How much was it? A couple. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Yeah. We're We're We're spoiled, aren't we? Just a What are you reading? So really the endure. Good evening and welcome to the Lawrence
City Council meeting. This is the or I'm sorry the ordinance intergovernmental and relations committee meeting. Today's Tuesday, April 22nd um note that this meeting is being conducted in a hybrid um and in the digital platforms which include this
pursuing to chapter 20 the acts of 2022. This meeting the ordinance committee is being conducted both in person and via remote participation. reminder that persons who would like to listen to or view this meeting while in progress may either attend in person or use the following access locations including the
Facebook Lawrence City Council page and the YouTube Lauren City Council page. Um I'll ask the clerk to please call the role. Councelor Fidelina Santiago present. Councelor Gregory del Rosario present. Vice Chair Selena Reyes present. And
chairman Mark Llan present. Uh would you please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Even counselors, um this is my favorite time of year because we have five Tuesdays this year. We have an extra week, right? That's a good thing, right? We we do love it. So, we're going to take care of the people's business as
expediently as we can. And we're going to go, if it's okay, I went through the crowd and I was able to figure out who is here for what items. So, I have them marked here. So, if it's all right, I'll just go in that order. Um, the first group on here is document 14225. This is
city employee disclosure of a conflict. Johely chalice. Miss Chalice, welcome. Good evening members of the city and council. My name is Joel Shala. I live for Fort Avenue, Lawrence, Ma, and I'm a resident of Lawrence. I'm here because I
am employer of the city of Lawrence through the Lawrence public district school, but I also have my solo practice which I consult. Um, so I applied for a contract with the Lawrence Police Department and I was able to obtain it,
but I want to do a disclosure in front of the city council. Sure. So, thank you. So, I think the matter before us, it's not an approval. It's not a disapproval. It's an acceptance of a disclosure. So, we understand and it's made public to us and at the full council that there is a potential
conflict, but she's disclosing that. So, and that's uh the guidance that's given by the ethics commission. Correct. So, um, I'll open it up to any questions that you might have. Uh, if there aren't any questions, I would just encourage there to be a motion to send this up to
the full council, um, as a as a committee report. Correct. Motion to send the full council as a community uh, report. Second. Motion made by councelor Del Rosario, seconded by councelor Santiago. Discussion. See no discussion. I'll call the question.
All in favor say I. I. Oppos? know the I have it. Please, we have our next meeting the first Tuesday in May. I don't remember the date. It was like the 5th or 6th or something. The 6th. 6th. Thank you. So, the 6th. So, please come that day as well. I don't expect there to be a lot of discussion about this. Okay. But it's good for you to be here.
All right. Thank you. You're welcome. Uh I have council. Does that mean that it's not You need to come speak come speak to Mike. Does that mean it's not approval or I just need to come back and be with all the members to be present? You you you Well, we're going to have a vote of a full council. We're just a committee. Okay. And so we're the first
step of the process. The next step is going to be at the full council where all nine of us have an opportunity to take a vote to accept um and do understand that you have this um a disclosure that disclosure, right? There may be questions, there may not be questions because if you just say what your conflict is, you're working for the
school department. You look to work for the for the for the police department, right? And so because of that, we need to know that and it's in the file. That's it. Okay. So show up. That's it. Okay. You're welcome. Next is 14325 threeon-ree basketball tournament scholarship fundraiser at Nina Gerrito
Park and the courts at 49 Brook Street at 7:00 a.m. to 300 p.m. June 7th. Are you Elvis? Yes, perfect. You're you're my list. So, go ahead, Elvis. What do we need to know about this? All right. My name is Elvis Caval. I'm the director of movement city community
works. Uh this is our uh third third uh uh basketball tournament in name of Armen Hyatt is uh we started this cuz we wanted to get more funding for our scholarships as our program continued to grow and we had more alumni. We wanted to make sure we supported them after the program. So, as more alumni graduate, we
uh put the three and three tournament, which is something Armen High like to do, and we put a tournament around it. We invite uh all the way to eighth graders bracket, and then we have brackets for high schoolers. Um and yeah, uh last year we did pretty good. We got pretty good numbers and we hope that we could continue expanding. And we
just love also activating that park um in Brook Street. I think it's very important. It's right there by my program. Uh we try to use it every summer, but sometimes it's hard for us to access it. Um, we just like love activating that corner of Lawrence. I think it's very important especially because a lot of our kids from our program come from those homes around
that park. Any questions? Uh, councelor Deliverio through you. I I had the pleasure to went by last year. Um, I went earlier and I was amazed how clean the park was as you guys prepare it. Then I went
I would say half an hour later and the tournament was already over. But then I went to to the community works and it was a great celebration, great party. So I mean I I like the way you guys cleaned the park before and then after. It was extremely clean. So I I in full support
of this event. Thank you so much. Any other comments, councelor Vice Chair, you coming because I know the passion, dedication, commitment you have for our community. So I want to say thank you for that. Thank you.
Appreciate it. I got a couple questions. So, um the first question is I I always struggle. The the biggest one here is is is make sure there's no conflict for that location. Have you talked to recreation? Yeah, we did today. Earlier today,
today? Yeah, we went to his office. Yeah. And he said we were Did we get an email from them today saying this was clear? Do you have something from them written? They didn't give me He said it was all said that all I needed was show up here and I'll be fine. U but he didn't give me a print out or anything. We did ask, but we didn't get it. Yeah.
