Good evening everyone. We'll call the city council to order at 8:00 on Monday, June 22nd, 2020. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, before I get into my normal dissertation
on the start of our meeting, so before taking up the council business this evening, I would like to recognize an individual who is retiring after 29 years of outstanding service to the city
and its residents. All counselors should have received information today regarding the retirement of DPW Commissioner John Galoney. Since this is the last council meeting before his retirement,
I would ask the mayor to step up to the podium to say a few words. Mr. Mayor. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Members, >> come right come right up here. It's easier for the TV to see >> what it's okay. >> Where am I going? >> You're good.
>> I'm okay. >> Um, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to uh come down here tonight. Obviously, uh, we have an unusual occurrence where, um, we have someone, a DPW commissioner that's
retiring after 28 years. Um, someone that's obviously been our go-to guy for all of us. And, um, I wanted this opportunity to read a proclamation tonight. First, I got to catch my breath because I ran downstairs.
We good? >> Yes, sir. Uh proclamation. Whereas John Galoney began his career in the city of Malro, Massachusetts on January 20th, 1992 as the economic development specialist.
And less than a year later, he was promoted to director of public facilities before his appointment as DPW commissioner on March 10th, 2014. And whereas throughout his career, John has held a distinctive uh nickname as
the go-to person in the city. And while faced with obstacles, John has always found a way to get it done, usually behind the scenes and maybe with a little controversy and always ingenuity.
And whereas John has uh hates public recognition, uh has steadfastly accomplished more projects than anyone throughout the city's history. with the help of his staff. Some of these projects include
East Main Street, the new senior center, multiple schools, transforming the city's power into majority renewable energy, new turf fields, renovations of parks and playgrounds throughout the city. These
are just a small number of the projects John's got accomplished. Where's John famous line is? Let me think about it or I'll get back to you. And usually it may take a while, but he usually does.
Now therefore, I, Arthur G. Vigant Mayor, do hereby proclaim July 1st, 2020 is John Day in recognition and appreciation of John's 28-year career serving the city of Malro. In performing
his job tirelessly and professionally, on behalf of the city, we extend our best wishes on the occasion of your retirement. John, thank you very much and congratulations. Go, JOHN. SO, I I actually um we have a few city
keys left in the city. Um and then my assistant Trish reminded me that John has a key to every door in the entire city. So, it probably wouldn't help by giving him a key to the city. Um, so Mary working with John's team down at
the DPW came up with a better idea and and uh I'd like to turn it over now to the president. President O. >> So So John, if we can have you on the camera just one time, come on up. John, on behalf of the entire city
council, uh, go right up front here. want to present you with a sweet sign familiar with for the counselors to see recognize I think as all counselors know there hasn't been a time where you pick up the phone you didn't need you know
John h something on the rail trail I need fixed there's a constituent that has a concern John his department have always been there to help us get stuff done so the councils can't be here but on behalf of the councils John outstanding work the 25 years and speaking someone has retired, you will
not be disappointed. I wish you all the best. >> Thank you. Congratulations. >> There you go. >> Thank you very much. >> Um, and I just want to say, you know, John approached me. It was over a year ago when you came in my office and said, um, I noticed he had been spending a
couple weeks at a time down in Florida and I started getting nervous. So, um, he came in the office and said, "It's getting to that point where I think I'm going to retire." and and um do you want me to do it during this budget cycle or
the next one or by the end of the year? And and I told him and and I tell them the same thing today. Um I need you here as many days as you'll stay because uh it's going to be a huge loss for the city. So thank you and congratulations. Enjoy the cave. >> Thank you very much.
>> Thank you. Well done. I don't know. I'll open it up. Any of the counselors want to say a word or two to John before we continue with the meeting. >> Mr. President, >> I'm not sure who. Who's >> Yeah. >> Council Orum. >> Council Orum. >> Well, first and foremost, I'd like to
thank John sincerely for his services to the city. I've worked with John since 1990 and he's been here 29 years, I believe, he wrote. So very uh happy for him that he's retiring, but at the same time, as was noted, it's going to be a
great loss. There's one thing I can say about John. He always gets back to you, usually the same day. He knows how appreciative I was to have him do that through the years as a city councelor cuz we're getting back to our constituents. So John, when you take
that John Galoney way sign home, just remember, I think it's about 6 feet to keep your proper distancing. Congratulations. Congratulations, John. >> Thank you, Council. Anyone else? >> Uh, Mr. President, Council Landers would like to say many words.
>> Councelor Landers. >> Uh, a few words. Uh, I guess, uh, Mr. Flynn and myself were kind of responsible for hiring uh, John back in that cold day back in January. One of
his first jobs uh was to move us from the high school central office from the high school to the Walker building. It was cold and snowy, but everything went fine. And as I was telling uh John Deloney today, it's ironic. One of his
last jobs leaving is moving central office from the Freeman school down to uh the middle school. So, it's ironic, John, how history repeats itself. But on a serious side, though, I I've worked with John on many projects, especially
in the early days when we were trying to save money changing the uh power plant up the high school and energy and so forth. And uh all I'd say to John, John, you sure we got enough money? He said, Don, there's plenty of money. And you
know what? We never overspent. But I guess what I really want to say that the city has never looked more beautiful. I don't care whether it's the entrance to the middle school downtown always looks good. The Walker building looks good. And I think we got to give John Galoney
a lot of credit for that because he has so much pride in this the city that uh he uh he just you know kept after his crew and they uh and they uh you know they performed. But I think the other thing occasionally I'd see some of his
guys and they'd say, "Ah, that Mr. Galoney." I'd say, "Well, you know what? He has given you probably the the best, the newest equipment." And and John, that's what I see around town. I I see your guys do a good job, but partially
because you've given them the equipment they need to do what you want them to do. And I have to stop there cuz I could go on forever. But good luck, John. and I I hope we see you down Cape Cod someday. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Council L. >> Thank you, Mr. President. >> Anyone else?
>> Mr. President, this is councelor Roby. >> I'll be I'll be quick. I echo the thoughts that were just mentioned by my fellow counselors. I started working with Mr. Galoney when first elected to the school committee and I do understand
he has a process. Um sometimes you don't like his process, but he certainly does get things done. I I was going to bring it up uh under our item number 11 when we get to the naming of the new elementary school. Uh but I'll do it
now. I've been walking through Porer Drive on my walks and I know that we had approved funding to redo Porer Drive with the plan of the project starting when school was out um because of COVID 19 and school being cancelled. They
started the project early. So it is almost done. uh won't quite be finished before Mr. Galoney is gone, but I do think he and his staff and the contractors deserve congratulations on the great job that they did in making
Poryer Drive a much safer walk to school for both high school students and the new elementary students and anybody uh going to the field. So, thank you Mr. Galoney. We will miss you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Councelor Roby. Anyone else?
If not, Mr. Galoney, anything you would like to say? I want to thank everybody for what they've said tonight. Thank you for the Galon Way and the plaque. I couldn't have done it by myself. Without the
support of the mayor and the city council and the funding in place, none of this would have occurred. So it was a joint effort along with the employees and the contractors we do business with. So again, thank you very much. >> You're welcome and we wish you all the best. >> Thank you.
>> All right. Uh thank you councilors for indulging us uh to recognize uh a long-erving uh uh individual. Uh so we appreciate the work John's done. So now we'll get back to the work at hand. So again, a few opening remarks before we
get started. This evening meeting will be conducted again a little differently than our usual council meeting. We're implementing the governor's orders uh regarding relief for the open meeting law. This allows the counselors to participate remotely. All counselors are present and will confirm that shortly
with a roll call. Council has been asked to review the agenda items before the meeting and contact the mayor or department heads to obtain answers to their questions prior to the meeting so this meeting can be conducted efficiently. All votes will be via the roll call. The mayor will be available
uh should be needed to answer council questions. Uh the council will be conducting some public hearings this evening and the public will be participating remotely. We will try to make this as seamless as possible and ask for your cooperation and patience as we work through this together. I will
discuss this further when we start the public hearings. I ask the members of the public that are participating to keep their computers and phones on mute until the public meeting portion of the agenda. There are 18 items on this
evening's agenda. I will now ask the city clerk to call the role to confirm attendance. >> Councelor Wagner Wagner is present. >> Councelor Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet is present. Councelor
Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis is present. >> Councelor Tanera. >> Councelor Tanera is present. Councelor Irish. >> Councelor Irish is present. >> Councelor Naven. >> Councelor Naven is present.
