Okay. Apologize for the delay. The council will now come to order. I'll rise and salute the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please remain standing for a moment of silence in honor of our veterans, service members, and those who have given the ultimate sacrifice. At this time, I am going to turn it over to Councelor Simmonelli for an
additional moment of silence. >> Uh, thank you, uh, Madam President. Thank you. Um, [snorts] so I know that um most of you are probably already aware
uh that Wayne Martin, who is a uh a worker here in the city of Malden and worked here for quite some time, has passed away um um yesterday
[clears throat] at 10 o'clock. in the morning. So, um I know that everybody here knows Wayne and you know, everybody that has had an encounter with Wayne has always walked
away um feeling just a little better every time they have talked to him. You know, every time, you know, he's seen something that was wrong, he'd want to write it. Um he's a hard worker. Um, you know, Wayne and I grew up
together down at um the uh Newman Street Housing Projects. Um, and it was a lot of us uh back then, like the 70s and 80s. And um Wayne was is 9 years older than me. [sighs]
Sorry. And um him and his uh sister Sue used to babysit me and my brother cuz uh we live next door. [clears throat] And uh if Wayne was here now, he would
tell you that he's still babysitting me. [snorts and clears throat] No. Um Wayne um everyone that knows him or know about him know that he was just an all-around really good guy
and he took his work serious and um he worked like 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We used to have like conversations at nighttime and you know I it was a a time when uh we were all down at the uh
housing development uh together back in like the 80s and there'd be like 35 of us that uh would hang underneath the uh acorn tree in front of our house and we would talk about like if we ever had the opportunity [snorts]
um to be able to be lucky enough to work at city hall and had the opportunity to make changes and like in our neighborhood, particularly Ward 7 and the city of Malden, um
the things we would do and uh and I just want to say that Um, Wayne, uh, you did it. You made a lot of changes. Wayne's a good husband, good father,
good grandfather, and a good friend. And, uh, you know, he will be solely missed here in uh, the city of Malden [snorts] uh, for the work that he's done here. And um you know, Wayne has always went
the extra mile and you know, he always one of those people that would be like, why can't we, you know, cut through the red tape and make changes to help people [snorts] uh throughout the community. Wayne has suffered serious personal loss
and trials and tribulations in his family leading [snorts] up to uh his battle with uh lung cancer and lost two children, son and a daughter within a couple of years apart from each other.
And uh then had a face um that he had stage four lung cancer and battled for like a year now. [snorts] And uh you know things were uh things were getting better for him too. You know the
tumor was shrinking [snorts] and uh they he was he he made these trials for July and uh everybody was optimistic that he was going to pull through this. So,
um, you know, again, you know, Wayne is just an all-around really good guy and a good Maldonian and loved this city and worked hard in it and helped people on a constant basis. [snorts]
Wayne, a lot of people probably don't know that, you know, Wayne was um part of the uh Yes, we can on the new school project. you know, he was um clerk of the works there. And I remember I was council president when they the school
first came online and uh you know, they wouldn't have came online on time and on budget if it for wasn't Wayne's enthusiasm and his ability and leadership to have people work together for unforeseen circumstances that you
come across all the time in the unions. Uh but Wayne had that magic and ability to uh get people working together and uh you know uh Malden is going to really miss Wayne
Mano because uh you know I I you know I've been up here for about 15 16 years now on and off and uh you know we do this a lot for a lot of people in the city of Marlin because Mlin's great that way [snorts] and we always recognize people
that have made a difference here in this community. But I got to say that [sighs] this one's been a difficult one for me. So his family is very grateful for everybody's enthusiasm
and condolences and they wanted me to say thank you to everybody here tonight. And look, and I'm I'm going to end it here because I know there's probably some folks that want to say some good things about the guy uh that have worked with him personally. So I don't want to take up
everybody's time. Um but uh you'll be missed Wayne and uh I just want to thank you, Madam President, for allowing me this time and my colleagues for allowing me to speak. So thank you and excuse me
for uh crackling here. Thank you. Thank you for your words. Wayne Wayne truly was the best of the best. Does anybody else want to share a memory of Wayne? >> I think you did do a great job. I think we can [snorts] >> we can leave it at that. And may he rest
in peace. A moment of silence in memory of Wayne Martino. >> Thank you. At this time, will the clerk please call the role? >> Council Cologne Hayes >> here. >> Council Condan >> here. >> Council Crow
>> here. >> Council Wong >> here. >> Council McDonald. >> Council McDonald, you're I think you may be muted, sir. We can't uh counselor, we can't hear you. Oh, >> bear with us. We're going to try
adjusting your volume. >> Counselor, >> want to try again? It's lighting up like they're talking. >> What's that? >> Well, let's have councelor McDonald raise their hand to acknowledge that they are here. >> McDonald [laughter] is acknowledged that
they are here. >> And maybe Ally, you might be right. Maybe when the laptop is off after the presentation, but that's our next thing. So, I wouldn't worry about it for now. I wouldn't adjust the um >> because the computer's unmuted, council is unmuted, right? >> The volume is up here,
>> but it it might be this. So, we'll >> So, let's see after the presentation if it still persists, then we'll figure it out from there. >> Um just for the record, I will announce that Council McDonald is coming in via Teams, obviously. So, all the uh votes tonight will be taken by roll call.
Council Ali >> here. >> Thank you. Council see >> here. >> Council Simmonelli here. >> Council Taylor >> here. >> Council Winslow >> here. >> Council President Lahan >> here. >> Okay. So we have 11 in attendance. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. So under the provisions of the open meeting law for those of you in attendance, please be informed that
UMA Urban Media Arts will be recording this evening's meeting. So just be aware there will be audio and video recordings of tonight's meeting. Is there anyone else present tonight who is recording in addition to Uma? Okay. Seeing none, first order of business.