I I needed to speak with them a little bit more about that. It'd be good for you to have walk away with something in your hand. Yeah. Um that'd be the best thing. Um do we do we have anything on there? I I trust you. By the way, it's just if we start saying, "I like the way you look
and you're fantastic and we're going to say yes, but the next group we're not we're going to." So, we have to kind of be consistent about this. No, I understand. Yeah. Um, so I I I firmly believe this is probably okay. Uh, so I would recommend we do that. But one more before we do
that, what time is the are the events that you have at the park specifically? Yeah. Uh, 10 to 10 to 1. 10 to 1 we're holding the basketball tournament itself. I think we asked for about an hour earlier just to make sure we could set up, clean up if anything, and then a couple of hours after so we could again
clean up the park. So let me just say this and I don't think it's going to be applicable here. Yeah, but we learned from our mistakes and and last year we granted a group to have a basketball event. It took place at night and what
happened was and you council may remember this uh there were people uh it was a good event, good people, great cause, but we had outsiders that were coming in and their intent was to cause problems. Um so I think part of it had to do with
drinking, part of it had to do with the evening. Y and um hot nights and all the other stuff. So um I don't think that's the sense here, but I just again out of what kind of what what is the age group of the of the individuals that are going to be playing? Well, we're talking about
maybe 13 12 to high schoolers, so to 18 maybe. Um we do have Lawrence Police is going to be present um in our in our tournament. So they're going to come get and out. Uh we already clear with him uh with them. Who's going to be at the tournament? The Lawrence Police. LPD. Yeah. Yeah. LPD. Yeah. Okay. You're
going to have them there? Yeah, we'll have them there. Okay. Yep. They were already said yes. Oh, super. So, what I what I would look for is this. I would encourage us to send it with a favorable recommendation pending. Pending. Get some documentation. Get something written from them. Give it to one of us. Send an email. Okay. Give it to the
clerk. Bring it. Bring it. Yeah. Absolutely. Tuesday night, just have it in your hand. We make copies. That's the best thing. Okay. So, that's what we're looking for. Appreciate. Thank you. Motion to senator full council of favor recommendation pending clearing from the uh recreation department. Second motion
made by council Santiago second by vice chair race. Any further discussion? See none I'll call the question. No motion from Rosario. Who did I say? What did I say? Santiago. Council del Rosario seconded by vice
chair Reyes. Sorry. All in favor say I. No. The eyes have it. You're not going to put me on the spot counselor. I mean, I've been doing this long enough. All right. So, that's favorable. Yeah. I don't know. Come Tuesday. Okay. Not this
Tuesday, but the sixth, right? The six. And just bring paperwork. Yeah. Yep. Thank you. Yep. Do you do you guys represent the Fiesta? Yes. All right. Let's not go away. Stick around for that one. All right.
14425. This is Fiesta Delario Park. Spray Park. Yes. Splash Park. Is that Is that the name of the park? Yes. Splash park. We We gave it a name. That's part we did it last year. National Night Out in this park. We give it a name. Can we
vote on that? Um through this park we do uh Fiesta for the last long time. Yeah. So it's the park. It's the official name. All right, that's fine. I can play along. Okay. So you're here. Uh it's on June 7th. Same thing. Did you get a
clearance from recreation? Yes. Yes. Both. Both. There was today they Yeah, today we cleared both of them with a drill. Okay. Any other questions? Motion to stand on the floor. Oh, I'm sorry. Council left. Who Who had a question? Council Santiago,
please. What mean the the fiesta? What mean the activity? What do you planning to do at that day? And we can have a little more information to pray all neighbor over
there because I live in prospect here. Okay. I did activity in the park and I got a trouble to make the address from this park because like chair la plan didn't remind the
park. many people doesn't remind that and and I encourage to organization make more activity over there because that's a nice part. Yeah. No, I 100% agree. I think part of what we doing is we want
to activate that corner of Lawrence cuz it's a corner that has a lot of youth. Um it's it's sometimes it could be dangerous but also there's a lot of youth don't don't mind. They just come outside and want activity. So we're we want to activate that corner. Part of it is the festa vari which is inviting all
the neighbors from that area to come. We have food. Uh we're doing Zumba. We have other community leaders that are going to set tables. Other programs are going to set tables as well. So we're going to share with them information. We're going to have activities for kids. We want to do activities for adults. It's actually something we want to focus on cuz we want you to be able to have fun yourself
like not just play the what the kids are, you know, with the toys, what the kids are doing. Um uh my program Movement City is going to be performing as well. So it's kind of like uh it's a little bit of everything. a little bit of everything and every year it gets better and better and better. We give free backpacks as well is one of the things that we do in that space. Um, and
it's entire LCW just letting the community know that we're there and we want to be able to have access to y'all and for you to have fun in our corner of the of the space. Oh, okay. All right. I'm going to keep my eye on you this time. But yeah, another question that I Yeah.
H how do you uh plan to make to spread the information for the neighborhood? Yeah. So what we've done in the past, we do a lot of door knockocking in that same neighborhood. Um and we send um emails to all of our membership, save the date
and also the date of the uh flyer. Um so that's mainly what we do. I mean um we pass it to our kids. The kids take it to their schools. They share it with their families. We have a lot of people coming in and out the building. So again, our our main focus is the neighborhood area, but we try to send as many emails and I
I'll be more than happy to send to everybody here an email for that and share the flyer when I come back as well. If I would like to tell good recommendation that that can
work Yeah. is to spray the after the kicks in part school or or rolling school. Mhm. When they get out, you can pass, you can give it to them or the
mom or Yeah, absolutely. That's We're definitely trying to reach out as far as we can and those are still our areas. We got a bunch of kids in our program from from those schools. All right. So, yeah. Absolutely. Thank you. So, we're all set. Okay. Uh all in favor
say I. I. Oppos? No. The eyes have it. Thank you so much. See you Tuesday, two weeks from now. All right. Next is document 127. We didn't know. We didn't. No, there was no motion. There was no motion. Motion to send with favor recommendation.
Second. Vice chair made the recommendation. Seconded by councelor Santiago. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor say I. I. No. The eyes have it. 12725 resident parking Havville Street between Jackson and Newbury
Street. Here we go. Okay. Hi, your name. Hi. Yes, my name is Jeron Nelli Parra and I am here to see if we can get um permanent parking
sticker from I live on 116 H Street and I'm trying to see if we can get it from Jackson Street all the way to Newberry Street, but if we can extend it all the way to Union Street will be better on Hero Street.
Okay, questions. Uh 12725. This is from April 1st. See match April 1st, but it's in our packet. Okay. And I have it. We should all have it. It's in It's in our regular You just look it up in the regular section. 12725. Right. So, we have it
here. Um. Yep. Do we know what district that's in? Anybody? Is it B? Okay. So, while my colleagues are unless you got a question or comment. No.
