3:27 The Plattsburgh Common Council held its first meeting of the year Thursday. Following the organizational meeting the new mayor and council held their first formal session. Due to COVID-19 precautions half of the councilors were at City Hall. The other half joined virtually. It was the first meeting for newly sworn in Democratic Plattsburgh Mayor Chris Rosenquest and two new councilors: Ward 4 Democrat Jennifer Tallon, who was elected in November, and independent Jaime Canales, who was appointed by former Mayor Colin Read to fill the term of former councilor Ira Barbell. During the organization portion of the meeting councilors decided to change their meeting schedule from weekly to twice a month, on the first and third Thursday. Ward 2 Democrat Mike Kelly was apprehensive about the reduced frequency. “Mayor Kasprzak who I served under had weekly meetings. And Mayor Calnon who I served under next had bi-weekly meetings. Mayor Read changed it back to weekly meetings and you’re changing it back to a bi-weekly meeting. Just a little history for you there. I hope that you will consider this as an experiment and if it does not work out to the advantage of the city that you’d consider going back to that perhaps next year.”