couple years ago it was shortened to not allowed to really go anywhere other than pretty much right in front of the school.

Last year we expanded it.

Recently?

I think last year we were a little more expansive.

So is there any reason why it can't start at Stafford anymore to go down to the high school?

No, I thought we addressed that last year.

Those from minors hundreds building that parking lot.

That we expanded it last year.

That's what it was.

Yeah.

From players all.

Yeah, actually. I did not. All right. may have spoken up after the fact that it was our schedule, but the conversation that we had was here. Hopefully when asked, I would start at SMS, put out a conversation now instead of the conversation will obviously occur in October. That wasn't the status question.

Yeah. I mean, I thought we had addressed it.

It was too late. It was all in motion by then. Yeah.

So there's potential that it could start at Stafford this year.

Yeah, it's you're going from the call through the college to the high school.

That's not much of the neighborhood of Plattsburgh.

That's seriously, the parade would be on the same day as a lot of other things that were going on the same time. They used to have things going on at college and I think it didn't want to like conflict that so much.

I had a thought about that, though, is that we close a lot of streets for other events as I don't understand. Half an hour.

As I say, to reflect as I was a young officer, I remember starting from Saturday when we were down in what would happen to block one road to four. And we were lost. the westbound, sorry, and use the westbound.

It's not like it's a, it's not like 20 floats in a grade.

And it doesn't take all that.

No, it takes five minutes.

Right.

Has anybody checked with Mike Bissett on that? No.

Well, since he's on a Sunday too, right, so.

An unrelated question, but maybe one that you can answer is somebody has recently asked about, now that she was back in session with Stafford Middle School, why is it that we have kids crossed and not down the entire crosswalk? And I didn't want to answer that question. I was like, I don't know. She said they dart across, you've got crossing dart right there, but Should ask me why don't we do that. And so there's probably going to be done first.

And we just because of intersection. So as a kind of after school. The city. If they're coming from Margaret, they are supposed to be across that you should section this competition to have last year when Baylor Glasgow. where Bailey Avenue has several intersections. And we have one posted crossing in front of the school. And if kids are crossing, you know, east of that on those crosswalks. So if they all traverse down Bailey Avenue on that one side, and then once they got to the crossing guard, the cross there, then everyone can cross using that crosswalk.

It's just not. They put the exit for the school in a very difficult area.

Yeah. You know, I mean, they're releasing right onto the main street, but then there's Oak Street right across there, which is another big category. So it's a difficult issue.

We've discussed that as well. Yeah. It's been a time in a conversation that we know how to get that intersection safer for all.

Is that part of the safe routes to school thing that we'll be talking about eventually?

We're looking right now, we're looking at, I think, eight crosswalks around the city of Plattsburgh. We actually went out to bid to have the designs done. We got two back. I want three bids. And it was really quite a disparity. We have to make streets safer to crosswalk.

Now, when you say crosswalks, are you referring to just the paint or are you going to build bump outs? Both.

Some are both, depending on where they are.

Bump outs really slow traffic.

Right. No, Emily's working. Emily's looking at a lot of different parking situations in the city that we need to address. I mean, she's doing a lot of work upstairs and these crosswalks, I think, and a lot of them are by our parks and our schools. I mean, we just need safer crossing for not just kids. I mean, we have, you know, some of our senior citizens, I mean, to get across the road to the parks because they're using our parks as well. And just everybody gets across.

There's an area on Oak Street School that lets out ones at Roosevelt where there's no crosswalk.

Right.

And that's, you know, there should be one there because kids are, that's an exit for the school.

And unfortunately, the more roads we pay, people drive faster. You know, unfortunately, I mean, it's, you know, we create an issue by trying to fix an issue, you know. People are apparently when they're dodging potholes, they drive a little slow. I hate to say it like that, but it's true. I mean, we've had, I mean, we had a really good, I mean, serious accident up on Court Street the other day. I mean, we had a rollover on a 30 mile an hour road. Yeah. So it's just, you know, people have to obey the, you know, the police. We can't put, unfortunately, we don't have a police officer for every street in the city. You know, and these guys were working, And ladies down to the police are doing a really good job. They're working their butts up and, you know, people just have to be respectful when they're driving. I mean, that's, I think that's the most important thing.

