problem that I mean yeah you did is that going to happen no we all know thaten yeah I know only oh good uh uh good evening welcome everybody if
anybody need uh the translation services we have it available in the back Al uh please can you bring two two of those equipments for the clerk and Council I mean if somebody's going to speak in Spanish and then you will ask
for it then uh so if anybody need those Services they are in the back um good evening and welcome to the regular meeting for the Len city council today is Tuesday March 18 2025 pursuing to chapter 20 of the act
of 2022 this meeting will be hybrid allowing participation both in person in the city council chambers and remotely the zoom link was provided to anybody that requested uh through the uh city clerk's office this meeting is both uh is
transmitted also uh through the uh YouTube page page and is being shared in the Facebook Madame CLA please call the RO councelor Levy pres councelor
llant present councelor Lon pres Council Del Rosario present Council Santiago present councilor marmal present Council Reyes present Council vice president infon pres council president Rodriguez
present please join me for a moment of silence now join me for the pledge of allegion United States of America stand one nation andice for all minut we are proceeding with public
participation public participation rules are as follows you're going to have two and a half minutes to speak on any item topic that you uh that you desire at the two- minute mark You're going to hear a beep or sounds or a some type of a something that indicate that
you still have 30 second to speak uh uh please refer to this Council as a whole not to any individual counselors we have a list uh that it was available for anybody that wanted to write their names the first person that we have here in the list is H Mali name
and address for the record please 53 Chester Street good evening honorable members we the citizen or United to support Lawrence police officers Union Lawrence Police with the impactable leadership by honorable Chief
Bonia doing excellent job to protect our citizen Lawrence police officers thank you for making Lawrence a safe City million thanks to our DPW employees leadership for making Lawrence is a
beautiful city because of your hard work we support DPW Union inp C Department employees thank you for excellent job we support your union we must hire more inspector Lawrence Public School with
the impactable leadership by honorable superintendent rap Guero one of the best superintendent in the history of Lawrence on the way to become the best public school in the nation Lawrence teachers thank you for gift of best education for the children of Lawrence
we support Lawrence teachers union Lawrence want city under God we are proud to support our veterans thank you for your sacrifices thank you for your service we respectfully request to hire two assistant to vant position for
Veterans office we respectfully request as of you of this Council to have the Lawrence Lawrence Commission on elders Laurentian or the champion of the support of Union from our our police officers Union to Brave firefighter
teachers union and right of Union for firefighters we have the commission on the Elder Lawrence always a strong Lawrence always unite we pray for the safety of all police officers this Thin Blue Line This best example protect and
serve Lawrence Police thank you for excellent job we are proud to support Lawrence Police Union thank you the next person thank you the next person that we have is uh Richard Russell councelor Rosell name and address for the record
please top of the evening to all of you wannabe Irish counselors I'm Richard Russell 34 cross street and I saw all but two of yous at uh last Friday's Irish Shenanigans at the Elks club uh the good news I've survived four corn
beef and cabbage uh meals at various events interesting news first the C's it department has said that nothing has emanated from any of the city's email addresses it may have helped precipitate my deletion from Facebook I am still
convinced that my deletion was politically motivated unfortunately there are no rits of habus Corpus for SE for social media issues I'm still waiting for one last at the present time public record request as to why I wasn't
chosen to be on the citizens advisory committee for the next police chief why do I consider myself worthy to be on that selection group just remember that during my brief tenure as a counselor at lodge I was on the Personnel committee
uh also rumor has it that one Committee Member resigned will that person be replaced or is the selection committee nothing but a f created to appease the voters of Lawrence that was quite a turnout last Tuesday night at the meeting regarding
the talking me of vultures in their Antics lots of questions were asked and probably lots of time before any answers are offered if they are ever offered it was good to see one city council go off on the vulture Enterprise there were so
many other questions that deserve to be answered one question not asked was do the vultures get notified electronically that parking time is ready to expire on a vehicle so they can pounce on the vehicle and write a ticket
next when will agenda item 466 23 be implemented last April money was to be taken from the fy2 budget for correcting these egregious mistakes on several monuments now supposedly we have a
spending freeze in place it's one thing for the council to talk the talk but what I want to know is who walked the walk with the money lastly as an FYI the next council meeting meeting will be on April Fool's Day which ironically is the
same day that nomination papers become available for the next municiple election process coincidence you make the call as always thank you for the time thank you the next person that we have is Andrew provol name and address for the record
please yes my name is Andrew provel I live at 141 Asbury Street in Lawrence I am proud to say that I was born in this city um I have a few things that I would like to address the first one is that I am scared crapless to walk
out my front door I live in a highrise right behind the high school every time I walk out that front door I'm afraid of getting hit by a car because the the because the cars drive up that street way too fast there isn't a speed limit
on that road and I'm afraid of getting clipped I walk I do not drive that's my first issue um the second issue I have is with the voting districts I live right near the high
school there is a voting booth there the old high school the problem is I have to walk all the way over almost by the hospital to vote when I used to vote over at Mary Immaculate what I'd like to know is why am I voting all the way on
Summer Street when I voted on on um Mary Immaculate when I should be voting at the high school why is Asbury Street having to walk all the way to the other side of the city it makes no sense the other the other thing I want
to implore is that you fund the public library a little more they're having to close down floors because they don't have enough staff to operate as a patron of the public library since I was a child I would
really find it a travesty if they if if there if there is one day they would actually have to close their doors it would be a travesty to this city and the children within it so if you could find it in your hearts to fund the library a little more it would be greatly
appreciated thank you uh my sister has a few words I'll leave the rest to her you is she's part of the list okay you can continue yeah oh one other thing we do need to fund more
walk-in police more beat cops more uh bike cops uh and more grants for blackowned businesses native American-owned businesses and autistic owned businesses thank
you time is up uh the next person that we have is uh Donald Pro that was her that was me that was you you have two and a half minutes if you you still have two and a half minutes if you're done that's fine but
uh yeah that was and also you like the voting um yes speak the mic like the voting I have the same issue as Andrew thank you um the next person that we have is
Rosal Gonzalez name and address for the record please good evening Rosalie Gonzalez 16 gra terce Lawrence Mass so uh I would like to say that I am 100% with the voting process to be completely in
person with ID in hand the ones that should be granted or able to vote by mail should be those that have a health condition that does not permit them to vote in person my reasoning is because I was one of the many whose votes were stolen and fraud was committed the
people involved were not held accountable therefore for when I was allowed to vote on the day of election my vote was not noticed and the fraud vote was noted leaving me very disappointed and with no desire to vote
therefore votes should be completely in 100% set to vote in person with consideration of those that cannot this will definitely fix the voting problem that's all I have to say right all the names are going to be submitted for all these names are going
to be submitted for for the record thank you everybody that participate uh then uh we are going to councilors if you have no issues any of you we would like to entertain a a a communication from the mayor City
officials City chenney this is item 9325 which is information regarding the Lawrence energy choice we uh the municipal aggregation program to be launched on May 2025 um the everybody have
receive some type of mailing at their house everybody that have National gret have received some type of mailing at home and they have multiple questions and we have a presentation uh that might that's going
to bring some clarity uh to the community so with all the respect I would like to entertain this item because there is a lot of people at home expecting this to be discussed at the city council sir thank you president for
the please my name is Anil naal I'm adviser to the mayor I won't be taking too much time knowing fearful agenda I will let let our energy broker do most of the talking all I want to say is that this program was introduced as a result of Senate of Pano taking the initiative
and bringing this program to the city and now we are at a point where the program is now effective mailers have gone to the people on Friday and it's it's going to start saving people money right away so I think with that
introduction I will have the uh our energy broker President and Vice President speak to the program do you guys have a pres presentation or just just a general information we're just going to give you the information okay so Mark capona
colonial power uh with a consultant for the city of um Lawrence for their Municipal aggregation program tonight I'm going to talk to about uh mailing that everyone should have received that has an electricity meter in uh in Lawrence so either you received this
mailing because you're on basic service or you received a postcard because you're on a third party supply I'm going to start with this one because this is where the preponderance of uh people would have fallen this program is an opt out Municipal aggregation so what the
the the city has done they've gone out and procured energy on your behalf for the next 30 months and uh it's at 13.2 cents compared to National Grids basic service rate of uh 14.6 what I want to say is what the city
has actually done has brought you a choice that did not exist in the marketplace prior no one is trying to hold you in these programs this program just go back to the rate so people can notice the difference between National Grid and the current
aggregation program sure National Grids basic service rate that everyone is paying right now starting February 1st was 14.67% trying to hold you in this program this program is about uh protection for you everyone's been
through the um the the wild spikes the last three Winters 33 cents nobody in Lawrence needs to pay more than the 13.2 cents any longer because the city has gone out and protected you they set an electricity hedge whether you
participate or not is completely up to you inside this mailing has all the information but I just want you to know is inside there is a self- addressed stamped envelope with an opt out card if you don't wish to participate simply sign the card put it in here and you won't be in but it's good news meaning
if you choose to get back in the program there's no fear penalty to do so there's no fear penalty to leave um National Grid so it's a free choice that the city is bringing you that did not exist in the marketplace prior what does it mean to the end
user all of the benefits you're currently getting from Nation grid you're going to continue to get if you're on budget billing an automatic uh withdrawal low income discount uh you use Mass Save you have solar on your roof all of those are utility programs
that are going to stay in place so from your perspective if you wish to participate you don't need to do anything you'll automatically be enrolled if you received this mailing again what the city has done is set a
hedge or ceiling on electricity prices no one in the City of Lawrence needs to spend more than 13.2 cents a kilowatt hour that's the and you can move back and forth on your meter read as as often as you like without fear
penalty that is if you received a a letter mailing very different very different if you receive this postcard this postcard is to notify you that you're on third party supply many consumers may not realize they're on
third party supply the rate is right on the back and this is important so if you receive this postcard you're not going to be switched but what we're telling you is look at your National Grid bill go to page two with a supply of services where it has what normally would be
basic service you have a third-party supplier look at that by law National Grid has to have the supplier's name and a 1 1800 number you need to call that 1 1800 number and make sure there's no fear penalty to leave that program but I
want you to know you have a new kind of hedge in the marketplace when you call the supplier see if they'll meet or beat the city's rate 13.2 if they will stay with the supplier that's not a problem not a problem when that rate uh expires
feel free to join the program but you need to make sure there's no fear penalty to to leave that program many of those third party suppliers have a A1 or $150 fee to leave but you now have leverage in the marketplace if they won't meet or beat your rate you don't
need to do anything and argue with them you can always just go online Colonial powerg group.com the City of Lawrence and opt into this program as long as you have your electricity bill go right on the website or give us a call 866 485
uh 5858 extension one we we'll get you right into the program again no one is trying to hold anyone in the program by any means this is about using the city's leverage in the electricity Marketplace to your advantage and again
what they've done is set an electricity hedge to protect all residents so that nobody has to pay more than 132 that's M Municipal aggregation 101 in a nutshell you had a question sir yes and I'm going to start with c f
be f counil before question I just want to thank two council members who were part of the committee who helped us get the proper beting uh vendy laon councelor vendy laan councelor Selena Ry they
spent some time to evaluate and nail who the supplier should be so that's how it was selected it was all done by the committee thank you thank you now Council vice president F you have the floor thank you I have a I have a question question um I don't recall
answer that you guys provided last absolutely anyone that has solar panels the it it is a seamless process if they receive the opt out um card just there's a slight uh variance National Grid is always going to pay you when you're generating extra electricity the
Bas service rate so they would be crediting your bill 14672 when you're using the electricity if you're in the program you'd be paying 132 you'd get the Delta like it's a a win-win if the programs rate is ever
above uh basic service just the opposite is happening though let's just say basic service went down to 12 cents then they would credit your bill 12 you'd still be paying the 13 again you can always opt out program will work seamlessly though if you have a credit on your bill
currently um that's going to stay on the bill all of those programs are utility programs you're welcome C thank you to you council president and how long I don't record how long did we voted for how long is the program run so
this first contract that's a great question it's 30 months 30 months at the 132 what I want you to know is at some point when uh rates are favorable we'll be approaching the city again with a new contract say all you weren't part of the
the but there's a bunch of rates and a bunch of suppliers we'll go through the process again choose another supplier everyone will be automatic that's in the program will be automatically moved from this supplier to the next supplier so it happens seamlessly no one needs to do
anything any other councelors Cel plan so one of my questions about solar was asked I think I got the answer on my second question from my colle from District see and that is how long does the 1336 13 two last for the duration of the 30-month contract is that the answer
that is for the 30 months and what I want to state is we are the aggregator we're colonial power group first point power out of Rhode Island is the supplier National Grid is the Distribution Company those are all the players in there couldn't be more more
confusing but National Grid is still all they are poles and wires company that's what they're going to continue to do the electron will be put on run by first point power and we'll continue to administr the program for the City and National Grid will continue to return outes Yes M oh sorry hi Denise alard
National Grid will continue to respond to any outages if you have any billing problems or there's any outages call National Grid they're they're still going to come they have no problem with this program they're not going to not respond because the city has an aggregation and an alternate supplier so you're still going to do all the same things I would like to also jump in and
just add one more thing about the solar those people who are on the R2 rate discount rate they'll continue to get the discount just like the way they get it now no change more questions coun M
um what is the what is the average per during the year for National Grid I'm I couldn't hear the average rate for National GD during one typical year uh so that really depends on the electricity markets uh we've seen it as
