reading for the Lawren City Council today is Tuesday Apo April 15 2025 pursuant to chapter 20 of the act of 2022 this meeting will be hybrid allowing participation both in person at
the city council chambers and remotely if anybody requests this link for the Zoom meeting this was provided uh through the city clerk's office this meeting will be live uh through the Lawren City Council
Facebook page as well as the Lawren City Council YouTube page uh councilors and members of the public we would like to uh thanks Congresswoman Lori
Tryand for helping us to recoup and work with uh Facebook to be able to get our our Facebook page back in order uh for the last uh year or so it wasn't working
properly so thank you uh Representative Trhan Madame Cler Roco please councelor Levy Council Lant present council Luzon is noted as absent council no present yeah she's here oh I'm sorry thank you
Council i apologize um thank you madam clair um council del Rosario present council Santiago present council Marmal present council Reyes present council vice president Infante present council president Rodriguez
present last week on April 8th 2025 a tragedy on the Dominican Republic uh happened at the club at the Jessep Clubs in Sto domingo the roof collapsed three people from the area from Lawrence
and the area from here have passed for that reason I would like to call for a moment of silence uh please join me in a moment of silence please join me for the pledge of allegiance i pledge to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic which stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all councilors we have uh three minutes to approve today which uh those minutes are
from May 20 21st 2024 June 4th 2024 4 and June June 18 2024 can I get a motion to approve motion to approve there is a motion to approve properly second discussion i hear none all those in favor please say I madame clerk please call the role
i um councel Reyes yes council Mammo yes council Santiago yes council del Rosario yes council Luzon yes council La Plant yes council Levy yes council Vice
President Fonte yes council President Rodriguez I vote yes now we are going to proceed with the uh with public participation the rule for public participation are as follows you're going to have two and a half minute to speak about any topic in Lawrence or any topic that you desire and at the 2
minute mark you're going to hear a beep or sound or some type of um signals that indicate that you still have 30 seconds to go at the two minute at the two and a half minutes you your time is going to be up we have two names today that would like to speak on public participation the first one is H Mali name and address
for the record please yun Mali 53 Chester Street good evening honorable members we the citizen are proud to support Lawrence police union lawrence police office with the impeccable leadership by honorable chief
Bono doing excellent job to protect our citizen lawrence police one of the best police department in this nation the union of pride and honor thank you for excellent job million thanks to our DPWU leadership and employees for making
Lawrence a beautiful city thank you for your hard work lawrence inspection department thank you for excellent job we support our inspection department union Lawrence public school with the impeccable leadership by honorable
superintendent Raf Guerrero on the road to become the best public school in the nation lawrence teachers thank you for excellent job in this important year of the contract negotiation please know that we are united to support your union
lawrence one city under God we support our brave veterans thank you for your service thank you for your bravery and sacrifices thank you for a standing for freedom please fulfill two two position
empty in a veteran administration this city need a commission on elders right away lawrence always strong lawrence always unite be the Lorentian the champion support of the union roy from our brave firefighters police officers
DPW Lawrence police this blue life this union of pride and honor we pray for the safety of all Lawrence police officers we are proud to support Lawrence police officers thank you thank you
we will hold that for the end um the next person that we have is uh Rich Rosel councelor Rosel name and address for the record please uh good evening councilors rich Russell 34 Cross Street i had an enjoyable time at the fire chief uh
Moriotti's retirement barbecue at the central station at noon time a uh quick thought off the top of my head it's a shame that the two chief's jobs got pulled out of civil out of civil service several years ago when politics enters a
hiring process where professionalism really counts nobody knows what the end result will be the city lucked out with the now retiring Chief Mar Moriati was selected next who or what was the blame
for the horror show involving the two committee meetings personnel and budget and finance last night personnel was cancelled for what should have been a rubber stamp process like it has been with other temporary uh department heads in my humble opinion it was a slap in
the face to all the counselors to have the LRA basically say we can't be bothered tonight the council asked nicely using an accepted manner etc only to be have the schedule blown off by the LRA why are they trying to cook the
books to make everything look good just a thought but can the city council subpoena the L to appear the other issue of the uh budget and finance committee was the meeting was the fact there was only one counselor present in chambers with two appearing hybrid thank you
Governor Raer Healey and uh one councelor Awol and people wonder why I'm dead set against the continuation of the hybrid style of meetings this may upset some but so be it what's the difference between recognition by a council and
resolution by a council why does recognition agenda items 139 and 149 uh 139 and 14025 by the council require attendance by a recognized person while a person getting a resolution agenda
items 125 and 12625 totally get blown off last what's the status of the plaque replacement on the three monuments money was supposed to be taken out of the FY25 budget and now we have a spending freeze in place uh Catho retires and in less
than two months the city apparently runs out of money to spend in their budget thank you as always for time to express my concerns right the next person uh all these names
are going to be submitted for the record so councilors uh invoking the uh the recently revised rule four i would like to u call to the podium our chief of firefire uh today is going to be his
last day and I would like I I would like to express some gratitude uh for his leadership in the city of Lawrence uh councilors uh members of the public members of the uh the city of Lawrence I
would like to uh recognize and present this special recognition to our chief of the firefire Brian Mariotti for your years of service as a fire chief in the city of Lance
with our with uh our sincere gratitude for your leadership uh during the Colombia gas crisis in 2018 and your commitment and continuous improve of the fire station the department equipments
and the overall public safety of the city we would like to recognize today our uh chief of fire thank you chief thank you for everything you have done thank you all thank you it's been my
proud privilege and pleasure and honor to have served this city uh we've done a lot of great things together we've uh as the as the council president had mentioned we we got through some crazy disasters we bought some trucks we bought fixed some stations we kept the
guys safe we got them good equipment and uh I didn't do that alone i did it with them and I did it with all of you and and those before you um and I'm hoping that you'll all continue to do that after I'm gone with the next guy because the fire department always needs something unfortunately we always need
something thank you um I'm honored i'm I'm looking forward to the next chapter of my life and uh I I guess that's all I can say is thank you so much thank you make sure I didn't break it when I counselors now we have a few things on
the agenda and uh out of the ordinance committee we have a resolution uh to be presented recognizing the Lawrence High School uh theater program as well as a resolution recognizing the Lawrence High School uh
basel [Music] uh Hillary Macdonald those two uh we would like to uh present those so madame uh Mr chair from the uh ordinance committee do you mind presenting those report to
us so I think we're looking at the first one would be document 13925 this is a resolution recognizing Lawrence High School's theater theater program this was sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation and I make that in the form of a motion thank you
there is a motion on the table properly second uh any discussion all those in f please say I i madame cler please call the roll council Levy present yes yes council La
Plant I'm present and voting yes council Luzon yes council Del Rosario yes council Santiago yes council Marmal yes council Reyes yes council Vice President Fonte
yes council President Rodriguez I vote yes unanimous the resolution is adopted now the resolution has been adopted uh the difference between a resolution and recognition as uh it was raised
before a resolution is an official opinion of the city of Lance so today we are recognizing uh the students of their uh theater program as an official um opinion of the city of Lance with
this recognition with that said I'm going to uh pass over the gabble to the vice chair um and I'm going to present the following recognitions well counselors we have a certificate of recognition or a resolution that it was
u uh introduced and present to that uh through the ordinance committee as well as the full council and uh today we're recognizing the the Lawrence High School theater uh C and teachers uh the city of Lawrence
recognized uh the for the outstanding achievement on the following Lawrence High School students for participating a sessional performance at the national uh performing art of festival at the Universal Studios over over there in Feb
during the February vacation uh for the performance and on the heights the Lancers cast was award with the assembly of excellence in choreography the judge
uh the judge trophy uh for the highest achievement and the showcase trophy for the festival highest scores uh with that said counselors I would like to read one of the resolutions and the names for
that every uh for everybody that is here as well as the teacher uh we also have a recogni a recognition for the program itself uh for their performance on on the heights of the national performance art festival at the universal studios in
Orlando Florida where the lancers uh theater cast the award assembllet of excellence and choreography the judge trophy for the high achievement and the showcase trophy for the festival highest scores uh there
there now there now there are four in the 15 of April of the year 2025 the Lawrence City Council uh recognize and congratulate the members of the Lawrence High School theater program uh and extend the members of every wish and
they share to the dedication and talents for the city of Lawrence uh respectfully submitted and signed for every by every every city councelor this resolution is been presented to the following students kevin Rees
[Music] can we hold all applauses until after we're done um naming all the students please and thank you thank you Kiara Felix karolina Sanchez Amos Bashar Jimmy
Alvarez Amaya Maria Melat Moen Emanuel Flores de la Cruz Alexander Nareno Leslie
Hernandez Janisa Rosario Henry Matabier Warren A Costa Angel Monte Carl Monte Kelly Castillo Margar
Kado Julana Juliani Familia Jasmine Fernandez Elelliana Florimmon Emily Founders Chassity
Flores Adrian Frias Desire Gonzalez Brenda Javier Kayen Javier Christopher Herrera Yalisa Laara Johnson
Lopez Jay Martinez Omar Castillo Devin Pichnon Briana Toriio Jenia Torres Edison Castillo Contrera and also we would like to
recognize the teacher uh for the theater program Lenin Nolan so Christopher thank you Javier thank you the
teacher Linen thank you carla Montes thank you angel Montes a Costa Edition Castillo thank you
Jenia Torres briana to Devin Omar Jesus Martinez Johnson Lopez Yali Salara Henry uh Metivier Janisa
Rosario Lesie Lesie Hernandez Alexander Alex Emmanuel Flores Malia thank you jimmy Alvarez Amos
Aer Kra Felix Kiara Felix thank you karolina Sanchez Brenda Javier Des Gonzalez uh Amaya Maria thank you
Adriel chassity Emily Aliana Alina Yasling Fernandez Juliani Familia Margari Kado E uh Kylie Castillo everybody have
theirs all right uh we would like to stand an opportunity for one two member and the teacher to come in front of the mic and express a few words to to the city if you guys decide who were the singers
i think Alex alice come on i think perhaps council president let's start let's start with with the teacher of the program while the kids figure out the students figure out who's going to speak if you want to say a few words okay
um hello hi i'm Lauri Donlin i'm the proud director of the Lawrence High School Theater Program um they had a phenomenal week um down in uh Florida in February i'm like when was it um you have to forgive us we just closed our
show last weekend so we're we're a little sick and very tired so we're a little delayed right now um but they represented Lawrence with pride um we are grateful for our city and for our our superintendent who um supported them
and financed the trip for the kids um they represented the city with pride um they performed in the heights which was very dear to their hearts and represented Lawrence really well and um they were the highest score of the
festival so on award ceremony night um they got awarded several things uh the first is excellence in choreography and I actually want to Chaz come here um and um
uh and Chassity um is our student choreographer and choreographed all of that herself so they were really stunned when they found out that a student uh choreographed all of that um and hopefully she'll keep getting credit for that because we're in several state
