Common Council - Regular Meeting

I forgot to put the title up there. Okay, good afternoon. I forgot to put your title. Hello. Good afternoon. We're going to start our study session. And with that, we're going to go to Corey Williams. Councelor Williams.

Thank you, Madam Aa. Item A, which is our biometric surveillance ban. Um, I will call this tentatively ready for Monday and wanted to let my colleagues in the public know that we'll be having a committee meeting Thursday at 11:00 a.m. and that will be with Dan Schwarz with the New York Civil Liberties Union. Um, Dan is a member of our surveillance tech working group for the city. um unable to be here in person. It'll be a a virtual meeting. Um appreciate Eric and Vinnie, wherever Vinnie is for helping with the technology, making sure that we'll be able to pull that off seamlessly. Um so tentatively ready pending, you know, results of the committee meeting on Thursday.

Thank you. Um do we have uh clerk uh Patricia, do we have um any resolutions Monday? Okay. On Monday. Okay. So moving on, council cutwell. Yes. Uh thank you uh madam president. Blessings to all today on this beautiful rainy day. Um I have items nine and 10. Nine is with Anadaga Earth. This is a training program and supervision for youth hired. This is something that we typically do every year um with the Anadaga Parks Corp um clean street crew for 55,000. I don't think there's any questions. Anybody any questions? Because this is a a a thing that we do every year. You got some time, Ch.

Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. I was looking like you've been on one today. Trying to figure out how to make his items take as long as possible. He's strategizing.

We already had a conversation. Not today. Um um number item 10. Um this is something dear to me and I'm pretty sure most of the counselors will want to sign on. Um, this is about United States Senator Schumer and Gillibrand, Congressman, Governor Hokll, the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate to act to protect to protect voting rights, the Voting Rights Act and how congressional districts are created to make sure we protect that people are still being able to vote regardless of who they are um, and where they live and not to create division, but to create unity. So I would hope the rest of stand well in that. Thank you.

Thank you councelor Mach. Thank you. Since I already got threatened I got item I have item 11 to 22. We are going to hold item 11. Eric is working on that. So I would say if you have question hold on hold off with those questions so we can get out of here. Um, thank you. Okay. Talking to herself. Yes, she is. She's telling you talking to two parties. Yes. Hold on. Show. Item 12. Who's taking that commission? Are you Jeremy?

Thank you. Thank you. Uh, blessings to all. Like my fellow bulldog says, let's go. Thanks for all the prayers. Uh, thanks for all the phone calls. Didn't get unnoted. Um but item 12 and how you doing madam president? Uh item 12 is uh basically a joint effort of DPW and fire applying for a grant that will analyze crash data and update corridors around the city like striping and um traffic control boxes and stuff like that. Any questions?

All right. Item 13 is us updating our HVAC system in the MEM garage. I guess our air quality is a little bad in there and it's not up to code and we need to bring that up to code according to New York State. Okay. Okay. Any questions? Uh what we got? Item 15, 16, 17, and 18. I guess is going to be a a public hearing on those. If you got any questions that I can Okay. you know answer our sweeping program and the slurry seal program. How many sweepers do we have?

We have we have four right we have four right now that's working non-stop and that's just due to manpower. Obviously we're down 30 drivers. Uh we have nine in the fleet. Five will be optimal for us. Six will be wishful thinking. Would you have nine? We have nine. Jeremy, while I have you up there, um I I think I might have asked this question before, but I don't remember the answer. Do you will you train CDL drivers or do they ne need to come already licensed? No, if you come in as a labor, we do train you. Okay. But you have to get into actual city for us to train you.

I wish it was a program that we can train, you know, high school folks like SPD and SFD, uh those guys going in at Fowler and stuff like that, but we don't have we don't have the uh resources or the funds to do that. Well, that's good bug. I think it's coming in the air, John. a good bug to put. I think it's coming in the air. Oh, I love that. If we can get that, then our pool will get a little bigger. But right now, just in the city of Syracuse, we don't have a big pool. Yeah, I'm working on uh trying to improve that for you through my other job. Trying to get more people interested in CDL driving. So, I I would I would uh welcome that, Council. So, you you help prepare people so when they when it's time to take the exam, they're ready. Yes. Yes. I have a silly question.

