Council agenda released

Council agenda out

The agenda for next Wednesday’s Niagara Falls City Council meeting was sent out at 12:30 a.m. by Acting Corporation Counsel Thomas DeBoy. It is attached below but items include:

Approving the purchase of traffic paint from Sherwin Williams.

Approving funding of July 4 fireworks.

Using Empire Dismantlement to abate asbestos and demolish the Jayne Park comfort station.

Approve Homestead and Nonhomestead tax rates. (Editor’s note: No action has been taken in the last two years to bring equity to the tax rolls. Homeowners in the nice areas of the city benefit by being underassessed. Homeowners in the rundown areas of the city pay more than their fair share)

Approve a STRIVE grant from New York State, funding for training and tech to help with an anti-domestic violence program.

Approve Rainbow Air’s proposed flightpath.

Approve the city to act as lead agency for the State Environmental Quality Review act report on Niagara Falls Redevelopment’s Urbacon Planned Unit Development. This is the next step in the proposed massive development on the same site as the Restaino administration’s Centennial Park multi-use arena. (Editor's note: NFR has done a lot of nothing in the last 30 years and is regularly criticized by the Mayor, his supporters and detractors but moving forward with these plans makes the project look more and more legit no matter what the mayor says about never was and never will be.)