competitions with it also um and then they awarded them a uh superior rating which is the highest rating so we got a trophy for that um and then they gave us another trophy which was just for a high
score and for excellence so then we were confused and thought we didn't win because now we got a middle trophy and there was still a bigger trophy on stage and then they announced us as the winner so then we went up and got another
trophy so um we came home with with a plaque and three trophies um and the other schools might have been a little bitter about that um and programs because they gave us so many uh awards but they got to then um having that
highest honor they got to perform um for the public um on our last day there at Universal Studios so that was um if you get the highest showcase award um you get to perform your whole program for the public so they got that honor um and
then a few of them um also got medals for their solo competition so if you got a medal for your co solo competition I don't want to forget anyone so I know Karolina did and um Kevin got one for his performance raise your hand guys um
and then Kiara um so they also got medals for their solo performances um so uh they made Lawrence proud thank you um as students we would like to thank you for um recognizing our hard work um
it takes a lot to get up on stage and we just appreciate that you guys are able to recognize us so we thank you as students i have to say Alex Alex Alex I have to say I enjoyed looking at your mother's photos from
this past weekend as she posted on social media so congratulations to you and to all the students in the theater program you guys did from what I saw on social media you guys did awesome thank you any other students any other student that would like to say a few words are
you sure all right uh well counselors now we have an special recognition to the uh to the actual program itself uh for the highest honor at the 2025 uh national performance arts festival at
the Universal Studio in Orlando Florida receiving the first place for their performance on the heights with that said uh counselors I would like to present this recognition this plaque uh to the teacher and to the member of the program
well that's beautiful thank you so much this was beautiful the school the school system also gave them a beautiful plaque so we will find places of honor um to put all of these lovely things and to cherish them
because um hopefully we'll get morning more in the future but you never know so thank you so much thank you to all of the students the councelor would like to uh be honored with uh with you say hi to you and shake your hands so please come
over just Don't play with me [Music] oh my god thank you so much [Music] thank you [Music] oh my god
hey guys we're going to take a second we're going to continue with the next resolution from coming out of the ordinance committee um the chair of the committee you have a floor thank you madam chair the document 14025 is a
resolution recognizing Lawrence's high school varsity wrestler Hillary McDonald this was sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation and make that in the form of a motion motion has been made by council the plan seconded by councelor Levy
discussion seeing none madam clerk could you please call the role councelor um councelor Reyes please yes councelor Marmal yes council Santiago yes councelor Del Rosario yes council Luzon
yes council Lant yes council Levy yes council Vice President Fonte yes sorry I did it backwards council President vote yes thank you and the motion care passes council President yes uh thank you uh uh Madame
Vice President Infante and members of the city council for voting on this resolution uh I would like to present this resolution to Hillary McDonald's uh Hillary McDonald has been a member of the Lawrence High School class
2026 and have developed a uh have developed have developed into a a great members of that Lawrence High School girl wrestling team uh where her hard work and determination have set her apart at both athlete and the leader of
the teams um Hillary have been given the an excellent performance in the 20 and 2020 20 and 2025 uh girls allstar tournament she have already uh uh she has already be the first high school girl wrestling and and
and school history to win allstar title on 2024 and her 2025 uh uh championship have repeat and accomplish uh those and have increased their accomplishment as two-time winner of
allstar title as a gu wrestling program uh therefore the members of the Len City Council applaud their her accomplishment and for that we are recognizing her through a resolution today
so if you want to say a few words um I would like to thank my coaches and my parents and also my teammates um I didn't get here alone there's been many days where I didn't want to go to practice or I said I was too hurt and my
coach Guzman would always be like "Get up you know you have to win your title again." And he would push me and my parents at home would push me too and my teammates when they would see me slack off they would also push me i would like to say I'm not the only athlete that has
got so far there has many other girls that have gotten very far and I hope I'm not the last nor the first so I appreciate everything and everyone thank you [Applause] so uh
she's looking for support for her parents uh and the coaches thank you everybody that support the program uh Hillary has been a a a great advocate for the program and uh and I and have
everybody behind the program now so thank you so much for everything you have done and the coaches as well i'm see ahead so madame vice president fonted I would like to ask if the council alterain a motion to recess for a second
can I get a motion to recess for 5 minutes to recess motion has been made by councelor Rya seconded by council marmal discussions seeing none madame clerk can you please call the role councel Levy yes council plant yes
council Luzon yes councelor Del Rosario yes council Santiago yes council Maml yes council Reyes yes council president vote yes council vice president yes perfect thank you motion carries fivem
minute recess yes come on goodbye [Music] personal stuff mhm he's like I don't want to give you that back council let's get get a motion to get our res
there's a motion on the table properly second uh roll please council Reyes yes yes good girl all right council Mama yes council Santiago yes council del Rosario yes council Luzon yes councelor
Lel plant yes councel Levy yes council vice president yes council president well yes so uh let's go on let's go on top of the agenda well let's go back to uh the committee report personal committees we have two items that are
table uh from personal committee and we would like to get those on table madame vice chair madame vice presidente uh those items that you're referring to i would like to make a motion to unte it 97-25 um the confirmation the
confirmation to appoint Save Ortiz to the Municipal Airport Commission with the term ending July 15th of 20 of 2027 and I yeah motion there's a motion on the table properly properly second um
Madame Clair please call the role um council Levy yes council Lant yes yes council Luzon yes council
Del Rosario yes council Santiago yes council Maro yes council Reyes yes council Vice President yes council President I vote yes um madame vice president I'd like to
make make a motion to approve item 97-25 there's a motion on the table properly second discussion madame Vice President Fante thank you through you council president last full council meeting we did have Mr ortiz here in front of us and we all had the opportunity to to
have a a conversation with him and to ask him questions the only thing that was missing from the file was his resume which now we all have in front of us um I hope that each counselor had the opportunity to take a look at it um Mr ortiz is on Zoom council President did
confirm so if there correct if there are any other questions pertaining to the resume we do have the opportunity to ask that as well counselors any questions for the candidates the resume has been submitted for the record
it's on top of the table like this all right if there is no questions I going to enter in uh I going to call the motion madame Clair please call the role councelor Levy yes council plant yes councelor Luzon yes council Del Rosario
yes council Santiago yes councelor Marl yes council Reyes yes council vice president yes council President vote yes uh madame uh madame vice president you're going to entertain a motion to untable item 9825 so motion carries this
is we're good with that yes okay item 9825 i make a motion to unable item 98-25 the to confirm the appointment of DO Cruz to the Municipal Airport Commission with a term expiring July 15 of 2026 so move there is a motion on the
table properly second discussion um um no discussion on the tail matters boss and Phil Malanchair please call the role council Reyes yes council Marmal yes council Santiago yes council del Rosario
yes council Luzon yes council Lant yes council Levy yes council Vice President Fonte yes council President Rodriguez I vote yes now in resume has been submitted for the record council President I make a motion entertain a
motion to approve item 98-25 the confirmation of Neo Cruz to there is a motion on the table to approve properly second discussion discussion madame vice presidente thank you through you council president counselors again similar to the previous item we had Mr cruise in
front of us um to at the last full council meeting we had the opportunity to ask him questions to learn more about his background and again he also was missing the resume within our packets now we have it um but he's also on Zoom in case there are any additional
questions or comments for him there's any questions counselors I hear none i'll call the question madame Clair please call the role councelor Levy yes council Lant yes council Luzon yes council Del Rosario
yes council Santiago yes councelor Marl yes council Reyes yes council Vice President Fonte yes council President Rodriguez I vote yes congratulations to both thank you uh uh Dion and uh Mr ortiz Mr grus and Mr
ortiz thank you for your willingness to participate and get involved you've been you have been approved all right we are going to uh to committee reports before we we get we get to that point i would like to
um public so going to entertain the motion committee reports all right we go on top of the agenda we're going to entertain uh the committee reports at this moment public hear the I mean sorry the public hearings and we have item 11625 which is
the approval alteration of on street parking plans and around at and around the Henry Oliver schools um madame cla please
um read that uh the public hearing notice is hereby given that the Lawrence City Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday April 15th at 7 p.m in the council chambers 200 Common Street Lawrence Mass pursuant to chapter 2 of the acts of 2023 as further extended and
in accordance with recently revised city council rule two this meeting will be hybrid allowing participation both in person and remotely to accommodate any participant with health considerations that prevent in-person participation the meeting may be viewed on Facebook and YouTube to receive access codes please
contact the city clerk at eene.brol bernnal@c city of lawrence.com or 978-620-3230 the purpose of this hearing is to gather testimony information and public input concerning the proposed amendments and alterations of the onsite parking plan at the Haveril Street and
Oak Street at and around the Henry K oliver School this plan shall include but not be limited to the alteration and enhancement of crosswalks on Haveril Street between the school and the Campanyon Common the creation of one accessible parking space on Haveril Street the revision of some parking on
Oak Street and the creation of a dedicated student dropoff lane and improved street markings and signage the proposed changes in their entirety can be viewed on the city of Lawrence's website at www.slaw.com the serance.com document
center 50164 6116-25-loliver-school-alternate- parking on-verand- oak- street or can be obtained at the office of the Lawrence city clerk during normal city hall business hours persons wishing to be
heard shall be afforded the opportunity public hearing is now open any anybody from the public that wishes to speak public hearing is now closed i'll entertain a motion council President Council Lan I'd like
to make a motion that we adopt this matter with the language that was provided to us and the resolution at our desk and I will ask the clerk if she would be so kind as to read that in its entirety because this is fresh information yeah Madame Clerk do you mind reading
those i do not mind um it's a resolution in favor of amending and altering the public way plan for the new Henry K oliver School whereas the city of Lawrence and the Lawrence School Department have engaged the Madam Clerk if you could just go for the here therefore be resolved that actually says
exactly where the streets are i like it therefore be it resolved a handicap parking area shall be established in front of the Henry K oliver School the sign is to be placed in the northeast corner of Havil Street and Lawrence Street Mass Highway Street boundary marker on sidewalk to a point 430 ft on
Havil Street and from northeast corner of Havil Street and Lauren Street to a point 550 ft on Haveril Street a no parking zone should be established with a no parking signage and pavement curbing markings on the north side of the street of Oak Street from the northeast corner of Oak Street and
Lawrence Street to a point 51 ft on Oak Street a no parking zone to be established with no parking signage and pavement curbing markings on the north side of the street sidewalk of Oak Street from the northeast corner of Oak Street and Lawrence Street to a point 205 ft on Oak Street and from a
northeast corner of Oak Street and Lawrence Street to 586 ft on Oak Street a no parking zone to be established with no parking signage and pavement curbing markings on the south side of Oak Street oak Street School entrance from the southeast corner of Cardillo Way and Oak
