Council will come to order all rise and salute the flag pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repblic for it stands one nation God indivisible liberty and justice for all
please remain standing for a moment of silence in honor of our veterans service memb and those who have given the ultimate sacrifice going to go to councelor Sea for another moment of silence thank you council president um I just wanted to take a moment of silence
tonight for this evening over the past weekend on Sunday morning I woke up to some horrible news from my daughter one of our former lyen students in a 2019 Malden High graduate am man Mala
was um found dead in her hotel room in bise on Saturday morning with two other um I think 25 and 26 or 23 and 26 year old um girls from Rivia I remember amanii be bopping around the halls of
lynon and her father and her brother Abdul coming um to all our school events over the years she also uh still has a brother who her mother was pregnant with all those years ago when I was uh the president of the PTO who is in the
fourth grade at the lynon so that it is still currently a lyen family and I just want to send my thoughts and prayers to the Mala family it is A parents worst nightmare for your child to think that they're going on vacation only to never
return and have all these unanswered questions you know about there's so many things circulating on social media over the past few days that I just want to make sure that the family knows that the city of Malden is sending them their thoughts and prayers um during this most
difficult time so thank you please a moment of silence thank you I'm going to go to councelor linahan for our land acknowledgement thank you Mr President we honor and acknowledge the
massachusett PUK and puet peoples whose ancestral lands we now call home and on which We Gather today 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 respected in the life of our city thank you the clerk will call the role Council clone Hayes here Council Condon here
councel Crow here councel linahan here councel McDonald councel sea here councel simonelli councel spor councel Taylor councel Winslow council president o Mali here 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 me evening's meeting uh first order of business representative representatives from Friends of the malen public library will appear before the council to present the annual calendar of events and to update
the city on projects the organization is working on to support the library in realizing its mission to serve the community please come forward thank you to the Friends of the m and public library for coming before us today again a sincere apology from myself and the
entire Council for uh the snafu your first time coming uh we are so happy to have you um so I'll hand it over to you yes good evening everyone and thank you for having me back just before I begin how many of our council members are members of the uh friends of the mom
Public Library so I think the best resolution of making us wait last time would be a few more memberships before we leave today so they're up here I'll just leave them on the corner of the desk thank you
okay so all kidding aside um I'm very happy to be back here again for the second year uh last year was the first time that we presented um and a lot is going on at the friends of the Malden Public
Library uh okay uh it doesn't move oh there we go it moved it's delayed okay so just a few friends facts uh for those of you who were not here last year our mission is to support the Malden Public Library in its mission to serve
our community by organizing fundraisers and participating in local events the friends promote books reading the library itself culture and diversity for all the citizens of Malden throughout all of our activities so our two principles I've been president now for
over two years and we set up our principles two years ago just to kind of refresh things after covid it was important uh so our two principles as they stand right now are to grow and develop the friends organization to reflect the diversity in
our community our organization has indeed developed in the last two years we have been actively working on that principle and to partner with Malden businesses and organizations for Mutual support by working towards these two principles we strength strengthen our
organization and ensure a membership that will guarantee the longevity of the friends so therefore we're not only looking at what we're doing today we're looking at what we'll be doing in the years to come okay so diversity is on our agenda
and I'm really excited to share this with you all this was the implementation this list of our diversity plan last year it was 2024 was our first year that we were
actively on our calendar reaching out and attending community events not only to sell books for the library obviously that's our excuse but when we go to community events it's a recruitment event because I can sit at
the library all day long and tell people that we support diversity and we would like lots of diverse people to come join our our organization however if we go out into the community and actually attend their activities and meet them and speak to
them it becomes that much more real so 2024 and I've extended it onto the events that will be on our calendar again this year we started off the year with the MLK event at the Emanuel
Baptist Church in January we did it last year did it again this year and we just celebrated black history with the Emanuel Baptist Church this past past weekend so we've that's two years going Lunar New Year we did that one uh last
year as well and redid it in January 2025 we will be participating in the race Amity event June 20 2425 juneth Pride Coalition event Hispanic heritage festival indigenous
people's day with malen reads our Halloween book treat which has been going on since 2021 where we give out books to the children for Halloween last Halloween we gave out 400 books to the community uh and then we have our two
major Book Sales which are the spring book sale that we partnered last year with the Malden fire department and our fall book sale with the Malden Police Department last year and we will be repeating them again this year so these are just to um show the
logos of the groups that we are participating with this list is growing we are now at the point where we can actually say no to certain things because we don't have the bandwidth but we have at least one event per month and some events we've got more
than one event um also just kind of a parenthesis as you may know uh the Lunar New Year event and the MLK event were on the same day this year
well in my membership I was able to get two groups of people to get the popups ready for both events on the same day so I had an MLK badge on this lapel and the Lunar New Year dragon on