Question silly. Since the amount of sweepers that we would need to keep our streets absolutely clean and to your standard, I believe, yeah, uh, is somewhat of a pipe dream. If we were to replace some of the equipment in street sweeping with people, what do you think the cost benefit would be? Kind of confused on your question. You're saying if we just stop buying sweepers and update more, we The problem is we don't have CDL drivers. That's the problem. Mhm. If we if we had abundance of CDO drivers, we can but I think the council is asking so take take the machine out, give the people the broom, right? Yes. Basically,

a broom 100 years ago that's people on the actual roadway. I know you I'm not talking about like major highways. I'm not saying we're going to kill the streets period. I think that' be a safety I don't have a safety plan. I don't know what kind of money we going to pay that cuz we do have but we do we we have a team of litter pickers that we send out every day all day in the right away but in the actual road I think that would be frowned upon before before the machines I don't think 1955 I don't know I will tell you a couple of people

one at a time. Hold on, Marty. Hold on. Okay, please continue. I'm sorry, but I understand what you're saying. I just don't think it's easy. Mhm. I think the the easier solution would just get more drivers and we can have eight, nine plow u eight or nine sweepers on the road as well as plow drivers. I'm also sure there's got to be some kind of liability issue to that. I'll take one.

I mean, I can talk to Lisa about it uh who's our safety coordinator. I'm just asking the question because equipment costs money, CDL drivers cost money, certifications for CDL drivers cost money, and we know that there is a national, local, statewide shortage of CDL drivers, right? And it's going to continue to be a shortage as long as the federal government refuses to certify marijuana as a safe substance that people can use recreationally while not not at work. So, if we have built ourselves into this situation where we can't get enough CDL drivers to run the kind of equipment we need to keep our streets safe, I'm wondering if there's an alternative that involves us being able to partner with groups like In My Father's Kitchen or other work development progress organizations where we could do something different.

We do that already. Yeah. No, I know that you do. I'm just wondering if this program specifically might have that capacity. when I think of something, I'll I'll definitely uh shoot that back at you. But right now, I have to talk to Lisa about it to see if there's any liability uh things that we would have to um you know, jump over, but I I don't I don't think that's the that that's Marty got something. I appreciate you entertaining. Okay, so yeah, you got something.

That was before there was corners. Nuh-uh. Marty Gone, right? Oh, as I remember, a gentleman used to come along with a big broom and a come along with a big broom and he sweep the curbs and he goes through the through put it right in the garbage and that's what they did. He had a roller. Mhm. And he used to come around. They had a lot of them back in the day. Yeah. Was that Well, we're going back to my childhood of re 1997. All right, let's move on. to move on. Thank you. Thank you very much. Go ahead. Thank you. So that took care of item 15, 16, 17, and 18, 18. Yes.

So I'm sorry. Is something being held for a public meeting? Is something So the public meeting is Yeah, that will happen Monday. So the advertisement, right? Right, Madame Clark. You got a couple that's going to be held, right? Yeah. So we're going to hold this. Uhhuh. Go ahead, Brian. 16, 18, and 19 have to be held until after the public. Okay. 19. So, the whole 16 and 18 by 19 and 19 and 19. Okay. And 19. Okay. Okay. Uh, but the rest are good. Mary, you want to talk about the 19 or what? We 20 20. Okay. Go ahead.