high as 33 cents we've seen it as low over the last 20 years as low as 7 cents but there's no there's no average it's just wherever they buy so uh right now I expect it to to fluctuate over the next three years somewhere between 14 and
maybe uh maybe 16 cents a kilowatt hour this rate that you're up against is their summer rate the rate will change in August and I expect it to to be elevated because there's two winter months in that rate in August it goes August through February
1st so I think the savings will will escalate um starting in August any other questions c c sorry about that one quick question with the what we're reading about nationally with the tariffs and with Canada and I know
that the Northeast gets a lot of its power through Hydro equc power and I don't know if that impacts Us in Massachusetts I know New York does for example but do you foresee any potential impacts here in Massachusetts most specifically National Grid in our area
so um in ISO New England we get about 9% of our power from uh Hydro Quebec um it would really depend on how quickly this escalates uh this contract is is set in place the the Hedge has been uh purchased so this contract won't be affected future contracts could be
affected can you provide us with the other mailing uh the postcard perhaps uh or a set of us for for the councelors that they can have both I have one at home but not not both yes I can councelors any other questions in
regard to this program we have received a lot of phone calls and a lot of uh a lot of uh text messaging and stuff like that so I think that we're going to be receiving more counc presant thank I have question for are you looking to have
if they have it now and they can send it electronic as well yes yes I can send it electronic yes yes cuz what we want to do I mean we need to we try to kind of like you know explain because a lot of people are scared like what is this absolutely and the one thing I would say
is if people have questions please have them call colonial power group or go to Colonial powerg group.com Lawrence City of Lawrence all of the information sits there and you we're happy to take the questions that's what we do 24 hours a
day s days a week um something that I going to suggest is that we need to have a set of educational components for this program yes uh that we don't have it yet I believe that before we send them before you guys send a mailing which we should be aware of that was going to
what that was coming uh education component please develop those and have that available uh for counselors for their constituents for their constituents for all of us and for the community in general so we are
planning on using the radio we are planning on using the library so we will be having information sessions so that people can also citizen sensor so those are three places we will definitely invite people to come and ask questions and things like that councel coun thank
you than regarding regarding the educational I thought we were and correct me if I'm wrong I thought we were going to send an educational piece first before this official the official mailing also radio Library all of that
is great but not everyone listens to the radio not everyone will go to the library so for something as important as this and I don't know how you you I'm sure you guys can figure it out but Direct Mail is important for something
like this um so I just wanted to put it so the the program is about is it's it's about to start on May 2025 May meter read your May meter read so may you'll see it on your bill in June you use your electricity in
in May and you pay for it in June so the only line that I'm change would rather than it's saying basic service it's going to say first point Lawrence a that's how you'll know you're in the aggregation and Anil do we have I believe we have some materials on this on I do believe we have some materials
on the city's website FAQs and all the information is on the city's in both English and Spanish it's it's going into newspaper tomorrow it's also going to be on the various Facebook and other places so another thing that I would like you to provide we need a a a a
contact information a direct contact to deal with the city officials and the community at lais so if you have that please provide it to us because it is extremely important for our con to have a direct contact when they contact us so
we not just the BL so so right in the in the documentation that everyone receives it has Colonial Powers Number there it's 866 48558 58 extension one it's in all the documentation it's on the website no no no I'm talking
about more like for the city officials a a direct contact for us in case that we have questions that we don't want sometime it is it is important to have those contacts uh I'll make sure you have my direct line on for the city officials I'll make sure you have my direct line all right
councilors any questions in regard to this program in one final thought for whoever is is the liis on between the company and and the city ofs whether for elected officials or for you know the the
residents of the city I just want to make sure we you guys have someone on your staff that's really important and um it's I'm glad to know that it's already up on the website on both for both on both ends but again I have elderly constituents
that don't know how to use a computer or or may or may know how to use certain programs Etc so I just want to reemphasize the importance of that Direct Mail mailing for UC and that should be coming just so you know this mailing went out on Friday
people should have been getting it you know some people Saturday I saw but Monday Tuesday it's USPS so shortly all right C just to add uh and thank you for the
time that we spent together uh but I just to add to this council president that that a letter went out I received my letter at my house we have the letter and some of my constituents are asking because they receive the letter so and
it's a self-explanatory letter it's very simple and it's telling them it's giving them the uh details that they need it's very simple and it's in Spanish so just to add that what we agreed in the meeting they're doing what we agreed in
the meeting thank you no and and I agree with you it is it I read the letter it's it's self explanatory I I agree 100% with that or in the City of Lawrence we have an issue and the issue is as following there is a lot of elderlies
and a and back then like eight years ago there was a lot of people going around knocking on doors asking for the receipt so when we when we see something on the mail that is ear that says energy everybody's a skep a lot of people is a skeptical so that's why we need to do it
a component an educational component that is very strong and and it's going to tell the the city we going to tell the residents you saving this amount of money and it's up to you is no penalty uh that's very important okay any questions councelors
so we can move on on the agenda thank you and we be we be in in contact we expect that email tonight if you can please yes 100% thank you thank you thank you thank you all right councilors we going on top of the agenda there is a public hearing that is a few
public hearing but before we do that we are going to um go to did you yes councelors we have one item in case that councelors we have one item on the new business that I would like to bring
it up before anything this is item 94 25 which is the extent of the 90day temporary appointment for of mik Bonia the chief of police the inter chief of police these Iran counselors uh if we want to take it we need uh to suspend
the rule and take as an emergency and be able to uh be able to deal with it here before before we go to committee we have discussed this item multiple times at the committee level and uh and that if if there is no no questions at the
committee different questions at the committee level may be if this Council desire we can uh we can deal this at this level at this point so the expiration day the expiration day for the 90 days uh for the 90 days was
yesterday that's correct so this is uh this is an emergency item um councelors I will entertain a motion motion to suspend rules motion to suspend the rule uh to deal with with this at this point and not send it to committee properly second
discussion I hear not all those in favor please say I I any n the eyes have it now we are going to De with item 9425 the extent of the extent of the 90 days temporary appointment of mik Bonia as a chief of police councilors any questions
on this motion to approve there is a motion to approve properly second any discussion councel LAN uh so U and understanding that this is an emergency but also we need to
uh uh we've been uh extending the 90 days for uh Mr for uh Bona how many times have we done this it's been a couple of times a couple of
times and months three to four three to four times yes and I know that we are in the process of waiting for the results for the interviews uh for the search of the chief of police but uh I think we have
to at least um I'm concerned I'm concerned of this Con un concerned about this process about taking vot every 90 days to extend
something that that should have stopped months ago so I'm I'm really concerned about that I don't think we should be voting on extending 90 days
cuz we are extending this process I think we should have something from the mayor's office as soon as possible and we have to send a message that the department needs an strong
leadership and I know Mr Bona has been doing all that he can but right now we have a sergeant doing the job of that a captain should be doing so don't forget that when you take this vote now melis
fonia is back to a to a sergeant he's he's no longer a lieutenant so take that in into consideration before taking this book because I have been getting a lot of calls in regards to this so it's concerning that we keep playing this
game or extending and extending and not paying attention to what is really happening a sergeant is currently running our Police Department thank you Lon uh any other
questions Rosario thank you through you besides all that we cannot leave the police department with I achieve regardless of the rank so this is 90 days while the process is Ono and I know our colag the vice president might have some in at some feedbacks from the
committee that is actually working on it and we know they're working do and they doing the due diligence to actually hire the correct chief of police but in the meantime we cannot leave that department without a leader and that's the leader that we have been choosing for the past year and a half and and we need to
finalize the process which is is ongoing but at this point in time taking this vote is to leave whoever is there at this point in time has being leading that police department and I know he's not going to be the chief but at this point in time we need him to say there 90 days is 90 days hopefully the process is is we can finalize before 90 days
hopefully but if it takes another 90 days we're going to take another vote on it thank all right uh and it is important to recognize councelors that this is the due process the due process is every 90 days if we have temporary employee uh they need to come in front of the city council uh before we
continue with the discussion I going to recognize Council pres infant but I would like to ask a little more into uh the process what is the the council Vice presing Fant was appointed by the by the council to be a
representation um on that committee so I would like to get an update with things that can be shared uh in public and uh please uh guide us through there no no no you you're the
representation of the council thank you okay so before we get into the process I I do want to say um aside from the the acting Chief we have we also need to take into consideration that when the new Chief the permanent Chief is
selected there is a transitional period that we do we will need the acting Chief to be part of and I think and before we hi and also before we take we before we take the final vote I I ask my colleagues to consider perhaps a clause
that states you know once we select once the the mayor selects and the the city council confirmation vote is is is takes place that it is clear that that we have a chief and that the acting Chief is there for transitional purposes and you
know we'll resume back to to his normal um position and that's something for later before we take this vote all right um pertaining to to the to the search um what I can share publicly and I'm I'm going to look at you to make sure just
give me a nod if I'm we we selected we had originally 14 candidates for um dropped out before the first meeting that the um search committee met for um so we had 12 candidates to review prior
to the to the first meeting we did receive the documents and a training document in preparation for the first meeting we spent about two hours the group I thought it was great uh I want to say the consultant is very knowledgeable very patient um and likes things uh to be you
know direct and and transparent we had our second meeting last week that lasted about a little over 3 hours this is where we we went through all 12 candidates um and I have to say although some members you know we
like like like anything some members disagreed on on certain things however overall um I believe the six that we chose to move forward um the members agreed with with those I have to say and I'm proud to say actually and I think
the the HR department for their work with the Consultants the the candidates that we have and had were amazing um very strong backgrounds and uh whomever comes out from the six I believe will be a strong chief for the
for the community um this week we have a we have the interview scheduled so from there we will select once all interviews are over from there we will select three to recommend to the mayor the mayor will then choose uh from the three to send to
the um the the city council for a confirmation and hopefully we will have a confirmed police chief soon um other than that I I want to say the process has been great I the discussions have
been great um I thank the consultant for providing a space that uh we can speak freely um he's very open with that and also emphasizes the need of privacy so there's obviously things we cannot say but overall um I'm very very pleased
with the process that we currently have and I want to thank um attorney Garcia who's you know this is a whole process that she was put into attorney hoen um the mayor's office that ensured that this this stays um uh separate so yeah
so so far so good council president thank you any questions in regard to item 9425 council president Council L I just want to remind you and my colleagues that under our Charter under emergency emergency measures uh it it
states that emergency measures shall stand repealed on the 61st day following the date of the council approval unless an earlier date of expiration is otherwise provided or unless a second emergency measure adopted in Conformity with this section is adopted extending
it or unless a measure adopted in Conformity with the procedures for measures generated is adopting extending it so we have in our Charter and our rules but our Charter that this any emergency lasts for 61 days unless we decide to take a vote a second vote to
extend it um and it sounds to me council president as though if we're going to go 90 days we'd probably want to extend it an additional whatever that is 29 days um 60 um I say 61 days 61st days so 29 days or 30 days right so that would be
my recommendation if we're going to push this thing through council president uh any any any opposition to that U to what council plan just said I definitely will recommend that as well
thank you Council of plan any other questions all right at this point I'll uh president President should motion I would take the amendment recommendation and I would amend the um the motion all
right it's been amended um it's been second right who was the second one C you were the one the second yep [Music] you yes any questions in regard to
this you have a question I would just to clarify I know there's some questions regarding this our Charter says that if we adopt something by with an emergency clause and by the way uh we as a council have not been very good about following
the charter when it comes to emergencies if you read it I'm not going to go down that road tonight on that but um it does say that the emergency expires at after day 61 so but it also offers us after we
approve an emergency to allow us to either reduce or extend now this evening I suspect we're going to want to extend it an additional 29 or 30 days depending on the maap so I believe the motion should be a motion to pass the this as an emergency
that way we have 61 days and then we would have an amendment to that uh or we would amend it to an additional 30 days if you look under I Clerk's looking under 3 38 Point subsection B just to um clarify I don't think
you're appointing the chief as an emergency you're appointing has a 90-day appointment you're you're taking a motion out of order and not sending it to committee as an emergency so I think that's the emergency is with regard to the
procedure um but the chief's appointment is a standard 90day appointment for the 90 days however you want to do it just to be safe is fine but I I think the emergency was with regard to the motion as opposed to he's not an emergency Chief he's a regular Chief with a 90-day
extension um so I I'm not technically the parliamentarian at the table but I I do think what we're talking about is a little bit apples and oranges I think he's not an emergency Chief he's a 90-day standed appointment
Chief you're taking the motion as an emergency I would agree I would agree with that assessment I think we already voted to not send it to committee that was already passed so that's off the table we're not sending this to committee what we're doing here is that we are we are taking an action as an
emergency this is an emergency procedure this evening we're taking it tonight as an emergency we're not going through the normal channels we're we're going to be adopting something beginning tonight on this issue and and the emergency is that we are going any emergency it gives the
council by way of our Charter those 61 days and then what we're going to do I would recommend is then we would extend that we would amend that Beyond as is directed in our Charter that I just read under 3.8 subsection B yeah and that's what the C Rosario says that he was going to amend it to the amount of days
required to get to the 90 days that's what that's what he was saying I know and I and it's a tri it's a it's a small point we have to pass the emergency measure first or make that motion first and then amend it so I guess we can do it that way that's fine thank you council president all thank you so much
