Crow also has an additional moment of silence. Councelor Crowe, your mic on council. No, hold on. There you go. Council, it is now. I just want to offer another moment of silence for Barbara Breen. She is she was a longtime
W one um resident and then a W five resident. She um was busy in the Democratic city committee. She actually her husband was on the um board of voters voting register and she just was really a very close friend and someone
that you know really loved Malden and did everything she could for Malden. So I'd like to offer a moment of science. Her wake is on Thursday evening at Makush um funeral home from 4 to 8 and on Friday at St. Rays in Medford at 12.
Thank you. We honor and acknowledge the Massachusetts Pentecost and Pucket peoples who ancestral lands we now come home in which we gather today. We express gratitude to the indigenous people who have cared for this land for generations, predating European colonization and continue to the
present. Moving forward, we are committed to ensuring the history, voices, and contributions of the indigenous peoples are recognized and respected in the life of our city. Clerk will call the role. Council Cologne Hayes here. Council Condan here. Council
Crow here. Council McDonald here. Council Ali. Council Sega here. Council Simmonelli. Council Spapora. Yeah. Under the provision of vote Mina law. For those in attendance, please be informed that UMA urban media outs will be recording this evening meeting. So just
be aware there will be audio and video recording of this meeting. First order of business for 318-25 mayoral reappoint. Sher uh DC Collins of 26 Irving Street Malden as poet laurate for the city of Malden said term to
expire May 16th 2027. Confirmation not required. Motion to play place on file. Motion coun on council sinker's motion seconded by council crow. Motion to place on file. All those in favor? All those opposed? Eyes have it. There was no public comment by the way. I apolog I
want to make sure I acknowledge that there was no public comment. Next order of business. Council will hold a public hearing on the national grid petitions to install a new pole paper 319-25. Massachusetts Electric Company, DBA National Grid plan number 31142376,
National Grid to install one so pole on Eastern A about 42 feet northeast of existing pole number 2903 to provide overhead service to 11:30 Eastern Avenue required and I believe we have a representative Yep. here today from
National Grid. Oh, over there. Yep. Should we open the public meeting or wait till he speaks? Yeah. Oh, hold on. Give me one second. Just need your name and address for the record. Once I turn your podium mic on,
should be all set. Zay Juma, uh, 170 Medford Street in Malden. Hi, Zay. How you doing? Good. How are you? Good. Can you just give us a overview of this poll? Yeah. So, we're the plan is to install a
new pole, pole 2903-1 on Eastern Avenue to supply power to 11:30 Eastern A in Malden. Um, the existing pole 2903 is way too far away from the commercial
building to do an overhead service. So, we're proposing to install a pole across the road would be pole 2903-1 to supply power to 11:30 Eastern Avenue.
Okay. Thank you. Any questions from the counselor Ward? Seeing none and hearing none. Okay, let me open up the any any other council. Sorry. Okay, let me open up the public hearing. I declare the public hearing open. Anyone willing to speak in favor of this
petition, please come forward and state your name and address for the record. Again, I'll speak in favor. Okay. Councelor Seika. Thank you, Council President. Um, so in case anybody's wondering, 11:30 East is
the old JRM recycling plant. Um, this is for them to con to complete the restoration of that building. Currently, the telephone poll is on the same side as the building, but they're looking to do it across the street. So, I have uh I
have no issues with this and hopefully it can get approved tonight. Council Spataphora, Council Onan, and myself have all been in discussions. I know a couple weeks ago, we tabled some um petitions in front of National Grid for some existing issues we had at the Old
Men Hospital site. Those have since been addressed and um I will be taking those two other papers off the table at after this or at the end of the meeting so we can approve those petitions as well. So thank you. Thank you. Anybody else
willing to speak in favor? Please come forward and state your name and address for the record. Anyone else in favor? Please come forward and state your name and address for record. Seeing none and hearing none. I declare that portion of the meeting closed. Anyone willing uh to speak in opposition against this
petition, please come forward and state your name and address for the record. Anyone who doesn't who would like to speak against this petition, please come forward and state your name and address the record. One more time for good luck. Anybody here want to speak against the petition,
please come forward, state your name and address the record. Seeing none and hearing none, I declare the public hearing closed. I entertain a motion for this paper 31925. Absolutely. Councelor
Ali, I think this is for the city clerk. Usually we have things attached to show what the proposals are. I didn't see anything on the agenda. You are absolutely right. Councelor um um Ali, I'm sorry. I just emailed my office to ask that same exact question. I think we
accidentally missed an attachment here. We do have plans on file. They've been on file for two weeks in the office upstairs in the city clerk's office and we also did in the butters list notice to everybody. Um so we took care of it on the back end what we were supposed to
do. It just hasn't been attached to this. So my apologies. Council B, you want to see the P? You want to see? Do you have the plans? Yeah. Yep. And I'll I'll speak when council may reviewing that. Council see spoke to two other papers that are that have before
us. They're tabled. We've been uh pretty high line against national grid uh putting any new proposals before us. Uh council asked uh I think probably a month ago with the hospital. There was some there was a poll up there that prevented uh the project from moving forward as well as I believe the 99 bus
from turning around. Um we thought it was a national grid issue. Ironically, it was actually a city issue. It was an old conduit for our old fire alarm system that still sits on uh I don't want to say a lot of the poles, but there's still that that wire uh that
connected all the old fire alarm boxes. For those remember, we replaced that with um radio ones, but that still sits up there and there is a cost to remove them. Um it wasn't discovered until we we had a conversation with National Grid about this poll that they identified
that the fire cable was the one keeping it um from coming down. And National Grid, the way it works is it it it goes by order. So you can't take down the telephone and the Comcast until ours has come down because they're afraid the
wires will cross because obviously the wires are continuous. So Nelson, the mayor, Council Lan, myself, we're on an email chain. Uh they've asked National Grid and their contract to remove it. They have agreed to remove it. Council Lan sent a communication this morning
saying she was fine with taking the other two off the table just to clean it up before the summer and having this poll move forward as well. So the mayor's offices understand what's going on. Nelson, the build building commissioner, is part of this process. Um because I'm a big believer, too, and just holding National Grid accountable,
but in this case, it was our fault. So little background on the two table other table polls that are sitting um on the docket. Councelor Ali um can you repeat why this poll is necessary again?
