e e good evening everybody and welcome to the regular meeting for the L city council today is Tuesday March 4th 2025 pursuing to chapter 20 of the act of 2022 this meeting will be hybrid allowing participation uh allowing
participation both in person at this city council chambers andry mle the zoom link for this meeting uh was provided to anybody that requested through the through the laen city council city clerk um and uh this meeting has been
it's also been U transmitted live through that uh YouTube page as well as uh sharing it at the Facebook page Madame clerk please Roo councelor Levy pres councelor Le
yeah Council Lon noted as absent Council Del Rosario present Council Santiago present Council marmal Council Rees Council vice president infon pres council president
Rodriguez uh present please now join me for a moment of silence now join me for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of United States of America and the stand one nation
under God indivisible with the liy and justice for all councelors can I get up a motion for minutes that are on our desk this is for uh motion for February
4th 2025 and uh January 21st uh 2025 there is a motion on the table properly second uh discussion on the minutes I he n all please say have it
uh we're going to go with public participation and the public participation rules are as follows uh everybody that put their name down they're going to have two and a half minutes to speak at the thought it uh that uh two minute Mark they're going
to hear a beep or or a sign indicating that you still have 30 second to speak um please refer to this Council as a whole not to any individual counselors the first person that we have is H Mali
name address for the record please Mal 53 Chester Street good evening honorable members we the citizen are united in support of Lawrence Police Union lawence police with the impactable leadership by honorable Chief Bonia
doing excellent job to protect our citizen we are united to support of Lawrence Police Lawrence Police thank you you for keeping Lawrence as a safe City million thanks to our DPW Union Lawrence is a beautiful city because of
your hard work because of your sacrifices we support your union Inspection Department thank you for excellent job we support your union we must hire more inspector Lawrence Public School with the impecable leadership by
honorable RF Guerrero one of the best superintendent in history of Lawrence moving forward we are proud to support Lawrence teachers union thank you for gift of best education for the children of the Lawrence Lawrence one city on the
go proud to support right of the Union from our police F firefighters and teachers and DPW Union we the Laurentian are united to ask this honorable Council to hire the empty position for honorable
veterans in our city we pray for the safety of all police officers this blue thin line the best example of protectant sir Lawrence Police thank you for excellent job we are proud to support Lawrence Police
Union thank you the next person on the list is lenning Roa a school Committee Member Roa name and address for the record please Lenin Roa 36 36 Columbus Avenue in Lawrence
Massachusetts um I just came here to give a statement to to you guys um uh to understand a person one needs only to listen and watch such person his and her words and actions will be enough to see
what he and she or she is about in my case I'm 100% disabled veteran I owe myself to my community I'm passionate about education and
family but I'm here today to speak about Justice having said that there is something I would like to bring to you guys to you guys' attention they need to fill two more positions at the veteran service office
here here in Lawrence this positions are already in the shter and we need to allocate funds in order to suffice dispositions this has been a problem for
years years I've been here since 2014 and I have not seen the veteran service office being filled like it should be and furthermore there are too many people here in the city already in contracts
and there's people being contracted and given the opportunity to work for this great City I believe that two veterans that will serve the city well could do very well in this city and
I'm going to be advocating for this um further more so um that's all I have for you guys today you thank you thank you the next person that we have is uh Richard Roso councelor Rosal may my address for the record
please good evening councilors Richard Russell 34 cross street first hats off to the LPD W for trying to keep up with the pothole repairs doing a good job continuing on my major gripe with the City of
Lawrence is their response or their lack of response to my several of my public record requests as you all know I'm a master at beating a dead horse this horse isn't going to be coted away uh it only been 105 days since I filed a public record request on November 19th
of last year regarding the possibility of emails from either the city or the lr's email accounts to either Facebook or meta my second public record request has been filed twice involving information
regarding the makeup or conversations about me requesting any any information to my appointment or non-appointment to the police chief search committee these two requests are well beyond the normal 10-day response time as allowable by
various mgls the last public record request was in information uh as to how the mayor's senior advisor got put into the public request pipeline uh
the these requests this request is somewhere close to 10 days the 10day deadline I'll give you a little history about me and one ash Burton Place from the summer of 71 I performed various survey functions at that building as was being constructed the building houses
room 1719 that room belongs to the mass Secretary of States uh Public Records Office I am not hesitant to go there and make a formal complaint about the cities for lack of a better word stonewalling
of my public record request I would also see if something I worked on in at one Ash buron place over 50 years ago was stood to test the time two minutes one way or another the cause of my removal from a social media site will come out
and some people may not like the end results as always I thank you for the time thank you anybody from the public we still have some time time anybody from the public that wishes to speak for two and a half minutes all right with that said public
hearing is not a public participation uh is now closed all these names are going to be submitted for the record we're going to go to couple of items and report that we have uh people from the city here that would like to uh get some report so we
can have um some of the U people that has been here since 7: in the morning to finally go home so we're going to start with that u u budget and finance item resolutions all right uh we're
going to go to the resolutions we have some items from uh from the ordinance committee um majority of them is are to U order a public hearing but one of them are uh
the the city council have Resolute in favor of uh very important people and community service people that are here today including firef fires and uh police uh officers thank you all for your
service um the first item that we have uh Mr chair from the ordinance committee will be will be IR on uh 5725 sure would it be an order for us just to do all the resolutions in Block
so the councelor and font vice president fonte can just stay on the podium and provide the presentations of course okay so um I'm making a motion um to pull up all of these items and these were all favorable recommendations and I'm going to have
some help on a name or two so please bear with me 5725 a resolution for Ryan Muller the 2024 paramedic of the Year 58 25 is a resolution for officer leis Santiago 2024 police officer of the
year uh 5925 a resolution for Angelo kagos all right thank you uh that would be the a police 2024 police officer of the year 6025 resolution for lieutenant
John Jimenez 2024 firefighter of the Year 6125 resolution for uh Jean Jimenez as 20 24 firefighter of the Year 6225 resolution for ignasio Rodriguez 2024 firefighter
of the year and 6325 resolution for Felix Reyes a 2024 firefighter of the year I make a motion that we send this up to the full Council a favor recommendation so there is a motion to uh accept the resolution uh with a favor
recommendation is a motion on the table properly second discussion on this matter um say any that have it so now we are going to call uh each individual one uh
through uh the council vice president inant she just step out for a second uh but it is important to recognize the following a resolution of the City of Lawrence which is an opinion of the city of lawrens can only be done through the
city council so today we are just voting on all these resolutions indicating that the City of Lawrence have uh an official opinion about each individual person that is here different than any other uh
recognitions that we do the resolutions are uh an official opinion of the city of lens itself not nobody else in the city can do resolutions only the city council uh so congratul ation to all and
we are going to entertain uh Council press Infante to go to the podium uh to call each individual uh member of uh the community that was just recognized uh through a resolution Madame vice president Infante
you have the floor thank you council president good evening colleagues and good evening everyone who's here sitting um joining us in the gallery I want to first thank my colleagues for um allowing these resolutions to happen tonight and for their support on this on
these resolutions the first resolution I have is honoring Ryan Müller so if I can have Ryan Müller all right hello all right so resolution honoring Ryan Müller as Exchange Club 2024 par
parame paramedic of the Year whereas the the Lawrence city council recognizes the critical importance of timely and effective Emergency Medical Services and preserving the lives of the residents of the Lawrence and the marac valley trauma related injuries are the leading cause
of death with exudation or severe blood loss accounting for a significant percentage of preventable fatalities traditional prehospital emergency med medical service protocols have evolved incorporating lessons learned from
military medicine particularly regarding the administration of whole blood transfusion in the field and whereas emtp paramedic Ryan Müller of the Lawrence General Hospital EMS has demonstrated exceptional dedication
perseverance and leadership in advocating for and implementing the prehospital administration of whole blood in the marac valley he has tired lessly championed this life-saving initiative overcoming challenges and obstacles to secure approval from the
Massachusetts Department of Public Health and whereas through his Relentless efforts the Lawrence General Hospital EMS has become the second ground EMS agency in Massachusetts and one of only approximately 200 in the
nation authorized to carry an administrator whole blood in prehospital settings that deserves a round of applause and whereas this achievement represents a significant advancement in trauma care offering the potential to save countless lives in the marinac valley and whereas
Ryan müller's Mueller's commitment to improving patient outcome and his unw unwavering dedication to advancing Emergency Medical Services exemplify the highest standards of professional public service and now there therefore be it
resolved that the Lawrence city council hereby honors emtp paramedic Ryan Müller of the Lawrence General Hospital EMS as the Exchange Club 2024 paramedic of the year for his outstanding leadership and dedication in implementing prehospital
whole blood transfusion significantly enhancing trauma care in the marinac valley and be it further resolved that the Lawrence city council expressed expresses its sincere gratitude to Ryan Müller for his uning commitment to health and safety of the residents of
Lawrence and surrounding communities respectfully submitted it all nine City councilors and attested by our city clerk Eileen berell congratulations thank you um if you could just say a few words that would be great sure uh thank you