Okay. So, um what we're going to typically do is we're going to send this to the police department for for their review. They're going to come back. Some of the things they're going to be looking for are driveways and see what kind of parking that there is there. Is it narrow? They I I'm not familiar with
that street necessarily. So, they're going to double check and take a look at it. Um they're going to have this they may give you a call because they've got your number here. So, you might get a call from them maybe looking for more information. Uh but they do a lot of this stuff as well with Google satellite imagery and and take a look around. So,
you may or may not see them. Okay. Um, so we'll see what they come up with for a response. It usually takes them usually about a month. I I would say that's probably the ballpark. I wouldn't expect them to come before then. Okay. And this is just so you're aware, this is your first time before
us, I believe. Right. Yeah, the first time. Yeah. Yeah. So, what happens is this is a committee and just so you're understanding of the process. It goes from here. Then it goes through if depending on what we've discussed. Yeah. We'll make some sort of recommendation. It'll go before the full council and then at that point we're going to order
a public hearing. What you're actually looking for is a changing of the law. And when we change the law, we need to make sure people have an opportunity to speak on it, the public. So we have to order a public hearing so people can speak on it. So that's the process in the following next meeting or two after that. So we're still maybe four to six
weeks out at the earliest on something like this. Okay. And then who should I give this to? They told me to see if I can uh you can give that to us. Okay. And that's your petition of people who are supporting it. Yes. Okay. Yeah. There's never parking, you know. Pardon
me? There's never parking. There's never parking any time of the day. Yeah. There's never parking. I have three kids um that I have to walk two, three blocks just to get home. There's times when I get home and there's no parking and I have to wait like an hour just to find a
parking in my car. There's times, you know, when I go grocery shopping and I have to walk two, three blocks back and forth a couple times a day just to get the groceries up at my house. So, we appreciate this. We'll we'll hear back. Um, this is becoming more of a hot
button issue for all of the city councilors because we're hearing a lot of this. Yeah. And I just um I just want you to understand that we're going to try to work on this, but also that I think ultimately this is if if we go forward with it, this is a bit premature, but if this is adopted, it
may be just a short-term fix. It's not a long-term fix because more and more people are moving into our city. Maybe more and more people may be getting cars on your street. Yeah. And there's only so much space. Yeah. and the cars will and there may be a time soon that you'll
have a resident parking sticker and still not be able to park on your street because everybody else has got a reser. So, I just want to kind of manage expectations a little bit so a couple years down the road like why can't I find a place? I thought we had this fixed and I can't find a parking space. Just so you're aware. That's all. Okay.
Okay. We'll work on it. We'll see what we can Okay. Can you guys just note there you see if to see if maybe we can extend it to Union Street instead of Newberry Street. So, yeah. So you so say it again and we'll we'll we'll send that to the police department. So you want it from where? From Hero Street all the No,
I'm sorry. From you want Street from Jackson to where? To Union Street. Jackson to Union. So we're looking for an amendment of this um amendment to this Havville Street between Jackson and Union Street. Is there someone's willing to issue that amendment? So move. Motion
made by council, seconded by Vice Chair Reyes. Any further discussion on the amendment? because that's what we're going to be asking the police department to review. Seeing none, all in favor say I. Oppos? No. The eyes have it. Is there a motion before us now to send this to the police department? Motion to send to the
police department for review. Second. Motion made by councelor Del Rosario. Second by by councelor Santiago. Discussion. I would like to Yeah. Recommended for you. You have four counselor.
a large and one for your district. You can get the any information about your item through them as well. Okay. But you are interested here is better. Watch out. You got represent you. Okay.
Yeah. Thank you. Any further discussion hearing? None. I'll call the question. All in favor say I. I. Oppos? No. The eyes have it. Okay. Thank you. Have a good night. Have a good night. Thank you. Uh the next is 12925, a one-year anniversary
celebration July 13, 2025 on camp common. Hello, I'm Hi, I'm Annie Mancbo. I'm the owner of Soil Food Truck and we have our oneyear anniversary on July 13th and I'm here because I'm interested in getting a
special permit to be able to put some tables out in front of my truck. Um, I'm planning on having like a little event and having like a paint your own mug. So, I would need some tables. You'll be providing your own tables?
Yes. Everything. Gotcha. Okay. Um, any question? Did you you may have already heard a little bit. Have you gotten Is there any conflicts with the recreation department on that day? Have you got the okay from them? Um, no. I
don't. Have you talked to the recreation department? Have you talked to the recreation department? No, you haven't. Okay. It's important that you do that. Don't I'll tell you why. Just because what we don't want to do is have this situation where there's already been another organization that has has
received a permit to be at that spot. We don't want to double book something. It doesn't bode well and doesn't help anybody out. Okay. So, it would be very helpful. When are you looking for this? On July July 13th. That's a Sunday. We do have some time, right? We're in We're in April right now. So, would you please
go to the recreation department? Sure. You heard what we mentioned before. Get something from them saying that this date is clear, it's good, and send that to us. What we can do, counselors, is we can deal with it here. I don't know if we need her back if she gets that over
to us, but is there any questions we may want to have now while she's for us through your chair? I still have I seen the truck, right? So, you don't need the whole park, right? You might you might using that little square where you pass the truck and you the grass where the grass is and that's where you're going
to put the table, right? Mhm. Yes. Okay. They're not even They probably not even going to use How many tables are you planning to put? Four to be exact. Yeah. They're not even planning to I mean they not taking the whole it's not even a third of of the park that they going to use but we're trying to make but that's
a good point. Yeah. Make sure that there's nothing going on. There might be a conflict and they will clear. Any other questions? I just have one more if there isn't any others. So your truck is going to stay on the street. Yes. Okay. So you're not putting that on the comment? No. Okay. All right. Um, I'm
looking for a motion to table it of this matter and get in that documentation to us. You don't need to be here. Just get it to us. Sounds good. We do have some time. So, we don't need to rush this and deal with it at the next council meeting you have in July. And so, if you got it,
we have time. Okay. All right. So, I'm looking for So, get that to us. Um, okay. And you can just show up in a few weeks or if you make it easy on yourself, just email it. Get You have our email addresses? No, you can get it. were easy to find. Okay. Um online. Um
do you want to give it? You give it to the city clerk and you can give it to me. Okay. Thank you. I have a motion to second. Motion made by council delar. Second by vice chair Reyes. All in favor say I. Oppos? No.