>> Councelor Landers. >> Council Landers is present. >> Councelor Oram. I'm sorry. Councelor Orum. Councelor Oram is present. >> Thank you. Councelor Oing.
>> Councelor Oing is present. Councelor Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman is present. >> Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby is present. >> 11 present. Sir, >> thank you. I will now ask the city clerk to read agenda item number one, minutes
of the city council meeting, June 8th, 2020. >> Mr. President >> Councelor Tanera >> accept on place on accept and place on file um the agenda. >> Motion made and seconded to accept and place on file the meeting minutes from
June 8th. Any discussion on the motion hearing? None. I'll ask the clerk to call the role please. >> Councelor Dumis. Councelor Dumis. Sorry. Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes.
>> Council Landers. >> Council Landis votes yes. >> Councelor Naven. >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Councelor Tanera. >> Council Tanera votes yes. Councelor
Oram. >> Councelor Oram votes yes. >> Councelor Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet votes yes. >> Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner >> Wagner votes yes. >> Councelor Oing.
>> Councelor Oing votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir. >> A motion to accept and place on file the minutes is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. Agenda item number two. >> Now is the time for the continued public hearing on the application for an LED
signed special permit from William Kamuso on behalf of Lincoln 431 LLC, the Shell station at 431 Lincoln Street, order number 20-1007948D. And in addition, we have a communication from AUB Engineering on behalf of Lincoln 431 LLC, the Shell station 431
Lincoln Street regarding a request for an extension of time for the public hearing. >> Mr. President Councelor Roby >> Councelor Roby. >> Thank you. Move to accept and place on file the communication from AUB Engineering and to continue the public
hearing until July 20th at 8:00. >> Motion is made and seconded to accept and place on file the communication and continue the public hearing till July 20th at 8:00 p.m. Any discussion on the motion?
Seeing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. >> Councelor Oing. >> Councelor Oing votes yes. >> Councelor Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Oram. Councelor Oram. >> Council Orum votes yes.
>> Councelor Ducet. >> Council Ducet votes yes. >> Council Wagner. Council Wagner votes yes. Council >> Roby Council Roby votes yes. Council >> Landers Council Landis votes yes.
>> Councelor Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Tanara >> Councelor Tanera votes yes. >> Councelor Irish >> Councel Irish votes yes. >> And councelor Pearlman
>> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir. a motion to accept and place on file the correspondence and continue the public hearing to July 20th at 8:00 p.m. is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. Before I start with agenda item three,
it's just some guidelines for public hearings. So, as I mentioned earlier, the council is going to try to make these public hearings as seamless as possible and ask for your cooperation and patience as we all learn this together. So, some reminders. Please keep your computer and phone muted when
not speaking, unmute to speak, and mute when finished speaking. Just like if the public was in the chambers, please be respectful while waiting for the public hearing to start as a council needs to conduct its business. The system does not work when everyone tries to speak at
once. We will do our best to get each individual an opportunity to speak. So, please be patient. Uh for those of you watching on TV, do not watch on TV if you're going to participate. There is a delay. So follow it uh using the remote access capability. That is real time.
Should there be a technical issue, we will recess and determine if we can correct it. Our ID our IT department will monitor the system for issues and we'll remove individuals who are disrupting the meeting. And at the conclusion of the public meetings, uh we
uh the council will recess for a moment to clear the system and then return to council business. So with that, uh, agenda item number three, now is the time for the public hearing on the petition from Eversource Energy to
install approximately 185 ft of 2-in IP plastic pipe as a gas main extension on Union Street from 215 Union Street towards Hollis Street, order number 20-1008031. And in addition, there is a communication from city engineer Thomas
Dersio regarding recommended conditions for the Eversource petition on Union Street. >> And again, just to remind everyone, the public hearing is conducted in four stages. The public speaking in favor, questions from the public, public speaking in opposition, and then
questions from the city councils. So, I'll now open the public hearing for the public speaking in favor. There is somebody from Eversource. >> The Evers Source individuals on the line. >> Yes. My apologies. This is Shannon Ashcraft from Eversource Energy.
>> Hey Shannon, your address. >> Uh 157 Cordville Road, Southboro, Massachusetts 01772. >> Thanks Shannon. You can proceed with the project. >> Um okay. As uh
as the counselor uh described before, we are looking to install 185 ft of 2-in plastic IP main um from the end of our existing main at starts at 215 um Union Street and extend that to 209 Union
Street in the direction of Hollis Street. Um, and from there we will also be installing the service to the residents for number 209. Thank you, Shannon. Is there anyone else speaking in favor of the project?
Is there anyone else speaking in favor of the project? Anyone else speaking in favor of the project? Hearing none, close that portion of the public hearing. Questions from the public?
Are there any questions from the public? Questions from the public? Hearing none, I'll close that portion of the public hearing. Public speaking in opposition. Are there any members of the public
speaking in opposition? Public speaking in opposition. Any members of the public speaking in opposition? Hearing none, I'll close that portion of the public hearing. Questions from the counselors?
Any questions from the counselors? >> Mr. President, Council Landers. >> Councelor Landers. >> If there's no questions or comments, I Mr. President would like to make the motion to approve this council order tonight. I also would like the clerk to
uh read the conditions set forth by the city engineer. >> Okay, hang just hang we'll hold that motion. I will second that motion. Let's just make sure that none of the other counselors have any comments or questions so I can close the public hearing. Any
>> any questions from the counselors? >> Questions from the counselors? Questions from the counselors. >> Councelor Oing, can you hear? >> I can hear you. >> I can't hear you now. >> Muted again.
>> Did he mute himself? >> Hang on, Council Justette. We're waiting. >> Is he muted? No. >> Councelor Ducet, can you hear us? You You should be able >> You're muted now. Try to unmute yourself now. Council
Ducet. >> Still muted. >> Is he he's still mute? The system says you're still muted, council ducet. >> Okay, hold on. >> Oh, we can >> we can hear you now. >> Ah, we got you.
No, lost them again. >> There might be a slight delay in the microphone. So, >> there you go. >> Okay, I'm not touching anything yet. >> We hear you. We hear you. >> We hear you. >> Nice system. Um, but anyway, my only
question is I understand that there's a resident that's going to be getting natural gas. Um, I have had other people within my ward asking, "What does it take to get natural gas installed?" I had a contractor saying that he basically be he'd do his own work to to
connect in. So, my qu my question to the utility is what's the process for people who don't have gas to get natural gas? Uh to my knowledge, the easiest way uh to get natural gas if you're looking to install new service is to contact the
utility directly. Um I believe there are some customer service support phone numbers uh that they can look up on the website um to immediately uh reach somebody who can get them connected to the correct people to see if they're what the capability is to install
natural gas at that service at that location. >> Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. >> Any other questions from the counselors? Questions from the counselors? Questions from the counselors? Hearing
none, we'll close that part of the public hearing and the entire public hearing. If I could ask the city clerk to read the recommendation from the engineering department. >> And if Scott, hang on. Scott's on the
line. There's some feedback coming our way, Scott. Not sure why. >> It sounded like it was from uh councelor Deette, but >> let's keep going. >> Okay. Okay. >> Communication from city engineer Thomas Depersio regarding council order number
20-1008031 which has been referred to the engineering department petition of Eversource to energy to install 185 ft of 2-in IP gas main in Union Street towards Hollis Street. He offers the following for for the council's consideration. One that Eversource
complete their ongoing work on Pleasant Street, Bolton Street, and Porer Drive prior to mobilizing their forces on this project. >> On the motion by councelor Landers to approve the permit with the condition identified by engineering been made and
seconded. Any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. And again, you're voting to approve the permit and the condition. >> Councelor Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes.