very much for the award um really what I would just like to say um while I'm a big advocate for this program it's really the very small group of people that we have within our department that are trained to provide uh what has already proven and I think will be
proven to be a life-saving intervention that very few communities in the United States actually have which is whole blood to patients that are bleeding to death uh this will be an integral part of people surviving in this community in
the surrounding communities and uh I'm sort of the centerpiece at the moment but this is very much a team effort in our Hospital uh and my director Paul brenn uh Paul Brennan played an integral role in this so this is very much a team
effort thank you for the award but at the end of the day it's really about um providing the best patient care that we can and I think this will be a big step towards that so thank you uh thank you thank you uh uh Mr mher for everything that you guys are doing as a
team the city of lens is very very much appreciated of everything that you guys do thank you thank you so I'm going to ask for the honores and um any any of their supporting members um at the end what we usually do is that we go the
honor go around shakes everyone's hands and then we go out there for a good photo so just hang in there after you get your at end we will do that no I just need one minute before I I I I start with the next group um I want to
show everyone in the gallery and also um our constituents and residents viewing at home why the next four group of the individuals are getting this this award so before I present the resolution we're going to show
this oh where's the song can we have a volume well there's no sound but oh let's see if he can so you can see these amazing fighter fighters that we have started okay okay never
mind can you guys see did sh watch I'm actually in the meantime I'm going to call up these spider Fighters they know who they are so if you can come now r the right equipment I forgot need your turn off
gear can you guys say turnout gear yeah awesome J good job can you guys help me get G ready for a call oh you guys perfect on a count of three one two three je getting
ready getting ready getting ready what going to put on next his Boot and what do Jean's boots protect his feet is this still firefighter Jean
yes should we be afraid of fir fighter Jean goodness no what's Jean going to put on next let's find out Jean's getting ready getting ready getting
ready what going to put on next his pants and what do jean pants protect his legs is this still fir fitter Jean yes should we be afraid of fir fitter
Jean goodness no what's Jean going to put on next let's find out Jean's getting ready getting ready I think I think getting ready I think it's good now what
going to put on next his coat and what does Jean's coat protect his his body and Jean has this these Cool Tools on his coat he has a flashlight so he can see in the dark and he has this
radio so he can communicate and talk to other firefighters is this still firefighter Jean yes should we be afraid of firefighter Jean goodness no what she going to put on next let's
find out je getting ready getting ready all right I'm going to have I'm going to have you guys stand over here so I have four resolutions for these fighter fighters that are getting
are known to be station eight we have fighter fighter ignasio Rodriguez fighter fighter Jee hemus fighter fighter Felix Reyes and Lieutenant um John Himes I'm going only going to read Lieutenant Himes but you guys all have
the same language just the only thing that's different is that your names are on it all right resolution honoring lieutenant John heenez of the Lawrence fighter fighter Department Station 8 as Exchange Club 2024 fighter fighter of the Year whereas the Lawrence city
council recognizes the vital the vital role of the Lawrence Fire Department in ensuring the safety and well-being of theity of the city's residents and whereas lieutenant John Jimenez as member of the station 8 crew demonstrated exceptional leadership and
foresight in the creation and development of the station 8 initiative a groundbreaking fire safety education program and whereas Station 8 born from a desire to connect with and educate the community especially young children has
us has utilized engaging digital media including videos and songs to teach critical fire safety lessons and whereas Lieutenant himz vision and collabor and collaborative Spirit were instrumental in transforming a simple idea into W
into a widely successful educational platform garnering over 18,000 subscribers and exceeding 1 million views across various media platforms and whereas the station a project has extended Beyond digital
content facilitating intera practic presentations at local schools and Beyond significantly expanding fire safety awareness and whereas Lieutenant himz commitment to community service and Innovative approach to fire safety education has de has demonstrated
through station x e exemplifies the highest standard of the Lawrence Police Department now therefore be it be it resolved that the Lawrence city council hereby recognizes and commends lieutenant John Jimenez of the Lawrence Fire Department station a as a Exchange
Club 2024 fighter fighter of the Year and be it further resolved that the laen city council expresses its sincere gratitude for his outstanding service and dedication to the safety and well-being of the City of Lawrence respectfully
submitted nine City councilors and attested by our city clerk the next resolution goes to Felix FZ for his amazing commitment and also his efforts within station8 as well the third one goes to Jean himz for
the same reason foret the video and the last one goes to fighter fighter ignasio Rodriguez um and I also want to thank the department heads um the director the
E EMS director um Chief morotti and also Chief Bona for the amazing language that helped me create these resolutions is it's definitely a team effort thank you so much guys okay I would like to call up officer
Louis Santiago and officer Angelo Kos kagos kagos kagos got remember that kagos all right again um both
languages say the same thing so I'm just reading the one that's coming up first now we're honoring our two police officers of the year starting off with um officer Louis Santiago as the Lawrence Police Department 2024 Exchange Club officer of
the year whereas the Lawrence city council recognizes the dedication and bravery of the officers of the Lawrence Police Department in protecting and serving the citizens of Lawrence and whereas on the night of April
24 of 2024 officer lisis Santiago respond lisis Santiago and officer I'm sorry k um responded to a highly dangerous and violle situation on rly Waverly Road in
North Andover involving a suspect firing multiple rounds at responding officers and whereas upon arrival the officers immediately assessed the critical situations and without hesitation volunteered to assists in the rescue of
a disabled El elderly man who was trapped in the line of fire and whereas the officers devised and executed a plan to extract the elderly man from a dangerous position providing crucial cover during the rescue and whereas the
officers demonstrated exceptional bravery and composure under extreme distress placing him placing themselves in arms weight to ensure the safety of a a vulnerable Citizen and whereas the officer EXA actions exemplify the
highest standards of professionalism courage and dedication to duty and whereas the Exchange Club has recognized these officers of as the 2024 officers of the year for their heroic actions and unwear commitment to Public Safety now
there be resolv that the Lawrence city council hereby honors officer Louis Santiago and officer Angelo kagos kagos Angelo kagos as the 2024 Exchange Club officers of the year for their outstanding bravery and dedication
to the citizens of Lawrence and and be it further resolved that the Lawrence city council expresses its sincere gratitude to these officers for their courageous actions and a wavering commitment to safety of the community submitted by nine all nine counselors
and attested by our city clerk I now ask that the honoraries no probably they want to have they want to say something oh yes I didn't even I forgot to give you guys I'm sorry do you guys like to say something sorry there's so many at one time I want to thank this panel uh City
Council of recognizing the work that we do for the Lawrence Police Department uh as a Laurentian grown who was born and raised in the city I've seen what the growth of the city has done in the past I just thank you for trusting in us to do our job to the best of our ability thank
you I just want to say a few words um from the word of my sergeant he told me that God gives us a purpose and he keeps his promise to keep us safe to every single one of us and the first responder we all work together every every day and out and we all have each other's back
our award ceremony is a testament to our department it's not just us two the whole department deserves recognition and I want I'm grateful to be working this deployment and I'm going to I'm going to call back station a as all I forgot about this part thank you
counselors so they can say a few words real quick are you guys going to sing bring uh I just want to say thank you for the city council for recognizing the work we do and uh this wouldn't be possible without the support of our our
Union our department and the chief and uh the city that they gave us the idea you know to to do this for the kids guy wasn't juston to receive it it's to T know we have all the support from our community and from our city councilors
uh thank you chief morotti who's been supporting us day one he's constantly offering to help us out and he's a big fan and he's always supporting um everything that we're doing and thank you to our wives family and friends who
all came to support us today and I'm time to I a little okay cool um so a little bit about station a uh behind me in the crowd here uh my son James is there he's one of my three kids um the worst sleeper of the three
probably the worst sleeper of all time and um growing up we had a lot of sleepless nights with James and we my wife and me we tried everything to get James to sleep at night and nothing worked but one day I had the idea to grab my ukulele and sit by his crib and
write songs and about firefighters and fire trucks and and it helped you know it got him to sleep at night and um it worked until I had to go back to work and for those that know us firefighters when we go to work we work 24 hours at a time so when we're gone we're gone and
in one of those days my wife actually showed up at work which she usually doesn't do um and she was very tired and beside herself and obviously James was still awake and he was crying and before I could even say or do anything um my co-workers all the firefighters I work
with they stepped into action they grabbed James they would sing to James and Rock him James was in the fire truck he was upstairs he was in the gym he was in the kitchen he was all over the firehouse and at the time I didn't really understand at the time but I realized that this was actually James's
first experience with the fire service it wasn't the red lights or the sirens or the fire trucks or the firefighters and gear it was a community and through love and nurture James grew to love the fire service and those that know my son James he's always dressed like a firefighter he knows everything about
the fire service and the fire trucks and he just loves everything about the fire department um and people people claim that I brainwash him I swear I don't a matter of fact I spent a lot of time trying to convince him that I'm actually a firefighter at night time we
would read this book firefighter Frank and he hand me a radio and say okay da I'm firefighter Jean and you could pretend to be firef Johnny and I'm like why am I pretending you know what I'm saying um so just seeing just seeing
