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Part 1 (Video ID: B8M1fM7MtYE):
- 00:00:45: Initial Preparations and Waiting for Late Arrivals
- 00:07:29: Finalizing Presentation Order and Mic Testing
- 00:17:10: City Council Meeting Commences, Pledge of Allegiance
- 00:34:26: Malden High Students Present Water Safety Project
- 00:47:23: Councilor Comments and Questions on Student Presentations
- 00:55:34: Moving to Consent Agenda, Meeting Minutes Discussion
- 00:58:25: Fiscal Year Appropriation Orders and Data Centers Zoning
- 01:02:11: Open Meeting Law Complaint and Committee Reports
- 01:11:54: Director of Public Works Appointment and Confirmation
- 01:14:05: Discussion and Resolution of Specific Petition Details
- 01:17:45: Personal Privilege, Upcoming Events, Adjournment


Part: 1

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Okay, so waste toxic land mine. Okay. All right. How's my battery doing? Oh, yeah. Plenty. Is that Maru on the way? Uh she should be. She said she'd be here.

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What time is Mesa due? Mesa is trying to find his way from the parking lot. Well, that's a nice thing for them to walk into. That's awesome. All right, just stay here. That's fine.

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Oh yes. And that's Caroline and John if you talked to them. Yep. The worker >> Uh Harris talked to lead and climate. And

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maybe wasted some food, but I think mostly this too. Wow, fire was was quite large, I think. You had that? Mhm? Cuz my name was starting with a C. It was just for cash.

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It's a whisper's what's the order of uh the uh waste toxins, lead climate Oh yeah. Do you want to get a mom? You want to get her mom? Sure. Yeah. Yeah, why don't you get her mom?

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We can we can we can also move. Yeah. Exactly. Do you want to just decide to do that now? We need to move the mom first. Do the Korea has taken on so much that it's like oh If we if we get Let's see. If if Evan

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doesn't stop in the next 2 minutes. All right, I'm going to go outside and see if I can find Evan or NASA or anybody else who's lost. Also, I don't think I'm going to have any energy. >> I know she is. But she's coming late. Which one is your slide though?

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Is this one? Yeah. And this one too? Yes. Okay. So this like this? Yes. Okay. And then Wait, can you go back to it? And then we're going to go third. What happened?

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So this is just a mic. So just make sure that when you're speaking you angle it right towards you. Um here, try saying your your name into that really quick. Mike. All right, cool. Mike. That's pretty clear. Awesome. But you if you were turning to me, it

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wouldn't pick up on you as well. So just make sure that you turn you speak a little bit towards the mic when you speak. Okay. Make sense? Mhm. Cool. All right, so light is going to go second. What was that? Wait, what was the original order? You were third. We're going to go third

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cuz Emma's going to be late. So Are you okay with going second? Hey, what's up, producers? How you doing, man? I'm good, bro. Huh? Are you ready? Huh? Am I ready? Are you ready? I'm sorry. I was born ready, bro. What are you doing? What are you doing, man? I have to do

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the thing for the waste cuz there's only one person coming. All right. Amazing. Okay, cool. Order okay? Yeah. So two years group Light second and then

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waste and then climate last. Okay. Sounds good. All right, let's Sounds good. have this here. Wait, are they going last? Toxic, new order. Toxic waste

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Do you want to give Who's in two and three? I was first, waste Just a little bit. >> What did you hear from Emma? She said she'll be late. She'll be Did she say how late? She said she'll be here right around

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after the company finishes. That's what she said. Okay, let's let's do that then. Let's move climate up. Climate up? Why would we climate up? Because she's got the recording also on your phone. Do you have it? No. Oh.

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Yeah, yeah, but like I mean, I just figured I could just read it instead of the voice recording. Cuz I'm an assistant here, right? Did you get the voice recording? No. Should we just Do you want the voice recorder or you want me to read it? I

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I think reading is not great. I think we I think yeah, I think let's let's We'll put Emma >> Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Mhm. >> The council will come to order. Can you even hear that? That seemed

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really quiet. All rise and salute the flag. Oh, there it is. Okay. Okay, thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,

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>> [snorts] >> That's okay. Please remain standing for a moment of silence in honor of our veteran service members and those who have given the ultimate sacrifice. We honor and acknowledge the Massachusetts, Pennacook, and Pawtucket peoples whose ancestral lands we now call home and on which we gather today.

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We express gratitude to the indigenous peoples who have cared for this land for generations predating European colonization and continuing to the present. Moving forward, we are committed to ensuring that the histories, voices, and contributions of indigenous peoples are recognized and

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respected in the life of our city. Clerk, will you please call the roll? Councilor Colon Hayes, Councilor Condon, Councilor Crowe, Councilor Wong, Councilor McDonald, Councilor O'Malley, Councilor Seka, Councilor Simonelli,

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Councilor Taylor, Councilor Winslow, Council President Linehan. Here. In this case, we have nine. Okay, we have nine tonight. 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 meetings. So, do be aware that there

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will be audio and video recordings of tonight's meeting. Is there anyone else present tonight who's recording in addition to UMA? Okay, thank you. One gentleman has identified themselves. Next, on to our first order of business.

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Student representatives from Malden High School's after school development program, in conjunction with Clean Water Action, will appear before the council to present their project on water safety. Okay, please welcome yourselves to the podium and please introduce yourselves. Thank you so much and welcome.

