the council will come to order all 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 please remain standing for one additional uh moment of silence from councelor Sika
thank you council president i'd like to offer a moment of silence to the Freyo family longtime uh W 8 residents John and Judy Freyo judy passed away this past Saturday I think the date was her husband was the former school committee
for Ward 8 and her son was actually the first W 8 counselor that I can recall when I was a kid um the Freyals have been involved in the Malden community for as long as I can remember i'd say good 40 50 years at least um so I just
want to wish them you know uh our condolences on behalf of the Malden City Council if anybody wishes to attend Judy's services they will be this um Thursday from 4:00 to 7:00 at Spatteror Funeral Home thank you
thank you the clerk will call the role council Clone Hayes here council Condan council Crow here council Lahan here council McDonald here council Sega here council Simelli council Spataphora
council Taylor council Winslow here council President Omali here under the provisions of the open meeting law for those of you in attendance please be informed that Urban Media Arts UMA will be recording this meeting this evening so please be aware there is audio and video recording of this meeting uh first
order of business is guests uh citizen achievement and announcements uh and the city council will host Miss Dance of New England 2024 Melissa Mora who was recently named distinguished young women of Malden 2025 uh and I'm going to hand
it over to councelor Sika to do a more in-depth introduction thank you i wanted to invite Melissa here because she is just simply amazing melissa Moira is one of my student volunteers at my various
community events throughout the year um we have so much fun at the Fish and Derby and I think you were at were you at the 4th of July this year there was something else you were at Halloween um so Melissa has she is a
currently a senior at the Mystic Valley Chatter School she is going to Marramac College next year for nursing and uh she has been a dedicated dancer at Paula Tenzi's right down the street for the
last 13 years and in 2024 she received an achievement of Miss Dance of New New England and then in 2025 she was announced the distinguished young woman of Malden of 2025 so we just wanted to
bring you here to tell you how proud we were of you and to give you a huge congratulations do you have anything that you want to say i don't mean to put you on the spot but yeah i would like to thank my family because they're always my biggest
supporters and I would love to thank the people of Malden for always being there and cheering for me you are the best thank you i have a citation but Melissa do you guys want to take a quick photo with her all right perfect okay we'll take a a brief recess
do you want to take one and Okay we're good thank you thank you thank you so much so that um I really appreciate everyone coming thank you councelor uh Sika for that our next order of business is public comment public comment is allowed under council
rules each speaker is limited to the subject matter relevant to this evening's agenda and must keep their comments to two minutes or less um it I believe we do have someone signed up just one Brent Roble please approach and state your name uh and address for the record
hi uh my name is Brent Roby and uh I live at 58 Crescent Lane and if you you read what the uh the thing is about the uh the conservation designation for our uh zero
crescent lane and uh we've been working on this project for uh since 2021 uh and we've done quite a lot of work there and including we got a CPC grant in order to get the the uh the
place uh surveyed and so it should be it should seems like it should be ready to whatever the next step has to be uh and it it seems to me that what we've we've been trying to do is to create
some kind of template for open space that's not dog parks that's not playground that's actually nature that and we're trying to restore this piece of land it is a very
striking piece of land is very vertical and with huge a line of huge boulders going up the street it's really quite a remarkable place and uh to remove native spe uh not native species to encourage native species and remove all the
invasives all the bittersweet all the things like that and uh I've been building a set of steps to go to the top which has been a very I mean it's it's been me doing that so uh so I don't know if there's any if you
have questions or whatever whatever I could address I don't know what else what else I can say we have we've done presentations we we had the uh U to the C uh C CPC and we and we did get a grant for
the for the survey so we don't we don't talk Yeah so the just for the record the the public comment is related to 17325 thank you sorry we don't allow discourse back and forth during public comment uh but
you did you did a great job okay is is there anything else you need to know okay oh yeah no we'll be here okay thank you thank you do we have any anything sent in the record in writing no uh sounds like we
have all of our public comment uh we now have a consent agenda uh this evening's consent agenda consists of a meeting minutes to be approved two appointments to be referred to personnel committee one appointment to be confirmed one appointment to be received and placed on file and three
orders to be referred to finance uh does any councelor uh wish to remove anything from the consent agenda seeing none is there a motion to approve the consent agenda on councelor uh McDonald second by councelor Simonelli um all those in favor or the clerk will
call the role council clone Hayes council Crow yes council Lahan council McDonald council Sea yes council Simonelli council Winsow yes council President Ali yes the consent agenda has
been approved the next order of business is motions ordinance and resolutions paper 171-25 be ordained by the Malden city council that title 12 of the code of the city of Malden is hereby amended to eliminate the development cap in the MBTA community's multif family o overlay
district mcmod-md1 and eliminate the effective date of final approval by the state of our district district compliance application per the determination issued by the executive office of housing and livable communities and we have city
planner Michelle Romero here to explain what all that means if we need her perfect i'm going to hand it over to councelor uh Winslow to introduce the paper and then um and then we can go to the city planner yeah as you recall last year we did vote as a council to um on
the ordinance to enact um the MBTA community act in Malden um but and we did that subject to approval by um the state um the state has now made comments and I and they had a few adjustments
they asked us to to make so that's I think uh planner Romero will speak to that and Maria Louise is here for the mayor's office to explain what those comments were and what we need to do to um to come into full compliance with those recommendations thank you council
uh city planner Romero good evening thank you um so as the counselor just mentioned um or as both of both the councils mentioned we did receive comments back
we had to submit the application for district compliance which included the ordinance that you ordained back in 2023 we met the deadline that we had from the state we submitted all the required documentation the ordinance that was
ordained and then in the whole application all the documents everything um and then the state began its review process partway through the review process um I say partway through so our deadline was December 31st 2023 as you
may recall so we submitted everything maybe a day or two before that but everything was in and we received comments um at some point over the past year the initial
comments were requests for some additional information and clarification um one had to do with our economic feasibility analysis and assessment that we had submitted um there were a couple questions about
provisions they wanted us to explain so these were all done via um conferences with the state staff and so we were responding we were providing the answers and additional information they had a couple questions
one had to do with the development cap that was in the ordinance one also had to do with the effective date that was in the ordinance there was a lot of other questions and and and comments as well that were uh discussed as I said through
conferences on November 8th 2024 we received the letter that should have been included with this proposed amendment which was the letter from the state that um is regarding our conditional district compliance so this was a determination they made that gave
us conditional compliance with the law and outlined some of the issues I just talked about um in terms of the economic feasibility analysis and the supplemental information we provided and then identified two issues
for us to address one was regarding the development cap which was a numerical cap that was included in the ordinance for one of the subdists that was the multifamily overlay district called
medium density one we had actually included a numerical number because at the time we were told that was possible um at the time of this writing we were told this is not possible that that needs to be removed um so that is
the first part of the amendment so I will just get me let me get a copy of this here so the first part of the amendment um has to do with removing that development cap what's called the development cap
and when we removed the development cap so we removed the number we wanted to ensure that we were going to maintain the same unit capacity that was required by state law remember we
had to have capacity in our zoning to construct certain number of multifamily dwelling units by right which was 6,930 we also wanted to maintain the potential growth number which is what potential growth we may see so that's not