Good afternoon, councilors. Mary Robinson, city engineer. Items 20 and 21 kind of go together. Item 20 is approving participation in the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board's uh CNY stormwater coalition program, which helps our uh storm water requirements under DEC. Um, and that's at a total cost uh not to exceed $3,600. It's been that same fee for years. Um 21 is kind of an accompanyment because it this also helps our um municipal separate storm water sewer system program and this is doing an IMA with the county for some services that are free and other services if we use them we would be charged. So, it basically um formalizes our relationship regarding the hotline when there's an illicit uh sewer discharge into our storm sewers. Um and it also gives us the opportunity to have um the Anadaga County Soil Water Conservation Program do inspections for us if we want them. And that's requirements of our storm sewer outfalls into our creeks. We currently do them on our own. Um but if we have a staffing problem, we have the the ability to ask them to do them for us. That's also free. And then the items that they would charge us for if we request it would be to track down an illicit sewer discharge at a cost of $60 an hour or doing lab samples for us, which we really do need the lab samples. We don't have an avenue to test samples when we need to. And that's when we're doing inspections and we notice cloudy water or something with a smell,

fragrance. Um, so that's just the lab cost. So just out of curiosity, Mary, with that $60 per hour in the previous year, do we know if we ever we've got to that point where we we've never um done this IMA. It was kind we we have used their lab services before. So this is kind of formalizing um an agreement that is required. Um I don't anticipate nor I think we would be able to track down but in the event it would just be $60 an hour which has never happened. Yes so far. Okay. Okay.

We've only done some a couple lab a few lab samples. Mary I had a quick question and it's not directly on this topic. I don't know if you know this, but during the pandemic, there was somebody was doing um uh wastewater testing for corona virus and some other things like that. Do we know if that's still happening in Anandaga County? I don't know, but I do know the county was doing it. Other questions? uh of 22 that you mayor

22 is uh one of our county 101 sanitary sewer offset acceptances and that's for um 311 Ganant Holdings which is the owner of the Icon Lofts project at 311 Ganant Drive and we're accepting lining of three sewer manholes and replacement of frames and covers at three different locations that is supposed to be good, right? It's going to be good. Okay. Okay. Uh question. Are you all set? I should be good. Oh, look at that. Huh? Five minutes. Good job, Council Aaron Reg.

Thank you, Madam President. I have item number 23 which is a resolution urging the governor of New York, the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly to support the New York State Senate Bill S5684 and the Assembly Bill A 6543 by passing the bigger better bottle bill. Anyone like to sign on to that with me? Can you give us a little background on that? Sure. So, um, many people are familiar with the bottle bill and our redeemable returns for cans and bottles. It hasn't been updated in some time.

Uh, and this bill, uh, was introduced, I believe, by Senator May, and it would allow not only for a 10% 10-centent redeemable bottle rate, but also assist recycling centers and redemption centers to continue to operate since there are dynamic market pressures against them. This absolutely has helped New York state control litter. It also provides dignified work and income for a number of our citizens and residents. And uh it also tremendously helps push us towards the environmental regulation levels that we are looking for in terms of recycled materials in our industrial processes. So, I would really like to see Syracuse benefit from an increase in redemption rates uh and support for our redemption centers and I would love to have the support.

I will sign up. You got mine. You got mine. Sign me up, please. Everybody, right? Yes. Truly appreciate it. Thank Thank you, Hannah. Uh councelor Hudson. Yes, ma'am. I have item 24 through 27. Good afternoon, counselors. Amry Degan, first deputy commissioner of finance. For item 24, this is an amendment to the ordinance for Mosaic Consulting Group, which is our payroll modernization consultant. This is just to align with the uh signed contract, which it wasn't in the previous version. So, this just extends the period because we started two months late, right? So, we just

and then we just uh changed how we're aligning to the contract terms for how we're paying them. So that's that's all. Okay. Do you have any updates on the work being completed by Mosaic? Sure. We've had several meetings with them. They're in uh collection of understanding what it is that we need. Um and I think that we are quickly moving in the right direction. I don't know if anybody else wants to speak to that, but it's been uh they've been very supportive and they're very engaged with us and so is our team with them. So seems to be moving the right direction. So, so far we have no invoice from them yet because it's still in the meeting pace that that Yeah, we probably have an upcoming invoice, but we haven't um haven't received it as of yet.