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Um, good evening. My name is Kadus Tega and I'm one of the alumni supports. My name is Adrian Aguilar. I am also one of the alumni supports at YIC. Um, Youth Action Collaborative is a year-long after-school program hosted by the Clean Water Fund and co-facilitated

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by one of Malden High School's beloved environmental science teachers, Ms. Kathleen Maglio. Um, we meet once a week and we learn about different climate issues and connect with different climate activists in our community. And best of all, we work on um, local city

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campaigns um, and equip ourselves with the skills that are vital and necessary for our future. And so now I'll pass it on to Taliyah and the Toxics team um, to present on their presentation. Hello everyone. My name is Taliyah Latorre. I am an alumni support of the

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Youth Action Collaborative and today I'm going to be repre- I'm going to be representing the Toxics team. They unfortunately were not here to they were not able to make it today. So I do have a recording of them um, presenting what they have prepared for you all.

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Hello everyone. My name is Tenzin and I'm a junior at Malden High School with Delmi and Kayla. We will be telling you about our research on PFAS. PFAS is a dangerous chemical that is found in all our bodies. It is known as a forever chemical because it cannot be broken down.

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Malden is a city built on community and the families that support it. But it's difficult for people to support others when their own immune system is a strong. PFAS has several major effects on a person's health ranging from organ damage to neurological disorders to

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extreme diseases such as cancer. It is most unfortunate that it can be found in most common liquid, tap water. Though we praise the city of Malden for having a a nearly non-existent level of PFAS in our water supplies, companies are still allowed to distribute

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PFAS-contaminated household products such as self-care products, nonstick items, and children's toys. In hopes of educating the community on the dangers of PFAS, our group has gone through a few obstacles. Our first idea was to partner up with the CHA Health Alliance in the high

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school to get free PFAS testing for students. However, not only would we need a grant that exceeds this program, but we'd also need to consider whose insurance supports the testing for free, considering that they could cost hundreds of dollars. We later learned that the firefighters' gear, foam and

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foam, had PFAS in it. But the idea to create a petition to end the purchase of these uniforms died soon after we learned that there had already been an active effort to remove the gear from five stations by 2027. By the second week of our planning, we finally landed on a donor the donating

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idea and created a postcard that you now see on the screen. With these cards, we were able to gather a few signatures for our petition regarding our demands that PFAS has been removed from kids' toys. Okay. So, I do have the um a copy of the

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um postcard that they have made and I will share it with you all. Watch your step. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So, on the postcard that I have shared with you all, um there is a QR code on the backside.

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It's under the take action and we ask that for the youth we would really ask for you all to sign the petition which is found through this QR code. It is through the toxic free kids, a state wide ban on PFAS in children's

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products by signing this petition. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Hello, thank you all. We are the lead team of YEC and my name is Angela and I am an alumni support.

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Hi, my name is Mike. And my name is Wedley. My lead family are still Oh, My lead family are still at risk of exposure. Lead exposure is affecting pregnant women and children the most. We are happy to heard about the grant

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for lead replacement, but there are still more work to do. And we have a member that wasn't able to make it today, but we have a recording of her part. My name is Neha and I am a part of the YEC alumni group.

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Starting in 2024, the YEC lead group at the time wanted to find a way to help protect residents, especially renters and other vulnerable and marginalized groups from lead poisoning. After learning about the grants, we wanted to do something to help vulnerable people to learn about about

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the ability for the city to pay for lead pipe replacement. We designed this flyer and began to plan to distribute it in areas with lead service lines by door knocking. We're proud of the final product, but before using it, we learned that there had already been some flying and door

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knocking in Malden on this issue and that we wanted to better collaborate to make sure that we were not working at cross purposes to other efforts and confuse people in the process. So then we decided to take new approaches. We knew we wanted to target rented homes since residents aren't

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directly in control of their own plumbing and pipes and because some landlords may be difficult to contact due to them not residing in or around Malden. Um so we thought about making a registry of buildings and landlords that still

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haven't had um lead service line replacements, but then we heard from counselor Kerry McDonald that um that one was already in the process and so now we are currently trying to find a way to help during that process.

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Um most we learn most recently we learned that the city replacement lead services is a construction project to save a lot of money. While we understand this strategy, we want to stay involved to

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make sure vulnerable households get their lead pipes replaced as quick as possible. So we asked to get access to the construction schedule so we can educate neighborhood. We want to give um

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filter to pregnant women and child and daycare that need lead replacement. And we would also like to contribute an outreach effort just as door knocking and flyers campaign with the city.

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And let's work together to make everybody in Malden have safe water to drink. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Hello City Council. I'm Emma and this is Alumni Adrian from the Waste Team. As you can see on the photo,

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this is the Waste Team eight, Alumni Adrian, me, Christalyn and Riley. On the photo there, we were attending the Green Malden Green Fair where we volunteered and helped people throw away their things that they didn't need such as textiles and plastics where they

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could be transformed into new things like benches. Unfortunately today, as you can see, some of my teammates weren't able to make it. So, allow me to play a voice recording Riley on the subject of our

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on the subject of our environmental con- Sorry, on the subject of our project. Environmental consciousness needs to start now. Waste is a huge issue, not just in the city of Malden, but across the world. Many times when you walk down the street, you notice trash all along

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the sidewalks and trash all along bodies of water. Often times, trash and recycling are not properly differentiated. The best way to make a better future is by establishing habits within the youth. This is why for our project, we decided to make a poster that informs Malden

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High students about the appropriate recycling habits in Malden. We focused on educating inside of Malden High School because we believe if we start having students implement proper recycling habits, hopefully students can carry this information with them and begin to enact them in everyday life.