>> Representatives from Safe Malden Safe Streets and Safe Routes to School accompanied by Malden School Crossing Guards will appear before the council to present on a new safety initiative being rolled out for the school population. >> Welcome. You have the floor. >> Come right up, please. >> And while you're coming up, I will also
recognize that we have additional board members of Malden Safe Streets and our interim DPW director, Paul Meyers, joining us in the audience who have assisted with this initiative. So, welcome. Come on over to the podium and we we're happy to have you here tonight. Whoever wants to get started.
>> You want me to go? >> Y Gina is gonna go first. >> We're here. >> Good evening. >> Welcome, Gina. >> I'm very nervous. I'm going to tell you that. I've never done this before. So, >> my best [laughter] standing on the street, >> right? I couldn't couldn't be
>> jump in front of moving cars right now. [laughter] So, I'm Gina Hayes. Um, I was born and raised in Malden. I've been here my entire life, actually in the same house that I'm in now. I'm also Malden's first crossing guard of the year as of last
year. [applause] Thank you. And I received an award at the state house with Tina from Mass Dot and that's where I met Ally. We've been friends now for almost a year. And um for several years I have been trying to shine light
on getting our cross guards corners safer because when the snow and ice come no one seems to come out and clear the corners. They'll do part of the crosswalk but they won't do where we actually stand at the curb cut. And when it is cleaned it's usually the snow is
piled against the crosswalk buttons that no one can reach them over five feet deep, you know, across. So I asked Ally if she would like to help me on a project that I wanted to work on and she agreed. And so for months we've been working on maps, trying to get maps
going and um to let DPW know where all these crossing guards stand. There's 48 of us and um for the last three months we've been working with the help of councelor Michelle Wong mentoring us. Uh, we got
Paul Meyers from DPW and Eric Rubin from the facilities director on board. At one point, Malden Safe Streets delivered eight buckets of salt that came from donated buckets and the salt from the DPW yard delivered to them and those guards did very appreciate it.
Unfortunately, some of the buckets were stolen before they could even use them. Uh, so I want to give a very special thank you to Michelle for helping us to make this possible and getting everyone together. Um, I I received the I got the locations from Kathy Hannon, the
supervisor to the traffic department. And that's what we were working off of. So with everybody involved, I wish to thank Kathy Hannon, Paul Meyers, Eric Rubin, and my friend Ally for working on this with me. The crosswalks are beautiful now and much, much safer. on
behalf of all the crossing gods. Thank you. [applause] >> I'd like to thank Gina. Um if she didn't come and I guess find me and I didn't
sit down and listen to her, we wouldn't be here today. So really, it's teamwork. And I saw something in Gina. I was like, man, we could really do something. And we're here right now telling council.
I've never done anything like this either, [laughter] but uh it's funny how this is practice maybe. [clears throat] But um I have to say thank council long for making the
process feel smooth. you have such a strong relationship with Gina that uh when the going got rough, we just all of a sudden knew how to work together. So if if we didn't have clear communication
lines when I what was that two feet of snow and then and then another two feet of snow and polar vortex freezing the snow like so and then Paul I don't know how you
just like came out of nowhere and you're like don't worry guys [laughter] I'll fill the the gap. So, we really appreciate you coming in and being open having open communication lines during a extreme weather hazard.
Um, we all know you can't predict the weather unless it's like I don't know. It feels like it was unpredictable. But, um, today is about celebrating Gina and the other nominees.
Um, so Gina has exposed me to all these awesome crossing guards in our city. Um, we have gone and I have met with them and learned about what their daily lives
are when they're working, but I also know them as individuals now. How Yeah, that's Shauna. Um, uh, she was my buddy that I delivered a bucket to. We assigned Malden State Street members to a crossing guard. Um, so there's couple
schools we were closest with like Ferryway and BB. So we've started to create relationships um with individuals and Shauna is an amazing human and she was nominated right to us. >> Yes. >> It makes a lot of sense just like makes
a lot of sense why Gina was crossing guard of the year. the more I'm with her, the more I understand why she got such a large number of votes. Do you remember how many uh so we we cate we uh gather nominations. They're they're voluntarily submitted by members of the
community and I think in Gina's year I'm going to say it was 80 plus. Um but Alli's going to talk about four crossing guards from Malden who were uh just under the the um love and appreciation from members of your of your community nominated them. So it's we put out the
the uh notice that the nominations are being accepted, but you members of your comm community volunteer and step up and they do the lift of nominating. So Alli's got a list of of Yorking guards who um made it to Massachusetts safe routes to school number one to be
recognized and number two nominated for crossing guard of the year award. We don't make these decisions. Mass DOT makes these decisions in the end. Um but last year they picked Gina. So yeah, many nominations for Gina and many more this year again. >> Oh, for her still. I mean, I guess that
doesn't that still happens. I don't know. >> Unfortunately, you can't get nominations [laughter] for Maldin's Crossing Guards over the last few years. You're doing all the right things. >> Thank you. >> And the and these uh nomination process,
it's only existed for six years, right? So, it's a new new new award >> which uh as advocates we look to you as well and you're inspiring us to also hopefully host maybe like a a breakfast
uh where we nominate our own city focused uh crossing guards. So hopefully we can do that within the maybe by next year. But Tina's been telling me about other cities that are doing this. >> Sure. Do you want to go through the presentation? >> Yes, I will. Dude, sorry guys. I'm
really excited about showing everybody everything. Um, so this is the bridge to Tina, even though we've already started the conversation. Um, so this is an image where this like one image that happens around the whole city, the walk,
bike, and roll. But this is an example of Lynden's walk, bike, and roll. Um, and you see counselor Winslow on his W six area and um, Officer Evan Tukberry.
