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For these statements, I do not have anything written. But I will be posting the videos of them in their respective places.
ON RESOLUTION 2009-141 on Local Law Chapter 87, Article II, Section 87-6.1(F) of the Administrative Code of the City of Schenectady defining the composition and appointment of the Board of Residency.

Public Hearing on Schenectady\’s Residency Law

A LOCAL LAW amending Chapter 192, Section 192-25 to prohibit the importation and dumping of solid waste from outside the City and adopting a rebuttable presumption that the owner of property adjoining public property is responsible for the placement, dumping or migration of
solid waste, garbage, refuse and other waste materials on the adjoining public property.
INTRODUCED ONLY with A RESOULUTION calling for a public hearing on Proposed Amendments to Chapter 192, Section 192-25 of the City Code of the City of Schenectady.

 Priviledge of the Floor Agenda Items

And this is for the privilege of the floor, any city business.

Priviledge of the floor

Privilege of the floor – Any city business – September 14, 2009

I am happy to hear that our Mayor is still looking into consolidating or dissolving our police department. I’m pleased that a study is being done. I hadn’t heard about it for quite a while and that’s another reason why I’m back. Because I think the Mayor should be supported with this effort. Thank you Mayor. Please continue looking seriously into these options.

The town of Clifton Park uses the State Police and the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Department. I would suggest that perhaps you all get together with our so-called state representatives Hugh Farley, George Amedore and Jim Tedisco while we’ve still got him, to write up legislation that  would dissolve this police department, utilize our sheriff’s department and bring in State Police for further coverage.

And I remember that Chief Chaires had said that we’d have to pay more for the troopers or just as much. Well I don’t believe it, but that could be part of the study. Chief Chaires also believes that a cops volunteer time should also be paid by the taxpayers. What can I say. And I would be leery of consolidation with the Rotterdam police. There’s a few too many family ties there.

And speaking of family ties, last year the PBA President earned over one hundred thousand dollars and worked not quite two weeks. I would like to know how many days he has worked for the city so far this year. We’ve had seven holidays so I would venture a guess that its been seven days. I would foil that information but I’m still waiting for the foil requests I’ve made regarding this year’s board of assessment review members and the assessor.

And I would like to address the Attorney General’s report and the State Police involvement in politics. Everyone knows that our own police department is involved in politics and I cite the Conservative Party in Schenectady. Mayor Stratton refused their endorsement for just that reason a couple years ago. And the commissioner has been here more than two years now, double dipping, and has accomplished nothing outside of putting out a few small fires. His role is political. And this department is burning down around him and us with yet another cop indicted to add to the rest of the ones we’re paying to stay home.

I don’t believe this happens everywhere so why is it happening in Schenectady? You need to get our state representatives together to solve these problems. If you can’t they will never get better as they’ve only been getting worse over the past two decades that I know of. Please support the Mayor fully in this effort.

And I would like to say that I think its shallow and disgusting that each of you who earn fourteen thousand ninety three dollars a year for doing what it is you do, cannot give our school crossing guards a break. I think its especially disgusting because they are treated very poorly by this city and I guess I don’t understand why they aren’t school employees or union protected. We sure do pay enough in city, county and school taxes to protect everyone else including all of you. In any case, their value to the city is actually greater than yours because they directly protect the children and they have to deal with each year’s newly minted pre-gang members. So they should be treated with respect and with care. Not the
way I saw it a week ago.

Pat Zollinger

Privilege of the floor, agenda items – September 14, 2009

I am taking this opportunity because of item number one, to express a few concerns I have regarding this council’s knowledge and experience with General Code publishers and the City Codes. That’s one of the reasons why I’ve come back to these meetings.

As you know I attended the last committees meeting prior to your executive session midstream. But I did manage to DVR the meeting and when I watched it yesterday I was surprised that Mr. Van Norden printed out the city codes and charter. How many dead trees did that take? With todays technology there isn’t a need for that, it was a waste of paper, ink and time.

Any person can purchase the city codes from General Code Publishers. I do and I’ve renewed my subscription to them every year for the past six years. Initially it cost something like a hundred fifty dollars, and now its about eighty dollars every year to get the updated codes twice a year.

And I printed the latest version out if PDF format. Its a file with a size of six megabytes. Too big to fit on a diskette but I could put more than a hundred copies on a CD. So I brought this CD for Mrs. Blanchard and on it is a single copy of the current city codes in PDF format. There’s no copyright issue with this, its a printout in electronic format.

And I use a free PDF printer driver to create the pdf file. Its called PrimoPDF and it works just like if you were to send the printout to a printer, which Mr. Van Norden obviously did to get that obscene stack of paper. This pdf document is text searchable and individual pages can be printed. It’s different than scanning in the hardcopy document which may leave you with a picture format.

As a taxpayer and citizen, I should be the last person telling you the council about the city codes. When you are elected and prior to taking your positions, you should automatically receive a copy of the city’s version from the city. I could even give you a CD copy of my CD and that’s because you work for me, the taxpayer. If you want I’ll burn each of you a copy. This is the charter you’ve sworn to uphold. It really worries me that some of you don’t know what they are.

And if I may add one more thing about the Board of Residency Review member appointments being of the major and minor parties. I heard the suggestion that it simply be three council members. There is no reason to change the wording because even though we are under one party rule, what that means is that the one party is both the major and the minor party.

The important thing is that the Board of Residency meets and I don’t believe it has met for years now. That’s the waiver issue and the fact that the mayor appoints people to positions who do not live in the city. They should move to the city and this council should be more concerned with other major sections of the city codes. Not just what Mr. Van Norden feeds to you.

Pat Zollinger

This is a new beginning blog post. The old blog was corrupted and I believe by a self-styled so-called computer expert who also happens to be a member of the RPD. Go figure. This clown made a posting on my board, then asked me through private messaging to respond by email.

Well, silly me, I forgot that full headers would give the originating IP address of the computer connected so I did, instead of responding by private messaging. Well this clown must have emailed my ISP because the very next time I tried logging on, I got a window screen notice saying that a computer connected to this IP address was harassing other users.

Well I caught on real fast.

Not long after that my original blog was blasted. I couldn’t figure that out for the life of me. Maybe a bug in the earler versions of Wordpress. But I will keep it updated now. And I will not let any of those intimidators intimidate me. No siree.

So the next post, which will be above this one, is what I am telling the city council tonight. 

It feels good to be back.