necessarily the 6,930 if you remember if you don't I can explain more but anyway we wanted to keep we wanted to remove the development cap because we were required to but we wanted to keep our unit capacity and our maximum potential growth numbers which were all the numbers we discussed with you at length
several times over the course of 2023 so to do that we did have to propose an amendment to the district boundary of that subdist so that subdist that's called again
MCMOD- MD1 so that's multif family overlay district medium density 1 the proposal that's before you is to remove the development cap so that's the actual technical language that says there's a development cap um and that's
in the actual provision 1224001.C3 so we're deleting the proposal is to delete that provision and then the corresponding part of that proposal is to amend the map so the boundary of that district so again we
keep our same maximum capacity number um to do that the recommendation is to remove the parcel from the district that is 474484 Broadway that is the former Star
Market site it's now known as Strata Apartments so when you look at the map you can see that's shaded the same color green so that for that district so that will be removed and we will add
in parcels that are up at the Overlook Ridge site so that MD1 that medium density one district included the Broadway parcel and the overlook ridge site a portion of it so we're basically
swapping some of the district boundaries so the Broadway parcel will no longer be included and more of the overlook ridge parcel development site will be included so when
we did that um needless to say because as you recall there were was a whole technical model that the state required us to submit all the data and everything we had to go back to the consultant to update our numbers and everything else and then submit it to the state to make
sure we were still going to comply with the state law with that map change so we did do that back in December of 2024 however we've just literally recently heard two weeks ago that they've completed their review and it looks good
we've heard we'd heard like we're looking at it we received it but we never got the final it looks okay you'll still comply and needless to say it didn't make sense to recommend you propose zoning amendments go through the
whole process get them to the state and then the state say "Hey that doesn't comply you're no longer in compliance." So we wanted to have that pre-review done in advance that's what seemed to have taken so long the second
um piece before you move on can I ask a clarify anyone has any questions on the first piece yeah I'll stop if you want um can you what what is a development cap again the development cap or like just what is that yes the unit I'm sorry the unit oh
the unit capacity for Malden 6930 and the development cap that we had put in for subd district medium density 1 was 1 1582 what was the other word you just used you said unit capacity is that
synonymous with development cap no unit capacity is what's required by state law okay we have to have zoning that allows 6,930 units in our ordinance 1582 were going to be in that zoning district oh assigning it to different
districts it was only it was only we only did a numerical assignment to that subdist because we couldn't make the numbers work and again we were told led to believe that that would be acceptable to do okay um so otherwise
we certainly would never have proposed it or recommended you ordain it you know to have to go back because it's been a process to have to go back so and then the only other question is uh is there a since 474 Broadway is already developed is there any negative of just leaving it
in there like would there be because we that would mean we just comply more right is there a negative what if we left 474 Broadway in we we would still be in compliance right um not necessarily because of the acreage keep in mind the state was looking at number
of units right so that's your unit capacity it was also looking at acreage of parcels and those parcels are outside the half mile radius of the two tea stations and the state rags provided
that we could have 50% within the half mile radius we had to have at least 50% within the half mile radius we could have 50% outside so once we start to add and subtract any parcels anywhere on the
map honestly the numbers completely change and we would have to revisit everything so it's not as simple as adding a parcel or deleting a parcel i I get the purpose of the intent of the of the of the law but it seems kind of
counterintuitive that says you can't have more outside but I get what you're saying okay thank you i mean you can have more that that housing you just have to add more within a half mile too yeah i mean that housing development or redevelopment of that parcel exists under current zoning it's just not
allowed by right okay to put it into the MBTA zoning is what you would need to really do all the technical analysis to keep it in or pull it out thanks for clarifying oh and I think we have a another question from councelor uh McDonald and
then councelor Lahan yeah thank you um so my just um clarifying question is so in the map that was provided that does contain changes to the parcels in the center city portion
or or does it not relative to what we approved it does not it's only the parcel it's only these two parcels and overlook and strata yes and in the map you have shows 474 removed right and overlook
expanded so the dark green is this MD1 district that is what's proposed the new boundary right you didn't get a copy it's in the zoning ordinance of the old map would have shown another parcel here highlighted green the Broadway parcel and this would have been smaller yeah
which was the other Broadway the strata the 474 yeah okay people call it strata right yeah right all right yes i'm I'm familiar with that so the I guess I just these are all on land that is already developed in large multi-unit
uh developments correct the Roari uh the Overlook Ridge was not it's in the it's in the undeveloped areas oh it's in the undeveloped areas some of which have recently been permitted for development but they're undeveloped now okay but the but the but the parcels affected are in
fact the ones that we've approved the permit for some of them yes some portions of it yes and portions of it are in undeveloped land yes um to make up that acreage when 474 was removed we had to add certain acreage to the other
so I guess I would just say Yeah i mean building off of coun council president Ali's question I I don't feel a particular amount of concern about any of this and I and I wonder why the switch in acreage I would just be content with removing the cap that we're required to
remove related to this this land that already has development plans around it if the if we didn't switch the parcels is the effect just that we have a higher than we had previously submitted number of buildable of buildable units i'm sorry what is that capacity number the
unit capacity stays the same because the states has set that okay um what would change would be numbers like existing units maximum potential growth number of parcels acreage things like that will
change right but they would be the same as that we originally filed I mean I don't I don't have a strong preference about this because all of this is land that is highly already strategically leveraged so I don't think this changes anything about what we expect is likely
to happen in the near future based on our best knowledge please tell me if that is is that does that seem reasonable to say i mean I think I think it would change i think that was the reason that we recommended the development cap was to try to stay at that number but I'm saying of the
parcels that are affected do you think the development cap is likely to ch is has the capability to change any behavior or like development decisions i think I think I think you have a different maximum potential growth number i do um you could see potential
addition um you could see if if there was a reconstruction this will again allows by right if if this changes if it's part of the MBTA overlay it's allowed by right so I'm not sure I'd have to really look
at the numbers and see but there was a reason that it was done at the time okay so we were trying to stay close to that number which I know we had that discussion last time do we want to be at the number over the number but that's what you know had been decided so we were we were we're proposing these
changes to kind of stay in accord with what you'd already decided if you even though there are some changes it'll it's basically will keep right your past decision in effect i Yes and just and and with respect to that I think
different numbers and different dimensions of the approval had different salience to different ones of us up here which means say some of us cared about the map some of us cared about this number some of us cared about that number so everything changes something and I I'll just say for myself I mean
given that we're all talk we're talking about parcels that are already part of largecale development that is already permitted or in the process of being permitted I don't think this really change this is not likely to have any real world impact in the near future and so I don't have a strong preference but I would just say as we get guidance
about this I am personally less concerned that we ratchet down other things to keep the unit capacity or the develop you know the development capacity in check um I think part of the goal is to allow there to be a reasonable construction of housing and
that I just I I I understand how much overmanagement you know it feels like the state is requiring us to do about this but so I I yeah I don't feel strongly about this i I'm I'm willing to support the will of my colleagues i just feel like we could I I don't want to have to come keep coming back here to