Me uh so the existing poll uh poll 2903-0 that you can see over there on the paper um is too far away from the point of attachment where we have to provide power to the building. Mhm. Um, so the building has the building has no electricity right now. They have
electricity from a different pole uh on the other side of the building, but that is uh one phase service. Uh we also need three-phase. We're going to need three-phase service to this building which we will be getting from P 293.0.
And how come you can't create why can't you use the existing pole and create that across because three-phase? Yep. Because the opponent attachment that exists right now, we cannot use that as it is too close. So we have this side of
the building is too close to the other side of the neighboring building. So we cannot put the bone attachment there and we cannot fit the meters as well on our side. So we have to go on the other side of the building where that pole will be.
Yeah. I I don't know. Just looking at the site, there's already a pole on this side of the street that is delivering power to the property. Um, and I just don't know why it would be necessary to put an additional pole on
that side if there's already it's already delivering power. It looks like updating the existing poll u would be possible, but um you know the other time this came up where we added poles to both sides of the street was in Ward One on U lower
middle sex and they ended up there's not a tree situation here but that's always been every time I drive by there I'm like what the heck I can't support this tonight. I do think there's another way to go about it but this is not about councelor SEA this is more about national grid. Thank you. Thank you.
Questions, comments? Is the other pole staying up? The one with the the single phase? I'm not taking care of that poll. Uh it does have telecom on it. So I'm assuming since it has telecom on it, they will that poll. This pole will be just electric. Got it. Okay. Questions?
Anybody else? Comments, concern? I need Oh, councelor Winsow. Sorry, I'm not used to looking at the lights. Uh so Zane just to explain just to get so because it's three-phase service which is a higher level of electricity power.
So you just need more clearances than uh the lower you what's the voltage of this service generally 1228 but but it's just the three-phase is just more more carries more amps or something like that or just no three-phase because they have commercial uh equipment that they need
to power like motors um welding uh equipment and so that require because it's a a more demanding electrical do you need more clearances are you asking why we need the pole oh no I'm just asking why you need more clearances for the meters and stuff like that that why
why work on the other side? Well, we it's not about phases for the meters. So on the other side he is putting 9 mters and it's very tight area. We no matter what phase we have we do need at least 3 ft of clearance for meters and we don't
have that on that side of the building. So we have to go on the other side. We don't have an option. So currently there's meters on the other side but no currently there are no meters on the other side. I'm not sure where the meters are. I believe they are inside the building. Okay. But he is putting nine meters on there exists only one
meter as of now. So he'll this where the new pole is going there's going to be 9 meters and they're going to be outside. Is that it will be on the other side of the building where the point attachment is and 9 meters are under the So under the new proposal there's going to be nine meters and they have to be outside
and there's not enough clearance not on the whole on the building. Yes. So that that's why right now there's a pole on the pole there. It's single phase. The meters inside. The new service is going to be uh 9 meters on
the outside and there's not enough clearance because there's only 3 ft between the building. So that's really explain the technical reason why you need the pole on that side. So that you just can't put you can't exactly run conduit all the way from that pole to the other side of the building. So why 9
meters or there is that just for It just seems funny that that's what the It's a commercial building. It's basically nine garages and they want one meter for each one. They're renting it out, I guess. Sub rentals or whatever. So they're dividing it up. Yep. Okay. Okay. So that's high. So
that's all right. No, that just explains the technical reason why it's necessary. All right. Thank Thank you. All right. Thank you. Yeah. really quickly. It's going to be eight individual contractor bays over there at this location. So, they're going to be subleasased to eight
different um companies potentially. One one any questions, comments from the council? Okay. The public hearing meeting was closed. I would entertain a motion. Okay. And council seek his motion to approve the petition seconded by
councelor Winslow. All those in favor? I all those opposed the record show it is uh is it 10 10 to one go to one vote des uh any mo any objection to taking going out of order here there's two on the
table uh I don't control so you got it so there are two if there's no objection there's two other table papers um Okay, that sounds like a motion, council. Okay, that's council seekers motion to take 7825 and 273
25 off the table. Seconded by council Simonelli. All those in favor? All those opposed. Eyes have it. Motion to grant these petitions. Okay. Any questions? These um I I spoke to the clerk. These
already have their public meetings. We were holding them up specifically because of the hospital poll. Uh, and all the councils I believe have looked at these and had discussion. I know councelor Simli looked you looked at yours and I know councelor Wins uh council wins excuse me council conden you looked at yours on Pearl Street.
Correct. What? Me and Pearl. Hold on. I'll put your C. I'll put your mic on. Yeah, that was the other one. What are you talking about? Street. Oh, 315. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's we already did the public we did a the
public hearing for that. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. So, I'll entertain a motion. Motion seconded by it was council. I I believe Winslow did right. Oh, sir and Simonelli. Sorry. All those in favor to approve paper 7825
and paper 2273-25. Yes. We already took them off the table. We did all those in favor. Yeah. Of granting. of granting of granting. All those opposed eyes have it. Okay. Thank you. So, you're all set. So, you can tell
them that 7825. We spoke earlier. I know you didn't have too much information. 78. So, it's poll number um 309 32051 and then poll number 30926772 have been granted. They can also they
can also look plan number plan number. They also can look on the uh the docket. It's all there. Council McDonald, I just wanted to double check. So, there's nothing more we need from National Grid related to those polls up at the hospital site. That is all we're all copacetic. Yep.