Street Oak Street School entrance to appoint 78 feet on Oak Street now therefore may this be so ordered that's my motion all right uh there is a motion on the table can you hear a second properly second discussion discussion council
plan uh we had a lengthy conversation about this in the ordinance committee and I think that the committee me I can't speak for the committee members but it sense from that discussion that we had is that there's going to be traffic issues there's no way around it we're not going to avoid it um there's
going to be some significant traffic issues but out of all the bad options this is probably the best out of the bad options that are there so um uh sometimes growth has some pain this is growth with some pain and the pain that you're going to feel is further
congestion and parking issues in that area so um I just think it's important that we all vote on this with our eyes wide open understanding exactly what we're voting on we voted for a school and with the school comes other kinds of ancillary uh issues this is some of the
big ones thank you council president council President council vice president thank you through you may I ask the chair of the ordinance committee a question sure u councelor Le can you remind me the length of of this how long
we're going to have this in active for you're in fantastic luck Vice President because we have experts here that can go into all the detail with that so let's let's expand this opportunity for the expert to maybe I should preface the uh answer to that question by
introducing my team and uh we can determine who is uh might be the best person to answer that question i of course am Daniel McCarthy i'm the planning director for the city of Lawrence i have uh joining me from the Lawrence public schools is Odana Hernandez who's the chief operating officer for that um we have our design
team from SMMA um John Hart and Helen Fatini who are the civil engineer and project manager we have a traffic engineer here Mr wayne Kefner um from Brennan Consulting um we also have from the Mass DOT program safe roots to
school Judy Crocker who's a statewide coordinator on uh safe streets and the outreach supervisor and then as a project manner for answer advisory who's overseeing this project uh Mr christian Quervo is here as well so um I I who would be the best person to answer the
question could you repeat the question council vice president the question was is how long can we anticipate these changes to be in effect forever i think the answer these are permanent permanent things but there may be a follow-up so council vice president you can yeah ask whatever questions
you'd like so let's uh let's hear from the team uh the traffic engineer uh that's something that we we have never have so uh so let's hear from let's hear from him first so welcome thank you sure my name is
Wayne Keifner i work uh from Brandon Consulting at 24 Main Street in um Burlington the as part of the traffic report we did a a crash analysis and there were of all
the intersections that we studied and in front of the school there was a higher than average uh crash rate so we normally compare crash rates to both mass DOT specific district and statewide and in front of the school there was a higher than average crash rate both
districtwide and statewide so that's why we we recommended that a parent only drop off be established because Oak Street in this location is one way and only two lanes wide that parking lane would take one of
the uh through lanes with parking on the left hand side so that's why the parking on the left hand side needs to be removed to allow cars to go around the parked cars that are dropping off can you repeat can you repeat uh who you work for sure brennan Consulting we're
traffic consultants for SMMA and uh that's out of where in Burlington Mass burlington Mass okay thank you uh council president is councelor present in is going to recruce himself herself uh due
to a potential conflict of interest uh the so keep on telling us more a little a little more yes just to uh get you sure um I'm not sure how much background you like Helen certainly has more background just in general i mean you say that you
you generate a crash analysis in the front and you compare to the district for and then compared to the national I mean add to that up state state statewide statewide mhm district and statewide and then and then they're going to get you to determine that the drop off pick up area going to be in the back of the of the So when we do crash
rate analysis we do calculations and the the final number that comes out is is the unit of it is um crashes per million entering vehicles right and so we know there's not a million vehicles entering but we can extrapolate it out and uh the
normally the districtwide crash rates and the state crash rates might be around like 0.5.6 6 something like that per million entering vehicles um I want to say the crash rate at the drop off area was like 1.25 something like that it was way higher it wasn't just a little higher it was way higher so I think part of our recommendation was the
drop off area as well as the the raised crosswalks those are safety they slow cars down and things like that so the combination of the two is what our recommendation was to to provide a safer drop off for for kids walking and being dropped off
so essentially counselors we have uh a drop off pickup area in the back of the school with a total 23 spot that are going to be removed and then we have a parking spot reserve which is going to be a total of seven is that correct so I
think there's there's probably three separate areas along Oak Street where parking is removed but I want to say one of them is for fire access from is name name address sure my name is John Hart uh I'm with SMMA um from Cambridge
Massachusetts and I'm a civil engineer um so there there's uh few three three different spots along Oak Street where parking is being removed um on the on the corner with Lawrence uh Street
there's two spots removed on the north side of Oak Street and that's for truck access in particular fire trucks turning from uh Lawrence Street onto Oak Street um so they can make that turn um and
then there are 17 spaces which are primarily in the in the in the rear of the school building and extended a little bit uh to the west to allow for as as Wayne was saying that the shift in the lane to provide a drop off lane on
the south side the school side and then have uh cars pass on the north side currently there are there's parking along the north side and the and the travels on the south side um and then there are four additional spots
um as the the school design there's a wing that that goes to the east uh along Oak Street and that is where the loading is for the school um and so there's four more spaces removed in that location um and then there's the one accessible
space uh that's that's at the front of the school on Haveril Street so there's a a total of uh 23 removed on Oak and then the the one designated on on Haveril Street um the there is there was existing three
crosswalks designated in Haveril Street and now there's the one um wider um designated crosswalk with the raised crosswalk with the with the uh flashing beacons um and the school uh school zone
is also marked along um Haveril Street and there's additional signage so the goal of the design was to make a uh a safer environment on both streets for for drop off and for the students um as
well as um being somewhat efficient um you know we need to use both both streets for drop off um so uh you're going to have an SP pumps in the front of the So there is a raised
crosswalk proposed uh senten h kind of the senten speed humps and and raised crosswalks so it's it's it's a raised crosswalk one raised crosswalk on Havil Street so uh and how that that's going to
reduce the speed around the area as well so do you do you guys make did put any anything any any numbers together as of how much that's going to reduce the speed around um well there I mean Wayne can maybe speak about the the speed of the cars
but um right now there is no school zone signage up there there wasn't when the school was was in operation so now there's a school zone signage both on uh and markings on the on the road um and
and there's an approach uh reduced speed limit uh coming up to that and then the raised crosswalk if somebody's crossing the street there they'll push a button and the flashers will go on both sides both directions um so there's there's warning for that and
and I believe it's right down to 20 the speed limit is 20 miles an hour counselors any questions in regard to this uh specific item council President if I may yeah councelor Rosario council you go next thank you thank you thank
you i'm sorry yeah through you Council President just two comments i'm glad that the taxi companies are here beach changes are coming 20 miles per hour in the school zone so you guys got to be careful right on Oak Street Jackson Street Hav Street so I'm glad the taxi
companies are here because because I want this is the Oliver school coming in and they're going to implement great changes big changes so we had that conversation last week so I'm glad you guys are here cuz there was school buses going to be there kids are going to be
crossing around and it's going to be lights are flashing we expecting you everybody to stop so I'm glad the taxi drivers are here and and another thing is that this is a public hearing and I know my colleague is going to speak uh after us and it's a shame that
the public is not here those people are going to be impacted on Oak Street they have no voice here they not they not implemented they're not saying how impacted they going to be they did a traffic study but they did not they did not knock on doors to find out how that
will impact that neighborhood and and it's council president it's a shame that that the community on that area is not here to speak how that will impact them when it comes to parking and also traffic in that area that's my two
comments thank you councelor Lon thank you Council President and I have a question uh and thank you um councelor Rosario for mentioning that uh uh so we already have a problem with
parking in every sector of the city do it it do they took that in consideration when they did the study and I don't know who can answer this question from the team that is working in this project but it looks like they
didn't well that it looks like that that was not uh take they did not take that in consideration but also where are the new teachers are are going to park they haven't mentioned
So I would like to hear from them what are they proposing sure good evening counselor yeah and and I'm I'm sorry council president and how many teachers because this is going to be uh a brand new school how many teachers are we
expecting all right so we have a a a school is going to be school capacity is going to be a thousand students so how many teachers we expecting where they going to park and also if you took into consideration the parking spaces issues throughout that area sure good evening
councelor Sanis Hernandez chief operating officer of Florence Public Schools so just a quick background um this project um goes back to 2021 when we first were presenting the project um we've met with city officials we've met with city councilors at the time and
based on the feedback that we heard um regarding the safety of our students crossing um both on Hero Street and also on Oak is why the project team is proposing or started working on proposing um this um this design and
this recommendation um we did the I should note that the traffic study that we are referencing um this project let me go back the project also started to develop during um the pandemic COVID so the traffic study that was conducted uh
was during that time so unfortunately we could not go out and knock on doors the team could not go out and knock on doors due to the pandemic restrictions that were in the city at the time uh the commitment that we have made is that we would like um the opportunity to wait for the school to open both the Oliver
and the Ley um and also um wait for the traffic um patterns that are um scheduled to change around Aspberry and Laurens Street and then we're going to rehire or hire a traffic engineer to come back and then do a true assessment
of the traffic patterns with school in session um to do something now it would it's not going to provide any data to present to you in terms of any traffic part patterns because we don't have schooling session in that area yet so we we you know that's our commitment it's
to hire the engineer back bring them back um when schools schools both schools are open um and in session and when the um city's um work around the area is also happening to them present some real data um as far as the parking
uh restrictions or recommendations on Oak Street um the three spots that it's being recommended to be removed at the beginning of Lawrence and Oak was um from feedback from the fire department when we've met uh with city officials um during the wraparound um meetings that
took place it was because any emergency vehicles cannot make that turn um if they were responding to any emergencies on Oak Street so to allow for uh fire truck or or any ambulance and or um school buses um that was the
recommendation and that's and that's what um that's why the project is proposing that and then in terms of the other parking spots that are um being recommended to be removed that is to allow for the implementation of the drop off um pickup area on Oak for students
um when doing the design and having and being faced with um the side of the street that will be the safest for our children to be a to be dropped off and picked up that's why the recommendation to move this pickup and drop off area on the back um of the school which is Oak
versus Hero Street which as we know is a it's a busier street uh we realize that the crosswalk um it's being you know the recommendation is to add a race crosswalk is going to be along the Cardillo way passage um this will allow
