{"utterances":[{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2020-06-15","video_id":760,"video_title":"Melrose City Council June 15th 2020","meeting_id":3163,"start_sec":5369.99,"end_sec":5409.09,"similarity":0.604,"text":"people comment among those five and now six um are people of color including me and i feel like that That should tell you a little bit of something about who's being heard and who's not in in the vote you took last week. And I'm hoping that you'll reconsider. I just wanted to note that it's unfair to make that this an attack against the individuals on our police force. I personally have an excellent relationship with Chief Lyle as well as many other Melrose Police Department officers. My personal sense has been that these folks signed up for this job because we do want to protect and serve.","url":"https://vimeo.com/429666087#t=5369s","page_url":"/video/760"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":806.87,"end_sec":820.16,"similarity":0.833,"text":"councillor Bewtra I also want to thank councillor Medeiros for bringing this order forward and wish that we had more time to deliberate on it I I have some","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=806s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":821.1,"end_sec":874.33,"similarity":0.887,"text":"reservations on allowing an approved representative in place of an individual who's 60 years or older or disabled individual as it's written in the current ordinance because to me the benefit of this program is it offers a way not only for seniors in our community to have a tax abatement but it also provides some activity and kind of a work opportunity or a way to stay active in the community. I believe I'm, I appreciate Mayor Broder's letter because I'm hoping that what we'll see come forward are a more comprehensive array of tax relief programs for seniors in","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=821s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":874.94,"end_sec":908.9,"similarity":0.873,"text":"our community that wouldn't kind of fill that remedy that you mentioned that councillor Medeiros mentioned by not requiring someone else to come and work for for us in order to receive a benefit but rather to to be able to demonstrate that this is not an option I think the other thing that said I would also the The part about this that I think makes sense is the increase to $1,500, both because of","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=874s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":909.55,"end_sec":923.77,"similarity":0.832,"text":"the increase in minimum wage, but also increased taxes and all of the other reasons stated by my colleague. So anyway, I don't know if we're going to be moving forward with this tonight or not, but I just wanted to get on the record some of my thoughts on it.","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=909s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":1512.2,"end_sec":1527.7,"similarity":0.823,"text":"Sorry, a point of, a quick note that I, just in the body of the order versus the, Oh, maybe it's clear. The attachment has the old language and the printout version has the new language, that's all.","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=1512s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":3246.16,"end_sec":3274.08,"similarity":0.844,"text":"revenue for the city of melrose thank you thank you councillor beecher um i uh through the chair i wanna um well i don't really have a question for the my other uh colleagues but i really appreciate the perspective that councillor mcnaught brought forward and i would if we consider making such an amendment i would support it i too i think i share councillor sorco's","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=3246s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":3275.17,"end_sec":3288.05,"similarity":0.846,"text":"perspective in terms of um wanting to move forward with this but i also understand the desire to not not rush it through so I think if if there is an appetite for making some","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=3275s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":4239.03,"end_sec":4294.38,"similarity":0.834,"text":"tonight but I just found myself to be very I guess overcome with emotion this has been a tremendous privilege and honor to serve Melrose in this way and it won't be the last you see of me I'm already serving on the middle school site council and finding other ways to get involved in the community I want to challenge the incoming counselors to continue thinking about representation and inclusion which i think is um you know when i uh have spoken with constituents the thing that i think people have felt really stood out about uh me serving on this council as the first person of color ever elected for the city um i love this community i i love all of you uh and thank you you very much for this great two years it's been quite a ride so it's my","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=4239s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4.57,"end_sec":11.23,"similarity":0.816,"text":"The hour being 7.02 on Thursday, November 25th, 2019, the Finance Committee is called to order. I'm Committee Chairwoman Manisha Bewtra.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":12.02,"end_sec":24.53,"similarity":0.886,"text":"Present are Committee Members Councillor Frank Wright, Councillor Michael Sorko, and Ex Officio Member and President Scott Forbes. Also, non-committee members in attendance are","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=12s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":26.21,"end_sec":33.85,"similarity":0.799,"text":"Councilor Bob Boisselle, Councilor John Tramontozzi, Councilor Sean McMaster, and Councilor Jeff McNaught.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=26s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":35.11,"end_sec":71.73,"similarity":0.904,"text":"This meeting is being recorded pursuant to Massachusetts General Law's Chapter 30A, Section 22A, broadcast live on MMTV and live-streamed on mmtv3.org. The recording will be available on the City website and online following tonight's meeting. the finance committee has one order before this evening order 2020-43 a transfer in the amount of thirty thousand dollars from essex agricultural regional school to inspectional services to cover the costs associated with building inspectors before this committee addresses that order is","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=35s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":73.97,"end_sec":87.47,"similarity":0.902,"text":"there a motion to open the floor for public comment um right all right um that motion was by councillors orco seconded by councillor wright floor is now open for public comment this is a portion of the meeting where