Okay. Okay. Questions? No. No, but at some point in the not terribly distant future, we should have a a larger meeting and figure out where we're at, where we're going, and and progress being made to make sure that we're on track. You might get somebody to get in touch with Marie or whomever in that happy to have a some sort of study session with you as your Yeah, they would get in touch the secretaries to get in touch differently from before we are paying after they deliver services and not before. Yep. So we actually in the contract they actually they provide us the invoice, we verify the invoice and then we pay the invoice. Thank you. Staying within the 900,000 work.

Correct. Okay. And and when we have that meeting eventually, could we abstract the deliverables from the contract and so that we Yep. all of the the way that they're paid is all based on the deliverables that are outlined in the contract. So, thank you. Sure. Thank you. I'll pull down deliverables so you can see. But on what Corey said, we can get in touch, talk with council, um Helen and um council Hudson.

Good afternoon, counselors. is Dave Proek, director of IT. Um item 25, um it with the help from our friends in research, we're applying for a cyber security grant that is specifically targeted at utilities. And we uh have proposed using the $50,000 grant to supplement our current security camera system that is in place at our three reservoirs. Does it does this have a um do we have to match? Yeah. No match. No local match required.

Oh, no local match. Okay. Oh, brilliant. All righty. 26. Item 26. We're asking permission to extend our current agreement with Comm Source. So, we issued an RFP in August that would replace all of our current contracts. It's been a bit of a road to get it awarded. I would expect you to see the see the legislation for the award at your next meeting. So, in the interim, we would like to extend the not to exceed amount that we have for Commource. So, if we issued the RFP in August, we had no responses to it.

Oh, no. Exactly the opposite. We had a lot of responses and we feel very we're excited about the group we're going to award this to. It's just taken us a little while. And so you want the extension for this is just an extension of the current contract to play to pay one of the vendors that uh is on the current award. Okay. So you'll have that next round for us, right? Yes. Any more questions? This is to pay uh com source, right? Right. Yes. Okay, cool. All right. And item

item 27. Oh, we're we would like to enter a lease agreement with the owners of the state tower building, the Pioneer Companies. They have some um specialized equipment up in their building. They're what's known in the networking world is a carrier hotel. So that's where all the big pipes for the internet come in. Time Warner, Cogent, Lumen, AT&T, everybody who's in that business is there. So, we're we have some equipment in space there now. We would like to add to that and this specific equipment will support uh the expansion of Surge. So, this is the place to be if you do cool networking stuff. So, we need to lease um some space in one of their racks over there. We're asking permission to do that.

This will support our Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, good.

Okay. So, you you've given prior in prior meetings, you've given permission for surge to expand to expand the number of locations we go to, the number of people we're able to serve. You have to have a bigger and more robust network to do that. This is placing some equipment in a key IT location in the city, what's called a carrier hotel um to support that effort. There's two carrier hotels in Syracuse, State Tower Building and the Chimes building down the other end. Okay. This is going to support the expansion northeast. I made it the directions wrong, but the expansion you've already approved. So, this is already it's already in the budget. This is just giving us permission. enter an agreement uh at State tower building to rent half a rack of space there. The actual term will end up being less than five years and it'll be less than $1,000. Okay.

Okay. Thank you. All right. Council Nav.

Thank you, Madame President. I'm asking for my colleagues to support me in this resolution of Tourett awareness month which begins on May 15th through June 15th. I want to now thank Mayor Owens and the administration. Um, they're going to light up until city hall will be lit until teal in recognition. And I want us to know you to know that the city of New York earlier this month passed a resolution of Tourett awareness month with the support of New York's uh public advocate Juman Williams who was the first elected official in the state of New York to have Tourett syndrome and I believe I'm the second. So this is very personal to me and I ask for your support. Thank you.