Is this what we can talk about the intersection? Which one? On court that was brought up, the intersection without the stop signs.

You know, and again, that's not my job. Emily does the job. That's Emily's job. She's their planner for the city. She's doing a great job. There's laws and rules and regulations to putting these up that I don't know. That's why I put everything to Emily. I had somebody call today and complain about a road. We don't have a lot of speed signs in our city either. Right. We're looking at some of these roads and we're saying we're supposed to have so many speed limit signs and we don't have them. So we're addressing a lot of these issues as we go. And you know, everybody doesn't want a speed limit sign in their front yard.

Right.

And I don't think anybody wants to see a stop sign on every corner in the city of Plattsburgh either, right? It's not a catch-all. So Emily, that's her job. I'm letting, she's doing, you know, they're looking at graphic studies, they're looking at all different sciences and making recommendations.

We were asked to do a poll today on that intersection. Yeah. Yeah, okay. It's not an easy task. Okay. All right.

We totally signed Broad Street.

I think the exit or one of the highest accident sites is the one right near me.

which I think is going to be looked at when we do the land down at the intersection.

Yeah, I mean, and we got to get people across the road safely. You go over to GP in the morning and you watch those folks trying to get to work. We have a crosswalk there. It's just some mornings, you know, everybody's in a rush. I don't know why everybody's in such a rush now. I don't know if it was, everybody blames COVID, so let's blame COVID. So, but since COVID, people seem to be in a rush.

There's been a lot of proactive conversation about the package. Right. Before absence or how to go about it. So just, we took this over to spread a dash cam.

It's 5,000 for one camera. We have a system for like, is this a replacement or is it a new one?

It's a little bit of both. One of the hard drives, DVRs, failed on the new units. So the new unit that was just for the new vehicle from last year was utilized to replace that. The wiring is expensive, unfortunately, for DVRs.

Yeah. Is it like in a plan for... every year you buy some, or like every, it's so often, so it's not like I would pay for them all to go out at once.

I'd love to see that kind of exist, you know, creating a spreadsheet for it so we can start properly planning for things. Yeah. But in the past, it's just been replaced, removed from one vehicle and put into the vehicle, and that failed.

Well, technology must change too, so it makes it harder.

The hardware has changed rapidly, but it's the storage. And then the... Any other questions for tonight? Emma, great.

Great movie night and parks come alive. So thank you very much.

Also great mural. Mural progress is going really, really well. I've heard that you have Picasso here. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Michelangelo there.

Yeah.

A lot of people showed up to do it. I think she said yesterday that there were 130 people from the community that showed up. I also didn't realize it was fully grant funded, not by the city. We didn't have to do that. Amy Guglielmo and her team got that together, which, I mean, maybe we knew that and I had forgotten it, probably did, but it's really cool. A lot of community participation.

Anfield Park's been alive lately. We had four of the, we had PAL football down there, two weekends ago, and it was awesome. It was amazing. The lights were on, and the kids, we did player introductions, and it was like old times, bringing football back to Penfield Park on Saturday night.

It was really cool. It's not a lacrosse field.

It's a football field. It's a football field. told you started it was a football thing yeah no but we on september 12th we're gonna have four more powell uh games down there at penfield and um if anybody's interested in watching some really good football it was actually it was really entertaining the girls the girls flag are so much fun to watch And all of them, the tackle A, the tackle B, the small flag and the girls flag were just really good. And it was fun seeing that on a field in the city of Plattsburgh again for the first time in a lot of years. It was really cool. And so many people showed up. A lot of kids that were busy at Penfield Park that night didn't get in trouble. And that's the point of it, right? So September 12th will be the next one. If anybody's available and they want to stop down, it was enjoyable.

How much was our total investment to get that flag?

The lighting system itself is almost $400,000. We used about $10,000. Joe, I think it was running around $10,000. And most of that was conduit, I believe, that we spent.

$11,000 on the wire and stock for the pathway lights. Right.