members may speak on the order to transfer funds seeing no members of","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=73s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":96.8,"end_sec":136.68,"similarity":0.878,"text":"second on that all right um public comment is now all in favor hi public comment is now closed as stated earlier there's one order before us this evening uh transfer in the amount of thirty thousand dollars from regional school essex agricultural account zero one three zero one two dash five four seven three zero zero to inspectional services account zero one two four one two dash five two nine zero zero zero to cover the cost associated with building inspectors is there a motion to suspend the rules so that we may hear from our inspectional services director so","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=96s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":139.89,"end_sec":149.26,"similarity":0.852,"text":"Second. Motion to suspend the rules. Or the rules are now suspended. Thanks for being here tonight. Director Johnson.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=139s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":286.83,"end_sec":297.45,"similarity":0.836,"text":"motion uh to recommend for passage has been made by council right and seconded by counselors rurko","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=286s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":299.31,"end_sec":315.7,"similarity":0.902,"text":"on discussion uh all in favor aye aye order 2020-43 has been recommended for passage and will be sent to the full board um also may um i'd like to entertain a motion to attach the memo uh that would that we received this afternoon from director johnson um","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=299s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":319.2,"end_sec":321.52,"similarity":0.699,"text":"uh basically stating what we just heard tonight","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=319s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":331.94,"end_sec":337.04,"similarity":0.828,"text":"uh sorry lost my place um all right so order 2020-43 has been recommended for passage","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=331s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":343.14,"end_sec":348.51,"similarity":0.722,"text":"a motion to adjourn so moved second all in favor aye aye any opposed finance committee stands","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=343s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":2994.3,"end_sec":3037.48,"similarity":0.92,"text":"thank you um i just wanted to thank um president forbes for bringing this order forward as well as to the um members of our service members and veterans who came tonight um i think this is is you know certainly we all talk a lot about the sacrifice made by members of our military and veterans and their families but i think this really just helped put that in more concrete terms in a way i personally hadn't understood or thought of before so i just wanted to express my appreciation and i'll follow your lead in terms of what you think the right um uh you know i think the order or motion to hold it in committee makes a lot of sense um that's all for now thank you","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=2994s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5274.62,"end_sec":5312.97,"similarity":0.857,"text":"City Council Abutra thank you I wanted to the one of my concerns is the under NMC the size of the container being no larger than 35 gallons so this afternoon I kind of think part of Grove Street had trash day today and then also took a look at the size of our own trash barrels at my home. A couple years ago we purchased 48 gallon trash barrels, which have wheels and they have a hinged lid, which have been very convenient to use.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5274s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5313.7,"end_sec":5391.04,"similarity":0.912,"text":"While I can, I mean, in terms of what any one household might produce from one week to the next, 35 gallons would probably likely more than cover it, maybe with the exception of Thanksgiving or whatever holiday might be coming up. The 48 gallon barrels are, or even 50 gallons, I was kind of looking, forgive me neighbors for peering on the lids of your trash barrels, but I even believe I saw one that said a 50 gallon barrel. And I don't believe that those are very uncommon in Melrose. So I think that's one of the concerns I have at this point I understand and appreciate the intent of the order my concern is one these are can be pretty pricey to replace on not to mention wasteful for folks who already have a barrel in place furthermore if we do decide to move forward with this I I would love to hear from the administration and kind of get better sense on timeline for how long something like this would take effect how it might affect","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5313s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5392.0,"end_sec":5404.82,"similarity":0.859,"text":"folks with whatever existing barrels they may have that kind of thing and just sort of incidentally when i was earlier today trying to wrap my head","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5392s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5407.57,"end_sec":5459.48,"similarity":0.899,"text":"around what a 35 gallon barrel would look like i um i did a web search and discovered that in other parts of the country um which i mean i know we are working on trying to reduce waste so i'm not necessarily advocating for larger larger barrels um here but but that other communities in other parts of the country do have programs like right size your your can and and it's the minimum the smallest one is either 35 or 48 depending on the community and then they go up to like 96 gallons so um that was one of the things that pops out at me at this point um i understand uh why some of the edits were made although i think the watertight and having a cover were some of the things that made it uh stronger from the standpoint of rodent control but i also understand you know we're trying to find a a happy medium here um so","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5407s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5460.16,"end_sec":5466.03,"similarity":0.843,"text":"that's my main concern at this point thank you thank you councilman any other comments","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5460s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8028.93,"end_sec":8099.43,"similarity":0.867,"text":"counselor future thank you thank you um thank you councillor mcmaster for filing this order and um miss peric is ls for um your comments tonight i think it's i really appreciate your honesty and and just sort of