>> Councelor Tanera. >> Councelor Tanera votes yes. >> Councelor Landers. >> Council Landis votes yes. >> Councelor Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Oram.
Council Orum votes yes with conditions noted. >> Councelor Dumis >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Roby >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes.
>> Councelor Ducet >> Councelor Ducet votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner Wagner votes yes. >> Councelor Oing >> Councelor Oing votes yes. >> 11 in favor sir. The motion to approve the permit for Eversource to install the
gas line on Union Street is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed with the conditions from engineering. Before we go to number four, is the applicant on for number four? >> I believe he is. Yes, sir. >> I just I can't see. So, I just want to make sure. Okay. All right. I will we
will move to agenda item number four. Now is the time for the public hearing on the petition from excuse me on the proposed reszoning of land off Valley Street identified as map 82 parcel 125 order number 20-1007976. Again the public hearing will be
conducted in four stages. The public speaking in favor, questions from the public, public speaking in opposition and questions from the city councilors. We'll now open the part of the public hearing with the public speaking in
favor. Please state your name and address. >> Good evening, uh, council president and city council. Uh, for the record, my name is Mark Evangelist. I reside at 108 Kelber
and, uh, I am a lifelong resident of Malro. I've raised four children here. I just celebrated my 40th year as a small business owner here in Malbor and I'm looking to change an old abandoned railroad bed from industrial to residential.
5 years ago I purchased this property in hopes of building a larger building for my sign business. But I realized best would be residential because it's surrounded by mostly residential property. if you can switch to the next page,
please. There you go. Thank you. The the yellow portion of this is all residential and going west which is heading straight up is all residential and most of the the left side of this uh
layout is all mostly residential. The zone change makes sense because provides a consistent use with the adjoining residential zone parcels and cleans up a long abandoned railroad bed which forms a long finger of
industrially zoned land surrounded by residentially zoned land. It's also less detrimental to the area because we're going from industrial zone to residential zone. The reszoning will allow the lots to be bigger and part of
the backyards will not be industrial zoned. Also, the homes will have more distance from the street and away from the other home. Reszoning with the city council council is in the mayor's vision for more
housing to support downtown businesses. Almost every neighbor I spoke with is in favor of this. number of occasions. Uh Christian Dumis and he is very supportive of this zoning change. The rail bed has been tested for arsenic
and cold ash and is safe for residential use. The conservation board required that uh last year during uh this process. These are some of the additional benefits of the resoning.
If you want to go through this and there's two pages here. Uh you can go to the next page please. uh about a year ago I went in front of the the the the planning board and uh they unanimously supported this and
actually I was there this s just now about an hour ago at 7:00 and the whole board unanimously approved it recom uh this is happen to be the recommendation letter from last year but they're going to uh forward this year's recommendation
letter to to you also It fits into the character of the neighborhood and the zoning change imposes minimum impact on the neighborhoods and the doning chain benefits the area by cleaning up a remaining anomaly over
the abandoned railroad bed. These lot lots will be larger. They're going to be halfacre lots. Most of the lots in this area are less than they're about 10,000 square ft. The next page, please. So, I spoke with a few of the people in
the neighborhood and they wrote them letters and they passed on to Council Dumis uh for letters of support. Uh, I also have my attorney, uh, Mark Bau here, uh, in case you have any
questions, legal questions for him. Um, Mark, are you there? >> I'm here, Mark. >> Excellent. So, he's here also, counselors, to be able to answer any questions, but I want to thank the council members. Uh, congratulate all the new councilors this year for for
winning the election and, uh, and for your service to the city. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mark. Are there any other members of the public speaking in favor of the project? Are there any other members of the public speaking in favor of the project?
Any members of the public speaking in favor of the project? Hearing none, I close that part of the public hearing. Questions from the public? Are there any questions from the public?
Questions from the public hearing? None. I close that part of the public hearing. Public speaking in opposition. Are there any members of the public speaking in opposition?
Any members of the public speaking in opposition? Hearing none. Close that part of the public hearing. Questions from the city councilors. Any questions from the city councilors? Questions from the city councilors?
>> President Oting. It's councelor Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet. >> Thank you very much, Mr. President. Um, I see this as more left of a legacy of paper streets. This isn't the the only one that I've come across in the city. Um, cities that, you know, basically
streets that have been planned though are never executed. So, I think getting this transition completed would be a good thing. Thank you, Council Ducette. Any other questions from the counselors? Questions from the counselors?
Questions from the counselors? Hearing none, I close that part of the public hearing and the entire public hearing. And this item is in urban affairs. Thank you, Mr. Evangelist. >> Thank you so much. >> Uh give a recess for a minute to clear
the lines and then we'll move on to agenda five. So give us two minutes to clear up the lines. We'll take a two-minute recess. Call the city council back from recess. We will go on to agenda item. If I can have the clerk lead agenda item number five, >> request by Mayor Vigen to provide an
update to the city council regarding the fiscal year 2020 and the fiscal year 2021 budgets. >> Mr. Mayor, I'll turn it over to you. Thank you very much, Mr. President, members. Um, obviously we're going through some strange times and and financially we
keep an eye on this every day. Uh I've had several several almost daily meetings with the president and the finance team and uh it was recommended that I come down and update the council and the public as to where we are and uh
where we're going from here. Back on April 2nd, um we actually put a spending freeze in place for all discretionary spending in the city. Um since then uh we've seen our expenditures go down a little bit and
actually with our reports at the end of May uh we're down uh approximately 6% from where we had planned on being uh with our expenditures this year. Revenues are we are anticipating to be a
little short of our our goal. We're running pretty much online but we might be just a little bit short. But because of the savings we have in the expenditures that we haven't been um um putting this money out to purchase different items, then uh we should end
up the rest of the year. Okay. We've held off on any capital requests. Usually by this time I'm down at the council talking about capital requests for equipment and vehicles and equipment for the DPW. Um and we've held off on
that. And one of the reasons we did that is because this year the legislature and the governor actually allowed us to carry over free cash. As you know, free cash usually goes away on June 30th until the books are balanced sometime in
October or November. >> Legislature has allowed us this year to continually roll over the free cash into the beginning of the year. So, as the summer goes on, we can take a better look to see where we are at the time and
come down with those capital requests based on what we finally see from state aid. Obviously, that's the big uh variable right now is state aid. again. Usually by this time um we have our state aid
number and sometime in May the legislature usually meets finishes up their budget and they they uh senate and the representatives will get together and uh we usually have our state aid number this time. That's a little bit
different this year. Um we originally thought we would have the number by the end of the fiscal year which is next week. Um, and then we thought maybe July or possibly the beginning of August. Um, I was told by some in Boston that we
could be seeing it possibly into September at this point. The biggest shock of all that is we've been told to brace ourselves for anywhere from a 10 to 15% decrease in
the local aid. That's a $6 to7 million deficit uh to our budget this year. I know when I came down and talked to you about approving the budget, uh I told you that um we were going to move
forward and and we would do the planning necessary to make up the difference and I'm relying on you as far as coming back with adjustments to the budget after things clear up. We just submitted uh uh requests for funding from the CARES Act. That was
federal money that was allocated out by the state uh to all 351 communities. Marorrow was allocated $3.5 million for the car's act. The problem being is that can only be used for things that weren't
budgeted earlier in the year in March of this year. only for ex extraordinary expenditures over and above what was budgeted back then. So when you start taking a look at our current budget and where we are and what we sent on uh PPE
and other uh expenditures for the the co virus, um we put in a request of $321,000. And the reason we only put in the request for 321,000 is this $3.5 million is for a 2-year
period. It's for the year we're currently in and for fiscal year uh 2021. As a mayor, in talking to the other mayors, we're all anticipating and hoping that the federal government, the uh the the Senate and the House and
Washington will take a vote to allow us to use these funds for lost revenues as well as expenditures. It's the lost revenues that we're all concerned about uh with our communities. Obviously, we've seen huge reductions in the meals
tax and rooms tax in the city, and this is going to continue up through um fiscal 21. and working with the uh deputy commissioner down at the do um Sean Cronin. Him and I had some
conversations and I had asked him to write up some legislation for me to allow the city, our city as well as the 351 throughout the the Commonwealth to allow us to use um uh revolving funds
and special revenue funds through 2021 that were dedicated for other things. In our case, the meals tax and rooms tax is dedicated money. We have the revolving accounts for the uh recreation department. We also have the revolving
accounts for our tower money. And I asked him to draw up legislation that allows all communities to use all their revolving accounts for their general budget just for fiscal year 21. Um I was happy to get his support and get the
language. This was submitted by Representative Gregoire. Um, and on June 5th, the governor signed the bill. So, that's going to be a huge help to us in the city of Marorrow and hopefully many communities throughout the Commonwealth
uh will get the benefit of allowing um them and us to use other revolving accounts and special revenue accounts that we have dedicated. those we won't touch until later in the year again until we find a little bit better picture as to what's going to go on in
2021. Um, with your help, we got the budget approved. Um, and I told you at that time it was going to be an interesting year and we were going to have to work together to get through it.