micromanage this time after time if we're not really changing any of the work on the ground that's just my perspective i I do appreciate the work the amount of work that it has to happen on a staff and consultant level in order to try to dot all of these eyes and cross all the tees at the same time so I
not to dismiss that just to state my um perspective on this thank you uh thank you Councelor Lenny thank you Council President so I I don't want to be redundant but I have kind of similar questions Michelle i just want to make sure with the the incoming next phase of development at Overlook this
isn't is this changing the unit mix or the parking ratios or anything like that or are we basically set to go with everything we've been talking about um that will be up to the developer okay um the developer has special permits for
the next two buildings okay um the developer also has site plan review approval for the next two buildings i believe they have the storm water management permits in place um they have not filed for building permits yet um I know there was an announcement about
some affordable housing funding money going to them but they haven't start they don't have building permits they haven't started to build yet um this was so I guess my point is this zoning will change what's
allowed at that property um though sever several of those properties we did discuss I I want you know to be um to let you know we discussed back with the same developer when they were
discussing proposed zoning amendments to change the zoning up there this is going back a couple years and we knew MBTA zoning was coming we actually suggested do you want to wait for MBTA zoning because you know part of it going to be included and it might and they said no
we want to go forward we know what we want to do we're committed to what we're doing i don't know if that helps or it doesn't but that particular developer we've been dealing with assured us they were developing under the zoning okay that they wanted to eventually we got to
that um but this there there will be new zoning that would apply now up there if a future owner decides to do something I can't speak to that i don't know of any plan to do that um because it does seem
like there's pretty good community buyin for this i know a lot of work has gone into it right so my concern is just that it's not curtailing what they want to do or making them you know spend money to change gears at the 11th hour but what I'm hearing is god forbid if that if that plan fell apart or if many years
down the line it sold or was being redeveloped in some way it would meet this higher higher zoning I'll say because it could it could the buildout could be different than what is there now it could be um I don't know exactly how it could be they would definitely
still have to do the 15% affordable we did get that part approved great by the state um and I we when we proposed all the dimensional requirements for your consideration we looked at density we looked at heights we looked at open
space requirements we looked at what was similar for underlying zoning so there nothing up there is going to allow a lot more than what could go under current zoning similar to most of the other
sites we didn't change you know the zoning um dramatically from what was underlying same thing in the downtown area okay um it's not like now a 20s story building could go up there it's still I want to say the caps were four or five um up
there which is what they are under current zoning i'd have to look back to tell you exactly um I have it right here so um four stories maximum height okay
so um lot area setbacks we open space we mirrored pretty much everything we could if we could do it you know so that we weren't really changing that much and my last question is with I'm I'm thrilled to hear the 15%
was accepted i know we're entering a market where this probably won't be the case but let's say we ever could make the case that 20% or something higher than 15 was supportable here do we then have to go back to the state and rejustify that for the MBTA community zoned areas
as well or would that like how what overrides what in that scenario we would have to this this this will all the um is getting written into was written into the MBTA zoning we we used except for
the special permit requirement and I think there was one other I don't know if it was the density bonus there was something else that didn't get written in but the numbers everything all the filing requirements all the design standards everything got written in okay we proposed it they actually didn't
accept our economic feasibility in the beginning and we had to redo part of that that was one of the comments we got over the year but um if I think the state capped it at I think to go above 10% you had to do this analysis y and I
don't remember um state law um allows a maximum of the state law didn't require affordable housing but it allowed a maximum of 10% to include a hire we had to do a new we
had to do an economic feasibility analysis i vaguely remember the state did have a cap though on that okay i don't have it in front of me if it if it was anything it might have been 20% i'm for some reason remembering that but yes we would have to if the state law allows
it we'd have to go back in and amend petition to amend the zoning because anytime we change any zoning that affects the MBTA zoning we'd have to tell them otherwise we risk not being in compliance okay i appreciate it i mean I'm sure they don't want it higher than a certain amount
because then it can't get built which defeats the purpose but just wanted to understand what that would look like i I agree with what my colleagues have said about let's just get this done don't want to come back but if there's an opportunity to leverage the market more if it swings in a more favorable direction just wanted to understand the process i'm all said thank you councelor
uh councelor Simelli I'll yield to my colleague to my left i I just want to clarify that I'm just planning to make a motion this be referred to as joint planning and rules and ordinance committee so we're not having any vote tonight other than to refer for so so
you know I I think the questions are good because it's it's you know it's been a while I even it's been over a year that we talked about this stuff so I appreciate Michelle making an explanation but we will have a a full hearing on it and you know this was introduced because um with some
scheduling things we're there's like miday or whatever is going to be the time to have that meeting and so we're just trying to make sure it got in the queue so that the public hearing can be scheduled so So there's going to be more time to talk about this and it's going to come back to the council for the vote you know sometime later so we have a
motion on the floor that's been seconded uh and then the last thing from the the chair is when we do have that hearing um if we could just um also prepare to discuss what impact it has on the commercial portion of the um the subd district that you were talking about um
in terms of like I know that there's currently like commercial space requirements we don't have to get into it now but we've been trying to increase the commercial space so that that's the mixed use portion of it that's not being affected by this at all there's no
change this is being changed to the multifamily overlay portion of the MBTA not the mandatory mixeduse portion of the MBTA but if I could just quickly the other change that you need to know is being proposed is the effective date they originally said explore it we don't
think you can do it we started to explore it and they since came back and said you have to remove it we will not approve it if it's in there so that's the second piece that is being removed from the multif family overlay and the mandatory mixeduse the effective date so the
effective date will be when you vote to ordain it not when the state approves it understood and what I I was referring to the RIO in terms of the the impact to the commercial portion of the RAIO um right isn't there isn't there a requirement like some commercial space
at Rose Coral there is yeah that's the only thing I was talking about i think we left I think we left I think we put the RAIO pieces in the mandatory mixed use because like this whole building site is in the mandatory mixed you district okay that actually now now
that you it's so actually the map that is attached um I think the pink is mandatory mixed i think one of the challenges it has dots it doesn't have it doesn't have words um at least the copy that we have just has dots oh really you didn't get it words no we
just have a I don't know if I don't know I don't know what I think it might be a formatting thing so um I will we have a motion that's been seconded um the and I don't think we need to have a roll call so all those in favor to refer it to a joint
ordinance and planning board hearing please say I i any opposed that has been referred unanimously i councelor Selli thank you okay thank you oh did you want to speak oh yeah
councilman believe it or not I just wanted to say Michelle all my some of my questions been answered and I I agree with uh my colleague Council Winslow on having a subcommittee meeting on it uh for some more answers and questions but once again I just want to thank you and your team because it seems like you did
a lot of work here and I appreciate you doing all that and bringing that to us like you always do so I thank you very much thank you may maybe it's my phone it looks like on the computer it shows it shows words on my phone it shows dots very odd sorry
about that okay thank you thank you next order of business paper 172-25 be it ordained the Malden City Council that the code of the city of Malden 12.08.040 flood planes 12.1210