Absolutely. You got it. All of us. Thank you. Thank you, Councelor Nav. Councelor Mo. Thank you, Madam President. I have items 29 through 31. 29. Um, I'll let you speak, Chief. Hello, I'm Mike Maza, fire chief. Uh, item 29. Uh, the fire department's accepting 12 flags from Eric Hart, who designed a city flag to fly at our fire stations. Chief, awesome.

I appreciate, you know, Eric's desire to recognize your team and the work that you do. Why don't we just buy them if they're only $260? I feel like as a entrepreneur, as a small business owner, you know, the $260 out of the fire budget, you know, I know that we give parks the budget for flags. Why don't we just buy them? I didn't have that budget in my proposal that I gave you guys. So, he he reached out and wanted to donate them, but I typically I'm not going to have the money in the budget right now at at this time going to the end of the year. I could find it and move money around, but

$200. Chief, I'm telling you, I I I am drilling down on our budget. tomorrow morning with our team to on Friday is the last day we can put requisitions in and we're making sure we get all the things we need for the calendar year. If we can do it, I will certainly try to do that instead of getting a donation. Yeah, I just I think they're 259. Maybe there maybe I'm not sure if it's a piece or for the 12 of them, but I'll figure that out. But I'd like to support I'll talk to um the budget director also owner rather than I'll talk to the budget director also. Thank you. Okay. I'm sorry. Um, item 30.

Hello, Jim Lana, deputy chief with the police department. Item 30 is our annual uh traffic safety grant that we received from the governor's traffic safety committee. It funds overtime dollars to address dangerous driving behaviors behaviors in high crash areas. And everybody that's straight grant, no matched funds, right? Correct. Okay. Have you received this grant before? Yes, for several decades. Routine grant application for us. Okay, cool. Thank you. Any other questions? No, I think you're good. Item 31.

31 uh funds our highway traffic safety program. It's a countywide program. We have a traffic safety coordinator. It's uh Lacy Leonardi. It funds her salary in addition to outreach and educational efforts aimed at traffic safety. Does that include by giveaways? Yes. How successful are we at that? This is our third year and everything we've done so far has been very well received and well attended. Any other questions? Okay, we're all set. Thank you. Excuse me. Uh counc the two letters I gave you uh for CRB old bills for investigation. Do I bring them up even though they're not on the agenda?

Yeah, you can bring them up because I'm going to throw them on the agenda so anyone so everyone can um get clarification that they're old bill. Don Don, do you want to speak on these? Good uh good afternoon everyone. Uh those were bills that were um that Freeland had an investigation they had prior to uh us starting to understand the uh system on bill paying. So they got lost in the uh the shuffle. So we're just bringing them up now so freeland can get their uh payment on there.

All right. Just to give a little background to those that don't have the letters in front of them. This is um for expenditures for year 2526 not to exceed $18,832.90. Um and they're they are within the budget limits. So correct one is um one is from um 20

24 25 and the other one is 20 2526. you see 25 26 asking for increase in a certain amount of dollars and the other uh 23 24 25 it's just asking for authorization uh to pay and they do have the money to pay it so um I just wanted to bring it up now so instead of slapping it on the waiver agenda and you guys just seeing it it be discussion you will get the letters today okay so it will be added to the agenda yeah it will get added to the agenda you guys will get a copy of those letters when I get downstairs. Thank you. Any questions? Any other questions? We're good. Thanks, Don.

Uh, do you mind if I interject one thing? Um, I was just listening to the council woman there about the street sweepers. Um, the thing is that the city needs to start to be prepared because AI is going to start replacing a lot of jobs that people are doing now. So, in the future, we need to start thinking about what we're going to do with all those excess people that are being retired by AI. So, I want to just thank you for that. You guys all have a great afternoon because I'm planning on it. And work is dignity. Work is dignity. There you go. That's right. Thank you. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Councelor Williams.