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By using poster designs that not only informational, but also concise, we hope that the visual images can help educate students within the split-second decision of whether the disregarded item should be thrown in the recycling bin or the trash can. Before applying the posters, we collected data across 10 classrooms. We

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plan to come back in around 2 weeks to collect data again and compare the changes implemented by the posters. With this knowledge, we decided if informational awareness can actually spark a change within students or if the underlying issue of waste comes from a lack of care of its impact within the

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world. We hope you can join us on June 2nd at 5:00 at the YMC to see a longer presentation and find out our conclusion of the project. Thank you. We will now pass it on to the climate team. >> [applause] >> Good evening, everyone. My name is

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Aldana Abraham and I am a senior at the Malden High School. And I'm Adam Abraham, a freshman at Malden High. And we are part of the Youth Action Collaborative. In classrooms across America, kids grades K through 8 are learning about the water cycle and the food chain. But there is a glaring silence when it

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comes to the most defining challenge of their generation, climate change. Currently, nearly a quarter of US middle school teachers report zero class hours on climate instruction. We are failing to give our youngest leaders the tools they need to understand their changing world, leaving them anxious about the

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future without empowerment of education. That is where Love for Kids Club at Malden High comes in. We believe that literacy is the strongest foundation for action. In a powerful partnership with Malden Reads, which we are grateful to have had many of the council members attend events for, we are moving beyond the classroom to engage our community

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directly. By combining the joy of storytelling with the urgency of environmental science, we are bridging the gap for Malden's youth. This June, we're hosting a flagship event that brings this mission to life. We'll be gathered outdoors where the environment isn't just a topic, but our current surroundings.

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Our members will be reading themed books to chat to children like Grow Happy, showing them that one's that one person's ingenuity can change an entire village's ecosystem. But we aren't just reading, we are doing. This event features a planting a hands-on planting workshop where kids

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will get their hands in the dirt planting the literal seeds of change. While the children are playing and connecting with the earth, we are addressing the adults. We will be presenting a vital petition to parents and community leaders to support the passage of the interdisciplinary climate

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literacy bill in Massachusetts, which will we also encourage you all to participate in. Please feel free to take out your phones and scan the QR code here to show support of this petition. We are asking parents to sign on to ensure that what happens at our event becomes a permanent part of every K-8

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education system. Join us this June in Malden. Let's read, let's plant, and let's pass this bill for our kids' futures. Thank you. >> [applause] >> I think at this time any remaining time that we have Council will be welcome questions if you

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have them. Wonderful, thank you so much. That was fantastic. I already see a couple lights, so I'm going to go to Councillor McDonald first. Thank you. Well, thank you all so much for being here. This is a really good presentation, and um I've been lucky enough to um come and visit

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with this group for the last 2 years, and to just see how thoughtful you are about trying to make actual change, and not just taking something and running with it because it seems easier it's the first thing you think of, but really trying to figure out what will have an impact. I think that's such an important

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skill, so I want I'm going you for that. Um and say thank you for these clear asks. I think we can work on those. I'm I'm going to make sure I sign these petitions. Many of these are supported thankfully by some of our representatives as is. Like I know this climate literacy bill is sponsored by our own state senator.

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And so making sure that then we have the broad support that we need to to try to move it is really important. So thank you for that. And I just want to give you a a little bit of credit. So on the on the you know the issue around lead pipes and trying to get figure out how to reach

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out to people and so they know what to do to get lead pipes out of their own their own homes. So we talked about that when I was able to join you this year. But we had also talked about it last year. And in between those two years we this council

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passed a new ordinance that that required that rental registry which is now being implemented. But one of the reasons that we wanted to move it forward was because we had heard from groups like clean water action and like the youth action collaborative how important this work is. So even though you may not have done it for your

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project this year, I just want to draw the through line that like some of those conversations did influence what we talked about at the city so that we could put the infrastructure in place with our inspectional services and health departments and so on to actually make that a citywide policy that's now in process. So just want to appreciate

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you for that. Thank you Counselor McDonald. Counselor Taylor. Thank you. I just wanted to say how impressed I was with this presentation and all the work that you did not just on the on the climate issues but the process that you

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took and the way you explained your process and you looked at things and said well they're doing that how can we help here to really get to the end goal. That is something that most adults can't do and with that shows just amazing potential for

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where you're all going and I am so excited to have you here before us tonight. Um the asks that you had were very clear um and and aided in your in your mission. Um so

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and I already signed the petition and filled out I scanned all the QR codes. Thank you so much for doing this and giving us specific asks and I'm just really excited to see what you guys do next cuz it's impressive. Thank you, Councillor Taylor. Councillor

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Winslow. Yeah, I know I it's it's great to see this generation coming forward. Um you know, we're at a moment at our national level where people are trying to undermine the very work you're trying to do. So you have that uh

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responsibility to carry forward. Um you know, I I know I my career I've worked on getting the lead out of gasoline. Um I I mean one of the things I I worked on getting elected to this council is to make sure that as we focused on lead lines that we focused on areas where the

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most school kids were and um and often that's in the rental areas. So it's great to see you all um taking uh and pushing us even for more action. And um really as for for us some of us are going to be happy to have to pass it on to the next generation. So I

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hope you're all um getting ready to take some great science courses like I did and um and dedicate yourself to the work. It is um uh this work is comes and goes but it's it's necessary to have determined folks like you working on it. So thank you for

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coming here and uh and keep keep at it and it's it's very rewarding and and always think of um you know, you know, the whole whole thing is think globally, act globally locally. Uh the great thing that I've learned in in working with people on the council is um the great difference you

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can make here locally is is not only good for the environment but it's good for you and our community. So, so thank you for coming forward. Thank you, Grant. Thank you, Councilor Winslow. Councilor O'Malley. I just want to thank the students and Clean Water Action for all your work.