so is an's appointment at the end of the day any questions in regard to the appointment 9425 any question to the HR Director a little bit cons you guys have a question on this side
clarification clarification what what's the question thank youc I'm so sorry thank you council president uh we we heard a statement earlier pertaining to either a Committee Member resigning um I don't think I just
want to say to the council I don't think that's the case we did get information that one other candidate did um come like uh withdrew his application so um I believe that's that's what that's what that comment was pertaining
but I don't I haven't heard anything about any committee members resigning from the committee at no if that's the case we have a backup actually that is a backup any questions to the HR Director in regard to this appointment at this time I'll L you have
a question yes I have question to the HR Director if I make Cil president yeah but you got to say it may I finish go ahead counc L you have the floor thank you council president um attorney if let's I'm getting emails and text in regards to
this uh committee um this the committee searching for the chief of police uh so if we get another member that uh resigns will that stop the process or the administration is or the human resource
department it's uh will continue the process if we get another uh if we get another member that uh wants to resign absolutely that's a great question we're under the um it's our opinion that so long as you
have Quorum it should continue I think that that would be a a detriment to the city to stop this uh process and to start it all over again as you just previously stated um uh Chief bonya is a sergeant and he is um in charge of the police department
right now and he's been for over a year and a half so I think it's time for the city to move it forward and so long as we have Quorum I think that we should be okay any time frame have we looking into two weeks four weeks also a great question and I I know that I've received
this question a couple of times so tentatively uh according to the uh the consultant's uh timeline that he provided to us it should be by the end of April so much sooner rather than later and if I may uh ccor pres can I
make a comment and and out of respect for the police for the police officers that have went through the process of becoming lieutenants captain and and taking their
uh exams and uh some of them going and getting their degrees out of respect for those offic ERS that take their Department very seriously I'm going to go vote no for the 90 days extension
because I don't think having a sergeant uh leading a department is a good message and I hope as I good message is for for the community and I hope that the administration uh along with HR and the
committee and I know they doing the best that they can I hope that soon better than and soon we have an answer of a permanent chief of police I just wanted to make that comment uh council president taken any other
questions uh two things that I would like to for you to send us by email uh what the quorums means when it comes to the committee and also what is the tiebreaker procedures that you guys have in in place could you repeat that last one tie Breakers
procedures all right can you send us an emails on that absolutely all right counselors at this point I going I going to call for the to for the question all please say I please councelor Levy yes Council plant
yes Council Lan no council Del Rosario yes Council Santiago yes Council marmel yes Council Ares yes Council vice president Inon yes council president Rodriguez about yes motion
carries so we are councelors if you have no issues I would like to go on top of that um I I would like to go to the committee reports we have a couple of peop here a couple of people here for different U items when it comes to the committee thank you so much uh um HR
Director um so so I would like to go right away on top of that uh budget and finance committee um Madame vice president infant and the chair of the budget and finance committee thank you council president budget and finance committee met last
Wednesday the first item we have is item 42-25 authorization to expend in the amount of $125,200 and choice grants from E Eh eohc planning Grant grant for reendo
Gateway 2. 2.0 and it was brought up as a favorable recommendation and I make that as a formal motion second than you there is a motion on the table properly second discussion on this item I he n please say I I any n the I have
it uh Madame vice president infant 4325 you 40 3-25 authorization to expend 132,000 there is an error on the agenda counselors It's not $130 it's
$132,000 towards the housing Choice grants from e o hlc planning grants for the McGovern Transportation Center marimac Street coridor Corridor and that was sent up as a committee report and I
make that as a formal motion motion to accept the committee report properly second Rees discussions on the committee report discussion on the committee report yes you asked yeah I mean who was the one that asked for the
question council president yeah Council uh I think we asked for uh information on the date of the meeting I personally asked for I wanted to know who owns the land okay
surrounding that project let's vote first on the uh on the committee report and then we can make a determination whether or not we're going to move this item forward or we're going to keep it here I think that's part of the committee report well the information is for the approval of the item not for the committee report
itself um so I'll call the question on the committee report first the authorization to spend 132,000 that's that's been um that's a a motion to accept it as a committee report uh if it is no question on the committee report all in favor please say I I any n the I
habit councelors what's the what's the motion on item 4325 so we can open the discussion if it's needed motion to approve there is a motion to approve properly second discussion uh at the committee level we have many questions um including Council
Lon that just just raised one question Council Lon you have the floor yeah we we asked in the meeting in the committee meeting who was the owner of the land surrounded the project and if if I don't see anybody from the from the
representing that item at this point I don't see my CED here council president through you Council presid in thank you um M director McCarthy is was feeling ill tonight and he did reach out to me and
stated that um Mr Mr cerillo is here to answer questions on behalf of this of of this item they might they might want to I think that's news to Mr cillo okay so maybe maybe we should T I was told Brad Brar from groundwork
Lawrence is here and Mr cillo is here um to speak on on the items if you guys are not ready we definitely can uh move move forward and then uh and table the items on you guys already actually first I'm here and I'm here to speak on on that item um as a
matter of fact there is a lot of questions on this item so if you guys are not quite 100% ready you can come over later on and we can discuss because this is the true motion to table second there's a motion to table properly second no discussion on the table
matters all please say hi hi any n the I have it uh this is the true uh MBTA Community uh um item item 8425 council president is the resolution
in support of Lawrence Public Schools submission of a statement of interest to the Massachusetts building authority known as The msba Accelerated repair program ARP intended for roof and window repairs this will be a two-year project
and the committee sent this up with as a favorable recommendation and I make that as a formal motion there's a motion on the table properly second on the resolution that you guys everybody receive um any questions in regard to
this resolution discussion councel plan yeah so it's 300 thou I'm reading it right now $300,000 of for the twoe pro million actually pardon me $8 million total 8 million yes I I just I I know that we've gone to the
trough msba several times and they we've been very successful and I I just don't know what appetite the msba is to providing more funding to the lawen I just want to gauge expectations a little on this so
are what is our feeling with this application do we think we're going to be successful and getting now this amount we're not going to get the whole amount we have to share this cost sharing of it of course but what's our sense about expectations sure good evening counselors Alanis Hernandez
chief of operations for the lawence Public Schools um so you're correct there's about $300 million on uh that the msba has uh for the ARP projects across right so the projects that have been um that are authorized or that will
be funded through this funding um stream will be for roofs and or Windows um in a recent um meeting with the msba they're actually in the city doing an assessment on of on all of our school buildings currently so in preparation for that meetting meeting we were made aware that
there are funds available for their 2025 core projects and accelerated repair projects um and that the deadline for submission is this Friday um and we were encouraged to to look into the possibility of applying so we took that
as a positive um invite to look um and and you know internally we have uh an internal document that has the life expectancy of all of you know roofs and windows for our buildings so we saw this as an opportunity to put forward um
three schools um two schools would that are in dire need or that are in need of a roof um replacement which is the South Lawrence East and the frost um School complex and then the windows project for the Arlington complex that is actually
also um in need of um replacement the Arlington has about 800 windows and if you've been to the Arlington you can see that you cannot open the windows you cannot see outside or you cannot see inside so again the total um scope of the work uh will be about between the
windows and the roofs are about $18 million with the um reimburse reimbursable rate from the msba to be anywhere between 70 to 80% so we're looking at about a commitment from the city um if we are invited um by the msba
to um for any of these projects about anywhere before between $4 to $5 million that's not counting um inflation so again um there's a lot of work uh on our end to submit this application um under the superintendent's leadership we're
willing to to do that work and submit this application on behalf of the City of Lawrence and uh we are hopeful that the msba considers considers the the City of Lawrence maybe not for the three projects but maybe for one thank you any questions on regard to
this resolution this is just a resolution we are just we are about to apply for this $8 million right we just correct thank you for that again something that is an opportunity and we're just looking for your support to say yes Lawrence Public Schools go ahead and submit the application on behalf of
the City of Lawrence any questions in regard to this councelor cel hi and I I would like to know how do you choose this school because I founded do
school and I don't see the school in my district good question um counselor Santiago so um the this funds are very um descriptive so for roofs for example they have to be life expectancy so life expectancy of our roofs are anywhere
anywhere between 20 to 25 years so I'm looking at all of our schools and when they were built and when the whether there were any repairs or non- repairs to those roofs that's why the frost and the um South Lawrence East were the qualifier the paron received um a roof a
partial Ro roof replacement um not too long ago so that's why the partham for example the complex was now one of the qualifiers so we look at the the requirements of the msba in terms of the life expectancy and then in terms of the
windows um the Arlington is the one school that was built when was the Arlington built in 1987 and those windows have never received an upgrade or a renovation and again looking at the windows that can
open and cannot open that's the building that the windows cannot open where the param other um schools in other neighborhoods do do have that Rio counil Santiago any any other questions
yes did you send some email from to the H director for the Parton anything they needed because they knew basically better than than us because they are in
the school already every every day and did you send any particular email to to require was really the school they know the school needed or they believe
the school needs some repair yeah really good question right so in my role as chief of operations I'm in charge of the facilities Department that's one of the Departments that I directly oversee um I have my director of facility here Mr Chris Marino and we
work very close with our custodio and our principal ship um for the district and as I highlighted earlier one of the things that we do internally is we keep track of all of our buildings in an internal document where we have all of our school buildings the years that were
built uh any repairs including maybe you know like I provided in the in the memo some of the um accelerated repair projects that has been done for our district in the past and what has been some of the um repairs and maintenance that we have internally done um to
answer your question directly I did not reach out to the principals because I believe that was a decision that um we were able to make on behalf of the district to look at all the all of our schools under the qualifier of the msba who are which one are the buildings that
one have a roof that are over 25 years old and two our W their windows are over 20 25 years old the three schools that we are recommending where the three schools are qualified um if if we went beyond that then we would not be putting
any school forward because all the other schools do not qualify under those criteria by the msba all right thank you you're welcome any other any other questions councelors all right at this point uh this is for a resolution to allow them
to apply um I'll I'll call the question so please say I I any names I have it thank you so much thank you have a good night all right um all item 8525 Madame vice president inant and the
chair of the V finance committee thank you item 85- 25 authorization to expend in the amount of 1,298 760 for the towards the uh comprehensive
opor stimulant and substance use site based program was sent up as a community as a com committee report and I make that as a formal motion there's a motion on the table as to accept to accept the committee report properly second
discussion on the committee report I please say I hi hi any n guys have it uh Madame Vice presid Infante at the committee level we had um additional questions so I'm going to I'm
going to for the purpose of discussion I'm going to make a motion to approve approve there is a motion to approve for the discussion purpose and been it's been second councel Rees discussion counciling discussion I would like to um
bring up the our manager Su Fink U that we gave her some quite a homework to do to present back to us I just want to give her the opportunity um for that through you council president do you remember some of those questions I was actually not present for that part of the meeting so I don't know
what the homework was sorry it was Kate do have okay here you have your back last Tuesday I believe you asked to see the application uh the the the applic the the current perhaps current projects that
you might Finance with this so I believe in the application it listed some sorry I believe in the application it listed the partners I wasn't sure I didn't see the application I know that Sue had forwarded the application though
that is that 100% of the money going to be spent on those on those projects it is in it is in the packet I mean but we don't know if down 100% it's going to be a spend correct so our our our question is
whether or not um certain projects in question so essentially it's I believe the Hub Partners so that would be like Lawrence methan Community Coalition um I believe the psychological center is getting some of the funding
this is what we propos anyways yeah Lazarus house time for change Ministry the movement family so those are people who participate in What's called the Hub so this is an expansion of our existing opioid settlements program of what we're doing well this is
a Department of Justice Grant it is more geared towards um diversion so you know Justice involved individuals might be you know put into programs say with like Lawrence prpa they were here that couple of weeks ago talking about their program Madame CL
please notice that councelor De Rosario uh is is have a potential conf of Interest with this item um understood so another question that were raised at the committee level was in regard to uh whether or not you all of those
projects were going to be the finals uh and if the funds were going to be spending 100% around those projects and you were mention something around the difference between the regular opio settlement fund and and these F so for this project for this grant though we are going to take some money for admin
funds and there's going to be some money that's going to go to the police department because they have they're hiring an Outreach worker and it's going to be part of their data support so there's going to be funds for that also so the entire 1 million is not going out to all our partners some of
it's going to be kept for Police Department our department to manage the grant we need some admin funds and other than that I think it's all going to Partners any questions councelors council president council
president trying to find the list of partners that they submitted it's part of it is part of we just question around whether or now it's going to be 100% of the fund and if it is any other project in particular questionable projects
Psy can you keep on explaining the difference between the the the sement fund and this fund is more like related to so this is a grant this is a grant that we actively applied for and because we have the settlement funds you are you're sort of leveraged more money is
what we're doing because we have the settlement funds um as you said this is a compliment when we applied for it we did it that it was going to be a compliment to the existing settlement funds that plan that a Wilder had put through to the state and was approved by the state this is just to complement
that so it's to give I mean to help out the um people that are on the Hub mostly The Hub is what it meets weekly I believe and it just gives real time information to a lot of the people involved like you get to know if there's been a increase in overdoses if there's
