John can you hear me all right good John one more thing excellent we're good good evening and welcome to the ordinance committee meeting today is Tuesday February 11
2025 um we'll ask for the roll call please celor Selena Reyes presentor Gregor Del Rosario presid Felina Santiago
absent for now chairman um president pursuant to the chapter 20 the acts of 2022 this meeting of the ordinance committee is being conducted both in person and via remote participation a reminder that people or persons who would like to listen to view this meeting while in
progress May either attend in person at the location that I just listed above or use any of the following access locations including the Facebook Lauren city council page and the face on the YouTube laurren city council page I would I I will ask you all to please rise for the Pledge of
Allegiance IED Al to the flag United States of America and the rep it stands godible andice Council I expect that there to be a light agenda this evening uh we do have one of our colleagues here and as
is our custom in this committee uh we we we like to provide difference and courtesies to those we serve with um and councelor Luzon from District B is present this evening and uh she has several items that she would like to get
an update on so I'll ask Council Lan to please approach the podium give us the numbers um we'll do our best to try to if we have some information we'll share that um if not uh we will follow up with some sort of communication to the proper individuals Council L on welcome thank
you thank you uh cular La plan uh Wendy Lon City celor for district Peak 11 alvan Street and I'm here just to uh get an outdate for a few items and one of them is aive and Dead uh situation that's why I came I came um to speak to
the committee so it's it's 160 Garden Street I was requested uh the item is 494 d24 is a No Parking sign requested by
um the resident is this uh is a cple uh olderly couple and uh the husband is in bed he's been in bed uh with many uh uh Health difficulties and the ambulance is not able to get to the house uh as you
understand parking is an issue in the city uh but it for this family this is that uh uh a a really um difficult situation life and death situation the way that I I we should
call it so if we can get an update uh on that item again is 494 d24 if there's no objection um we'll take that as a document right now 49424 see that there's no objection for taking this out of order this evening uh
I'm just pulling up uh 49 in our document book just bear with me as I try to pull it up it's under the September 17th 2024 series of
meetings 494 you said 494 correct 494 that's 24 then it's not September 17 I'm sorry it's October 1st series of meetings council is in our package just to refresh everybody this is
um we have what we have in our packet is the letter from the requester's wife and the placard of the individual for the handicap
parking we have um 494 we have what I would do on this one we have a couple of things um we can certainly take a motion we don't need a police report we don't have a police report on this the police said they weren't going to be here
tonight because of other things so we didn't expect them to be here this evening so what we can do is two things one is we can go ahead and make a motion that we send a documentation to the police department asking them to provide for us an update on this item that's
what we can do as a as a as a committee and then I would also ask any one of us me any counselor that's here or on to actually contact Sergeant pan Takis and the police department directly I had a an email conversation with them today
where I said if counselors have a priority they are going to contact him directly so if you have a priority that you want to see something expedited I've informed him that that will be happening so I would encourage you to do that so two things so with that I'm going to look for a motion that
we um look for a motion that we send this to the police department for an update on this item is there a motion so Move Motion made is there a second seconding second to by councelor Reyes um on all things we're going to need a roll call vote because councelor
Reyes is with us any discussion see no discussion clerk please call the roll yes Selena Rees yes and chairman Mark always called even the person who's not here today so go with that
Santiago not ABS yep yes motion motion what else Council um and this is in regards to the the parking ordinance actually submitted by by our colleague uh councelor reers is
at uh 4 38-24 in my understanding that that there's all the items on hold get there a confusion between um this ordinance and something else so I'm asking the committee to uh take a look at the item
uh 4 38-24 but also um to make sure that this process is moved more quickly because it's been on hold for months I guess the department that I went to is they don't understand that this is a new
ordinance uh and our constituents are waiting for response understood and and there is there no objection to take 438 out of order is there any objection seeing no objection we're going to move on on this item then councelor Reyes if
you can hear me this is one of your uh highlight this is a one of the child care ones and I know at the last meeting the police department said to us that they had a whole list of ones they were going to go through right and I don't know if there's any been any other followup is there any more information that you can share with the committee
tonight counc Vice chair I don't have any information on any kind of data because uh he mentioned when he noted we already had ordinance he uh moving forward this item okay
thank you that advice chair so to recap this came all of these came up during our last ordinance committee meeting okay and then the police department says they understand that there needs to be that and that's the next thing they're going to be working on so they made assurances to us that they're going to start working on on these um one child