the other lapel for that day so I think that's pretty amazing we have a great group of people so here just I know you guys like to see what it looks like when we get out into the community so these are some pictures this is from 2025 this was a
month ago um the Lunar New Year celebration you may notice two of my members that are here with me tonight are in these pictures we've got some great active members uh in the organization at the present time okay
Black History Month which just happened this was a joyous Affair May 2024 our spring book sale so we spring book sale is a two-day book sale we have a Friday evening members only and Saturday open to the general public which was the day
we partnered for the first time with the Malden fire department and firefighter Dave who is back in the audience uh discovered the friends of the library that day and signed up and has been an active member ever
since always good to have a firefighter around okay popups from June race AMD juneth and as you all know we revived our annual wine tasting Gala last year um we
kept it kind of small because we hadn't done it since covid um we had about 125 people in attendance it was a hugely successful Affair and we are planning the one for this year so save the date
it will be on May 9th and one thing that we are adding into the wine tasting is a mock Tails table we have become sensitive to the fact that many people do not like wine or don't drink alcohol so we thought the incorporation of
mocktails would be a great idea these are some more pictures from last year our theme was dress as your favorite decade so we had people dressed from the 1880s up until the 1980s pretty much and
you can see some of the costumes and uh and gear that people came Dr in um we also do other kind of random acts of kindness down in the book room we had several copies of the Worcester
Telegram from the years 1898 1899 and 1900 several volumes that were stacked up like this huge leatherbound volumes so obviously Malden has no use for these
volumes we contacted the Worcester friends and the person wearing glasses next to me in the photograph is the president of the friends of the Worcester public library and we gave them back to Worcester so that was pretty amazing
too Pine Banks fairy houses book giveaway Dora St Martin our director of the library reads stories to the children it's a fabulous event to see the children building their fairy houses flitting around dressed as fairies is
having a ball and the friends came up with oh probably about a hundred books that were given away that day September 2024 we partnered with GMAC which is the greater Malden
Asian-American no thank you Asian Chinese americ something like that so yes so that was the first time that we partnered with them um in the picture is my new VI president who is
Huang Guan um and Angela who uh is also a chairperson for the bookroom staff fall book sale pretty much the same idea as the spring book book sale partnering with a different entity so we partnered with the malen uh police
department huge success the one thing that was very different with the police was that they sent out people who spoke different languages so we had an officer who spoke Haitian creel who was was able to greet the children and the families in Haitian Creole another officer that
was able to speak Spanish and the same thing so fantastic fantastic um collaboration um we also reorganized the book room which probably had not been done in about 020 years or so um we have
a collection of about 50,000 books down there uh and what we did was organize in the back corner a children's section which you're seeing in the pictures so things were freshly painted the books are organized so the kids can get at
them everything is at their level there's rugs on the floor there's toys down there it's just a happy place October 2024 the hisp Hispanic heritage festival and that is me with the Spanish
flag uh indig indigenous people's event as well our Infamous Halloween book treat with the Chamber of Commerce once again it was 400 books that went this year okay and then winding down to the
end of 2024 the Winter concert with Malden Historical Society we partner with them every year this year it was held at the first Bap no it's not the Baptist Church um the Baptist Church right next to the library I'm I'm not
coming up with the name so we had the coral artart Society from the high school fabulous event and then finishing up with the Winter Wonderland book giveaway with Malden Reeds at the winter festival here at City Hall and voila second time in in a row
this is our friends of the malen public library 2025 calendar um subject to changes things happen I will send you all a copy of this as you can see our meetings are on that uh every month
and then from starting with new Lunar New Year Martin Luther King ending up with our winter holiday book sale everything is pretty much on the calendar where there are question marks um we do not have the dates yet but everything that's on the calendar is
confirmed with our partners that we will be attending these events with our book sale card any questions thank thank you so much for your presentation do we have any questions from the Das or any comments counselor Colonus I just want
to say I don't have any questions um I want to say thank you and thank you all for coming out also uh to support Mary Allen and a lot of those events that you showed um we had participated as well so I Just Want to Thank You for Your Enthusiasm every time you're there the
group is fun people want to go over there and you do a great job and and thank you for working on diversity it matters thank you absolutely thank you councelor oh I if for from the chair um I just want to thank you all again for coming U as
council president I am a one of the permanent members of the uh Board of Trustees um I am one of the positions that represents the city of Malden um along with the the mayor uh and I just wanted to share that one of my primary goals um as a member of the Board of
Trustees is to really advocate for Building Maintenance and the facilities uh particularly around the cleanliness um so I would love to to get your support when it comes to this we're looking at whether or not we can get volunteers to help pick up the slack uh and fill in the gaps so this is
something that's really important to me because I do think that it's a beautiful building it is historic uh we have many members of our community children and it's kind of like a safety net building uh so making sure that the facilities are you know to the top tip top shape is
something that really I care a lot about so hope greatly appreciated absolutely thank you so much thank [Applause] you time are so we're going to be going on to public comment
