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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting February 4th, 2026

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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting February 4th, 2026

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15:53
And I also just took, um, at a couple— just a couple locations, um, of pictures of what I was trying to explain. Uh, they're not the best pictures, but, um, I've talked to each one of you guys, or for the most part, and I believe all of you have the same issues in your district. I know last time when we brought this up they started talking about like tractor-trailer cabs and all that, and which, which would be a nuisance to if somebody was there next door to them. But I wasn't, um, that's not what I was talking about. That's not where my complaints have been. My complaints have been mostly, you can see by the pictures, where you have people operating businesses out of their house, where they have multiple trailers, multiple you know, pay loaders, plows. The one place in North Utica, they actually were next to the woods, and nobody really knows who owned the property. They took it upon themselves to cut trees down and move all the property and move the vehicles over there. And I've had multiple complaints. I talked to Marcus. When codes would go there, they would come back and tell me— Marcus would come back and tell me that there's really nothing that they can do about it. I know like last year on Lorraine Ave, we had a guy bought a bus and it sat there for, I'm pretty sure it's gone now, sat there for almost a year while he was remodeling it. Just stuff like that. I know I talked to you, Joe, you have the same issue. Talked to Bob, you had the issue. So it's just something, and we're not here, Marcus will speak of it too, we're not really here to go— for these codes guys to go out and look for all problems. It's more or less the people that are nuisance when there's a problem, they have something to help us out with. So that's what I'm trying to do. So, Marques, you want to talk on it?
Unidentified speaker 36:45
And a lot of our, properties. I mean, we could talk about them now. We talked about Genesee Towers and staff meeting for like 45 minutes upstairs. Um, a lot of these properties, man, that are these huge buildings, um, we could think, think about something like Jack was talking about, something what happens when the elevator doesn't work, or how can we tweak those laws. But a lot of those properties, we're really good with the staff. We know the staff there, they work there. The problems they're having are from corporate. You know, the boiler broke. You have a maintenance person in there. If they can't fix the boiler, you know, in an apartment like that, it could be $150,000 problem. They got to get $150,000 from Ohio and nobody can get in touch with them.
37:50
You found— I found an LLC that went to another LLC that went to another LLC that ended up being like from Michigan. And it's like, like, how is it even humanly possible that somebody's able to get that many LLCs under different names? And fortunately there's a registry that you can look it up, but it's not easy to find out who they were. That's why I said I mean, I remember when we were talking, and maybe not specifically with you, but maybe going to the water board, like somebody's got to pay the water, the water authority.