floodplane districts 12.32.060 060 definition zoning are hereby amended to include new regulations as required by FEMA so that referenced areas will remain eligible for FEMA sponsored flood insurance programs councelor Winsow for the paper okay so the intent here is
this paper will be filed will be I will make a motion to refer this to uh joint rules and ordinance and planning so just to be brief about the paper itself um FEMA is going to finalize updated flood
plane maps for Malden in July so the the thrust of this ordinance is to make sure we refer to the new flood plane um ordinance in our flood plane maps in our ordinance and that makes those areas eligible for FEMA flood control
insurance so it's it's important um and so we're working um we the state department of conservation recreations the flood office has sent along a model ordinance that I went through we actually have um a
pretty substantial flood plane ordinance in our zoning right now so it's just updating some things there and then also um our engineering department under Ylip has a um its own set of regulations for flood planes so they will oversee the program so this is just really making
sure we're staying in step with the federal flood uh insurance program and that so that's the main thrust of this and then it'll be further presented at um you know a joint hearing and comments then but it's that's really the thrust we've been asked to do this and it has
to be done by you know July 1 basically so that's thank thank you councelor Wenzo i appreciate it's been seconded by councelor uh Crow i appreciate you including the redlinined uh paper here it's it's easy to follow so on that motion is there any discussion a yes
vote would refer this to joint ordinance planning a no vote would not all those in favor please say I i any opposed that has been referred unanimously to a joint public hearing okay and then I just have a point of information and then maybe
I know I have been approached um on several other papers for zoning that um that were not on the queue tonight um but but there is also interest of making sure those go on the same hearing night
and so um the suggestion was that we we we vote as a council to make next week's council the whole meeting into a regular council meeting so I think it might be good just to make that motion right now i mean under rule 1.05 we can vote as a
majority of the council to change um our schedule just by a majority vote so I say we have um a couple papers that um that are are that need another one um we did just vote on site plan review for
religious educational and daycarees that um there's a technical amendment we need to make to that and um so that that's really uh and then there was another uh paper as well so I would just make that motion that we um under rule 1.05 we
scheduled next week's meeting as a full council meeting so we can take up that um those votes to refer those papers so councelor Wenzo has made a motion to turn next week's meeting not from a committee to the whole but into a full
council so that we can take up some additional zoning papers that are required there's actually I think also the reorganization of the health and human services and inspectional services department that was originally included in the charter stuff but we realize that
we can actually move that forward sooner because we're out right now out posting so we want to get that done as soon as possible um and I do see councelor McDonald uh has a light yeah thank you my question was just do we need to make it a full council meeting or do we could
we just suspend the council rules to consider these as part of a committee of the whole yeah we could do either the thing is u it's probably just cleaner and gives us more flexibility to just have it as a committee of the whole um again it you mean to have Yeah as a full council and I mean
we can always keep it as a sparse we don't have it doesn't have to be like don't put anything in everyone else and we will have a short agenda um maybe some committee reports potentially but it should be pretty short i think letting people know right yeah and and yeah the other dynamic is by announcing
it a week in advance we are letting people know that we're planning to have a full council not a committee of the whole okay yeah that's fine i I anticipate a you know good discussion in finance next week so we'll I'll talk with Lisa about scheduling that but
that makes sense sounds good is there a second to councelor Winsow's second by councelor Simali all those in favor uh a yes vote would make next week's meeting a full council meeting all those in his favor please say I i any opposed that
passes unanimously great paper 173-25 order that the city solicitor's office draft the necessary and appropriate documents to be presented to the city council for a vote to officially declare the undeveloped city-owned lot comprised of
approximately 11,868 square feet on Crescent Lane and identified by the city assessor with parcel identification number 138787718 to be permanently designated as public open space and conservation land In that upon such council vote in
approval by the mayor the conservation committee or other entity necessary to hold a conversation conservation easement on the parcel in perpetuity file such documents at the Middle Sex Registry of Deeds councelor Winsow for the paper thank you um as you heard um
Mr roby speak um I've been working with um the Crescent Lane neighborhood since 2021 um first initially doing some cleanups of this property essentially um you know Crescent Lane is sits right on nearly the Melrose border and um it's it's this
nice little quiet deadend street um and it's just below Williams Street so at some point it seemed like maybe there was some sort of rideway that ran from Crescent Lane up to Williams and it
maybe got deseated but it's city land so it's just a you know 11,000 square foot lot that's there and the neighbors um you know took it upon themselves first to just work to clean that lot up um and
then the question beca they actually you know got um some naturalists to assess what the vegetation was um as Brent mentioned about um doing uh you know some stairs and stuff like that so um
one of the questions that had come up then was that it was a little bit unclear because it's sort of open land um in a residential setting what the the boundaries were and whether the the neighbors had encroached so one of the suggestions was to make sure that there
was a good survey taken so we really knew what was city land and what was private land so that step was taken through a CPA application and you know we've had these conversations since 2021 or even early I think it even goes back to 2018 to take some parcels that are um
city land that is sitting undeveloped but is not designated as conservation um and and you know the Robies have been you know just bringing this back to our attention and um there was actually a paper where we were looking to do this
broadly with a lot of the parcels and I I think the challenge is that um you know there's a variety of categories each parcel ends up being very unique in terms of you know what the title work is is it something a lot a lot of these undeveloped parcels are what's called
tax title and there's sort of three different phases of tax title it's really hard to just blanket say we're going to take a 100 parcels and make them conservation land um I think the other thing that I found was that um just looking that I thought there's
something called article 97 of the the Massachusetts Constitution which basically you know empowers the city to buy land for conservation purposes and when we do that under that article that land becomes permanently protected and
we need a vote of the legislature but when looking at that article um it wasn't clear we could just declare this piece of land conservation land it looks like we have to go as a conservation restriction which is a different avenue so so really the purpose of this order
is now that we've done a lot of the preparation work in terms of the survey work and and and cleaning up the land to really uh help and and and Alicia McNeel is also in in the loop and said she doesn't have a specific order to move ahead right now on this so she asked you
know that something be developed so I just thought it would be good to have this order to really direct the solicitor's office to focus on this parcel and then this could be the template i mean I think uh that we can then use to con truly convert land piece
by piece from kind of this undesated unclear status to conservation status so I think we have a a motivated neighborhood a property that has looks like it has pretty clear title and um and it's a good parcel to um be you know
a separate little kind of pocket green area in this neighborhood so I I just thought that this would be a good example so that we can work on this and you know between myself and the legal office to truly work through the the the uh the complexity that comes of trying
to make this designation effective so So that's that's I just ask that uh my fellow colleagues if you have any questions or if you have any questions for the the Robies or whatever I'd be happy to entertain them but it's just more Could you clarify what's Crescent
Lane off of it's off of kind of Lebanon yeah it's a little bit it's a funny there's actually two there's a Crescent Avenue and a Crescent Lane but it's it's it parallels Swain's Pond Road
uhhuh okay yeah there's a I guess the name is dead pleasant yeah it's a very Oh you're saying this is But this is Is this up by Rudolph no um No rudolph it's
It's right before it sits between Lebanon Street I see Mount Pleasant to Crescent Lane yeah so Mount Pleasant to Crescent Lane yeah that's So Mount Pleasant is just like a little almost block