acknowledging you know the city's been in a lot of upheaval over the last two years and and and just keeping very forthcoming that this unfortunately fell through the cracks and then furthermore I think you know you've mentioned the attachments I for one would love to see them I am curious if you know I I guess I'm a little unclear on the state of you know this isn't the final report it doesn't I mean it says informational packet and what we received but whether it's actually a draft and if it just needs a watermark or something to indicate that it's a draft but if it's possible to potentially upload the attachments to maybe the engineering section of the website so not only we but also members of the public and the pet bike committee could potentially be able to look at those maps and kind of dig into the detail yeah I do I do hope","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8028s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8150.71,"end_sec":8164.46,"similarity":0.81,"text":"that once it's in that shape I'm a little confused on the I guess the the aspect of the scope of work as it relates to the public forum is that what was Stantec's responsibility with that we we expected Stantec to just provide","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8150s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8224.43,"end_sec":8242.06,"similarity":0.88,"text":"the chair of the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committee about monthly can you kind of expand on how you anticipate involving that committee uh going forward as we you know proceed with this","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8224s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 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for the final","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8346s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8358.16,"end_sec":8366.22,"similarity":0.831,"text":"to wait for that just to see kind of where you know more in more detail what","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8358s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8367.02,"end_sec":8372.25,"similarity":0.753,"text":"these street sections look like and and what their recommendations are I think","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8367s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8373.28,"end_sec":8474.63,"similarity":0.86,"text":"think you know my concern would be going forward just making sure that our um that we do have some a greater level of public process and engagement um with the neighborhood but also with the pedestrian bicycle advisory committee um just can i mean i'm sure you've heard all these things but in my own experiences of canvassing those areas and trying to cross streets personally but also talking with neighbors um uh you know dealing with uh high speed traffic and sometimes discontinuous sidewalks and and all of that it's a it's a challenging area not to mention uh you know central point for um people commuting to the t so um again i really appreciate your honesty and kind of where we're at with this and um i think a lot of my concerns have been addressed i think with regards to i think some of my colleagues have you know alluded to and and members of the public the cost of um retaining the consultant versus using volunteers um i am uh i think you know i think once we see this final report i'm hoping it'll reflect the 27 000 worth of work which seems very reasonable for for the level of detail i think just what we received didn't match up to that um and certainly i applaud our um uh volunteers in the community for being able to for putting in so much time but i'm also really sympathetic to i think both on your end the need to have a predictable schedule which is easier when you're paying","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8373s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8477.52,"end_sec":8494.05,"similarity":0.778,"text":"someone versus a volunteer but also um um the uh i i hear the pushback too in terms of just wanting to make sure that we're getting our money's worth um and yeah my main thing is just like i hope we'll involve those folks in uh more robustly going forward thank you any other","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8477s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":9672.55,"end_sec":9678.82,"similarity":0.681,"text":"that's left to be done so thank you okay thank you uh counselor butra thank you um i had a couple","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=9672s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":9680.23,"end_sec":9742.34,"similarity":0.874,"text":"more questions that i'd forgotten to ask um so one thing that kind of caught my attention and and maybe is part of the reason for some confusion around any public process that's happened to date is probably in a couple other sections, but under deficiencies, problem areas, section 2.4, and then if you look at the Washington Street piece, for example, there's mention of talking with residents and presumably as part of the field observations that Stantec was making, and I kudos to them for speaking to folks and not just taking measurements. But I think with regards to the final reports, just a little bit more detail on their methodology. And so those conversations are kind of put into context as not being necessary. I mean, my understanding is that they're not necessarily part of a formal traffic count or specific outreach, but presumably just people who happenstance encounters that were while they were in the area.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=9680s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":9743.09,"end_sec":9829.47,"similarity":0.874,"text":"is that correct exactly okay um and then um the other thing that caught my attention um if you could address under recommended improvements um you know just what the policy of the city is currently uh on page 21 of the document which is our packet page 27 um uh the second paragraph from the bottom of the page um it reads shallow tree roots below the surface are likely contributing to the deterioration of sidewalks resulting in numerous incidents of pedestrians tripping on cracked and broken sidewalk services we recommend placing asphalt sidewalk panels at these locations where tree roots cannot be cut back and reconstruction of the remaining sidewalk panels intimate concrete to meet 88 compliance um for me that kind of brought up a couple of questions one on sort of our policy of using asphalt versus concrete um i think from whether it's durability or as well as just aesthetic quality of concrete but then also you know i think this is a challenge throughout the city of you know tree roots and sidewalks are always we want the trees and we also want the sidewalks um so just curious if you could address that uh from an engineering