Buses. The bus is able to complete its route. They have completed those. Great. I just wanted to double check make sure it was very clear. I I would say this everything that National Grid needs to do, we have to take the wire off the pole. Then then National Grid will get the other utilities which is Comcast and
their their line as well as the telephone off because our wire is to the top. They won't they won't go out of order. It's it's like lineage thing they said. Um in court in court. So we were holding it up because we thought it was their wire. It
was actually our wire. I see. So, Council Linan was on the email chain with with Nelson this morning and she confirmed it via email that she's she's fine going forward. And National Grid has confirmed they will complete their piece as soon as we're done. Correct. The National Grid and the Turner Construction are actually working to
take down the city piece because we didn't want to pay somebody to take it down. So, Turner Construction um is is going to take it down. Our fire chief had to confirm that nothing was connected to that. I guess we have and they also had to make sure there was no microwaves that Anthony Rodriguez and it did because obviously they don't want to
take a wire down where they don't know where it goes to especially if it's not there. So we've checked all those boxes. Whether the poll comes down in a week or two weeks I can't promise that but council was was in all the communication with happy thus far. Great. Thank you for that explanation. You're welcome. Thank you for You're all set. Thanks for
coming. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for allowing me to jump around. Next order of business, please. Paper 320-25 order. The city council will vote on whether to engage in a process to change health insurance benefits under MGL
chapter 32B section 21 through 23. Yes, councelor Ali. I'll be recusing myself. Thank you. Okay. Council. Yep. So that's councelor Ali's motion recused. Seconded by council cologne Hayes seconded. All
those in favor? All those opposed. He has to wait for a vote as well. Where'd he go? Is he leaving? He just left for the vote. I know, but he's got to give a reason.
Hold on. We get Yeah. How does everybody feel? You want to move forward? He's not going to come back. So, that's fine. All right. We're going to we're going to move forward on um the rationale. So, on councelor
Ali's request to uh Do we vote it? No, we didn't go through the vote. He got up and left. Second to recuse himself. Second by council Cologne Hayes. All in favor? All oppose.
Council Mali is recused. So again, this is the order on whether um the city of Malden will engage in the process of changing health insurance benefits under MGL 32B section 21 through 23. Yeah, I'll I'll uh I do see
the uh mayor's chief of staff, Maria Louise, in the audience. If she wants to come up and give a brief history of the paper, um I can I'll start as she walks up. This was a request that came in council. I'm going to hand myself because she knew she would be out. You can come up, Maria. Um there was there was some hope and discussion of maybe
passing this tonight, which you'll understand from Maria Louise. It wasn't a vote to accept it. did it was an I believe it a vote to stop the negotiation with the unions which they've been notified. Council Lan didn't feel comfortable at that point willing to do so and I I did agree. I knew we wouldn't have a full council
here and I thought this is an important uh paper. So my request to council and Mar Louise to was to refer this to finance and we will meet before the end of the summer. Uh I've talked to the chairman of finance council McDonald and he's agreed to accept it. uh and we will
meet sometime uh in the summit to discuss the paper. But Maria, yeah, I just want to clarify because there were some councils that had questions that this acceptance of this um mass general laws chapter 32 and the the specific
sess sections that have to do with the change in health insurance benefits. What you would be approving are just those sections that approve the process. you wouldn't be voting or considering whether or not we go into the GIC. That
is something we have to negotiate with the collective bargaining units of the city and the retirees. So that process is what you're approving. The process sets deadlines. It sets the time frame
um and it has other um milestones that we have to meet before we can actually um negotiate and and we have to impact bargain it. So what it does is it brings everybody to the table, all the unions,
all the people affected and it allows us to negotiate with them outside the regular collective bargaining that we traditionally do with each unit separately. It brings everyone to the table at once. That's what those sections deal with. Okay. Thank you,
Council McDonald. Yeah, thank you. Um my hope is that in our finance committee we can just go through that process in a little bit more detail and understand what information is provided where. Um, and I, you know, I think it's important
for the for the public and any any of our city employees and anyone else who really is could be affected by a discussion like this to understand that the only way in law to move forward with this is actually with the ascent and and
and vote and negotiation with our collective bargaining units and our retirees. There's actually not a way to preempt that process. and we are um councelor McDonald we are planning on having our health um insurance consultant at the meeting with us um she
would be able to answer all questions that's thank you so I I I think it's also important to note in case this is not clear that this is the reason that we're having this conversation is potential savings um because we uh spend over $20 million on health insurance
this year um for our employees and so the questions about what are the trade-offs involved in going to the GIC I think are would be the subject of the negotiations correct and so helping us understand what kind of information is going to be available and when and then
what further role um we we would play as the council um at some point will be um you know in finalizing this if we get to that stage would be very helpful. So um yes, any other things that are important for us to know before we and you how you just um explained that is absolutely
correct and the statute also sets forth exactly what kind of information we have to provide. Great. It's almost as if I had read that in advance and we're just eliciting that through a question answer. This is great. Um I think it's important to uh to have full discussions
in public view. um this is a a consequential kind of conversation which is why we're all taking this very seriously. So you have my commitment to meet in a prompt fashion. We'll get something on the calendar so that we can talk through this process. Thank you so much. Excellent. Thank you. Uh Miss Louise, real quick, what was the date we
we have to meet by? Um there was a there was a date during the summer. I mean it has to be it has to be before the end of the summer. Correct. Yes. Okay. It has to be before as soon as possible. Just to make sure that we're clear. Uh Council Lan did say we could use virtual meeting uh if
that's possible, but just FYI, we we are going to have to meet at least finance uh and it's probably better off for everybody to be at this. It's an important topic for everybody. Um Council McDonald again. Yeah, thank you. I think we'll probably aim for um well,
we can talk, but sometime in July, of course. Um and uh we we do need to get to the 4th. So, we will probably either meet the the week of the 7th or if we need more time, we'll do it in the back half of the month. Um, I I just also want to take this moment to remind folks
that the fact that my name is on this paper is not actually anything to do with me. It is me as council finance chair. I have the honor and privilege to carry financial papers that come from the administration, financial orders, papers from the treasur, anything referred to finance, um, and to escort
those through the legislative process. So, which I'm glad to do in this case so that we can have this discussion in finance. Okay. Thank you. Don't leave yet. I want to make sure. Any any other questions from real Louise. Okay, that was easy. Okay, I see none. Thank you, Maria. Thank you. Any other comments,
questions? All right. I do want to just uh real Louise did mention uh Susan, is it Chillu? She's with Cook Company. She offered Yeah, she offered to be here, but we weren't going to discuss it. So, we said save save the gas. Uh, we'll let you
know when we meet in July. So, any other discussion points? Okay. So, I need a motion to refer this to finance on council McDonald's motions to refer to finance. Seconded by councela. All those in favor?