He's amazing. We work with him all the time. Um, and Tina's worked with him. Um, uh, Broadway where Shauna is is pretty dangerous. So, I mean, it's intense.
Uh so we need her there and that's why Tukberry is there too with the large group. Um so uh I'll let you take it from here. The rest of your slides are >> Oh, sure. Okay. Uh so I would say that in the world of Massachusetts safe roots
school, Malden is one of those communities that goes above and beyond in a number of different ways. As an example, this year the Lynden Steam Academy won the bike rack grant from the Massachusetts safe routes to school mass DOT bike r bike rack grant program. Say
that fast. Um, one of six communities in the state. Uh, just as a show of how you support walking and biking. This year also, uh, the Salem Wood School has three walking school bus maps that were created by Massachusetts Safe Roots to School that will be, I believe, unveiled
this May to promote walking in the community. One of the things that we look for at Massachusetts safe routes to school when we're when we're designing these walking school bus routes or really any walk to school route is we look for the placement of crossing guards because they offer such a huge
safety benefit for students. Uh and so Malden again is a wonderful community. There's more I could say about Malden. Um but what I would like to say is I'll be reaching out to your police department following this meeting just to share our Massachusetts safe roots to school crossing guard resources. So,
they're training materials that we have just redeveloped, re-released um an updated set of materials for municipalities across the state to make sure that crossing guards have good training. So, I'll be contacting um your police department to share those
resources with them. And then we spend a lot of time here at Mass Safe School in the city of Malden again because you're such a strong community for our program. So, these are just some images from around town. I believe I'm looking at one of those crosswalk corners where the snow is piled up right at the
intersection. Correct. >> Um this day it was what minus two degrees. Uh and then this is Gina last year. >> And these are the four crossing guards who've been nominated by individuals [clears throat] here in the city of
Malden. So families, some of these are students themselves. You get little kids who are putting in their nominations. So you have four crossing guards who are up for contention for crossing guard of the year award. And the last thing I'd like to say is at Mass Safe Roots to School, we really support policy change. So I
would like to just applaud the council for considering any policy change uh that benefits crossing guards and your snow removal process in the winters. This has been a challenging year across the state. Um but really kudos to you all for considering a policy change that benefits the safety of your students
walking to school. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. I'd like to say thank you to Council President Mandalahan for sponsoring us tonight and putting us on the agenda and seeing something special in this team.
>> You all are amazing. So, it's my pleasure. >> Thank you for your presentation. [applause] >> I do see some lights. I'm going to go first to Councelor Luong. >> Thank you. I just wanted to say that this was by far one of the easiest
projects to work on um just because Ally and Gina were just amazing and it was so much fun. on our Tuesday morning meetings that we had and councelor um President Lahan have come to a few and what was really wonderful is to see my
you know our conversations with um facilities director Eric Rubin and and DPW director Paul Meyers and just to get the wheels rolling and what and it was wonderful. Well, it was such a collaboration and no one person was a star and it was just what you can do to
get everybody together and everybody on one topic and egos aside and solve the problem and you know we see the result of that. So, thank you ladies. >> Thank you councelor Luong Councelor Ali. Whoop. Sorry, I just turned you on and
then off. Okay, you should be good now. >> Thank you. Thank you for the great presentation and for all your your great work making our community a little bit more safer when it comes to walking and other modes of transportation. Um I I did have a question. Is is there an interface between safe routes to school
uh and like the mass trails grant because I I know that there's if possible because I know that like one of the the the safest ways for for kids to commute to school is like you know not directly next to like high high speeded traffic. So I'm just wondering >> so when we develop walk to school routes
uh usually it is always at the invitation of a principal uh so the school reaches out to us when when we're contacted in that way we will look to trails as so you have the the northern strand trail uh here in Malden uh Salem Wood's a great example where we did actually put that on one of the walking
school bus routes in terms of grant applications when you're looking for infrastructure changes if mass dot through our program receives a grant where a mass trails grant funding may be more appropriate. Mass DOT will redirect. So there are some examples recently where uh an application came in
for one of our infrastructure grant programs, mass safe routes to school, and then once it moves forward to mass DOT, they redirect it to the mass trails grant funding program for to to move forward. So I think that's probably the best example, the two ways in which it we interact with that program.