Yeah, and that's true. I mean, not only did we fix the football field lighting, we also did the pathway lighting, which is, I think, just as important to the folks that live there because they can walk at night and the whole area is lit up now.

Night one, we had thanks for lighting up the sidewalk.

Yeah, and there's an app now that Andrew's working on getting it all automated so that it's auto on, auto off. So it's going to turn on a certain time, you know, 8, 10 o'clock at night, it'll shut off. So now I've seen a lot of folks down there at the park and it's been so busy. And then going down and seeing the mural and everything, it's been, it's pretty exciting. A lot of our parks, South Acres is under construction right now. And that's going to be the next one. I'm sure it's going to be really busy as well. So it's good to see you go to Blue Matt and there's a lot of folks playing basketball and it's just good to see people out in the parks. I mean, that's what we want, right?

And Mike, are we doing white on the inside of that?

mural i think um i haven't heard yet yes yes no we're painting white we we actually have um one of our temporary beach uh employees or our part-time seasonal employees just stayed on and he's gonna paint the inside of that he actually i don't know if anybody's been out in route nine he actually just painted all the welcome to plattsburgh signs and all the signs by the dog park it's amazing how these signs stick out they just look so good and uh anyways he's doing a great job painting the signs and we have to keep it up because it looks so good when you come in the city and you see these vibrant blue colors and these other things so i'm pretty excited about that too so No other questions I want to, um, I do not know.

It's for it's for my mom. Um, so I did a lot of walking lately. And 1 thing that came up was communication and, um. Someone asked if we could send out a flyer. Um, you know, quarterly or something about all the events we're having, um, wondering if that's been thought of before.

Yeah, we definitely thought about it. I think that's something that we can do, especially since I just had a new intern start with me. So hopefully she can kind of work on some more projects I haven't been able to focus as much attention on. So I think that's a great idea. It would be good also for any recreational opportunity.

Right. Right. In any of our community projects.

events that we help sponsor they may even pitch in on the printing so heard that as well so sweet well we send out those nasty bills every month right you hate to put the ying in the yang but you know you'll get the calendar first and it'll be like hey so he's doing and then you'll get the pin yeah so i mean that is one way we can you know there's a communication that we can probably take advantage of when And maybe a newsletter wouldn't be a bad thing.

Is it on the website? A lot of the events are now. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm thinking that's around the discovery. Yeah. But I know a lot of people prefer.

Yeah. Just another, another outlet. Right. And another expansion.

Yeah. Everything.

You've got some of the events, right. That you can do at the table at. You've already got a flyer that, but some of the events, right?

Yeah, we just have, yeah, we have our main event flyer that has all of them listed, but I do, yeah, I think it would be good maybe to have something monthly or quarterly to have the events, and then also other recreational things, maybe even some updates on, like, projects that we're working on. Just, like, a newsletter type thing, I thought about that. Okay.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

We are going to be pulling local law P2 from voting tonight. We are going to have the Public hearing for tonight. We will do the public hearing tonight, but it has to go to the county planning board. So anybody that's interested in that, just so you know, we will, we will be not be voting on that. I'd like to request a brief executive session for the sale of real property. Could I get a motion? Councillor Evans, Councillor Minnette. Roll call.

Councillor Vaughan. Yes. Councillor Evans. Yes. Councillor Arks. Yes. Councillor Tallent. Yes. Councillor Minnette.

Yes.

Councillor Polly. Yes.

Okay.

Thanks. We're back.

All right.

I will entertain a motion to come out of executive session where we discuss the sale of real property and no action was taken. Councilor Monette? Councilor Arntz? Roll call.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Before we end the work session, any other questions that anybody has? And the work session. And I will then call tonight's Common Council session to order. Please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Do you want to do the public hearing first? We do. We might as well just do the... We're already up. Yeah, we're already up. I pledge allegiance 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. So... What? You wanna go to the public hearing first. So the city of Plattsburgh is holding a public hearing to hear public comment on proposed local law P-2, P-2 of 2026, a local law establishing a temporary land use moratorium on the establishment and expansion of certain high energy computing facilities pending completion of the city's comprehensive zoning update. I will entertain a motion to open public hearing. Councillor Evans, Councillor Colleen. Roll call.