I've also asked recently for all the department heads to give me two additional adjustments to their budgets. I want all departments to give me a 3% reduction in their current budget moving into 2021 that you approved just a
couple of months ago. And I also asked them for a reduction of 6%. So I have all those uh figures now in my office. All the department heads were very cooperative in coming up with those numbers. And the reason I wanted those
to be in the folder upstairs is when we find out what we are going to need because local aid is reduced or not reduced or reduced by 6 million or reduced by 8 million uh we can deal with it at that time rather than start from that point ask all department heads to
go search through their budgets at that time. So, we've planned to make the necessary reductions. Uh, we don't want to make them until we have to. Uh, we're waiting for those state revenues. The other thing we need to keep in mind is
we have a meeting this week with the assessor's office to go over valuations. Obviously, we very concerned about some of the commercial valuations, especially the hotels and the restaurants. Um, some
of those values are based on revenue and obviously their revenue has taken a huge beating this year and we anticipate some substantial reductions in values for some of the commercial property. Um, and depending how sales go, uh, we may see
some reductions in the residential properties also. So, we've taken the necessary steps. uh we're in kind of hold mode until uh the state finally does come out with their local aid numbers. Then we can react. We can fill
the gaps and I'll be looking forward to working with you during that time to figure out which accounts we will be um taking a look at. We have we have uh planning between our our free cash, our stabilization money, our revolving
accounts, um our overlay accounts. Uh we've been taking a look at all of them and we're just waiting to see how much we have to backfill to make it through 2021. And with that, Mr. President, I'll stop and answer any questions that you or the
council have for me. >> At this time, I'll turn it over to the counselors for questions on the fiscal year 20 or 21 budgets. >> Mr. President, >> councelor Orum, >> let me put on my I'm sorry about the video. It's saving the battery. Uh, if I
may to the mayor. >> Yep. >> Uh, in previous meetings when we approved the budget, we were talking about the stabilization overlay and free cash. What do we have in those funds at this point? If you may explain that and
what is your percent that you wish to spend during this next fiscal 21 year? >> Uh, thank you. Well, as far as what we're going to spend next year, again, uh I can't give you any indication until we end up finding out what we're going
to receive for local aid from the state. I just want the access to the different accounts um so we can find out which accounts we will be taking them out of to backfill it. uh if if the state ends up using some of their stabilization
money, they're offering programs all over the state for all kinds of things to get through this CO situation. There's only so much they have to spend. They can't print money either. They're not the federal government. They have the same constraints that we have. And
if they implement new taxes to raise the funds, they're going to have to borrow the funds because they won't get enough in in the next fiscal year. So, uh, they have their challenges, but we need to move forward with our budgets. And that's why, you know, stabilization
money, we're over $16 million. Uh, we have over $4 million in the meals tax account. We have over a million in the hotel tax account. Uh, we have revolving funds uh for the parks of over $300,000.
uh we still have the free cash and um you know so we have sources that we can tap but at this time I don't know if we're talking about finding a million or finding $8 million and obviously for a community our size that's a huge difference
>> Mr. Mr. Mayor, if I may, the free cash and it's good that I heard the 16 million in the budget presentation and stabilization. Where are we at with free cash at this moment? >> 5.5. >> Well, with the transfers that have been made, we're just on the 6 million. I think 5.5.
>> Yeah, >> 5.5. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> Thank you. >> Any other counselors? >> Mr. President, councelor Naven. >> Councelor Naven. >> Thank you, Mr. President, and through you to the mayor. Mayor, thank you uh for this update. We appreciate um you
coming down and sharing this information. I know how hard everyone's been working to kind of put us on solid ground um especially in this challenging time. Um one of my my questions that I have, it's it's a bit in the weeds, I think, from a from a global standpoint, but one that's been bubbling up um in
our portion of the city. Um and I know that you're you're well aware of it over the weekend. Um we had some really heavy usage at some of our recreational facilities. Um, I want to make sure um that we have the resources and the al um and that they're allocated as we kind of, you know, now that the summer
weather is here and things are starting to get warmer, we're starting to see a lot more um activity at these facilities. Specifically this weekend down at Memorial Beach, um we had large crowds and um you know, a lot of the residents were concerned specifically around um you know, overcrowding in the
neighborhoods, um overcrowding the parking lots, um access to sanitary facilities. um you want to make sure that the lifeguards are there um you know as well as um you know trash pickup and access to those things. I just want to make sure that as as we go on we have
the resources and if not um you know if you could speak to how we can handle that uh going forward for the season. >> Thank you. Actually I can tell you now I'm getting a little um I can tell you that uh we spent the majority of the day
dealing with the issue. Uh we knew that obviously we were going to have issues in in a usual year. We would open the beach up last week. Uh we had always planned to open it up this Friday. So we're just over a week behind on on the
opening and that's based on when school gets out. They work it around that schedule usually. Uh this year is a little bit different because one it's been 90° for a few days. Uh in addition to that, um school people have been
doing the virtual learning, so they're spending more time down there and a lot of people are not working their regular hours, so they're spending time at the beach. Obviously, everyone doesn't have access to pools and and their own beach
area or or semi-private beaches. So, um we knew that over the last few days we were going to have some concerns. the DPW has been picking up the trash on a regular basis. Uh we we had talked about uh doing the, you know, bring the you
bring your stuff in and bring your own trash home. I didn't feel comfortable doing that, so we left the containers up there. Uh we're going to be doubling the effort from the DPW moving forward as far as the trash goes. Uh the the
lifeguards are going on duty as of Friday. Uh we on on busy times we have six on duty. So we're going to have that throughout this summer. Uh it was a little challenging this year because we had some lifeguards tell us they didn't
want to come to work this year because their unemployment is higher than they would be making down at the beach. So it was another challenge that uh uh Mr. theo head down there and and hiring and uh he has his people in place for
Friday. So, we're good with that. The bathroom facilities will be open on Wednesday. Uh we had to get clearance on how they would be cleaned and um how often they would be cleaned. So, we're moving forward on that. The the uh
police department will be posting the neighborhoods for no temporary no parking signs. This is something we went through when we first did the beach over. Um had the dedication and it was a a really hectic summer to begin with.