with the flashing beacon would allow to alert drivers that are driving around that there's potentially a pedestrian or kids walking through the through the um through you know walking through that crosswalk it would also the multiple
crosswalks in that area um by keeping them all which is three it also poses a risk um a higher risk for students and or drivers to get confused multiple kids um and and people pedestrian crossing at
multiple um crosswalks it allows for more confusion and morea chaos um so for that safety and taking that into account it's why the recommendation um before you to to eliminate the two just have the one um to and also some of the
parking restrictions in front of the school is also to to taking that into consideration was preventing from cars to be parked too close to the school building so that kids that are crossing they're not kind of being mistaken on hiding in between cars that also happens
as well so um it is our commitment to be able to come back uh once school opens so that we can then um you know do a concerted effort to then engage the the community and the and the neighbors around the area we did send communication we did we did send flyers
um while we were doing community um meetings we host the community meetings um open forums um send invitations out to be able to educate um or inform um not only city residents um in the entire city but those that will be um primarily
impacted by this recommendation that we putting forth before you tonight and through you Council President if I may just for the record uh some of the buildings that are in that area they have parking just just to add to um uh
her comment but I still I'm still concerned about uh the city the school department building a school uh without taking in consideration parking but it looks like that that school is not it is not going to have parking am I correct
parking like as a part of the uh of the construction it's a small parking lot and uh so I do have parking let me Yeah I missed I missed answering that part of your question councelor Luson correct the Oliver school um was not intended to have any parking since it's since we
started presenting the um it's fair to say that when the school and when the school received the city received the funding through MSBA and when we engaged with the our um OPMS um and we were looking into different spaces across the city to be able to build the school um
there were multiple locations that were presented to to city at the time right to city counselors for the potential location to build the school um unfortunately um not unfortunately but you know through some of those that analysis the other locations were not feasible due to other things whether it
was um um potential lead abatement or asbestous re remediation so then it was decided that the existing building which the current um Oliver building was the the the best building to build on which is became then the project became a
Renault/construction so we renovated the the front portion of the building due to the historic nature of the building and then the new construction um is the part on Oak Street that we're building the school is a thousand seats councelor Luson so is the I'll add the Ley school
is also a thousand seats so between the two schools you're looking at about 400 or 450 teachers um that will be occupying uh or staff that will be occupying the the two schools so the all over about 225 250
um staff talking you know I'm referencing anywhere between calf workers to custodial to teachers to paras um and anything that um you know to principles anything that makes up the staffing of a school um the Oliver does not come with parking um I think you
know it was a conversation through many of the meetings here at city councelor at the city council with many counselors at the time it was um always a concern that the counselors brought forward and always asked the school um and the team around what is going to be the the
parking solution um we reported during during our uh the ordinance committee when we came to discuss this item that internally since um Superintendent Carrero has been in office we have been meeting um consistently with the city um
officials the planning office the mayor um and others to try to navigate um and figure out this same um concern that you're raising councelor Lon which is parking parking for teachers parking for staff um so we are in the planning
continue to be in the planning stages and in fact we just um calendarized a meeting followup for May 1st so we'll be happy to also report back um so anything is at the table right to be able to aliate and be able to be come with a
solution to see um what parking can be available for our staff and and I through you council president I understand uh uh and I appreciate on behalf of my constituents the effort uh
but I also it's leaving me with no answer because there's no space in on district i don't see any land that we can use that belong to the city that we can use for parking i just hope that uh that is also part of the conversation
there's nothing that I able uh to see available for parking in my district i um I think that uh the city should is going to have to take in consideration removing some meters uh through you
council president uh removing some parking meters that we have on Habro Street not only because it's going to be it's going to uh create more um it's going to be more difficult for teachers to park also for the residents
that live around there uh the more teachers that the staff it looks like the staff is going to increase the amount of teachers that we're going to have is going to increase and parking is going to be challenging um
I'm I know that it's is a growing pain and that we have to approve that because we also have um many new uh residents in the city families with children that need this facility that uh parking must
be uh part of any conversation that uh is going to impact district B the entire city it's going to impact the entire city uh and I would like to be included in in any uh future conversation if if if it's
possible uh with the uh school department uh to at least uh make sure that we inform the residents that you know to keep continue informing the resident that this is coming and hopefully uh the city the administration
and the city council along with the school department can find at least uh a option to offer uh to residents and to the new staff that is going to be working at the at the school thank you Council
President thank you Mr president councelor Santiago and yes there are many uh many conversation about the parking i know it does new school or or bigger the school come bigger or to a school together and
we have a thousand kicks if I didn't hear is all right a thousand do do you know h what is the plan for the crossing guard because for morning and
afternoon really I do not go there because will be the big challenge to cross this way and for the crossing guard we got in my district district A we got part school
have horrible traffic there and is not in the center of the city it is on the side i can imagine it on the center with thousand kids and not enough crossing guard i would like to hear what is the
plan for the to to to cross those kicks in morning and evening or afternoon as well or they have after after school program yes good good question counselor um
Santiago so um with with the Oliver with opening the new school the Oliver Middle School uh which is currently uh the old high school what we know as the old high school North Common Education Complex will be moving to their new school so there's currently about two or three
cross crossing guards that are um supporting that building because that building houses three separate programs um the old high school has the Lehey School the Oliver Middle and our SCS program so we'll be reshifting right and then we you know through this meeting I
guess I'll take the opportunity to make a plea to any city resident or anyone that would be interested in becoming a a crossing guard um to support this initiative to come and apply at the school department as you know councelor um Santiago there's a uh a shortage of that
and we we're doing the best that we can to to um promote the need and we hope that uh when the school opens we'll have a better pool of candidates that we can then hire to be our crossing guards and supporting that initiative for our students
troy council president I know it's not the school department but I would like to hear some special plan for the crossing because the time the crossing has is difficult to get the job because h they put it
just the the time the ship on the morning and coming back to the to the afternoon and didn't get received pay for the hour they like missing and I would like to hear a
better solution for crossing and if he maybe we can implement more h more hours for them h we can hire more more personal for crossing and that's why we
have the the issues and partner school because the time thank you for that we'll take that into All right councelor Levy thank you Council President Trio um if we adopt this amendment right now
you know I don't see like a time it's going to be 24/7 this parking restriction or it's going to be just only during the time of the school open so the elimination of the um parking
spaces um the 23 it will be to allow for the creation of um the drop the drop off um that that the project comes with so you're you're driving down Lawrence into Oak so you're on Oak Street you pass the
library then you pass kind of the parking lot to the Fina House and then um the lane shifts over to the right to allow for that to be to be the area of the the drop off and pick off for buses um primarily yes but we have also
uh the calling on the HR Street and Lorings those will be permanent i mean the resolution is permanent and it you know school is in session 180 days out of the year from about you know 7 practically it's open from Monday
through Friday okay and this is like a from 7 or 7:30 to 4:00 5:00 so during that time people will be allowed like to use the spaces
i mean the what's on the table is the elimination of the spaces and if and when this passes it will go through the proper channels of the DPW along with the support from the project to create the appropriate signage um for
for those parking spaces to be eliminated i understand that the most important in here is the safety of the children is one of the most important part in here mhm but uh because we are eliminating so
many spaces so if people are you know during the time that is no school the school is no open Saturday someday uh holidays or right now we're going to have a vacation so how is going to be also be dealing how people is going to
deal with those parking spaces so I think at least those area yeah so I think that would be at that point it would be a conversation with the city right i don't know that that's the city i don't know that that will be the school to to police or to implement um
that we're coming here to request the elimination of those spaces what happens after hours or if there's a baseball softball game or anything on the weekend if there's no park if it says no parking and there's no sign you know and there's a sign there and people are parking I
mean I would assume that the police will take notice and that would be a matter between then that would be a matter of the police department so I would like like to see if this is been taken into consideration due to the fact that like everybody is
being scared right now with the problem with they having this city with parking space so and I know that a lot of people when they don't see that a school is open it's going to start like a parking or using but it's going to be also a lot
of tickets you know that's they we're going to have a a lot of complaint here in the city regarding oh I just park it nobody is being using it's no school the school is closed so that's is another piece that maybe has to be taken into
consideration not I mean I I'll say it again all these plans through all the process and the phases of the project were being presented um through numerous uh meetings that we've held with city city officials city personnel around the
need of the school and then a lot of those a lot of what you see before you tonight it's it's based on the recommendations from those uh numerous meetings that were had in collaboration um with city personnel including fire
police DPW planning yes children is the most important but also we need to look on also on the constituency around the city and I know that is a lot of product right now mhm we'll continue to you know we'll continue to um provide education
or reminders to our families um remember that our district are neighborhood schoolbased um the goal um through our partnership with um safe routes to school and and and the city of Lawrence through their mobility initiative is for
our students to walk for students to use um any other form of um transportation um other than um parents um you know needing to drive them and we anticipate Oak Street to be primarily um used by a lot of our um our buses for those
students that require um busing from us based on their IEP and individualized um educational plans and or any possible private transportation that are hired by our parents to transport their student
thank you thank you uh question I I don't know if I understood you correctly um there is going to be physical location I mean physical actual curbs uh to be able to design this thing or it's going to be
based on uh payment markings um depends on the location if there's is raised curbing or not but there is um pavement markings um in many of the locations to clearly outline you know for safety and but not
not carving right not carving carving not carving the curbs it's not it's not curbs within the road no okay all right u just confused a little Uh yes councel I'm going to uh before I actually entertain you I'm going to pass it over
to councel thank you so I want to pursue the questioning that my colleague to my left has started and I want to ask Mr mccarthy to come forward because I think this is a question for him and I've listened to my colleague from district B
