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Part 1 (Video ID: Ace4NinDrKo):
- 00:00:14: Personnel Committee Meeting Called to Order, Introduction
- 00:05:18: Mayor's Communication, Dr. Jubalo Board of Health Appointment
- 00:07:18: Dr. Jubalo Addresses Committee, Background and Qualifications
- 00:12:07: Motion to Approve Appointment, Adjournment of Committee
- 00:16:00: Break
- 00:23:01: Break
- 00:29:58: City Council Meeting Called to Order, Pledge Allegiance
- 00:35:52: Public Hearing: Utility Pole Installation on Farm Road
- 00:39:49: Utility Pole Approved, Discussion of Second Pole on Hudson
- 00:44:12: Third Utility Pole on Glenn St, Discussion and Approval
- 00:46:54: Public Hearing: Fiscal Year 2027 Operating Budget
- 00:47:47: Public Comment: Addressing Firefighter Staffing Levels
- 00:51:39: Discussion on Staffing Levels, Transfer Requests to Finance
- 00:53:51: Revolving Funds Approved, Zoning Amendment Discussed
- 00:55:34: Low-Income Deed Restriction, Conquered Road Pole Petition
- 00:56:58: Hosmer Street Pole Petition, Taxi Delivery License Application
- 00:58:18: Approval of Board Minutes, Claims Sent to Legal Department
- 00:58:49: Finance Committee Report: Fiscal Budget Adjustments
- 01:01:29: Amended Budget Approved, Personnel Committee Appointments Approved
- 01:04:45: Urban Affairs Committee, Starter Home Zoning Discussion
- 01:05:52: Starter Home Zoning Districts Act Discussion Continued
- 01:11:14: Starter Homes to Urban Affairs, Motion to Adjourn


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Down. Hey. Hey. coming back. Hey Heat. Heat. N. down. Oh. committee meeting to order at 7:00. Our full committee is here. >> 7:30.

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>> Did I say 7:00? 7:30. Sorry, guys. Thank god I got you two on my sides. Anyways, tonight we have order number 26-109728. Communication from the mayor reappointment of Dr. Sandeep Jubalo to

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the board of health for a three-year term to expire February 5th, 2029. I'll read the letter from the mayor. Honorable President Osing and counselors, it's for the appointment of Dr. Sandeep Jubalo to the board of

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health. I am pleased to submit for your approval the appointment of Dr. Jubalo to the board of health which will expire February 5th, 2029, the first Monday in February pursuant to Mass General Laws chapter 111 section

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26. Dr. Dubal is not a resident of Marorrow but works for UMass Memorial Medical Center. This relationship further connects the medical center to the community it serves. I am thankful to Dr. Jabal for sharing the personal connection with the city in the letter

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attached. The board of health will now have two doctors and a veterinarian that serve on the board. This level of education and connection to the medical field will help ensure policies and procedures that better serve our community. I personally want to thank

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Mr. Griffin, that's Jim Griffin, who has been on the board of health since 2013 and is retiring from the board. His value, dedication, and insight as a chair went above and beyond navigating through COVID pandemic and still wanting

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to serve after is commendable. I cannot thank Mr. Griffin enough for spearheading the board through many challenges over the year. Thank you in advance for your consideration. Sincerely, Mayor Christian Dumis. With that said, I would like to call up Dr.

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Juba if you would like to the center. >> Yes. >> And his letter, if you haven't read it, it's phenomenal. And we'll go over that any questions, but I'll ask just feel free to have a seat right there. Is the green Dr. Jabal, is the green light on

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on the microphone? >> Okay. As long as it's on. >> Yeah. Just say hello. They'll they'll run out. There you go. >> Hello. Yes. Cool. So, our personnel committee is a set up with three counselors. >> Councelor Ducet to my right, councelor

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Naven to my left. Hi. And usually I ask them first if they have any questions. And again, thank you for your letter. I can read it out loud, but if the members have read it, I will let the members I'm getting a nod, so I'll let them ask any questions. Councelor Ducet, do you have any questions?

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>> Uh, thank you very much. Um so just for uh point of discussion uh can you summarize your background and why you wanted decide to become member of this of the board? >> Great. >> Well I have more than a few reasons.