um do we have public comment we have no do we have anything nothing written either so we have no public comment tonight um this evening's we have a consent agenda so this evening's consent agenda consists of meeting minutes to be approved three appointments to be
referred to per the Personnel committee uh five uh appointments to can be confirmed 12 petitions to be referred to license and one communication to be placed on file uh does any counselor have a desire to remove any of these items from the consent agenda I see
councel lenan your light thank you Mr President um I was hoping to just um remove the reappointment of Amanda Bellis from the disability commission Amanda is fantastic but she's also my direct report at work and I would prefer not to vote on the appointment
understood uh so that's going to be uh removed so that councel linan can recuse herself uh related to that particular item any other counselors is there a motion to uh approve the consent agenda uh minus that one removal on councelor simonelli
seconded by councelor McDonald uh I believe the cler call the role I think we're all here in person oh I mean all those in favor please say no oh no because there's appointments mayoral appointments yeah because we have some appointments so we
do have to do a rooll yeah thank you thank you Council colone Hayes councel Condon councel Crow Council linahan councel McDonald Council sea yes Council simonelli Council Taylor Council winow yes council president do Al yes okay so
all of the consent agenda except for paper 97 on counselor Lan's motion to recuse herself from discussion of paper 9625 9725 oh I'm sorry I have the wrong one
9625 all those in favor please say I I Council is recused and the minutes will reflect that she left the meeting at 728 so on councelor Crow's motion to uh
approve Amanda bis's appointment to the disability commission seconded by councelor Winslow uh the clerk will call the Council clone Hayes yes Condon yes Crow yes lenan sorry She's accused we just went
through that McDonald sea yes simonelli Taylor yes Winslow yes Ali yes that passes unanimously and then the the uh consent agenda also uh passed unanimously
next order of business we have some Communications paper 11 12-25 communication during the meeting of February 11th 2025 the council unanimously voted to enter into executive session with legal counsel for
the city in accordance with exemption 3 Massachusetts General Law chapter 3A section 21 A3 to discuss strategy with respect to litigation regarding the matter of benevolent Botanicals in 926 Eastern Avenue V the city of Malden during the course of that meeting the
draft minutes from the executive session of February 4th were unanimously approved by the body additionally a periodic review of those executive session minutes regarding benevolent Botanicals and 926 Eastern Avenue V the city of Malden from the dates listed herein was conducted to determine if
release of Records is appropriate at this time October 25th 2022 September 12th 2023 September 26th 2023 February 4th 2025 a motion was made by councel McDonald seconded by councelor spor to retain said meeting minutes and
continued disclosure the motion was approved by the following roll call vote yay colon Hayes Condon Crow linahan McDonald simonelli spor Taylor winow Ali nay zero absent sea is there a motion to receive this
communication oh councelor winow has a question I just have a question because I just the phrasing here of to retain said meeting minutes and continued disclosure is it should be continued non-disclosure is that is that phrasing
correct discl not releasing minut I just there's another the okay so just a Ty all right just to be clear sorry amend all right thank you great um so yeah the so the just so
everyone knows the the the word disclosure is going to be non-disclosure um and is there a motion to receive this communication and place it on file just uh is there un un unanimous consent
that we're going to change it to non-disclosure the intent of the vote keep yeah because this is just reflecting what we did um no I completely understand so on councelor Winslow's motion to receive and place this communication on filed
seconded by councelor simonelli uh all in favor please say I I all opposed the communication is placed on file next order of business oh actually before before we go on I just wanted just to explain what that was so we met an executive session as
was mentioned uh related to a a litigation in that executive session U is as is our practice we have U meeting minutes uh from past uh meetings about that particular topic and we took the opportunity to review these executive
session meeting records because it has to do with active litigation we decided to to retain uh the the privilege in the non-disclosure uh and then one of the uh reasons why this is on the agenda today is that the open meeting Law requires that when we decide to retain something
that has been requested you put it on the next agenda letting the public know that we've made this decision um I also just just really also want to thank um our our direct reports here we have the solicitors Department our Clerk of committees and the city treasure um it is appreciated that yall are in
attendance tonight um and with that we will go on to our uh next order of business which is enrolled ordinances paper 35624 beat ordained by the Malden city council that the code of the city of Malden is hereby amended by adding title 12
chapter2 section 500 site plan review educational religious Andor Child Care Facility uses so again this is an enrolled ordinance is there a motion to ordain motion to orain on councelor wiso's motion to
ordain seconded by councelor cologne hay is uh the clerk will call the role Council clone Hayes yes Council cond Council Crow Council linahan councel McDonald Council sea Council simonelli
councel Taylor Council Winslow council president do Al yes that is 10 to zero it pass 10 to zero next order of business thank you paper 47-25 be it ordained by the Mal city council that the C of the city of Malden Title 9
chapter 24 section 010a regulation of lead pipes and residential housing is hereby amended as follows after the word sale inserting the following of addition of an accessory dwelling unit or motion to on on councelor uh wiso's
motion to ordain seconded by councelor simonelli the clerk will all in favor please say I any opposed the ordinance is ordained unanimously next order of business paper
113-2 committee report the standing committee on rules and ordinance to whom was referred paper 389 and 402 series of 2024 having considered the same make the following report committee recommends paper 389 out favorably as amended and
paper 402 out favorably with no amendments both recommendations were by unanimous vote of the committee on councel wisel's motion to receive the committee report seconded by councilor linan all those in favor please say I I