care parking requests so that's one of them thank you U cons plan um and committee members thank you and the last item that I have is 533 -24 is 73 are youing that matter again uh yeah we'll
just we'll just table that matter I'm looking for a motion to retable that document 430 motion to table 43824 of May is our second seconded by Council Vice chair Reyes disc no discussion please call the RO for
document 438 43824 councelor Gregory Del Rosario yes councelor Selena Rees she said yes coun fidelina SEL is noted absent yes and and um councelor Lan
that's another one I would encourage you to contact the police department just to make sure it's on there just just for the record coun plan everything's on the record by the way we send well thank you you're wel thank you for the reminder we send uh emails uh our office uh um Thea
from our office has been selling emails uh but it looks like something is on hold maybe because we have a new officer on board um but I guess they needed an explanation and thank you for the outdate on the last meeting but we not
getting any um not an outdate we're not getting an outdate but hopefully with this they will be uh they will give us an outdate but I will definitely send an email again okay and and I will call a call
back might be more effective but sure uh and I'm here because of my constituents they they send a few emails Teresa has been very helpful uh but um they wanted me to make it uh more
for uh and so the last item that I have is 533 d24 is 73 Irving Street is a resident parking this family has been waiting for months and due to the situation that they're
facing in that area with a new construction parking has becoming a difficult task for residents I'm just looking it up right now coun worries I'm just just seeing what background we have on it
so I have your counselor I have your memo in our book on that with several others um 533 this was sent to as you can tell 533 was sent to the police department and to
the DPW city engineer so um it's uh we can certainly make a like like the first one we can certainly make a motion that we ask him to to for both to take a look at and then of course a followup from you would be incredibly powerful oh yes uh thank you for the
suggestion but we also need a time frame like the turnaround time frame because this is is taking long than I expected as a counselor no I understand and that's why that's why I think it's powerful we will certainly do it there's everybody has an
item on here and to be honest with you you're doing your job and you're advocating for the people you represent and I respect I think we all respect that um but every one of these people that are on this list also want to have it done as well but a phone call from you is
powerful so but we will certainly if I'm looking for a motion to send this up to the police department and the city engineer for an update and to express um the counselor's urgency on this as well my constituent say her urgency and again to people she represents thank you um is
there a motion for that motion made by Council Del Rosario is there a second second by Vice chair Reyes discussion see thenone I'll call I'll ask the clerk to please call the role councelor Gregory Del Rosario yes
councelor Selena Reyes yes councelor fedelina Santiago not abson yes is that it thank you thank you for the opportunity you're welcome uh we have with us this evening
as well um let me see if I can find it I can uh document 53824 if there's no objection I like to take that one up that's the Earth Day cleanup on April 19th 2025 Miss grion welcome please come
before us and the last time we talked there was a there was a bit of a change of things so yes yes good evening give us the whole story again because sure well um so originally it was going to be on April 19th 2025 however because um
Easter falls on that same weekend we decided be best to move it to April 26th um the date has been confirmed with the recreation department we're good to go um you anything I think that was like the biggest okay yeah do you have anything written with that do you have
anything that has I have an email you have an email I have an email do you have I can forward it yeah if you would like sure uh forwarding so finish your presentation because that's the most important thing yes so 538 so the new date is what it's April
26th 2025 okay so you're just going all over the place right it's not like in one location right yeah we typically will meet in a central location um usually the common Park and then we will disperse from
there um Camp be know in common yes okay oh yes sorry yes Captain common there there's we have two Commons in we do have two Commons you are correct uh I just want to make sure I I'm not seeing Campo on here I'm looking
I think we used um the City Hall address because there's not a specific address for campon it's 200 common I'm looking does the email reference camping un common in the email I believe so I'll
need to double check but I believe so yeah this is not at all controversial at all mean this is this is not going to be a problem um but we just want to treat everybody fairly so and we're going to treat you like we like like everybody's treating the same way of course so um what I would do is this I I would look for a motion I would I we
need to get a copy of that for my colleagues um Miss howerin what's the best way to make sure this is going to be in the packet if she sends that to Teresa sends that to you who who should be sent to Teresa would you so you you know Teresa is if you wouldn't mind
sending that to her there's four of us on the committee all of us want to know what's going on so copy us so councilor santiag counselor Del Rosario and vice chair Reyes and myself um that would be good and extra points if you get the clerk