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We've as a community and as Clean Water Action has come so far since I remember Morio came to to Malden with Clean Water Action and we were like first organizing getting the word out and to see how far it's come since those days is just kind of really amazing and that's kudos to all the hard work that you've all been

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doing. So, I think we should give a great round of applause for all the great work you've all been doing. >> [applause] >> And and it's I really amazing that you know exactly kind of where to look. So, you know, as Councilor Winslow had mentioned, you know, he and the chair of

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our conservation commission had an idea about how to prioritize and focus where where we put our resources based on where children are living. And the fact that, you know, he did that with that idea, you know, really helped remove a lot of lead service lines that were affecting students. And so, the ideas

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that you have are are great and can be implemented. And you really know where you're looking because another really important thing when you talk about the engineering schedule for construction of roads, that is a huge low-hanging fruit and you're 100% right. There were times where we would have money to repave

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roads and we would just repave the roads but not do the lead pipes, not do the infrastructure under the ground. And so, you're basically having a circumstance where you're investing millions of dollars but not doing the road properly. So, maybe a couple years down the line you have to rip all these holes up and then it was actually a disincentive to

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replace the lead service lines. So, however we can do to help get the the resources that you need and access to that, you have no idea how much your advocacy actually affects public policy. So, thank you so much for everything. Really appreciate it. Thank you, Councilor O'Malley. Councilor

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McDonald for the second time. I'm so sorry. I was very enthusiastic. I I am really enthusiastic. I just wanted to point out that I want to make sure that everybody knows that in the climate action plan that this council adopted, there is an entire strategy on promoting

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community climate education and it explicitly names working with Malden High School and the Clean Water Action Group. So, you all are not only doing amazing work, but it is actually written into the plan that we are trying to support as a city. And so, thank you for helping make that real. This is not a plan that's going to sit on the shelf

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and you're proving that. So, I just wanted to uphold um how integral your work is to that bigger city-wide plan across all of the work that we're trying to do. Thank you, Councilor McDonald. I will just briefly say from the chair, I will echo what a lot of my colleagues have said, super impressive presentation. Um

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I'm going to say as someone who does like communications and design in this space for my day job, that pamphlet that you all showed, I like better than the one that the city puts out. I think we should steal some of this and use it. It is legitimately better than how we try to communicate about this. So, I think

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um as others have said, you've have found a way to really drill down into what the key issues are and then identify also what the solutions are, which is extremely impressive. Um I also just want to elevate that I'm recognizing a couple of faces of folks who were at the Metro Mayors Climate Summit this past weekend, which was a

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gorgeous Saturday. These youth spent the day, like probably the most beautiful day that we've had all year, indoors learning about how to make change in climate policy, um which is pretty outstanding. There's a lot of things that they could have probably been doing with that beautiful day. So, this is I

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think the future of um what our our city and country is going to be sitting in this room right here. So, kudos to you for the work you've done. Thank you for bringing this to us tonight. I hope our community watches this presentation and I think you all are going to go far. So, thank you for bringing this to us tonight. Thank you so much.

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Thank you. >> [applause] >> Okay, our next order of business is public comment, but I don't believe we had anybody sign up for public comment in person or by email. Is that correct? >> Okay, so we're going to move on to our consent agenda. Our consent agenda

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tonight consists of meeting minutes to be approved, three appointments to be placed on file, and two petitions to be referred to the license committee. Does any counselor have a desire to remove any of these items from the consent agenda? I see counselor Winslow.

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>> Yeah, I just I had some comments on the minutes from May 12th, so that's item 269-26. Just a additional addition to that, so I'd just like that off the agenda so we can make that amendment. >> Okay, do you want to take that up? We can take up that amendment now. Sure.

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Yeah so so that paper related to what we were talking about there was um uh let's see Um just wanted to add the fact when I made comments on that paper um

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that was related to the parking citywide parking called by counselor Taylor. I just wanted to point out in that as I I I wanted to include my statement that I made that um you know, we according to our charter update in

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January um our our traffic commission is is being replaced by transportation commission. So, ultimately the transportation commission will have to do that. So, that's that was my basic comment. So, I did send that along to counselor

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Lenehan and the clerk just to make that addition just to put it on the record. So, that would be my motion would be to add my comment into that section of the minutes. Thank you. Okay, we do have that language. Do we have a second to that motion? By Councillor Crow. All in favor of

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amending the minutes as stated by Councillor Winslow. I. >> I. Okay, that passes. So, do we need have a motion to approve the minutes as amended? Motion. And seconded by Councillor Taylor. All

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in favor? I. Those minutes are approved. So, let's get back to the consent agenda itself. Any other um items that folks would like to remove? Okay, hearing none and seeing none, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved by Councillor Luong,

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seconded by Councillor Winslow. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay, the agenda is approved. Next order of business. Paper 275-26, order. The mayor will submit the fiscal year 2027 annual appropriation orders

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for the water sewer enterprise fund, community preservation fund, and cable access fund. Okay, Councillor McDonald. Just very briefly, I'm going to ask for motion to refer this to the finance committee, of course. Um so, these are the other three budgets that the that we

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typically approve at this time of year alongside the general the general fund appropriation order, because these are restricted segregated funds. Um and typically these come down at the same time as the general fund budget, the main budget, but because that was so

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accelerated and we got that earlier, it just this is actually the normal time to get this budget. So, we have these three remaining budgets. Um we'll make sure we have some time to talk about them in finance before we take a final vote. Uh and I would just ask that we uh refer to the finance committee.