Thank you, Madam President. I've got items 32 through 35. Um item 32 is $21,000 for the Erica Canal Museum. Um every year we there are certain organizations that we put into the budget. We actually have to give them the money as well. Um and so this is just formalizing the the process of making sure that the museum gets the money that we had budgeted. Okay.

And I'll work with the chief on those flags. Thank you very much. Um item 33. Hi, good afternoon counselors. Diane Nastri uh commissioner of finance and I brought our subject matter experts uh from fiscal adviserss to help explain what we hope to do with JSCB bond refunding. So the uh JSP JSCB through the IDA currently has roughly 66.9 million outstanding debt from 2018. What's your name again? Brendan Ryan with fiscal adviserss.

Oh. Um, we're proposing or recommending that the IDA, JSCB, school district city, uh, calls these bonds and refunds with refunding bonds. Um, we would normally recommend whenever the savings potential is 2 and a half to 3%. Currently, it's at 7.4%. uh which would equal roughly uh $4.9 million in present value savings or just about $600,000 a year over the next nine years.

Would you mind walking through that again with one additional level of detail? When's the what's the final maturity? Final maturity is 9 years out in 2035. So the new refunding bonds would not extend the duration any further. Um the principal amount would not be larger than the 66.9 million currently outstanding. It could only be less dependent on the sale, the pricing. Um currently the schedule would be looking to price around May 29th with a closing of June 11th to keep it in this current fiscal year for the school district. So the savings are realized currently um with the bonds then going out to 2035.

What what's the cost associated with restructuring the product? Um all of it is built in to the bond issuance. Um I don't have the numbers for all the different uh parties involved. Um but that 7.4% 4% savings factors in all costs. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you. You know, this is just one.

Good afternoon, counselors. Matt OJ, Commissioner of Assessment. Item number 34. We are requesting a modification to the current tax RO 2627 for the property at 416 Weston and Daga Street. This is um well kind of simple a case where the the valuation and the inventory both were wrong did not make it onto the roll and we want to set that right. That's it. Thanks all. Great. Thank you. And finally 35.

Yes. Good afternoon councilors. Joe Barry, first assistant corporation council. uh council press are specialty legal printers. We use them for work in the appellet courts. And of course, when the fiscal year starts, it's hard to predict the number of cases we'll have going through the courts. So, we're requesting an additional $9,000 to finish out the fiscal year. So, has the cases risen, Joe? I'm sorry. Has the cases risen? Are they higher? Yes, the cases are in progress. You're at the mic a lot, but not of not often asking for money. I'm sorry. I said you're at the mic a lot, but not often asking for money.

Yes. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. And then item 36.

And we're doing a lot a lot of urging of the governor today on our agenda. Um but the Item 36 would be to show council support for Senate bills 8004, 8623, and 8872. Um, one of this one of these is the the legislation that we drafted our local law related to the biometric ban off of. And then the other two are related to algorithmic wage or pardon me, price setting. um you know, one would be a ban of digital shelf price labels and the other would be a ban on the ability to change that based upon who an individual's identity is and what their shopping patterns are. Um the attorney general was here two weeks ago um to to rally support around the two bills that we are not talking about here. Um, you know, we're talking about the biometric ban, but the AG was here with Syndrome A to support the two related to um the marketplace and and consumer pricing.

I'm 100%. Great. Thank you. And then we've got the the corresponding assembly bills in there as well. Great. Thank you, Madam President. Okay. Um, thank you, Councelor Jones Browser. Thank you, Madam President. I have items 37 through 39. Um, Jake will inform us where we are with 37.

Good afternoon, council. Jake Dishaw, deputy commissioner of code enforcement and zoning. Item 37 was on hold last time. Uh, we did finally hear back from the general manager of the Sentry Club regarding this encroachment for a sign. So he is agreeing um to he understands that they may have to remove it for uh both the city's project through engineering but also central's BRT. They understand that they're willing to do it. They want to install it right now for the time being at location two which was preference original preference of city engineer. Um they do understand this is on their on their dime right. Totally. Okay.