into to that way you've got everything covered so she needs to put it in the packet I'm going to recommend to my colleagues that we send up to the full council with a fable recommendation pending that which I'm sure you have it and we'll have it in our packets and we should be good to go at the full Council
okay yeah that sounds great all right so I'm looking for that motion to send this up to the full council with favorable recommendation pending the document ation from the recreation department motion to sener full Council refer recommendation pending Recreation Department information motion made is z second second second Vice chair Reyes
any discussion discussion councelor Del Rosario thank you to you chair what is the dynamic this year last year some of my colleagues here sitting they were complaining because you guys picked some parks and some of the parks you didn't pick while you cleaning this part and
not this area uh it changed last year from from prior year at the Earth Day um what is the dynamic this year what are you guys using the big parks and if you have in mind which parks are you already
cleaning sure um so typically we will do the common we will do Manchester Street Park we will do Nina Scaro we will do immigrant Park um trying to think what else probably do cron no we won't do Cronin I'm sorry cronin's a different
project well Connell oconnell yes we'll do oconnell um and typically we stay along the spigot River space um we are I'm might be getting ahead of myself but we are in the works of focusing on other Parks also throughout the season um but
Earth Day will remain as it's been um it's it's our tradition at this point um personally I'm not in a place to change anything right now um but I understand that other Parks do need some attention as well um in the same way that the
usual Parks get attention from ground workor okay thankk you I mean I brought it up I mean I didn't complain but I heard some of my colleagues asking why this park and not the other one yeah um but at the end of the day you guys are with the motion be amended I should
have done this in the earlier motion uh to reflect April 26 which is a date change would that be yeah amend amended to be April 21st April 26th right yeah so the the motion that's already been made and uh properly seconded will
include the date of April 26th um that's the request any other comments questions on this than you I'll ask Miss howerin to please call the role on a motion to uh to approve
pending the pending the um documentation yep celor Gregor Del Rosario yes celor Selena Rees yes celor Felina Santiago not abison and chairman Mark lean yes motion
carries send up so our next meeting is next Tuesday what's today that the 18th what's today the 11th so week from today week from today yeah so today's the 11th and next week's the 18th M yep to the 18th so since full Council pable recommendation so there you go thank you
so much have a evening we'll see you next week see you next week I gota love it uh favor recommendation pending pending a document all right we're going to go to the top of the there was nobody here else in the audience with anything to
bring before us so we'll just go to the top I am I hear that you every meeting well I would hate to be yes I'm I'm trying to be I'm trying to be consistent uh don't get me in trouble counselor I
know uh okay the first item is 3225 handicap parking 33 brewce street I'm looking for a motion to send this to the police department for the recommendation motion to send to the police department item 3225 for the recommendation sir second seconded by
councelor discussion see none clerk please call the role is yes yes I heard you I'm just checking one more thing yes one more thing yes motion
carries the next item is document 3325 handicap parking 19 Exchange Street Council what's the motion motion to send the police uh to the police department for the review there a second and seconded by Vice chair Ray's
discussion seean I'll call the question I'll ask the clerk to please call the role Rees yes yes yes I got a question is this it's um this is
English and that's the Spanish English one seems a lot shorter than the Spanish one was this English thing a SE a summary of the of the Spanish language request I I just see your name on there which is why I'm looking in your direction my name I see it on the bottom
right here yeah it is oh I see your name bottom of her letter it may have been put in by a clerk it's a second you want this here the struggle is real
okay I'm just presuming that that was the uh summary of a letter okay all right we're good uh the next item is document 3425 this is remove handicap parking at 57 Bigalow street is there a
motion motion on the police department are you sure on this one motion has been made in second discussion I'll I'll I'll bring it up okay so this is they're looking to remove it um well we can it it's it's pardon
me I can't hear you the definitely has to have a public hearing that's for starters there's no doubt about that the question is do we sometimes we look at the the letter that we get and and we make you know we can make a a recommendation based on the letter right
um I've always been a little for me it's been always like okay it's so this is an individual requesting that the handicap Park andon be removed as soon as possible due to the fact that the owner of of the 45 Bigalow street that had made the original request has passed and the home was sold in 2021
this has been a hardship in our committee due to the serious parking issues in our city is this good enough testimony for us to sign up to the full Council or do we want to double check that have the police show up that's that's ultimately the question it's not my district but I'm sensitive to other people so