>> Awesome. And then just as a followup, you said it's principles. Is it possible for it to be do done districtwide by a superintendent? Yes. And I've been in contact with your superintendent about different program activities. It ends up being, you know, it's their jobs are very full and it can be a capacity
bandwidth issue. Um, but I would say Malden principles are quite active and your superintendent as well. >> If there's any followup, I'm happy to reach out with a with a comment from council members. Um, but we are in very good communication with your superintendent and your principles. And
I appreciated your your plug for policy changes that can make um you know crossing guard jobs easier and and and uh how we take care of it in the winter. Would you be able to maybe share some best policy practices with the council? Maybe you could do it now if you want to, but to not put you on the spot,
maybe we can we can filter it through the the appropriate staff. It would just be great to know what we can do and what other communities have done that has been effective. I actually hear that you already do one of the greatest things which is to give them the reflective gloves in cold weather. So the highly reflective yellow gloves because when
you're putting your hand up to have that high visibility. That's a great one. But yeah, how about I follow up with an email after with some materials. >> Perfect. Thank you so much. >> That would be great. Thank you. >> Okay, next I'm going to go to councelor Cologne Hayes. >> Oh, thank you. I just wanted to say
thank you and that it was a joy. That was probably one of the most fun um presentations I've seen [laughter] and you know know I know all of you and just your work and what you do in this community and your energy was contagious
and that's it's so easy to see why this went smooth. So just thank you so much and I know this is not the last time we're going to see you all. So thank you so much for everything you did. >> Thank you councelor Colon Hayes. Counselor Winslow. >> Yeah. No, thank you for coming out
tonight. I I know this is something that I've been working on a long long time and it's good to see that little little by little, you know, crosswalk by crosswalk crossing by by crossing guard, we're making progress and you know, our um complete streets policies, our focus
on safe routs. It's it's I mean and and really engaging with parents. I encourage any parents watching to that's actually a really key component to um getting this all to happen because ultimately it's parents who who uh make that choice to have their kids walk to
school and one of the biggest causes of congestion in communities if it's not safe for you to have your child walk to school for whatever reason. People go in cars. So um so having you know the fact that our city dedicates funds to 48
crossing guards is fantastic. But then um you know working and hearing from you all to see what support to make it even safer. I know like for Lyndon we got an an extra crossing guard and we got you know we worked with the traffic commission to get other signage. So it's
just great. That's the type of we we need you out there but then we also need to uh show up for you to make sure that you have every resource you need to make things safer. So so it's great to see this partnership growing and that. So thank you so much. Great. Thank you,
Councelor Winsow. Um, do we want to try to get councelor McDonald and see if we can >> disconnected the computer? >> Can you hear me? >> Oh, we can. Fantastic. Council McDonald, you have the floor. >> Wonderful. Thank you so much, Council President. Um, thank you, Gina. Thank
you, Ally. Uh, and thank you, Tina. It's um I'm sorry I'm not there to see you. Um, I am happy to add my thanks and and congratulations to this really good community partnership and just want to emphasize that um, this is a key part of trying to make sure it's even just like
safe and possible for our families to walk to school and we had some pretty serious um, accessibility barriers this year. And so I'm really glad that this collaboration helped get us through that. and just want to uh hope ask us all to commit to trying to follow up
with the DPW, with safe streets, with our crossing guards, with the traffic division um of MPD next year to make sure that we have a really good proactive plan that we are supporting to make sure that that um that this good collaboration continues and moves forward because uh this has been this
has been such a a grassroots um approach and I think we just want to be the um you know the wind in in those sales as much as we can. And I think it's made a huge impact for just the day-to-day lives of our parents and uh students and families walking to and from school
because we have the support for our crossing guards to make sure they have safe crossings in winter weather. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Councelor McDonald. Next, I'm going to go to Councelor Crow. >> Thank you, Madam President. I just want to say again, thank you. And so, I did have a question. So when you were when
you were doing this project, is there anything written when you evaluated sort of the 48 you know crossing guards? So because you know besides the snow sometimes you see do a egregious behavior that the crossing guides are kind of put into just because of um kind
of think I I I did see like online um um that mass sorry Malden Safe Streets had had some other data about crash data that someone had put together and I think that's really informational and um it helps us put a put our resources to
where we really need I mean I know they all need it but um to some of the most egregious things to make sure it's safer for you and safer for the kids. >> So, there's a lot of things that cars will do, even if we're standing out there with our stop signs up. I've had a
car roll right up under my arm so far that my stop sign hit the windshield [clears throat] and he yelled at me for hitting his car even though I have kids crossing in the crosswalk and they keep creeping right up behind your legs. So there's a lot with um we don't have enough for
enforcement for people to because of the crosswalk violations. There's a ton of them. We do the best we can, but with the communication with the kids, they trust us because we've been there for so long and we're there in every single kind of weather. So they know that we'll be there that day and if the parents can't walk them to school, they know
that we're going to be there and we're responsible enough. >> Exactly. >> And I tell like the parents, you had them, but we love them, you know, so we're going to look out for them like they were our own kids anyway. But uh unfortunately we we're not allowed to write tickets or anything like that. Um for the people that park in the
crosswalks won't move. You ask them to move and they swear and yell at you or they're I rateate because they had to sit a little longer in traffic. And I explained that we don't live on an island. You're allowed to go any other way you want. But for 15 minutes out of the hour that we're in there in the
morning or afternoon, it is crazy. >> It's very chaotic, right? >> But we manage it. we, you know, tune out the negativity and just make sure the kids wait for us until we tell them to go. Unfortunately, also accidents aren't always reported. So, some of the reports
that come in for crash reports, there are more. There are a lot more, >> of course. >> You know, so it's tough to track. >> No, I I agree. So, I just Thank you. I appreciate that. I do think of some of the policy things and sort of things that we can do to help support
>> um the crossing guides would be important. >> Any help we can get would be great because >> you have to like to do this because you can't do it if you don't like it. [laughter] >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um so the Malden Safe Streets maps that
we made um when we were creating them we were trying to think like you're saying there's probably going to be notes. So in addition to just like knowing where the locations are. Um so we created that section for Paul and his um team to use.
But uh your suggestion is a good one. Um and our team is very data. They love data. So this might be something that we could do. So thank you for suggesting. >> Thank you. >> Thank you councelor Crow. Counselor
Condan. >> Thank you. uh council president. Um the crossing guards to me really don't get the recognition that they deserve. So I'm glad you decided to come up here to the city council meeting and and I'm
sure the parents appreciate you very much. You know, to see you out there in the cold weather and the snow. Uh it's greatly appreciated. You're the young sun heroes of the city. Thank you, Councelor Condan. And I see
counselor Winslow. >> No, I just while we have you here, there's the walk to school day coming up on May 6th. Do you want to say something on that quickly or just uh I just >> I would love to have a plug for that. >> Yeah. >> Well, I was going to say this is what we were hoping and I'm glad you reminded
us. >> So, Massachusetts safe school has three flagship days. October, uh February and May. Malden are your schools are very active participants. So yes, the first Wednesday in May is walk, bike, roll to
school day. You can celebrate it big or small. We're here to support in any way possible. So if a school, a PTO, the staff, whomever, families are interested. We have all sorts of incentive materials to give out to make it a very fun day to celebrate. We not only want to celebrate the students who
already do walk, bike, and roll to school, but we also want to show to other students by having them come on that one flagship day that it's something that is doable. It is enjoyable and you can do it with all of your friends. So, it's a great day to celebrate. And thank you, Council Winsow, for bringing that up.