James and how what you know what the fire service did for him and that nurturing and that love and music and everything that's when like the light bulb went off and and the guys behind me we've been partners for about eight years and and we've done everything
we've been to fires we we've done CPR overdoses gas explosion I mean we've been through so much together and we take a lot of love and pride in in what we do and and station is just another way that that we've learned that we can give back to the community in a way that's not tragic that we can teach
children about First Responders police officers EMTs firefighters and what we do in a way that's appropriate to them and fun for them in a way that's accessible through YouTube and all the social media platforms and we're really proud of what we're doing this is just the beginning we have a lot coming and
again I want to just thank everybody for having us here today we are really honored to have this award today I'll be very brief my name is Felix Reyes uh thank you every everyone for your time and your uh your honor um and uh I'm a Lawrence resident that was
not not any longer but I was born and raised here so it's an honor to be part of the city and uh I'm just excited to share this moment in time with you guys thank you uh just want to say thank you same thing my coworker said um I'm the star in the show as you can see
he hasn't changed his high school no um honestly we love what we do uh being firefighters we love our job you know people say you know you love what you do you never work a day in your life and I feel like station a is just extra for us you know what I mean we've really feel
like we found our calling and with you guys' support you know everybody's support I feel like we're able to do this even more you know what I mean it's it's it's every day we see it growing we're seeing all the support that we're getting from our community from our co-workers from from the whole entire world you know I mean there's people
contacting us like hey you know my kid loves you guys you know sending loves from Minnesota from California so it's like it keeps us going because we like receiving all the support and all the love and we can see that we're doing something great and it makes us want to continue on and going so we just want to say thank you thank you guys for
supporting us keep on watching station a subscribe and you know here we are thank you so much I want to say quickly to my colleagues thank you again um counselors uh most of the time we as counselors we handle
situations that aren't as positive and we're always on the go and we're always working hard and it's it's it's an honor to be able to have these special moments as counselors cuz they don't come often so thank you again thank you I just want
to just want to uh extend an opportunity to um to the chief of police for the city of La thank you for the opportunity I just want to apologize I was a little late I was in the meeting uh it's budget season so we have to work on those numbers uh I'm here to support my
officers as and as you well know this guys are superstars and I like to be involved in everything that's going on with my offices I just want to congratulate them these are maybe the best officer we have in the department new officers they know what to do in emergency situation like the one they
had to encounter in nor andova so my respect to you guys guys I think that we have a police department who's which is the hardest working Police Department in the Commonwealth and everywhere I go I say it we took 54,000 calls for service last year and and no complaints every call was like attended to we took log
numbers we did reports and this guys are working from the day they start to from the you know from 5 to1 1 to5 9 to1 non-stop taking calls you know my respect to you guys I got I got a good police department and this guys behind me deserve all the credit thank you
thank you so well actions are actions every time you take actions it means something for somebody and today we are recognizing the actions that everybody here just uh have taken for the benefit of the community or to
protect the city or the community as a whole uh thank you all for every minute that you spent and the City of Lawrence and any surrounding cities around uh providing the services and the quality of the service that you guys do thank you all I just want to recognize the the
the the the City of Lawrence mayor Brian depa that is here uh thank you mayor thank you for visiting us and uh we definitely appreciate it appreciate every time that you come down to the city council thank you all so with uh
with we are going to take a minute to recess so we can invite everybody yeah they can they can come over to check out everybody say hi so a minute to a minute let's take a minute to recess so motion to recess is been
done prop one on time but they got to a e e e e e e e
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there's a motion on the table to approve the uh to accept this item properly second any discussion discussion thank you yes uh just provide us an update as of where we are where we're planning on uh to be if there is
any plan to continue or to stop the program so this additional $130,000 will allow will extend the time that families have to find alternate care for their children as you know this funding is not permanent this was never meant to be permanent um but um and it wasn't
originally the request was for $300,000 you know we got the 170,000 first and then this is the left over 1:30 so I appreciate your support uh or can your recommendation um so families will now have until the end of April um and as an
estimate to find alternate care for the children or different source of child care um help um which most families do need uh for the record sorry Maria Gonzalez mhler um should I just my work the
childcare circuit representing the childcare circuit at 190 Hampshire Street in Lawrence all right um any questions councelor do you miss councel councelor re hiia
uh I want dou check because we receive a lot of phone call and email because uh our constituents say uh they received the letter announcement the program is ending this month correct uh can you clarify that letter they receed for us
so once the 170,000 was approved we calculated approximate ending of the program we we do all I mean we want to be um we want to give families as much advanced notice as possible because these are very comp licated matters in
terms of finding childcare for your children so we wanted to give at least one month um Noti notice that the program was ending without knowing that the $130,000 was actually going to come through to complete the original request
um so March 14th was the initial date of um termination for the program we are extending that through the end of April at this point is it tending to to what month uh the end of April this
am this amount will cover um with this we have the last time the last billing for the month of January had 78 children covered by this vouchers and the approximate cost or billing amount was a little over 100,000 so it's about
$100,000 a little over per month 78 vou that one covers uh the 78 vouchers we have a few families that have I'm sure withdrawn because of the announcement that the program is ending
but we still have I'm I'm probably in the estimate of like 70 family uh 70 children or so in the program the difficulty in uh getting out of the program right now is that state vouchers are not open right now so nobody can get any other um assistance at this point if
the vouchers were open obviously it would be a lot easier to transfer them into the state vouchers only is only for one the 130,000 will allow us to go from March 14th through the end of April hopefully a little longer obviously we
will go as long as we can to make sure that families can use every last penny of it thank you for clarification thank you I I will continue advocating for again permanently uh including this in a budget I you are re families are aware
that this is not a Permanent Fund Source but uh families are very passionate about it because of the impact that this program had in our city and the ability to work that they have obviously this is a program designed exclusively for the residents of Lawrence and it really meets um their
needs um they can qualify to a voucher when there's inability to qualify to State vouchers for some of the families while we work on trying to get other sources for then thank you thank you any other any other
questions should so I know that we had a discussion about this few weeks ago just help remind we take so many votes this is an important vote it's fine what happened when we voted on this or had a discussion on this to go now what is
today's vote what's help me conceptualize context what's going on the initial request was was for $300,000 we U and we got we receiv received the vote was for1 170,000 that was the recommendation of the committee um the
other 130,000 they were waiting to hear um whether or not it was they were going to be able to approve or it wasn't approved at that moment so we were only able to extend the program from from January when the funding the the funding at the time was running out
until the mid-march the 170,000 the 130,000 now will take us through the end of April and that's the 300,000 total that we had initially requested to extend the program all right so so there's two elements two two phases one was the
first phase in January to gu like now and then correct now mid- March to the end of April the two phases and taking this money out of free cash f this fund came out of our part that
was uh transferred originally to different accounts different project and then now uh went over to um this program she's here she can explain us the source of the funds
hello so this 130,000 is coming partly from funds that the um airport declined to use and a small amount from lawtown boxing program they were initially awarded 80,000 but they would only like
a contract for 60,000 so we're putting the other 20 towards this thank you you're welcome any other questions in regard to this U extension of the funds all right I hear none all please say hi
hi any n there it thank you thank you counselors so the next item that we have is item 4025 which is the appropriation transfer of 100,000 from the April account to new project account Madam
vice president the chair of the budget and finance committee there's a motion on the table properly second discussion here please say I hi any Nam guys have it
uh the next item that we have are going to jump that item and I'm going to go to 4825 which is the the request to EXP um the request to expand 150,000 from the Executive Office of Public
Safety so just bear with me for a second um and for the crisis interation program Madame vice president infant and the chair of the finance committee to F am 15,000 on the table properly second any discussion on this matter for the 150
just a real quick discussion on this just not a long discussion Council thank you so if we're watching the news and reading and reading about what's happening nationally we we understand there's a functional change is going on in our federal government especially as it relates to Grant monies going to
various States and I know that this is um this is the U burn Crisis Intervention I think that's a f is that federally funded this one or is that state state funding is that but there through you council president this comes fundamentally from the feds to the state and then disperse locally that is
correct that's correct so even that would be threatened or potentially imp Peril depending on the winds that we're seeing right now so the only point on this and I'll probably make the same point on the dot stuff is that we need at this point it is March of 20 24 we
have a little bit of time to figure out what we're doing we have an we have an idea of where the direction things are going and what are we doing as a city when it comes to these monies that are coming in that may or may not be coming in if we're reliant on them in the future so it's not really I'm looking for an