The police got it under control pretty quickly. So, they'll be putting the signs down there and I told the chief whatever neighborhoods he felt uh required them, he would be he will be dealing with that part. Um we will be
opening up and having attendance down at the parking lot. um starting on Friday and along with that we'll be uh detailed police officer at the gate and we'll be requiring um
them to check the gates will be open and the beach will be open for Malbor residents only. Um it's something we're going to work on and the reason is um obviously it's a big year. It's been it it everyone's been cooped up and looking
to get out. So, we're trying to figure out a way to limit the people uh without trying to turn away too many of our residents. Um trying to think uh some of the other issues that came up. >> So, limiting parking. So, once the parking lot >> there's going to be park once the
parking lot is full um people will be turned away. Um we're not going to obviously they won't be parking up in the neighborhoods. Uh but once the parking lot is full, people will be turned away from the beach area. As far as the social distancing, we're going to
uh request that um people kind of use an honor system. And uh we just have to remember we have 18 and 20 year old kids down there that are lifeguards and we can't we can't have the police there every day all day. Uh they will be
taking runs through there on their regular trips around town. uh when the when the uh um the officers are out uh doing their regular routines, the patrol officers, they are going to go down there on a regular basis, but on
weekends we will have an officer on duty down there uh to get us started. So, uh it's basically using the same routine we did a few years ago when we opened the beach. So, um we're about a week behind. Obviously with Hudson closed, uh, that
adds a little more to it. Westbro's co closed, although I think if you go by there, um, you'd be hardressed to believe that, but West Bro is closed also. So, I think we're getting some overflow in addition to that. So, but as
far as the resources go, I've talked to Mr. Theodo. We met today and um uh talked to the chief also and told him um I just need up regular updates on the expenditures from his department for
overtime or are repurposing offices and uh whatever he needs. Just make sure they get down there and I'll backfill the money later. >> Okay. Okay. Well, I thank you very much for that update and I appreciate uh you taking this so seriously and making sure
that you know the residents can have a uh a safe recreational summer especially as you mentioned during this time of co when people have been cooped up for so long. Um you know it's uh everybody's running a little hot and uh crowds are going to be extra large this year. So I appreciate you taking a look at this.
>> Any other comments from the counselors? >> Mr. President, councelor Dumis would like to speak. >> Councelor Dumis. Thank you very much. Uh Mr. Mayor, not to put you on the spot, but as things start opening up a little bit, as we go through our phase program,
is there any um plan to rehire back the employees that were laid off due to CO? >> Well, we're planning on uh we're actually going through a process right now of putting in some plexiglass and different offices, figuring out which offices we can open. We're anticipating
looking at July 6th is I guess a soft opening by appointment only in the building. Um and then as that progresses hopefully a couple weeks later can open the building up to the public. Um so although the employees have been
unbelievable, the work's been getting accomplished in the building, I don't think we've missed a step. The residents have been very cooperative and using the mail and the dropboxes in the both the front and the back of city hall. Uh I plan on putting a permanent dropbox
outside because it's worked so well um to receive both payments and other information for the building department or whoever. So um I think we're going to go with that first um because we still don't want to put too many extra people
in the buildings. The library still will be doing the drop off um you know pickup at the door so they won't be open for business. So they can't have as many people there as probably some would like. Uh DPW, fire and police uh will
still be in the senior center will still be closed to the public although we will be opening up um um Mr. Hennessy's office for the veterans on an appointment basis. So again, they'll be meeting uh by appointment only. So we're
hoping to get that moving and and um just be very cautious. I mean, I know the beach has been something that um brought attention to, you know, people gathering the the protests, memorial, uh events that have been happening down at
the we've had four down at the um uh at the common. uh they've worked real well, but we have the same concerns about the you know the distancing and we just want to make sure the employees stay safe and the people that are visiting the city or
city buildings also stay safe. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments or questions from the counselors? >> This is councelor Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman. >> Thank you, President Osing and through you to the mayor. I'm curious, Mr. Mr. Mayor, if you can speak a little bit
about what preparation is taking place if there is a second wave of the pandemic. I know that's been coming up pretty frequently that even though we are reopening in Massachusetts and the contact tracing has been very effective, there are still concerns that there could be a resurge maybe in the fall.
And so I'm curious what preparations uh you're thinking about ahead of time, especially since that might also impact our budget moving forward for FY21. Well, again, um we're we're prepared with the well, we have that CARES Act money if we need it. Uh we could submit
to that for that up to $3.5 million, but we also don't want to waste that money because our guess is it's probably going to be a one-time shot. Um both the police, uh the fire department, and the
schools are ordering as much PPE as possible, uh to get in place. So, if we do have that second wave that we're really kind of expecting, uh we're prepared for it. We're not running all over looking for
it like we were uh this time. And also, I'm still on a weekly call with the hospital. Uh they're in real good shape right now, but obviously they're ready for the second wave to come. And our health department, again, we've had uh the nurses from the schools come down
and help us out in the department. They're all doing uh uh uh checks of all the uh residents that we have that are positive. We're down to just under 35 right now positive cases in the city and half of those are in the nursing homes.
So that number has been dropping on a daily basis. Um it's it's just something we're going to have to keep an eye on, but I I can almost guarantee you we're going to see some kind of of uptick uh in the positive cases. Um, and you know,
it seems like the the age is dropping, which that's the good news, I guess, that it's more of the healthy, younger people that are getting through it rather quickly. But, uh, we have to be very cautious to keep our residents safe. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I just want to
add too for anyone watching, you know, really still maintaining social distancing and wearing masks is a huge priority moving forward. Um, even though we are reopening, those are really important to continue. Thank you. >> Thank you, councelor Pearlman. Any other questions from the counselors?
>> Mr. President, through you to the mayor. >> Council or >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, and I think all your qu all the answers you were giving were appropriate and I thank you for that. It's good to uh see that we'll have that additional staff at Memorial
Beach for CO 19 monitoring. uh suggestion would be try to uh place someone in charge of CO 19 monitoring that's not doing lifeguard work because they're doing the same thing at pools. They they have their purpose and their job to do. So hopefully we can look at
that. And I agree with uh Council Pearlman that we cannot let our guards down. So hopefully facial covering will be suggested at the beach until you go swimming obviously and the appropriate social distancing. And I did hear just this morning, Mr. mayor that the car's
act may not be as available in this next round as it was in this present round. So you are correct. It may not be as plentiful in respect to funding as it is now. So thank you for your advancement in getting PPE and and and so forth. And
let's keep our guards up until we get through this. And I thank everyone for their patience in this. This is a very difficult time for all of us. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councilm. Anyone else? Any other counselors? >> President Osing. That's councelor Ducet.
>> Councelor Ducet. >> Thank you very much. President Osing through the through you to the mayor. Um what sort of advice can you give Mr. Mayor for business owners uh now that they're finally opening up um you know
there are people coming in that some of them are not wearing masks. Some of them actually refuse to wear masks. And I it there there are people that are taking this attitude and how can we deescalate this and help get people to actually
wear masks and basically follow the regulation. >> I I mean I we're not going to have the mass police out there. Um to get into many of the establishments in the city, you have to have a mask to walk in. Um, I believe all the restaurants you have
to use a mask to go to the men's room and back. Uh, you don't need it if you're sitting at your table or outside. Um, so some of this has to be common sense that that people as they're walking around and and uh walking on the
rail trail or walking down Main Street, uh, just use some common sense in it. But we're going to continue to encourage wearing masks when they can't socially distance. Um, you know, that's that's about all we can do because we are not going to get the mass the uh mass
policed out there. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> Any other questions, Mr. Mayor? Thank you very much. >> Dismissed. >> Well, for now. >> All right. Thank you. If you need anything, please call. Thank you,
counselors. Just one second. Okay, we'll move on to agenda item number six, please. >> Communication from councelor Oing and councelor Chinera regarding the
municipal aggregation June 2020 update. >> Mr. President, >> councelor Chinera. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh just before I um make a motion to accept and place on file like to throw out a few bullet points for everybody just to um tell
everybody where we're at. So um so Malbor residents participated in the in our aggregation program saved over $811,000 on their electric bills in the first quarter of 2020. Since November 2019, when the city
signed a two-year contract with Inspire, Marvel residents participating in the program saved 1.4 million. The 2-year contract with Inspire runs through November 2021, and Marvel residents participating in
the program program will continue to see savings in the second quarter. all the energy that is supplied from inspires 100% renewable wind rec. And with that, I'd uh make a motion to accept and place on file.
>> Motion made and seconded to accept and place on file the communication. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. >> Councelor Councelor Ducet. Couns Council Ducet says yes.
>> Thank you. Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Orum >> Council Orum votes yes. >> Councelor Oing Council Oing votes yes. Councelor Irish
>> Council Irish votes yes. Councelor Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Landers. >> Sorry. Councelor Landers. >> I believe you are muted. Counselor.