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Okay, so that's a motion by Councillor McDonald to refer to finance, seconded by Councillor Taylor. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay, that carries. Next order of business. >> Paper 276-26, be it ordained by the Malden City Council that sections 12 and 32 of title

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12 of the code of the city of Malden are hereby amended as outlined in the body of this paper regarding data centers. >> Okay, Councillor Taylor. Thank you. So, this is um we discussed this a little bit in economic development and where we did pass the moratorium. This is just some language

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that we need to change in our zoning to make sure that data centers are in there so there can be a moratorium on them. Um currently they're not in the zoning. They're not defined. So, this is just defining them. Um and both OSPCD and our

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city planner Michelle Romero worked on this. Um so um I'd like to have this referred to a joint uh rules and ordinance and planning board too. Oh. Great. Okay. There we go. Motion by Councillor Taylor seconded by Councillor

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O'Malley to refer to um I I just had I Oh, I'm so sorry. Um Councillor Winslow, go right ahead. Yeah, no, I I looked at the language that they the staff came up with um with Councillor Taylor. I I think it's clear enough and this is a focus of what moratorium um so I think

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it's fine if the intent here is for a kind of a temporary moratorium. We probably we may want to come back and revisit this um more and more detail after that, you know, moratorium happens, but I'm I'm fine with sending this to um planning and rules and ordinance um as the focus on some

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you know, a moratorium to consider this more fully. Thank you. Great. Okay, thank you. And I see Councillor O'Malley's light as well. Yeah, I apologize for seconding so um vigorously and quickly. Um it's the correct thing to do. Um so, you know, as

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as we've kind of discussed, um you know, when we refer things to a joint ordinance and planning board hearing and it gets noticed in the newspaper, that is when we can hold people to the new It's kind of like pausing and it gives us the flexibility

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to work on it. Um so even if we decide in the future to do something different and put put in a new paper, it at least kind of holds holds it as the status quo. Um and so I appreciate you putting this through and look forward to working with you on it. Thanks. Thank you. And just before we call the vote on the paper as one of the

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original co-sponsors, I just want to underscore that in under Councilor Taylor's leadership, this is as we've all been saying, a way to put our stake in the ground on wanting to drive the bus here, not to mix metaphors, which I guess I just did. We want to be in charge of our destiny here

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and wanting to make sure that we understand what it is that we want and that we have sensible definitions and this gets us there. So thank you for doing this. So I had a motion by Councilor Taylor, seconded by Councilor O'Malley to refer to joint planning and ordinance. All in favor? I. Any opposed?

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Seeing none, that carries. Next order of business. Paper 277-26, the City Council, excuse me, will address the open meeting law complaint submitted on May 13th, 2026 by Bruce Bruce Friedman of 8 Marvin Street, Malden against the Council related to

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the executive session held on May 12th, 2026. Okay, I'll invite our legal department to join us at the podium. Good evening, everyone. Prasanna Rodzajewski, an assistant city solicitor. Um we just received this open meeting law complaint, so at this time we'd just

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be asking City Council's permission to investigate the complaint. I believe we would have to give a response by June 3rd uh cuz it was submitted on May 13th. Okay, thank you. Um any questions? Be looking for a motion to um refer this

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to the legal department for response. Whoop, okay, everybody's very excited. I think it was Councilor Siminelli, seconded by Councilor Crowe? Oh, Luong? Okay, thank you. It happened so fast, I couldn't even keep track.

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You do take notes. Okay, so we just need a voice vote on this. All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? Present, Councillor O'Malley. Okay. Thank you. Oh, let me put your Therefore, I must put my microphone on. I just want to clarify you said that the due date is

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June 3rd. Yes. >> The next council meeting would be June 2nd. I see. So, that would be one day Oh, I'm sorry. I have my dates backwards. Oh. Can you come back and present to us on the 2nd so they can vote in time for the deadline of the 3rd?

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>> Yes, we've done that before. >> My apologies. We have done that before when I didn't confuse my dates. So, thank you. >> what you mean. Okay. We're we're all good. >> Sorry. Okay. No, no, it's better to be safe than sorry. Okay, next order of business. Committee report 278-26.

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I'm sorry, I hit your button at the same time. >> 278-26, the Standing Committee on Rules and Ordinance to whom is referred paper 197 series of 2026 having considered the same make the following report. Committee recommends this paper out favorably to the full council. >> [snorts]

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>> Okay, so we have we don't have Councillor Clone Hayes here, but I'm going to go to Councillor Winslow to receive the committee report on a motion by Councillor Winslow seconded by Councillor O'Malley to receive the committee report. All in favor? I. I. Let's read the paper.

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>> Paper 197-26 be it ordained by the Malden City Council that the code of the city of Malden 6.08.070C2 licensing of marijuana establishments is hereby amended by inserting provided that no fewer than five marijuana retail

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licenses shall be made available after Mass General Laws Chapter 138 subsection 15. Okay, Councillor Winslow for the committee >> Yeah, this was a recommendation both from the CLAC and and also

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sponsored here by counselor Colin Hayes. Um, you when we adopted the you know the ordinances related to having marijuana establishments um, we sort of went under the assumptions that

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we we we would have five based on the number of you know liquor licenses we had. That actually has fluctuated so it's put us below what I think we all anticipated. So the thought was um, you know we sort of created a cap you know

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we we we don't even need to have a cap so but we couldn't put it less than 20% of our liquor licenses. So this is just increasing that cap a little bit to sort of have a clear floor so it doesn't you know will it you know we at least will accept five liquor licenses. Um, so

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that's it's just that clarification. The committee discussed that um, and made a favorable recommendation for that change. So our recommend our recommendation is that we basically have a you know offer no less than five licenses for you know retail establishments. Thank

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you for that. >> Okay, thank you counselor Winslow. I have a light by counselor O'Malley. Yeah, so this really wouldn't be changing the status quo from when we implemented this. You know we we put it at 20% and like he like counselor Winslow said it fluctuates and so just

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to provide consistency it's I believe it's 20% or no less than five. Correct? Yeah. Yeah, that's Oh, hang on. Let me put your light back on. Go ahead. Oh, did it not go? Didn't go. Okay, sorry. Go ahead.