answer it's just more of a let's be aware of what's going on around us and then let's be active in trying to make plans contingency plans should things happen and not be caught flat-footed uh when things if they go in a way that's going to be detrimental as far as
funding coming into our city thank you council president all right no problem thank you Mr U Mr Council llan um any other counselors uh I would like to probably extend an opportunity to use so we can U
expand a little bit more as why we use in this fund and the organization that are going to that is going to assist uh on this grant sure with me um I brought a sergeant bullo who overseed the gang unit and some members on the of the Utch
uh program we have Alamar Solaris she's the chief program officer of the Utch Angel Basque which is the Lawrence Street work manager uh um basically overseeing the Lawrence area and Anna Morales which oversee the uh the policy director for the UT Grant I know they
were not they were not able to come the first time but they we extended the invitation because I know you you uh the city council have questions about how this program or how Utch has impact the City of Lawrence send an opportunity to them so they can come over and explain to other
a little more for the record and welcome back hello hi council president hello everyone it's so good to see you all I watch these meetings sometimes online and really it's very underwhelming so please bring your energy because you
guys are all beautiful people outside of this chamber so I'm sharing some of our magic and love with you um to give you a sense of our work at Utch we represent 17 to 25 year olds in the mar Mac Valley
who have been incarcerated or who have been impacted some way or shape or form through the justice system in the state of Massachusetts our work is in violence intervention it's um direct service work we serve holistically our young people
and their families which means that we serve our the people that are responsible for some of the harm that's in the community as well as the people that receive that harm the victim and so with that said our work is
all-encompassing we do direct service work and systems change work you will see me often times at the State House in Coalition meetings at your local church in local community meetings and it it's all in order to make sure that we are
present in the community as well as doing the violence intervention work that spreads peace and Restoration in our communities and so with that said I want to be able to introduce um Tamar sarus who's our chief program officer she runs the the entire daytoday of what
our work looks like and all the communities that we serve in the marac valley and then we'll have Ace talk a little bit about our street worker program program and specifically the services that we're providing to our young people here in Lawrence and thank you all for your leadership and always
for your willingness to answer my text our calls to get to know our young people um they truly are deserving of Second Chances and so I appreciate um the support that we get all the time from this community as well as the police department and how we're able to
partner together in this work thank you good evening everybody Tamaro a chief AAR Utch thank you for having us today I want to just uh piggyback on what Anna was saying is our services really are holistic we've been in Lawrence for over 10 years here we on
Maron street is where our youth uh Drop in Center is and we really focus on one this Grant and particularly will be funding the continued partnership between Utch street workor laurren team which Ace is the manager of and the Lawrence PD gang unit which uh Sergeant
Buller has been an amazing partner for many years with us now but in addition to violence intervention we also do have a Workforce and education program so any young person that is a fit to come and enter the program can receive their highet if they don't yet have it and can
be trained for vocational routes like uh Woodworking and culinary um and we do that through a stien so young people are paid while they're in our program with us and we've been uh very excited to be in Lawrence for a really long time and continue to partner with everybody um
including a lot of local Partnerships a lot of other nonprofit work here here and um we really are excited to continue this for another two years um as you know we we had a different neighborhood targeted through this grant in the last two years as well so I'll let um Ace
talk a little bit more about the street work work hi Angel a Vasquez thank you for having me um a lot of you know the type of work I've done because I've seen you guys for many years and some of the events that I've done have held uh from
uh antiviolence marches uh at the at the stadium projects here in the park uh we do a lot of mediation work behind the scenes so there's a lot of things that are going on behind the scenes we're stopping from violence
happening um and the the LHS is I I've been in there too the team has been in there working with the with that with the violence that's been occurring in that area and um it just by this year year and a half that area has been very
quiet from all the work that we've been putting in um you know it's it's not easy work there's only three street workers doing all this work in this whole city so we're doing a lot of mediations uh we're doing a lot of events we're bringing resources to these
these communities also um I think we've done three events at the stadiums already and uh they were all in regards to um to violence um at the end of the day what we do we try to
recruit recruit also young adults that are Justice involved in the community try to bring them into the programming if we can't if they don't if they don't qualify for programming we try to Mentor them and figure out resources to help them get them jobs you know whatnot um
in regards to um the partnership with the the Lawrence Police Department it's all about building relationships that's what we do the best at Utch and that's what we want to offer keep offering this community because this community definitely needs a lot of work and uh
we have a lot to do and whatever help that we can get is definitely going to be um for Lawrence's um I say best interest but yes thank you thank you thank you for all the information that
you just provided about the service that you the that the organization is providing to the city of lawence it is important to recognize that at the buet and finance committee this uh this item was discussed and uh I the one the
$150,000 75,000 is going to be for the police department and $75 $75,000 for that uh for the organization that is representing uh by three by these uh three people that are here that just explained the importance of the work
that they do so and this is going to be for two years Grant right for a year it's for a year for a year um well thank you all if counselors if you have any questions regard to this item Council M do you guys go through like an intake
process um with n with every uh youth that you come across and if so are you guys um receiving data in terms of what seems to be the main reason why they're
joining gangs that way we could start allocating resources to mitigate those reasons whether it's family issues at home whether it's uh bullying at school like so are we trying to identify
the main reasons behind it so it's not a secret what the main reason is is poverty right it starts with poverty um what's going on right now is that a lot of the the young you know the the
young crowd uh they feel like they need purpose right and sometimes there is not enough things for them to do the families are struggling you know they're living in the in the hood right um they they seeing what's going on the trauma
um there's a lot there's a lot going on um there's more than one thing uh we try to work with the families also as much as possible um because we know there's a lot of necessity uh in regards to the intake uh yes there's a we get referrals
from the court or we get referrals from Community Partners or from the young adults themselves most of the young adults adults that we serve are referred by young adults cuz they see that they need help we go to the blocks you know and we build relationships with these
young adults and they they themselves say hey can you please help so and so he's not doing nothing he's just hanging out in the street all day you know he needs a job he needs this so they're asking for help right they're asking for these these uh events peace events in
their neighborhoods they're asking for all this uh unfortunately that doesn't stop the violence right because at the end of the day they look at it as if I don't protect myself then I'm going to be a victim so there's a
lot of things going on there uh but I think that Lawrence can do a lot more in regards to working with our youth because they are our future and I think that there should be more uh funds allocated to help these younger kids who uh to do prevention work and also the
work that Utch does and also um if I if I may add thank you don't don't go don't go sorry um one thing that I also want to add is that um when our young people in the community
um end up getting incarcerated or get engaged at any point in their teenage years with the justice system they are already targeted they become a part of the judicial system and
it's very difficult for that young person if they do not have the right resources or the right allies or the right folks to show up in court to support them for them to get out of that like sometimes it's it could literally be a young person being at the wrong
place at the wrong time and getting charged with something like joint venture or being with a friend who had who just happened to rob a store or didn't know that this was happening and then all those three kids end up in dys
or in prison and those are the young people that come to us we are not a program that is servicing young people that are not engaged in the toughest types of violence we are serving those people the people in the community that
you think folks don't want to work with those are the young people we're working with and that's why the program and the partnership that we have with the Lawrence Police Department is so vital and I'll even second um what councelor llant mentioned is that
federally there has been $44 billion cut towards violence intervention work and represent representative work for communities that are battling this issue nationally and so we are really at the Forefront of
this work and a little bit ahead because we live in a state like massachus uset that is continuing to invest These funds in our Police Department as well as in our programming and we're also here anytime you can come and visit our programming anytime we welcome it get to
know our young people get to know some of our services and like you have our phone number so if at any point you're like I I just met this young person I know that they're incarcerated or they could really use a restorative justice Circle or they could really use a support from a counselor give us a call
because we we show up we show up to the houses we show up to the parents we show up to prison we show up to court we take them to the state house we do all of the things and we make those funds really really stretch so yeah of course thank you so much councelors any other
questions in regard to this item I hear NS at this point I'll call the question so please say I I yeah I just um real quick I just want to say thank you to youch for coming tonight and Sergeant bullo for putting me uh in
touch with Utch when this gr came uh came along they were very helpful helping out to F uh to fill out this Grant and I definitely we it's been a collaboration for over three years and they are easy to work and easy to talk to thank you
coun to at the vice for this okay through you Madame Vice chair item 4125 the issuance of Grant assurances
and authorization to expend $361,900 Mass DOT aeronautic division Grant uh we have our Airport Manager Francisco Ura um here uh before us this was spoken um this this item was addressed on the