>> And maybe about Saturday, about bike helmets, maybe. [laughter] Okay. >> Okay, I can put your light back on for that. [clears throat] Saturday is the Malden Green Fair at Pine Park. And so through the YWCA, we'd be giving out about 350 bike helmets
free. So come on, anybody come on by, get some bike helmets so you can safely ride your bike to school. >> That's great. Thank you both for mentioning that. Um well, I seeing no other lights, I will just say from the chair and as a ward counselor, um this has been really inspiring to see as a as
a project. I felt very fortunate to be invited to your planning breakfasts and thank you for making those after school drop offs so that everybody could be there. Um, joking aside though, I often say that as a ward counselor, the cross and guards are really are our eyeballs
on the street. And I would echo what everybody else has said about um, both not getting enough credit for how hard the job is and needing to listen more to what those folks are telling us because I think, you know, BB alone, I thought I knew how many crossing guards we had,
but when I saw the number and the data on the map, I had no idea it was actually that many people. And I'm down there every day. I've been down there every day for 9 years. I I mean, we used to go and and shovel some of these because there just aren't enough people. It's, you know, there's best intentions,
but when you get a storm like we had this winter, parents have to get out there and pitch in. And so I I saw firsthand how bad the problem was despite everybody trying to do their best. And then I would get the complaints from the crossing guards as a counselor as well about gosh, you know, the buttons, the mounds of snow get
piled. The kids can't reach the button. We're doing our best, but we need more support from the city. So seeing everybody come together and then seeing the power of an advocacy organization like this coming in and bringing their resources to bear, it really just shows the power of you listen to your cross
and guards, you bring in the resources of volunteers from the community and like look what you can get done. Um, so I just want to really underscore those points because I think it's been an amazing partnership to watch develop and I really want to applaud the city staff that have rose to the occasion too
because these are folks that didn't know each other before this started and Paul's new in their position and Eric, you know, these are all folks that just met this winter basically and all work together. These maps are being deployed in trucks when the storms happen. Um, and they're literally sitting there like
a little checklist and we make sure that, you know, the plowing doesn't just stop at the school yard and the shoveling doesn't just stop at where the curb meets the sidewalk. So, it's little things like that that to Councelor Winslow's point, when parents get up and are making the decision whether to drive
or let their kid walk, you know, if we know that the curb is going to be fully um cleared, that decision to walk gets a lot easier. And I do I know a lot of kids, my own included, they want to walk. They want to be independent. And I think as parents, you know, Gina, you
hit the nail on the head. I'll say to my daughter, "Go, if you're going to go home today, it's probably safer to walk up to where Bill is or to where Diane is." I don't even say the road name. I say the crossing guard name because they're so close to them that they know how to get home based on that adult that
they know is going to get them safely across that big road. Um, so just thank you so much for this. This is going to be a game changer. I think I hope we don't have another winter like we had and we have to contend with that amount of snow, but I feel that if we do, um, this is going to be just going to be a
tremendous difference. So, thank you so much. Thank you for presenting and I can't wait to see what else you're able to get done. Thank you for being here. [applause] Okay, next order of business. Next order of business is public comment. Public comment is allowed under
council rules. Each speaker is limited to subject matter relevant to the evening's agenda and must keep their comments to two minutes or less. Clerk, do we have anyone signed up for public comment or have sent emails tonight? >> We do not. >> Okay. Seeing no public comment, we'll move on to our next uh uh item on the
agenda, which is the consent agenda. This evening's consent agenda consists of meeting minutes to be approved, one appointment to be placed on file, and six petitions to be referred to the license committee. Does any counselor have a desire to remove any of these items from the consent agenda for the
purpose of further discussion? I see one light from councelor Ali. >> I was going to ask actually if we could take a picture if possible. >> Oh, I love that idea. Yeah, let's take a quick recess so we can take a photo. Great idea. >> Thank you. >> Take a pause on the consent agenda.
>> Consent agenda. It's on the consent agenda. [laughter] Glory to God. It's terrible. Thank you. >> Oh, really? I talked to I think it's an issue they know about Okay. Do we have a motion on the consent
agenda? >> Motion. >> Motion made by councelor Crow, seconded by councelor Condan. We do need to do a roll call. >> Council clone Hayes. >> Yes. >> Council Condan. >> Yes. >> Council Crow. >> Yes. >> Council Lewan. >> Yes.
>> Council McDonald. >> Yes. >> Council Ali. Yes. >> Council Sea. Yes. Council Simmonelli >> stepped out. >> Oh, that's okay. >> Council Taylor, >> yes. >> Council Winslow, >> yes. >> Council President Lan, >> yes.