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>> law says we can't reduce it below 20% but then we can have it above 20% so this so it's you know the law says we can't have it below 20% so that is the effect. So yeah, thanks. good. And then one of the value one of the things that's important about that is like say if we give out more liquor

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licenses, we could potentially be required to put out more than five. Um but the fact that it was like dipping below when we were already in the process of licensing and you could be in a circumstance in the future that there are five licenses and all of a sudden it

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dips below the 20% and then the question is, well, are these all these licenses valid? Um so this I think provides consistency. So thanks for helping move this forward. Okay, thank you, Counselor O'Malley. Seeing no other lights, do I have a motion to enroll? >> Motion to enroll. Okay, so moved by

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Counselor Winslow. Do I have a second? Second. Seconded by Counselor O'Malley. Uh all in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay, that is enrolled. Next order of business. Paper 279-26 Committee Report. The Standing Committee

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on License to whom was referred papers 218 through 223 and papers 242 through 251 series of 2026. Having considered the same, make the following report. Committee recommends these petitions out favorably to the full council. Committee further

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recommends paper 84 series of 2026, which was originally granted as a conditional 90-day license, be extended until December 31st, 2026. Okay, on a motion by Counselor Conlon, seconded by Counselor Taylor to receive

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the committee report. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay, here we go. Hang on one second. I didn't put your light on. That's my fault. >> to read them first or do you want me to give you a report first? Did you want me to read them first into the record? Yeah, sure. Paper 218-26

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Petition Open Air Parking Lot TJ Automotive Corporation 315 Pleasant Street 20 spaces renewal. Paper 219-26 Petition Pool tables Club 24 Incorporated 787 Salem Street two tables renewal. Paper 220-26 pool tables Italian

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American War Veterans Post 16 40 Oakland Street one table renewal. Paper 221-26 pawnbroker at Cal Jewelers and AC Loan 56 Pleasant Street renewal. Paper 222-26 petition second-hand dealer at Cal Jewelers and AC Loan 56 Pleasant Street

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renewal. Paper 223-26 self-service gas station Speedway number 2504 at 214 Broadway renewal. Paper 242-26 bowling alley Townline Ten Pin Corporation 665 Broadway 48 lanes

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renewal. Paper 243-26 exterior vending machine water stores Incorporated 159 Highland Avenue renewal. Paper 244-26 livery company line Black Horse Services LLC 54 Cleveland Street one vehicle renewal. Paper 245-26 livery driver

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Jeffrey Jacks 54 Cleveland Street renewal. Paper 246-26 lodging house BREC LHPLC 155 Clinton Street renewal. Paper 247-26 outdoor parking Regano's Incorporated 1176 Eastern Avenue 15 spaces renewal.

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Paper 248 pool tables Malden Veterans of Irish Ancestry Incorporated 177 West Street two tables renewal. Paper 249-26 pool tables Townline Ten Pin Corporation 665 Broadway 15 tables renewal. Paper 250-26 second-hand dealer

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AM Design Jewelers 664 Salem Street renewal. Paper 251-26 self-service gas station Wash Depot Incorporated 333 Eastern Avenue renewal. And paper 84-26 petition class two Malden Auto Center LLC 189 Eastern

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Avenue 34 vehicles new. Okay, counselor Condon. Thank you Council President. As I said, all these licenses were visited by our compliance people

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and uh everything seemed to be in order. Um they had no problems whatsoever granting these licenses. So, I would make a motion that they be granted. Okay, on a motion by Councillor Condon,

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seconded by Councillor Simonelli, in uh to grant the petitions. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Those petitions are granted. Next order of business. >> Paper 280-26, committee report. The standing committee

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on personnel and appointments to whom was referred paper 241 series of 2026 make the following report. Motion to receive the committee report. Okay, so moved by Councillor Crowe, seconded by Councillor Taylor to receive the committee report. All in favor? I.

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Any opposed? Paper 214-26, mayoral report appointment. Paul Myers of 433 Fulton Street, Medford as director of public works to fulfill the unexpired term of Robert Knox and then be appointed for a 3-year term expiring

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April 22nd, 2030, which shall commence upon confirmation by the City Council. Councillor Crowe. Thank you, Madam President. So, we met with Mr. Myers earlier this evening and also last week in finance and really just talked about how he sees

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this department and working in some of the changes he's doing. He's been with the city for a couple of years and been with the assistant director for a short time and now he's doing an interim thing. So, he really hit the ground running. Unfortunately, we had snow

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the right when he took over as the interim director and he really talked about sort of some of the work that he's doing around technology to upgrade some of the things, um, sort of operationalize, um, some of the ways that, um, overtime is being assigned. And he comes from a

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varied experience from other communities, so it really kind of, um, helps him give broad perspective. Talked about like the salt, um, shed, and, um, sort of some some of the things that he's doing to kind of really pull this, um, this department together and all the

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people in it. So, I'll make a motion that we approve his appointment. Okay, on a motion by Councilor Crowe, seconded by Councilor Luong, we do need a roll call to confirm this appointment. So, will the clerk please call the roll? >> That's correct. We do.

