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Votes at a glance: committee passes real-estate sales, community garden license, climate and infrastructure items

January 14, 2025 | Rochester City, Monroe County, New York


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Votes at a glance: committee passes real-estate sales, community garden license, climate and infrastructure items
Multiple introductory items were considered and approved by the committees during the meeting. The following is a summary of formal actions recorded in the transcript; where the transcript did not include roll-call tallies, items passed by voice vote.

- Introductory 1 — Authorize sale of real estate (three parcels including properties on Raeburn Avenue, Seneca Parkway and New York Street). Committee discussion included neighborhood engagement for the Seneca Parkway parcel and assurances that the buyer intends to rehabilitate and use the Seneca Parkway property as a single-family home. Outcome: introductory passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 2 — Authorize shared services and grant agreement and amend 2024–25 budget for Rochester Housing Stability Fund Corporation (see separate article). Outcome: introductory passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 3 — License agreement for a community garden (South Wedge Planning Committee). Outcome: introductory passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 4 — Held in committee for additional information; staff will provide impact examples and customer details in writing. Outcome: held in committee.

- Introductory 5 — Grant agreement to fund climate action plan strategies, amended in committee to change the contracting entity; funding includes $125,000 to subsidize incremental costs of heat-pump retrofits and related electrification work for existing home-rehab projects. Staff estimated funding would fully electrify roughly 10–15 homes using the allocation. Outcome: amended motion and passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 6 — Grant agreements for NYSERDA Clean Energy Communities program. Outcome: passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 7 — Appropriation and professional services for North Clinton app. milling and resurfacing project. Outcome: passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 8 — Bond ordinance authorizing issuance of bonds to finance City Hall stairway, areaway and street replacement and repair projects (amount listed in transmittal: approximately $101,887,000). Outcome: passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 9 — Bond ordinance to finance City Hall sidewalk replacement project (amount listed in transmittal). Outcome: passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 10 — Authorizing grants related to City Hall stairway and sidewalk projects. Outcome: passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 11 — Agreement and budget amendment to accept a $40,000 award from the New York State Council on the Arts. Outcome: passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 12 — Grant agreement to support crisis intervention services (peer navigation, mobile unit supplies and vehicle replacement). Staff said an RFP for peer navigator services was posted and proposals are due March 7; council will see the agreement in May. Outcome: passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 13 — Agreements for the Bureau of Justice Assistance Fiscal Year 2024 Justice Assistance Grant program (allocation includes supports for intervention units and peer work). Outcome: passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 14 — Agreement for database and case-management services for Rochester Animal Services (staff said this is an existing system that had not previously been routed through council). Outcome: passes (voice vote).

- Introductory 15 — Appropriation to support senior support services, including $75,000 for senior center programming (Sibley Square Project, World Café, Lily Café at Maplewood) and $5,000 for a digital-access GrandPad pilot; funding drawn from council priorities / prior budget intent items. Council requested a written accounting of remaining council-priorities funds. Outcome: passes (voice vote).

Several motions were moved and seconded and carried by voice vote; when council members requested additional detail staff agreed to provide written follow-ups on funding sources, procurement justifications or project maps where noted.

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