and um speaking of pain she's going to feel the most pain I think because she represents this area and she she is going to have constituents who are going to be beside themselves when they're not going to be able to come home at night to find a place to park or they're looking for different you know that
we're c capping it so let me let me let me let me drill down out of the things that the clerk read as part of my motion there's one two three four elements on that why can't we Why can't we uh have these parking
restrictions Monday through Friday i'm gonna throw hours out that I'm I can change from 7 am to 5:00 pm and let the people who are who live in the area who are struggling for traffic to find a place to park at least be able to park
at night and at least be able to leave first thing in the morning at least give them something uh again not my district but I I hear the pain and I I I I want to see what we can do to try to remove some of this what are your thoughts Mr mccarthy
i mean I I don't see anything inherently wrong with that i think what we're asking is to create the um there's no parking area on Oak Street um is is is an alteration of how the parking situ situation is there already and it's
intended to be for the school hours right now Oak Street is so narrow that you it's a one-way street you can park on one side and traffic can come smoothly if we're creating a drop off lane we can't have parking on one side of drop off lane because it'll create a
bottleneck and for that reason we do have to have that clear during the day that section between it during the day um I I think um Mr hernandez said and I again I don't disagree i don't see any reason why parking on weekends or
evenings should be a problem now the pro I guess there's if you look at whether it might not you might have uh events at the school that might not be that might be scheduled regularly there that it might create an issue uh but again that's something that we really need to
um probably take a look at longer in a longer road uh and and again the city and the school department fully intend to do a full evaluation of this again we're redoing Amesbury Street to
make that a two-way street and direct a lot of the the traffic the through traffic off of Lawrence Street which creates some of the bottleneck in the street we'd like it situated so that in the mornings and in the afternoons people are aware that the school this is
a school district and that um they should they they should avoid it by by all means um again we're asking for a no parking zone in the area we're not asking for any specific hours i think we need to sit back and look and see what the effect of that is and if we have to
revisit it and maybe put up a a limitation on ours we can certainly do that but I don't think we're at that point now um we're at a very it's a we reviewed a number of different plans and we did the
one that was going to be the least restrictive the least will cause the least hardship on the people who live in that neighborhood um it's not a it's not a a heavily populated residential area but there are some people who do live on Oak Street um many of them have their
own off street parking but some households don't so we we're very aware of that so that's why part of it where the households are we didn't even touch it we left all that parking for them so I will I will ask just I'm not going to make this motion so I know my
colleague from district B is listening so this is if she likes where this is going she can make this motion um if she doesn't like it she won't make the motion or she'll amend it or of some sort but I got one more question regarding this if you could wave a magic wand to figure out what the right times would be this is probably a question for
Miss Odonis right hernandez excuse me this a better question which is what time would that be what time does school begin and more what time did the teachers show up maybe that's the the time and then what time does school end and teachers are gone do we have a ballpark as to what those times are
sure so right now in our current schools that um do share parking lots with with the residents uh we say um between the hours of 6:00 and um 400 p.m uh you ask what time teachers start arriving they start arriving as early as 6:00 a.m
because they're looking for parking um oftent times what we what we encounter in in in what we in in and the challenge um with that right now especially during the winter is um residents not abiding by exiting the parking lot or the areas
that are shared lot um between the school and the city leaving on time so then we're often we often struggle there's a challenge there especially around the winter it's snow when we need to clear the parking lot so teachers are arriving anywhere around
6:00 in the morning 6:30 um school starts for students 7:30 uh for breakfast they end at 2:45 or 2:50 depending on um whether it's a elementary or middle school and teachers don't leave till 3:30 after 3:30 depending on the day if they're there
for professional development it could be 4:00 remember our schools are supposed to be a community safe space as well if there's any after school activities or anything for students that is taking place any report card night or anything for families then they will be there
later if you're asking me for an ideal time 6 to 4 6 to 4 council President if I may councelor Lan can I make an amendment to uh councelor's left line motion i can
propose it and then uh let's see if it's accepted you can propose it yes can you So I I think uh what the point that uh councelor Levy uh explained is is valid
and it makes sense uh for the residents not only for the residents council president for the uh um people that use the the O'Neal park remember uh also people use that uh the community use
that for softball uh and during summer and spring and summer and I think If we can amend the motion to have this parking spaces available for the school from 6 6:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m uh on on
weekdays will be very beneficial we can revisit this later on uh and if if if it if if doesn't work for the community we can amend uh that but I mean my mo my amendment uh
is to to have the parking spaces uh block available block uh from 6:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m to 5 on weekdays a solution on uh to 5 or to 4 p.m
we can do it to 5 5:00 p.m from 6:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m on weekdays but have the parking spaces available after 5:00 p.m and during the week weekends so the residents and for people that use of course the the fields the softball field
the basketball field uh the soccer field yeah i mean you know that if if Thank you Council President all right u at this point Council Leland do you accept the amendment i I'm not at this moment i do want But I might I do want to hear
back from the consultant who has a comment on it and then I I think I want to circle back to council the council district's amendment i may may Let's allow that uh the consultant to add to the conversation thank you um the the pavement markings are are going to
physically shift the traffic to the ball field side of the road okay so when you first turn onto onto Oak you'll be on the right hand side and there'll be parking on the left as you approach the school the lane will shift over to the left hand side that's where the kind of the bus drop off area is you don't want
to allow cars to park on that left-hand side because they'll be then going through the drop off area okay we don't usually recommend uh time of day restrictions for for parking because it's very hard to enforce and it's if just one car is in the wrong spot it
messes everything up right if it um so definitely recommend against against that because it's it's it'd be very dangerous you'll be cars will be going cars won't be driving on the right hand side in front of the school they'll be on the ballfield side yeah we we we
completely understand where you're coming from i mean the problem is that out here we have no parking whatsoever so and we thinking about the discussion is around also accommodating the community accommodating a huge park that we have with two uh softball field right
next to it and then we have a football field we have a basketball field we have a lot of other things yes around there and no parking so that's why the conversation is around yeah I think I think the the only thing you might consider and we again enforcement is is the problem or people following the
rules so to speak is the the the bus lane itself could be restricted to certain times so that cars are always following the same traffic pattern as they're going through but in theory those the bus the drop off lane could be could be restricted to certain times
only do you have a set of plans for the traffic how it's going to look like uh the drop off area cuz I was looking for those and I wasn't able to see it it should be within the package we submitted it when we submitted the item
in a very small we'll send we have like an 11 by 17 that that we can um that we can reshare let me see take a look at it i don't see the Can I come over there
and give this to you i have I see it here but I don't mean Yeah do you want me to turn it off as always yeah um I mean at this point I'll entertain u I'll entertain any other question
councelor Lo do you have any other questions yes council president uh and to you i I think uh parking is already tied for the O'Neal park as it is right now and and I think we have to take in consideration
that I just uh uh hope that my colleagues uh uh take that in consideration and uh we can make this work for uh the safety of the children but also for the residents
um around that area and for the people that use the O'Neal Park once again I'm going to ask my councelor La Plan to reconsider uh the amendment to his motion um
I will I will I will I'm not going to I want there to be a vote i will second the mo the amendment offered by my colleague and as and have a vote on that amendment understand councelor Luson uh he's not accepting your amendment but he is willing to second uh if you have this
as a separate motion so can I make a motion or do we need to vote on his motion first uh no uh if you want to make a motion to amend the timing and then we we enter into the discussion to amend the timing
oh I'm making a Oh ju just make a motion i have the floor council President yes so I'm going to I would like to make a motion to amend uh Mr uh councelor La plans and uh
add the restriction only from 6:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m only on weekends only on weekdays and that parking to be available after 5:00 p.m and on weekdays to residents and of district B
i'll second that motion there's a motion on the table properly second now we now we're going to get into the discussion around the the no parking passenger oh the on the drop offs on uh with parking allow after 5:00 p.m all
the way to 6:00 in the morning so councilors any questions on this specific part of the discussion council President Council Levy okay um my question regarding this
hour I I know that I that I started talking about the the time but uh at what time like is like at the last hour during the day that the children get out of school during school time uh the
normal session not the kid that are in the after school because obviously they can stay all the way till 6:00 7 2 250 a.m 2:50 okay that's where the majority of the kids leave the school mhm i I may add that
um I also want to caution and and put it at the forefront that with this amendment of a 6 to5 there will be a lot of education to the community as well because if we're coming in in the morning and there's cars parked there we're going to have to
tow so to leave to be able to be ready for the morning to allow for the buses or the families or or whoever it is dropping off to be able to have access to that area so although it's a tough
decision and I understand we need to think not only about the safety of our students but also you have the tougher um dilemma of also you know representing your your district is that it it may also be a burden to the residents having
to get up to move their cars or um having to face being towed yeah those are the consequences of being in that um on that area it would also be a harder um transition and education
piece of the two right so I just want to it would be um it wouldn't be wise of me not to put this also at the table to to be transparent we understand that thank you uh councelor Rosario yeah through you
Council President with privilege comes responsibility so we amend the time we also need to educate our city what's a what's what's the consequences they're going to have to pay and and I honestly speaking I agreed and I've been fighting for that
and and and all that stuff so we need to teach the community that this is we're going to give you this we're going to allow you to do this but you're going to comply with with the hours if not you're going to pay the consequences but one thing I want to mention that it's that is never mentioned here and is always thrown to us enforcement comes from the
police but I'm assuming that the school department should have a personal relationship with the police to demand enforcement to demand enforcement and and and and that's up to you guys to demand that enforcement we had to the
time we might I mean councelor Luzon might go out and tell the people what she did and what they need to do to comply with this but when it comes to enforcement you guys have to also the school department needs to contact the police on 247 uh and make sure that they enforce because I that was the question that I have the last time I was here
because you're going to block you're going to have a parking block on a corner to make sure that the emergency vehicles were turned but who's going to make sure that nobody's parked there who's going to enforce that i asked that the other day and they say "Well we're going to bring you some type of we had a we're going to have a conversation and
we're going to bring you who is going to enforce." So hopefully with all these changes you guys also can can have the police enforce a little bit more because sometimes it's not parking issues it's enforcement issues that we have in the city thank you mhm great um another