>> Okay. Consent agenda has been passed by a vote of 10 to zero. >> Okay. Next order of business. >> Paper 224-26, mayoral paper 224-26, mayoral reappoint, John P. King of 67 Uppam Street, Malden,
as a member of the board of appeal, having served since 2000. Said term to commence upon confirmation by the city council and expire May 1st, 2029. >> Okay. Councelor Crowe for the committee. >> Thank you, Madam President. So, as been
in the past that our mayoral reappoints, we have voted on the floor. Um we did have um a sort of a policy [snorts] that if they've been serving for more than 20 years, we would bring them in. But we did have John King in the last time he was reappointed. So I make a motion that
we approve John King >> um as a member of the board of appeals. >> Second. >> Okay. On a motion by Councelor Crow, seconded by Councelor Sika, we will call the role. Council Clone Hayes, >> yes. >> Council Condan, yes. >> Council Crow, >> yes. >> Council Lewong, >> yes. >> Council McDonald,
>> yes. Council Omali, >> yes. >> Council Sega, yes. Council Simmonelli. >> Council Taylor, yes. Council Winsow, yes. >> Council President Lahan, >> yes. >> Okay, that has been uh confirmed. >> That is appointment. >> Confirmed. Next order of business. >> Paper 225-26,
mayoral reappoint. William Hurley of 67 Kimble Street, Malden, as the labor member of the Malden Housing Authority Board, having served since 2020, said term to commence upon confirmation by the city council and expire May 2nd, 2031.
>> Councelor Kra, I make a motion that we appoint reappoint William Hurley as the labor member of the housing authority board. >> Okay. Okay. On a motion by councelor Crowe, seconded by councelor Simonelli, we will call the role.
>> Council clone Hayes. Council Condan. >> Yes. >> Council Crow, yes. >> Council Lewong, >> yes. >> Council McDonald, >> yes. >> Council Ali, >> Council Seika, yes. >> Council Simonelli, Council Taylor, >> yes. >> Council Winslow, yes. >> Council President Lahan, >> yes.
>> That confirmation has been confirmed by unanimous vote 11 to zero. >> Okay. Next order of business. Paper 226-26. Communication. The Community Preservation Committee. Appropriation orders for seven different projects and programs have been sent by the mayor's
office directly to the finance committee to avoid delays on the city council's review and approval thereof. All seven orders will come back before the full council with recommendations for a final vote after review by the finance committee. This is just a notification because
instead of having it come to the council first and losing this Tuesday night to be able to meet on that, it went to committee first, right? And it will be coming back before us in the appropriate manner. >> Okay. So, I actually stepped out for the end of finance. So, I apologize. I didn't know if we were sending it back
tonight or in in the future >> on next >> on the next agenda. Okay. So, we need to take the a roll call to place this on file. >> Motion. Okay. So, on a mo I don't know if we need a motion. Do we need a motion on that or do we need >> just to place it on file?
>> Just to place it on file. Okay. So, on a motion by councelor Winsow, seconded by councelor Simmonelli, >> the clerk will call the role. >> Council clone Hayes. Yes. >> Council Condan, >> yes. >> Council Crowe, >> yes. >> Council Lew Wong, >> yes. >> Council McDonald, >> yes. >> Council Ali, Council Sea,
>> yes. >> Council Simonelli, >> Council Taylor, >> yes. >> Council Winslow, yes. Council President Lahan, >> yes. >> Okay. So by unanimous vote that paper has been placed on file. >> Okay, that's placed on file. Next order of business, >> paper 227-26, committee report, the standing committee
on license to whom was referred papers 165 through 169 and 186 through 195 series of 2026 having considered the same. Make the following report. Committee recommends these petitions out favorably to the full council.
>> Okay. On a motion by councelor SEA, seconded by councelor Taylor to receive the committee report. We will call the role. >> Council Cologne Hayes, yes. >> Council Condan, yes. >> Council Crow, >> Council Lewong, yes. >> Council McDonald, >> yes. >> Council Ali,
>> Council Sega, >> yes. >> Council Simmonelli, >> yes. >> Council Taylor, >> yes. >> Council Winslow, yes. >> Council President Lahan, >> yes. >> Okay, received. >> Okay. Will the clerk please read the papers? Do you want to read them all so we don't have to >> How would you like to handle this? >> Read them all.
>> Read them all at once. Okay. >> Because then if not, you're going to be taking several different roll call. So read them all. We'll take one roll call vote. >> Okay. So we're going to read all of the petitions and then take one roll call vote at the end. >> All of them. You'll speak after. Okay, that sounds fine.
>> Petition 165-26, extended hours, Maya Donuts LLC, DBA Duncan, 200 Commercial Street, 7 hours, 7 days a week. hours 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Renewal paper 166-26 extended hours CMBB Maderos
Incorporated DBA Duncan 57 Eastern Avenue 7 days a week 24 hours renewal paper 167-26 extended hours Aries and Helena Donuts Incorporated DBA Duncan 424 Main Street hours 7 days a week 5:00
a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Renewal paper 168-26 exterior vending machine Rocky Mountain Springwater Company 1 Welsley Street Mold and Renewal Paper 169-26 petition for taxi driver Ronald C. McCrae, 11 Tower Street, apartment 3,
Boston renewal. Paper 186-26, Amusement Machines, KDton Incorporated, 423 Main Street, Malden, three machines renewal. Paper 187-26, Class 2, John McMillan, DBA, McMillan Automotive, 388 Eastern Avenue, 15 cars renewal. Paper 188-26,
Lodging House, Top Tier Properties, LLC, DBA, Sir Carlton, LLC, 33 Maple Street, 44 Rums renewal. Paper 189-26 outdoor parking Robert McNeli 28 Cedar Street 12 spaces renewal. Paper 1 190-26 pool
table Tables Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge 1910 562 Broadway two tables renewal paper 191-26 Pond Broker Golden Diamonds etc incorporated 27- 29 Pleasant Street renewal
paper 92-26hand dealer Golden Diamonds etc incorporated 27-29 Pleasant Street renewal paper 193-26 selfservice gas station Gibbs Oil Company LP 728 Main Street Mold and
Renewal Paper 194-26 Self-Service Gas Station SnapMart Incorporated 245 Main Street Renewal Paper 195-26 Taxi Driver James Flan 5 Island Hill Avenue apartment 212 renewal.