yeah sorry I was just trying to find the actual parcel yeah yeah so Okay oh wait hold on oh no i found a different one okay and are there any questions on this aside from mine Councelor McDonald yeah thank you
Council Winsel for bringing this forward we had some good conversations last year in the public properties committee folks may remember and and got a list from the city of all these different um all the different parcels that the city has that are undeveloped and got that got that in
a nice old GIS view thanks Steve Fomo if you're watching this and the and so I my recollection from that conversation was also that we wanted to have some clarification of what those different categories were and who had authority at what level and what different things
meant because if something is a park then it includes public access what so one of my questions was is the intent that there be public access to this land in the you know in the future um yeah I mean that that's the intent that it
would be like you know we're talking about a little trail and maybe a seating area and that type of thing but it wouldn't be used as a playground or anything like that it's really just to be like a short little nature trail and a you know kind of solitude park kind of thing but it would uh generally be
relatively undeveloped besides just kind of trails kind of amenities that type of thing okay i mean that sounds lovely yes and um I think active recreation is really simple well but it's more than I mean it's it's a it's a subset of passive recreation it's also not a
Frisbee golf course and so I I I would like to ask that in the process of drafting this we also get a brief memo from our law department outlining the different possible categories of the utilization and what and and particularly what law defines them if
it's state law or local law or I understand parks trigger something in the constitution um so I I I'm happy to support this i think this is a as you say councelor Winsow a great opportunity to set a template and I would just like to know like what is the set what's the
range of possibilities we could have for some kind of you know designation of undeveloped land for for future use in in various ways that would at least include conservation you know des sort of designated conservation land something more official like a
conservation easement um what needs to qualify under our open space and recreation plan or other state kinds of categories i understand there's some state categories for land that allow us to access certain types of supports or
funding and then what constitutes a park and how that happens those are at least the ones I know about but there may be others and so it just be helpful to know what the um lay of the land as it were is on this thank you okay councelor Lenn
thank you Mr president um I also am encouraged by the fact that this could be a template and I'm interested to see how this plays out it reminds me of there's a lot of sections of the West End where there's maybe privately owned parcels but there's like adjacent to or the only access to them is off a paper street kind of similar to this something
that never got connected all the way and now it's a low-lying wetland and I'd love to see if there's more that we could do i get asked by neighbors of those types of properties a lot can we protect them or purchase the parts that are privately owned so I think this is an interesting template um I happen to have friends who live on this street i
think it's a lovely little area i think you it's very off the beaten path you wouldn't necessarily even know that it's there and as councelor McDonald said clearly we're all sitting up here trying to find it um but as councelor McDonald said I am learning through the hospital process the Malden Hospital redevelopment where we're trying to
build what I'll call a park the words you use are super important and it's very restrictive on what funding you can access and what easements you need or don't need so just want to echo and kind of underline that point as well um but this sounds fantastic and I'm happy to support it so great work
thank you and this and just from the chair I will state and I'll go to councelor Cologne Hayes yeah I think this is a great model you know there I think a lot of these small parcels in our community and um you know we don't always know why they're there sometimes there could be an old uh drain that is
going through them um there often times there could be something you know geological about it in terms of why it wasn't developed um and so I think it does make sense to make this you know um you know conservation land uh but understanding the difference between this versus a preservation easement or a
conservation easement um I think is going to be important and helpful uh Councelor Cologne Hayes thank you just briefly um thank you for bringing this forward and uh it definitely looks like a lot of work's been done i'm looking at this I'm like wow all those red lines on
this subper it's a little confusing but I'm going to um be taking a look at this just for the exact same reason that um Council Linhan just said i'm thinking of a few spots um around our area we might be thinking of the same one that this could be a great template for so um thanks for putting this work in and
thank you for putting this forward um definitely in support so councelor Winsow do you have a motion yes sir i have a motion to the council adopt the order is there a second seconded by councelor Simelli um the all
those in favor please say I i i any oppose the order is adopted unanimously paper 174-25 order the city of Malden file with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development a consolidated plan
including applications for grants under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 as amended and the Cranston Gonzalez Housing Act of 1990 as amended to be administered by the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development for fiscal year 2026 including all understanding and
assurances contained therein on or substantially in the form presented to this meeting in that Gary Christensen mayor and chief exive Executive Officer of the City of Malden be and hereby is directed and designated as the authorized representative for and in the name in behalf of the city of Malden to
sign and file said plan to act in connection with said plan and to provide such additional information as may be required so this was a paper I can thank you for indulging me my apologies for this i was waiting for the final touches
this is in regards to the CDBG budget with the mayor's letter of recommendation and while I was waiting for the final touches to just be added to that budget um I failed in following up with the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development which is why
you have a paper on the agenda with no attachments to it um I think the intention of this paper is to be referred to finance i promise you you'll have all the documents that you need when that happens and so um again my apologies for not sending you the budget in advance of this
vote councelor McDonald thank you Mr president uh I'm happy to have this scheduled for a finance meeting which we would need to do anyways and as always the venue you know how how we do this can I just ask what
is the deadline to get this approved i see Alex Pratt in the audience please hi uh I just want to correct my colleague it was my fault not hers um but I didn't send it to her so that was that was on me um the deadline to send
it to HUD is May 15th um I just heard today actually that that is also the date that they will tell us the actual dollar amount that we expect to budget so what we have uh which we will share with you is a contingency budget and then there are adjustments that are made based on whenever we in fact get that
information okay understood i my anticipation is we might wait a few weeks then uh or do you need it you know filed immediately sooner is better than later um because we then upload what you all confirm into
a system that would then send to HUD by May 15th and HUD says the data could come May 15th and it could be June it could be May 1st we just we just don't know at this point um but the good news is the and this almost felt like a fluke
um the CDBG and home funds that Congress appropriated um as part of that stop gap measure from maybe a month month and a half ago actually level funded what we got the year before nationwide so we expect that our CDBG allocation will be within I'm going to say within 5% plus
or minus of what we got last year um so we're not in a horrible position as we you know expected we might be but having done well we can work on the scheduling i'm I'm happy to have it referred to finance um and happy to make that motion when it's appropriate
um so just to clarify do you do you have the budget that you could send to the council yeah we can send it over tomorrow okay so you're are you still developing it or is we have developed a contingency budget so we we're assuming I think in CDBG 1.4 4 million flat we
know it will not be 1.4 million flat but we have language that you all will discuss in committee and vote on that says if it's 1.43 this is how that extra money gets spent and if it's 1.35 this is where those funds are cut um so depending on
what that actual value from HUD whenever we get it ends up being you will have approved a budget that allows us to move forward with that that incorporates that um contingency language which we have done in the past couple years because this is not the first time that this has happened although it is I think the
latest okay thank you thank you Councelor Selli thank you Mr president um when I was just a suggestion when I was here years back we used to have like a community development committee subcommittee i don't I don't know why we