a a new drug out there if new encampments things like that yeah councelors what can but the reason that those question were raised at the committee level it was because uh there were some project that were questionable whether or not we should be spending
money on the on those projects and uh the project that are related to the hub are related strictly related to opioid different than other projects that were funded through the settlement funds the opio cemon
funds what I will suggest uh is that we actually put these funds or approve these funds with the condition that is being expended through the Hub uh and the organization that made uh
that deal with the opioid directly to the specific um through you council president to you pres um to the specific organizations that are shown here uh in the in the in the application which are
just just stating it for the record we have the psychological center Lawrence prpa the movement family time for change Ministry Lazarus House ministries habit o opo CTC and lawence smin
Community Co Coalition and also Madame infant it is important to recognize that the police department have a specific and the police department uh a specific duties that they do in combination with the U with the DPW when it comes to cleaning up and paying for all stuff
which is going to be also hope right yes we have money for outreach workers and there's for the um the data person down to the police department not their entire salary a piece of because we use that data to apply for more grants or to show that we're doing the work um the
opioid settlement funds are going more towards the encampments for DPW um I got you that's what we've been doing with that right no problem I don't know what the Department of Justice allows on their grid not that any questions councelors thank you so much thank you
for the info councel thank you one of the things that I I don't think that we do nearly enough in the city is to have a discussion regarding when we're looking for grant money what does that mean I know what this means with respect to the nuts and bolts we're going to give them to the hubs hubs are going to distribute them we're
going administrative cost I get the I get that Dynamic but what I'm seeing and people that I've talked to are concerned is that part of the problem that we have part of the problem we have the homeless issue in our city is because we have a
whole menu of options to treat people give them uh benefits Etc to try try to treat things and and other communities may not be doing what we're doing and so we become more of a magnet for attracting individuals who may be needing it and that puts more of a
burden on a lot of things whether it's businesses or trying to conduct their business merchants or whether it's um you know we're just we just having issues where it was a crime Spike recently that apparently I can't say
this with absolute certainty but according to people that I've talking to Police Department was started from the part of the homeless stuff so the question I have here is I don't know who is asking that we go ahead and make and apply for this monies but that's what I
was already heard this evening but has there been discussions about are we perpetuating the problems that we're having in the city while trying to deal with the problems that we're having in the city chicken and egg it's circular and I don't know if we've had that kind of conversation do you have any insights
as to when we're talking about going for Grants like this what it is to deal with the bigger picture of the various crisis the drug epidemics the homelessness etc etc in our city has that conversation taking place I personally have not been
involved in any conversation of that nature I don't know if there have been conversations among um upper level directors um with the mayor I don't know that and it's probably unfair because because you're more the money person you're not necessarily the policy maker
and it's more of a policy question and I don't mean to you're happen to be at the microphone so you're the one get into the question but you know I think we as a city as leaders in the city should have that discussion at some point and and maybe the answer is we need more of this maybe we need to spend more money
more doj money is coming in we need to bring more programs more benefits more whatever we need to deal with it or maybe it's not maybe it's the complete opposite I don't have that answer but I would hope that at some level that conversation is taking place because I
do know what we're facing in the city I do know there's a homeless problem I do know there's drug problems I do know there's are crime problems I do know there's problems in our city and I don't know if this helps or hurts and that's the conversation I think we should be having thank you council president
make it to appr yes so motion to approve there is a motion on the table to approve properly second um any questions on this I hear none all please
say I hi any names yes I have it thank you than so much thank you um I got stay item 8624 autorization to spend
7,365 455,000 N2 uh lead haard control and healthy homes Grant award by the office of lead andard control Madame vice president infant and the chair of the voam finance committee
thank you item 86- 25 author 8625 authorization to expend 7,365 455 with 92 towards the lead Hazard control and healthy homes Grant awarded
by the office of lead and Hazard control and healthy homes was sent up with a favorable recommendation and I make that as a formal motion second there's a motion on the table properly second any discussion on this matter uh let's allow some explanation
so um to happen and since the years and so far so on sure um so this is a four-year Grant um it is for lead Hazard control and Healthy Home
interventions um the start date for this grant is April 1st that could change we have the option to push it back if we have more issues um the grant will allow us to maintain the two people we already have working on on the lead grant that is currently ending and to hire two more
full-time employees um the lead has a control is $225,000 per unit maximum which is a a big increase from the previous leg Grant which is good as you know the cost of building materials significantly went up
after covid um healthy homes we figure it'll average about 4,000 we can't go over that um an example of healthy homes would be mold remediation um radar on remediation um we've done a couple of roof repairs because if there was Heavy
leaking um that's any other similar Health intervention they can usually pass through um 180 units will be made um Healthy Home intervention um 200 units will be made lead safe that's our
commitment two different programs on that so yeah so it's the of the 200 units we're doing 100 80 of them will probably receive the healthy homes intervention I can't do a healthy homes without having some lead in there I can do just lead if they don't need anything
but and we can't do healthy homes or we can't do lead without doing a radon inspection first you do a rate on test in the basement so are you splitting those into four years exactly or you you use using the money for the next two years 3 years
and then four years we usually we can usually posle it out to four years we usually pretty good about it's been 20 years we've been doing 20 plus years we've been doing these grants so we're we're pretty good councilors any questions in regard to this matter uh allv please say I I any names
guys have it uh item 8725 payment of PRI year build $1,494 96 oh I'm sorry vice president can I ask you to wave the 30 days on that uh we need to go back and reconsider our vote councilors any reconsideration on on our vote I would
reconsider motion to reconsider everybody's the provan side can second uh properly second discussion I hear none all please say under consideration thank you sorry about that no and now we're going to take a vote
motion to approve item 86- 25 um and wave the 30 days W the 30 days second and this motion on the table properly second discussion I hear none all of in FA please say I I any n the I haveit Madame vice president inant and
the share of The Bu and finance please U thank you go to item 8725 item 87-25 payment of Prior year bills in the amount of $1,496 wor 55 cents towards bro Hardon
was sent up with a favorable recommendation and I make that as a formal motion thank there's a motion on the table properly second any disc discussion just allation all please say hi any names
guys have it um all right let's go to the ordinance committee do you coun do you mind going to a specific ones that are people are here I I think all of them people here from almost all of them um
I'm not sure about 65 25 the Easter egg hunts anybody here for that say that Easter egg hunt you're here for the Easter egg hunt my colleague to the right actually yeah yes yes go go let's just do it it'll be fast um document 6525 is Easter
egg hunt at O'Neal Park from 10:00 a.m. to 2: p.m. on April 19th will send up to the full council with fa recommendation make that in the form of a motion second there a motion on the table properly second discussion I Hear n pleas say I I any names guys have it item 6725 this is
groundwork Lawrence Farmers mark a camping in common every Wednesday from 9: to 5: a.m. to um from June 11th to October 22nd and I think there's an understanding that the common will not be able to be used after I think it's
July the 5th I want to not the area but not the area that they're mentioned we should be all said so I send up to full Council fa recommendation and make that in a form of a motion a motion on the table properly second to to approve that ground wild L Farmers Farmers Market any
questions I here know please say hi hi ni have it thank you sir it 6825 again ground Works Lawrence this is a farmers market at oconnell Park every Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from June 14th through October 25th was sent up to the full council with the
favor recommendation and make that as a as a motion second there a motion on the table properly second discussion I hear none all fav pleas say hi I any Nam there I have it item 6925 um this uh this is preaching activity in
the park and camping new common I'm going to give the committee report then I'm going to amend it from uh 2: p.m. to 10: p.m. it says June 28th from 4: to 10: p.m. and August 22nd and 203rd um from 220 25 make that in the form of a motion and I'll amend it in a
second second there's a motion on the table properly second any discussions that's a that's a favorable recommendation I want to amend it here in a second it's a Comm that's a committee report but I'm going to amend it right now so it's been made in second i' like to amend it now to add this because of the changes at camping new
common um the proponents the applicants as well as the um Recreation Department have agreed to that all three events um are going to be at oconnell Park um and the June event would be moved uh from
June 21st 2025 to June 28th 2025 so that's the amendment all right there is a motion on the table with amendments prop second discussion Council expressing inant thank you last summer and I want to bring this
up I believe we have the repres repres representatives here and this is just for any um any event that happens in the common or any of our Parks last year we I received I'm going to speak for myself but I received a few complaints from
residents that live on common on Common Street regarding the the loudness of um of the preaching events that were occurring throughout the summer or throughout the spring last year and I just want to make sure that we take that into account and that
people are aware of that um and especially because these events are from 2:00 p.m. to 10: p.m. they're they're fairly long and I want to make sure that that the organizations are aware that we did receive complaints about about those
those um events in Parks uh to enforce the rules every every time that you that you receive a permit from the city council or an approval from the city council uh just make sure that the the speakers are
turned to the the people that are C pres thank you to you and also all of us here at at this C ccil we need to be aware of also sharing this space uh last
year in the summer we actually provide two different events at the same time at the park and there was nobody to blame for after those calls cuz when you call the institution say it wasn't me it was the other one so we got to be careful on the conflict of those days so that way we don't have two activities going at
the same way at the same time and that way we can help people accountable if they don't agree with what the perit it's it's just just an FYI for for us to to keep track of that councelors any questions in regard to uh this motion with the
Amendments just a quick question cons presid do they get do they get like any type of a document about the expectation from the city do they get something play that they have do you get yeah did you get anything can you explain your
experience please yes go ahead name and address for the record please uh hi my name is Elena Tapia I'm on behalf of one of the preaching activities because I know that there are a lot of churches that do it in the park um so what I wanted to say is that the time is not really that it's going to be until 210
it's just that we want to have enough time so we can clean up and make sure because it's usually over at 8 but we just want to make sure that we have time to leave the park as we found it's not that they're going to be um people like preaching all at that time you just going to be careful with the timing and also yes because after we get approved
from the city council we have to go to each department and get all the permits from the fire department the police and everything so we do get like the rules and the expectations that we need to attend to when we do the activities yeah I mentioned that and thank you for uh
clarifying that I mentioned that Cu uh and and like uh my colleague mentioned uh last year I I receive complaints um sometimes and I'm not saying it's your church I'm not familiar with your church uh and I know many
churches but I'm not familiar with yours they go to the corner they don't stay inside inside the park some of them do it to announce that something is coming uh but it's it's not you know there's other people at the
park they playing with their families you know but some of them they they use the Conner as a venue uh to announce that that that that someone is going to be preaching in an hour half an hour so um that's why I ask if the rules are
clear cuz maybe it's in our part but it looks like it's not in our end so just keep that in mind uh getting a permit to use the park in the the center of the park doesn't mean that you can go uh
it's not you specific they can go to the sidewalk to the corner and announce that this is coming or you know and usually like even in the permit it tell it asks you like how are you going to publicize your activity like you're going to use the radio or flyers and things like
you're supposed to select what you're doing and just like do that not to use any other part of the part cuz even when you do the permit you specify which area you're going to use and you're supposed to stick to that area so and I know it's not your church but for the others that are listening yeah we only use uh use
uang as an example but I know it's not your church and and thank you for following all the rules but for the others uh uh make sure they you guys read the rules and you stay uh follow the rules uh cuz I getting a permit for
use the park in to be at the inside of the park and the center of the park doesn't mean that you can be at the corner using the sidewalk and it's very destructive to the other people that are using the park thank you council president thank you no problem any other questions in regard to this uh item with
the Amendments uh at this time I'll call the questions all those in favor all those in favor please say I I any n the eyes have it uh councelors let's U let's keep it with the one that we have people here um
c i I know that 7325 is is not yeah from [Music] personal yeah election here after 18 years 20 um but who's counting
uh we send this up to the full council with favorable recommendation and make that in a form of a motion second there is a motion on the table to accept those 24 24 sping locations properly second uh any discussion any discussion
discussion C pres thank you I just want to double check we have comments double check the location considering what we heard earlier today um your constituents I know but no no no but I just you know
putting it out there um question yeah so I'm going to give it to the district council thank you thank you council president to follow uh the the concern that was pressed at the beginning of the meeting and public participation people
from District B they have to vote uh instead of voting at the old high school they are sent to vote to what was that location they mentioned Sumer Street Summer Street uh any comments on that why they and the they used to vote at
Mary Immaculate yes well good evening councilors uh my name is Richard Reyes I'm the assistant city clerk for the election division regarding your question celor um we do not designate the um districts it's a state so when they divide the prents up we're not the ones who designate voters to go to those
certain places it's out of our hands the state is what that does all that work for us she's referring to the location of the pulling place not to the district excuse me I couldn't hear you hold on one second she's referring to the location of the polling place not
necessarily the district division well the polling locations we I think over the years they agreed at the schools locations we had them in different places like private places such as like the multi service back then and they didn't work out schools are the best locations for us to work they belong to
the city custodians help us set up the equipment so that's the reason why we had and just to FYI for everybody this is the El location which is located on Summer Street right yes the houseing project yes Elms that's
the the one in question any questions in regard to the to 24 pooling locations uh any questions in regard to this I I hear none so I'll this time I have a question for the clerk C presid thank you this is a question for the for
the either main our main Clerk or assistant clerk majority of of the polling locations for that district is is in the north common Educational Center why is that one precent not
included is it because of the space because we have other we have for other districts like District e District um I'm sorry District F that all all of the four prec are within the South Lawrence East so is there is there an issue with