Thank you to the clerk councelor Seika for these petitions. Thank you council president. So these are various licenses that need to be renewed every year. Um for paracity ordinance we met I think it was last week for license and um we have
the compliance guys in they're all renewals none of them are new there were no issues with the police department or any other issues so the committee voted to recommend all of them out favorably. So a motion to grant the petitions. >> Okay a motion by councelor seea seconded
by councelor cologne Hayes. We will call the role to grant. Council Cologne Hayes, yes. >> Council Condan, >> yes. >> Council Crowe, >> yes. >> Council Lewong, >> yes. >> Council McDonald, >> yes. >> Council Ali, >> yes. >> Council Sega, >> yes. >> Council Simmonelli,
>> Council Taylor, >> yes. >> Council Winslow, >> yes. >> Council President Lahan, >> yes. >> Okay, so all of those petitions were granted unanimously. >> Those are granted. Okay, next order of business. >> That would be your docket. >> Okay, the docket is clear. Would anyone like personal privilege? I see councelor
Seika first. Thank you, council president. Um, I just want to remind everybody that the annual fish and derby is coming up in a few weeks. It's Saturday, May 16th at 9:00 a.m. You can go on to Facebook or to the Malden Recck
Department to sign up um to register for that event. And this past Saturday, we had um our Earth Day cleanup day in Ward 8. Uh, this was probably the first year that as I was driving around with the DPW, I actually saw people cleaning
their sidewalks. It was amazing. I've never It happened a long time ago and it kind of fell off over the years, but it was so nice. People were planting tulips in their tree boxes in front of their house. They were sweeping the um sidewalks. I don't know if it was cuz
the, you know, amounts of snow we had this year or um what, but the people were were super engaged for the first time in a long time. So, it was really nice to see and I just wanted to give, you know, my W 8 residents a little shout out for that because I think I I'm
driving, you know, these past couple days and it's amazing what just a few hours of picking up some litter and trash on the side of the road can do. It it really looks great down in W8. So, I just want to thank everybody who participated in it this past Saturday.
Thank you. And to the DPW for all their hard work on a day um that they was supposed to be off. So, thank you. >> That's great. Thank you, Councelor Winslow. >> Yeah. No, um in that spirit, um I want to thank the Columbia Street neighbors um to to helping lower Columbia Street
to clean up a couple weekends ago. And then today, um on the bike trail near the bike kitchen from Ferry Street down to Everett. Um, National Grid had 41 employees out there today helping clean up and Bike to the Sea helped coordinate. So that so that was great.
And just reminder um well today's Earth Day technically. So u but coming up this weekend there's a lot of Earth Day related events but um one thing in particular at public at DPW there is a hazardous uh waste drop off you can do
for I think it's from 9 to to 1. So, you can bring down paint and uh motor oil and that type of thing that you can't normally put um you know in your trash. So, um you can bring that down. I believe there's some fees, but you can look at the DPW website to get that information, but that's uh I'll be
getting some paint. I found some paint from the old NHD hardware from about 30 years ago. So, [laughter] so there's some stuff maybe in your basement to get rid of. So, thanks. Great. >> Thank you, Councelor Winslow. Councelor Taylor. >> Thank you very much, Council President.
So, um, this weekend is the big weekend for the yard sale. On Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., uh, there are 32 locations across Malden that will have yard sales. If you go to u malden ward 5.com and go to the calendar, you will
see a map um, with also a breakdown of what is being sold at various locations so you can kind of plan your your shopping spree. Um, and I will say Webster Street um has one, two, three, four houses participating and one of
them will have a bake sale. >> Um, so the there will be a um the Forestdale school is the only school that was able to participate. So there'll be a lot of people there and um in case you want to start off with
coffee, uh the traveling a coffee will be there. So get your coffee in the morning, 8 to 1, and then 8 to 2, you can shop all over Malden. So that's great. Yeah. And just to remind folks, so there was going to be a BB location, but if you had heard me say a few weeks
ago to come to the BB school, we've moved all those folks to Forestdale. So just want to underline that piece. Um, but that means there's going to be a lot of places to shop at Forestdale. So that's a great one-stop shopping if you want to check out Councelor Taylor.
There are 11 at so there's 32 locations and 11 additional that will be just at the Forestdale school. So uh North Reading has been doing this for years and I believe they get 100 total. So for us to stop start off our first year citywide with almost 50 people
participating. Um >> amazing. >> It's admirable and all thanks to Marlene who really put this all together. >> Fantastic. Okay, I'm going to go to Councelor McDonald on teams. If you want to unmute, you can have the floor. >> Thank you so much, Council President.