He just kicked himself out. Council Mandis votes yes. All right. >> Thank you. Councelor Naven, >> sorry about that. >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner >> Council Wagner votes yes.
>> And councelor Tanera >> Council Tanera votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir. >> The motion to accept and place on file the communication on municipal aggregation is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. Agenda item number seven, >> communication from the mayor regarding
gift acceptance in the amount of $500 for the police department from James and Marner Rusher for the benefit of the K9 unit led by Sergeant Ken McKenzie. >> Mr. Mr. President, Council Irish. >> Councelor Irish.
>> Thank you, Mr. President. Motion to approve. And thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Rushner for the most generous gift to the K9 unit for the Marbor Police Department. >> Motion is made and seconded to approve the grant the donation of $500 to the K9
unit and thank Mr. and Mrs. Rushner. Any discussion on the motion hearing? None. I will ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Robby votes yes. >> Councelor Landers.
>> Council Landers votes yes. Councelor Irish. >> Council votes yes. >> Councelor Tanera. >> Councelor Tanera votes yes. >> Councelor Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Naven
>> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet votes yes. >> Councelor Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner. >> Council Wagner votes yes. >> Councelor Oing. Councelor Oing votes
yes. >> And councelor Oram. >> Councelor Oram votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir. >> The motion to approve the gift of $500 to the K9 unit is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. >> Agenda item number eight. >> Communication from the mayor regarding a
transfer request in the amount of $135 which moves funds from nurse salary to senior clerk salary to cover the cost associated with an employee promotion in the health department. Mr. President, Council Irish. >> Councelor Irish.
>> Motion to approve the transfer. >> Motion made and seconded to approve the $135 transfer. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Councelor Roby.
>> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Landers. >> Council Landers votes yes. >> Councelor Oing. Councelor Oing votes yes. >> Councelor Pearlman >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Council Oram.
>> Council Oram votes yes. >> Council Tanera. >> Council Tanera votes yes. >> Council Ducet. >> Council Ducet votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner. >> Council Wagner votes yes. >> Councelor Naven
>> Councelor Naven votes yes. Councelor Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> And councelor Irish >> Council Irish votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir. >> The motion to approve the $135 transfer is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed.
And item number nine, communication from the mayor regarding notification of renewal of 60-day temporary appointments of tax collector Eene Bristol as interim treasurer effective June 17, 2020 and Steven Cerillo as interim comproller effective June 17th, 2020.
>> Mr. President, I would like councelor Dumis like to speak. >> Councelor Dumis. >> Thank you. Motion to accept and place on file. Motion made and seconded to accept and place on file the 60-day appointments for the treasurer and the colle and controller. Any discussion on
the motion? >> Seeing none, I will ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Councelor Landers. >> Council Landis votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner Wagner votes yes. >> Councelor Oing Councelor Oing votes yes.
>> Councelor Roby >> Councelor Roby votes yes. Councelor Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Carlman. >> Council Carlman votes yes. >> Councelor Tanera. >> Council Tanera votes yes.
>> Council Oram. >> Council Orum votes yes. >> Councelor Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Councelor Naven >> Council Naven votes yes. >> And councelor Ducet. Council Ducette votes yes.
>> 11. Yes, sir. >> The motion to accept and place on file the two 60-day appointments is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. Agenda item number 10. >> Communication from the mayor regarding proposed amendment to chapter 540 solid
waste making changes to the resident dropoff facility operations and associated fees. Mr. President, >> Councelor Lander. >> Okay. I wasn't sure if the city clerk was going to read a little more. Uh my recommendation here, Mr. President,
President, is to refer this to public service committee. >> Motion made and seconded to refer to the public services committee. Is there any discussion on the motion? President Osing, it's councelor Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet.
>> Thank you very much, Mr. President. Um, this for the city, this is actually very serious because, you know, all the waste kind of goes through that facility as far as dropup goes. There's a couple of issues that I think still need to be addressed as far as um construction
demolition uh waste that comes from that that's not being addressed at this point. But I think it's really good that the um the transfer station is now taking food waste. Uh so that basically people want to compost. Uh the city is
supporting that and I'm all for that as well. So um it's it's a necessary uh next step that we need to take with us and uh I'm looking forward to when this comes goes to council. Thank you. >> Uh Mr. President, >> Council Landers.
>> Council Landers. Just just a a comment uh you know will be in public services uh what I neglected to mention but I maybe will at under reports I would say at the latest mid July we will have at
least one or two good public service meetings uh we'll have uh the commissioner there Ted and uh you're right councelor to set uh this is a very important issue very big issue uh we
have to address certain parts of it and uh we certainly will spend the time and I believe you're on the committee uh and we'll give it a lot of uh thought. We'll work in conjunction with the Department of Public Works and uh and we will
continue to have probably one of the best residential drop offs to get the name uh around. Thank you, Mr. President. >> Thank you, Council Landers. Any other comments or questions from the counselors? Hearing none. On the motion to refer to
new public services department, I will ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Council Wagner Wagner votes yes. >> Councelor Tanera. >> Council Tanera votes yes. >> Council Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet votes yes.
>> Councelor Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. Councelor Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Irish >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Councelor Roby >> Council Roby votes yes.
>> Council Oram >> Council Oram votes yes. >> Council Oing >> Council Oing votes yes. >> Council Dumis >> Council Dumis votes yes. >> Council Landers >> Council Landers votes yes. 11. Yes, sir.
>> The motion to refer the changes to the residential drop off facility change to the ordinance is approved. 110 and it is now in the hands of public service. Agenda item 11. Communication from the mayor regarding the proposed a proposed
order for the naming of the new elementary school and recreational fields. >> Mr. President, >> councelor Naven. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, I'd like to make a motion to refer to the veteran services committee. Um, thank the mayor
for sending these names down and uh we'll use the committee meeting as an opportunity to solicit feedback from the veterans council and uh other interested members uh and party members of the city about uh what is something that a lot of folks are interested in and so we're looking forward to getting to it
>> and I'm sure you will do a fine job. Motion made and seconded to rever refer to the veteran services committee. So, any discussion on the motion? >> President Osang, it's councelor Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet. >> Thank you very much, Mr. President. I
just wanted to uh thank the mayor for putting this package together. Uh, a bit of historical reference as well. I think the uh name for the uh the three veteran brothers from the Civil War doing the
new school is would leave a great legacy for that family. And I hope we if this gets approved, we can reach out to the descendants for the school opening. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council Det. Any other counselors? >> On the motion to refer to veterans, I
will ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Council Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Council Oram, >> Council Oram votes yes. >> Council Naven >> Council Naven votes yes. Council Landers
>> Council Landis votes yes. >> Council Wagner Council Wagner votes yes. >> Council Ducet. >> Council Ducet votes yes. >> Council Tanera. >> Council Tanera votes yes. >> Council Irish.
>> Councelor Irish votes yes. >> Council Dumis. >> Council Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Roby >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Oing. Councelor Oing votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir. >> The motion to refer the name changes the
names for the new elementary school in two fields is now in the hands of the veteran services is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. Agenda item number 12. Petition from Eversource Energy to install approximately 500 ft of 8 in low
pressure gas man as part of a system improvement on South Bolton Street and Main Street to Granger Boulevard. Mr. President, Councelor Landers, I would like to make a motion to set a date for a public hearing and also refer
this to the uh city engineer for any conditions that he would like to attach to this uh proposal. Motion has been made and seconded to set a public hearing for July 20th and refer to engineering for a recommendation for any
potential conditions. Are there any discussions on the motion? Hearing none, I will ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Councelor Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Council Naven Councelor Naven votes yes. Councelor
Landers. >> Council Landers votes yes. >> Councelor Roby >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Council Oram >> Council Oram votes votes yes. >> Councelor Ducet >> Council Ducet votes yes.
>> Council Tanera >> Council Tanera votes yes. >> Councelor Pearlman >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. Councelor Oing Councelor Oing votes yes. >> Council Wagner >> Council Wagner votes yes.