spacing can you explain that further for us actually um the polling locations get approved by the city counselors um I had talks with the city clerk prior to moving Vel Brook over to the lawren High um it's something to be considered about but we also got to keep in mind that we
have a lot of elderly people that live in Summer Street and they're used to going to their poing location there I mean we did switch Mary Immaculate over to Lawrence High I don't think it's an issue because we do have vote by mail or absentees so I mean I think we could take that into consideration of considering moving that Poland location
to the Lawrence ey having all district B just in one location like we do with the South Lawrence East yeah uh those recommendations were uh discussed PR previously uh the the election division have decided to go
with these 24 poing locations if we need to change those 24 poing locations uh and recommend another one I think that it's in order yes uh councilors I'll entertain a motion discussion around this time wise we cannot do it for this
year time wise right that's what you're saying with the time frame being right now in March um we would have to to send notices at least 45 days before an election to all the voters in that District to inform them that their ponent location has changed so if I mean we could kind of squeeze it in but I
think it's kind of like brushing it yeah let's take that into consideration councelors uh there's a lot of people that already know especially on that location that is the Elms that is a lot of elderly there that leave there that vote there and that that specific Place
uh it is it is it is should should be taken into consideration that that factor as well uh and the fact that we have less than 20 45 days all right councelors uh this time uh it's open for
discussion uh there's no questions okay I'll call the questions all those in favor to accept these 24 polling location please say I I any N I have it we moving on to the next item which
is uh item 7625 and this is the approval of police details for the 24 polling locations this was sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation and that's the motion motion to approve the 24 uh 24 uh polling location details for
those U any questions I hear none all please say I any Nam guys I have it item 77 25 uh this is the approved ear early voting both in the September 16th and November 4th elections uh for one week
prior to each of those elections and this will sent up to the full council with favorable recommendation and that's the motion motion to approve early voting properly second discuss there is a motion on the table properly second discussion councilor vice president Infante thank you
pursuant to councelor large Anna Le thank you I would like the the council to consider instead of having two weeks for early voting one consider it's one week it's one week or it's there only one week okay thank you thank you both of the both elections only one week all
right thank you councelor Levy that the okay Cel Rosario I mean no that's that was the same question okay all right any other questions in regard to the ear voting are hear none all those in fav please
say I I any names the I haveit item 7825 approv of the vote by May um C plan this was sent up to the full council with the favor recommendation and make that in the form of a motion second a motion on the table properly second discussion discussion
discuss so this is for the by that is correct so for the Sor for the record for the clarity
and for the transpar or the election I do not agree on the vote by mail so Asal okay because this is something from uh Thea M but
no for the voting by mail we did have so many problems before and I think that the vote by mail was because of the co it's not something mandatory and just to make sure that's none of
those problem happening again I disagree with both by mail so again for the record for the transparency for the coming city election I hope that some of my college
join me and no B on this idle councelor any other questions I hear none at this time just just make a quick comment so I actually I agree with my colleague um especially in light of the most recent local election not so much the presidential not so much the state elections but at
the local election level for some reason um and it's not just the most recent election we've got elections in in the past as well where there have been complications to be polite um that have really um called to question uh the
Integrity of the system um and um and it frankly we have provided I think many ways for people to to have a chance to vote early voting if they want preliminary election they can come to the council chambers and cast their vote if they're not able to be here for
whatever the reasons are that they can't be here on Election Day they can vote uh they can vote absente there are plenty of opportunities council president for members uh to be able to vote they will not be disenfranchised they will it actually I think will provide a service
and more confidence in our election system that we take way the I'm going be polite again the complexities that we face every two years and I so I support my colleagues comments thank you pres any other questions president uh before
we go to you Council Levy let's go around and then we take the second round counciling thank you and I would like to add to the sentiments of my two colleagues um another issue that we've been having with mail mail by vote by mail is we have elected officials wives
handling um envelopes which is not also protecting the Integrity is not okay I've had issues in my district as well with V by mail um so I I agree with the sentiments of of my my other two colleagues any other questions C
leev how much of does it cost to send the bo by mayor how much we expend all right for the last mayor over race in 2021 in September we had to have for vote by mail that's what you want ask for September of 2021 we had vote by
mail um 3,774 applications received and ballots return was 2599 it costs us I mean it's a postage of a125 each ballot that we mail out the voter does not have to pay for postage
to return it okay so right now the the cost of the postal for the total cost it's like 4,717 for the whole year no that's just for one election you're only for one election election that is correct so and
now with the increase of the postage um we still haven't got word yet from the post office what's going to be the increase per ballot um it depends on the weight of the ballot we have our own pstage machine downstairs so until we hear any otherwise then we still go by
125 so how many people we have registered right now right now we have a total of 43,98221 Federal elections are required to have it local elections it's up to the city council if you guys want to vote to have
vote by mail you guys go opt out or keep it yes Asal is always mandatory for all yes and the war that has to be done so you need to right now how many people do you have the Elation Department four people we have four people and that's including myself four including yourself
yes thank you you're welcome right any other questions councelors at this time I'll call the questions just comment I follow the question with my colleagues but at the same time I love to maintain different opportunity to our
Bing uh had a change to vote so I want to mention that one all right thank you councel Rees CC pres Cel Rosario just to add a minute we've been in the scoop and the newspapers and everywhere for all the Scandal being by Bo and by mail or
regardless if it's smt ballet um as much as you want to extend the opportunity for people to vote we should take Lawrence out of this black cloud and somehow not use the voting by mail so that way it's less opportunity for people to do what they did in the last
election and they will be less talking about lawence how bad we are when it comes to election so we need to realize that that that cost us a lot of money and cost our people a lot of money and at the end of the day it cost Lawrence being on the newspaper as as as have
we've been for the past few elections so somehow even though we don't want it to stop people or or restrict people how to vote they also have a lot of options to how to vote so it's time for us to think how we going to limit these people that are doing the wrong thing taking both by
mail out of mailboxes and not allowing people to vote so somehow we need to restrict that and that's how I think that we we we should go we should think how do we take Lawrence out of this Dark Cloud when it comes to elections right any other questions councelors I hear none council president
counc l i I think it's it's and I'm going to go back to a comment made by councelor Levy when she proposed uh ID voting with ID so when I
hear from different sizes one is against uh that the problem that we face in every election let me be specific what happened last year let's skip it to the yeah I'm going to finish my point it's
not uh a general it's an a specific issue we have had issues just keep keep it to the item similar keep it to the item we had issues similar keep it to the it in the history of Lawrence we have similar similar
situations and excuse me let me finish my point cons president let me finish questions all those in favor please say I no bro this is on a motion to um approve vote by mail if you do not want vote by
mail then you would be voting no I'm going to start with you councilor AAS yes yes Council Mamu yes Council Santiago yes Council Del Rosario no council Luzon what are we voting for you're
voting for vote by mail so if you want vote by mail you would vote Yes if you do not want vote by mail You' vote no yes Council llant no council Levy no council vice president fonte no council president Rodriguez yes yes what's the
count it's 5'4 so it passes 54 it pass motion carries uh Item B excuse me counc Le stick to the point item
7925 uh Mr chair for the ordinance committee 7925 this is uh ordinance committee met to uh bring this document approve the election calendar for the local election on September 16th and November 4th to the full council with a favorable recommendation and that's the motion second there's a motion to
approve the calendar for the elections year uh item 7925 U properly second discussion I please say I I have it uh item 20 uh
9225 I believe this is a presentation yeah this is a presentation here um what what what item is that what [Music] is uh Cel if it is
sorry councilors if it is no oppositions I would like to go to item 8225 which is the confirmation appointment of borga Cruz as director of veteran services Council we we have one more by the way on on ordinance this is a presentation Mr okay yeah it's a presentation it's
going to take a little bit um if there's no oppositions councelors I would like to go to 8225 uh which is the confirmation appointment of victoras as director of veteran services Madame vice president infant and the p and the chair of the
personal committee item 82 item item 82- 25 confirmation appointment of Victor Ortega Cruz as director veteran service Services was sent up with a favorable recomend recommendation and I
make that as a formal motion there is a motion on the table properly second discussion something real quick to say yeah I mean let's allow the candidate and and then you can ask questions yeah go righte um just introduce yourself talk to talk to us about you um and and
questions that where ask and things that are important that you think that we should know thank you uh my name is Victor Orga Cruz for Union Street uh serve uh 12 years in the Marines and uh when I got out in 2018 I fa a lot of troubles as a veteran and uh one of my
goals is to make sure that all veterans when they come back home they know uh where to go and who to talk to uh when it comes to benefits uh federal and state and other uh benefits and help that is available for veterans uh one of the issues that I'm seeing right now is
that a lot of veterans don't know about these benefits and that's going to be one of my goals is to make sure that they are well informed of all the benefits available for them I know Mr Cruz for a little while now I was first uh introduced to him back in the day when he was at Lawrence
High School at Lawrence uh he was not at Lawrence High but close by at the recruiting center and he was a recruit recruit here as a matter of fact uh I had a conversation earlier today he is actually assisting people that he actually recruited recruited when he was
as a recruiter and providing them assistance now um who are or and making ass sure that the people who are veterans now are aware of the various benefits and and things that they qualify for because many according to Mr Cruz aren't and so I I'm thrilled
frankly that um uh that he's been selected and he's before us for information and I'm going to wholeheartedly endorse and support his nomination thank you thank you thank you through you I I I didn't have the pleasure to know Mr crew for so long like Mar plan is but 20
years in the ccil he probably knows everybody um I I actually step into the office to to get to know Mr Cruz and his concern and and the type of line of work that he's thinking that he's going to bring to the city is refreshing um it's it's
it's it brings hope to what we should be doing with the veterans according to all his plans he wants and and and I told him that you know what don't give up you might find people in the middle that doesn't want you or or will try to stop you getting what you need to where you
need to get but it's refreshing all your ideas are great and I think on your leadership we will do better for veterans thank you for the for for providing your service thank you CC president celant thank you before I make my comment just want to I want to note
that the Personnel committee unanimously voted in favor of this item however I did um give a suggestion to the HR department in the administration that I want to reiterate at this level when um Mr Cruz was selected by
the mayor there was a big media effort behind it and I reiterated during the the Personnel committee that there was still one more step there still needed to be the city council confirmation vote and there's times where you think something going to pass and it doesn't
and there are times where you think something won't pass and it does so I just want the city departments to be to be um considerate of that to hold off on any press releases any any public announcements official announcements
until the whole process is completed thank you thank you councelor Vice presting any any questions councelors I hear none at this point um I'll call the question so all those in favor please say hi any names he passan
uh congratulations thank you go uh Madame Vice Madame Vice shair Madame vice president Fant do you want to take any other the items on the from the personal M yes one one more um item so I have someone here waiting item 8325 is
okay with the council all right there is a motion um a mo motion to um you actually asked my motion you send it to the full council with recommendation yeah the item was sended to the council with a fav recommendation yes read okay yes
item 8325 conf to confirm the reappointment of Francisco Abed to the Lawrence planning board full voting member with the term expiring December 30th 2028 was sent up with a favorable recommendation and I make that as a
formal motion second there's a motion on the table properly second thank you the uh discussion are you on I'll I'll I'll ask a few questions uh Mr avad
um the Lawrence planning board is a extremely important uh board to the City of Lawrence so Hollows why do you want to keep on serving on that committee absolutely uh Francisco Abad 37 Hillside Avenue
um it's just as I mentioned in my previous meeting U last week it's just a great opportunity of been a a resident of the city for since 1996 when I came to the country and um it's been extremely a great experience obvious I'm going on three years now obviously and um just want to continue to have the
opportunity to serve and guide obviously uh our community in the right directions and make sure that um we following the guidelines and we're making the best decisions possible when it comes to allowing different projects and different things in the city obviously following the rules and regulations we
have in place um and I'm just excited to continue to do that are you s are you serving on these uh on the L planning board for a specific reason or you just want to serve the community speciic particular interest n nothing specifically just
want to serve the community I always been involved with the since since Lawrence High School I was a fouryear basketball player there volunteer at the YMCA I'm a boy club kid coming up so I've always been involved with the community I always kind of looked for for options and and and venues and
things that I could do to help out what I can um I kind of been living here my whole life I I've worked here my whole life I'm going on 40 I don't look it but it's been uh it's been a while and I just want to continue to do that I always been involved and want to continue to have the opportunity to do
so and when you have a project that is a a project that uh is is important to for son but is not as important for others or others have issues with it um and you start getting uh perhaps some type of
pressure uh throughout the process that doesn't allow you to look at the project uh deep into it what is your thought about that how you actually act about um so I actually approach every project or every every every case that come in front of us as individual they're all
different um obviously I make my decision based on um what's best for the community it's best for that area for the Neighbors so I don't really go into any projects or any cases with the with that specific mindset it's all different depending on on whoever's in front of us and what they're looking to do so um I
don't know if that answer your question but pretty much look at it individually and make the decision based on our guidelines and what's best for the community no exactly my my my question is I mean my question is to to get to know how absolutely absolutely uh also
what do you think about uh the traffic congestions around the city I mean I've like I mentioned I lived here my whole life and traffic is obviously is is worse is definitely worse is um a lot of new residents in the community um it's
it's one of those things where we we have to do what we can as a city as a whole to kind of alleviate that through traffic um studies and things like that and it it's the the city is is definitely populated overpopulated um and us as at the board