any opposed the committee report is is received uh Council oh the clerk will read the first paper paper 38924 be it ordained by the Malden city council that the code of the city of Malden title 12 is hereby amended as
follows uh councelor Winslow for the committee sorry all right um just so people know what the um the paper is the papers was uh set to create a new zoning use category for automobile Services um this was inspired by the fact that car washes
are not properly defined in our the M code of um ordinances and in their zoning so it was uh something that uh made them sort of default to retail service which given the um you this unique and substantial sometimes impact
of these on the neighboring area it made sense to Define this so um so we um there was a joint rules and ordinance and planning board meeting on this and um the planning board made a few recommendations was one was to um in in
areas where these would be allowed which would be like Highway business and Industrial zones um to recommend that we would keep them um they would be allowed by right by yes um that was a recommendation and then um to also make sure that there's um a an exclusive
lineup area of 9 ft by 180 ft the committee reviewed those recommendations um the rules and ordinances and um we uh did not accept the first recommendation related to making um the use of car
washes by right in the districts so that would remain to be special permit and the thinking there was that um because these can be very impact F based on the neighborhood setting um it was important to still have the special permit process to allow closer neighborhood review um
you know and but we did support the planning board's recommendation of having the um the queuing area because that often there's a you know we already notice on Broadway um that sometimes the queuing can back up onto the street so it's important to make sure that is in
there so um so on so that on paper um 389 um 24 um so so you're going to do the first part and then maybe we'll take up the second one second yeah so yeah so we will take up the first part so so
that uh P the committee recommends that um the paper be adopted favorably and we adopt the uh second planning board recommendation but not the first um so that was the recommendation from the uh the K meeting thank you is there a
motion to enroll so I guess oh there's we do have to make a motion to amend oh to include so the motion to amend would be to amend section so on councelor Winslow's motion you can make the motion now so yeah on my motion to amend so
that section 12.20 .01 be um we add um end exclusive lineup area of 9 feet by 180 feet so I make that motion to add that language in is there a second second councelor Condon um all those in
favor please say I I any opposed that has been amended so then I would make a motion to enroll that paper as amended so on councelor wo motion to enroll is there a second councelor by second by councelor Condon on the clerk will call the role councilor clone Hayes Council
Condon councel Crow councel linan councel McDonald councila Council simonelli councel Taylor Council Winslow yes council president Ali yes that paper has been ened rolled unanimously okay so then on the second paper yeah the clerk
will read the next paper paper 42-24 be ordained by the Malden city council that the code of the city of Malden 6.2.1 hours of operation in general is hereby amended by adding under paragraph a retail cow wash 8 am. to 6
PM councelor oh so uh councelor winow yeah so this was sort of an Associated paper was actually something that had been initiated um the last year as well this really related to um you the fact that you know we we made the amendment in the zoning
to Define what a car wash is and then this was to um you know we have certain for certain businesses they have certain different hours without this you know businesses could go from 7 in the morning to 11: at night actually I think it's 6:00 in the morning to 11: at night
so our general permits so this is to create a special um you know operation category I mean it's not this still would allow someone operating car wash to come to the council to ex ask for extended hours so this should just be
the normal operating hours would be from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm and if um the lensey wanted to vary that they would have to come into the council so so that was um voted with favorably without any Amendment uh to be recommended to the
council so so that the committee report was to um to for the was recommended favorably thank you understood um you don't have a motion or anything so I I yeah so that's I would make a motion to uh enroll but
then if we have to people want to discuss coun wins motion to enroll second by councelor simell councelor Seco thank you council president I just have a couple of quick questions I wasn't at this meeting um is does this pertain to CW washers that are already currently in operation so the one on
Broadway that's already open it's going to now have to close at 6 or are they grandfathered in with the previous hours my understanding is and again I would I would defer to legal for the formal opinion but my understanding
is that um it would apply to them uh the sunnies on on Eastern na has a special permit that controls hours um but we also did mirror the hours at Sunny so it doesn't exactly apply it applies but like we match them
if they would like to do extended hours they would have to come for an extended hours permit similar to um how other uh businesses request okay and one other quick question and actually it's a good point what because one of the challenges that we have faced as a city is that
because they were allow be allowed to be built by right when some of the ward counselors have asked for some common sense modifications to uh uh help improve some of the ways things are functioning they've pretty much brushed us off and said you know we don't we
don't have to comply and so if people are coming for extended hours it allows the city to have a little bit of a more negotiation with them to try to remedy some of the negative side effects that we've seen no that's fine I was just I was just curious I know that Sunny's is
open from 8 to six so I know that doesn't affect them but does I didn't realize that they had a special permit did we find that out after we started talks on this we did Michelle R um our city planner uh told us that at our last organization so is the special permit
for suies is that for their um self Bas is that what the special permit is for does anybody know what the special permit for the well so I'm ju I'm just I think I'm I'm fine with the c wash itself closing
at 6 but I I don't want to limit the self-service base to 6 p.m. cuz there are some people that you know can't get to the car wash by 6:00 p.m. and they use those self-service Bays you know and during the summer months it's it's light out till 9:00 I would hate to see