standpoint and city policy","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=9743s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":9904.91,"end_sec":9919.28,"similarity":0.771,"text":"that i appreciate the answer and it was kind of what i was hoping to hear and with regards to um concrete use of concrete versus asphalt i've certainly seen asphalt that's also been broken","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=9904s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":11324.96,"end_sec":11359.33,"similarity":0.914,"text":"okay uh counselor petra thank you um all right so another continuing the dance um looking at so i mean i think my inclination would be maybe hold steady at 1.68 um which would be an increase across the board or um the other thing you know that came to mind was if the rate on the commercial side was about um 18.82 last year then if that would bring us to the 1.65 is another way of thinking about it yes it would mean a greater increase um for the total tax bill but that","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=11324s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":11360.39,"end_sec":11371.59,"similarity":0.894,"text":"additional increase if i'm understanding correctly would be more based on the increased assessed","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=11360s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":11374.7,"end_sec":11386.99,"similarity":0.869,"text":"value versus um you know so the the property owner would still kind of receive the benefit so that was just a proposal and then i think i mean i want to reiterate the comments from my","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=11374s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":11387.73,"end_sec":11409.4,"similarity":0.879,"text":"colleagues regarding the interactivity of this um on the city assessor website if folks at home wanted to peruse these maps i found those to be particularly useful to kind of better understand where Melrose is in relation to other communities across the state that are more heavily residential like us, but also how we relate","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=11387s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":11410.35,"end_sec":11446.67,"similarity":0.894,"text":"with regards to other communities in our region. And I don't think we have a perfect answer in terms of what we should do, but certainly, you know, encourage folks at home to play around with the maps you can kind of zoom in and zoom out uh sort the tables by the shift or the rate um to just kind of get a better sense of how we might arrive at that number so those are um i don't have a specific proposal but i think my i guess just to make one for the sake of argument i","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=11410s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":788.82,"end_sec":815.33,"similarity":0.926,"text":"thank you um thank you i'm not a voting member of the committee but so i appreciate um the opportunity to ask a couple more questions um is the would this vehicle be available is there like a time limit on if um if it became more evident because you mentioned you've only responded to one call if say we wanted to revisit this in six months would that vehicle still be","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=788s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":821.7,"end_sec":825.58,"similarity":0.82,"text":"available to us uh it would be so currently it's in chelsea oh it's here okay otherwise the dpw","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=821s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":839.18,"end_sec":860.18,"similarity":0.912,"text":"here since that time when was that started about two months ago okay um so it's it's currently parked here um but not in use um and you mentioned equipment um that you're using your personal vehicle in the our previous meeting uh you mentioned that you have to kind of move equipment back and forth does that include the type of radio equipment that you are i do not have that type of","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=839s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":863.93,"end_sec":874.31,"similarity":0.873,"text":"radio equipment in my personal vehicle okay so that would be one of the things that you one of the benefits of having a vehicle is the fact that you'd have access to that radio equipment correct and were you you what was the nature of","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=863s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":875.68,"end_sec":880.3,"similarity":0.791,"text":"the call that you have responded to it was a hazardous materials incident up in","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=875s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":883.05,"end_sec":893.8,"similarity":0.895,"text":"Franklin Street okay and can you expand on sort of what I believe I think I understood that maybe you were away during brazil street but what your role is that correct or i i","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=883s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":897.05,"end_sec":942.05,"similarity":0.916,"text":"wasn't notified of brazil street okay um i think my concerns uh in addition to um what uh president forbes has raised which i agree with are just sort of i i feel a certain level of murkiness on on just sort of how um the emergency management position is is used in our community right now and given that it is a part-time position um and the vehicle is quite old i feel i'm not i don't currently feel comfortable when this comes before the full council to vote in favor of it because i i feel that there are just it seems that there are hidden costs even though i i do feel you've made a good case for why you know it could be useful to have it if i could just expound on that","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=897s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":1077.16,"end_sec":1134.04,"similarity":0.934,"text":"part of the tools of the trade I appreciate all of that I think again it's just sort of something's not adding up to me I think between potentially parking it here overnight and if there were an emergency that wouldn't mean you'd have to come to City Hall I think I think you've brought up a lot of really important um needs that i hope that we continue to explore through perhaps a shared vehicle um i think you know the mayor's uh mayor inferna uh previous mayor uh her letter stated also that you're not a considered a first responder so i'm just concerned about sort of lack of clarity in terms of the public understanding um you know that you're not a police officer and that you're here to kind of facilitate communication between departments and different agencies so that that's kind of where I'm landing on this but I also