don't have that anymore um I don't know if you guys just do it discuss it in committee now if that's the way it goes but I think my suggestion would be that um this council should be you know having this in a committee throughout
the year on funding being spended as far as the CDPG funding goes i I because I have you know several um several things in the works myself my neighborhood um that's going to take a lot lot more meetings than just um you
know a few finance meetings on where the money's going how it's getting there and where it's needed most and I think that as a council we should be that should be something that's most important to us we talk about community and community
development but yet this council again I don't know where it came from i'm just telling you from years past because I was the chairman of that committee for 10 years and it was the CDBG all the projects that are going that are being developed uh where they are you know
what the process is and and what kind of help and and and resources we can give to the administration that's also working on bringing in uh other funding uh grant money so I think it's important that the council uh plays more of an active role and you as the council
president Mr president could start that and do that and I would just recommend just a recommendation uh that you do that i you know I'd like to see a couple of good counselors on that puppy you know it's just honestly
it's just it's it's a lot of money that comes into this community and um I think that the council needs to start taking a a a bird's eye view on where that money is going and why it's going there and who needs it
most it's just my suggestion Mr president thank you for your comments i can't comment on the past practice but my understanding is that um because this is a financial paper um they they have
to initiate with with the mayor and I think that that's probably why it is running this way currently that that's just off the top of my head um but I do think that in terms of uh community development um a committee like that that works in tandem with with the
mayor's office and the office of OSPCD uh I finally got it first time listen I I haven't gotten it yet i haven't gotten it yet so I think that they'd probably be willing to some to work with some type of that probably in a few well you know again I you know you're just
getting down to basics here right i mean the fast fact of the matter is we're the lines of defenses for our neighborhoods right and we've got to go to different resources to get the funding to bring into the neighborhoods that we live in and that we we uh govern and uh I I just
think that you know it's just my personal opinion i I'm just saying that I just think that the council should be more involved and when it comes to community development and where the money's coming i mean I know CDBG like the back of my hand i mean uh but there's might be some other
councils that that that don't and may qualify for funding in their community that they didn't know uh that they did and how to get it uh so I just think it's important for the for the council to be aware of these things that are going on because here's the thing i mean the the people up in the office even
though they do a great job i mean I work with them for years and you know none of this stuff would happen if it wasn't for them dotting the eyes crossing the tees but it does come from development from the from the community you know what I mean so I mean look at uh the Temple Site on U Brian Street you know it's
been in it's been in operation for three years it's it was been a you know an easy and a difficult piece of property to obtain uh but it's going to create 32 units of affordable housing uh great development seen the plans uh Alex did a fantastic job with it uh and I'm you
know looking forward to working with him more on this project than others but I again I just I strongly believe that the one of the things that I was very disappointed on when I came back to the council that there was no community development committee and I just think that's important for us thank you so the
action item I'll take is that maybe we can like work do make a little working group about how to maybe try to see how we can thread the needle on that um um councelor McDonald did you have any last comments yeah thank you uh council
president i just wanted to comment on on this point from my colleague from W 7 which is that we do have a community engagement and involvement committee and I wonder if that committee wants to have a conversation about how to promote uh you know I know there's an open
opportunity to apply for example for CDBG funds and like how do we bring that to the right people at the right time um and so anyways just wanted to name that we do have a committee dedicated to very to very similar pieces to this and we
could start there uh and would like to make a motion to refer this particular order with the attached budget that we will receive tomorrow to the finance committee is there a second second seconded by councelor Simelli all those in favor please say I i i any opposed
that has been referred unanimously next order of business paper 175-25 committee report the standing committee on finance to whom was referred paper 74 series of 2025 having considered the same make the following report the committee recommends this paper out
favorably as amended with the following added after the word project provided that the appropriation is not to be used to repair or restore any item whose sole purpose is religious so I just would like to uh go on the
record and state that um I have filed an appearance of a conflict of interest disclosure form with the city clerk uh related to what this um uh proposal is about um I am a parishioner of St paul's Church which is looking to get some of
these funds um I was formerly in leadership at that organization i'm no longer in leadership uh and I had no involvement in the preparation of this uh grant application so um because of the disclosure that I filed I believe
that I can uh handle this uh without there being a conflict but I must disclose that councelor McDonald uh yeah I want to make a motion to receive the committee report
and I'll discuss this amendment with the next paper yeah all those in favor please say I i any opposed the committee report is received paper 74-25 order that the appropriation enum enumerated below being in the amount of $14,500 be appropriated from the
community preservation act fund for the following project st paul's Parish Envelope Assessment Project historical pro preservation reserve $14,500 total appropriation $14,500 councelor McDonald
thank you so this is the final recommendation for a grant from the community preservation uh committee for this year and this one we took a little more time with because it relates to a religious building St paul's Parish which is a recognized historic building
and certainly a just well-known building in Malden over on on Florence Street and the church is not only an active congregation but it is also a uh you know the the congregation the parish um hosts a number of community events and
community organizations and so on so we had this discussion and we had a memo from our legal department and multiple meetings to to discuss this cpc funds have been used many times in other municipalities for church restoration
projects churches are in fact often one of the most historic you know buildings in a city or town that's not uncommon and the and and again especially when that recognition already exists that certainly qualifies it for CPC
consideration under the rules of the CPC uh the CPC association or like the the organization of CPCs across the state also has some guidance about this there was a lawsuit uh in Actton I believe about a not just not not a small grant like this but a larger scale restoration
grant that was challenged in court the Supreme Judicial Court gave some standards to use which we then uh considered in our decision about whether to recommend this favorably or not and were and we were in dialogue with um with a member of the of the leadership
of St paul's Parish um ultimately we recognize that the constitution protects free exercise of religion and that it would not be appropriate um or permissible under that to reject an application on the sole basis that it is
a religious organization like you can't discriminate you cannot provide preference but you also cannot discriminate against a religious organization um however we also have the Dover Amendment in Massachusetts which requires that we not use public funds to support private purposes uh and so
recognizing that the building itself has value to the community that the building actually can be bought and sold at future points which has certainly happened to churches in Malden uh and and other houses of worship that may not be Christian and uh that the so we
recommended the paper out favorably for this project which is which is really only an envelope assessment that can enable um the the congregation to figure out what it wants to do in the future uh and set a bit of a just set a little bit
of a precedent of what we might be willing to consider in the future uh which is to set the stipulation that the funds from the CPC cannot be used for any item whose sole purpose is religious so not something that may be used by the
congregation in a religious context um but if there is no other purpose for the building besides the use in a religious ceremony then that would not be appropriate i don't think that actually applies to anything in this project because it's just about the outside of the building um but we wanted to be clear about that sort of for the record
uh for the next time that this comes up so that received um a a tested endorsement from the member of the leadership from St paul's who was there and uh unanimous support from the committee um and I just think on a on a personal note I think this is a good