The eyes have it. That car is six years old. Saving the taxpayer money anniversary. All right, we're moving. Uh, National Grid. We've got 13425 relocate one. What
does the S stand for again? Solely solely. Solely owned and J is jointly owned. Okay. Solely and jointly. All right. So 13425. What do you got going? Uh Vasna 11:11 Tim 10 Pike Street National
Grid. Uh yeah. Uh due to the DOT project that's happening happening on the the area of Amesberry Street, um National Grid is uh requesting the uh petition approval from the city to relocate uh
solely owned pole 1301. So I believe it's on Amesberry and Muan Street. The intersection at the corner. I see a schematic on here on Newberry. Is this where it's going to be going?
You're relocating. Are you moving it? Yes. To relocate. Where is it now? It's depending what schematic you're looking at cuz this this job had like four different partitions. So, okay. That's the only So, I have it. It's called
P1301. Yep. It's on at the intersection of Amesbury Mthuan and it's number 235 is listed. Correct. Is that where it's going to go? Uh well, there's one there that's already existing and we're just
trying to move it. Uh I believe it's west 5T. 5T. That's why there's not a lot of I see what you're doing because the one the pole that that is there now it's anchored to a building across the street. So Oh, we want to remove that.
So it's anchored on this the public way. Okay. Are there any questions? We have to order a public hearing on this, right? Do we go to a public do we go to a public hearing on these on the JO Pulse and it's so close? Okay. Yes.
Looking for a a motion or a comment something. Uh a motion to send uh to the full council in motion made by vice chair, seconded by
councelor Santiago. Discussion see I'll call the role. All in favor say I. I opposed. No. The eyes have it. Okay. You've got uh you got the next one which is document 13525. That's three nothing vote on
that. We got that. Okay. Uh, relocate two JO poles on Aimsbury Street. Yes. Uh, National Grid is look, uh, seeking the town's uh, the cities approval to, uh, relocate pole 3231 and 3058. Uh, both of the poles
will be moving uh, south approximately 7 ft due to the uh, new DOT uh, widening of the street project, I believe. Okay. Questions, comments, motions. Motion to same. We favor recommendation
to the full cons. Motion made by Vice Chair Re, seconded by councelor Santiago. Discussion. See none, I'll call the question. All in favor say I. I. Oppos? No. The eyes have it. Is that it? That's it. Okay, great. Thank you much.
I just looked into new business. I see all the taxi cabs are still on here. They should not be on our agenda. Okay. Is Okay. All right. Let's see who else is here. We have 146. Oh, 146. That's right. We have u
How did I miss you, Angelo? Come on up. You were here speaking. I bypassed you and I apologize for that. We could have got you out a few minutes earlier. It's all right. I love my city councelor. Okay.
Go ahead. Go ahead. So, I'm here um just on behalf of myself, Angel, to disclose the fact that I work on multiple boards and commissions. I do the minutes for different boards. These boards are the airport commission, the law disability commission, and now the cemetery um
board, or I'm not sure if it's a board or commission, but I do the minutes for those different boards. If you know, I was told that I have to come here and disclose that. I'm not sure if there's anything any questions you guys have. I'm open to answer them. Any questions about my process? What I do for
But we you don't have to do it all over again. We heard we we all heard you. Y Hello. Hello. No. No. It's never green. Hello. Hello. Hello.
So, you guys No, we got it. We heard you. So um any questions on this? Do you understand what we're going to be doing on your So this is essentially I'm sure you heard the previous individual. So it's a disclosure uh ethics commission so you don't get in
any trouble requires that you make sure that we are aware of this and we're the governing body. So the full council is so um you're you're giving us notice. You're just letting us know. So fair enough. For the record, he said on the green.
Okay. So um so there we go. So you you'll need to come back in three weeks, but I'm looking for a motion for a committee report to sign it on up. I just noticed. So is there a motion to send this up to the full council with a favorable recommendation? I'm sorry. With a committee as a committee report. My apologies. Committee report made by councelor Del
Rosario. Second by Vice Chair Reyes. Any further discussion, questions? Um, uh, Councelor Lelant, I just wonder when is the next meeting that I have to show up? May 6th. May 6th. Okay, same time. Seven. Well, hopefully our meetings are supposed to start at 7:00. I can't promise that always happens, but fair
enough. That's the goal. Thank you, counselors. Have a great rest of your evening. We're about to vote here. All in favor say I. I. Always. No. The eyes have it. You're good. Thank you, guys. All right. We'll see you in a couple weeks. All right. Oh, we have one more item. Sure.