question that was brought up it was in the area of the no parking uh right passing the what's the name of the alleyway cardio yeah passing that area that is the four parking spot that are blocked
on there so those are those also going to be available for the public while the school is not in section um well at least at least two of those spaces are directly in front of the
loading for the school so again that would depend on the hours that you know any loading so loading like uh literally the loading yeah the So there's a there's a a rollup door there with a
little ramp from the street well those parking should be loading zone then instead of no parking because the loading zone and then it will be allow people that are loading on a loading instead of no parking because no parking is no parking
so some modifications on there too so the discussions around uh right now is around the timing so and also the responsibility of enforcement and potentially to be transparent people that might get told uh if we if we allow
pe uh people to park there uh after um 5:00 p p.m all the way to 6:00 in the morning so any other questions counselors around the timing at this point I will entertain council le I think that we can right now
decided on the 6 to5 but uh later maybe see something change if they yeah we're going to revisit any any you know any change that has to be done so to come back uh and to let her know that's the the timing at 5:00 is no good or the
6:00 is I think so that this is something that we still keep it open for a discussion yeah this the the main discussion today is around having a a temporary uh solution and then subsequently when
the school is in section they're going to come back either or to to make it a permanent or to change um I'm assuming right yes i I that's a compromise I guess pretty sure that you'll be seeing a lot of us during that
time and you'll be hearing a lot from your constituents so you know we make that commitment um I think that you know when I raised the question around also being aware that there will be consequences potential right maybe not of um vehicles being towed I think I I present that um humbly to just make you
aware that you may be hearing from your constituents around my car got towed right and it's and and also to be aware and remember this conversation tonight that okay it's not so much about the education is that you were parked um during the time that you were not supposed to i I agree counselor de
Rosario it's um I think it's a joint effort um you know we have staff in our buildings as early as 5:00 in the morning so we'll make the commitment from a school department um standpoint to monitor and we will have to monitor right because the consequences if there are cars parked in in any of those um
initial spots on the corner of Oak and Lawrence that means that the buses and others cannot make that turn so then we would make the um as we always do we would then have that u collaboration and calling the police department our relationship with the police is is strong no definitely i mean uh thank you
for the disclaimer i mean this is part of uh just you know consequences um any other questions in regards to the timing all right i'll this time I'll entertain uh I'll call the motion man please call the role
this is on the secondary motion um to amending the time limitations i'm going to start with councel Reyes yes council Maro yes council Santiago yes council del Rosario yes council Luzon
yes council La Plant yes council Levy yes council Vice President Infante not is recused herself excuse me thank you and um council president vote yes so now the discussion is around the approval of
the uh of the traffic setup that we have here so any other questions in regard to the main motion which is to approve the drop off area the question at this point I'll call the questions madame clair please call the
question council Levy yes council plant yes council Luzon yes council del Rosario yes council Santiago yes councelor Marmal yes council Reyes yes the vice president has
recused herself council President I vote yes motion carries congratulations thank you have a good evening council all right thank you just uh revisit the plan thank you just revisit the plan to reflect that uh the loading
zone all right uh let's go on top of the agenda we have um um matter spending public hearing we have several uh communication from the mayor's city officials city training counselors i would like we have nothing
on this specific area but now that that we are going through this uh I would like to bring something to everybody's attention as of u a potential project that we have here at the
chambers we are in the pro and that uh in the process of uh deal doing some uh remodeling to the city council chambers and part of the remodeling is to increase the this area where we sitting
the staging area we are potentially increase this area uh for about seven and a half inches seven seven and a half inches seven and a quarter uh to make it ADA compliant and we are going to have a ramp on this side of the stage around
the TV uh to be handic uh handy ADA accessible and we're going to have one step around the door that's why we have the door being moved with this specific change we're going to be able to have a better
visibility on the chambers the the staging area here where we sitting uh we going to have this furniture that are going to be new furnitureures and potentially new chairs
um also the floors are going to be fixed and the chair for people to come over and and and um and u witness what happened here in the chambers or seat those are going to be replaced as well the intent is to uh uh paint in paint
and remodel this place uh to a point that is going to be better and more comfortable for the people to uh to be part of the meetings but as well to the counselors that are uh performing business here you have a a set of plans
of the staging as how they're going to look like uh that is in front of you mascore have put this plan together uh the stage here this is going to be
replaced um and we're going to have potentially our security secretary and uh sitting in the front and potentially the assistant city clerk as well u as you can have it on the
plan sometime we are also we are planning on uh doing some fixing on the roof have new lighting and um have this whole place uh reconstructed built uh for the benefit
of the community the chambers is also used for different events lately promotions for the police department and as well of uh wedding in a daily basis um we want to make sure like we have a
place that people feel comfortable uh more welcoming and uh and maintain the tradition of the of the of the chambers so in the next few weeks few months you probably going to you're
going probably going to have some inconvenience but eventually we're going to have it at a a better place construction is not fun but there is time uh that we're going to have to face this uh this type of construction
matters all right with that said we're going to we're going to continue with the committee report we have the budget and finance committee and we have item 13825 which is the authorization to spend $54,000 932 uh.70 madame Vice President Infante and
the chair of the of that budget and finance committee thank you council presidents budget and finance committee met yesterday and we have one item item one
i could not attend the meeting yesterday something came up for me but the meeting was still held we have one item item 138-25 authorization to expend in the amount of 50 $54,932
with.70 towards the Commonwealth Transportation Infrastructure Enhancement Fund and from my understanding the committee sent this as a favorable recommendation pending some documentations requested related to the
to to the project and time frame so I make that as a formal motion motion on the table properly second by U councelor Santiago uh discussion around this item discussion council of vice president thank you you council
president i would like to turn this over to the vice chair of the budget and finance committee um to remind us of what the documentations uh the the budget and finance committee had requested council mu so there were discussions
surrounding uh the scope of the project um it was mentioned that it will be held on the the the project is focusing on Essex Street um from Union all the way to Winter Street um they mentioned
several um like various factors that would uh be part of this project which is replacing signages uh markings fixing certain parts of sidewalks not full blocks of the sidewalks and um I believe
they mentioned road work as well um repaving the the roads so um I know we have the engineer Al uh Oliver um Aguilar that could speak more in detail in terms of um the project itself so um
the the committee members did decide to vote in favor but pending documentation as to what the details were regarding the scope of the project um I believe uh councelor Don uh due to the fact that there's so many challenges with parking
already so the fear of business owners being affected um being affected negatively um potentially having an impact to business um there were questions surrounding how long this
project will take uh when exactly this project will will initiate and what is the time frames of when the constructions will take place council President Council Infante thank you i have a question for Council Marl so what
I'm seeing here this this is the original documentation that was included just the memo um cash received vouchure and payment history yeah yeah
yes this is exactly uh what was part of the binder do we know if this they also send an email they send an email with the information they send an email but this is what we received for the meeting so So that was
the email that was what this morning that's where I'm getting at uh give me one second guys uh the email was sent and the information that we request was on the email uh because we have we have the the item as an anticipated item they
work on that today and they send it over part of that information was sent previously and they add they add the information that we request on that email thank you Council
President where I'm getting at is and I'm and I'm glad that we have the assistant city engineer here because we are consistently requesting for department heads to provide a full a completed packet and we're consistently asking for information for us to receive
the full picture of what these projects are and what we're approving or not approving and I don't know how many times this council needs to repeat this to department heads for everyone to get what that what you know to understand that and I hope that this does not
continue um I I fear that it will but I hope I don't have to say this again i if if I was running the meeting I I would have tabled this yeah let me um let me just clarify a few things here because there is a a couple of things that
um that when it comes to this specific item uh the $54,000 932 this is u an item that is going to be used just for payment marking throughout the city what happened last night it was that uh since the project
was going to be on the downtown or part of the markings was going to be around the downtown area we also attach the conversations around all the island that happened in the past uh when it comes to the 1 point something $1.2 2 million
that we approved previously for that uh for for the downtown area improvement uh including uh turning to the left and including many other little projects and little little things that was going to happen around the downtown and including uh uh including marking sidewalks and uh
infrastructures uh like road and so for so on curving and so forth so that's why we mixed the two together but when it comes to this specific item the package with the information was provided uh and we just put it all together because it's
it's going to uh this fund also going to be uh part of the main project that we previously approved and we asked for more information from other projects on these projects uh thinking about the business around the downtown area and uh
subsequently how we can inform the public uh around the project that was that's going to take place around the downtown but this specific amount of funds the $54,000 is for the entire city uh for markings and stuff like that okay thank you Council President no problem
so that's just just to be fair to the department yeah uh so counselors when it comes to this specific amount of money we received an email today everybody uh for about yes for about 300 300 pages of information
that we have everything there uh but when it comes to this specific item I just want to make sure that this is for marking and this specific money come from that uh the Uber and leave and chair drive um uh chair money that they put that they put to for the communities
Um and this is for marking specifically throughout the city so there so councilors when it comes to this item specifically any questions council president councelon yes I uh and and yes last night was a uh
we uh it was we had a it was not clear the project was not clear but in my understanding it's not it's not going to be payment that's not going to work on the road so that was my concern and it looks like that it was this project was
approved by the city council and what they looking for now is approval to spend this amount of money so thank you for uh to the city engineer and and the assistant engineer for resending the information so I will vote yes in
support this uh project uh the amount of money that they are requesting no problem thank you councelor Lon so at this point I will call the role madame CL council Reyes yes councelor Marl yes council Santiago yes council del
Rosario yes council Luzon yes council La Plant yes council Levy yes council Vice President Fonte yes council President Rodriguez yes motion carries thank you so much um
now counselors let's go to a few items that might need some translation so we can um uh we can entertain those up front councelor Laant from the ordinance committee do you mind entertaining item 12825