place to land i understand this project does have strong support from the administration and the CPC um so I think this gives us a path forward that protects all of our various constitutional legal uh and community obligations um to move this forward i'm
just Zahir how'd I do all right zahir says I did okay all right thank you thank you Councelor Selli i just My question was just like the separation of church and state is that like not a thing i mean are we allowed to give money to churches i didn't I didn't know
we were I I would invite the city solicitor if I know that you provided a um two two memos um if you want to maybe summarize them two so uh councelor Simonelli so uh I don't know if you were at these meetings
but uh basically you have the the anti- aid amendment in Massachusetts uh which many states have a similar anti- aid amendment which basically says you cannot use public funds to uh for the purpose of aiding a religious organization they've been around for a century or more they are stricter in
separation of church and state they they more strictly separate church and state than what the current US Supreme Court uh is saying is allowed um in the last several years the Supreme Court has had a number of cases involving using public
funds uh to support religious organizations and in most of those cases under the current Supreme Court membership they have uh said that cities and towns and states cannot um cannot deny those funds in a
number of different contexts so one context was for example um where um uh I think the state of Missouri had public funds that they were granting to resurface resurface playgrounds a church wanted to uh apply for these funds the
state of Missouri said "Sorry you know separation of church and state we can't we can't give you these funds." Supreme Court said "Well no you're discriminate you're you're you know inhibiting their free exercise of religion because they're religion so you can't do that." So the Supreme Court has sort of taken
this new direction in the in the law when it comes to free exercise versus separation of church and straight church and state um and they're becoming more and more uh you know they're saying more and more that public funds can be used and can
not only can be used but they cannot be denied um and in fact I think this month there is a case before the US Supreme Court about whether um a public charter school which is explicitly religious can be a public school and receive public funds so the area here of the law is
just so uncertain it's all over the map and what I've given the opinion I've given the city council is my my best guess as to what the current Supreme Court membership would um would decide if it were in the one ina million chance
to go up to the Supreme Court so So it's not nothing nothing the law hasn't been changed you're telling me that that it's just your theory that they're going through this change at the Supreme Court and they're going in a direction they haven't changed any of the amendments
that's up for debate i mean I I would say the law is being steered in a new direction but it hasn't been changed um no I would say it has been changed it's it's it's going in a new direction that it has not been historically so I'm trying to predict as
best I can what that direction is right but it's still not solid clear oh yeah no it's a it's a a minefield thank you councelor appreciate the information thank you for that good question
Councelor Selli councelor Winsow yeah no I I I appreciate the um finance committee's sensible um you know review here and in the city solicitors um you know further digging into the um you know the the psyche cases at the Supreme
Court i I mean I do think I you know one of the things of having grown up in California and where most buildings are you know if it's older than 1950 that's historic and then coming to New England and having you know villages and even places like Malden to have these
churches that date back to the 1860s or before um you know houses of worship are really significant historic things and since the community has passed the community preservation act with that intent and um and and certainly um we also
adopted the um you know demolition delay law that focuses on significant community buildings so I I think you know and I think the other thing we just have examples in our community that there are houses of worships that have changed denomination changed religions
in our community they stay they're still being used for religious purposes for but a totally different ideology and approach and um so I think that's really the intent of freedom of religion is that you are free to worship and the
state's not supposed to put its hands one way or the other but in terms of making sure um buildings that can be used for worship are maintained i think that's that that is it's amazing when you go to a place like France that has you know 12th century churches or or or
or even older places um that both because the materials used and support from the state that they are um maintained like I say I think we have in a good example is that you know having support for buildings that have been
used or are or have been used for houses of worship um is a distinction from necessarily supporting that religious philosophy so I'm supportive of this paper i think it's a sensible way to preserve um important history but also
be respectful and and not uh you know favor one religion over another councelor McDonald oh I'm I'm sorry i think my was on from the past but I just want to correct i misspoke and said the Dober amendment
when I meant the anti-aid amendment so thank you for correcting that s almost perfect uh is there a motion councelor Selli thank you Mr president the the other thing I would just add just be careful here i think um there's
a lot of different denominations out there and a lot of different churches and a lot of them probably need a lot of support especially since co so I mean once you start giving money out to one denomination you better be prepared to be given out to every one of them that
come before you so I think that was the separation of church and state maybe that wasn't the way it was designed in the in the in the you know from our founders fathers but I I would say that you know that's what it means now in
reality you want to say something go ahead go ahead um historically these anti-aid amendments that proliferated across the states um they kind of have an unsavory origin even though they kind of also serve a good purpose the purpose now
would be to to not favor one religion or another and one concern about uh giving public fund using public funds to support a religion whether it's for religious purpose or not a religious purpose is basically you're favoring
certain religions that happen to home that happen to own uh buildings or property that the society deems as worthy of preservation um and that's just an accident of history certain religions don't have that don't get that support you're
basically favoring one religion over another right and that's where the the uh the establishment clause you know uh separation of church and state issue comes in not everybody would would agree with the direction that the Supreme Court is going i mean in some of these decisions that I read there are vigorous
dissents from certain justices saying this is not the direction we want to be going we want to give states and local governments the freedom to have more separation of church and state to avoid favoring certain religions over another correct back to the anti- amendment the reason these anti-deade amendments
proliferated in the 19th century actually was because at one time there were established churches in in the states however the population was changing most of those churches were Protestant churches with the influx of of Catholic immigrants suddenly all the
Protestants realized whoa whoa whoa if we're going to have to we don't want to support Catholic churches because if we're using public funds to support Catholic churches we don't want that so a lot of them actually enacted these anti-aid amendments saying "Guess what we're not going to use any public funds
to support any church at all." Right um so they kind of had a discriminatory purpose in their origin uh although you know today they arguably serve uh the purpose a good purpose which is neutrality among religions right no I
agree i agree look I'm just again I'm just putting out some caution here i'm I don't really support this paper um I think that we should keep our hands clear from that uh again I've I've talked to several
um pastors and priests and you know they're all having issues going on in their buildings as far as repair goes and you know again what if you if you give it to one you got to give it to them all that's the old saying it's not broken if you give to one you got to
give to all and I just think that you're going to have a lot of applications coming up here uh looking for funding and uh I think we're going to be heading for some stringent times coming ahead in the next few years so I think we got to be very careful on how we uh spend our
money and uh where it's going and uh you know I I mean you know if the Supreme Court wants to go in that direction you know I listen good luck to them i just as far as I'm concerned I think that government
should stay out of uh religious services period and I think this is a bad example for the city to be giving up money uh to a uh to a church entity i I just I've never heard of it
before you know thank I don't agree with it thank you Mr president i appreciate you sharing your your thoughts Councelor Simmonelli uh councelor Sika I'll make a motion that we table this paper until we can get some further clarity on the issue
seconded by councelor Simelli um and then before we take the tableabling motion I do I do know we councelor uh Cologne Hayes had her light on you and you wanted to speak if and then we'll take that up sure thank you very much i was just going to point out um to anyone listening here that we did have lots of