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So you know I just to get my introduction I am a physician. I've been a physician for almost 26 years now. Um I graduated from India. So I'm an immigrant here on a green card and it's just like an exposure uh just to kind of

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see how things work here in America and that was just curiosity uh you know being and I'm also a part of board of registration in medicine. I work for the state of Massachusetts overseeing physician licenses in the state. So I have that experience and and

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and I'm I've got connection with Malbor. I used to live here. This was my my first town in Massachusetts where I resided. Um and and especially this building has got very fond memories. My son, my younger one was register. So my like birth registration happened in this

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building. So that way um and then I share a lot of patients in the city Malbor especially I've got a lot of patients with tuberculosis and and you know my time Malro like I came here around 2020 and the past 6 years I've seen uh how the city has

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evolved. it's become larger, more dense. So I think it's more neat to kind of have a good public health uh leadership in the city and not in just city. The way kind of we have moved through covid pandemic and we have always hear about

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these outbreaks about ha virus now uh you know about Ebola virus cooking in Congo. So I think given like as an infectious disease uh doctor I do have that expertise and and yeah >> infectious disease I believe I really

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>> Yes I am an infectious disease doctor. >> Great councelor Ducet. >> Thank you. Thank you for that. Appreciate it. >> Welcome councelor Naven. >> Thank you very much Mr. Chair. Um I just want to thank you for being willing to serve. Um, I appreciate the you taking a couple of minutes to walk through both

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your resume, your experience, um, you know, and why you feel that Malboro is a place that you'd like to do some additional service, uh, even though you're no longer a resident. Um, I we really appreciate that. So, um, >> with that, I have no questions. Um, so if you would like to be made and I'll

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ask for any further questions from the other counselors in the chambers. >> Yeah, we'll move to approve. >> I'll so move that. Uh, with that said, any further discussion? And we have councelor Irish and councelor Fuchello here. And if you two would like to ask questions, feel free.

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>> So you're both all set. >> Okay. Okay. >> Well, and again, I I guess I'll end it with I am impressed with your resume, your letter of reference, and um I'm glad to hear you were part of Marbor. We'll get you back. Maybe we can get you back here. >> But um no, and in fact, you are here.

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You're here at Marbor. Well, I call it Marbor Hospital still, but you're in our local hospital. And as I noted to you before the meeting, I've been involved with public health for many years. I don't want to say out loud how many years, but might show my age, but uh it's a very important field. In my view,

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it's the most important field we deal with. I'll never forget Mr. Griffin. We had a hearing during co there was two sides to the coin. People didn't want to follow process to save people from dying and other people wanted to follow the

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process. And I was up there at that meeting with the board of health uh requesting that they take the the needed measures and sometimes that's not easy as a board member because you're you're basically making a decision that could affect one way or the other

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people's lives. But with that said, I'm in support of it. So motion was made to approve you and seconded. All in favor? >> The vote is three to zero. One other point of business, committee members, I would like to see if it was on my end that we didn't get him in our last

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meeting, but I'd like to ask for a suspension so we can re uh remove this from our committee and have it voted on tonight. Are we okay with that? >> So, we'll ask for a suspension. So, hopefully tonight you'll be appointed. >> Thank you so much. Appreciate it. >> Appreciate it. >> With that said,

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>> motion to adjurnn. >> Motion has been made to adjourn at and seconded at 7:37. I'll get the time right this time. All in favor? We are returned. Thank you. Thank you. down.

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Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Oh my god. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.

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Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Yeah, heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Good evening everyone. I'll call the city council to order at 8:00 on Monday

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evening, May 18th, 2026. This meeting is being recorded. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,

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indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. We have 15 items on this evening's agenda and I will ask the city clerk to please read agenda item number one. >> Mitted city council meeting April 27th, 2026 and May 4th, 2026.

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>> Mr. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to accept and place on file the minutes. >> Motion's made and second to accept and place on file both sets of minutes. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none. All those in favor? Opposed. The minutes are filed and the vote is 100. Agenda item number two.