I You're for Sana Hispana. Are you together? Yeah. Okay, let's do that one right now. So, um there's no objection. We're going to take document number 13125, Fiesta Show Sana Hispana, June
8th through June 16th. Seeing no objections. Welcome back Rosario. How are you? Is it Rosario or Lopez? I want to make sure. Lopez. Thank you. Um, okay. So, the last time we tabled it. Yes. Uh, we had discussions regarding recreation. So, bring us up to
speed. What's since we've last met, what else do we need to know about this? Nothing else. I even spoke with Martha this uh afternoon and she said that everything was okay back when I came last Tuesday. that she didn't know why you guys didn't go through with
it. That's what she told me today. So, I'm here again. Okay. And Mr. Flynn, is he is you are you still working with him? Yes. Yes, he is. And he's not he's not here tonight either. Okay. Um
so, counselors, there is a request. Um the comment is free that weekend. I got one more question for you. Maybe two more. Yeah. Um, we this is for the act for carnivals on the comment for those dates. Just so
I'm double checking myself. The vote that we took last week was for the f the festival for the festival. There were were there there's no rides associated with that. Is there carnival rides associated with the vote that we took place last last? I
just want to hear that. Yeah. This was the second piece, right? But there's no rides. The vote that we took had no carnival rides associated. It was just the festival without the carnival rides. Yes. Okay. Okay. The other question I have is are your funding
source. Um I'm I've heard and and again I'm going to ask you publicly. Are you receiving any city monies for for this for the SAP? Sure. We have received the one that that we
applied for which was 2022 I think it was and then it was to be given 2023. It hasn't been given to us. Yes. I mean yet but yes. So you're going to get how much money is a city providing to you? 50,000. You're getting 50,000 through and that's the ARPA. Is that that's what
I'm hearing? Is that true? It's so just 50,000 and it's ARPA monies. Yes. Okay. No other city money. It's just that. Okay. And you've never, this is your first time getting that kind of money from the city? Yes. Okay. And how
much of a how much of a um of an impact is that funding? 50,000 sounds like an awful lot of money, but you can tell me. Is that is that 10% of the what's required? Is it 75%. How much of the budget is that? How helpful is that to you? The whole festival itself, it'll be
just the police bill is about 60,000. Okay. just the police. This is without the stage which is another 25,000. This is about um everything else, the toilets, the everything else that we bring to the park. Yes. So that I would
say that that festival goes around over $100,000. Okay. So you got you've got 50,000. So that's about half of the cost that you're getting that normally you would have to pick up the whole 100,000. this
year you have to pick up less money. Yes. Okay. Okay. That's good to know. Um so I'm not sure I I don't want to monopolize this conversation. Are there any I've got more questions, but I'm going to allow my colleagues to ask questions or make comments or at this
point if they have any. No. Okay. The um have you considered and if and I think the answer is yes. Have you considered the park the parking lot near where Sylvario Park is
today? I think it's called the Gateway Park and there's um park there's a parking lot there uh that would be able to withstand carnival rides. Uh have you considered that location rather than the common? Which park is that one? So it's
near the Lawrence General Hospital ballpark that area and it's the you know where the the Julia Sario Park is MIA. Yeah. Where they had with the Puerto R the Puerto Rican festival last year? It is MEA. So so that location right there where where it's it's kind of out of the
way but it's still in the city. It's very close by to a lot of things. Uh have that has that have you considered? We went last year. Sure. And uh we did a whole um the plan and everything. We brought it here to the city. So it was supposed
to be done. Then they came back and said, "Oh, no, no, no, no. All those spots are rented through the year. So we can't use it." And we were they were not even giving us I'll say for what we talk and we will spoke about like we could fit that beer there and we did a whole
thing and they were giving us like a third of what we got originally of on the first uh meeting that we had. It was um the people that are running Fernando Fernando did the thing with the drum and everything. So we sent that, we brought
it here to the mayor last year. That was going to be plan A. And so when they saw everything, they were like, "Oh, no, we're going to move people in by June." And then it was a whole fiasco and then they said, "No, we're not going to use that." Who said, "No, we're not going to use that." Ma cuz they said they own it.
And I know it's a whole thing within the city. If it is, yes, part of the city if they haven't paid, I know the whole story. So they said no. So that's So you're telling me that's not a city-owned park. That's a MEVA owned parking lot. Uh you're telling me
that's what they that's what they sell last year. And then I know it's a whole new conversation now because they haven't paid the city taxes or what it is for 20 years. I know the whole story. But the point was that they said, "No, you you guys cannot use it because it's rented.
You guys aren't part only the part in the front what the Puerto Ricans used last year. Yes, that could be used." Yeah. But then only that part will be okay for the machines. So for the machines. Okay. No carnival. And then last year also which was what I was
telling uh Mr. D Rosario. Uh they gave me the okay for May. I spoke with the person that they had um forgot the name. Jacqueline I think it is. Um and then she said, "Oh no, you never told me that." And they we had to move the machines back to the cinema. That was
last year. because it was not they were you guys were still going back and forth whether it is the cities or it is the state or it is MEAS or it is I don't know who and when you say you guys you're not talking the council you're talking who
MIVA MEVA and you say you guys who's you guys or and the city and the city meeting who DPW recreation the mayor's office me the mayor's office the mayor's office yes okay okay so what you're suggesting is that there's Well, if I'm understanding you
correctly, there I think there's an established section there where the Puerto Rican group used last year that still can be used this year. I don't know if it can be used this year because I even called left messages. Nobody got back to me. Who Who are you talking to? Who? The same the same people that I
spoke with last year. Let me see if I know who in MEA. Yes. Okay. Yeah, that's it be good for us to know. Neora. It was Neora Minuchi I think it was. That's the number I have. That's the person I was talking to. Nila and
the last name. Mikuchi. Oh, Minikuchi. That's Nila. Yep. I know who she is. Y Christina. Christina. Muchi. Morca. I think is her assistants. That's the person I was talking to. And when we met all of us,
she was there. Morca was there. Fernando, myself, Mr. Flynn, everybody was there last year. And rep Mikui. Gotcha. The two people from Ma. Gotcha. Okay. And so what they're saying to you is that is that their MEVA owns it. That
was last year, right? Last year they said to you that that entire space is all owned by MEVA. Mhm. And that no, you're they're they are not allowing you your organization to have to you for use
of that area. how it was supposed to be set up with the kiosk, with the beer, with the crowd, everything. So, they said, "No, no, no, no, no. You're going to use once we spoke with them and did the layout and everything." They were, "Okay, send it to us. We send it to the mayor and everybody." So, then when we
met in person, uh, they were like, "No, no, no, no. You only have this part," which was like a third or so. And so, it only could fit the machines, not the crowd, not the beer, nothing, nothing else. So, isn't the issue here the machines, not necessarily the crowd?
Besides the machines, what else is there? The kiosk. The kiosk. But the kiosks aren't as intrusive, I don't think, as a machine. The heavy machinery. The kiosk. Like, what's in a kiosk? It's It's like what's it made out
of? It's just a It's like a tent. Tent. It's just a tent. So, it's not a lot of intrusion. It's not like No, no, no. It wasn't the intrusion. It was the space that we didn't have. No, I understand. I understand that. But there the the the the
the section where the parking is because of the concrete Mhm. Um and the asphalt that would be a better place clearly for heavy machinery. I understand if there is um things like tents or kiosks, they
don't necessarily need to be on that parcel. We have a park near there now that I would not want to see any carnival. I wouldn't want to see any rides on Silverario Park. However, it's they're close to each other. I'm trying
to be I'm trying to think outside the box to see if there's a way that we can that we can get this what your needs done without being intrusive on some of the public owned properties that we have. So, if we have the carnival rides on the asphalt and we have your kiosks
without trucks, just the tents and the stuff on the grass, if we expand that, wouldn't that provide more space because you didn't have that space there last year, did you? I don't think. Yeah. On the other hand, remember that most of the kiosk that we bring in for the for
this uh festival are people from outside. Most of them come from Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island. So they do need like a car or to to park and me was saying there's no space for need the car to be on premises. So that's another problem. So those people
bring their stuff, the oil, everything. So same thing that the other lady was talking about parking three, four blocks only for grocery shopping. Imagine for all this uh big machineries that they're going to cook the food in. So how is that going to be possible? When we presented that
to MEA, they were like, "Oh no, nobody can park here." That was another problem. which when we are on the common they can park around not inside the park and we understand that so council I I I think I know where I'm going with this I don't know what my colleague I'll be
candid the to me so I'm trying I've been you've know my history on this issue I voted for it several times I haven't always voted for it on the common but every time there was a yes vote on the common was with the understanding this is the last year This is the last year.