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Councilor Condon. Yes. Councilor Crowe. Yes. >> Councilor Luong. Yes. Councilor McDonald. >> Yes. >> Councilor O'Malley. >> Yes. Councilor Simonelli. Yes. Councilor Taylor. Yes. Councilor Winslow. Yes. Council President Linehan. Yes. Okay, so that confirmation has been that

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appointment has been confirmed. >> Our appointment is confirmed. Okay. Next order of business. Oh, hang on, Councilor O'Malley, I see your light. I'd like I'd like to take paper 153-26 from the table. Okay, we just need a voice vote to remove that. So, all in

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I'm sorry, do we have a second? Second. Seconded by Councilor Winslow. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that is removed from the table. So, I apologize, this is going to be complicated, um, cuz there's a lot of different things that we need to like incorporate into

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the conditions for this. >> Um, all of the attachments have been uploaded, thanks to the city clerk, to the paper. Um, they're not necessarily all reflected in the physical copy you have in front of you, but they are all there on the digital copy.

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Um, and so, after a lot of back and forth between myself, National Grid, the building commissioner, and the property owner, we are generally in agreement that the the electrical equipment will be moved away from the sidewalk. It was

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originally going to be put on the south side of the property, but they can't put it there because of underground stormwater storage tanks. It now has to go to the northern portion of the property. Um and uh

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as part of that, they are going to be doing some screening to like cuz these are very big ugly things. So, they're going to be putting in some wooden like uh cedar fencing around the equipment, um around the dumpster, and they have agreed to do cedar wooden fencing around

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the north and west sides of the property to help with like buffering noise and visibility of these ugly things. Um they have submitted a landscaping plan. Um there's a fencing plan that's

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included. Uh and then there's a third thing, which is the final electrical um equipment plan, uh which you don't see on your physical paper here. Um so, what I would like to do is I would like to approve this petition with the all the natural nor-

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normal conditions that we put, and that it will be per the plans uh when it comes to the landscaping, the fencing, and the final electrical plan, subject to minor modifications

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based on the reasonable review and approval of the ward councilor. Because trying to get all of these three plans to like be a final thing is kind of a work in progress, and the city clerk can attest that we just got the most recent plan a couple hours before this meeting.

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Okay. Um and so, by making them conditions, um I also talked to Michelle Romero, the city planner, and our building commissioner. We're also going to maybe start trying to put these entitlements into Entergov

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so that when you look up a property, you can kind of get a full capture of everything because usually these type of things are in like a special permit or a site plan review or a building a building file, but we also grant things that have conditions and so trying to

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capture that all in one place when I'm no longer here and the city clerk's no longer here, there's our current system depends on a lot of institutional knowledge and we take kind of take it for granted that people are going to be here forever. Mhm. So that would be my motion. My motion

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would be to um approve with the traditional conditions that we put um and that they will be according to the landscaping plan, the fencing buffer plan, and the final electrical plan subject to the minor modifications uh and the review and

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approval of the ward counselor. Second. All right, so I'm going to read the whole thing as usual. So we what we typically would say would be a voice vote to grant the petition with the following conditions. Number one, that the engineer be called when

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Dig Safe is notified. Number two, that the streets and sidewalks be restored to the satisfaction of the director of public works. And then we'll add number three, per the landscaping, fencing buffer, and electrical plans subject to the minor modifications and subject to the final review of the ward counselor. Yeah, and

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I think the only thing with when you say fencing, I would say um wooden cedar fencing plan. Like just call out the specific >> fencing. Yep. On the north and west side of the property. Okay, does everybody understand what

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exactly what the vote is? Yes. Okay. And we can do a voice vote on this. So all in favor? I. [snorts] Any opposed? Thank you all for that. >> That is granted. That's your dogging. Great. Any personal

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privilege? Councilor Winslow. Yeah, I just wanted to thank everybody who came out and made our fifth annual Maplewood Fest on Saturday very successful. Thanks to the cultural council for sponsoring and the grant

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that our Maplewood Association helped put together and all the volunteers who helped that. Our public works ISD, Maplewood police and parking to get all these things to make it work well and be safe and then um and also the Maplewood fire department to be ready

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when there was a medical need there. So so thanks to all that. Just a few other things. I just wanted to say um to all the families of of veterans who passed away. Um just we send our sincerest regards to related to Memorial

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Day coming up. I'm sure Council will have something to mention on that. And want to thank all the volunteers who came out and helped our veteran service department put flags in our cemetery. So you know, please go out and visit them and remember our

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service members who who who have come and served our our state and our city and our nation well. And it's really beautiful out there. So and then just for ward six residents um

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just give you a heads up. We are going to have our Independence Day celebration on July 3rd, which is a Friday from 9:00 to 1:00 at our regular time, but it's just going to be a day before 4th of July. So just get ready for that and reach out to me if you'd like to

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volunteer and help out. Thanks. Thank you, Councilor Winslow. Councilor Simonelli. Thank you, Madam President. Just two things. One is I just wanted to congratulate the Bambino family at the Italian Citizens Club this past weekend. This is the

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fourth annual um uh event that they've had for their son who passed away 4 years ago uh with leukemia. So, our Paul Condon was there. Uh so, it's a really big event, nice event the family does every year. Uh we

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work with that family and we're also going to be planting or putting a bench at the Harvard Street Miller Park, whatever you want to call it, uh this summer uh in in in memorial uh for the son's name. Uh the other thing is uh

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we have a tradition in Malden, particularly in Ward 7, on recognizing people who have grown up in that neighborhood and has made an impact in that neighborhood and uh on May 31st uh we'll be honoring uh a rose garden. Did we say what the name of it was again?

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What name do we have? Did we decide what name? [laughter] I know we did. To- today we just decided the name of it, but it it's a tribute to women uh rose garden at the uh corner of uh Henry and Cross Street at the Lincoln Commons.