we kind of try to do what we can can following our rules and regulations to kind of alleviate that and continue to keep it a safe place to kind of travel and drive while minimizing whatever risk obviously comes you know comes up all
right um there is a uh some time what I have feel that over the years that I'm been in the council um it has been a disconnection between some boards and the city council you have you personally have four different City councilors
that serve you and you as a as a board member you have nine counselors that you actually need to share some type of information sometime because we represent some areas that those project might be impacted by or those areas might be impacted by or those
constituents might be impacted by those projects so I encourage you to uh look into who are the counselors District counselors from those area and also contact that a large cers that might be
interested to get to know specific uh on projects that may be controversial perhaps or may be beneficial absolutely so we can input and we can perhaps provide input to the community or if we have questions we can have a direct connection to the board members
absolutely sometime I feel like over the years I I feel like that's that's missing there's definitely there's definitely an opportunity there um that's definitely I'll take that feedback absolutely thank you thank you and as a board member I would like you to share that sentiment with all the board members as well because I think
that working together we we go farther absolutely thank you thank you so much appreciate thank you council president any other questions or comments from the council councilor marmel um who do you refer to when you're making decisions as to what's best for
the city is there like whenever something comes before you um is it just your own personal opinion as to what's best for the city or is there anyone that you refer to to guide you as to what this uh City needs uh not necessarily I kind of make my own
personal decision um all all of us on the board and my peers we all have different thoughts and different opinions on different cases so I make my decision in my and based on my personal opinion what I think is best for the community um I don't really get Guided by by any of my peers or or any of my
leaders that make the decision based on what I think is correct um whether it is or is not is my personal opinion and it it has to be respected just like we respect everyone else's opinion in that case and I'll just refer to what um our city council president just mentioned is
um whenever you are making decisions that it it would be in your best interest to uh every now and then communicate with uh City councilors and kind of gaug into gauge into what their opinion is AB considering that we are like the boots on the ground um we have
that uh personal connection with the the members in our community so we'll be able to give you guys um some sort of uh retrospect as to what what is being mentioned by by uh the residents in our community and what is
actually needed um the second part of my question is uh what are the challenges in your position and how do you mitigate that um some of the challenges obviously is kind of not having everyone agree with your decision and and kind of um everyone has their own different
opinions people like um I mentioned earlier some people go in there with a with the mindset of something's going to get approved and it doesn't um sometimes it's some some some individuals think it's not going to get approved and it does so that's kind of one of the challenges kind of not having
everyone agree with your decision I guess is it's for lack of better words but um just not having everyone agree with your decision and stick into it based on what you think is the right thing um for the city and the community um just continue to make my decision based on you know what I think
is right um I mean I think that's kind of probably the you know the best response is just continue to make that um and not kind of get intimidated by what everyone else thinks or whatever their opinion is just continue to make the decision on what I
think is best thank you any other questions or comments counselors seeing none all those in favor say I I thank you sir thank you appreciate the feedback as well have a good nightes thank
you thank you any any other any other one 49 I don't know I mean uh let's I mean let's go to the presentation pman no because I mean presentation they're not
here council president we we have folks here for document 92 we have like three or four people by means let's go back to the ordinance committee it 9225 uh the ordinance committee met on 9225 which is the home equity Theft Act was set up the full council with a with a
um as a committee report and then make that an a form of a motion second there is a motion on the table properly second um as to accept this as a committee report discussion any questions discussion CC I'd like to invite um the proponents just to briefly give an
overview as to uh what this is about and why it's important why we should know about it um thank you and thank you um and good evening um counselors so before you is and with me
is first our asket offer Char Pasquel our Treasurer per Ortiz and attorney um Dave Capa is with us um we're going to talk about the new law that has the state has just passed which is the home equity Theft Act and with that I'm going to
turn it over to the um attorney um Dave Capo if we could brief you in thank you good evening city council my name is David Capa and I'm an attorney that specifically outside Council that specifically works for uh the treasure
collector's office uh under Perlo Ortiz and my office handles um the collection of unpaid real estate taxes for the city uh our office has been employed by the city uh since about 20
15 and uh we handle um assist the city in putting leans on propert real property for unpaid real estate taxes and collecting uh on the lean either through um mainly through
foreclosure um and what I'm here to talk to you about today is um the recent change in Mass general laws that took place on November 1st 2024 spefic specifically um involving what the
city's responsibility is after the city becomes the owner of these properties through foreclosure in the past before the the amendment to chapter 60 when the city foreclosed on uh real property um they
became the the full 100% Equity owner of the property so they would own the property outright and if they sold it they would take 100% of the profits and nothing would go back to the former owner well chapter 60 was amended now to
have excess Equity or Surplus after a foreclosure go back to the former owner after um the city took what is owed to them and the result of this took place U uh was a result
of US Supreme Court case that said it was unconstitutional taking more uh more than what was owed after you foreclosed on the property so the reason I'm talking is to you about it is because after
foreclosure the the Mass general laws has changed where the city must make a decision within 14 days after they become the owner of the property whether they plan on retaining the property for municipal purposes or selling the
property and in both Avenues excess equity would be generated but this is a time frame where the city needs to act fairly quickly because notices need to go out to the former owners uh of the city's
decision whether to retain the property or foreclose or or sell the property um now this is not uh a very common occurrence um just to give you some general statistics the
city has foreclosed on probably about 15 properties uh since 2021 so there will be about on average three or four foreclosures that you will need to make a decision on um but it's not something
that happens um on a a very frequent basis based on the high rate of collection of real estate taxes and people being able to come forward and pay these taxes before it gets to
foreclosure uh uh I think that there is a lot of questions to be answered eventually um and I think that the city need to be when it comes to the city council procedures uh there is other set
of conversations that need to happen because one of those properties uh come in front of us uh and decision need to be made within 14 days obviously um those decision can be made whether or not we're going to retain those property
before those 14 14 days arrive but uh but I think that as a council we need to uh well Define our process and procedures when it comes to real estate TX uh real estate properties um especially on those that we have for
Clos for closure since 2021 to now because I mean that is something that it is important to to kind of talk about correct and we don't want to wait 14 days um after judgment so once the property hits land Court we're going to
proceed like if the city already owns a property that way we have the Judgment from the city the the the decision from the city council when um we get the Judgment so avoid any penalties from the state right any questions councelors
when it comes to this this is as a result of it uh of the job of a court order that the the state have act upon adopting this Law changes to to chapter
60 yes uh so um with the the governor signing the budget over the summer um the uh chapter chapter 140 of the acts of 2024 amended chapter 60 so this is
effective as of November 1st 20 24 and the city has not obtained a foreclosure judgment since the law went into effect all right I think as a city we need to be aware of these changes because it will it will change drastically when it
comes to uh those foreclosures and potentially people not paying their taxes I mean perhaps any questions councilors thank you for the update we highly appreciate all that information we're going to keep on having uh these discussions uh either at the city
council level when we have to or um with the city attorney uh and uh and and the treasure uh Department uh so thank you thank you so much for coming in front of us and inform us thank you councilors
have a good night all right thank you so much uh councelor Santiago yes when when the item was in the organiz committing I made the question and I didn't receive any email your questions was about Surplus
property the asset officer is is reaching out to make sure that you you mother and I attached the list of the surface properties to that you know can you send it to every counselor yes thank
you good night I don't see that all right um any other questions councelors uh guys we haven't finished I like to apologize for that alarm earlier I'm Sor no no that's fine thank you so much uh councelors we have a committee report vote to take we haven't take the uh the
vote on that item yet uh councelors on the committee report any questions I Hadar none all please say I I the I have it now we need to this is just an information matter let's
table can we draw a table let's table motion withdraw this item motion to withdraw properly second discussion I hear none all please say hi hi there I have it any Nam there I have it all right let's go
back to personal item 4925 thank you item 49-25 authorization to fill enforcement prosecutor position ordinance number 02.22.20 there is a motion on the table to send uh to receive this as a committee report
properly second discussion I hear known let's take a vote on the committee report all of in F please say I I any names uh the eyes have it Madame Madame vice president Infante
what is the motion you don't have to take a motion I mean if you don't want motion to approve for the purpose of discussion there's a motion to approve with the for the purpose of discussion properly second discussion let's have a discussion
Council thank you council president and members of the council during the the Personnel committee we did we did ask some questions regarding the position itself it was presented to us that this position was going to be reposted um was
they were going to look at new C candidates relook at candidates and and just do this whole process again and I just want to make sure that that's the still the intent and I want to just get an update on on on this position that is the intent yes so the intent is to uh
repost the position uh ISD is to uh director Pat Ruiz is to do all of the the interviews receive the applications and so on and so forth so it should be done as um as all position should be done uh we have umam Vice President
inant we also have the C attorney that it was given us update when it comes to repur that when it comes to that uh the enforcement procedures that we have uh based on chapter 40b I think 40u
4u uh do you mind going over to see how the the correlationship between this position and potentially the the conflict with that uh with the process that we have to have in sure uh Tim hooton City attorney uh basically just to give you how this works is that the
uh the inspectors would go about if they found a violation they would write up a ticket um the person that receives the ticket would have a right to appeal that um the appeal is to what's called a 4u and 4u is just the Mass General law
section and 4u person would hear that ticket it's an independent person it's not a member of inspectional services in many cases it's usually an independent lawyer um for the longest time while I was here we had a grant and we able to use through the fire chiefs Association
were able to use someone from there um about a year and a half ago uh that Grant uh ran out and I was instructed to locate U 4u potential people for appointment I came up with two attorneys
uh I don't know why but at that point it died um we never appointed a Fu officer so um the reason that you need a 4u officer is there has to be a right of appeal uh with the investigator into many other the prosecutor and many other
things that that that position would do is then if the person then went to the 4u officer and lost again in other words said no we we believe that the inspector was right you you left garbage outside there's mold inside you have lead paint or something like that um they could
then appeal a second time to the uh District Court uh what the U one of the purposes of the prosecutor position would be to present that before the housing court or it could be the district cour it depending on that and that would be the purpose of this this position but as at the moment we don't
have a 4u officer so uh that just explaining that by that wouldn't be the only thing that this position would do but it I I just want to explain it when they say like that we have so much tickets and Aras well those aren't going to go anywhere until we get the fu officer in
place we established that back in 2017 or 18 um we've had it for some time like I said we we had a grant and then when that Grant ran out the the person didn't do that anymore and um they had asked me to get a couple of names I had presented
a couple of names but that was that was the end of it is chapter 30 you uh 40u only related to to uh health health condition uh perhaps in the houses and stuff like that it's any of the tickets that are
issued by inspectional Services it could be for trash it could be for um you know what it's bad piping uh what whatever they find just from the inspection of services just inspection servic or any anything else not parking tickets not
anything like that no we have we do have a a um Richard Rodriguez on parking tickets he is the review on that so I understand councelors any questions uh we have the director of the
inspection of services here uh if you can have any questions for the INSP Services good evening councilors U would like to read read a statement um so um tonight I want to discuss the crucial role of the enforcement prosecutor position in our city this
position is critical for upholding housing standards ensuring the safety and well-being of our community I am seeking authorization to fill the enforcement prosecutor position um the enforcement prosecutor will oversee enforc ment of local ticketing
procedures related to Illegal dumping housing and building regulations city ordinances and zoning regulations this role involves Prosecuting cases for all violations in the inspectional services department the enforcement prosecutive represents the city in housing court for
cases involving housing code violations building code violations city ordinance and zoning ordinance again this in this includes preparing legal documents presenting evidence and arguing cases to ensure compliance with local laws and regulations the enforcement prosecutor
collaborates with various City departments such as the board of health health department building department water water and sewer department tax department and Department of Public Works and the police department and fire department to identify problem properties coordinate enforcement
efforts like vacant properties graffiti and illegal dumping um the enforcement prosecutor interacts with community members to inform them about their housing rights and responsibilities enabling residents to understand how to report violations uh and obtain
assistance um by uh by Prosecuting by Prosecuting offenders the force a prosecutor ensures that all residents can be can access safe and habitable housing enhancing enhancing Allan's overall quality of life uh in in summary
the enforcement prosecutor plays a crucial role in upholding the housing standards within our community the effort of of enforcement prosecutor not only enforce the law but also protects the rights and safety of the city the city of Lawrence and its residents and
businesses you m vice president FR thank you thank you director coun uh council president well thank you I have to council Council sanago I have a few questions for uh the director of the inspection of services since we don't
have 30u a 4u in place how you actually going to proceed with the tickets if we have so many tickets how the how that's going to take place so we we you know we issue tickets daily maybe 12 15 tickets whatever hopefully um hopefully they will comply and pay the tickets if they
don't within 21 days then unfortunately um we can't pursue it because there's no um um no um enforcement prosecutor not enforcement prosecutor the we call it the hearings officer do he the officer so I think that before we actually cross
the bridge we need to know how to work the first yeah we need to get a person in place to to to actually learn how you know learn how to do this um it's not it's not you know come in and just do the job you have to actually train there's a lot of training for this um person has to come in um learn citizen
citizen serve that's the that's the platform they're going to use they have to learn about housing code issues they have to learn about illegal dumping we have the ille illegal dumping law that um that we testified back in I think it was right uh what was it yeah and that's
