hello all Welcome to the Pocket Advisory Committee meeting of April 16th 2025 Can we please stand and salute the flag stand up I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands One nation
under God indivisible liberty and justice for all All right members welcome Hope everyone's been doing well been a couple months since we met Um tonight we had some conversations in January leading to this meeting um with some good positive
outcomes The first um item on the agenda is a request for $24,000 to be spent out of the BPD funds to hire ROA um and their crew to help us continue to beautify the main corridors
I know since the inception of this we've been talking about what we can do with the meter districts both in Broadway and Shirley How we continue to maintain clean tree pits clean environments and great streetscape for um continued uh
attractions to have residents and other members of the public enjoy while they're down here And this is one step in that direction Um the contract in front of you is what we had hashed out with them Um the scope of services is in there as well And obviously 24,000 is the max that would come into play for an
entire given year The the terms of service is starting April 1st till November 31st Obviously a little beyond that April 1st date so there's some savings there Um but ultimately there would be five young people and one supervisor on site This would be one day
a week for the parking department And each crew member would c come with a cost of $30.50 per hour And ROA does a really good job itemizing this receipt breaking down um how many members were on site during which day
and um the dollar figures to that They have a a really good billing system that um is used throughout DPW and some other departments within the city to kind of offset some labor and some cost I just wanted to put this in front of you tonight give everyone a chance to overlook it um and then provide any
questions and feedback they may have before I would ask for a vote I'll give everyone a couple minutes to overlook that now Mr Chairman councelor Jenzio uh would you happen to know off the top of your head what the balance in our uh
account is right now so working with Miguel this past quarter we added another a little over 5,800 to that account Um we just spent a little over 9,000 for the sign and w um wayfinding Today um approximately
$54,000 remain in that account Thank you And just a follow-up question this ROA crew is going to be in addition to the crew that uh comes to the DPW on a consistent basis This is a separate crew or they're going to take one day a week
and just commit to this uh is it the same crew a different crew do you know great question So it's the same organization I I I couldn't say whether the crew members on the street would be the same day in day out but yes uh DPW I believe has them for two days a week as of right now uh parking would be bringing them on for one day just for us
Okay So in addition to working with DPW on the things they're already helping them with Thank you Mr Chairman Um so this is for the parking lots This would be for and the tree pits Exactly Not for curb cleaning Curb cleaning as well If they're out there they see that one day
they'll be do they see a catch basin along the meter corridor that's kind of um grudged up they will break that up clean that up So like Shirley A are they going to walk all of Shirley A and do the curb on both sides absolutely And this would be managed right through my crew So on one day a week in one day that would be there If there are
counselors both from the W 2 or W four district that have something that um is particular to them during that week that has been brought to their attention let me know or let Lewis know We'll have the ROA crew out there to address it within our meter corridors And the same concept they'll be helping us try to paint
parking meters clean up the screens a little bit uh maintenance those a little bit They're going to be helping us in different capacities Central A would be a great off- streetet parking lot that we would use this this crew for Shirley AB would be another one And you know one uh area that concerns me is uh on
Garfield they have along the MBTA fence on city side That's like no man's land So uh want to try and uh keep that under control And um and the parking lot is very important you know municipal l and
surely av thank you for bringing up Garfield a I can understand it's a sore subject uh deal with the area whose responsibilities we would definitely have them maintaining that perfect thank you if there are no further questions Tom will they be cleaning the trash barrels
so that's currently a DPW responsibility but if there was any assistance needed uh Chris we'd be willing to lend a helping hand as long as the other things that we were focused on are done Got it Anyone else all right At this moment in time I
would ask for the committee to make a vote on this Do I have a motion to approve motion Do I have a second second So ordered Awesome I think this is going to be a huge benefit especially as we get into the warmer months Um I think it's going to be very helpful
Second motion on the night was another uh topic that we've been discussing at length We're trying to figure out the best way to implement that and so we just figured rip the band-aid off and just let's try it out So the motion on the for tonight um the exact dollar figure would have to be amended So this amendment to the vote would be request
to spend $4,67356 of park and benefits district funds to cover 10 pole sensors to be installed within at the corner of Yammon's and Broadway and extend all the
way to the driveway of 250 Broadway There's 9 to 10 meters in that area where we would be putting sensors to allow 15 minute of courtesy time We want to run this as a pilot program to see the behavior that's brought on for it and the loss of revenue that may be may come forward with this type of change
and we want to see we want to use this area as a pilot to see how we can expand this to the rest of the Broadway business district Um that is the motion on the floor That's that's what the request is tonight I'd be happy to take any questions on this Mr Chairman uh is this only on Broadway you're not touching Shirley Correct Uh so these the
committee would only be covering costs for the Broadway side We have other alternatives to the Shirley AB district uh through a different Tom if you want to speak on that a little bit please go ahead So on the Shirley Avenue side we do have funding um and I believe it's going in
front of the traffic commission tomorrow night um to actually look at the the entire Shirley Avenue every meter to include this Um we just we have a different grant funding source that can cover all that work So we figured while we have it we could take advantage of that So we'll have kind of
a full-scale pilot on Shirley and then Broadway in the area that was really in in and around city hall That was the impetus for this motion in the first place Any additional questions at this point in time I would ask for a motion to approve Motion to
approve Second Second So ordered Those are the only two motions we have on tonight I move this on to any public input I don't see any members of the public in the crowd tonight Um it's unfortunate but it's okay I understand that Um we will move on unless there are
any questions or comments from the committee members here tonight Mr Chairman if I may please Uh I know we talked about the parking uh study that they don't surely have And you and I have discussed this You were going to check on those four meters on Garfield A
closer to Dana Street see what the input how much it was bringing in to see if they were worth getting rid of Correct So that's a part of the traffic commission motion tomorrow night with the additional um if the additional meter locations are approved then Garfield would be one of the locations that gets four meters removed to extend
onto the residential parking Um it's kind of in conjunction based on how the traffic commission takes on the public request tomorrow night Okay And tomorrow night is only to ask for a public hearing for that stuff It's a final vote on it Only asking for a public hearing Okay Thank you Absolutely Thank you Any
other comments from the committee at this time I would ask for a motion to adjurnn Motion to adjurnn Do I have a second second Thank you everyone I hope everyone has a great night Um great spending the time together and I'm glad we are moving forward with some of these uh proper changes Thank you everyone