there's already a motion on the floor so you it's your but not to be discouraged or or not saying that these people are talking the truth but we need to double check I mean it's it's that's why we send the police
over and they come back with the recommendation that yeah this person already passed I don't know how they're going to find out but or there's no need for that they can go and ask I don't know but that the question for them okay so the motion the floor still stands a motion to sent to
the police department for their review has been made and properly seconded is there any further discussion see none I'll call the I'll ask the clerk to read read the V call councelor Selena Reyes yes councelor Gregory Rosario yes
coun sag Is Not absent yes excuse me thank you uh document 3525 this is another handicap removal motion to send the police station for the police department motion
been made to send the police department by Council Del Rosario second Vice chair Reyes discussion see no discussion please call the rule celor Selena Reyes yes councelor Gregory Del Rosario
yes coun Felina Santiago ABS Mar plan yes motion carries all right this next one's in my district so let me take a look at this one more time um this is document 3625 remove handicap parking at 67 Farm stre give me one second to read
this interesting so uh I'll read the letter it's it's one of the things that we see um the individual purchased the property in November of 2024 this is on 67 Forum Street the previous owner I'm reading the email the previous owner owner
informed me that the former tenant in the front who originally requested a sign has unfortunately passed away as a result the previous owner decided to remove the sign and move it to the front of the house since the sign is no longer needed
I am requesting its official removal um so the first problem is you just can't be moving signs or if you want to move sign that's that's the first thing that's not right uh once they once it's put in it needs to stay
there um all right well I guess they're going to be doing it so I'm looking for a motion to please Mo to send the police department for their review is there a second second seconded by Vice chair Reyes discussion seeing none clerk
please call the role ccor oh ttim are you yes councelor Gregory Del Rosario yes coun Felina Santiago yes motion all right the next one is document 3725 proposed an
ordinance 2.5 6.16 a clinician um this was put on the city council agenda by uh attorney Tim hooton I'll read it's it's essentially
it's a um it's creating an ordinance I don't know the background of this I'll read for all of us what the job summary is the Lawrence Police Department is
Seeking a clinician for their CIT mobile Outreach team this clinician will serve as the primary clinical leader on an interdisiplinary team focused on providing evidence-based practices on a community outreach team the clinician will be a full-time employee of the grants contracted Community partner and
will report directly to the project manager an organizational supervisory Provisions the Lawrence Police clinician will be expected to respond in real time to provide an assessment and implementation at intervention in addition the person in this role would also be expected to carry small case
load and facilitate groups the clinician will prepare develop and Implement assessments and ensure record keeping and documentation is in accordance with the internal and external requirements um councilor I my recommendation on this
is that on something like this the good news is that it already has the city attorney's draft language that's good news what I think is important for any of these ordinances is to have either someone from the police department who is looking at this ordinance in under
their jurisdiction or the Personnel director speak on it to answer questions and neither one of them are here and I don't know if and it's not so much the City attorney it's not his he just happens to be the vehicle it's really police or Personnel so what we can do through you
uh CH has send motion to send to the police department for them to be here on on ordinance and also the Personnel uh director or whoever is in charge of personnel and have them come back so that will be my motion so there's a a a
motion to send this to the police department and to the Personnel Personnel director to attend our next meeting to provide background on this item uh is there a second to that motion second second of my vice chair
Reyes so I think that what we just need to do is is just make sure that the police department who shows up here that day is able to speak on it pangi Takis and McCarthy if they're here they can speak on it and then just making asking our Personnel director to to attend I
don't know do you really care if you just want one person whoever they figure it whoever can answer the questions right whoever shows up they have information they can provide to us so I think your motion would be either one of those two parties to answer questions in support of this item that's all that's
correct motion is there any further discussion on this seea when finished writing you know clerk please call the role Selena Rees celor Selena
Rees yes celor Gregory Del Rosario yes coun fidelina Santiago nor ABS Mar yes motion carries I'm just checking
yes the next document uh is docum 4625 [Music] the in Jordan Street from General industrial I2 to open um open space Recreation motion the table item
4625 than Selena Rees yes councelor Gregory De Rosario yes coun fidelina Santiago not abson and I cannot hear anything uh C R's uh CH plan is looking
for anybody that's want to take any item off the table uh no so so motion to adjourn motion to adjourn counil Vice chair Rees uh
discussion see no discussion please call the coun Selena Reyes yes yes councelor Gregor De Rosario yes councelor fidelina Santiago nor abson and chairman Mark yes thank you have a good
night for