discussion lots there was meetings after meetings these questions came up um we it was something that was looked into for all the reasons that were said and it the CPC people applied to the CPC like um even though we have to approve them that you know anything in the
future would go to the CPC and then come here if they felt it was deemed worthy of um our funding and um they're the best people to really realize that so um um I just wish people were there or maybe kind of followed up on this but I didn't want the public to think that
this was lightly like we did a lot of meetings on and research on this thank you thank you councelor Colonius so there's a tableabling motion um and the only reason I I I will um call that motion actually I see your lights are
you okay and they Okay hold on so all those in favor to table this please say I any opposed no the paper is tabled uh can can I ask a clarifying
question 701 okay would you all like to see the memo from the legal department uh councelor councelor McDonald so it is it's tabled um but I'll follow up with you offline okay if possible thanks
next order of business paper 176-25 committee report the standing committee on personnel and appointments to whom was referred papers 91 through 93 and 126 through 133 series of 2025 having considered the same make the following report committee recommends these
appointments out favorably to the full council on councelor Linhan's motion to receive the committee report is there a second second seconded by councelor Colon Hayes all in favor please say I any opposed the paper is received
oh uh yeah and I think they're on number one well we do have a guest here who's one of the individual appointees can we do those before we do the group you've been sitting here all night yeah that's a great So what
So we're going to take 12625 out of order paper 126-25 mayoral appointment Lisa Picardi 18 Phip Street Malden as a member of the disability commission said term to expire September 20th 2026 and to commence upon confirmation by the
city council councelan thank you Mr president so I want to just point out Lisa's been sitting here the whole night i want to thank you for coming um you know we ask folks to step up and put their name in the hat for these positions and it's remarkable that you come in so many nights so thank you for being here um so
Lisa as it says on the agenda is going to be filling the unexpired term of um former member Nicole Malum who stepped down um Lisa came in we had a lovely conversation she has an HR background does a lot of volunteer work um she's really excited to serve the community and I think the disability commission is
a really dynamic group right now and she'll make a fabulous addition so we were unanimous in recommending her favorably to the full council on on councelor Crow's motion to approve second by councelor Cologne Hayes all those in favor please say oh we have to
take a roll call the clerk will call the role council Cologne Hayes yes council Crow yes council Lahan yes council McDonald Council Sega yes council Simonelli Council Winsow Council President Ali yes congratulations
very dedicated so with that um I believe we're going to take up um the the bulk of the want to do the planning board first there's three three Yep oh yeah so we're going to go 91 through 93 can we do it that
way we can if I read them all unless anybody thinks that they don't want to sure i think that's what I'd like to do so we're going to read all the papers and vote on them as a group unless anyone objects okay 91-25 the mayoral
appointment vikas Verma 85 Harvest Street Malden is a full member of the planning board having served as an associate member since 2022 said term to expire March 1st 2023 and to commence upon confirmation by the city council
paper 92-25 mayoral appointment Stephanie Stone 19 Pine Street Malden as a full member of the planning board having served as an associate member since 2022 said term to expire March 1st 2026 and to commence upon confirmation by the city council paper
93-25 mayoral reappoint Kenneth Antinucci 14 Spruce Street Malden as a member of the planning board having served since 2021 said term to expire March 1st 2030 and to commence upon confirmation by the city council paper
127-25 mayoral appointment Amanda Treat 64 Woodland Road Malden as a member of the commission on climate action and sustainability and said term to expire March 5th 2027 and to commence upon confirmation by the City Council paper 128-25 mayoral appointment Diego
Maldonado 17 Hamlet Place Malden as a member of the Commission on Climate Action and Sustainability said term to expire March 5th 2027 and to commence upon confirmation by the city council paper 129-25 mayoral appointment Limpin
G51 Cherry Street Malden as a member of the commission on climate action and sustainability said term to expire March 5th 2027 and to commence upon confirmation by the city council paper 130-25 mayoral appointment Rachel Surret 50 Pier Street
Malden as a member of the commission on climate action and sustainability said term to expire March 5th 2027 and to commence upon confirmation by the city council paper 131-25 mayoral appointment Ricky Ma 10 Lynwood Street unit 404
Malden as a member of the conservation the commission on climate action and sustainability said term to expire March 5th 2027 7 and to commence upon confirmation by the city council paper 132-25 mayoral appointment Robert Fitzpatrick 66 Medfit Street Malden as a
member of the commission on climate action and sustainability said term to expire March 5th 2027 and to commence upon confirmation by the city council paper 133-25 mayoral appointment Ron Cochran 105 Cherry Street Malden as a
member of the commission on climate action and sustainability said term to expire expire March 5th 2027 and to commence upon confirmation by the city council so on Council Lahan's motion to confirm these appointments is there a second
great and I'll hand it over to councilan to do you want to speak or No just briefly since that was a lot i'll just you know for anybody watching so we had three um folks coming in for the planning board one was a existing reappoint and then two folks that were moving from associate to full member um
and then we had this new group of seven folks coming in for the new commission on climate action and sustainability which you may remember we created earlier this year as kind of an outgrowth of the climate action plan this is going to replace the old clean energy committee that we used to have um
I really want to underscore both these groups of people we interviewed both the planning board and the sustainability as kind of group conversations these are some really rockstar candidates for these i I honestly don't know how we're so lucky that we get people with these kind of resumes coming in but I cannot
wait to see what the sustainability group in particular does it It's a new group as I said it's got some amazing folks um and so yeah just had a really great conversation and totally unanimous in recommending them all favorably thanks and so that's a motion by councelor Lahan second by councelor
Crowe um the clerk will call the role council Cologne Hayes yes council Crowe yes council Lahan yes council McDonald council Sega yes councel Simelli council Winslow council President Omali yes those are the Yep confirm
unanimously congratulations everyone so with that um the docket appears to be clear uh personal privilege council Linan thank you sorry I'm getting my calendar up um just a really quick reminder that
Ward 3 um myself and the Girl Scouts are going to be hosting a cleanup of Felsmere Park and Pond area on Saturday April 19th that's going to be at 9:00 a.m just meet up by the picnic tables um all are welcome the scouts come out every year and we love to see other members of the community joining us so
come on down if you're available councelor Winsow yeah i just wanted to wish uh everyone in our Jewish community um a wonderful Passover that is coming up uh quite soon so um that'll be coming up this coming weekend so wish everybody
a a welcome Passover any other personal privilege oh well just I just want to so we did our clean up at Weights Mount this weekend i just want to thank Darren Josie from the Great Men Outdoors um and Idle Hands as well as Rockspot and all the volunteers that came out uh to help clean up the
park uh we found some pretty uh crazy things in the woods this year uh there was local lore that there was a dirt bike from the 70s it was located uh it was uh it palded in in in comparison to what it used to look like it was just
kind of rust uh and we found a lot of other cool things so um thank you to all the volunteers uh and with that uh I'll hand it over to Council McDonald before we adjourn uh I just wanted to briefly state my hope is to have finance next week to talk about these um papers that are
appropriating money for leadline removal and so just encourage folks to tune in to that meeting if you'd like to i think it's an opportunity to talk about some of the good work um that the city is doing in leadline removal and see the con and hear from the administration the context of how this is proceeding
overall i know a number of us including councelor clone hayes and council president Ali have been also involved in supporting a community um coalition that's working on this um with clean water action and Mystic Valley NAACP so I think it's it's going to be a good opportunity to get the lay of that land
and I look forward to talking more about it and hope to see you all there thanks awesome and on councelor Crow's motion to adjurnn seconded by councelor Sika all those in favor please say I i any opposed we are adjourned at
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