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Now's the time continue public hearing on the petition of Mass Electric and Verizon to install one joint own pole on Farm Road beginning at a point approximately 540 ft southwest of the center line of the intersection of Cook Lane National Grid

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to install a 50ft class H1 midspan pole between P28 and P29 on Farm Road. Pole will be located on city property. The new poll will be labeled P28-50, order number 26-1009731A. Additionally, we have a communication

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from city engineer Tom Deersio regarding recommended conditions. >> Okay. This public hearing be taken up in four stages. First with the public speaking in favor. Second, questions from the public. Third, public speaking in opposition. And finally, questions from the city council. We'll limit

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public participation comments to 3 minutes. I'll ask the we'll open the first part of the public hearing of the public speaking in favor with the applicant coming up to describe the project. My name is John Rupia. Address is 255. >> Is the microphone on, John?

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>> Thanks, John. >> My name is John Rupia. I'm from 255 South Main Street in Hopedale. I have my colleague here to represent. >> I'm Carrie Lee. Um, also from 245 South

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Main Street in Hopedale. >> Nolan Angus, also from Hopedale. >> Thanks, Nolan. Carrie, do you want to describe the project? >> Yes. So, the first one is for >> close to your >> Oh, sorry. Sorry. I'm really short. I

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know. Um the first one is for um an install of a midspan pole. Uh the reason we're requesting that is so that we can install a pole tarp recloser on that pole. >> The poles on either side already have equipment.

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So there's not enough space. >> Anything else, Curry Lee? That good? >> Um no, I think that's good. >> Any other members of the public speak in favor? Any members of the public speak in favor? Any members of the public speak in favor? Hearing none, I close

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that portion of the public hearing. Questions from the public. Any questions from the public? Questions from the public? Hearing none, I close that portion public hearing. Public speaking in opposition. Any

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members of the public speak in opposition? Members of the public speaking in opposition hearing? None. I close that portion of the public hearing. Questions from the city councilors. Questions from the city councilors. Questions from the city councilors.

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Councelor Presiano. >> I just wanted some clarification. Thank you for being here. Um, so the poll it the current polls are overloaded right now with equipment and so you you're just installing another pole to add more equipment. Is that >> Yeah. So we need to install a pole topper closer. >> Okay.

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>> So um there's certain clearances that we need to cover and there's already equipment on either side. >> Okay. Um, so installing the midspan pole will give us we'll be able to put the pole topper closer up. >> Okay, understood. Thank you.

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>> Thank you, Council Presiato. Any other questions from the city councilors? Questions from the city councilors? Any questions from the city councilors? Hearing none, I close that portion of the public hearing and the entire public hearing. Councelor Fillo. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um, councilors will note the city engineer had a chance

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to review and has recommended conditions uh for the petition. And with that I move to approve with those conditions submitted by the city engineer. >> Motion made second to approve the petition with the conditions identified by the city engineer. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none are those in

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favor? Opposed? Motion carries. 100. The petition is approved with the conditions identified by the city engineer. Agenda item number three. Now, it's time for continued public hearing on the petition of Mass Electric and Verizon to install a one to install one joint old pole on Hudson Street, beginning at a point

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approximately 236 ft southwest of the center line of the intersection of Bolton Street and Hudson Street and continuing approximately 22 feet in a northwest direction. National Grid is National Grid to install a 45- ft pole

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um class H1 midspan on Hudson Street. The new poll will be labeled P42-50 order number 26-1009733A. Additionally, we have a communication from um city engineer Tom Deersio regarding recommended conditions.

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>> Okay, this public hearing again will be taken up in the same four stages. Members, public speaking in favor, questions from the public, public speaking in opposition, and then questions from the city councilors. So, we'll limit comments from the public to three minutes. We'll open the first part

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of the public hearing with the public speaking in favor. Starting with the applicant, please state your name and address. Again, for the record, >> Nolan Angus from Hopedale. >> Thanks, Nolan. Uh, again, this is very similar case. This is a new midspan pole, a pure midspan pole um in the the

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sense um just for the sole purpose of installing a pole topper closer. >> Good. Okay. Okay. Any other members of the public speak in favor? Members of the public speak in favor? Any members of the public speak in favor? Hearing none, I close that