And it's the reminds me of the old Charlie Brown where where the ball is hiked and Charlie Brown kicks it and Lucy pulls the ball up in the air and Charlie Brown goes spinning. I keep I'm the Charlie Brown character here. I'm going to go kick the ball and I'm going to miss it and I'm going to be falling down again because we're moving. We're
moving it again. I I brought this as well just because I someone brought this to my attention. This is an article front page back in 2018 that shows uh the carnival after it left and the impact it had after we spent $2.2
million on on on fixing this the campaign in common. Um and this is one of those times where I said this is this is it. We're going to do it but we can't do it anymore. But we keep going there. And we as a city we I'm not going to put the entire I'm not going to put the
entire I want to use quotes blame. I'm not going to put the entire blame on his spot. I'm not. We as a city with the groups need to figure out if we're not going to do it on the common where do we do it now and we may not be able to do a big thing. Maybe we can't do things. Maybe we got to do two smaller events
where if that's the money that you need to bring in. This year is interesting because you've received half of the money already. The city has already provided you money half of it. So there's less stress. It gives us a little bit of time. But I just I I can't
do this again and have this back on the common. This is back in 2018. What's that? 2018 month May. Okay. Sana is Spanish in June. And my understanding uh let me finish. Go ahead. This is the first Yeah. Yeah. And my understanding
is that whenever that had happened uh I mean whenever something has been brought up within the insurance and the machine um I understand that Mr. fleeing and spoke in front of me to the mayor directly said that if there were ever
any damage he'll pay for it and he was always willing to pay for it which he has never been reported any damage but I'm just saying that as certain as the arrival of Samana Hispana spring carnival in the campon every May is the repair and cleanup that will follow along with the debate of whether that
event and others like it should be barred from the comment because of the damage they do that's the opening paragraph so the first one you may shift it around It doesn't make a difference if it's made. That was Sana Hispana. Again, not looking to place blame because what I want to do is we need to work on finding what we need to do. I
don't think we should be doing one on the common. It's a public place. We have spoken out. We've got laws on this. I I pulled out the ordinances again today just to take a look at to make sure I was refreshed on it. And the laws haven't changed on the use of the common. Um it's it's our ordinance. But
if we can find a place outside of that. So what I'm I'm not going to support going out here. I want a table. I want to talk to MEVA on your behalf on our behalf to see what kind of option is there because and and and maybe this is not going to be 100% of what you want.
But maybe it's 60% or 75% of what you want. But at least we are safeguarding the public trust that we have with this public place that we've already spent money, significant money on. and we could find a different place that could still be workable and maybe we find a
different maybe do two of those things and you find the money elsewhere but fortunately this year you just have half of it half of the load is off your shoulders. I'll stop there. My colleagues um if I were to make a recommendation tonight to my colleagues
I would recommend that we table to have this conversation and and talk to me a little bit more about what's going on here and get us a a better sense. But I'm not I can't make a motion. So I'll leave it to you as to how you want to proceed. Let me tell you
something to recommend this man. Don't the don't throw the the towel perseverance and do it whatever you have to do it but do it. Don't let it other
decide for your purpose. Thank you. Thank you. Uh motion to table because I want to have a conversation with me by then we come back. We have just a little bit time. Motion made by councelor vice chair Reyes. Second by councelor Santiago. No
discussion on it. Tabled matters. I'll call the question. All in favor say I. I didn't second. Pardon me. I didn't second that. He second. Did I say your name again? Let me try that again. You you you're not making it easy for me. Elvis Ariel. That's okay. As you say,
that's a motion made by councelor vice chair, seconded by councelor del roario. I guess keep looking at you. I'll call the question again. All in favor say I. I opposed. No. The eyes have it for nothing to table. So, we're going to table this
matter. I'm going to get in touch. I happen to know at least one of these individuals and I'm going to see if I can have a conversation and get more information and we'll see if there's an opportunity. I don't want to make promises. I don't have anybody's schedule, but I might invite them and see if they say yes. We'll see what
happens. Okay, we'll see if we can get to we'll see if we can get a more permanent solution on this. That's going to be good. And when am I back here? I do have a meeting tomorrow for the beer. So, everything stops. Well, regarding the Well, well, yes. Well, regarding the
um regarding the carnival, the answer is yes. You can still get your permit. you can still get your permit for the beer because you still have the festival going on. No, if you're planning on changing the place or the the site because they they're not going to issue
two permits. Same thing happened last year. Well, this is still in July, right? Huh? What month is this in? June. June. June. June 8th to the 16th. We're in April and
I realize April's almost over, but we have a little bit of time left. Um, a little bit of time left. The only thing I could offer my colleagues is if we want to table it and have another meeting next week, if you wanted to fast track it, I would be open to that. If not, we can do it in the normal course
after the next council meeting. So, it's up to you how you want to proceed. And through you, Chad, and we're not changing the location. We're going to have a conversation and see if we have a second option just in case. So, I will go ahead. Okay. And go with your primate with the current location that you have.