I mean I appreciate your time that you've put into this","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=1077s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":1178.29,"end_sec":1206.54,"similarity":0.912,"text":"seeing that i can get you a copy of that order yeah no i i think that all makes a lot of sense i think the reason it's just not quite adding up it's just it feels like we've come up with the solution without having um a better more comprehensive understanding of our of our um needs in terms of first response you know emergency response um i think this position was sort of created as a separate position quite recently whereas it used to be tacked on to","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=1178s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":1234.04,"end_sec":1236.54,"similarity":0.75,"text":"actually he had an unmarked vehicle a separate vehicle from the absolutely okay all right well","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=1234s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":3549.17,"end_sec":3554.55,"similarity":0.79,"text":"not to pass point of order clarification yes means we agree yes so a point 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Good evening. I wanted to ask if you could remind us what an RTU replacement is again.","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=649s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":665.77,"end_sec":688.14,"similarity":0.889,"text":"Oh. And going back to the projects at the Beebe and the Ripley, one, you mentioned that they were previously left out of the ESCO because of leasing. But we'll still be leasing ripley even if we're taking bb back in to possession so can you just speak to that more in terms of decision making around that one specifically and then questions yeah well in","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=665s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":740.97,"end_sec":777.6,"similarity":0.852,"text":"occupant tenant comfort as well yes um so with regards to the bb given um that we're not exactly sure um in what way the schools one um you know if the scene collaborative is is leaving immediately and what how we're going to use that space um i don't believe this has really entered the conversation but i don't know if like again uh starting over with a new building i don't think that's really been discussed um it sounds like it's more like use of the building for all k or one to five but can you just sort of speak to why these the bb was selected and so the bb was","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=740s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":812.38,"end_sec":828.81,"similarity":0.849,"text":"will kick on and they'll work in unison great um so just out of curiosity um you know how do you kind of go about arriving at which projects you want to apply for and how did you come to the conclusion that these were the right projects for this um whatever was available in grant monies","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=812s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":892.31,"end_sec":904.93,"similarity":0.812,"text":"Right. Finally, I'm just curious kind of what's the timeline for the Projects themselves and and the grant program. I don't think I didn't see that in here, but I might have just read it to","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=892s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":927.68,"end_sec":934.68,"similarity":0.778,"text":"and how long do we have the funds available or is it just as long as we're","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=927s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":946.68,"end_sec":960.68,"similarity":0.898,"text":"applying for these I know they're gonna help us with our energy baseline and and keep us, I guess, competitive in the eyes of DOER as well. Thank you very much. Those are my questions for now.","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=946s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2291.57,"end_sec":2302.38,"similarity":0.814,"text":"thank you um i think uh counselors rocco asked some of the questions i had but um i guess i want to just reiterate like the making sure that we have real information and not just sort of","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2291s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2302.98,"end_sec":2345.88,"similarity":0.852,"text":"conjecture on market versus what the community would accept on on expanding it to two versus three um it feels to me a little bit arbitrary to just sort of say we should just do it for two and And I think especially even though, although I appreciate your point about that it wouldn't automatically go to our two existing businesses, it obviously favors them, which has benefits for us because they're established businesses, but I think there are other ways we can monitor that these businesses are running appropriately beyond just restricting to two licenses.","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2302s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2346.92,"end_sec":2391.37,"similarity":0.873,"text":"I also am curious if we can you know maybe have a little bit more data from a public health perspective on maybe existing whatever we have in terms of substance use or misuse in our schools with regards to alcohol. If we have some of that data particularly if there's anything backing up use of nips I don't know that we would have that but certainly around just substance use in general would be very helpful so we can make again an informed first go forward in an informed way and I think you know outside of what's written here","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2346s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2392.06,"end_sec":2407.66,"similarity":0.83,"text":"I think your point around the percentage of total sales that's a local that's under our local jurisdiction right the the requirement to have was it fifty point one percent has to be food sales or is it the other way I mean it's kind","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2392s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2413.83,"end_sec":2416.53,"similarity":0.699,"text":"of is that that's under like our local jurisdiction to change that correct the","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2413s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2433.64,"end_sec":2444.75,"similarity":0.868,"text":"question regarding the required percentage of sales that must be from not not from alcohol purchases correct me so it's a local it's a local","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2433s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2472.2,"end_sec":2505.66,"similarity":0.858,"text":"think it'd be behoove us to maybe look at that again as well because I just because