Yes. Yes. Yes. We received two written comments from one from White and Austin, Indiana, attorney at law on behalf of many male and veteran LL in opposition to LL-2 of 2026. We also received many comments, right? Yeah. Yeah. Who would like to come first?

My name is Linda Franza, and I am here tonight regarding my son and his data center and cryptocurrency mining operations. I understand there is I'm not here to argue that the lawsuit to ask the council to sign tonight is right or wrong. I agree because I'm not sure that every member of this council knows the full story of what has been happening behind the scenes as Brian has tried to resolve the situation. Brian was born and raised in New York. This is where he chose to build his business, where he wanted to stay. He chose not to go away to college. Instead, as a young man, he took a risk and started a business here. As that business grew, he employed local people, including friends he grew up with and went to school with. Those are local jobs that are now either lost or in jeopardy. I personally served in my community dealing with the issue of brain injury. and the difficulty our community has in killing people. We talked about how our young people leave this area for opportunities elsewhere, and how we need to give them reasons to stay. Ryan stayed. He invested here. He created business here. He created jobs here. And yet today, I feel the illusion now. Ryan's electricity shut off over an electric bill that is distributed. He has repeatedly attempted to obtain a documentation and asked the authority of that bill to find out a way to resolve that. Approximately two months ago, he brought potential investors to the table who were willing to provide the money necessary to resolve the outstanding bill. They weren't asking the city to simply forget about the money. They were prepared to invest. But before putting substantial money into business, they understandably wanted answers. They wanted to understand them. They wanted to understand the city's position. And they wanted to know what would happen after the money was paid. Those answers have not been provided in a way that has allowed this matter to move forward. And there is one question that I find particularly troubling. If this bill is paid, will the electricity actually be turned back on? Ryan has been trying to get a clearer answer to that question. Now, while this power is off, this dispute remains unresolved, the city is considering elective disclosure that could restrict high electric use from customers. Because that concerns me greatly. If this legislation passes while Ryan's electricity is disconnected, could the city then say that his operation no longer qualifies as an existing customer and cannot be affected? If that is possible, then paying the excluded bill may accomplish nothing. And I thank Ryan, his investors, his employees, and this council deserves to know the answers to that before any vote takes place. I also ask this council to consider a bigger picture. Yes, Ryan's business uses a significant amount of electricity, but high electrical usage is not automatically a bad thing and can represent economic activity and investment jobs. If the city has available less than half of it that is not otherwise being used, I believe we should be asking how that resource can be used responsibly to track and maintain businesses, not centrally how we suspend businesses. Brian has faced challenges with the city before. Several years ago, when the city imposed a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining, he couldn't keep his business alive. He could have left then. He didn't. He stayed and continued to try to build his business. At some point, we have to ask ourselves, what message are we trying to send our young people? We tell them we want to stay in Plattsburgh. We tell them we want entrepreneurship. We tell them we want new businesses and local jobs. But when a young person actually stays, takes a breath, creates a business, employs people he grew up with, we should be doing everything we can to find a path forward, telling him there's no place for his business today. I'm not asking for special treatment. I'm asking for fairness, transparency, and answers. I'm asking this council to find out exactly what's happening. Ask for documentation supporting this bill. Ask what happened when Ryan brought investors to the city who were prepared to resolve this financial issue, prepared to pay the bill. And why, two months later, they still cannot take the answers they need. And please ask one very simple question. If this bill is resolved, will Brian's electricity be restored and will his business be allowed to operate? Before adopting legislation that this permit will prevent his business from reopening, I respectfully ask this council to make sure that question is answered. Brian wants to stay here. He wants his business here. His employees want their jobs here. Please don't allow a situation that may still be capable of being dissolved to become irreversible because of the new law that is passed before all the facts and consequences are understood. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other public comment?