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Uh I've been working alongside with the DPW, both Councilors Long and Taylor, and some of my other colleagues up here uh putting this event together. Uh it should be a wonderful event. Rooted in service is

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the name of the rose garden. So, uh the the the uh there was some good names to it. There was some really good ones, but I like that one. But, um anyway, the three recipients uh are going to be uh Sue Thompson, Karen Anderson, and uh Bailey Weiss. Uh

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three people that had a lot of impact, a lot to do down in Ward 7. Uh so, we thought it would be a good tribute um to the people, the recipients, and their families. So, we're looking at uh March I'm uh sorry, May 31st, 11:00 a.m. uh which is a Sunday uh at that corner

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of Lincoln Commons. Uh the Uh, everybody's invited to come on down. Uh, we have a Coffee truck. coffee truck and and some cannolis and all of us and uh and and and

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and uh Counselor uh Luong has been working hard too uh in the language uh that I would tell Counselor Taylor has been put providing to uh provide plaques down there so people that are waiting for the bus or hanging out around there can look at the impact

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uh that a few women have made uh in the city of Malden and particularly down at Waite Circle. And I want to thank the DPW because they've been down there getting the benches ready and and repointing the bricks and cleaning up the place and we still got a lot of work to do and we've but we're getting it

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done within 2 weeks. So, uh stay tuned. We'll send out some more stuff and I'm also doing my 4th of July on uh the 3rd uh Friday the 3rd July. Uh I think we're going to be doing ours later in the afternoon but stay tuned. We'll I'll I'll I'll post it but

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I think we're going to be doing ours later in the afternoon instead of early in the morning. So, you can come to both of ours and enjoy for that day. So, thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate it. >> Thank you, Counselor Simonelli. Counselor Luong. Um thank you so much. I also wanted to um just remind everybody

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PorchFest um May 30th and the Malden Lions Club will be having their mobile eye mobile on City Hall Plaza so that you can get a blood pressure check, you can get um an eye screening and um I encourage everybody to come. It's free

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and you can also they'll have other information about the other things that the Lions is part of from diabetes research on over to just general eye care. So, and also if you have any um eyeglasses that you would like to donate, you can also drop those off as well.

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Thank you. Great. Thank you, Counselor Luong. Counselor McDonald. Yes, PorchFest. I was just want I just wanted to share a few more highlights for our favorite citywide free community music festival. We have um

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uh we have performers and porches and sites all across the city in every ward. Um and just wanted to shout out a couple of the the spots you can check out. There are six different block parties I see this year. And we have a lot of community collaborators who are hosting

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PorchFest sites including uh Bike to the Sea at the Bike Kitchen, um First Lutheran Church in Malden, Idle Hands Craft Ales, um Bread of Life, First Parish Malden, Forestdale Community Church, um Malden

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Pride Coalition is hosting a stage. Uh there's there'll be a stage at City Hall as Councillor Luong said, where we'll have youth performers and family performers. Our Baystate Co-housing has a stage. Um and the Malden Irish American Club and Hugh O'Neill's also

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are hosting performers. So, um go ahead and make sure you get out there and and meet some neighbors uh 12:00 to 6:00 on Saturday, May 30th. Hope to see you all out there. Thank you, Councillor O'Malley. Um I just want to It was a busy weekend,

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y'all. Um I saw so many of you. Um and there were so many different events going on from the Haitian flag raising. Um and so I just want to thank to all the community groups that were making such a us a lively um a lively weekend, you know, the the um Maplewood Fest and also the the the

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one of the coolest ones. They were all very cool. Uh but one of the coolest ones was the Historical Society you know, reenactments at at Bell Rock Park. Um it was just so cool to see that. Um the smells, the sounds. It was like you know, it was like very very all encompassing. And so I just want to say

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thanks to all the community groups that make Malden such an exciting place to like go out and and and have fun on the weekend. So, thank you to everyone. Thanks. Thank you, Councilor O'Malley. Councilor Winslow, one more time. Uh I just I just noticed what our animal control officer

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had dropped off, so I think this is a good announcement. Um rabies clinic this coming Saturday, May 23rd, from 10:00 to 11:30 at the Malden Central Fire Station. So, um please come out if you uh need your uh yeah, animal uh

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vaccinated for rabies. Okay, thank you, Councilor Winslow. And I am trying to find my husband's going to kill me. I can't find the um the Malden Historical Society's doing an event on Memorial Day that uh my husband, who is a board member, is basically planning and hosting. It's at

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the Oh my god, he's uh literally going to kill me when he gets home cuz I can't find the information. Okay, this might play a video, and if it plays, I'm so sorry. Okay, it is Monday from 4:00 to 6:00 at the Rising Eagle Public House in

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Melrose, which was part of Malden at the time of the Revolution before everybody gets upset about why it's happening in Melrose. Um they are going to be celebrating the 250th by reading Malden's town instructions. There's also going to be apps, trivia, and guest speakers. It's

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totally free and open to the public, and it's being hosted by the Historical Society. They're putting a lot of work into it, and they're looking forward to it, so come on down and have fun if you're so inclined. It's going to be a blast. Seeing no other lights. You do have Oh man, now last call, and

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then everybody's got another idea. Councilor McDonald, just two other things that I know are on our community calendar before our next event our next um our next council meeting. One is the Memorial Day uh recognition, which is 10:00 a.m. at the at Forestdale Cemetery. >> And the other is the Malden fro- the

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Malden Pride Flag Raising, which I believe is 6:00 p.m. on Monday, June 1st at City Hall Plaza. So, so important. Thank you for mentioning those. Okay, last call. Seeing no other lights, do we have a motion to adjourn? Okay, so moved by Councillor Simonelli,

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seconded by Councillor Luong. All in favor? I. We are adjourned at 8:18. Thank you, everyone.