somebody not be able to get their car washed after 600 p.m and that that car washer has been there for so long I I don't want to see cor I know that it's your War counil simell Sim oh but it's fine okay Su their special permit is for
their girls Bay so they can operate after okay perfect okay thank you I just had a couple question thanks go perfect thank you councelor Crow oh you're good okay so we so we have a a motion to enroll it's been seconded by councelor simonelli any further conversation no
seeing none uh this is ours all those in favor please say I I I any opposed the ordinance is enrolled paper 11 14-25 committee report the standing committee on finance to whom was
referred papers 68 through 73 and 75 series of 2025 having considered the same make the following report committee recommends these papers out favorably to the full Council on councilor McDonald's motion to receive the committee report is there
a second second by councelor simonelli all in favor please say I any opposed the committee report is unanimously received paper 68 -25 order that $$ 1,450,000 is reappropriated to pay cost
of revitalization of DEA Park in the amount of $450,000 in the River Works Park in the amount of $1 million and for the payment of all costs incidental and related theto and that to meet this appropriation $ 1,450,000 um shall be reappropriated from a
portion of the amount borrowed on August 2nd 2023 under the loan order passed by the city council on June 11th 2019 to pay cost of Roosevelt Park revitalization which project is abandoned and no liability remains in
accordance with mgl chapter 44 section 20 councelor McDonald for the committee thank you council president this is the first of a number of uh Community preservation commission recommended grants and authorizations so
for this one we had a good amount of conversation in committee we received um a lot of feedback from the community about this initially and then I think cleared up some of the um frustration and confusion around that and it did receive unanimous support to uh
recommend adoption of this order this is uh we have this decision before us because the original bond which the the CPC authorized to pay for the original project at Roosevelt Park um was was
rather specific it had some restrictions on the rate it had some restrictions um on the and on the usage and All City bonds are tied to a specific product excuse me project or function so when
this project got cancelled uh we started running up into the concern that the bond would not be able to be spent it had already been borrowed and if you borrow a bond and you don't actually spend it within two years that is a problem you start to get fees it can
infect your credit rating and so on so we needed to be able to redeploy uh These funds that were already borrowed for projects that were shovel ready and could take and and could be paid within the next six months thankfully we had two such excellent projects one is uh
the phase three of the deor park project and the other is the molden River Works project which this would allow um both have been through the CPC before and the molden River Works authorization was um was outstanding from last year they
couldn't fund the full request so this brings them up to the full request for that really excellent project so that takes care of the 1.45 uh million in the bond folks did want to make sure that this was not in any way um PR uh disadvantaging the
project at um or any I should say disadvantaging any future project at Roseville park because right now there is not a project in the authorization pathway so uh I think to speak for my colleagues everyone there hoped that we would get to a
project in such uh such a project for Roosevelt Park in the near future such a project would have to go back to the CPC for reauthorization would have to go before us for authorization just like any other project and so I speaking for myself I'm really committed to doing
what I can to help make that happen I heard also a very strong commitment from the CPC that in future years since they've been able to redeploy some of these funds to these key projects uh they're very interested in prioritizing consideration for Rosevelt Park which was one of the original projects that um
the CPC actually was able to fund so I don't believe that this in any way holds back uh potential plans for Rosevelt Park in the future I do think this is a fiscally prudent decision that allows us to make the best use of our resources to fund excellent projects with broad
support and um that helps ensure that we are being faithful to our um to our resp responsibility as a borrower so I'll stop there thank you Council McDonald um I
see councelor Condon yes thank you uh Mr President um I'd like to take this opportunity to uh thank the city councilors for their support um we're finally going to get that Park leveled out with the uh
irrigation irrigation will be fixed also but the PK itself has a dip of about a foot and a half and hopefully that'll get we'll get that squared away and have a nice regulation
soccer field in a a girls softball Diamond also and I'd like to recognize Dan from the PCP committee thank you for your uh consideration and once again you know
this Park is very widely used CPC CPC uh what I [Laughter] say but this there's no question
about there's no question about the pockets used so uh thank you everyone for your support you thank you councelor Condon uh councelor PCP yeah no I wasn't able to tend Finance but I do I am very supportive of
this paper I mean it's great that we're able to uh redirect this money to a couple great projects that I know have broad community support and I I did actually reach out to councelor Taylor when I saw this put up and know that um
she will provide great leadership to um to uh work and continue the effort to improve Rosevelt Field I mean I think this you you know we one kind of the lemon out of the lemonade is that you know as a result of the effort on Roosevelt
Field we are investing the money to have a full-size soccer field at Maplewood Park turfield and then this is a grass field we're improving things there and that was one of the key objectives as we we worked on all that thing hearing from our soccer families of needing more
facilities that was our last open space PL so this is furthering those things and I think then it opens up more possibility for um Community dialogue that what will happen at Roosevelt so very supportive of it and I'm just glad that the people were patient and and
it's we're in moving forward with these great projects we will still be committed to making sure that Roosevelt sort of the last Park in our city that need has not had a major investment does get that major investment so um we remain committed to that so thank you