Here at Mayor & Council, my name is Ryan Grijalda, CEO at Zafra. I did prepare a speech for this, but decided I'm gonna have to change it up a little bit. Just wanted to make a quick statement. I've also submitted a letter prior to this, but what I just wanted to say is my investors are prepared, have been prepared to get this bill paid, but what they need in return is clear insurance that the power that we grandfathered to use will remain available to us, and then we will be able to operate going forward. They need certainty that this council won't take that penalty away from their investment. They're willing to work with the city to get this resolved, but passing legislation like Local Law P2 doesn't get us there. It does the opposite. My understanding that the insurance would lead to an immediate $1 million payment to PMLD. It's my intention to work with my investors so they can provide those funds to reestablish the service.

Any other public comment this evening for the public hearing? With no further comment for the public hearing, I will entertain a motion to end the public hearing. Councillor Evans, Councillor Manette. Roll call.

Yes.

Yes. Yes.

So adjourned at 541. And again, we are not voting on the local law this evening. It's going to be tabled. What's that? What's wrong? We did the roll. Yeah, please. Here.

Here. Move by. Councilor Arts? Second. Councilor Talon? Roll call. Any public comment this evening on agenda items?

No comments tonight for public comment on any agenda items. We'll close that. Ms. Carlin?

Any amount of $5,041.65 set to her second 2026. Any amount of $617,588.60. The council approved the bill by the common council from the week's ending, August 28th. 2026 in the amount of $2,542,849 cents, and set to report 2026 in the amount of $349,157.76. Any liaison reports this evening? Yeah. Larry, we're going to be on Tuesday, September 22nd at 430 on the 6th of February. and for the plan smart task force our next meeting is going to be september 16th at 5 15 i believe the second floor of the clinton county health park that's it item 7.147 adoption level of yes to 2026 the local law establishing a temperate lane use moratorium on the establishment and expansion of certified energy computing facilities pending completion of the city's conference itself update

Motion to withdraw. I got a motion to withdraw, seconded by Councillor Evans. Roll call. Any discussion? Roll call.

Yes. Yes. Colleen? Yes.

Withdraw. Move by. Councillor Colleen, seconded by Councillor Evans. Any discussion? Roll call.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Move by.

Councilor Towns? Second. Councilor Abbott? Roll call.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Move by. Councillor Talon, second Councillor Evans. This is a typo we had in the, it was the year thing. So we're just reiterating the dates. That's it. Roll call. Yes.

Councillor Evans. Any new business to come before this Council this evening?

They did a great job with the Fourth of Friday.

Yeah, they're here today. We're actually talking about a couple more events. We're looking at a couple things, hopefully, and one being Oktoberfest. There may be a haunted house, even, if we can get the materials. But we've got to move quick, so we're trying to figure it out as fast as we can. I think a haunted house at the old farmer's market would be awesome. But there's a lot of hurdles, so hopefully we can get through them. I have no reason for an executive session. I don't have any other business, so.

I just want to say, and I said it at the work session, just that the mural down at Melissa Penfield has drawn a lot of praise, and I think it's great. I don't know that everybody realizes that it's 100% grant funded, which is really nice. The city didn't have to pay that, but certainly has supported the arts in a lot of of us that were there to help paint. And I think it's awesome. There were 128 people that showed up to, to help paint. So it's kind of a neat investment for art.

And, you know, the rec department in public works did a lot of stuff to get the building ready and the city looks good. I mean, we're doing, they're doing a lot of good, we're doing a lot of good things. MLD and DPW with getting Penfield Park back online, I think is amazing. We got something else, another place for our kids to go. And the parks are just amazing. So in public works with the paving they did, I mean, they got a lot of paving done this summer. I mean, the roads look good. I mean, now we just got to get people to slow down. I mean, we got to get people to drive responsibly. But no, I mean, to get, you know, everybody's been working really hard and it's been, with Battle of Plattsburgh coming up, I'm just looking forward to everything that we've got coming. I mean, with the America 250, I think the next couple of weeks are going to be amazing.

So. The intention of the outfit was for the next week. Really big, it's 250, we're doing a lot. We have a lot of people coming to the scene.

So any other new business? Nothing else. No executive session that I need. Anybody else? We're all good. Public comment on general topics. Your t-shirt just reminded me there is an honor flight this weekend too. So everybody realized there's no big accidents. There's not, it is the honor flight. We'll be coming through Saturday morning. Yeah. There's 29 veterans that will have scheduled to go to Washington, DC this Saturday.