a $10,000 um um uh violations for construction equipment you know major companies like that we use that so we have a couple of people that are working right now um just specializing in illegal dumping and and and uh in
housing um the building also so you know someone needs to be there to to learn this to learn this job we we have to train them and in the meantime working in conjunct with the city attorney's office to find um someone to um to be
the um what do you call it uh the 40u officer you're no I mean I was not going to go that way but I mean I I allowed to I allow you to explain a little more but I mean what I was going to go to is that
before we even actually think about this position to reauthorize the position that by the way I have I have a lot of calls from people that already have uh a mindset that this position is being acted for a specific person not
necessarily to go through a due process of uh of uh posting the position or perhaps it's going to be post but we already know like who's going to be doing the position um that's that's your opinion councelor I can't speak that hold on hold on because I allow you to yeah that's what I'm saying to elaborate
before you to a little bit of um yeah a little bit of time so but I mean uh this is not my opinion this is people that have called me and have told me so it's not my opinion uh even though I might tend to believe that but I mean that's not the point this is not a discussion uh the
discussion around this actually that is more important than this which is basically why don't we instead of focusing on acting this position uh to be able to uh get somebody there that we're going to have to train that we're going to as to explain that we're going
to have to do many things why don't we put in place chapter 40b first uh 40u first which is basically what it's going to allow the department to actually get out of all those tickets that you give out imagine just within 10 days you have
150 tickets um we have thousands we have thousands of tickets yeah that's what I'm saying so essentially what need to be done and the focus need to be is like acting on chapter 4u which is going to allow you not to have all those tickets
because that's why we have thousand of tickets is it's not because we don't have this position because this position haven't been filled for quite some time the problem before was that when we are when we have this this uh this chapter 4u in place M something happened at that
department and that was not during your time by the way I don't want you to take fall of that um and then all that process that we have worked so hard in terms of policies and procedures went all down
and now we don't have ch 4u in place uh and essentially we looking to get an enforcement procut prose Pro prosecutor position when we truly need is Chap 4u to be Place uh and stop I mean we're
going to have to train this person as you explained like it look like this person doesn't know nothing about uh that stuff yet it look it that's what it sounds like uh but I mean I think that I don't think this is this is the right
step at this point once we have chap chapter 40u in place and then we can go ahead and and have the prosecutor to actually work on the over there so actually chapter 4u is an ordinance it is an ordinance now we just we just don't no we it's an or city ordinance we
don't have a um a uh I always forget hearing offic hearings officer we don't have an hearings officer pay but we the the there a city ordinance for to you it's no it's it's an act of a law no it's a it's an
ordinance it's an act of a stay law okay so we we adopt it yeah you adopted it yeah so but it is it is a city ordinance yes and then and then but for uh for that to be in place we need to do many different steps
so we can have the hearing officer uh including money I think that uh the right step to be able to get money to the city is to actually get the hearing officer in place as we have it before
and not try to intervene uh as of what that hearing officer should be doing and perhaps political pressure on that on that specific position which that's one of the reason why we ended up having not H
not having anybody now one of those one so the hearings officer is just in case they appeal if they don't appeal we don't need a hearing officer no that is absolutely wrong director no by law no no no give me one second if if you go to
the court the court will tell the city you have to have it not like option to us for you you don't go to court you you settle that in the house no wait when we actually have a ticket that people have the right to appeal what they ended up
going is to court if we don't have hearing if have a hearing officer the call would tell the city you have to have it it's not what this law it is the law I beg to differ it's not what La it is the law let's let's wrap this up and that's why we are wrong on this type of
thing because we don't we're not putting been working with this for a while I I know the law on this I read it I know the law um we' why don't we have a hearing officer say again why don't we have a hearing we don't have a hearing officer because the director was here before got rid of them that's that's right exactly you got it but I'm here
now I'm here now yes thank you thank you council president thank you I think that we should have hearing offer Council Santiago you have the floor the answer to my question is about collect ticket thank you any other questions or comments Council de roario sure through you uh
b sometimes I'm sitting here and I and I feel ashamed that we prevent you or some departments to act on this to hire whoever it is is going to hire but somehow somebody tell us who might be going to this position and that's why
sometimes we take the position that we take and that is a shame so I want Sor do I have do I have the floor one thing I just want to re reiterate that we did start the position stating that this is going to be reposted that's great and that is and that is great and
I agree that should be reposted but if we don't approve him to hire this that for six months if we if he doesn't get the approval what a good would it does to repost the position he doesn't have the authorization to hire anybody so this position have been opened down for
him for the director to ask for authorize to for us to authorize him to fill this position that b they've been open for six months according to this but we know it's been open for the longest just to authorize him to get this position out repost it whatever we
want them to repost repost it and but we focusing on a statement that somebody made to some of us or anybody of us and from there on WE prolong this process is this just an authorization for him to fill the position and then we can ask
questions we can tell them what we need I mean when the position get posted also we have a job description who we hiring I mean it's just an authorization of six months I seen the author authorize me to fill disos I've seen it for the years that I've been here it
doesn't take that long I never seen it taking that this long for anybody else or any other the department it's been approved once already okay so so I mean once again never seen it take this long and again we use the word oh cuz somebody tell me oh cuz I have this
phone call cuz we know who you're going to hired it's just an authorization for him to authorize to start the hiring process then they can post it the City attorney is there that the uh the director the acting director of the personal
department is there I mean also asking for this to be reauthorized and we mumbling around on this cuz somebody else called us and and then somebody else is going to go into that position but we forget in the actual procedures it's just authoriz me they fill this position they been open for 6
months but we focusing on who's going to be in that position more not the procedure the actual procedure and that's what make me I mean again make me feel sometimes a shamed what are we actually doing here are we are we chasing people are we doing things cuz
who is going to hire who's going to be hired are we F it's cuz the person that is going to be on that position that we not authorizing the director to to to fill this position for 6 months hopefully we don't get somebody there in that Podium that said you know what you guys are discriminating because
you think it's me and it's not going to be me and now you're not authorizing the director to to fill this position so we need to look more into that and and now who's going to be in that position is the director asking you guys or asking us to I mean let me fail this position
and be open for longer than 6 months that's that's my opinion thank you thank you councelor the Rosario any other one more um Council marble I believe many of the discussions and specifically this position I'm learning about um is the reason why I
set up uh uh at the economic development subcommittee meeting it's to address the challenges um regarding how the negative impact as a result of I'm not sure if it's as a result of this specific
position being vacant uh for so long um so I'll make sure to take a mental note of of this and and make sure that we're having that discussion um at the subcommittee meeting level who based on the fact that this
position has been vacant for quite some time the the duties and responsibility that falls under this position has it remained kind of just lingering or is that of responsibility and Duty that you have had to maintain uh yourself so so I
as as most of you know I started in April of last year um this position was vacant I came in front of the the council they okayed it to fill the position um people applied for the position I I chose someone but then what
happened was the during that time things happened and the 6 months um went over so all all I'm all I'm doing right now is is seeking to fill that position that's it is this position is what like the
vital role in terms of um violations not it's it's part of the whole picture with with the the housing the housing court is part of the picture with um um um the house the when they issue housing tickets when they issue um illegal
dumping um you know we uh this just last three days we had have six people we we have 23 cameras all over the city that we put them in specific areas and we caught these people most of them complied and because we had them on video they you know they they paid the
tickets one of them um had a DPW gave him a a they cost him like $900 we gave him $300 ticket they paid it and they also paid the $900 because right right it right on um in her District right on right in uh right on on Andover Street right McDonald's they opened up a U-Haul
in the middle of the night and they started dumping furniture on the road because there was video cameras there um I have someone assigned to do that and at you know temporary they went ahead checked all the cameras they did everything they worked with the police department and we caught them and um and
you know we you know we the the DPW got the money back and we gave them an issue uh I mean we issued them a ticket and they paid it so it's not just one thing just not just one you know 40 you it's you know we work in conjunction with the fire department all the city ordinances the the fire department and ISD a lot of
those a lot of those ordinances they um you know we work together uh as a team to try to clean up the city you know um I want to apologize for not coming I was sick last week um also I was supposed to come here and I apologize cuz I wasn't here uh but I was sick last week so um
but you know I'll you know I'll be when you call me again I'll be prepared and I I'll give you a report uh I send an hand a report to everybody on this city council you know indicating everything I did in ISD um and I only I only did that in you know in in in you know since
April so uh I think the a lot of people are happy with ISD we're doing our job and we're trying to do the right thing uh people people uh people out there are going to talk and it is what it is that's the way it is so I mean I can't go I can't go on assumptions thank you
director councelor Levy thank you Mar mad chair um so we keep going like around around on the same and the same well so we also we at the personal Department sorry at the personal committee we review
everything we review the position we review the posting We review the ordinance we review the qualification and we a different things also to be add on the Cal so now I think so that we should give it that you know that uh
um to the department the authorization just to do the posting thank you councelor lvy at this time there is a motion there a motion to approve at this time I will call the question all those in favor say I I no any know roll call
roll call Clerk councelor Levy yes councelor llant no councelor Lon no councel Del Rosario yes councelor Santiago no councelor marmo yes Council Ares
yes council president no council vice president yes passes 5 thank you councilors all right uh we going back to ordance
committee yeah so we have one last document 7325 an act to deter illegal parking during snow emergencies this is set up to the full council with a favorable recommendation to order a public hearing make that in the form of a motion there is a motion on the table to order public hearing on this item
properly second uh Cel plan uh discussion on that U on that Cel plan do you mind uh do you mind uh reading a little bit of the end when they said this fee should be reviewed by the city council every 5 years so I I
just want to know like what you mean uh by by it's on the table it's not in your packet it's on the table look it's on the table it looks like this two pages it's not on the back cons plan just just a a quick comment or
perhaps what do you I just want to know what what you thought behind that that's part the part that you says this fee should be this fees should be reviewed by the city council every 5 years sure after enacted so is that means that just going to be reviewing every five years
or anytime that the city council would like certainly the council can do it at any time but the recommendation in this ordinance is to review it every every 5 years only because times change we may need to tweak it a little bit that's the idea behind it maybe we don't think it's important anymore maybe we want to reduce it I don't know whatever the
council is in five years can make that decision or earlier if a counselor determines it's an earlier so do you mind making that a little a little clear that it is every five years or when the council decide at very least five years at very least five years can you add
that on the public hearing is that correct but my Council BL that's what you want uh at the very least uh yeah that works yeah yeah at the very least oh I'm sorry wouldn't be well expose at the very most rather it would be no later than 5 years no later I will
change anytime any anytime up but no later than 5 years yeah just clarify the I will make that councelors any questions in regard to this just to do our a public hearing CC president councelor I at the committee I said honestly speaking after what we've been
through every every every winter and I know counil plan was to be a little bit considered but $50 up and up $25 into this ticket which it looks like every ticket in the city only cost $25 what we've been through it
when we spent when we go out to clean the Ash Street the headaches and everything $50 is is not enough it should be a little higher well we we we should remember councel that we're hoping to do what what this the purpose of this is and we had a very mild winter
but normally what should happen is that they will get a $50 ticket they will get their car towed they will pay for storage they will pay for the toe they'll pay for everything the problem right now is that we didn't have enough tow trucks to tow everybody our tickers
so uh so what would happen is if you parked on the wrong side of the road and you didn't move you looked out in the snow and you said 25 bucks what do I care I'll just keep it there all night now the plows can't get in in the snow compy removed so it you don't want it
too much more because with in a perfect world that this 50 is the minimum they should be getting 50 plus a toe plus everything so this is just maybe the people that look out there and say I don't want to move my car to the other side of the road 50 bucks is a little more than
25 just for the for the sake of the discussion um U aen hton um the the these on all the cities and town what they do is they maintain the violation uh the parking violation has
$25 and if they have a uh if they have snow uh there's no emergency violation and then they act upon having another ticket perhaps and this is how it played out if your ticket if your C is been
told they can hit you with Either Ore and what citizen town do is that they maintain the the $25 at that moment because the card is being told and that going to be a lot more and if the car is not being to then they act upon having a
ticket that perhaps is $100 that's are the studies that I have seen and saw my breed in other places so that's basically the difference between the two type of tickets sure and then the ticket person can act upon giv that at that moment essentially when they get told
they just get the the minimum fine as I've always said in the past and I'll say again I'm sure you're tired of it I'm not the advocate for or against I'm just explaining I feel free feel free to amend whatever you like I I'm just here to make it legal I don't know when I lost the floor but I think I got it
um once again I with all the consideration $50 at least and also it's it's it's it's good to clarify that when a car is tow in the city the city only gets $25 the city only gets $25 the towing truck gets all the money
if it's $300 or whatever they charge the city only gets a ticket that is $25 that's all the city gets it's it's it's you got to bring it out there cuz people think the city is making lots of money so okay when it comes to that once again
$50 is what the city is going to get regardless how many cars we tell $50 per car and it's not it's not to make a profit it's to make this snow REM make removal so much easier cuz this cost the city a lot
of money inste of us the it's not clean and then all constituents are out there calling us vouching us telling that the city is not working but the city goes out to do the work and there's tons of cars parked in there again $50 I don't know you call is how you guys feel but I
will leave my car outside three snow in day for $50 ticket if I if I don't need I mean if I don't need to move it and that's what people are taking people say well I'm not I'm going to pay the so we should consider a little bit higher whatever you think it is but $50 and then to revive and and I mean I know