sure we also have other folks here as well from the cab companies for example like to take them out as order and we have Sana Hispan we got some other folks here too so um you would like me to do which one council President 129 12825 uh so preach uh the words of God sure
preach the word of God various dates and locations they're in your packet all the locations uh this was sent up to the full council the favorable recommendation and I we did receive um and it should be in our packets if not um our our speaker here does have copies
of it but um so this is set up to the full council table recommendation and I make that in the form of a motion second for the uh there is a motion on the table properly second discussion i hear none uh madame cler please call the role
councelor Levy yes council plant yes council Luzon yes council del Rosario yes council Santiago yes councelor Marmal yes council Reyes yes council Vice President Infante yes councelor Rodriguez
yes council plant if you mind yeah i want to say thank you and um good night but I want to extend my apology for last week with council Rosario i miss too about the the the issue that we were talking so I want to extend my my sincerely apologize no problem have a
good night thank you have a good night thank you god bless uh councel council plant go ahead with the ordinance committee uh reports yeah I think everybody's here so uh 6625 this is all of in July the sweet 16 anniversary fee is that the campaign known comment from
10:00 a.m to 9:00 p.m on July 5th this was sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation and we did get background that the comment is available for that time at that location make that in the form of a motion boom there's a motion on the motion in front of us properly second
discussion i hear none all those in favor please say I madame clair please call the role councel Levy yes council plant yes council Luzon yes council Del Rosario yes council Santiago yes councelor Marmal yes council Reyes yes
council Vice President Infante yes council President Rodriguez yes thank you thank you very invite item 1025 yeah so this is a document 102 uh 10225 american taxi renewal of the taxi
delivery license was sent out to the full council with a favorable recommendation and to make that in the form of a motion motion on the table properly second discussion discussion council so I'm not going to repeat on all of these this is the first one we have approximately I don't know seven or
eight of these um that are here um this went through the police department vetting police department has done all the background checks etc have produced every one of these with a with a favorable recommendation to us so that's number one number two at the ordinance committee we had a variety of different
questions and concerns that committee members raised to all of the taxi companies and delivery companies um that were responding to at that point um and and and I'll just we can drill on it
again tonight but uh speeding double parking noise and horn use were the common elements that were brought up for each one of the delivery companies and I I just want to reiterate since I have the floor right now this obviously the
to me my area it's the horns that's the big thing but the speeding thing that I my colleague has has addressed and he rightfully addresses um and I think what we need to be our our taxi owners need to be responsible for that and not just blame their drivers but have the
authority with their drivers to make sure they're doing that and it's for them i mean they it's not a they should have certain control over over over the speeding that's going on so um I think that's an important element that needs to be made and I'm so
glad that my colleague from district C been really a proponent uh out front especially on the speeding issues he was tonight and he was on during the ordinance committee and I do support him on that uh on that line of thinking thank you
thank you thank councel Rosar you have any questions all right uh essentially what what I hear from the ordinance committee is that we need to make a commitment between the taxi owners or the I mean the the medallions couriers
to uh to the drive to the drivers and subsequently that going to reflect into the community when it comes to speeding issues when it comes to uh to do that that every issue that council lant the chair of the committee have shared with you
guys it is a commitment that we're looking for obviously every single one of you guys are there and potentially face consequences when it comes to enforcement but what we're looking for
here is a commitment from you guys that transmit directly to the drivers and subsequently got positive result throughout the community uh this is not about pushing more than what we have to
but it is it is something that come in front of us every year and we always keep on mentioning the senten so once we make a commitment we would like to see result positive result
uh around that that's what I hear that's the feeling that I'm getting from the uh from the different counselors that I have spoke to about this issue so any any questions in regard to that you can talk to
Yeah you can talk to Mike no questions uh uh counselors any other questions you speak Spanish i need to hear this counselor any other questions i hear none so we going with straight with the
item 10225 madame Clair please call the role council Reyes yes council Marmal yes council Santiago yes council Del Rosario yes council Luzon yes council La Plant
yes council Levy yes council Vice President Infonte yes council President Rodriguez vote yes thank you um thank you sir the next document he may want to stick around i think he owns this I think he owns a sinking company uh 10325 is Liberty Taxi yeah I knew
this was going to happen liberty Taxi this the ordinance committee sent this up with a favorable recommendation to renew his taxi license and make that in the form of a motion again license
oh it's a liberty okay got you all right u there's a motion on the table properly second discussion plan yeah the only thing I was going to add on that is that we we this is a license we're not required to issue licenses uh we we issue license
because Thank you um I just want to say that the service that the delivery companies and a tax company are important they're important to the fabric of our city we already talked about the amazing congestion and traffic and parking problems that we have the
fact that we have companies that for hire are able to do this reduces the the potentially reduces that and the public transportation the need for vehicles in our city and makes our city more manageable can you imagine our city
without buses and without cabs how many more cars there would be it would be I don't want to think of how that bad that could be but it's it would be really bad so anyway we I want I'm not going to say this everybody that's coming up but I from I want to thank the the cab companies and delivery companies who
rarely hear that as long as they obey the things that we're talking about but their service is important thank you all right any other questions all right at this point I'll call the question madame Cler please call the
role councelor Levy yes council La yes councelor Luzon yes council Del Rosario yes council Santiago yes council Marl yes council Reyes yes council Vice President Fonte yes council President Rodriguez yes
thank you thank you now item 10425 Popular Taxes this is a ordinance committee met to send this document which is popular taxi company LLC a renewal of its license sent to the full council with a fable recommendation and make that as a form of a motion there's
a motion on the table properly second discussion any questions right essentially the same questions for everybody uh people representing popular Are are they here is the popular taxi
they were here for the ordinance committee oh okay okay good you I thought we finished it no no no we're doing it one by one so we're in popular now oh okay who's popular tax they're not here they're not here i was
here they were here for the ordinance okay ordinance on so whatever that's worth please uh bring the message to them uh essentially what we want is uh we want to make a commitment between the uh the
council the taxi uh uh medallion owners the licenses uh to ensure that you know all those issues that was brought up uh they share the the feeling of the people and uh and they they part of they
part of the community so why not to be part of the solution as well yes I can yeah I can deliver that thank message and we working together with the police station you know any issue we
always coming to them we have a sergeant Mark is represented and Lawrence and any problem we have we calling or they calling us and we talking and we try to do the best we can
thank you and you know we have all kind of different people uh we can we have a meeting all the time we have a I'm not the the president of Maraxi but uh when I receive a complaint I call them
sometime we give you a couple hours off to work maybe we can change a little bit but you know how that thing work thank you appreciate it but we try to do the best thank you we all set i'm Yeah we're good we're just going to keep on doing so just stay
uh manager just call the role for that popular taxi all right Levy yes your mayor Max is council plant yes council Luzon yes council del Rosario yes council Santiago yes council Marmal yes council
Reyes yes council Vice President Fonte yes council President Rodriguez yes so now we're going with item 10525 which is the Marramac Taxics Corporation yeah the ordinance committee met on this document Marramac Taxi Company 10525 and then sent this up to the full council
with a favorable recommendation to renew its taxi license make that in the form of a motion second it's a motion on the table properly second discussion you hear you the messenger so thank you for everything you do thank you i'll call the question at this time
uh Madame Clair please call the role council Reyes yes council Marmal yes council Santiago yes council Del Rosario yes council Luzon yes council Lant yes council Levy yes
council Vice President Infonte yes council President Rodriguez I vote yes so all of the taxes has been approved again so now we're going to go with uh with the I guess fivestar which is a liberty
10625 is fivestar express transportation LLC ordinance committee met and sent this up to the full council with a table recommendation to renew its livery license make that in the form of a motion there's a motion on the table properly second discussion around the fivestar express transportation
i was going to say one thing about this we This is one year these are one-year uh renewals for these licenses i know we got some relatively new city councilors here one-year renewals and frankly they expire on December 31st so we uh the police department has we we need some
there's some work that got to be done next year to get these in a more timely manner so that these licenses don't lapse thank you Council President thank you thank you for the information uh any questions around the FiveStar Express Transportation i hear none uh Madame
Clair please call the role councelor Levy yes council La councel Luzon yes councelor Del Rosario yes councelor Santiago yes councelor Marl yes council Reyes yes council Vice President yes
council President Rodriguez but yes item 10825 uh Alanm Transportation LLC i'm going to go with 107 which is Rio Hondo Transport LLC and this is a ordinance committee met and sent the subs to the full council with fable recommendation to renew its delivery license that's the
motion second there's a motion on the table for second there's a motion on the table second uh any discussion i hear none uh Madame CL please call the role
councel Reyes yes councelor Marmal yes council Santiago yes councelor Del Rosario yes councelor Luzon yes council um Llant yes councelor Levy yes council Vice President Infonte yes
council President Rodriguez vote yes uh now item 10825 this is L&M Transportation LLC with sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation uh to renew its livery license that's the motion second there's a motion on the table properly second discussion
around this item i hear no madame Clair please call the role councelor Levy yes council Lin yes councelor Luzon yes councelor Del Rosario yes council Santiago yes councelor Marl Council
Reyes yes council Vice President Fonte yes council President Rodriguez vote yes item 10925 New York City United Express uh ordinance committee met to send this document up with a favorable recommendation to to provide a renewal of a liberty license for New York City
United Express Incorporated make that in the form of a motion second there's a motion on the table properly second discussion discussion i think we have the owners here and I'm glad that they're here and I should have asked if the owners for FiveStar and Rio Honda
were here um I'm not sure if they are but I think it's good to put a name with the face i don't need a translator you do you already do no oh I don't oh you're good i mean yes go ahead um we don't have any question
it was not a question oh okay i thought that you related to Rolando i just think it's important and I'm glad they're here i just think it's important for all of us if we're going to providing a license to somebody we should see who we're providing a license to thank you for being here thanks all right uh any
questions for uh New York City United Express all right uh I hear none all those in favor please madame Clair please call the role council Levy yes council plan yes council Lison yes council Del Rosario yes council
Santiago yes councelor Marl council Reyes yes council Vice President Fonte yes council President Rodriguez but yes now one item 11025 town this is town thank you
this is town livery incorporated this the ordinance committee met and sent this up to the full council with a favorable recommendation to order yes yes uh to renew the license delivery license for this organization so I make that in the form of a motion
second can you smile a little bit thank you thank you because people have like attitude here i don't understand i mean that's fine it's been a long day been here since 7 o'clock i 1025 town liberty uh any questions for