>> Councelor Irish >> Council Irish votes yes. >> 11 years sir. The motion to refer the Eversource installation of 500 ft of gas line on Bolton Street. The public hearing will be July 20th and the
referred to engineering for review. Approved. 11 in favor. None opposed. Agenda item 13, >> communication from attorney Sam Aanian on behalf of Paul Griffin Jr., trustee of Union Realy Trust, regarding a po a
proposed license to encroach for the purpose of placing a handicap access ramp at 270 to 276 Main Street. >> Mr. President, Councelor Tanera, thank you, Mr. President. Um, so, uh,
we'll be taking this up in legislative legislative and legal, but, um, it should be a fairly quick, uh, meeting. Uh, just they're proposing to add the handicap ramps on the sidewalks, and they want to have engineering to review the the design and the solicitor to
ensure it is in proper legal format. So, with that, uh, make a motion to send to LNL. >> Motion to send to LNL. And I assume you wanted to go to engineering and the solicitor to make sure the design is proper and it's in proper format. Is that correct?
>> I don't like to assume but yes. >> So on the motion to refer to legal legal and legislative and send to engineering and solicitor for their input. Are there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none. I'll ask the clerk to call the role please.
>> Councelor Tanera. >> Councelor Tanera votes yes. Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Oing Council Oing votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner >> Council Wagner votes yes.
>> Council Dumis >> Council Dumis votes yes. >> Council Irish >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Council Orum >> Council Orum votes yes. >> Councelor Pearlman
>> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. Council Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet votes yes. >> Councelor Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councel Landers >> Council Landers votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir. >> On the motion to refer agenda item
number 13 to legislative and legal as well as engineering and the solicitor. It is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. Agenda item 14, >> communication from William Kamuso on behalf of Kamuso Enterprises LLC regarding a request to operate a gas
station, the Shell station at 431 Lincoln Street on a 24-hour basis. >> Mr. President, Councelor Roby, >> Councelor Roby. >> Thank you, Mr. President. I would move to refer this to Urban Affairs and set a public hearing for July 20th.
Motion has been made and seconded to refer to urban affairs set a public hearing for July 20th and advertise >> and advertise. Thank you. >> Is there any discussion on the motion? >> Hearing none. I will ask the clerk to
call the role please. >> Council Ducet. Council Ducet says yes. Votes yes. >> Council Wagner >> Council Wagner votes yes. Councelor Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes.
>> Council Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Council Orum. >> Council Orum votes yes. >> Council Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Council Oing >> Council Oing votes yes.
>> Council Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Tanera >> Council Tanera votes yes. Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> 11. Yay. >> On the motion to refer to urban affairs
set a public hearing for July 20th and advertise. It is approved. 11 in favor none opposed. Agenda item 15 minutes for boards, commissions, and committees. >> President Austin, it's councelor Ducet.
>> Councelor Ducet. I propose to submit to place on file the minutes of the board's commissions and committees meetings. >> Motion made and seconded to accept and place on file the minutes that are listed in agenda item 15. Is
there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Council Oram. >> Council Oram votes yes. Councelor Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Council Naven
>> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Council Wagner. >> Council Wagner votes yes. >> Council Landers >> Council Landers votes yes. >> Council Ducet. >> Council Ducette votes yes. >> Council Roby Councelor Roby votes yes.
>> Councelor Oing Council Oing votes yes. Council Tanera. >> Councelor Tanera votes yes. >> Councelor Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Dumis. >> Council Dumis votes yes.
>> Motion to accept and place on file. The minutes is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. Agenda item 16. Claims. >> President it's councelor Ducat. >> Councelor Ducat. Please uh submit the claims to legal.
>> Motion made and seconded to submit the claims to the legal department. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> Hearing none. I will ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Councelor Naven. >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes.
>> Councelor Tanera. >> Council Tanera votes yes. >> Council Orum. >> Council Orum votes yes. >> Councelor Irish. Council Irish votes yes. >> Councelor Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes.
>> Councelor Wagner. >> Council Wagner votes yes. >> Councilor Oing >> Council Oing votes yes. >> Council Dumis. >> Council Dumis votes yes. >> Council Landers. >> Council Landers votes yes. >> Council Ducet.
>> Council Ducat votes yes. >> 78. Sir, >> the motion to send the claims to the legal department is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. Reports of committees. We're slowly getting action in the
committee land, which is good. >> President Hassing, this is councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby. >> Thank you, Mr. President. I have a report from urban affairs. The Urban Affairs Committee met on Wednesday, June 17th,
and we had some members in chambers and some members uh virtual. We took up one order. Order number 207947, a proposed zoning amendment to chapter 650, section 5, section 17 and 18,
contractor yards and proposed zoning map amendment to section 650-8 being a portion of parcel 8512. I stated that the counselors had received the communication from the solicitor that included letters of
support from both Gina Deatio and from the Trumpeta family, also a letter of support from the ZBA and a generally favorable recommendation from the planning board after they held their public hearing. The council's public hearing was continued until May 18th
where we had no public speaking against and no questions from the public. With all of that information, councelor Det moved to approve the amendments to chapter 650, section 5, section 17, and 18. Uh, the motion carried 4 to zero and
I would ask that we suspend the rules this evening so that we can take up this matter. Thank you. >> There's been a request for suspension of the rules to take up the report from the Urban Affairs Committee on Contractor
Yards. On the suspension, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. >> Councelor Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Council Oram >> Council Oram votes yes.
>> Councelor Oing >> Council Oing votes yes. >> Council Landers. >> Council Landers votes yes. >> Council Ducet. >> Council Ducet votes yes. >> Council Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes. Council Dumis.
>> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Council Tanera. >> Council Tanera votes yes. >> Councelor Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Councilor Roby >> Council Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner. >> Councelor Wagner votes yes.
>> 11. Yes, sir. >> The suspension is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. >> Councelor Roby. >> Thank you. Thank you uh counselors for suspending. So we can vote on that this evening. And with that said, I would
move the recommendation of committee, which is to approve. This is an ordinance change, so it does need to go through four stages. Thank you, Council Roi. The motion's been made and seconded to approve the ordinance change. Is there any discussion on the motion?
Hearing none, we'll go through the four stages. Uh, all those in favor of suspending the first reading and approving the second, I'll ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Councelor Naven, >> Councelor Naven votes yes.
>> Councelor Roby, >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Oing, >> Council Oing votes yes. >> Council Landers. >> Council Landis votes yes. >> Councelor Tanara. >> Council Tanera votes yes. >> Councilor Pearlman.
>> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. Council Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Council Oram. >> Council Oram votes yes. >> Council Dumis >> Council Dumis votes yes. >> Council Wagner.
>> Council Wagner votes yes. >> Council Ducet. >> Council Ducet votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir. Sorry. >> The first portion is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. All those in favor of passage to be
enrolled. I'll ask the clerk to call the role. >> Councelor Tanera. >> Councelor Tanera votes yes. >> Councelor Roby >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner.
>> Councelor Wagner votes yes. >> Councelor Irish >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Councelor Aing Council Austin votes yes. Council Ducat. >> Council Ducet votes yes. >> Council Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes.
>> Council Landers. >> Council Landis votes yes. >> Council Pearlman >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Oram. >> Council Oram votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir.
>> All right. The passage to be enrolled is approved. 11 in favor. None opposed. All those in favor of the passage to be ordained, I'll ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Council Oram, >> Council Oram votes yes.
>> Council Roby >> Council Roby votes yes. >> Council Wagner >> Council Wagner votes yes. >> Council Tanera. >> Councelor Tanera votes yes. >> Council Landers. >> Council Landers votes yes.
>> Councelor Oing Councelor Oing votes yes. Council Naven. >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Doom, excuse me. Councelor Pearlman, sorry. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet votes yes.
>> Councelor Dumis. >> Council Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Irish. >> Councilor Irish votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir. All those in favor for it to be ordained is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed.