snow storm next year or this year coming up and we're going to revise it so you can propose a higher up and then you can see how the council is feel sure I think I mean can we can we just can we order the public hearing have the public
hearing and then make take amendments at that point this is before right now if we if we order the public hearing with the $50 and then people might decide not to come but if it is something higher and then they will say I need to go and say something typically this is very unusual when we order a public hearing
we typically allow the counselor who offer something to let it go before a public hearing and then typically we amend it when it comes back once again I don't know when I lost the floor but but thank you thank you you still have the thank you thank you sir thank you council president I'm also you you don't
want to make an amendment no okay no problem uh counselors any other questions we open for questions it's very untypical but that's that's typical doesn't mean that that is this how it should be I'm just here I just we are we have the discussion and at any point the
council can make an amendment sure so that's how it is uh councelors any questions in regard to this item so this motion is to order the public hearing and the public hearing will be as present as uh as presented with the amendment when it comes to the language
right uh no questions on this at this point I'll call the questions all and please say I I any name guys have it let's move on so thank you Council have a good night thank you um going on top of the
agenda uh not Public Safety committees not economic development committee not uh Committee of the H report old business we have none so we're going to go now to public hearings so we have two public hearings Madame Madame Clair could you please
read the public hearing for the public hearing for item 80 uh 383 24 and uh 560 24 the the I know what was published is not this but notice is here by given
that long LA City Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday March 18th 2025 at 7: p.m. in city council chambers 200 Common Street Lawrence Mass pursuing to chapter 2 the acts of 2023 and in accordance with recently revised city council rule 2 this meeting will be hybrid allowing participation both in person and
remotely to accommodate any participant with health considerations that prevent them from participating in person access codes for most participation shall be available from the city of clerk i. brell city of law.com 978 620 3230 meeting is also available on Facebook
and YouTube the purpose of this hearing is to gather testimony information and public input concerning the proposed amendment to the revised ordinances of the City of Lawrence to be further amended by adding the following new paragraphs to section 10. 36.0 one0 of the municipal code no parking to be
inserted in the proper alphabetical order document number 383-2401 Shad Street North Side from South Broadway to Rose Street 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday persons wishing to be heard shall be afforded the opportunity public hearing
is now open anybody from the public that wishes to speak on those two items any of those two items I hear none public hearing is now closed councelors I entertain motions for item 38 324 no parking on Kon Street
one one uh on the right side uh what is the motion motion to approve there is a motion to approve can you hear a second second properly second discussion I hear none all please say I
I any n there I have it item 56024 the Preble no no no we're not we're not there yet nope nope we have we have to take a vot of item 56024 first item um items 56024
no we not we just read the public hearing we we have two items on that and we need to take a vote on each individual one we haven't approved item 560 but we we read the public hearing for that correct yes so item 56024 no
parking on uh 37 uh chhat Street between 500 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. uh what is the motion counselors huh I we'll do all the park we doing the No Parking On the public hearing item
5 there's a motion to approve properly second discussion discussion councelor Vice presing inant thank you I would like um Council De Rosario to to amend his motion and add and add to wave the 30 days motion amended motion has been
amended to Amendment amended to to wave the 30 days discussion I Hear n say any Nam the I have it item Madame Madame CL please read the public hearing for item
42223 5882 24 58924 uh 325 425 525 625 and 725 and councelor now it's in order to actually get a motion to wait the
Preble you want to make the motion motion to we the Preamble there's a motion to the pr properly second discussion I hear none all in fav please say I any Nam there I have it the purpose of this hearing is to get motion second oh there's a motion P 10
properly second please say there I have it you may continue um the purpose of this hearing is to gather testimony information and public input concerning the proposed amendments to revised ordinances of the
city of Lawrence to be further amended by adding following subparagraphs to section 10. 36. 340 of the municipal code handicapped parking in the proper alphabetical order docum number
422-23 High Street West Side from a point 236 ft south of Grove Street to a point 256 ft south of Grove Street document number 5 8824 Lawrence Street East Side from a point 142 ft north of
Arlington Street to a point 162 ft north of Arlington Street document number 589 d24 Farley Street North Side from a point 123 ft east of Brookfield street to a point 143 ft east of Brookfield
street docum number 3-25 Butler Street North Side from a point 50 feet east of Lynch Street to a point 70 feet east of Lynch Street document number 4-25 Chester Street Northwest side from a point 180 ft Southwest of Clifton Street
to a point 200 feet Southwest of Clifton Street docum number 5-25 Salem Street South Side from a point 263 ft east of Newton Street to a point 283 ft east of Newton Street docum number 6-25 well
Street East Side from a point 28 feet north of the beginning of well Street to a point 48 feet north of the beginning of well Street in document 7-25 Abbott Street North Side from a point 20 ft west of Parker Street to a point 40 feet west of Parker
Street persons wishing to be heard shall be afforded the opportunity uh public hearing is now open anybody from the public that we choose to speak on any of these parking lots the parking uh handicap parking I hear none nobody from the
public uh at this time public evening is now closed uh counselors was the motion I will entertain motion individually for each one of those or we can take a motion to uh approve it all as a package or discuss it all as a package motion to
approve as a pack as a package um and wave the 30 days there is a motion to approve item 42223 which is handicap parking at uh 230 uh 234 High Street uh item 58825 which is handicap parking at
uh 359 L Street item 389 which is handic parking at 71 F Street item uh 325 item uh location 17 uh Butler Street item 425 location one uh 111a Chesser Street item
525 248 sing Street I on uh 26 uh 625 uh 30 Wall Street IR 725 143 Parker Street that's been uh the motion is to take it as a block and and approve discussion and wave the 30 days Council
Lan yeah so just a very quick observation uh I think there's one two three I think there's seven handicap parking um things we're going to vote be voting on tonight I'm going to predict that this is going to pass I believe that strongly this is going to pass all seven are going to pass and the point I'm trying to make here is that we are
I've never seen so many handicap parking situations in our city we are going through a huge Spike um of those I don't know what's going on in our population I don't know if it's because we have a shortage of housing or people are truly in need if there's a greater need than
ever before I I don't know the reasons why but we should be taking this into account I think as we start dealing with parking issues throughout the city that this is becoming I'm not saying we shouldn't be having handicap please don't misunderstand me but I'm saying this is becoming a bit of an issue with respect to the lack of parking across
the board so I'll be supporting it tonight don't worry about that but we should be thinking about at some level as well thank you right Madame CLA just to respond to council plan do we have everybody's uh handicap loer check yeah we do yes council president we do
require a handicap placard to file an application council president Council we need to call Physicians and let them know how how how hard a parking is so they they I mean the Hippa law prohibit us to ask questions if they really need it as
soon as they actually provide a pler we just need to go with it so but we'll be we'll keep it in mind and see how that but the Hipp law actually even prohibit us to ask them questions about that but let's go through it council president so why do we have to uh ask
questions not for handicap sparking in the city council if we cannot my question is in base of the comments that my colleagues have made uh why do we have to vote or actually deal with this
item I think items for handicap parking should go to DPW I mean if they're going to get approved regardless they should go to DPW because I mean we spend a lot of time voting on something that we cannot even deny just just my opinion so it should
go to DPW they should do this job I'll call the question so please say hi any Nam the I have it uh so what happened with that commission that that need to be approved that Comm
that commission that was working on to be somehow put it together so they we're going to pass it do we have anything on it we can provide an update next week but what I can do real quick is that that's before Richard Rodriguez right now in the disability commission and he's working on trying to get that over
to us so uh stay stay tuned is the answer all right councilors there is any table matters that we not we we need an update for today yes CC uh we have a couple of items that were presented in front of us for with draw are we considering
those tonight yes so so go we are waiting for respond from the people who put the items uh do we you we have a couple of things that do that I don't believe we have answers on some some of them we do
have answers uh can you clarify for yes that's is what I said there are some items that we already have the answer and some other we are waiting for okay so do you mind going over the one that we have answers
to yes so we say corresponding to the police department the mayor of the city of lawence the Community developments uh the lauring housing authority and also to uh Miss BMA Martinez we send a
corresponded to all of them and you all guys receive also an email uh from from the city CL telling you uh all the item that are for removal or for
withdraw so I'm going start we are on 2 21 do you want me to send all of the items we need a we need a motion to withdraw okay so motion to withdraw it's I don't know let me see how many one no no no no it had to be
individually Council LEL okay so motion to withdraw item 22117 this is an stop sign intercession of Ando and Foster Street that was by vice president at the time uh by president
all there is a motion to withdraw item to 2117 second properly second discussion I hear none all pH to withraw please say I the eyes have it I Nam um the eyes have it I R 35518 the
35518 is alingon Street oneway 30 minutes uh for from 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in front the Arlington school and that was by Major Cel de all right
uh there is a motion to with item 35518 any can hear a second properly second discussion I hear not all please say I any Nam there I have it item 24319 item
2439 is the request to display Ander Proto 127 a 127 South union3 uh tropical mini market core that was by uh Isidro po uh Isidro Polo and also by maor depa and
it's been confirmed for withdra second there is a motion on the table properly second U discussion it is important to recognize that uh somebody emailed the mayor the mayor's uh the mayor's staff and
the mayor St and they confirm to withdraw um any questions I hear none all please say hi any n the I have it 31519 31519 website parking only on s
Avenue that was also by atap time councelor the pñ major right now uh and it's been confirmed for withdraw can hear there is a motion on the table properly second discussion discussion councel real quick I just before I forget I just want to
compliment I guess counselor to my left for the work that she and whoever else is assisting my my colleague on these matters the city cler and the city clerk so thank you so I think it's really important that we do this I think it's really important and frankly I think we should be withdrawing all of them um
because at some point my opinion because other as I mentioned maybe several meetings ago there's a some of the councils weren't even on the council when some of these were introduced number one and number two if we're talking about transparency and if we're talking about
being open with people we could pull any document up at any time that was introduced back in 10 years ago and no warning it's on there and it's the right thing to do is to take this off take it everything off and if you feel strongly about it reintroduce it and then take
ownership of it thank you yeah that was that was the rule that we actually work on the long ago so every item will be withdraw uh at the beginning of the U of the of the new counc um item well we have a motion
properly second discussion I hear none all say the eyes have it uh item 36719 no parking on Tenny Street and Leah and tenny Street to alingon street that was
also by Major uh Dan rera and at that time Basque all right uh there is a there's question uh there is there's a motion on the table can you hear a second properly second discussion I Hear n all please
say have it 7720 appropriation transfer resident Legal Assistant fund from maor maor Rivera all right can I have a second properly second uh discussion I hear none all pleas
say ten parking only on 17 arm stre apartment 3 that was by Elizabeth R ready for withdraw all right there's a motion on the table can hear a second properly second discussion I Hear n
say item 43 22 medion transfer um from Manuel AR liel tasi and too um that was uh confirmed by us today
Chief Melly Bona all right can there's a motion on the can you make yes for the withdraw there's a motion on the table can hear a second properly second discussion I hear none all pleas have it item
5523 so uh declaration so plus confirmed by Community developments uh declaration property 7486 M3 ma 149 lot z d
38 Council Ley there is 55 56 and uh there are uh the same the same oh no they're not the same lot sorry3 yes sorry there's a motion on the table can you hear a second properly second uh discussion I hear none please
say the I have item 5623 5623 property 2426 dhan Street m 120 l l 19 also confirmed by Community Development
and there's a motion on the table I can hear a second with yes um properly second discussion say any have it 8924 8924 Newber Street
and Garden Street m 87 7 Declaration of s PL property uh that was by Chalin Pasad and it was confirmed by here for withdra there's a motion on the table properly
second all second by coun thank you discussion that we are waiting for response all right thank you so much so uh now we are going to new business new business item
9525 confirm reappointment of William Collins at the municipal aard commission this is going to the personal committee item 9625 confirm the reappointment of CH uh uh viral uh to the municipal a municipal El commission this is going to
the personal committee item 9725 confirm the appointment of Sav Ortiz to the municipal airport commission this is going to the personal committee item 9825 confirm appointment of a uh diio Cruz to the municipal April commission
this is going to the to this is going to the personal committee item 9925 no parking zones at BL uh Blan blanchar Street West Side from farham to uh property line this is going to the buet
and finance I mean this is going to ordinance committee item 125 resident parking only Washington Street from Manchester to Lake Street this is going to the ordinance committee item 10125 resent parking only Lake Street to Lake
Street this is going to ordinance committee item 10225 American taxes uh renewal taxes liy license this is going to the ordinance committee item um 10325 liing taxes Inc renewal taxes
Liberty license this is going to the ordinance committee item 10425 popular taxes uh Corporation LLC renewal taxes Liberty license this is going to the ordinance committee item 10525 Mar ma Mar Mark taxes SC renewal uh renewal of
taxes Liberty license this is going to the ordinance committee item 10625 five starpress transportations LLC renewal of taxes and Liberty license this is going to the ordinance committee item 10725 Rondo trans portation LLC renewal of
taxes at Liberty license this is going to the ordinance committee item 10825 Alm Transportation LLC renewal of taxes and Liberty license this is going to the ordinance committee item 10925 New York City uh United Express Inc
renewal of taxes and Liberty license this is going to the ordinance committee 11025 uh Town Liberty Inc Town Liberty Inc uh renew all the taxes and Liberty license this is going to the ordinance
committee uh item 11125 handicap parking 43m Street this is going to the ordinance committee uh item 11225 handicap parking 44 trimmer Street ordinance committee item 1325 handicap parking 22 Lyon Street
ordinance committee 11425 Greenway 5 gate August 11 uh 2025 7: a.m. uh to 1: p.m. Manchester Street Park uh in Dem Mar Park this is going to the ordinance committee item
11525 uh preaching event July 17 and 18 2025 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the O Corner Park uh this is going to the ordinance committee item 11625 approval of uh
alterations of and of on on street parking plants and around the Henry K Oliver school this is going to the ordinance committee at this time we're going to entertain uh different committies dates
and the schedule uh ordinance committee budget and finance 25th next Tuesday at 7 o'cl ordinance budget and finance no meetings um uh personal Monday the 24th at
housing no items Economic Development Economic Development safety all right we have all the dates uh now we going to entertain a motion to um motion to Jour Mo
toj there's a motion to adjourn forly second discussion there's none all please say I any Nam guys have it thank you e e e
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