I. All those opposed. Okay. It's been referred. Next order of business. Paper 321-25. Communication. In observance of this evening being the last full council
meeting prior to the summer break and given the council president is unable to be in attendance, submitted for review is the attached memo outlining some of the president's priorities once the body reconvenes in the fall. This was put forth by Amanda Lahan. I will go get council.
Thank you. I don't have an amended version. I I was received the same email that everybody else did. Was that the topic of No. Hold on. Repeat that one more time. Your mic was not on. Sorry. Okay. Um, so what
I can do is I can read what I do have into the record on behalf of um, Council President Lahan and then just explain to everybody that there's a closing paragraph that she needed to amend for proper wording which was discussed with
the legal department. So, let me at least start by reading you what we do have. Um, this says to and this is the the communication that's attached to paper 321-25. To my esteemed council colleagues, I want to thank you again for entrusting me with the council presidency for the
remainder of this year. It is my hope to continue earning your trust by leading us with a sense of clear purpose and mutual respect. And I hope you'll hold me accountable to the goals that we set together. It is said we go farther together, but faster alone. And in that spirit, I invite you to continue the
intention that Council Ali set for us in January when he asked us to spend this session uplifting one another by sharing goals and communicating as colleagues all year. I hope you will join me in recommitting to our work by remembering the values that first drew us to public
service and calling on those values to motivate us as we look to the future. Below, I plan to briefly outline my priorities heading into our summer recess and into fall. And I encourage each of you to reach out to me with any questions or additional ideas. Though I
know we all work hard throughout July and August, I do look forward to a brief season of reflection and reset as we break from weekly meetings. And I hope to have an opportunity to meet with each of you as we prepare for September and the rest of our council session. Thank
you in advance for your consideration of these priorities and again I welcome your feedback. Committees. I believe our current committee structure is well functioning in conducting business on time and as such I plan to make very limited changes. I want to emphasize
that I want to make sure we do not lose momentum on our very successful shift toward hybrid meetings which I believe has become a model for other city boards and commissions. The first small change I'm making is a reorganization to the personnel and appointments committee as
follows. The chair of personnel and appointments will now be councelor Crowe. The vice chair will now be councelor Taylor. Condan, Cologne, Hayes, and Lahan will be members of the personnel and appointments committee. The second change I'd like to make will
be to appoint the special committee this council voted to create last week to clarify our relationship with the library board of trustees. I'd like to invite members to express their interest in this committee by emailing me over the next few weeks before I decide on the final slate. The work of this ad hoc
library committee will include, as paper 306-25 outlines, ensuring compliance with chapter 146 of the acts of 1885. But just as importantly, it will examine whether the acts have become a barrier to the trustees in the city stewarding
the community assets under their care. and I and will determine how the city council can best support the trustees moving forward. A key expected committee deliverable will be a report by the end of 2025 with clear action steps on these
points. Soon I will also make the appointments needed to fill the vacant quadrentennial planning committee seats including exeicio appointments so that this committee can begin its work. But I would like to make sure I can speak with the relevant parties in the coming
weeks. Finally, I would like to formally appoint councelor Carrie McDonald as the council president prom effective at the conclusion of this meeting with appreciation to council spat for convening our docket tonight. Code of conduct and group norms. I would
like to see Malden lead among city council statewide in setting group norms to govern civility in meetings. Norms are not a new idea. Several councilors have brought this up in the past, including most recently in a 2023 paper co-sponsored by councilors Cologne
Hayes, Macdonald, Omali, and myself, which we discussed on the floor and amended, but ultimately withdrawn. Previous proposals by council Spataphory and Murphy met a similar fate. Two years ago when we last took this up, we were not in agreement as to whether the
assistance of an external consultant was needed to navigate us through the exercise of developing a code of conduct. However, it is my belief that in light of recent meetings and the reality of our current fiscal climate, we need to act quickly to find a path
forward on this issue and we should tackle this in-house collaboratively together. Accordingly, I will also appoint an ad hoc committee to begin the process of drafting group norms, which I envision as simpler than a formal code of conduct and which should live as a
chapter or appendix to our rule book, as well as potentially be visible in our council chambers for us to reference during city council meetings. Norms can include such behaviors as prep being prepared for meetings, taking turns talking, setting social media
boundaries, and whatever else the group deems helpful. Please keep an open mind to this process and the potential benefits it may bring us in and future counselors this year. I'm sorry, this will take place as part of the larger update to our rule book that I plan to
undertake in a collaborative manner later this year. Council unity. Many of my colleagues have remarked to me that group cohesion would benefit from more opportunities to socialize or gather informally in ways that do not immediately involve council meetings or
official business, but rather involve getting to know one another as individuals. I agree and I want to find a way to bring us together as a group. Please expect an invitation from me as an informal fall gathering in lie of the traditional council president's dinner
so that we can find time to connect and do think about ways we can weave team building more regularly into our year without breaking the open meeting law of course and I will do the same. Finally, I will close by letting you all know that Solicit McNeel has filed an
affidavit to request the Superior Court to allow a motion to dismiss the lawsuit between the trustees of the Malden Public Library and the president of the Malden City Council, which I hope marks the first positive step towards resolution of this matter. I will of
course keep you all apprised of additional information as it becomes available. Respectfully submitted, Amanda Lahan, President Malden, City Council. Uh, real quick, I see you like council coins. I just want to There's an amendment that councelor uh Lahan mentioned. It's it's regarding um uh the
statement she said about the affidavit and then our city clerk, excuse me, city solicitor Alicia McNeel. You you sent an email today. Can you just explain the correction because I think it's it pertains to the letter and it it maybe answers some questions that the other councils had.