budget and finance committee and um let me see was from my understanding it was sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation and I submit that in the form of a motion uh you're G to get tired of this in the next few months so I'm going to
say it one more time I am nice so the the funding clear is from it looks like it's from Mass DOT and is is the origin of that funding coming federally or is it totally originated you may not know the answer to this but I'm just curious if okay no I do and I appreciate your sentiment and and I
think it's very valid in these um uh yes Francisco Urena Lawrence municipal airport 492 Sutton Street North Andover uh that said councelor I appreciate the sentiment I think is very important these specific funds represent a 95% share from the state to re to invest in
Lawrence to uh replace our administration building this is the first phase of that Grant $361,000 is for the purpose of engineering and that there's another Grant that's coming for design and then
one more for construction so there the state wants to do it in phases um and the project cost projected right now is $7.5 million um but what we're talking the item at hand right now is a first phase and what we are asking the uh city
council uh to uh follow with us the grant assurances that we're going to use those funds appropriately and followed with with all the other um strings that uh come with that set of Grants um and there was a question during budget and finance if the mayor had yet signed and
the order usually goes City Council city council the mayor's office followed by the city clerks so thank you and that helps me understand the issue I just are you at all concerned that the next two or three phases of this are going to be at all in
any kind of Jeopardy uh going forward there's a strong commitment from the state to see this project through uh we've been waiting for 20 years to replace this administration building we are here at the point of monies are are being allocated and the state does have
a budget specifically for this so they already have dedicated funds set aside so they already have the money the money is there so yes at the state okay so that's not going anywhere corre that is going to provide some relief for me anyway and I'm sure for you knowing that that's there and it's
not going to be touched thank you sure men yes this three yes the 3 $61,000 that you have they have in front of you as a form of a grant Assurance represents the design excuse me the engineering aspect
of the grant uh whereas uh site borrowings were done engineering site team came through the airport the uh funding of our owner project manager any uh Pro public project that requires over a million dollars is required to have a
a a professional to be our representative in this phase just like we have done with schools just like the city has done with the police department and many others so that is what the the grant that you have in front of you represents uh again we would have these
conversations in the future uh to discuss the design phase and then to also discuss a grant for the construction phase questions comone all say I thank you counselors
it nobody here hello oh now it's working okay all right um we are going now to top of the agenda which is a 60425 the appropriation transfer from the stabilization Reserve fund uh Reserve to litigation
judgments um Madame Vice Madame vice president the chair of the vet and finance committee thank you let me see if I can you see okay um it goes in and out okay item 6425 appropriation just use this one transer yep right there
appropriation transfer from from stabilization re to litigation to judgment was up was all right hello okay all right let
me start over item 64- 25 appropriation transfer from stabilization Reserve to litigation to for litigation to judgments was sent up with a favorable recommendation and I make that as a formal motioning there is a motion on the table prop second
discussion are he not please say I have it any n guys have it going back to and just council president if I may just so the uh cuz we all have the agenda uh item 42-25 under the budget and finance
that was a mistake that item is actually tabled at committee and it shouldn't have been on the agenda that was a mistake yep all right we have item 4225 which is been just been clarified by celant uh the housing committee item
26323 which is the Declaration of s plusus property uh uh three uh Madame chair from the housing committee Council M through you council president item number two item number 26323 Declaration of surplus property
202- 202a Park street map 171 lot 133 um and we have Charlotte that um before us uh to speak on behalf of this item it was discussed in the housing committee uh to which it was ruled uh it was voted with a favorable
recommendation to be S uh to be submitted to the full Council and I submit that in the form of a motion there's a motion on the table properly second discussion discussion Council inant I I see um the document that the chair of the the housing committee voted
against like to reason for the reason I voted against it is because um I believe it's time that we set standards and procedures when we're um conducting our meetings and often
times um Mr McCarthy is bringing in documents uh right on the spot um sometimes there are blueprints or certain documentation that I believe uh our city council
president had requested and it wasn't on hand and because of that reason I decided to to vote no and it was just simply to set a standard thank you all right any other counselors um let's expend an
opportunity to the charel that is here with us thank you address for the record please Street you don't need you don't need to P the button just just just keep it
green all right that's it located at 36 Street 270 entr all right um there was a question that it was asked um when it comes to the intention is the intention is to build um so this property is 4000 foot
4ot so by right is not a buildable so we cannot sell it as a buildable um we sell property as is and it is uh the job of the who is going to buy the property to go the zoning and the plan Bo to get any
that they need to build on page3 of our Zing ordinance um it clearly specifies one two family units um if you're Uncle of what those maximums and minimums are as far as footage of that nature I would
encourage you guys take a look at that there we go oh there we go just wait a minute okay sorry I think it's important to go backwards it's okay I like to
talk all right go ahead he said to wait am I all set to go yeah he's just setting up in my so I apologize I know you guys can hear me uh my name is charlin Pascal I'm the asset officer for the City of Lawrence located at 360 maramax
Street uh suet 270 entrance k um and I'm here to present the de ation of surplus for real property located at 202 2028 Park street map 171 lot 133 and just to um repeat myself for the record um it is
a 4,000 ft lot located in a B1 District uh the assessed value for that property in 2025 most re recently is $2,700 um doar with an estimated annual tax of
$41 um and so I am here before the council requesting for us to be uh to declare this property Surplus so that we can open discussion with constituents who have approached our office um interested in city property like this and other City properties there's always
interested parties in all kinds of City lots and homes and stuff that we have on our city property list so for us to be able to um continue with our process and how we do things we need to get the first step out of the way which is declaring the property Surplus
yes uh councelors we have a motion to declare this prop Surplus the reason why uh I at the housing committee asked that question is because there is a big difference between having a lot that is
4,000 square ft and getting a permit uh uh through the uh zoning board and be able to build and the city receiving $20,000 and not necessarily the actual value or the potential value of the property uh
of a buildable L which is over $100,000 so there is and and these property is right at the threshold where the it's easy enough to get a permit uh but having those those uh that part of the process to be transparent and open
we can work it out with whoever is buying the property with knowing the fact that they might build on the property so that's why we were asking those questions at that level uh because we represent the best interest of the city and that means ontime money
absolutely um and essentially that's why no that's it and I think that was a valid question um thank you uh president um for that I wanted to um shed some light on a memo that our director submitted over to you guys yes a little
on the late side as usual um but there's just a lot going on in that planning department so bear with us as we try to catch up I know that's there's some items on there that we want to discuss but um shed some light on the memo that was sent to our council president javani our city clerk eileene and our
confidential secretary um just to read it I'm not sure if everyone got a copy of it it's in their packages perfect so on the table of your seats is an answer from our director to your direct question so as per the
request of our city council president president Rodriguez the planning department did make an inquiry of whether there were any supporting documents on behalf of 26323 the Declaration of surplus for the parcel located on Park Street 202 202a
uh specifically map 171 lot 133 no determination regarding the disposition of the property has been made and multiple parties have come before our offices um requesting to apply for um this property um in this regard there's
no further documentation for the future disposition of the property um but we are selling the property as is and it would be um it would be um hard to sell a property with a buildable code on it when it doesn't it
by right it does not have a buildable um capacity now they can go before the zoning and the planning board to get those variances but that's something that we make sure that we outline that is not guaranteed so those are some of the findings that we found when we did
an inquiry of the file completely from way before I was here and that's what we came um and that's what we came up with so essentially when we build a lot that is not a buildable lot we we actually uh we sell it with conditions right those
condition prohibit people to go to uh the zoning board because we actually set set up set up some conditions that prohibit them from doing that not a structures and not not not a struction being built or raise on those locations and if that's the case you just
mentioning that we're going to be solding selling the property as is so is that means that we're going to have conditions on those and if if we don't and then let's do the proper uh the the
proper duties uh when it comes to making sure that if the intense is to build that the city get the proper am money for the pro for the property if that's the intent that's all I'm asking right uh to make sure that we do the the the
proper the the proper the proper things that we need to do to be able to ensure that the city get the most amount of money as needed that's valid um I think that um just to add to that there there can be conditions that are set and that's up to you to you guys to to
decide um what conditions you want to set forward and that's something that we can discuss with the previously known as the real property task force now the uh city-owned property advisory committee um where we discuss you know City properties the disposition and we'll go
through all those things when we get there but we haven't crossed that bridge yet all right no problem cused are you no usually no conditions now when conditions are set they go through the house like it's part of the housing and
part of the vot and everything that's correct we're not looking for conditions right now we just be trying to be transpiring I'm trying okay I'm still confused um trying to be transparent so I'll
explain to you the difference between being honest and transparen is that when you're transparent you're at the front you bring the information at front and when you honest when you get cut on something and then you say yes I'm sorry that's that's the difference all right so so what I'm are you referring to my