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portion of the public hearing. Questions from the public? Any questions from the public? Any questions from the public? Hearing none, I close that portion of the public hearing. Public speaking in opposition. And members of the public speak in

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opposition. Members of the public speak in opposition. Hearing none, I close that portion of the public hearing. Questions from the city councilors. Councelor Ducet. >> Thank you very much, Mr. President. Um,

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just for clarification, uh, what specifically is a pole topic closer? Is it a transformer or what is it? >> No. So, it is a form of advanced switch uh that helps improve reliability of the feeders in the area. So it helps decrease the chance of outages in the area and increase response time in case

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of an outage. >> Is it like a circuit breaker type response? >> Very similarly. Yes. >> Okay. So it's a box basically. >> Yes. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you councelor Ducet. Any other quilum >> war? Thank you. Thank you for coming in force. We missed you the last couple

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meetings. Thank you Mr. President. >> Council Preiano do. It's a hot topic. Um I I do have some some questions regarding like uh like future installments. Um is this something that um we would be seeing for

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>> um future service on different poles like adding mid mid midspan poles to introduce more equipment? >> Uh from my understanding no. If there if the existing area allows for these new installations to go up without the need of a midspan pole, we will do everything on our power too. um we are limited to

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the certain orders of equipment that we need uh which is what calls for the need for midspan polls specifically. >> Thank you. I was just curious if we would see more of these like around the city. Thanks. >> Thank you, council president. Any other questions from the counselors? Questions from the counselors?

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Any questions from the councils? Hearing none, I close that portion of the public hearing and the entire public hearing. Council Pillo. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um as we see again, uh comments and conditions from the city engineer. With that move to approve with the conditions submitted by the city engineer. >> Motion's made and seconded to approve

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the petition with the conditions identified by the city engineer. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed. The petition is approved with the conditions identified by the city engineer and the vote is 100. Agenda

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item number four. Now it's time for public hearing on petition of Mass Electric and Verizon to install one joint own pole on Glenn Street beginning at the point approximately 130 ft northeast of the center line of the intersection of Foley Road National Grid

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to install a 50 foot class H1 midspan pole between P4 and P5 on Glenn Street. Pole will be located on city property. The new poll will be labeled P4-50, order number 26-1009746. Additionally, we have a communication

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from city engineer Tom Depersio regarding recommended conditions. Okay. Again, this public hearing will taken up in the same four stages. Public speaking in favor, questions from the public, public speaking in opposition, and then questions from the city council. So, I'll open the first part of the public

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hearing with the public speaking in favor starting with the applicant. And again, comments will be limited to three minutes on the public. Carrie Lee, name and address, please. >> Uh, name and address. Uh, Carrie Lee. Uh, it's 245 South Main Street, Hopedale.

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>> Thank you. >> Yes. This is also to install I know we sound like a broken record. Uh, midspan pole also for a pole topper closer. >> Anything else? That's good. All right. Any other members of the public speaking

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in favor? Members of the public speaking in favor? Members of the public speaking in favor? Hearing none, I close that portion of the public hearing. Questions from the public. Any questions from the public? Questions from the public.

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Hearing none, I close that portion of the public hearing. Public speaking in opposition. Any members of the public speaking in opposition? Members of the public speaking in opposition. Hearing none, I close that portion of the public hearing. Questions

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from the city councilors. Questions from the city councilors. Questions from the city councilors. Hearing none, I close that portion of the public hearing and the entire public hearing. Councelor Fillo. >> Thank you, Mr. President. It is now my turn to sound like a broken record. Uh

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move to approve the petition with the conditions from the city engineer. >> Motion made second to approve the petition with the conditions identified by the city engineer. Motion's made and seconded. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, those in favor opposed. The

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petition is approved with the conditions identified by the city engineer in the vote is 100. John Kerry Lee and Nolan. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Agenda item number five. >> Appreciate your Now it's time public hearing for on the proposed fiscal year

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2027 operating budget in the amount of 222,882,585 which represents a 4.24% increase over the fiscal year 2026 appropriation order number 26-1009740. Okay. This public hearing will be taken

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up in the same four stages. First with the public speaking in favor. Second, questions from the public. Third, public speaking in opposition. And then finally, questions from the city council. And we'll open it up with the public speaking in favor. And again, we'll limit comments to 3 minutes. Any

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members of the public speaking in favor? Any members of the public speaking in favor? Any members of the public speaking in favor? Hearing none. Close that portion of the public hearing. Questions from the public?