Yes. So what what's under their dime? The the replacement, right? They're replacement, which is always the case, any these these are these are revocable permissions. So if let's say this wasn't planned and something else happened and we were like, hey, we you know, you have to remove this. It's always general language for these that they're revocable permissions. Um but they totally understand that and they're willing to do it and they want to install it for now. and at the second location. Yes. The preferred location for Okay, that's correct. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. There it is.

Afternoon, counselors. Michelle Spansky, deputy commissioner of neighborhood development. Uh items uh 38 uh is a request to amend uh the ordinance recently adopted for our annual um allocations for HUD entitlement grant program, CDBG, home, and ESG. Uh so we uh received our final allocations for HUD and are just looking to amend those line items kind of commeasurately according to the adjustments that we got. I don't know if any anybody had significant time to look over it. So we'll know by Monday for sure but um looked over it and it's um you know occasionally they have to come back and they do get the money so everything's fine to me.

Right. Uh and then item uh 39 uh is a request to authorize um pool of contractors for the emergency repair program. So um I did just want to clarify we did do an RFP process uh to fully kind of reset the pool. Um as uh you all are aware, we've been bringing back kind of on a periodic basis uh contractors uh that we're looking to add into our pool of contractors for emergency repair projects. So we get got six new firms that uh submitted newly for it. Uh and then we are looking to carry over a batch that we had previously adopted and then there were two additional firms we've had to call for recent projects. So any questions?

Thank you. Thanks Michelle Council Monto.

Thank you President Baguqua. I have items 40 through 43. back quickly. Jake Deshaw, deputy commissioner of uh zoning and codes. Uh item 40 is a special use permit to approve a commercial food preparation use type business at 3001-3 30023 James Street. This is uh the Zaman coffee um business. They have a lo they don't have a storefront in the city of Syracuse. Um, this would serve as like their their bakery to uh ship to their stores. So, they have one out in Cicero at Sweetheart Corners and I believe they're either open or opening in township. Um, so not open to the public to walk in. It's just to make their their goods to send to their stores and that I think they're going to do some employee training. But this would be to the left of the ice cream shop,

kind of the middle two tenants. We're going to combine two of them, two of the center uh tenant spaces in that. So, left of Fifi's ice cream if you're facing it. Um to the lawyer in between the lawyer and Fifi's. Okay. Um that's all. Any questions on that one? I may I make a comment. Uh Jake, I did speak with Mr. Nice this morning about the proposal on Wall Street and uh that's fine. I Yeah, he'll be on um next Monday night's planning commission agenda, so we'll be back before you. Okay. I may not be able to make it, but I I do support it. Very good. Just for the record.

Got it. Okay. Good on that one.

Yeah. Uh 41 is a special use permit to uh approve and sort of reestablish uh a a corner store, but it's now known as a neighborhood market uh business use type in the zoning code at 901-917 South Gett Street. Um no one spoke in favor opposition, but what I will say is they went through Syracuse Police Department SEPTA evaluation, crime prevention through environmental design. Uh they had a number of recommendations. the the business owner is agreeing to all of those. Their hours are somewhat limited. They're not open past 10 p.m. Uh no uh alcohol, no tobacco, and they want to be more of like a deli and have food and stuff.

So, across from Delaware? Yes. In in where that Cedra market was before, is that the exact space they're going into? Yes, it is. What about the rest of the building? Is it it's a that there's another tenant space to the south um that is vacant and then there are I believe there's four apartments upstairs that are occupied uh that we've gone through it. It has a currently has a valid certificate of compliance. Um they would have to do a number of things for the store like uh trash dumpster screening in the back and um some other stuff but it meets the criteria for the special use permit. So, being that you said they're going to be more like a deli,

what's the um what I mean I know there is parking, but how cuz there's gated. So, how are people um they're supposed to come from if you're facing it from Gettys from around the back on the right side? Okay. Um the left side is fenced off completely going down Delaware. Um no tobacco, no alcohol.