I would just caution there hasn't been as far as using the common for the carnival. No, I mean she's she's she's looking for I mean she has a she has a meeting tomorrow with what with for whatever she's selling, right? It's beer. Yeah. Because the if there's no machine, they can still sell the beer
whatever they they have the permit at the festival just in case. Teeny tiny problem. If that's that's why I was here today in front of you guys cuz uh we need to change the plan. If there's not going to be um the machines none of the
kiosk that we have are coming because of what happened last year. So they didn't sell I'll say a tenth of what they usually do because it's one thing come bring the people for the other thing. So then that's another problem for
us that they won't come. They already said it. So that's why we are trying to do this ahead of time as you guys asked last year, but then it's tabled and tabled and table. We've only we we moved on it the first last week was the first last meeting is the first time we got it
and we moved on it immediately. So it hasn't been tabled and tabled and tabled. It's this one because we understand let's be honest with each other here. We know that the carnival rides have always been a contentious issue. Not the fiesta, not the not the
other part of it that's been very easy to get through every single time, but we know that's going to be an issue. I don't Anyway, I'm not here. I I I don't want to keep going on this fact because it makes going to sound like I'm going to blame you. I don't want to blame. I want to find out a solution. So, we're tableabling it now. We're going to try
to work on a solution. I can't help you about tomorrow. We're not there yet, but we're going to work as best we can. And you heard in good faith. Okay, we're going to move on. Thank you very much. Thank you. I think that's it for people that are here. So with that, we'll go to the top of the
agenda. Document number 14125 is Lawrence Street, 333 Lawrence Street, 15minute parking, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Put on by I'm not going to say Santiago, I'm going to say councelor Del Rosario. What do you want to do? Thank
you to you. All the paperwork it's on the file. I mean the police already did the work. You guys did not want to accept it as an emergency last time. So motion to send the full council of favor recommendation to to order a public hearing. Second. Motion made by councelor Del Rosario. Seconded by vice chair ra. Let me just take a look at it
real quick again. Order public hearing. Right. All in favor say I. Oppos? No. The eyes have it. Next 1:4525. This is interesting. Uh crafts for Alzheimer's Howard Place 5 to 8:00
p.m. uh baseball event. Um 4:15 that happened last week. Looking for a motion to withdraw this one because I think we're past that date. Motion to withdraw. Motion made by councelor Dela Rosario. Is there a second?
Second. Second by councelor Santiago. discussion. Seeing none, I'll call the question all in um Hold on for one second. Hold on for one second. Howard placed attorney baseball April 28th.
Yeah. Yeah. Go right ahead. I think um I was mentioned today. She said that um Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's nobody here either, which is puts us in a very difficult position.
And it's still the 15th. Um, so what we're going to do, we're going to withdraw it. We're going to sign it up. I don't know. We're We're not having a special city council meeting, I don't think, between now and April 28th. I I don't suspect. I don't I don't see that happening. So, I think the prudent course of action is follow.
But thank you for the information. That's helpful. We need to hear that. So, I would go with this motion just because we're not going to be meeting. By the time we take a vote on this, it'll be May 6th. Motion has been made to withdraw. I believe it's been seconded. Is that correct? It has been properly seconded.
Any further discussion? Seeing none, I'll call the question. All in favor say I. I. Oppos? No. The eyes have it. 14725 Handicap parking at 111 Arlington Street. Council Del Rosario. Motion to send the police department's
review. Second. A motion made to police and DPW has been made by Council Del Rosario. Second by by Vice Chair Reyes. Discussion. Seeing none, I'll call the question. All in favor say I. I. Oppos? No. The eyes have it. The next one is uh 14825 handicap
parking and 65 to experience street. Vice chair Reyes. Uh motion to send to police department. Second. Motion made sent to DPW and police department. Um all in favor say I.
Oppos? No. You guys have it. Document 14825. Um, which is that one? 14925 handicap parking at 124 X on Oxford Street. Whose district is that? Does anybody know who that is? Oxford.
It's not yours, is it? That's D. Okay. Gotcha. Um, can someone do me a favor? Never mind. I see it here. Okay. Well, this is interesting. This is interesting.
Um, never mind. I I it's not worth me speaking on it. We want to get home. Uh, is there a motion or a comment on this? Council Delanso Santiago. Dell Santiago.
About the handicap parking. We got a many handicap parking around all tire city. And I would like to know when you required for handicap parking if you don't have license why
you do that license driver license is allowed to to make the the handicap parking because they are handicapped because the doctor said that but if you
don't have license driver license you don't Do you do you have an example of that? Is this one right here where there's no license? I would like to require a driver license through you through your council you chair councilario.
They are they provide a handicap due to the illness or whatever they have regardless if they have a driver's license or not. And also they need they might not have a driver's license but they might have somebody to drive them up and down and they need the spot they need the
place to spot. Also there's handicap bands they go pick them up to bring it to to the appointments and all that stuff. So but Dr. Fidel Santiago you know by the HIPPA law you also cannot ask them many question as soon as you said that you
ill. They should just provide you. They don't ask you if you have a driver's license. They may check your doctor's papers and they provide you the handicap. They're not going to ask you anything else. It's against the law. Don't ask too many question against the HIPPA law. And that's for doctors in hospitals and all that stuff. But you don't need to have a driver's license to
have a handicap sticker. I I asked the question chair h because I heard the the bord of health
board one of them was uh tell they cannot provide handicap parking if they don't have driver license. one of the border members. Well, I I I I can't I can't speak to I I
think much of what our colleague said, I think that I can agree with I I I don't I can't speak to that, but having a loved one who lost their it was an elderly person who lost their ability to drive but still had a handicap parking
placard. uh when I needed to take that person to whatever, they could still park their car in front of their house because they have a handicap parking. It was their car and they had a handicap parking placard even though they they still have the license. So the license isn't but they weren't able to drive is my point because of a license. If you're
elderly sometimes you have a license but you you you can't use it for driving purposes I think. Um so anyway there are I think my colleague said it very well which is there there are times where there where you need and
can have access to a space without you the principal person having a license or driving a vehicle someone else can use it so I can't but I can't speak to your question what the board of health said and I I don't know the answer
okay I just don't Um but in this particular case, we don't know his license, but we do have a handicap parking placard which is what we asked for and we have that here for this individual. So it looks like uh it's going to expire pretty soon May
21st. But my question is not for the constituent. My question come because many many time came the same issue or the same or similar that question.