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If you come on over, that'd be great. Thank you. >> Good evening. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Council President, and members of the city council. My name is Matthew Armore, and I live at 52 Chandler Street. I'm a lifelong resident of the city, and I've

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been employed by the city of Malbor my entire adult life. Currently, I proudly serve as a firefighter and I have the honor of being the union president for the men and women who make up your Malbor fire department. I'm here tonight on behalf of those men and women to address an issue that's been raised consistently for more than a

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decade. Firefighter staffing levels. The reality is simple. Maro has changed dramatically, but our staffing is not. Last year, our department responded to approximately 9,225 calls for service. nearly a 50% increase

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in call volume since 2014 while still operating at the same staffing levels that we've had since the 90s. Just a minimum of 14 firefighters on duty citywide. This year, we have already seen a 5%

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increase over where we were last year at this time. Excuse me. We have no signs of slowing down. At the same time, model continues to experience unprecedented growth and development. Nearly 2,000 additional housing units have been brought into the queue and are currently

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under construction or being being approved. Every one of these developments will bring additional residents, additional traffic, add additional emergencies, and an increased demand for fire and EMS. For over 10 years, we have respectfully raised these

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concerns through the budget process. We have proposed solutions including incremental staffing increases, long-term planning surrounding the future Westside Fire Station. And yet, despite these efforts, there has been little to no meaning meaningful support or action taken to

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address this growing problem. Tonight, I'm simply asking the question to city leadership, when exactly do you believe is an appropriate time to seriously address the staffing at the Malber Fire Department? The need is not hypothetical.

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It's not years away. It's here. It's been here for more than a decade. At some point, this city has to acknowledge and the unavoidable reality that maintaining public safety in a growing community requires investment. That investment may come with difficult

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conversations, including discussions about taxes and funding priorities. But delaying these conversations does not make the problem disappear. It only increases the risk to both firefighters and the residents that we serve. We're proud to protect this city. We're

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proud of the work we do every day. But pride alone does not put enough firefighters on the streets to safely and effectively serve a growing malro. We're asking for leadership. We're asking for accountability. We're asking for a commitment to planning for the

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future before the future forces this issue upon us. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you, Matt. Well said. Any other questions from the public? Any other questions from the public? Any other questions from the public?

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Hearing none, I close that portion of public hearing. Public speaking in opposition. Any members of the public speaking in opposition? Members of the public speak in opposition. Hearing none, I close that portion of the public hearing. Questions from the city councilors?

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Questions from the city council or >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um I'm on the fire department budget and Chief Goan had noted in his um correspondence on the budget that they are hoping based on these figures the department's ability

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to maintain its current minimum staffing model will require re-evaluation effective July 2026. So hopefully we'll be seeing communications from the fire chief as it relates to the staffing levels. You'll see in that same letter he talks about the 16 versus 14. At

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certain times the squad car I believe in uh the eastern station is not available due to the minimum 14 versus the minimum 16. So hopefully there will be dialogue with the chief the finance committee and we can move forward to try to prevent

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overtime but more importantly support and prevent any accidents with the fire department. We don't want to stress out the great firefighters and staff we have. In my view, let's take a

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thorough look at this and move forward uh so we can have the appropriate staffing. And on another note, our residents deserve it. I am not for sure if and I'd have to look into it, but will their insurance go up if we're not

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properly staffed? So, those are the things I'd like to discuss in finance. Hopefully the chief will have dialogue and firefighters will have dialogue with us before the budget season to see what we can do to improve the budget. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President.