Is there any objection to passing in one evening? I do a roll call for this. This is just >> this is your time. >> Your chance to shine. That's it. >> Hearing none. The ordinance is approved.
Any other reports of committees? Reports of committees. >> Mr. President, I will say that urban affairs has a meeting on Wednesday. We will be taking up the uh petition for VD
Natural for their marijuana site. >> Very well. Any other committees? Hearing none at this time, we will move on. >> You ready? >> That's okay. Sorry. >> I just make sure you're ready. Agenda
item 17, order number 20-10080009, proposed amendment to chapter 398, licenses and permits to ensure consistency with Mass General Law as amended by the 2016 Municipal Modernization Act. This matter was ordered advertised and action postponed
to the June 22nd, 2020 city council meeting. The legal ad has been published on June 5th, 2020. The advertising requirement has been met. Mr. President, >> councelor Tanera, >> seeing that the uh order has ordinance
has been properly advertised, I'll make a motion to approve. >> Motion's been made and seconded to approve. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none. Again, this is an ordinance change and it will require the
passage in four stages. So, all those in favor of suspending the first reading and approving the second reading, I will ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Council Oram, >> Council Oram votes yes. >> Council Landers.
>> Council Landis votes yes. >> Council Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Council Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner. >> Council Wagner votes yes. Council Tanera.
>> Council Tanara votes yes. >> Council Ducet. >> Council Ducet votes yes. >> Councelor Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Council Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Council Roby >> Councelor Roby votes yes.
>> Councelor Oing Council Oing votes yes. Okay sir. First P first phase suspending the first and approving the second is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. All those in favor of the passage to be enrolled, ask the clerk to
call the role, please. >> Councelor Wagner. >> Councelor Wagner votes yes. >> Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Councelor Tanera.
>> Councelor Tanera votes yes. >> Councelor Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes. Councelor Oram Council Orum votes yes. >> Councelor Pearlman >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Oing Council Oing votes yes.
>> Council Ducet >> Council Ducat votes yes. >> Council Landers >> Council Landers votes yes. >> And Council Dumis. >> Council Dumis votes yes. >> Leier, sir. Oh, excuse me. Council Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes. Sorry,
counselor, eyesight's getting bad. So, the passage to be enrolled is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed for the passage to be ordained. All those in favor, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. >> Councelor Irish.
>> Councelor Irish votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner. >> Councelor Wagner votes yes. >> Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Council Tanera. Council Tiner votes yes. >> Council Oram
>> Council Oram votes yes. >> Council Landers >> Council Landers votes yes. >> Council Pearlman >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Dumis >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Oing Council Oing votes yes.
>> Councelor Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet votes yes. >> And councelor Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> 11. Yes, sir. >> The passage to be ordained is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. Is there any objection to the passage in
one evening? Hearing none, the ordinance is approved. Agenda item 18, >> order number 20-1008026A, proposed amendments to chapter 67 and
chapter 125 of the code of the city of Malro relative to the finance department along with the updated job descriptions for the finance director, treasurer, and auditor positions. The proposed ordinance changes were ordered advertised and action postponed to the June 22nd, 2020 city council meeting.
The legal ad was published on Monday, June 11th, 2020, and the advertising requirement has been met. >> Mr. President, >> Councelor Irish. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh motion to approve the salary ordinance change. Uh
and this does need to be taken up in the because it is a an ordinance change. It needs to be taken up in the four stages, please. So >> just a summary or you doing I was good. Well you so your your motion just so I understand is to approve the salary
ordinance and the ordinance change. >> That is that is correct Mr. President. >> So councils that's one vote. It'll go through the four stages but because it is a salary change. It does require eight votes to pass. Any discussion on the motion to approve the salary
ordinance as well as the ordinance change? >> Mr. Mr. President, this is Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Um, I guess if I was going to choose something that I would think would be important enough to be referred to a committee, I think I
would choose this particular order and I was disappointed when it was not referred at our last meeting but was simply advertised. So, I will be brief to discuss my two concerns that I have. Uh the first one is I had specifically
added into um Roman numeral I in the change that delineated by the city code be put into this order. And I will note that the current controller treasurer job
description has in it that that person would assist the mayor in developing an operating budget for the city. It's also in the code in 6710. It is now being given to the auditor in the job description, but there is no
code change to go along with that job description change. Um, so I will be curious to see how that works in the future. And the other concern is that I think there was some confusion when this first came out. I think there was a
misunderstanding maybe between the mayor and some counselors that there was actually going to be a deletion of the controller treasurer and a insertion of a new term. Um and instead they're both being left in
place. So the current mayor wants to have the position called the uh finance director treasurer. However, a future mayor may want to use the term comproll or treasurer. Um, if the
person in place does not meet the job description, that could become an issue in the future. And and I believe that in the past there was a description in the code of a finance director treasurer. It was changed to the current controller
treasurer through a code change. Um, so it's unfortunate that we're not going through that whole process at this point in time. I do understand the mayor's concern that he needed to have both because he needs to have a person in the
position, but I hope that it does not cause issues in the future. I will be voting to support this change for now, but um we'll see what happens and maybe there would need to be a further code
change to actually delete the position of controller treasurer. Thank you. >> Thank you, councelor Roby. Are there any other discussion from the counselors? Hearing none on the motion to approve. Again, it's a roll call vote. has to go through the four stages. All those in
favor of suspending the first reading and approving the second reading, I will ask the clerk to call the role, please. >> Councelor Irish. >> Council Council Irish votes yes. >> Council Wagner. >> Council Wagner votes yes.
>> Councelor Naven. >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Council Roby >> Council Roby votes yes. >> Council Landers >> Council Landers votes yes. Councelor Oing Council Aen votes yes. Council Tanara
>> Council Tanara votes yes. >> Council Oram >> Council Orum votes yes. >> Council Carlman >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Council Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> And councelor Ducet.
>> Councelor Ducet votes yes. >> 11. Yes. >> On the motion in favor of suspending the first and approving the second. It is approved. 11 in favor, none opposed. All those in favor of passage to be enrolled, I'll ask the clerk to call the role, please.
>> Councelor Naven >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Council Councelor Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner.
>> Councelor Wagner votes yes. Councelor Ducet. >> Council Ducet votes yes. >> Council Tanara. >> Council Tara votes yes. >> Council Oing Council Oing votes yes. >> Council Orum >> Council Oram votes yes.
>> Council Landers. >> Council Landers votes yes. >> Councelor Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Council Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> 11. Yes. On the motion for the passage to be enrolled. It is approved. 11 in
favor, none opposed. All those in favor of the passage to be ordained, I'll ask the clerk to call the role, please. Councelor Dumis >> Council Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Irish >> Council Irish votes yes.
>> Councelor Oram >> Council Oram votes yes. >> Council Pearlman >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Council Landers Council votes yes. Council Ducet. >> Council Ducet votes yes. >> Council Naven
>> Council Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Oing >> Council Oing votes yes. >> Councelor Tanera >> Council Tanera votes yes. >> Councelor Wagner >> Wagner votes yes. >> And councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes.
>> 11 yay sir. >> On the motion motion for the passage to be ordained. It is approved. 11 in favor none opposed. Is there any objection to the passage in one evening? >> Hearing none.
The ordinance is approved. Councelor Tunera. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh motion to adjurnn. >> Motion is made and seconded to adjourn. I will ask the clerk to call the role, please. Council Landers.
>> Council Landers votes yes. Councelor Naven. >> Councelor Naven votes yes. >> Councelor Roby. >> Councelor Roby votes yes. >> Councelor Irish. >> Council Irish votes yes. >> Councelor Tanera. >> Council Tanera votes yes.
>> Council Pearlman. >> Councelor Pearlman votes yes. >> Councelor Dumis. >> Councelor Dumis votes yes. >> Councelor Ducet. >> Councelor Ducet votes yes. >> Councelor Oing Councelor Oing votes yes. Councelor Wagner.
>> Councelor Wagner votes yes. >> Councelor Oram >> Councel Orum votes yay. >> 11 yay. Sir, >> we are adjourned at 9:46. Councilors, thank you very much and have a great evening.