very much I am very much in support of this great councelor cologne Hayes uh thank you council president I I just wanted to say I I spoke a lot on this in the finance committee but for whoever is watching tonight um that this was also
we talked a little bit about having a cic which is a community engagement and inclusion committee and Joint meeting with the public property so that we could have some consensus building um Communications about Roosevelt Park um
it was a tough vote for me but I trust I had spoken to the treasurer I spoke um to Dan I spoke to um the head of the CPC to Rachel running and um I'm glad that we're going to have our two parks that are being done but I just definitely want to make sure that we
move forward um with discussions on Roosevelt Park for anyone listening um it's a big deal and I know the ward counselor feels the same way so we're just um I want to make sure that you know that we're going to be having meetings and discussing this thank you thank you councelor clone Hayes
councelor Sim I'm all said thank you I'm all said yes and so and just uh just so I understand this is specifically to 6925 correct or and then the F we're talking about are we are we talking about all of the
Appropriations or we do want to take these up as a as a as a bucket Al together uh councelor Donald yeah I'm happy to explain them one at a time or in a group as you prefer and I don't have a opinion about when we vote so for
for the the council why don't we why don't we have Council McDonald go through all of the uh projects sure and then if there is Con consensus we can take them up as a as a group um and if and if there's not consensus we take them up individually councelor McDonald I mean councelor Winslow you have don't
we usually vote on financial papers as roll calls anyway so I think we have to do with them individually so you know whether we do them in order but I think we actually have to vote individually I don't know if that's typically the I'm happy to make a motion to adopt order
6825 well so that's the committee report oh wait no you're right you're right you're right sorry uh on councilor McDonald's motion to approve uh 6825 seconded by councel Condon the clerk will call the role
councilor colone Hayes councel con councel Crow councel linan councel McDonald yes councel sea councel simonelli councel Taylor yes Council Winslow yes Council presidental yes that passes unanimously paper 6925
order that the appropriation enumerated below being in the amount of $39,586 be appropriated from the community preservation act fund for the following project Deva Park revitalization Phase 2 open space
Reserve $94,000 budget Reserve $225,500 31956 councelor McDonald for the paper yes so uh we just spoke about de Park and this is to with this appropriation and the one that we just did we're getting to the full funding of the park
so this included phase two which I think related to the walkway around the park do I have that correct um and uh so this is the phase two piece and we just approved phase three and I would just note that to my colleagues cologne Hayes and councelor Condon your name tags are
switched yeah cool thank thank you councelor thank you councelor McDonald is there a motion to approve this so moves on councelor McDonald second by councelor simonelli to approve this appropriation uh the clerk will call the role Council clone Hayes Council Condon
Council Crow yes Council linahan yes Council McDonald yes Council sea yes Council simonelli councel Taylor Council Winslow council president do Ali yes that was approved
unanimously Council McDonald for 7025 oh that the appropriation enumerated below being in the amount of $88,000 be appropriated from the community preservation act fund for the following project Pearl Street Station and assessment project historic historical preservation Reserve $8,000 total
appropriation $8,000 Council McDonald so for this order and the next one really the these are pretty straightforward these are smaller early stage grants that the CPC is recommending to help potential future applicants have really good professional assessments and
information that would guide their decision- making and the CPC communicated that they had learned from past projects when this wasn't clear when you didn't have this kind of document it wasn't always clear exactly what needed to be funded or how much that was most likely to cost um outside
of the quotes that they had received and it and they particularly wanted to make sure that the work that was being applied for was actually the most high priority for preserving the condition of the building uh so we had two of these there's actually one more that the committee is still considering uh but
they're all for the same type of purpose councelor Winslow yeah so when you're referring to Pearl Street station is that a specific building is that the Pearl Street restaurant building or is it what or is it it's the one on Pearl stre right it's
oh so fire station okay so Pearl Street Fire Station okay all right thank you great that is confusing I okay all right thank you Pearl Street Fire Station all right thank you so I'll make a motion to approve order 72 yeah that is confusing that is
confusing we don't own Pearl Street station though no I know but they can apply for these so I wonder uh if this should say uh Pearl Street can we modify that to include the address or just fire station I mean it because Pearl Street
station is a thing yeah and if I and when I read that I thought Pearl Street Station in the restaurant even though I was in that meeting where I knew it wasn't that so that's how confusing it is is it just like this Pearl Street fire station is that okay unanimous
consent fire station sure great Okie do so on councelor McDonald's uh motion to approve this seconded by councelor Winslow all those in favor The Click will call the roll Council colone
Hayes Council Condon Council Crow Council linan Council McDonald yes councila Council simonelli Council Taylor Council Winslow council president Ali yes okay that passes unanimously
unanimously paper 7125 order that the appropriation enumerated below being the amount of $8,000 be appropriated from the community preservation act for the following project all of a street station envelope assessment project
historic preservation Reserve $88,000 total appropriation $8,000 is this also a fire station yes yeah can we make that too just that's helpful uh councilor McDonald uh yes so it's the same deal so both of these are city-owned buildings and I would just
recommend that we include the address so the address of the Oliver Street former fire station is 134 Oliver Street and the address of the Pearl Street for a fire station is 176 Pearl Street I think that I think we're all in unanimous consent that's a good idea
okie do so so moved so to approve it to approve order 7125 any questions second by councel Condon the clerk will call the role Council clone Hayes yes councel Condon councel Crow yes councel linan yes Council McDonald Council sea Council