person just want you were not even here with I just want to make sure we're clear so what what I'm hearing and this is this is the V to uh to to declare asspl what I'm hearing is that during the I'm just hoping I understand because I'm actually confused this is I'm
actually confused um during the housing committee this wasn't presented this was presented in a different way and that is what what you're bringing up no no no I mean it was presented as a 4,000 ft lot knowing the fact that being a member of the of the housing committee for almost
10 years know that this is right around the treasure that it could be a buildable lot and then the fact that we if we don't talk about that and then we just let go this opportunity it could be a potential $100,000 lot and we
receiving $20,000 lot $20,000 sorry I was trying to follow everything yeah just trying to be up front with the potential gaining that we have in the city okay thank you I just I was trying to follow what what you were were you
and and uh Miss clet were speaking of and I just I was just confused I I apologize I just want to make sure that's what I'm here for to clarify yep so this vote is to declare sub uh declare supp of the property yes so any other discussion questions on this
matter I he known so call the question discuss so and and thank you for my colleagues to um uh explaining um this is It's kind of new
for me uh my question is so is the city do you you send an email to all the department there's no need for this slot right arena is sent to all the departments at least two or three times in this case it's been multiple times cuz it's been before the council nine
different times in the last 3 years and so the same paperwork has been sent over to you guys it's pretty straightforward um the lot size hasn't changed the price has changed um over the last 5 10 years um it has increased um and that's kind
of where we're at and I think I'm going to I I'm concerned uh based on the comment that the president me because if we have declared this as Surplus now for this amount amount of money and later we can get more that is concerning president
rodri the thing is is like we we're not against of declaring the property as a surplus the amount cons probably uh what we need to do is like focus and whether or not this property going to be the intent of the use is to build and then
it might be a little challenging for the city that's all if I may maybe I can attorney attorney Tim hooton for the City of Lawrence just so you know what we doing we're doing today is declaring the prop the property Surplus there's
nothing we can do with the property until we declare it Surplus after it's declared Surplus then we can determine what's the best use for it is there a neighbor on either side that wants to buy it and turn it into a grass area is there someone that needs to use it for parking is there some other car but
until it's Surplus we can't make those inquiries because it's it belongs to the city so we're just trying to get it back on the tax roles you're not clearing in a value in other words you're not stating what the value is we're just telling you what the taxable value is if the next door neighbor wants to pay
50,000 100,000 for will take that money it's you are not limiting the value of this property all you're saying is the city doesn't need it we should find out if somebody else is interested in it that's what we're doing today I I have the floor cons uh
coun um okay so you're saying that voting now it will not uh deter determine the price of this lot that's correct is that accurate You by by by what you're doing today you're not declaring the value of the lot okay all
right that that thank you for clarifying that thank you counil president no problem and just so we're all clear typically we have two bites of the Apple bite number one is tonight declare it a surplus bite number two of the Apple has got to come back if they're going to
dispose of it some way if it's going to be a yard sale if a direct disposition if it's going to go for RFP whatever the tools that we have in our Tool Shed any one of those because the council has the prerogative of the final disposition of of par property so there's no decisions
being made tonight except to say the city has no use for these properties come before the council with what you think we should be voting on and transfer the property however you want to do it and then we will say yeah that's a great idea or no that's not a great idea so have very well I mean we might I'm just making this up I I might
come back and say Hey I want to put a junkyard on there and the city C no matter what the price is the city council is going to say no I'm not going to approve that so yes the only thing you're doing today is saying Let's find let's put FAS out see if anybody wants this property can we put it back on the tax rols council president for the sake
of transparency if if any of the bers our bers have reached out because you mention at the beginning that you have received inquiries in the Outboards reach out to the city
um is sat on record so we have received inquiries I have not dis I have not discussed with anybody in particular so I can't tell you right now who has inquired of this particular property a lot of people walk into our office to just grab a city list and they might star stuff that they're interested in
that doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to go forward with an application they're just interested parties that I meet with on a regular workday basis if I have if I may consult president to you if I have an empty lad next to my house I will be in your
office from day one asking questions and I believe to your to your response um and to be as transparent as honest as I can be um this has been in our office and we've tried to come before this office N9 times I'm sure it's because there's interested parties possibly the
ab Butters at some point I can't tell you exactly who they are um cuz I would be making things up right so we are going to notify the abutters cuz we do that first so we send letters out to the abuts are you guys interested it goes on public record it goes in the newspapers
everybody has a shot in the application and that's pretty much how the proc I just want to say one thing if I may a lot of times what you're going to find out is the next to a neighbor is using it anyways you know what I mean they they're treating it like it's their own that's why we're we're trying to
clean it up get the people off and get get some money for it I agree with you if I'm next door and I have an empty lot I might Park my cars on there I might do anything but but and it's actually been a it's been an empty lot since 1976 where we took it back from the owner um for
$82 so we haven't had this property on tax roll since 76 um and so I'm sure since 76 all the neighbors that have moved around there have come before us the reason why we having this conversation is because something happened at the housing committee and I'm going to tell you what
happened I was cuz I don't know I don't know if if anybody got it but I did and and and that was the following somebody said on that Podium that it was going to be a the
desposition which give me the right to know the conversation that happened already about the disposition of the property before it was declared Surplus but so but I hold on one second I encourage you guys to look at the meeting the housing committee meeting
and then based on that that was when I start asking questions because it was somebody mentioned there that it was going to be a the disposition meaning that the next conversation coming up was already been
decide so that that's all go ahead and look at the meeting and you will see what I'm talking about that's why this conversation was generated you were not here I apolog look at no no no no you don't have to you were not here that's but I was supposed to have the conversation because I'm the one that deals with these things directly so I'm
not sure what um was taken maybe out of context I'm not sure what he said or didn't say I'm here to tell you that I deal with these things directly I deal with the applications I meet with the applicants and I'm ensuring transparency in this process I can't tell you what
happened since 76 I can tell you what's happening now C thank you to you and um and to pick it says this is just the beginning they have to come back even if it's a director position even if it's a seller even if it's a buyer so we
will have to set something else so let's try to move with this and then wait for whoever's coming back and then we we'll make a decision whoever's going to buy it or or who they going to give it to or what the price is going to be or what they're going to do it's just declare a SE plus and then let them do the work
and we make the decision on the second round no I'm I'm actually calling the question please say hi hi hi any guys have moving on to the top of the agenda councilors we have President councelor Levy now that Miss Pasar is
stilling here I would like to take a item out table and out of order uh uh maybe she's ready maybe not but I mean I I'll recognize it if the councelors want to I'm not sure C Le yes I would like to take a item um
8924 is the new ber Street and Garden Street is the map 87 L 7 that was in Declaration of just give me the number first and then we can look at it I say 89- 24 is on
the table matters what page on page number four okay so ch um uh well before we do that let's let's take a motion uh Council Lev you're looking you putting a motion to take it out of the table matters can second second properly
second uh say hi just for the fairness of the of that of the of the presenter that is here uh PRI ask for an update on this matter instead of asking for any anything else Council Levy yes the last time that
you came here that was March 19 2024 what we're looking is for an updated also on that property so maybe for the next committee for the next meeting perfect Council Vice
pres yes asking for every I always the to see theing area and I ask the to consideres the neighborhood we do we all know parking
issues and we continue to sell City properties when I'm sure we can find us for it if really like push it something to keep in mind when they come property that thank you uh she's asking for an
update on this property so make sure next next meeting you probably bring an update to council lby Council lby anything else on this property no thank you Council I just want to share my support to the vice president on that I think that it's really important as we start dealing with the housing boom in the city and the parking crisis that we
explore creative ways to find parking so I I support what the council vice president has said I'll definitely bring that back to the committee um thank you so much thank you for to bring it next time just just make sure that you bring some type of update motion to table thank you motion to
table there's a motion to table for item 8924 properly second all those in favor please say I I guys have it let's go on top of the agenda councelors we going now to uh ordinance committee ordinance committee council
llan is the chair of the ordinance committee counil llan we have a lot of items that are just to order public hearings and they are very similar all of them are for child care parking so if you don't mind take all these items as a package to order a public
hearing the the rest of the committee members will highly appreciate it if you want I can mention that uh the item number which is item 369 370 371 375 377 380 421 420 430 and
444 so those are to other public hearings and there are all related to chare parking do you want to take those as a package so um council president I like to take those items uh as in block and make that as a form of a motion there is
a motion to take it 369 370 371 375 377 380 3 420 421 430 and 440 as a as a block to order a public hearing and a second and 438 and
438 um all please say I I guys have it uh next item is I on five I mean we took it yeah we took it as a block but now I want to have a motion that we to make it the committee report that are identical so if you