Correct. And that's that's they've admitted to that like they've come to the table like we're not going to be that type of business. It's right in the zoning resolution. So we won't they won't even qualify to get a tobacco license. But we'll do all these inspections. They'll still require certificate of use as well. Um I believe we have a number of ways to kind of hold them accountable if there's issues. It looked like from the image the parking was gated on Delaware. um trying to get in. Yeah, I think the entry points on south of the building. There's no gate, easy access. If you go east of the building, there is a gated fence there.

Um you mean not along Delaware, there's a separate gate. Correct. Okay. Yeah. It it feels like I'm not sure if if the environmental design component recommended a single point or multiple points, but I feel like from a traffic perspective having multiple points, but I will defer to I feel like it would be harder to to get out onto Gettis versus Delaware. But is there I don't know this. I don't even know if there's a drop curb there. No, it looks like there's a there is. Yeah. Okay. An entry. But anyway, councelor Moore, that's your district. Do you have questions?

Yeah, I mean, my only concern would be the traffic on Geta Street if people stop in front of the store. That would be my big concern. But people are walking. Well, there there will be a lot of people that walk from the neighborhoods, but kind of in a food desert. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I don't I don't really have any strong objections. My worry is just if people start parking on Getta Street cuz it's in a school zone spaces out front at at that location, they make their own spaces.

All right. Um item 42 is a zone change for uh property at 539 Calvin Street. Um it's this is we had a resubdivision with the land bank and it created a split zone parcel. So, the best way to explain is is uh it used to have like a shared drive or not a shared driveway, a driveway access off of Hope and that part of Hope um with the resubdivision. It's going to create a split zone parcel. So, as I've done a number of times before, uh this body, we we're just asking to reszone it so we don't have the split zone parcel.

Questions? All right. Thanks, Jake. 43.

Good afternoon, councilors. Michael Layman, deputy commissioner of assessment. Uh, the department is requesting authorization to enter into a purchase and sale agreement for the city-owned property at 1939 East Fat Street with Parkside Commons. The property has been appraised uh agreed upon value went through the property disposition review committee and we are looking to sell it to Parkside Commons for its appraised value plus the cost of the appraisal. Is it the vacant lot at the northwest corner like the West Morland?

No, this is um between West Morland and what was just Burnbound Funeral Home. Uh it's if you look at a map it's pretty much a vertical line from uh Jennese down to FET. It's um small parcel there in what had been Ives, which is a paper street abandoned in the late 70s. What's the size of this lot? Uh I don't have that with me, but it's the it's attached to the letter.

It's that tiny strip. It's that strip between the funeral home and uh Yeah, it's an old paper roll, right? Is that what it is? Yeah, it's just that strip. Yes. Okay, gotcha. I understand. Any other questions on that one? units. That's how my understanding. Yes.

And they also do section 8 and subsidized housing. Uh I don't want to comment on that without all the information. Commissioner Collins can answer those questions. Thank you. Hi. Uh Commissioner Michael Collins, Neighborhood Business Development. The project is entirely projectbased vouchers. So in other words, every single unit has essentially a section 8 voucher attached to it. Um, madam president, Michael, thanks.

Just wanted to let the council know and and councelor Moore in particular, um, item 29, which is the donation of the first light flags, I did hear from the chief and he spoke with the budget director. um we will find funds to purchase those flags and so um again you know to to Eric Hart we are appreciative for the offer um but that item will be withdrawn.

Thank you. Um before we close, I would like to um make comment about the incident that happened this weekend. Um to let the police officers know they are in our thoughts and prayers as they heal um from their wounds at this incident. And um just to applaud the professionalism and the patience that was shown that day um and also getting the um perpetrator out of the home safely and into custody without any injury. So just wanted to let them know that we're all thinking of them. Thank you. Thank you. There we are. All right. So, at this point, we are going to adjourn. Motion to adjurnn. Second. All right.