Town Liberty any questions i hear none madame Clair please call the role thank you thank you guys council Reyes yes council Marl yes council Santiago yes yes council del Rosario yes council Luzon
yes councel Lant yes councelor Levy yes councelor Vice President Infonte yes council President Rodriguez i vote yes uh thank you thank you uh Council Lan do you mind going uh to
item 1325 130 1325 this the ordinance committee met and sent document 13025 which is one voice walkin celebration June 21st 2025 from 400 p.m to 8:00 p.m at Okonnell
Park to the full council with a favorable recommendation and make that in the form of a motion second there is a motion on the table properly second discussion council you want to take an opportunity to to speak a little yes um we went to the recreation department yesterday and they
changes the date because the 21st um June 21st is already occupied um they're doing an activity on that day so um the new date that we have is July 26 do you mind accepting that as a friendly yeah so I'm going to Yeah so
the motion will be for July 26 26 at Okonnell u did was that a conversation through you was that a conversation did they give you something on a piece of paper or Oh she sent uh an email i have the photo here and I have the
um the project number you just read the Is it a quick email just read the Is it quick just read it a little bit uh when it comes and we'll just read it where it came from it's um it came from who it came from Jarita Jarita
okay do you want me to read it no it's okay oh yes okay i I it's it's short but it's in Spanish so I will need translation is it English it's Spanish your preferred language there you go he
wants to hear it okay just read it we have the translator here okay so um Okay got 00005 yes that that was not the number that we um that's a different one because they
changed the date they changed the date yeah motion is to reflect that to reflect the specific date and time and the proper project number all right uh counselors any questions i hear none uh Madame Clair please call the role
councelor Levy yes council Lin yes councelor Luzon yes councelor Del Rosario yes councelor Santiago yes councelor Marmal yes council Reyes yes council Vice President Infante yes council President Rodriguez I vote yes anybody from the public would
like to have the translator here with your item you good thank you all right thank you oh excuse me can we take a picture with you saying the just for that group they say yes tell me
okay so a little video they say yes okay they say yes thank you thank you all right uh if anybody from the
public would like to translation okay no and gracias thank you i like to take I like to take dark at 135 can Can I do 132 13225 is Sana Hispana here that's your favorite second favorite go ahead so uh
the ordinance committee ordinance committee met on 13225 Samana Hispan on June 14th and 15th for their festival i send this up to the full council with the f the ordinance committee send up the full council the fable recommendation and to make that in
the form of a motion all right there is a motion table properly second discussion this is uh this is just the the festival no no games no carnival right that's that's what it is
that's not what it what it is i mean we apply we did the application for both things the festival and the carnival mr president this item is just for the festival they have another item that is for the right for the carnival okay what is it
it's table because uh they need a they need information from the recreation department that we never got oh so they have it at their at their ordinance committee level correct oh gotcha so you have two items ones that is for the uh for the carnival that is at the
ordinance committee and this one which is for the festival well they were both brought in uh up at the same time it was just that it was a problem at the recreational department they never signed it and um that's what happened so essentially
you're going to be discussing uh with the recreational department the other item no I already spoke with Martha and what her answer was that she told Ely to sign it and he didn't that was what she told me yesterday all right um
and she said that she was going to be did item 132 then which is the festival uh item 12 uh item 1325 companion common from June uh June 14 to June 15 uh counselors any
questions in regard to this item all right at this point Madame Clair please call the role only because I'm going to give out the permit and it's going to be wrong and then everyone's going to get I just want to be They have two items so this is
Well the they have maybe they have three items they have another item for the carnival over at the like showcase cinema area for like a festival the fundraiser carnival yeah that's already done so they have a second festival on the common So this is
the festival and the other portion of it is the actual carnival that is going to take place during the same time uh of the Smanispana but tonight it's going to be the carnival tonight is just for the festival just the festival no carnival just no carnival the carnival is coming
in a separate item okay thank you just helps me if I take it wrong and then everyone's like that's not what we agreed to um better do we say yeah thank you what he said Um councel Reyes no wait wait council Lan you have a question so we we asked for
documentation for who wanted to see this just hit the button the button oh sorry uh we asked Did you get some sort of documentation from from I know you talked to the recreation department did you get something from them or Oh she was here earlier and she said she was going to be here but then
she left she said everything is going to be fine again um I don't know what to tell you um all right so when when it comes to that item and then we'll discuss the item
this one uh is the application complete so if you look at your thing we just asked just to make sure we did asking a document approval from recreation department
you do good this could set the whole thing and we'll be good to go i think you're right i think we got that three items you know there's three items that we said to preach the word of God dates what happened or said was all said the one voice she needed to change her date
she met with him say Hispanic comment this date is available it can move to council that's what he said we're all set then thank you all right uh no more questions madame Clair please call the RO council Levy
yes council La Plant yes council Luzon yes council Del Rosario yes council Santiago yes council Mamo yes council Reyes yes council Vice President Infante yes council President Rodriguez vote yes
motion carries thank you the festival is offset the carnival once it come once it come in front of us and then we'd make a determination okay thank you um back to the top 125 12525
uh 12525 is no parking at 50 Will Street this was sent out to the recommendate to withdraw make that in the form of a motion second there's a motion to withdraw properly second any discussion on the withdraw i hear none all of Madame Clair please call the role
council Reyes yes council Marl yes council Santiago yes council Del Rosario yes council Luzon yes council Lant yes council Levy yes council Vice President Infante yes
council President Rodriguez but yes item 1262 ordinance committee met on this document to remove handicap park in 108 Lexington Street was sent up to full counsel with a fable recommendation to order a public hearing that's the motion second motion is to order a public hearing properly second discussion i
hear no madame Clair please call the role council Levy yes council L yes council Luzon yes council Del Rosario yes council Santiago yes councelor Mar council Reyes yes council Vice President Fonte yes
council President Rodriguez oh yes personal committee uh anticipated report we don't have that good night Council President uh Madame Vice President Fanted can you address that uh the committee thank you council president as the council heard earlier there was a comment pertaining to the personnel
committee during public participation and I want to address that to my colleagues um the personnel committee was cancelled on Monday i received a call from the city clerk uh informing me that this item that you see before you on the agenda was being withdrawn or was
requested to be taken off uh because we are we anticipate getting a name for a confirmation very soon so we're just waiting on that uh I was advised by the by the city clerk that we didn't need the meeting pending because of that
information so the personnel committee was cancelled due to that as it was the only item on the agenda as new business right councelor at this point we're going to entertain a motion to withdraw motion to withdraw there's a motion to withdraw properly second uh
discussion i got I'm so sorry i was paying attention but I I got lost so there's going to be a need for a 90-day temporary appointment of the current acting personnel director there's going to be a need for that but what I'm or not or are we gonna or are
we going to find someone permanently is that is that they're going to recommend her as a permanent so there's not going to be a need for the 90day because we're going to have somebody and this is not going to bump past the 90 days so we're going to be with Oh got it all right motion to withdraw properly second discussion i hear no madame cler
please call the role councelor Levy yes councel L councelor Luzon yes council del Rosario council Santiago yes council Marmal yes council Reyes yes council Vice President Infante yes council President Rodriguez I vote yes
uh public safety there is no committee uh economic development there is no committee uh no reports committee of the hall there is no report all business there is none table matters counselors any table matters that we would like to discuss i hear none so we're going
straight to new business uh new business uh item 14120 25 uh 333 Len Street 50-minute parking that's going to go to the ordinance committee item 14225 city employee disclosure uh of uh disclosure
of conflict that's going to the ordinance committee item 14325 uh three on three basketball tournament scholarship formation this is going to the ordinance committee item 14425 laario uh spray park this is going to
the ordinance committee item 145 25 cr craft for Alzheimer at the Howard uh place that this is going to go to the ordinance committee item 14625 city employee dis uh disclosure of
conflict uh ordinance committee item 14725 handicap parking uh 111 Arlington Street uh ordinance committee item 14825 handicap parking 65 Tuxer Street ordinance Committee item 14925 handicap
parking 124 Oxford Street uh ordinance committee item 15025 removal of handicap parking 264 M Street uh ordinance committee 15125 50-minute parking 101 Bradford Street ordinance committee item
15225 a school bus drop off and pickup 65 Jackson Street uh this is going to the ordinance committee item 15325 this uh discontin of um Empire Street alleyway between Appleton to Matuan
Street uh this is going to ordinance committee uh 15425 authorization to spend $50,000 municipal uh matching grant uh budget and finance committee item 15525 report and presentation of uh of the
creating uh of driving Lawrence this is going to the budget and finance committee uh item 15625 appropriation transfer $5,000 of uh from all from uh business and economic development uh
instate travel this is going to the ordinance committee uh to the budget and finance committee sorry item 15725 25 appropriation transfer of 5,200 from business economic development in estate travel this is going to the bon
finance committee item 15825 authorization to spend $515,000 for our 40R incentive fund from the DHLC mass DOT road project this is going to the or uh budget and finance
committee item 15925 of the decision to spend $25,000 from the common Commonwealth Massachusetts Department of uh Department of Attorney General uh to the Nikki Yan Music Arts uh center
designed this is going to the uh or uh budget and finance committee item 16025 authorization to spend $7,500 uh fire safety equipment grant program this is going to the uh uh
budget and finance committee uh committee dates and schedule uh ordinance committee next Tuesday 2 sec 22nd at 7 p.m budget and finance committee i have some scheduling conflicts the
beginning of the week um it's going to be an extra week there's an extra week there's an extra week this week yes go the next week just two weeks before we actually have the next um city council meeting do like the 29th or
something so can I Yeah tuesday the 29th at 700 p.m next week is that uh good week so probably potentially be posting vacation school vacation week
all right all right uh there is no other item for any other committee counselors if you want to uh schedule another committee meeting feel free to do so what that's on the full council yes
that's going to be uh up next next week have one thing um now that I'm remembering for personnel uh a table item that I did receive information for that the committee requested so I would like to schedule personnel for Tuesday
the 29th at 6:30 all right personnel at 6:30 on the 29 for one item uh any other committee all right i hear none at this point counselors I entertain a motion to adjourn
motion to adjourn before before discussion councelor Le okay no nothing for discussion it's just to say thank you uh that was so nice from you guys to send me the flowers so people doesn't even know for all of the things that
been my family but has been through on the last couple of weeks you know with the loss of two niece and another one that's we saw that he was there also but so glad that everything was fine with him so and
all of them was in the same day in less than an hour thank you at this time I'll call the question madame Clair please call the role so on the motion to adjourn um councel Levy you ready to go yes council
Lant yes council Luzon yes councelor Del Rosario yes councelor Santiago yes council Mar Selena yes council Vice President yes yes council President vote yes yep
thank you