Uh, can't wait to see you all at the yard sale this weekend. So, Saturday is also our Green Malden Fair and that starts at 12 and goes to 3. It is at the fieldhouse at Pine Banks Park, uh, as it's been in the past. So, you go in the
fieldside entrance and just keep winding around. Um, but this is the I think the fourth year in a row that we've done this and it's just an awesome opportunity to learn about all the ways you can be a part of climate action and environmental work in the city. Everything from composting um to clean
energy usage through Malden Community Electricity, our community groups like the Mystic River Wershed Association, uh, Bike to the Sea, Friends of Felsmere Heights. Um, there'll be a food truck and you can drop off some recycling items. They will be receiving styrofoam,
latex paint, electronics, school and office supplies, textiles, and uh there will be a document shredder truck. So, all of those are free to use. Uh come check it out. And on a perhaps
less sunny note, I do want to make sure that we share in this meeting that our city budget process is going to be starting a little earlier than usual this year because we know there's going to be a lot of need for conversation. We did talk about this in the finance committee next week. So, you'll have a
full draft schedule by uh next week's meeting. Um but we do expect the order from the mayor to be introduced first next week uh and to have um finance meetings most nights through the approval of the budget uh in June. And
um we may need to add some additional nights because we want to make sure that we have a chance to talk with every department um about how the the cuts that you'll see in this budget will be impacting their work. Um, so again, we'll have a draft schedule next week, but I want to let the community know
that we are going to be starting our conversations about next year's budget proposal from the mayor um, starting next week. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you, Councelor McDonald. Councelor Colon Hayes. >> Thank you very much. Um, all this talk
about spring reminded me to let people know that um, Fuji will be having their annual plant swap. Um, it's going to be at Quartermale Park on Saturday, May 2nd from 10:30 to 12:30. Um, Fuji's been
around for over 15 years. Actually, I think we're going on our 20th year. Um, yeah, it's crazy. So, we've been doing these plant swaps for lots of years, but it's been um collaborating with other groups in the past few years has been fantastic. So Malden Grows um is
partnering and also Malden Pride and it's it's just growing and we do one in the spring and one in the fall. And I definitely want to thank um the the Fuji president um Moren Camarado because it's very hard to keep groups going like that
for a long time. So she's been our president since I think in COVID and really took us a long way. There's Eden Gearhart Smith, um Katie Frier, uh Patrick Hayes, and I said Moren Camarado. Okay, so just wanted to make sure that um I give them a thank you
because as everybody knows, it's really hard to keep coalitions and community groups going. So, it's kind of fantastic. We're going to be um celebrating our 20th anniversary this year. So, thank you. That's great. Congrats. And bring your So, the plant swap, just um quickly, is you bring it's free. You bring a plant from your yard.
You don't even have to bring a plant from your yard. and show up at quarterly. There's lots of extras there and you take plants home. If anyone has ever been in my garden backyard, that's all been from plant swaps over the years because they're native plants, so they really take to your garden. So, show up.
Thanks. That's great. Great. Thank you, um, Councelor Ali. >> Thank you. I just wanted to let everyone know that we had our annual cleanup at Weights Mount as I've been announcing the last couple weeks. And I would like to thank Haley Tag Leanti for donating a tree in memory of Joe Pul Siloski, an
active member of the Malden Run Club who unfortunately passed away. Um, I also like to do a great shout out and thank you to Darren Josie of the great Malden Outdoors who has been helping with the annual cleanups um and helps bring out more people and volunteers to our parks,
not just for recreation but also for stewardship. And so I really appreciate the the collaboration when it comes to that. Um, a couple other things that are going on in the community. Um, May 1st is the Malden High School Alumni Association um, annual event and dinner.
Um, and that's at 6:00 p.m. And and then, uh, May 2nd is the, I believe, Malden Community Coalition uh, volunteer fair at 2 p.m. at the Y MCA. Thank you. >> Okay. Seeing no other lights from the
chair. Just briefly, um this Saturday, there's a lot going on, but we're going to be doing an Earth Day cleanup also in Ward 3, I have a couple of volunteers who are leading, um three different locations. Uh one of them, the first one starting at 9:00 a.m. is going to be the Malden Lions, thanks to Michelle Luong
and so many of her Malden Lions members. Um so if you're interested in participating in the cleanup at Felsmere Pond, that's going to be from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. There's going to be two other groups in the Middle Sex Fels area. So, there's going to be one group meeting up at 10:00 a.m. and going until
about noon. The meetup point is Flynn Rink, which is technically in Medford, but is right over the Malden line. That's just going to be where they're meeting to get everybody sorted out. And then they're going to be walking back into Malden from there. So, that's 10 to noon. And then from noon to 2, there's going to be a third group meeting at the
top of Woodland Road at East Border, which is also near a trail head to the Fels. Um they're going to be doing a cleanup on kind of the other side of the Fels area and they are going to be read u led by my resident volunteer Katherine Tarka who's been pulling together
different groups to do community cleanups and we're kind of partnering this year to get the word out. Um special thanks to the DPW for providing all the supplies. I'm not actually going to be able to be on site because I'm helping at the yard sale. So um this kind of came together organically from the community. I'm thrilled to have the
help from these two groups. So, I did do a post today across all my social media platforms. If you want to um go check that out, there's two flyers for the two different groups of meetups, but um great opportunity if you have a teen that needs volunteer hours as well. Um I or any of the other coordinators can
sign those forms either by paper or digitally. So, just follow up. If you have a teenager that comes and helps out, um hope for good weather and would love to see people in W 3 on Saturday. So, with that, um it is 8:15 and I would love a motion to adjurnn. Motion.
>> Motion by councelor Sika. Seconded by councelor Taylor. We will take a roll call to adjurnn. >> Council clone Hayes. >> Yes. >> Council Condan. >> Yes. >> Council Crow. >> Yes. >> Council Lewong. >> Yes. >> Council McDonald.
>> Yes. >> Council Ali. >> Council. >> Council. >> Yeah. 3:00. >> Council. >> Yes. Sorry. >> You're Sika, right? >> I'm SA. >> Sorry. You said yes. Would you like to adjurnn? >> Yes. Okay. Council Simmonelli.
>> Okay. He's already adjourned. Councelor Taylor. >> Yes. >> Councel Winslow. Yes. >> Council President Lahan. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, we are adjourned at 8:16 p.m. >> Okay. >> My apologies. >> Good night, everyone. >> I think it's 3 to 7. on Sunday.
>> And then Monday morning