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>> Thank you, Council Orum. Any other questions from the counselors? Questions from the counselors? Any questions from the counselors? Hearing none, I close that portion of the public hearing in the in the entire public hearing. Agenda item number six,

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>> communication from the mayor regarding gear and transfer requests in the amount of $539,000 which move funds from and to various accounts for the Department of Public Works controller, treasurer, city clerk, and legal department in addition to

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transfer requests totaling 3,192,000 from free cash to open space stabilization and snow and ice. >> Council Irish. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh motion to refer to the finance committee, please. >> Motion's made and seconded to refer to the finance committee. Any discussion on

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the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. This item is going to finance and the vote is 10. Agenda item number seven, >> communication from the mayor regarding reauthorization of revolving fund spending limits for the water and sewer revolving fund, parks and recreation

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revolving council on aging revolving fund and public safety revolving fund for FY 2027. >> Councelor Irish. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh seeing that these uh revolving funds are the same amount as the previous year, uh my

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motion is to approve the revolving fund spending cap for fiscal year 2027 for the four uh uh revolving funds listed. Please. >> Motion made and seconded to approve the four revolving funds for fiscal year 2027. Any discussion on the motion?

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Seeing none, all those in favor? Oppose. All four revolving funds are approved and the vote is 100. Agenda item number eight, >> communication from the planning board regarding favorable recommendation and comments on the proposed zoning amendment to chapter 650 zoning to amend

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section 33 results way mixed use overlay district order number 26-1009683A. Councelor Roby. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Move to accept and place on file. >> Motion made second to accept and place on file communication. Any discussion on the motion?

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Seeing none, all those in favor opposed. Communication is filed and the vote is 10-0. Agenda item number nine, >> communication from attorney Aldo A. Cypriano on behalf of Mark E. Evangelist regarding request release of a lowinccome deed restriction on the unit

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at 64 Village Drive, Unit 4. >> Councelor Roby. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Move to refer this to Urban Affairs. >> Motion made second refer to the Urban Affairs Committee. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed. Motion carries. This is going to urban affairs and the vote is 100.

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Agenda item number 10. >> Petition to Mass Electric and Verizon to install one joint own pole on Conquered Road beginning at a point approximately 370 ft northwest of the center line of the intersection of McNeel Circle National Grid to install a 45 ft class 2

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midspan pole between P74 and P75 on Conquered Road. Pole will be located on city property. The new poll will be labeled P74-50. >> Councelor Fillo. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Move to set a date for a public hearing on June 8th and to refer to the city engineer.

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>> Motion made and seconded to refer this to the city engineer and we'll set a public hearing for June 8th. Motion's made and seconded. Discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. This is going to the city engineer with a public

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hearing of June 8th. votes 10. Agenda item 11, >> petition of Mass Electric and Verizon to install one joint old pole on Hosmer Street, beginning at a point approximately 190 ft southwest of a center line of the intersection of Brierwood Lane and Hosmer Street and

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continuing approximately 20 ft in a east direction national grid to install a 45 ft H1 midspan pole to be labeled P8-50 on Hosmer Street. >> Councelor Fello. >> Thank you, Mr. President. moved to set a date for public hearing on June 8th and

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to refer to the city engineer. >> Motion made and seconded to refer to the city engineer and we'll set a public hearing date of June 8th. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. We're going to send this to the city engineer with a

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public hearing date of June 8th and the vote is 100. Agenda item number 12, >> application for a taxi delivery license for from Narand Gerard DBA Nan Private Transportation LLC, 88

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Essex Street. >> Council Fillo. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Seeing that this is a new application, move to refer to the public services committee. >> Motion made second to refer this to the public services committee. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, those in favor? Opposed? It's going to

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public service and the vote is 100. Agenda item number 13, minutes of boards, commissions, and committees. >> Mr. President, >> Council Detect. >> Thank you very much, Mr. President. Motion to accept and place on file the minutes of the boards, commissions, and committees. >> Motion's made in second to accept and

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place on file all the minutes. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, are those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. The minutes are going to be filed and the vote is 100. Agenda item 14, >> claims, >> Mr. President. >> Councelor Ducet. >> Thank you very much, Mr. President. Motion to send the claims to the legal

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department. >> Motion's made and seconded to send the claims to the legal department. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed. Claims are going illegal and the vote is 100. Reports of committees.

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Councelor Irish. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh finance committee uh met on May 11th, 2026. The meeting convened at 6:30 p.m. Uh we had one item on the agenda that evening uh order number 26-1009740.