again I mean this will be higher ticket price items aside from making the businesses more lucrative so I think you know as I appreciate the mayor putting this forward in a way that allows for some community discussion it sounds like we're not looking to make a decision tonight but but certainly as the new","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2472s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2506.26,"end_sec":2523.14,"similarity":0.843,"text":"administration takes office and we look into this more I think I would love to see us potentially include some modification or clarification around that incidental language maybe even removing that as we go forward that is","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2506s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":2526.01,"end_sec":2529.56,"similarity":0.695,"text":"Is it for now? Thank you. Thank you councillor chairman Tosi. Thank you. Madam chair","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=2526s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":4407.38,"end_sec":4420.12,"similarity":0.822,"text":"the i believe the motion on the floor um to clarify i believe that was 25 percent alcohol by volume","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=4407s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":4421.88,"end_sec":4473.64,"similarity":0.871,"text":"so more than i at this point would hesitate to support that mainly because i mean i've just been doing a few quick searches on sort of like what um thresholds you know constitute different types of liquor and some some are as low as 15 although i think 25 would typically include like vodka or gin and other uh types well so it's fine if um you know i i appreciate uh counselor Mortimer knowledge on the subject but i just think it'd be nice you know if we're going to be amending the order to actually have a little bit of memo backing up why we are selecting that percentage if we go with that and I also would support an amendment to increase to three licenses as well","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=4421s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":4474.57,"end_sec":4515.08,"similarity":0.816,"text":"I have no personal issue with holding this in committee because I do think some level of additional public process would um is beneficial that said if we do decide to move forward not opposed to that either per se just because we will obviously have at least one more opportunity um at public comment not to mention um the publicly posted liquor license commission um meetings i appreciate councillor mcmaster's points regarding um just wanting to hear from the new administration as well um regarding you know its perspective on on uh the new mayor's perspective","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=4474s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":4515.69,"end_sec":4521.14,"similarity":0.745,"text":"on this um and having that in writing before we move forward so that's it for now so we have","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=4515s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":4847.48,"end_sec":4875.23,"similarity":0.811,"text":"clarify what the motion on the floor is again because my understanding was it was not only the volume of the bottle it was also the alcohol by volume piece and that was the piece which I would like further clarification on if it's 40% That's pretty clear. I feel like the 25% alcohol by volume was also mentioned and that Can cover a wider range","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=4847s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":4913.55,"end_sec":4951.72,"similarity":0.877,"text":"I'm looking online and you know, just a quick search. It's like fruit liquors the cures typically range from 28% to 30% gin ranges from 35 to 40 vodka 35 to 46 and so on but the standard applies to liquors which are 40 alcohol by volume so i think if we pick the 40 number that feels like it's based in more of a typical metric um the 25 just feels a little more arbitrary to me but it would obviously cover the full range that would exclude beer and wine that's mainly the clarification i was looking for but um just would be curious if councillor","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=4913s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-14","video_id":884,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 14th 2019","meeting_id":2862,"start_sec":4955.82,"end_sec":4966.44,"similarity":0.775,"text":"mortimer would be willing to make that change or if the 25 percent alcohol by volume is is","url":"https://vimeo.com/373299487#t=4955s","page_url":"/video/884"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-07","video_id":886,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 7 2019","meeting_id":2850,"start_sec":3128.95,"end_sec":3230.7,"similarity":0.894,"text":"thank you mr chairman welcome thank you absolutely um i think a lot of my colleagues have asked um some of the questions that i had but um those questions raise more questions so uh one of the questions i have or i guess more of a statement is um i guess regardless of what ends up being decided in the interim i would encourage you to actually start logging your mileage um i think there's some benefit for us to have some a system of accountability on kind of like what your role entails and and and be able to so when you're you know back at the table for budget season and all of that that you have that information of here's how you know i spend my time during the week and the calls i received and that kind of thing in addition to the compensation that i hope you receive from using your personal vehicle and i would hope that that if we do decide to move forward with this vehicle that that kind of logging system would continue i think there would be a lot of value in that an additional concern i have about the vehicle itself is um you know counselors rocco mentioned some concerns around sustainability a piece of that is also the parking and where the vehicle is effectively garaged overnight or when you're not using it particularly i mean i'm glad to hear that it would be sort of stay in the city um but i think again that's one more uh parking space that we use i think there's some very good arguments from potentially using it but i think that that's another piece of the puzzle um that we should be thinking about before making this decision those are my questions for now very good any","url":"https://vimeo.com/371917793#t=3128s","page_url":"/video/886"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-07","video_id":886,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 7 2019","meeting_id":2850,"start_sec":5864.4,"end_sec":5944.3,"similarity":0.913,"text":"thank you um i first wanted to thank the residents who came to speak tonight um i think it just really drives the point home of why