Okay. Thank you, Alicia. Give me one second, Miss McNeel. Turn your podium light on. There you go. You're all set. Okay. Good evening, everybody. Um, so I received um uh Council President Lahan's uh goal letter around sometime this
afternoon. I read it and after I read it, I saw the last paragraph and I mentioned to her, I actually emailed her and asked her if she would amend it for clarity. My office has already withdrawn from this lawsuit.
um under the order of the city council and because my office represented um councelor Ali in his capacity as the president of the city council at the time and we were also con sort of by
order representing the city council in order to withdraw. we are conflicted out of um participating in in this matter. We're withdrawn in the only way that we would be able to file an affidavit or
any document would be if we were to reenter our appearance. And we are not doing that because we're conflicted out. So therefore, there will have to be another um um law firm that will have to
represent uh the city council or actually council president Lahan on this particular matter. Thank you. And and I if you don't mind, I'll just add to what you wrote to council Lahan. It says uh in the interest of the my office city council
uh my office kept clear lines. We are not in conflict with council Maui's motion requesting we are not withdrawn in the order from the council to withdrawn. Therefore, I have hired outside council Murphy has and to me to handle filing the affidavit and requesting that this lawsuit be withdrawn. They have worked with my office in city on numerous occasions and I believe they were the right for this
matter. So, um Miss McNeel explained it. That was an email communication she sent to Amanda today and then Amanda just said, "Can you amend it?" We didn't amend the document she sent. We just wanted to add it in the record so everybody understood. Thank you, Miss McN. Any any questions from Miss McN before she steps down? Okay. You had
your light on, Councelor Hayes? Give me one second. I'm getting my permit back here. Okay. Uh, thank you very much. So, I sent this email earlier um and I'm glad that it was amended. So, just so everybody knew, my question um was about
you being able to withdraw that. So, you just answered that. I did question that's not what we heard at the last meeting. So, um, this is confusing in this last paragraph and that, you know, because of a conflict, you wouldn't be able to withdraw that. My other question was about the affidavit. I asked if I
could see it u because the last paragraph um with council councelor um Lahan wrote that an affidavit was filed. So, I just wanted to see the wording of the affidavit. So, I went on the state I couldn't find it. It doesn't look like it was filed. Could you was it filed or
No, there was no affidavit filed because The only I couldn't file it. My office could not file any affidavit. So that portion of the letter is also incorrect. That's in that last paragraph that's all in there where it says that we filed it. Yes. No. We So that's incorrect too. And
and the again the reason why as soon as I read the letter, I immediately emailed um Council President Lahan to let her know that we could not do anything on that matter. So our office is not involved. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I just wanted to be clear because there's a lot of information out there and
people are very confused about what's going on. Yeah. Nothing was filed. So nothing was filed. No. If it was filed, it would probably be on the court docket already. Yeah, it would have been. Yes. So, no, nothing has been filed. And so then another letter with the amended wording. Um this is probably more to um
our clerk will be added. Um, so I don't want to specifically retype Amanda um, Council President Lahan's letter because this is a letter coming from her, but I can actually make sure that this is well reflected in the meeting minutes. Okay.
Everything that was addressed here tonight, I'm not going to I'm not going to amend her letter. Okay. Um, because I feel like that's up to her to do, but the the meeting minutes will reflect that um, we got clarity on that closing paragraph and and thank you for explaining it so well. You're welcome.
Okay. Thank you. That's all. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Council Wings. Motion to accept communication place on file and amend. What was the other thing? Well, just make a note in the minutes. Yeah, make a note in the minutes to the discussion
that McNeel and seconded by Council K Hayes. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? Eyes have it. Next order of business. Paper 322-25 committee report the standing committee on license to whom was referred papers 270 292 293 300
3001 and 317 series of 2025 having considered the same make the following report motion accept the committee report on council seekers motion to uh receive the committee report all those in favor. All those opposed. Council seek with the committee. Let me put your light on
there. Council, give me a second. Would you like me to read? I would like you to read them, please. Yes. Thank you. Paper 270-25 petition extended hours McDonald's 114 Broadway Malden 7 hours. I'm 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Paper 292-25,
petition taxi driver Lewis Ojuku, 12 William Street, Chelsea Renewal. 293-25 petition Pawn Broker AM Design Jewelry 664 Salem Street Malden new application paper 300-25 petition livery company
Bravo Mike LLC 43 Uppam Street Molden one vehicle new paper 301-25 petition livery driver Belmore Miranda Zada 43 Uppam Street Malden new paper 317-25 petition taxi driver Sophia
Pepper 36 Dartmouth Street apartment 803 Malden the new application council seek with the committee report. Thank you. The license committee met this evening to discuss these petitions. Um everyone will be happy to know we voted for McDonald's to be open 24 hours
a day, seven days a week unanimously out of committee. Um I know I'm excited I don't have to go to River anymore. Uh the other petitions there were no issues. Compliance spoke on all of them. So I am make a motion to grant all these petitions. Any questions, comments on
the committee report? Second. Okay, seeing none, hearing none. Seconded by uh council seekers motion to grant. Seconded uh yeah, seconded by council Minnelli. All those in favor? I. All those opposed licenses are granted. Next order of business. Paper 323-25
committee report the standing committee on rules and ordinance to whom was referred paper 215 series of 2025. Having considered the same, make the following report committee report. Council wins motion to accept the committee report. All those in favor? and second by council uh Crow.