Would you do us a favor? Can you give us more information on that? Or if you was this a member of the board of health that said this we need to invite Dr. Vidal to explain about these kind of comments. I we would invite them to come here. This is
important to us to hear. I mean and it would because you're casting some doubt, right? Not in a bad way. You're asking questions and I think it's good for us to have some confidence in in that answer. Is it important that we they have a license? Is it not important? Do they need to have a license or not? They're probably more versed in that law
than we are. We're more generalist. They're a little more specific on these items. So, I can you talk to them or whoever it is and invite them to maybe come to one of our meetings. When we have a handicap parking, we can just bring them up and say on this item right here and we can just talk to them like
that. Okay. Yeah. Three you check because there's also kids who had Nikup placards and parents need to drive them around. They will never get a license. So, do we deny them? So, it it'd be good to bring me down then
and find out what was the actual conversation when it comes to that. I mean, did they found the person with the handicap driving without a license? is that's could be the the conversation at that time because going back what will happen with all those kids that we
provided that they've been provided with the handicap placards and the parents need to drive them around and they still need a handicap park you know. Sure. Sure. So I mean but it would be good to bring the doctors in and find out if you can listen a lot of pain. Yeah. If it's something that we don't know I mean the
medical field I mean it's part of the medical field so the doctor should come in and line us and I think we're always open to learning. If there's something that we don't know and we can learn more about it and if you're bringing that to our attention it's good good for you, good for us. So if you want to bring them in, I think we'll be better decision makers. I think that's fantastic. So yeah, why not? Okay, but
thank you for bringing that up. That's a very good question. Appreciate that. So where are we on this? Do we already have a vote on 124? Did we take a vote on that yet? Do we have a motion on it? No motion. Looking for a motion on 124. Motion police panel for review and detail. Second. Motion made by councelor
Del Rosario. Second by vice chair Reyes. Discussion. Seeing none, I'll call the question. All in favor say I. Oppos? No. The eyes have it. 15025. This one I usually take a little bit longer to look at. That one have the drive driver license.
How do you Oh, you mean bring it in? I don't We typically don't ask for the driver's license. We just want the placard. We don't ask for this. This is unusual to get this, I think. Am I right? the the candidate want to to she
offered that right happy I would yeah I wouldn't I would um even authorize the petition they authorize the petition you see on the bottom has an already sign on it well she's
um she's sending us information with the pains and penalties of perjury so we have two options if We are feeling pretty confident about this. We don't need to send a police department there for their review. If we feel confident about this, we can send this up to the full council over a public hearing. Councilors, I'm looking for your
recommendation. Do you want to send the police there to double check? Do you feel confident and just go ahead and send it? Send it to a public hearing. Looking for a motion. It's at 264 Street with a recommendation to full
council to order a public hearing. Second. Motion made by council vice chair Reyes, seconded by councelor Santiago to send us to the full council with a favorable recommendation to order a public hearing. All in favor say I. Oppos? No. The eyes have it. 15minute
parking 101 Bradford Street. Council Del Rosario. Motion to send police department for review and dep. A motion sent to by councelor Del Rosario, seconded by by councelor Santiago. All in favor say I. I. Oppos?
No. The eyes have it. DPW and police department. Got it. Uh document number 15225. Okay. A school bus drop off and pickup at 65 Jackson Street. uh between 7 and 5:00
pm. Uh typically we would send this to DPW and the police department for review. Is that what we're doing here? So motion made by council Santiago. Second. Seconded by council del Rosario. Discussion. Seeing none, I'll call the question. All
in favor say I. I. Oppos? No. The eyes have it. 15325 discontin. Yeah. So, we're going to table it. Discontinue of Empire Street alleyway between Appleton Street and Mthuman Street put on by Mr. McCarthy. I'm looking This is the one. He's looking
for the motion to table. Looking for a motion to table. Motion to table the item 12 15 325. Motion to table made by councelor Santiago. Second. Seconded by Vice Chair Reyes. All in favor say I. I. Post. No. The eyes have it. That is it,
I think, for new business. Oh, we got we got we got stickies in their front. Yeah. Let's take a look at those. 310 24. Yeah. Let's take a look. 310. I find it is on page five 310. Oh
yes, now it comes back to me. 31024. Uh this is Saratoga Street one way put on by councelor um councelor Luzon. Um is there any objection? We'll just take this up now. Seeing no objection. So, we've got some new
information on this. Um, this is um a email from the DPW uh from Director Haimey writing in support of the proposed change to convert Saratoga Street to a one-way. I believe this change will significantly enhance
traffic flow, improve safety for both drivers and pedestrians, and help reduce congestion in the area. One-way designation aligns with broader efforts to improve neighborhood accessibility, ensures a more efficient and predictable traffic pattern. The Department of Public Works fully supports this
initiative and appreciates the work being done to address these important infrastructures improvements. So that's number one. Yeah. Police department. Uh this is from Detective Jay Heerty. I am submitting a
memo. This memo response at 31024. This request is to convert Saratoga Street to a one-way street. The LPD recommendation at this time is to refer the matter to the city engineer and DPD for a traffic study. As mentioned and referred to on
12625, LPD will support the findings of the traffic study and any research done to support a favorable or unfavorable recommendation by the city engineering DPW. So what is interesting about this is that um police said yeah they don't have a
problem if the city engineer and the traffic studies done we don't have a problem DPW says we don't have a problem but I didn't see any engineering report but um but they're going to go out and stick their heads out on this and say this is they fully support this
u based on traffic flow and and improvement for safety and pedestrians. Um councilors, this is all we have. Motion to send a full council to a public hearing. Second. Motion made by council del Rosario, seconded by by councelor
Santiago. Discussion. See no discussion. I'll call the question. All in favor say I. Oppose. No. The eyes have it. Thank you. So that's order public hearing. It's 310 second. Anything else? Anything else? You want to
introduce um Yes, counselors. We uh we have an introduction this evening. Go ahead. Uh if you don't mind, Maria. Hi. Um introducing me Angelie. She'll be um helping us with the minutes on the
for all the subcommittees. So, she's in training right now. Very good. Thank you. And um welcome. Yeah. We appreciate your willingness to serve in this capacity. It's an very important job. I mean, it's it's really under the t like it's people don't understand how
important it is, but it's really important. So, we appreciate your willingness to to train on this. Thank you. Anything else? Let me for a motion to adjurnn. To agenda. Second. Motion made by councelor Santiago, second by councelor Dela Rosario. Discussion
seeing none, I'll call the question. All in favor say I. No, the eyes have it. A little too deliberate for you. Too del. What? What happened?