this order um was put forth when we hear those personal stories I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK REALLY DISTURBED ME WHEN WE WERE LEARNING ABOUT BRAZIL STREET WAS THIS NOTION THAT WE AS COUNCILORS SHOULDN'T REALLY BE BOTHERED WITH THESE INCIDENTS WHEN THEY HAPPEN. I KNOW, I MEAN, WE DISCUSSED THIS AD NAUSEAM WITH REGARDS TO BRAZIL STREET, BUT I THINK THINKING ABOUT SORT OF THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION AND THE NEW COUNCILORS WHO WILL BE IN THIS horseshoe one of the things i hope is for more partnership and more regular information sharing on these types of incidents i can imagine that that in and of itself could become unwieldy so i can understand if there's hesitation but i think ultimately um using the counselors as partners who are live in this community and are often here when um staff are at home uh after hours and things like that could actually you know help with these issues around communication and the feeling that the residents expressed tonight around um having a presence from city hall","url":"https://vimeo.com/371917793#t=5864s","page_url":"/video/886"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-07","video_id":886,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 7 2019","meeting_id":2850,"start_sec":5945.09,"end_sec":5970.69,"similarity":0.904,"text":"absolutely there should be someone from the mayor's office and dpw or police um you know on the scene when things happen but i think having the counselors have a role could really um help change that the reality of what's actually happening on the ground but also the perception of the city caring about its residents or the city capital c um i think uh you know it sounds","url":"https://vimeo.com/371917793#t=5945s","page_url":"/video/886"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-07","video_id":886,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 7 2019","meeting_id":2850,"start_sec":5971.48,"end_sec":5987.99,"similarity":0.845,"text":"like this process will take some time um i would encourage you and your successor uh to provide some regular updates on how that data is you know coming along and I want to","url":"https://vimeo.com/371917793#t=5971s","page_url":"/video/886"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-07","video_id":886,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 7 2019","meeting_id":2850,"start_sec":5988.66,"end_sec":6087.4,"similarity":0.886,"text":"thank my colleagues councillor McMaster and president Forbes for putting this order forth as well as councillor Lipper-Garabedian for the work she's been doing in terms of having more of this information shared with the broader public I agree with comment from the public regarding having this information available electronically again I don't know what kind of like large database or how that what that's going to look like I think there's definite benefit in having printed a printed street directory as well as printed maps because not everyone's going to be tech savvy but I think having access to the data so members of the public who want to kind of dig into what's going on whether it's their own home or understanding more systemically can download that information and and maybe map it on their own would be very valuable additionally we have our online gis system and so my hope is that um and you know i think i was surprised i thought i had seen it there in the past but maybe i never did um that that our sewer lines were actually part of our online gis layers um and having as this data is developed if it can be added into the not necessarily all the details about the insurance claims but the details on the sewer mains and their the age of the infrastructure be incorporated into that online gs gis system i think that'd be","url":"https://vimeo.com/371917793#t=5988s","page_url":"/video/886"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-07","video_id":886,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 7 2019","meeting_id":2850,"start_sec":6088.93,"end_sec":6111.06,"similarity":0.87,"text":"extremely helpful um for the moment those are my comments i i appreciate your time tonight and thank you for filling in uh in this role um until until your successor comes on board i very much appreciate everything i'm hearing about your work in the department um since you've begun uh and that's it for now thank you very good councilman thank you uh yes thank you too i'd","url":"https://vimeo.com/371917793#t=6088s","page_url":"/video/886"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-07","video_id":886,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 7 2019","meeting_id":2850,"start_sec":6942.48,"end_sec":6961.87,"similarity":0.837,"text":"Through the Chair. I was curious if you would also entertain a motion to add language to number one as amended regarding providing the formats in which we would like that data provided. I'm not a voting member of this committee, so you'll go for it.","url":"https://vimeo.com/371917793#t=6942s","page_url":"/video/886"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-11-07","video_id":886,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 7 2019","meeting_id":2850,"start_sec":7057.1,"end_sec":7103.48,"similarity":0.887,"text":"Thank you. Yeah, I think, I mean, just in my experience with this type of data, having listings of can be sort of hard to comprehend and in a print PDF map would be really great but I think the ability to see patterns quantify kind of what's going on would absolutely benefit me it would be beneficial to have the data in electronic format so I don't know if they feel strongly that those amendments need to be made to the order but I encourage the counselors who will be reviewing this as it continues past tonight to make sure that we get that electronically as well thank you any further discussions we have a motion on","url":"https://vimeo.com/371917793#t=7057s","page_url":"/video/886"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-10-07","video_id":894,"video_title":"Melrose City Council October 7th 2019","meeting_id":2812,"start_sec":7959.85,"end_sec":8091.1,"similarity":0.93,"text":"questions would be around kind of how you arrived at the particular i saw you uh um this is through the chair uh not asking the question directly at this time but i think if we're holding this in committee um arriving at the question around um materials uh tight-fitting covers of metal it does say or other durable rodent proof material but um just curious also if there was research done on kind of uh cost of these containers um whether i mean right now we have city provided recycling open containers and i imagine sometimes even though we should be cleaning our recycling recyclables i imagine that sometimes those could also be a source of the challenge and um and i think i mean i i appreciate the intent of the order i i just have questions around sort of like what