All those in favor? All those against councelor Winslow for ordinance. Paper 215. Be it ordained by the Malden city council that the code of the city of Malden 6.20.010 permit required for canvases and solicitors is hereby amended to add
subsection 3 do not knock registry to 6.20.10 permit required. Council Winslow. Um yes. So the uh rules and orders committee met tonight to further discuss this paper. This is the paper that Chief
Cronin had um sent to us to review. Um it's it's basically so that people um can register to um not receive solicitations from um really people salespeople at their door. Um, and this
would be something that Did I hit the mic or did you hit the mic? There you go. Um, sorry about that. So, this would be something that the the that people would people solicitors right now do have to um register with
the police department um get a permit so that if they show up your door, they're supposed to have a a badge and that type of thing. This would actually allow um people to say, "I don't even want you to knock on my door." So um so we've reviewed the paper um and we have some clarifications we discussed um one of
the things is that it's a somewhat dated phrasing of what canvasers and solicitors are. So one of the things is to update that definition to really make it clear especially nowadays that um a lot of the people coming to people's
doors are selling home improvement. And so we wanted to make sure that was specifically included. Um the the second thing as we were updating the the dis the discussion um one of the things we wanted to make clear that this is really going applies to commercial solicitors
and canvasers. So these are people who are being paid to come to your door to try to sell a product. It doesn't um apply to um uh religious political um or other con constitutionally protected speech. And there were already some exemptions in terms of um the postal
service um delivery services nonprofit and charitable organizations. So one of the things we've decided and and made the recommendation to committee to amend the paper to um add to exclude those specifically from the definition of
solicitors and campusers so that um it's clear and it's actually current practice that you know nonprofits and um charitable organizations don't have to apply for these things. It's really commercial solicitors. Um and then um
the original proposal by Malden PD was to just add a paragraph B3. Um the solicitor's office reviewed that and made some changes and I mean I do have the paper um I do have copies of the paper um with me uh so that um we just I
can read the the updated language but um it's we we just tweaked the language so that language would now read the the police uh section B3 uh this is under permit required do not knock registry
the police department shall Now prepare a list of addresses of those premises where the owner and or occupant who um who have notified the police chief uh chief of police or the chief's designate that they have prohibited the work of
commercial campusers or solicitors herein referred to as the do not rec registry by having posted a sign at the public entry of such property stating that commercial canvasers and solicitors are prohibited. Owners and occupants may
register for the DOC registry by completing a form available at the police department and including a photograph um or the po of the posted sign. The DOC registry will be available on the police department's website and will be available to all persons or
companies applying or approved for a commercial canvasing andor solicitation permit. shall be the responsibility of all permit holders to check the website to determine who is on the do not knock registry prior to canvasing or soliciting. The permit
holder shall not commercially canvas or solicit at any premises identified on the then current do registry. Um see any violators of the section whether individuals, companies, enterprises, or those benefiting from commercial
canvasing or solicitation activities shall be subject to a fine of $300 per offense andor a one-year revocation of any permit issued present to this section. So that's really now the heart of it. That's the language that the solicitor's office um proposed. So um
that the recommendation is that the um from the rules and ordinance committee is that the paper be amended to include the updated definition uh for commercial canvases and solicitors and the updated provision um for um
B3 related to creating the do not knock registry. So that is uh the result. Okay. Any questions for Councelor Winsler? Okay. Council Winsler, before we take the vote, as amended, do you plan on do
you want to enroll in ordain tonight? Um, that's up to you. I mean, we have a couple choices. Um, I mean, one of the things I was thinking was enrolling, getting the language firmed up before we ordain it. I would reach out to to Chief Cronin. I'm thinking that maybe we would
work to maybe to implement this maybe by October 1st. Okay. So that would give us time to enroll in the the fall and then the chief could come in with an updated application and we could just have a tighter package, but at least we can enroll it tonight. I'd work with Carolyn and the solicitor's office to, you know,
get the language uh finalized for or or the final daining. So I think I don't think we're going to implement this over the summer necessarily, but I think we can do that. That's that's my recommendation. So n I don't think anybody's going to fight you on that one. So Okay. So I I I assume you're going to motion from councelor Winsel as
amended in committee. Well, so motion to amend the paper per um the recommendations of the committee. Oh, that's right. Yep. Okay. On council wins motion to uh amend the paper as amended in committee. Seconded by Crow. All
those in favor? I. All those opposed? Paper is amended. All right. On motion I make a motion to enroll the paper as amended. Okay. Okay. On council Winslow's motion now to enroll the paper as amended. Seconded by council crow. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? Paper is enrolled. Thank you.