would allow me to mention the addresses so this is all for child care parking um the ordinance committee send all these documents up with the full council with a favorable recommendation to order a public hearing these are the addresses for 36924 38 corner street
second floor for 370 24 it's 106 Berkeley Street for 37124 it's 112 Park Street first floor for 37524 it's 111 Saratoga Street for 37724 it's 205 Ferry Street for 38024
it's 7 lenck Street for 420 uh 24 uh it's 159 High Street for 42124 it's 46 Bennington Street for 43024 it's 140 East hav Street number three for 43824
it's 215 Prospect Street and for 44024 it's 6 KNX Street all those are sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation order public hearing there's a motion on the table to take those as a block and to order a public hearing on all those item previously
mention um any questions in regard to these items um we call the question no in fav please say I any a the ice have it now item 37624 which is a child parking for uh
313 Saratoga to withdraw thank you so that's actually the favorable recommendation to withdraw from the uh and that was U make that in the form of a motion SEC there's a motion to withdraw properly second discussion discussion I um I don't know if it's work this is
working this is not working the reason why is that just in case because uh Council Lev and she was the one to requested that item is is set to withdraw it's because 111 s Street and 113 satat TOA street is the same addressed uh different entrances so we
approving 111 satat TOA Street and 113 was subject to withdraw all right uh there is any other questions in regard to this item I hear know all those in favor please say I I the I have got a parliamentary inquiry
council president to the clerk through you uh did I mention uh 43024 which is 140 East hav Street number three think you did I'm asking the clerk but if not we're going to make that correction did I clerk did I was that part of one of the Motions that was part of the
original it was I want to make sure that is also included as a favorable recommendation from okay 394 376 okay so that's going to be order public hearing for 4:30 24 okay good so
top of the agenda uh C plant item 5 2424 uh this is a uh handicap Park in the 42 anniv Street this was sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation to order a public hearing there's a motion to order public hearing properly second discussion I
hear none please say I I guys have it item 56524 says 15minute parking from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at 292 to 294 lawren Street was sent up to the full council with favorable recommendation to order a public hearing there's an uh there's a motion to public hearing
properly second discussion I hear none all please say hi I item 5 57124 this is no overnight tractor trailer parking on South Broadway this was sent up to the full council with a recommendation to withdraw that's the motion second there's a motion to withdraw properly
second discussion discussion uh counc this item also was sent to withdraw due to the fact that we have an ordinance in place they should be taking care of that um CH plan and and and I we actually express our concern to the
police uh the Department that this actually ordinance is now being enforced and it needs to be so they they were in agreement when they got out of here this is work all right uh thank you for the explanation um pleas sayi any n guys have it item
1725 U this was handicapped parking at 327 Prospect Street this was sent up to the full council with favorable recommendation to order of public hearing that's the motion the motion is to order of public hearing in properly second discussion I he say the 2225 this
is handicap parking at 33 Brew Street this was sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation to order a public hearing that's the motion there a motion on the table properly second discussion say 3325 this is handicap parking in 19
Exchange Street this was head up to the PO council with a fa recommendation to order a public hearing that's the motion all right there's a motion on theable second discussion I hear none all please say I I guys have it item 30
3725 proposed or 3725 right this is a proposed ordinance for 2.56 one60 a clinicians um position send up to full council with a favorable recommendation order a public hearing
hi we did is it working now right on 5025 which is the there is a motion on the table to accept it as a committee report forly second discussion Council infant did
yes hton so this is a position ladies and gentlemen Tim hooton City attorney uh this is a position in the cemeteries uh the the job responsibilities are in there I think the important part you want to see is what would be the pay the pay range is between
69703 and 79,000 it's a class 22 uh there is uh there is they're looking to add this to the uh the cemetery um and the job description is in your packet tonight there is any questions when it comes to
this position uh the job descrition has been submitted um any questions to Au reauthorize this position Council pres Infante can you can you stay that uh to the cler so she can uh make those changes and
make that as a form of motion equivalent means what two three years you got to be a specific okay so an associate degree of higher and three years exper or three years experience or right
okay three year of experience on what administrator duties it says equivalent experience I don't know if that helps you three is equivalent exp equalent to what equivalent to the job that's being
posted so if you are somehow a manager in another department or you do similar duties in it that would be equivalent experience okay everybody's clear any questions in regard to this yeah discussion CC the plan this is one of those things that if we had an HR person
here I don't know what the jaw pool situation is I have no idea what we're looking at how many applicants I mean is that easy is that difficult is that enough I mean it may be a fantastic Amendment and I have no idea if two years is the right number of times but
this is where having a tech expert in the HR Arena can say yeah this is really good for this position I think having either an Associates or three years of experience would work I just don't know that answer I I think even an HR person and I'm in due respect to the HR person
probably has no idea how a cemetery is run that's not something that's normal she would tell you how how you know how many applications you have for a police officer a DPW worker or something like that but somebody working in the cemeteries I don't know that you would have that I mean I think that's why they're opening this job up see if there
is that's thank you and that's part of my point but not my complete point so that would be part of it and you can certainly put it put that aside but the other part of it is that someone in the HR would be seeing resumés fairly frequently and would have an idea of
what kind of flow we're getting for job applicants whether it's this or other positions and then can say you know something I believe through my experience as the HR Director that we would have a significant number of applicants for this position based on
this and they you know and I just don't know that you know what I don't want to do is set this ordinance up for failure I want to set it up for success and knowing that bit of information would be helpful I'm not saying what the council vice president is saying is a bad idea I just don't know if it's a good idea or bad I don't have that experience that's
why I think the equivalent experience is kind of a catchall so that you can get people that may not have the educational background but have worked on this can can do it again this is to me when you consider the pay this is not an entry level position this is 67 um what did I tell you 67 to
7 you 69 to 79,000 this is somebody that has some decent responsibility so I I I don't know that that's you know and I don't think that they're getting resumés for people in the again I don't Cemetery department they would just be flowing by for no reason they they might be getting
people who are administrative but I don't know that they would easily flow in this depart I think that's fine I mean what you have all right we have an amendment to the to the position summary and to the requirement uh two years experience I mean uh three years
experience and uh in uh education component or an education component of uh of it two years or associate degree associate all right uh there is a motion to uh accept this uh Amendment properly
second properly it was it was second I have um this the only motion I have report she has proposed all right there is a motion to change the uh position summary includ when it comes to the education component can
hear a second properly second disc discussion on this matter as specifically these peoplei not so what I'm seeing is when there's
an individual in mind there's already plan ahead certain all right no problem so there is a motion uh there is an underly motion to asset the committee report but then there is a motion uh to change
uh the we didn't call the underline motion right no but but you can yeah I know so to change that uh the position sumary when it comes to the education portion of it at stay by Council VI president Infante um so I will call uh the motion
to change the uh the position summary um all those in favor please say I any n the eyes have it so counselors now we have an an underline motion which is to accept this is a committee report so I'll call the question on the committee report we never call the question on the
committee report so on the committee report please say any I have mad vice president U of the chair the vice Madame vice president what is the motion motion to approve
there is a motion to approve uh to reauthorize the position uh over six month um all I mean that is it's been properly second discussion Al please say I I it thank
you so much now we go to the next the next item on the personal uh the personal committee which is 5325 Madame VI Madame Vice chair of the personal committee a it's a motion to accept it as a committee report uh properly second
discussion um all those in fav please say I guys have it what is the motion Madame VI Madame vice president this is yours okay we have to we have a representation from the committee there from the from the Department
here no definitely I mean she probably have it we ask for the we ask for the recommendation at the first one we ask for the your description because we don't have it and we ask also for the same
recommendation that we did on the first one the chain of uh sumary or Theos deposition sumary all right Council lby so according to um members of the committee
that uh that the two things were asked at the committee level and one of them was that uh the position summary and uh the job description um so I I just have the
notes I'm covering for and this was sent to the full council with no requests to any addition as I look here um and I'm assuming this is the document that was given there is a job description in here um that was presented at committee again I did not present it but I'm just if you
want I could hand these to the city clerk but it's yeah yes the job so there there's a job posting at the end do you want so that we need to compare we need to compare both of them I'm going to
give you the next two both the same this is the previous package have just the ordinance not the the actual posting so we can I mean if they taking copies we can move forward to the next one one is the S
okay yeah just for they're not connect you finally got the radio under control and now the microphones are gone on you I don't know it's a it's a black cloud f I can't bring him anym he just
okay thank you I apprciate put us that today for make a motion to recess motion to resist properly second any
questions say please say I I there have it sit I don't I was just giving those both and I I thought that because I looked at the notes on the the notes on the other one said that the um job description was not attached it needed to be attached for