is the future of our waste collection in the city anyway um if we're talking about waste reduction and how this might mesh with um future trash collection might mesh with our current contract with jrm where i feel like we already have some challenges with trash receptacles being left out in the street and the sidewalk and i realize those concerns are a little bit extraneous to the order itself but but i do think that those are concerns that maybe residents would bring up particularly knowing that some of these larger tight-fitting cover trash barrels can be costly i know for my personally um we've my family's invested in two large um i don't remember how many gallons but they're quite large plastic trash barrels with tight-fitting lids and we've definitely seen the benefit of that both from a kind of just an odor standpoint but also from raccoons so i can see the purpose of this order but it just brings up a lot of questions for me","url":"https://vimeo.com/365046397#t=7959s","page_url":"/video/894"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-10-07","video_id":894,"video_title":"Melrose City Council October 7th 2019","meeting_id":2812,"start_sec":9054.26,"end_sec":9145.02,"similarity":0.909,"text":"council Bhutra thank you I just wanted to first thank councillors work oh for initiating this order I was really happy to co-sponsor both because it was very well written but also because to me it it feels like a no-brainer I've always been very troubled that by the amount of styrofoam to use the I guess one term that's I guess a particular company term but to see so much polystyrene already in use in our community but I also wanted to commend zero waste Melrose and the members of the public who have weighed in I really appreciate the effort that they've made in researching alternatives researching even you know using companies like refoam it when it was in business really turning over every possibility in terms of what are cost-effective alternatives what are is it does it make sense to keep using this product things like that I also appreciate their efforts in talking to folks who may not initially have been in support of this ordinance including business owners members of the public a lot of the folks who have written in to us have been folks who encountered zero","url":"https://vimeo.com/365046397#t=9054s","page_url":"/video/894"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-10-07","video_id":894,"video_title":"Melrose City Council October 7th 2019","meeting_id":2812,"start_sec":9145.78,"end_sec":9166.16,"similarity":0.883,"text":"waste Melrose at at healthy Melrose or at the Victorian fair elsewhere where they learned really kind of firsthand the effect that polystyrene has on our health as well as our environment um anyway i'm really excited to support this order uh and look","url":"https://vimeo.com/365046397#t=9145s","page_url":"/video/894"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-09-30","video_id":896,"video_title":"Melrose City Council September 30th 2019","meeting_id":2802,"start_sec":195.96,"end_sec":220.96,"similarity":0.913,"text":"Julianna I'm really excited to see you here and as folks might know we served together briefly on the Human Rights Commission and I thought you brought a lot to the table I think my main question I guess is is that is that time commitment something that you feel you're able to make now because I know I feel like scheduling was a little bit of a challenge when we were on the Human Rights Commission so just wanted to kind of check in on that yes definitely I","url":"https://vimeo.com/363441385#t=195s","page_url":"/video/896"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-09-30","video_id":896,"video_title":"Melrose City Council September 30th 2019","meeting_id":2802,"start_sec":230.71,"end_sec":241.5,"similarity":0.873,"text":"Fantastic. I think this sounds like a really great fit, and I'm really excited that you found another opportunity here in Melrose, and thank you in advance for your service.","url":"https://vimeo.com/363441385#t=230s","page_url":"/video/896"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-09-09","video_id":900,"video_title":"Melrose City Council September 9 2019","meeting_id":2768,"start_sec":571.28,"end_sec":574.65,"similarity":0.676,"text":"Alderman Bewtra. Thank you. Motion to suspend the rules.","url":"https://vimeo.com/358943886#t=571s","page_url":"/video/900"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-09-09","video_id":900,"video_title":"Melrose City Council September 9 2019","meeting_id":2768,"start_sec":582.65,"end_sec":588.65,"similarity":0.711,"text":"I'm sorry I think that's true I'd like to make a motion to request immediate","url":"https://vimeo.com/358943886#t=582s","page_url":"/video/900"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-09-09","video_id":900,"video_title":"Melrose City Council September 9 2019","meeting_id":2768,"start_sec":601.89,"end_sec":608.26,"similarity":0.68,"text":"request immediate I'm sorry make a motion for to suspend the rules motion","url":"https://vimeo.com/358943886#t=601s","page_url":"/video/900"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-09-09","video_id":900,"video_title":"Melrose City Council September 9 2019","meeting_id":2768,"start_sec":619.21,"end_sec":627.28,"similarity":0.742,"text":"like to make a motion to join orders 2020-2024 and 2020-25 we is that we have a media consideration","url":"https://vimeo.com/358943886#t=619s","page_url":"/video/900"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-09-09","video_id":900,"video_title":"Melrose City Council September 9 2019","meeting_id":2768,"start_sec":636.74,"end_sec":645.44,"similarity":0.757,"text":"on order 2020-24 calling a preliminary mayoral election um motion for passage motion for passage","url":"https://vimeo.com/358943886#t=636s","page_url":"/video/900"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-09-09","video_id":900,"video_title":"Melrose City Council September 9 2019","meeting_id":2768,"start_sec":872.33,"end_sec":875.33,"similarity":0.721,"text":"there an objection? The order is before you. Motion to suspend the rules. Second the motion to suspend the rules.","url":"https://vimeo.com/358943886#t=872s","page_url":"/video/900"},{"person":"bewtra-manisha","date":"2019-09-03","video_id":902,"video_title":"Melrose City Council Sept 3 2019","meeting_id":2766,"start_sec":856.01,"end_sec":881.01,"similarity":0.881,"text":"questions hold them in future thank you uh thanks for your presentation um so this is seems like a really great way of getting information out to residents and then i think we also have like for example see click fix to get information to us and i'm curious if there's a way for those two programs to integrate or how from i guess like your end or the city's end you can use","url":"https://vimeo.com/357920049#t=856s","page_url":"/video/902"}],"next_cursor":"u|2019-09-03|902|856.01"}