Great work. The docket is clear. I'm expecting a lot of lights here. So, let's just go with uh I only see council seeker. Council crow. Council. Let's go. Council seeker. Council crow. Council wins. Council Minnelli. Council
McDonald. 54 321. Council seeker. Not really though. Right. eight first. Well, I'm just I'm reading on the buttons on here. Thank you, Council President. Um, I just I can't believe we're already here again. I feel like I was just announcing
the 2024 water 8 annual Independence Day celebration. And here we are already to 2025. Uh, next Friday we will be hosting our annual Fourth of July Independence Day celebration at Lynen Park Hunting
Field. Festivities start at 8:45. Races start at 9:00 and we're going till noon. We'll have moon bounces, races, doll uh carriage decorating contests and pet general pet contests along with little
Mr. Lyndon, Little Miss Lyndon, you name it, it's there. Um we'll have plenty of food and uh novelties for the kids. So if you are around for the 4th of July next week, 9 to 12 at Lynen Park. Thanks. Thank you. Council Crow. Thank
you. So Ward One and Ward Two will again be teaming up. So on the 3rd of July, so next Thursday evening, we'll be hosting the um annual movie night at um Green Street Park at Choa Field. And I can
give you the movie hint. It's I forget what it is. Um we will be build a world. So it's Minecraft, but that's okay. The um too many people ask me a little a lot of different um guesses that are not
correct. So that we start around 6:30. We have a bounce house and we have lots of activities before when the sun goes down. Around 8:45 is when the movie starts. We'll have some music and some fun and some popcorn and um and then on Friday at Deva Park near the Irish
American, we'll have our carnival like um festivities from 9 to 1 with races, rides, inflatables, a cookout, lots of fun and lots of family and lots of um community
connectiveness. So, please come on down on Thursday um July 3rd and on Friday July 4th. Thank you, Council Crow. Council Winslow, are you on? Council Winsow, not yet.
There we go. Um I I first want to give condolences to the um Sereno family of River. I don't know if you there was a tragic fire that um the Rick Serino um senior passed away in the fire. Um it
was he was a a police officer from Ravier and um that his son was on the fire department and his I know his grandson uh because he went to the Chevro school with my granddaughter Ashley. He was the ward six counselor in River. Um so um and worked um in at the
state house as well just uh so I just wanted to give condolences from the city of Malden and and the council to the family that um that that's a very tragic loss there. So just a moment for that. Yeah. So yeah, just stand just to stand.
So just thank you. And then um so for Ward 6, we are celebrating uh Fourth of July on Fourth of July um at our regular time, nine o'clock and we're back at Trafton Park this year, which is uh redone and we
will have our basketball shootout on the new basketball court there. I don't have to drag the basketball hoop down from my house anymore. So that's exciting. Um you know, we start at 8 with our our races. Um they go to the sack races from there. Um we open then we the we have
bouncy houses water slide obstacle course. Um we we will have a a tick tok talent show just some short talent show and um we will also do um bike decoration, wagon decoration, costumes and stuff like that. So people can get
some prizes for that. Um we will have a great barbecue um presented by Henry's Catering and then we will um at the same time we will have um the a pony rides as well. So it just looks a fun day. So um come out. We're there between 9 and 1.
And if you're interested in volunteering, come out. And then if that's not enough, if all these Fourth of July parties are not not enough, Club 24 on July 6 is having a barbecue. I think it's around 4:00 right there on Salem Street um in Maplewood Square. So
um if you want a little more uh fun for the weekend, come out for that. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Council Winslow. Councelor Simonelli. Thank you, Mr. President. Well, as you know, I got to be a little different. So, I'm having uh my W 7 festivities uh
for July 4th on Saturday, July 5th. instead of doing it in the morning, we're going to do it we're going to try and do it in the afternoon uh starting at 2 o'clock. So, we're going from 2 to 5 because we figured the uh kids have no excuses that it's too early to get up and run a race. So, we figured we'd make
it to their time and meet them where they're at. So, I just want to thank everybody for uh helping me along with this year's festivities. Uh I see Michelle Long is out in the audience and she's been very helpful uh on giving me ideas. uh and my colleague to my left uh
councelor Seika who comes to my aid all the time last minute to uh bail me out of some of my difficulties on getting things done and make sure that I get things done right away and she calls me over and over again to make sure that I made those calls. So, I just want to say
thank you for that and thank you for everybody. Uh, and I want to thank uh Councelor Spataphora for his large donation for a our big uh mountain bike raffle giveaway this year. This year, we're going big time and we're doubling
it to 30 mountain bikes. So, we'll be uh raffling off 30 free mountain bikes. And uh I've been begging. Yep. I've been begging councelor Crow and councelor Winslow uh to uh lend me or let me
borrow or let me have uh some uh helmets to go with those bikes. Uh we have hot dogs, um pizza, um hamburgers from Smashburgers. Smashburgers is is going to donate and deliver us uh some burgers. I never had
a Smashburger, but I guess it's first time for everything. So, uh, come on down and enjoy enjoy the day. We've got water rides and, uh, we're just going to have a really good time and, uh, so everybody's welcome. You don't have to be just from W 7 to come down. We
welcome the entire city of Malden just like you guys do at your parks. So, thank you very much for your cooperation. I'll see you on the 5th. Oh, and the other thing is I've been looking at Facebook every now and then and everybody's wondering if anyone's got my new phone number. So, I've given it out a few times and I know some
people have it. Now listen, everyone knows I'm not the the the brightest when it comes to this tech stuff here. So I guess I lost my iCloud number. It might mean something to all of you. It don't mean nothing to me, but except that I couldn't transfer my old phone number over. So my new phone number, which I
put it out on Facebook, and I will put it out again tonight, is 857. Even though I asked for a 617 number, they gave me the old 857 857 number there. It must be the old Metro special, but it's 857-214901. Again, 857-214901.
I'm not hiding from anybody. The numbers out there. Give me a call. And uh happy 4th of July. Thank you very much. You all set, council? I am done. I want to make sure. All right, Council McDonald.
Thank you. So that one I you know my phone number is the same so I'm not sure if I can top that one. Simma, he's actually speechless. You got crazy.