simonelli Council Taylor Council Winslow yes council president Ali yes order is adopted 10 to Zer the order is adopted unanimously paper 72- 25 order that the appropriation enumerated below being in the amount of $349,500
so this is the second year that the CPC has uh is entering into a partnership with our affordable housing trust fund uh under the state CPC law there's a certain percentage of uh the income for
the CPC that has to be spent in each of its core three priority areas so that's open space historic preservation and community housing so they that that's part of what you see in these order you see like this something they'll say like open space Reserve they just segregate
those things off into separate accounts so that they can keep track of that requirement and make sure they're spending to those minimums if they don't then it will carry over to the next year so rather than waiting for individual housing projects which often move at a time frame that is not compatible or ideal for the cpc's annual process um
this our our CPC like many cpcs has a partnership with our affordable housing trust fund where they make that as a donation or a transfer or Grant I guess a grant to the affordable housing trust fund and they can then spend that uh as part of their programs they are much
better situated to work with potential developers and owners on these projects and the complexity of putting all the different funding sources together having that kind of early City locally funded um uh grants even if they're not the largest part of the funding for a
project does a does a lot to demonstrate community support and catalyze other sources of funding uh so this has been a successful partnership the two groups have been working hard to build relationship and Rapport and uh we were very excited to see this continuing for a second
year thank you Council McDonald on councelor McDonald's motion to approve is there a second Oh seconded by councelor Winslow and councelor Winslow yeah no I I I appreciate the CPC uh making this commitment again it is very
much uh you know the cost of housing is much more than this the the money the modest amount of money this is a good chunk of money but you know cost of housing is in in the tens of millions of dollars on those major projects so this
is helpful in making sure that we can contribute to those projects but often the schedules are dictated by the people who are providing the bigger chunk of money so I think it it and it's also the affordable housing trust has Finance experts and experts who who've built
like Angie Lou from ACDC whove actually built affordable housing um in major ways so I think it's it's a good way and and many other communities are doing this so support of it thank you and I second motion thank you seeing no other lights uh on the motion to approve uh
the clerk will call the rooll council colone Hayes Council Condon Council Crow Council linahan Council McDonald Council sea yes Council simell Council Taylor Council Winslow council president om Ali yes order is adopted the order is
adopted unanimously paper 73- 25 order that the appropriation enumerated below being in the amount of $475,000 be appropriated from the community preservation act fund for the following project Forest deel Cemetery wall restoration project historic
preservation Reserve $278,000 budgeted Reserve $197,000 total appropriation $475,000 thank you very much councilor McDonald so this is a project to shore up the
wall that goes around forestale cemetery and this appropriation actually might be a little low to cover the whole Pro cost of that project but we were joined by our Cemetery supervisor and uh favorite tree Warden Chris Rosa for this conversation and we're um assured that
you know there's with this with this grant you're going to find a way to to really make this project happen it is as I understand important that that the whole wall be done at the same time so that it has a uniform look especially with the grout and so that's what we're
hopeful can happen a fun fact that I learned in this committee discussion is that this is actually a wall built uh by the workers progress administration the FDR era um Depression era you know Public Works project um and so I think
that's a pretty cool piece of History here in Malden and uh dovet Tales nicely with the fact that our Cemetery has recently been designated a level one Arboretum there are in fact three levels of Arboretum four four there are four levels of Arboretum so we're really just
getting in the game and I think that a level one arborium deserves a wall that is not falling apart and certainly if we're feeling our two game um we're going to want that wall so we were happy to support this project thank you councelor McDonald is
there councelor McDonald's to adopt second way counselor Taylor the clerk will call the role councelor clone Hayes councel Condon councel Crow councel linahan councel McDonald councel sea councel
simonelli councelor Taylor yes councelor Winslow yes council president do Ali yes was adopted nine to zero paper 7 5-25 order that the appropriation enumerated below being in the amount of $40,000 be appropriated
from the community preservation act fund for the following project housing subsidy for older adults project budgeted reserve and total appropriation both in the amount of $40,000 Council McDonald so I really loved this proposal from housing families for a pilot project that is
supposed to help bridge the gap between the list of permanent senior housing and the folks on that list and so this project is going to uh select I think three or four families I think four three families I think anyways a a small
number of folks um with some qualifications uh about who about who would qualify to see if this can help them bridge the gap by paying a portion of their rent while they're waiting for a unit to become available uh so it seems like a great short-term way to
help make sure that our seniors do have housing and that we're trying to buy us buy ourselves time and space to catch up on that on that long wait list um so I was just really excited to see this come through and and look forward to learning how that pilot project
goes thank you Council McDonald and Council McDonald's motion to adopt the order seconded by councelor uh Crow the clerk will call the role councel clone Hayes councelor Condon Council Crow Council linahan Council McDonald Council
sea Council Taylor yes Council Winslow council president Al uh yes that is adopted unanimously thank you all for your support of the ecpc projects thank you thank you Mr cof for your for your service and for helping guide us along
the way uh next order of business paper 115-2 committee report the standing committee on personnel and appointments to whom was referred papers 421 and 445 series of 2024 and paper three series of 2025 having considered the same make the