the council meeting so I knew that these ones said nothing of that so I I'm just going by the notes okay great work that's the last time that job was posted hey we're getting buried with applicants yeah
with motion to get a resarch there is a motion on the table properly second um please say hi hi I have it no we're going back to on top of the agenda which item um 53 25 we receive the posting and
receive the job descript uh the the ordinance and the uh and the summary of the of the job including the salary as well councelors any questions in regard to this matter yes if you look on the front page
says it's grade AG from 364 to 52 on the memorandum the page Mark memor 6 to 52,000 all right there is a um Can a there was there is no motion at this time I'll entertain a motion no we we voted on the motion to
accept it as a committee report there's a motion to approve properly second discussion on this matter I he known so all please say I guys have it now we going back to the top of the agenda which is
item um 5425 Madame um Madame um Madame vice president the chair of the personal committee stepan f number7 there's a motion to accept this as a
committee report um the motion has been taken properly second uh any discussion I hear none on the committee report discussion on the committee report C Vice pres infant all right uh any questions on the
committee report ccil plan yeah I just I'm sorry I'm just moving all these things and we're going to have a vote on this we're not ordering a public hearing or or are we we're just reauthor we're just just reauthorizing it and I'm so
sorry I'm going to go back to we there was one that we reauthorized the first one which was the cemetery one cor that that was a reauthorization the cemetery yes and we changed that did we not we actually changed the requirements not on the ordinance the
ordinance just just now they ordance okay I got to let that think for a little bit all right uh all right any other questions to accept that as a committee report
this is the underline motion I hear none so all in please say I I any n there have councelors entertain a motion motion to approve the intent of reauthorization uh can I hear a second
properly second discussion on the authorization I he none all please say hi the eyes have it any N I have it um thank you um thank you both so we're going now back to the top of
the agenda and the last items we have councelors is the communication from mayor city city official or City attorney we have item 3 3125 which is disc discuss the strategy for edication uh weight claims act Atty
hton is here with us and uh this is an anticipated executive section um for this item this would be under um planning uh for litigation not yes uh at this point uh anything that you want to
add in public no I'm assuming that you when you take your vote you would be returning to session but no problem before we go to Executive session I just want to know like if you have anything uh councelors I'll entertain a motion to go into a sec section with for the
reason can you stay theion uh for planning and strategy regarding litigation all right for planning and strategy regarding a litigation uh there is a motion on the table to actually go into executive session properly second are we good okay all right I'll call the I'll
call the role Madame CL please call the role Council Council Levy yes Council lant yes Council Lan yes Council Del Rosario yes councelor um Santiago yes councilor
marmel yes Council Ares yes Council vice president yes council president Rodriguez vote Yes now we are in SEC sections no no no we going to the back yeah I
mean you don't have to go home but you can't stay here I you have to go home stay here hope as you go into executive session you do find some e e
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little disturbance but we're okay with that it won't be much no you're not oh and look and look where Biden took us very low the low we've ever been Jeff Community she works so hard on it a
very loving person our magnificent first lady of the United States e e e e e e all right uh one more second that's
it councelors can I get a motion to get to get out of the executive section move there's a motion on the table properly second discussion I hear know all please say I I there I have it thank you all thank
you both uh for joining us on the SEC section and that day uh now we going on top of the agenda there is no other item that are pending on this agenda uh thank you
then um public uh Public Safety Committee there is no report Committee of the hall there is no report no report all business that is none any table matters that we would like to discuss take care
of table I hear none but we're going straight to new business new business item 6525 the Easter egg hunt at the O'Neal Park from 10:00 a.m. to 2: p.m. April 19 2025 this is going to the ordinance
committee and 6625 uh The Olive and July uh swi6 University Fest uh at the compion park from 10:00 a.m. to 900 p.m. this is on July 5th this is going to the ordinance
committee item 6725 ground work lawence uh Farmer Market companion Park companion common every Wednesday between 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from June 11 to October 22nd 2025 this is going to the
ordinance committee item 6825 uh ground work lawence Farmer Market at the O Corner Park South Common every Saturday between 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. June June 14 to
um June to October 22nd from give me one second uh June 14 to October 25th uh this is going to the ordinance committee it 6925 uh preaching preaching activities in the park compion park 2 p.m. to 2
p.m. to 10: p.m. June 21st uh 4:00 p.m. to um 1000 p.m. August 22nd from 2 p.m. to 10: p.m. and August 23rd and August 23r 2025 this is going to the ordinance committee ordin uh item
7025 request pedestrian Crossing light with a timers uh at all intersections within the city starting with Main Street including engineering started uh this is going to the ordinance committee um item
7121 uh review parking ordinance regulations uh invite traffic enforcement discussions uh this is going to the U review parking ordinance yeah we're going to send that to the
ordinance to the Safety Committee uh it 7225 Hillside a one side parking only this is going to the uh to the ordinance committee item 7325 an act uh to the T illegal parking uh during the during the
snow emergency this is going to the ordinance committee item 7425 resolution addressing non-compliance housing uh within the City of Lawrence this is going
to the ordinance committee item 7525 five approval of 24 uh pulling locations this is going to the ordinance committee for the next election uh on September 16 2025 and November 20 November 4th
2025 I on 7625 approval the police detail for the 24 locations pulling locations on local elections September 16 2025 and November 4th 2025 uh item 7725 approve early voting
local elections September 16 and November 4th 2025 this is going to the ordinance committee um item um 7825 approv vote by mail local elections September 16 and November 4th 2025 this
is going to the ordinance committee it 7925 approve election calendar uh for the local election September 16 and September 16 no November 4 2025 this is going to the ordinance committee Iran
8025 handicap parking B bwood Street adjacent to 20 uh 23 aler Street uh this is going to the ordinance committee item 8125 Cel of agent ordinance compliance ordinance uh
2120 this is going to the ordinance committee this is an ordinance compliance uh Iran 8 225 confirmed appointment of Victor Orga Cruz as director of veteran services this is going to
personal uh the Revis the re receive it on February 27th the 30 days expire on March uh March 31st so we need to make a decision before that day 8425 confirm a reappointment of
Francisco abbat at the Lawrence planning board this is going to personel item 8425 resolution support the Law Public Schools assum uh submissions of a statement of interest of massachusett school building authority msba
accelerated repair program a a ARP intended for roof on Windows repairs uh two years project this is going to the buet and finance committee item 8525 authorizations authorizations to spend
1, 2987 160 comprehensive opio siment uh stim stimulant and sustance use this is going to The Bu and finance Comm bu and finance committee it
8625 authorization to spend 7,365 45.92 let horard control and and uh healthy healthy home healthy homes Grant award uh by the offices of lead par
control and uh healthy homes this is going to the Vol and finance committee 8725 payment of Prior years uh build 10,496 55 uh to broadly Harden this is going to
the bana finance committee 8825 uh business and economic development uh overview inspection or Services operational update uh this is going to the Economic Development uh committee
item 8925 creation of job discreption for and and posting and posting for school committee appointment uh the education uh this is going to the personal committee item uh 9025 creation
of job description posting for the school committee appointment the finance uh this is going to the um personal committee item 9125 creation of J description posting for school committee appointy this is
going to the and for the legal one uh this is going to the personal committee item 9225 home uh tough act um this is a late file home equity
Act s all right before we send this item to committee we need this is a l fire we need seven seven vote seven positive affirmative vote to be able to adapt to the uh to take it into the agenda as an emergency M CL what is the proper
vote we just need someone make a motion to accept it as um we need we need a motion to accept it as a lay file um there is a motion to accepted as a file suspending the rules the proper rules okay here a
second all right properly second uh discussion just for the record it did meet the 48 hour notice requirement is met it's just you have an extra day in your schedule that it didn't meet so it is considered a late file so okay any
discussion on this matter I hear none all pleas say I any n m CL please close the RO councilor r yes councelor marmo yes councilor Santiago yes councelor Del Rosario yes
Council Lan yes Council lant yes Council Levy Council vice president fonte yes council president Rodriguez I vote Yes and this item will be will be going to the um to the ordinance committee all right now we going to
accept um date for Comm comm's uh ordinance two weeks uh next next week next week on Tuesday 11th 7 on Tuesday at 7 all right uh vice president Infante no motion just tell me the day oh okay so
there's a motion to send correspondent to the three department just mentioned and properly second discussion counc this item also to the City attorney we all agre that this should be an open meeting
why I'm requesting that this will be this will take take place of the meeting that the City attorney was trying to begin right got it all right uh motion has been made properly
second um do you need clarification I do I apologize um I I know I have a motion from the counselor I to invite DPW David Rodriguez and the parking vendor is the parking vendor and the City attorney oh cityne that's so it is not just the DPW it is
the director of the department all right properly second say any guys have it and that is to show up to the meeting um for the safety safety committee meeting meeting will be no Madame vce President the motion that you
made it was for the public safety and that's going to happen on what day that's to happen thday at Thursday at 6 is the public safety um personel Madame vice president infant and there is budget and
finance wday at s and is of um Economic Development thday Act 7 what time was it made on Thursday 6 all right Thursday at 7 uh any is any housing items uh any
safety um you you already call for safety um housing safety budget and finance okay we all said right personel 6m on 13 M Monday I
back 6m Wednesday right we got all the date we good well you find is at s whsday uh I interest any other motion
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