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Uh proposed fiscal year 2027 operating budget from Mayor Dumis uh in the amount of 222,882,585. Uh, Chair Irish read the April 30th, 2026 letter from the mayor uh submitting the budget for review and approval in

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the amount of 222,882,585 uh representing a 4.241% increase from fiscal year uh 26. Uh the significant increase is primarily due to increased funding for the Malber public schools uh health insurance, Aset Valley

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Regional School, uh and the city uh health insurance. Uh the mayor indicated the projected tax impact of this budget would increase the taxes on the average single family house by $420. Uh the finance committee reviewed each

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department budget with the mayor and several department heads and proposed adjusting the mayor's budget by $510,000. On a motion by council or seconded by chair Irish, the finance committee voted 5 to zero to reduce the FY 2027 budget

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by $510,000 as listed in the below table. uh resulting resulting in an amended fiscal year 2027 municipal operating budget in the amount of 222 million $372,585.

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This uh represents an increase of $8,550,000 $8,550,744 or a 4.0% increase. Uh these adjustments are anticipated to reduce the mayor's projected increase to the average single family house tax bill by approximately

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$28. Um the meeting adjourned at 9:30 p.m. Mr. President, that's the end of my report and I will be asking for a suspension this evening if it is okay with the city council. >> Motion remains second to suspend the rules. All those in favor of the suspension

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opposed? Suspension carries. The vote is 100. Councelor Irish. >> Thank you, Mr. President. uh move the recommendation of committee to approve the uh FY2027 municipal operating budget as amended uh

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in the amount of $222,372,585. Please >> motion made and seconded to approve the finance committee's recommendation of the budget which is a $222,372,585 budget. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed. The budget is approved as

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amended by the finance committee and the vote is 100. Council Orum. Thank you, Mr. President. Personnel met two different nights. They met. We met on May 11th, 2026 to review number 05-04-2026. Order number 26-10009744.

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the appointment of Tiona Brown to the Conservation Commission for a three-year term to expire on April 30th, 2029. On a motion made by Council Naven, seconded by Chair Oram, the committee recommends approval of the appointment of of Tiona C. Brown to the Conservation Commission

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for a three-year term to expire on April 30th, 2029. The vote was 3 to zero and we adjourned at 6:20 p.m. that evening. We also met tonight and just so the council knows and the president already knows I'll be asking for suspensions on

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both these appointments. Uh tonight we met at 7:30 to review uh order number 26-109728 the appointment of Dr. Sand deep jubal to the board of health for a three-year term to expire on February 5th, 2029.

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On a ma motion made by councelor Ducet, seconded by chair Oram, the committee recommends approval of the appointment of Dr. Sandeep Juba to the board of health for a three-year term to expire on February 5th, 2029. The vote was 3 to zero. And tonight, we adjourned the

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personnel committee at 7:37 p.m. And Mr. President, I'll be asking for suspensions on both so we can get these people working on these committees as quick as possible if the council so wishes. >> There a motion made and second to suspend the rules for both reports. Any discussion? Well, there's no discussion.

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All those in favor of the suspension opposed. Suspension carries for both of them and the vote is 10. Council or >> I would recommend the the appointment of Tiona Brown as recommended by the personnel committee on May 11th to the conservation commission. Motion made and

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seconded to appoint Tiona Brown to the conservation commission. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Council, not councelor Brown anymore. Jonah Brown is approved to the conservation commission

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and the vote is 100. Council Orum. >> Thank you, Mr. President. I would ask that the council consider Dr. Sand Deep Jubal as noted in the report to be appointed to the board of health through February 5th, 2029 for the board of health. >> Motion made and seconded to appoint Dr.

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Jabal to the board of health. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed? Dr. Jabal is appointed to the board of health and the vote is 100. Any other reports of committees? Councelor Roby.

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>> Thank you, Mr. President. I just want to announce that urban affairs is going to meet on May 27th. We're going to take up the results way mixeduse overlay district and if they are amendable we can add on to it um the request from Mr.