following report committee recommends these papers out favorably to the full Council motion to receive councelor lenan motion to receive the committee report seconded by councelor cologne Hayes all those in favor please say I
any opposed the committee report is received the clerk will read the first paper 42124 mayoral appointment mine mccormic 190 Pleasant Street Apartment 238 Malden as a member of the rights and Fair Housing Commission said term to commence upon
confirmation by the city council and to expire November 13th 2027 Council L hand for the committee thank you Mr President um so we had a great meeting of the personnel and appointments committee last week we met actually all three of these candidates two for the human rights and Fair Housing Commission and one for the
disability commission they came in together um and we interviewed them kind of back toback um meline is a resident of our downtown here she's a social justice attorney who um told told us she has a passion for serving marginalized communities and is very eager to get involved in Malden so we were excited to
have a good conversation with her and unan unanimously recommended her favorably for appointment to the full Council are there any discussion any any motions on councelor Len councelor lyan's motion to confirm the appointment
seconded by councelor Condon the clerk will call the role Council Hayes Council cond councel Crow Council linan yes councel McDonald Council sea Council simonelli councel Taylor Council Winslow
council president Ali yes confirmed by 10 to zero vote paper 445 d24 mayor appointment Katherine Doyle 45 Weber Street unit one Malden as a member of the disability commission said term to commence upon confirmation by the city council and
expire March 15 202 7 Council L thank you um so this would be filling the term of Tova Miller who recently resigned from the commission um we had a great conversation with Katherine Doyle um she has a disability support background and actually is
already hitting the ground running serving on the commission attending the meetings um and getting great feedback on the input that she's giving so we were excited to chat with her and also voted unanimously to recommend her favorably for appointment on councelor inan motion to
confirm the appointment seconded by councelor Condon uh the clerk will call the role Council clone Hayes councel Condon Council Crow Council linahan yes councel McDonald Council sea councel simonelli Council tayor Council Winslow
council president do Ali yes appointment is confirmed 10 to zero paper 3-25 mayoral appointment Cindy Cohen 1275 Salem Street malen as a member of the human rights and Fair Housing Commission said term to commence upon
confirmation by the city council and to expire December 17th 2027 Council one ahe thank you um so Cindy was the last person that we interviewed last week she brings an accounting and banking background to the role um she actually volunteers with
Mystic Valley Elder Services which was pretty cool and we were really glad to see her bringing these um Community engagement and volunteer skills to this appointment so we also unanimously voted to recommend her favorably for appointment on Council Lan motion to
confirm the appointment is there a second no second second by councelor clone Hayes the clerk will call the role councel colone Hayes yes Council Condon Council Crow Council Lan Council McDonald Council sea Council simonelli
councel Taylor councel Winslow yes council president Joe Mali yes the appointment is confirmed 10 to zero next order of business paper can I read paper 116-25 order that the city
council will vote to go into executive session with Alicia a McNeil city solicitor regarding the matter of benevolent Botanicals in 926 Eastern Avenue V the city of malen for the purpose of exemption 3 Massachusetts General Law chapter 30A section 21 A3 to
discuss strategy with respect to litigation with such discussion an open meeting may have a detrimental effect the litigation position of the city if so declared by the chair and if so Allowed by the body to admit Maria Louise who's actually not with us this evening roll call
required uh that we should um that's true so I I have to citing exemption three of mgl chapter 3A section 21A wherein discussing paper
1625 an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the city's litigating position uh on Council is there is there a motion to go into executive session on councelor Clen Hayes motion to enter executive session SEC is there a second second seconded by
councilor SAA the clerk will now call the RO Council clone Hayes yes councel Condon councel Crow councel linahan yes councel McDonald councel sea yes councel simonelli councel Taylor yes councel Winslow yes council president do Al yes
the order has been adopted the council will enter executive session Council will now enter into executive session the body will not reconvene for any further business this evening and will adjourn directly from executive session but considering that um if there are any
is there if there's any um uh Personal Privilege we can take that up now um I see counselor cologne Hayes thank you very much um I feel like I've been saying this every week but I'm going to once again announce that we are going to have the music Bingo fundraiser for
juneth it is this Thursday um it's over in the Irish American I hope to see you there uh from 6:30 to 9:00 and there's five rounds of bingo we have baskets um that we're going to raffle off um we
added some fun things um in addition to the last two years that we've had it so please come down it's a load of fun great music and it really it's it's to raise money so that we can continue to have a free juneth celebration um in the summer thank you so
much thank you councelor uh councelor Winslow yeah hi um just to remind everybody tomorrow night 6 o'clock in room 105 we are having a joint um rules and ordinance and Charter Review
Committee to to focus on um the uh the charter review changes we've been been talking about for the last year that are focusing on making some administrative streamlining things in the charter so um please come out for that it would be great to um try to wrap up the focus is
going to be on really uh working up the ordinances that we will advance and then go to the home R petition and then just a few other things um for those in um the our uh our Muslim Community um best wishes for Ramadan which is coming up
this weekend and then for those uh on the uh Christian addition um there's lent is coming up we have Fat Tuesday next week will be our our meeting and then be Ash Wednesday so just uh best wishes to everybody um for the those
upcoming uh fasting events and and other type of things so thanks say byebye uh thank you very much we're gonna uh we're going to go into executive session now