Yeah. So all right. So on the on to continue the July 4th celebration bonanza. The Ward 5 July 4th celebration will be on Friday, July 4th and it is at the Alex Gentile Park next to the Forestdale School starts at 10:00 a.m.
with races and kickoff. Food starts to be served at 11:00. Um we'll go through lunch. We'll go to um at least 1:00. There's uh going to be a petting zoo, face painting, photo booth, burgers, dogs, veggie burgers, slush slides,
bouncy houses, talent show, tugof-war, games, and more. So, come check that out. And and that is um uh hosted by councelor Ari Taylor who's not here. So, uh wanted to share that on her behalf. Uh as well as um W five school committee member Elizabeth Hordy, and I'm also on
the planning team as a W five resident myself. Um, so look forward to seeing many of you there. I also want to um recognize that we have folks may know that we have a new police community advisory council. They've been meeting uh monthly for the just about the past
year and and I want to encourage everyone to watch for them at some of our community festivals and events. They're going to set up a table. Their job is to be an independent voice and a bridge between our Malden Police Department and our community and different parts of our community to hear
about their experiences to review data um and to make recommendations. So they are really trying to get out there and hear from community organizations to hear from people in every part of the city. What's your experience been? What are your safety concerns? Um and so they are um so they will be at many of our
events this summer. I encourage you to stop and and chat with them. whatever your experience has been, whatever um you would like to share with them, uh please do so. Um and then while I was not able to attend because I was out of town last weekend, I I just want to say a big shout out to all the organizers of
Malden Pride, um which was at Denver Park this year. I I heard from many of you, my colleagues, who did go that it was a wonderful event. Anyway, I just wanted to give my congratulations to the organizing committee and was grateful to support the event from afar. Have a great summer. Thank you, Councelor Karen
Kane. Uh, thank you. Um, so I don't have any upcoming events, but I just wanted to say thank you to the community groups. Um, it was a really busy week um this week and especially now with scary times both like locally and globally. It's really great when we get together
and um bond as a community. So Junth, I want to say that was the first one. Um, Thursday, uh, that was a huge event. I think we stopped counting at something like 750 people at the Salemwood School. It was a tremendous um outpouring of
just love and joy and it was probably one of our best yet and they're a great group to work with. I'm honored um and privileged to be able to do that. The other was let's see what came after. There was a trans um lives vigil that I wasn't able to attend because we were
here, but um I did help a little bit behind the scenes organizing with um also um councelor McDonald. And then if we're going in order, Fuji Fishing Festival I think came next. Maybe not, but that was also great. Very um great
community event. People learned to fish. They came out. They actually caught some fish because it was so warm that they were kind of up on the top. But the um lots of people coming to learn and developed new hobbies that they can't wait um to start doing on their own. And then Malden Pride, which was amazing,
very hot. Um I love also working with that group. Um there are tremendously dedicated to our city and helping them set up even though it was really blazing hot on that one. Um everything went great and I was so happy to be able to
um celebrate in that. It was at a new location and I don't know if anyone I I think I heard from maybe one person, but we did have counselor Anderson. I reached out and he was driving the trolley from um the Malden train station to Denver. So, whoever got a chance to take that um that might have been fun. I
did not. And um I think that's it. So, I'll be bouncing around at all these July 4th um celebrations. Thank you. Thank you, Council Colon Hayes. Councelor Rhino. Thank you. Uh so Ward 4's Fourth of July event will be held on
Friday, July 4th at 9:00 am to 1 pm. So come on down to Quartermly Park uh by the DCR pool on Mount Nav. You can enjoy the park and then cool off at the pool after. So please come on by. Um I do also want to just address um you know earlier this evening we did hear a
communication a multi-page communication from councelor Lahand uh and like many communications that we receive it it was read into the record. Um, but you know, as I think we all know, unfortunately, that same courtesy was not extended to me last week. Um, you know, and that's
what was really disturbing is I just never really had a chance to fully explain myself. I do feel like, um, I had my due process rights taken from me. Just wanted a chance to fully explain myself. Ideally wanted to do it in in personal privilege or I mean in executive session, but wasn't really
afforded that opportunity. Um, so you know, I think it is easy to, you know, sacrifice principles to get ahead in politics. Uh, but I do think it's harder to really live a principled life and I try that. I don't think I always achieve it every time, but I do try. And I just want to say thank you to my colleagues
that, you know, stuck by their principles last week and I think did the right thing. I don't hold anyone else accountable. Councelor Seika and Councelor Spaphora. I completely understand where you're coming from. Um, so that's not what I'm trying to communicate. I just really want to also extend my my sincere gratitude to the
the residents of Malden. Um you all have really reached out and um really it's been moving whether it's Democrat, Republican, independent, conservative, progressive. It has really been heartwarming. Um and so just I wanted to really say thank you. Um, in closing, I
am happy to report that I have been certified to be on the ballot and I'm looking forward to continuing to fight to protect public assets and to bring as much transparency to this community as possible. Um, whenever I can improve how I do that, I will and I appreciate you all working with me. Thank you. Thank
you. Any other questions? Well, since Council Lan isn't here, I'll read the Ward 3 uh festivities. It's uh July 4th of 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Council Amanda Linan and the W3 Association, they're hosting the July 4th or I like to say Independence Day celebration at
Ambridge Park. There'll be food, music, games, balloon animals, uh water slides, bouncy co cast castles, and I know there's a host of activities that council in a hand in the W3 association does, but I figured since all the wards were represented here in one way, I I didn't want to not let W three be
represented. So, with that being said, everybody have a great fourth. I will uh let me make sure I do this right. I got to make sure I motion to recess to the call of the chair. I need a I need a I need a motion. Council seekers motion to recess the call chair.
Seconded by councelor McDonald. All those in favor? All those opposed. Council is recess. Everybody enjoy your summer.