Okay. Good evening. Something came to my attention yesterday that honestly bothered me. I was told that some residents were actually yelling at DPW workers while they were paving their streets. Think about that for a second. We complain about the roads. We complain when the roads have potholes. We complain when they need repair. Then the city sent crews out working around traffic, hot asphalt, and heavy equipment, trying to get us a better road. And some yelled at them because they interrupted their trip to Walmart. Come on, Plattford, we can do better than that. Those workers didn't make the payment schedule. They didn't wake up in the morning and say, hey, Bob, how did we mess up somebody's Walmart run day? They're simply doing their job. And when you stop and look around, there's actually a lot of good happening in our little city. This summer alone, crews have worked on 11 different streets across Plattsburgh. They're paving roads. They're fixing things underneath those roads. They're taking care of infrastructure that most of us don't even think about until something breaks. Is road construction inconvenient? Absolutely. But I think most of us would rather deal with a paving truck for a couple of days than deal with the same potholes for the next five years to make it ten sometimes. And roads aren't the only thing happening. The city is moving ahead with improvements around Oak Street Elementary School. Better sidewalks, better crosswalks, better signs, simple things that can make it safer for kids getting to and from school. The Saranac River Trail is growing too. We're finding ways to connect more of our riverfront and make it easier for people to enjoy one of the best things Black Creek has. the Saranac River. At McDonough Park, more than $1 million has been awarded for improvements. The work will help with flooding, drainage, erosion, accessibility, and the aging wall across the river, along the river, sorry. That's not just making a park look nicer. That's protecting our waterfront for the future. The venture at McDonough Park, I feel, was getting attention too. There are improvements planned for paving, lighting, concrete, benches, and the overall site. These things aren't glamorous. Nobody throws a prank against somebody who fixed a drainage problem. But we certainly notice when nobody takes care of these things. And speaking of parades, Plattsburgh is about to show off a little. The Battle of Plattsburgh events are coming up with history, music, ceremonies, great events, family activities, and visitors coming into the community. And this year is pretty special. The Thomas MacDonald Monument is 100 years old. 100 years later, it still stands over downtown reminding us that some pretty important American history happened right here in Plattsburgh. And there's one piece of product that I'm pretty excited about. And I told the mayor about this, huh? By the way, this is the Raggett Scaleway Shopping Center. Thank God. Today, I spent about half an hour with one of the nice and thriving business representatives of Everett, Dallas. He went out of his way to make sure our installation at Joe's Barbershop goes smoothly this Saturday. Think about that. Joe's opened in 1963. The little barbershop has seen rotary phones, cash register, stylus, internet, cable, Wi-Fi, cell phones, and now we're getting fiber optic internet. At this point, I'm going to walk into Joe's one morning, and John is going to ask me why there's a Star Trek transport center next to the bar and chairs. But here's my bigger point. None of this being plastic is perfect. There are decisions we should question. There will be products we disagree about. There will always be taxes, traffic, construction, and orange cones that are bound to be produced overnight. Well, we can't hold our government accountable, but we can still appreciate the good that's happening in our community. We can do both. There's a big difference between question City Hall and young guys standing next to a paving machine who's simply trying to give you a better road. So if somebody is paving your street, give them a wave. If somebody is fixing a waterline, thank them. If utility workers are bringing better infrastructure into our community, appreciate that. And if your trip to Walmart takes an extra five minutes, I promise you, Walmart will still be there. We had every hard hat, every shovel, every truck, and every construction site, and we've been trying to do a good job. Many don't get better by accident. People make them better. Sometimes we get so busy talking about everything that's wrong with the platform that we get to look around at everything that's going wrong. So tonight I simply want to say thank you to the people who are doing the work. Let's complain a little less, appreciate a little more, and keep building the platform. Thank you.

Thanks, Sheriff. Any other public comments this evening? With no further public comment, I will entertain a motion to adjourn. And nobody wants to go home. Councillor Kiley, Councillor Monette. Roll call.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Meeting adjourned. Thank you.