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Evangelist to deal with the deed if it works for them. >> Any other reports of committees? >> Was that good? >> Okay, moving on. Agenda item number 15. >> Ordered that the city council discuss

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the Starter Home Zoning Districts Act enacted in two 2023 to see if there's something we want to adopt and further discuss if we want to use MEDC grant funds to bring in MAPC to help with zoning. Chapter 40 Y is an

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optional program that creates starter home zoning to help reduce barriers for creating smaller, more affordable starter homes for someone buying their first home downsizing and for smaller households. Although adopted in 2023, the regulations were finalized in March

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of 2026 under 760 CMR submitted by Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby. >> Thank you, Mr. President. So, as I said, this was approved several years ago, but the regulations took a while to come out. Um, I heard about this at a meeting

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of MMA uh on a committee that I'm on and it sounded interesting. I didn't want to bother actually submitting zoning change. I thought that it would be better off with us having a discussion to see if Marvel is a fit. This is a uh

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it's not mandated to adopt this. This is all by choice and there is a lot of information to consider and I thought having a conversation first if we wanted to consider it and then uh requesting funds from MEDC to be able to work with

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a planner uh either MAPC or another planner that could work on the language. Um it it is specifically starter homes. It is specific for the amount of land that you can have in a city that you can

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regulate as starter homes. The number of homes you can put on an acre is specified. Um, one of the things that I thought was interesting is that um, for the proposed development of more than 12 starter homes, not less than 10%

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of them shall be, and this is a little bit different language than what we have, it's they shall be affordable to and occupied by families whose annual income is less than 110% of the area media income. So I looked up what that

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was and for a single person it's $114,350 which to me is still not what we think of when we're talking about affordable people but this is talking about buying a house. Um so it's not renting an apartment, it's a home. Um can it work?

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Maybe. Um, but I I would like to start the conversation and I would move that we refer this to urban affairs to start that conversation. >> Motion made in second to send this item to urban affairs. Any discussion on the motion? Council Ducet. >> Thank you very much, Mr. President. Uh,

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this is intriguing. Um, I you know, the uh neighborhood that I live in is pretty much started as a bunch of starter homes uh back in the day. a little creative uh zoning and uh construction to get that done. Um my question is like are we

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talking about exist just in general right you know we talking about new property development are we talking about re you know redoing existing buildings to be more housing I mean those are the type of questions we're running out of property to put homes that's you know part of this

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conversation so I'm not sure how the zoning could be u but I think that might be worth looking into to see where where it makes sense to do this type of development. So sure, >> if I can respond, it is developable. Developable. I can't even say it. Land

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that can be developed. So it is not something existing that we're saying now all of a sudden is affordable. Um so I would argue that there is land. We've had tons of proposals for apartments. Could that

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land instead be part of the zoning that would allow homes? That's what we're hearing from the public. They want homes, not apartments. So, um, the conversation can delve into that. >> Council Orum, >> thank you, Mr. President. I concur with

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councelor Ducet and thank Councelor Roby for her insight in bringing this to the council. Um, the part that I really feel is important is buying their first home, downsizing, that could be elderly, downsizing into a smaller home, which will make their home

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available to someone else. So I see that as a benefit. And the question I had was uh with the new regulations and new legislation in Massachusetts, accessory dwelling units are also being considered where you can put a 900

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square f foot or less dwelling unit on your property and not have to meet certain zoning criteria. Is that encompassing that discussion as well? Council, if I may, to council Roby. Um, my understanding is there's language

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that you can add ADUs onto the property. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. >> Thank you, council. Council Ducet, >> thank you very much. Um, I I just want to also say like there are homes, houses, apartments, town houses, uh,

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garden style units. Um, so I as long as all options are on the table, I think this is good. Um I you know the the small houses suddenly become McMansions if considering the market as it is but you know condos and town houses and

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garden style definitely keeps the the market price lower. So thank you. >> Thank you councelor Detent. Any other councilors on the motion to defer this item to urban affairs? All those in favor opposed. This item's going to urban affairs and the vote is 100.

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Council Fill. Thank you, Mr. President. Move to adjurnn. Motions made and seconded to adjurnn. All those in favor opposed. We are adjourned at 8:36. Have a good evening, everyone.