{"utterances":[{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":564.7,"end_sec":575.86,"similarity":0.767,"text":"I appreciate the order that's filed and drafted by the maker my fellow colleague council councillor Medeiros so we have a motion before us to recommend for","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=564s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":576.55,"end_sec":637.42,"similarity":0.873,"text":"passage this is the first time that we've actually been able to deliberate on this order and in addition to that you know there are some some tweaks that I think we could make that in my opinion would strengthen this we also have a letter attached to the order from our new mayor stating some reservations that he has about this order and ways that he would also like to enhance this per this this order before us but we do have a motion that's on the floor you know I think that this deserves I understand it's the midnight in the bottom of the ninth inning for this council but we haven't had a chance to discuss this we haven't had a chance to really deliberate you know in an open meeting setting you know I have some reservations about a couple of the provisions but I think the spirit of it is a good one I just think that there's more work to be done I as the motion is before us I can't support this thank you","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=576s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":1440.53,"end_sec":1483.24,"similarity":0.896,"text":"set forth here in councilor zorco thank you mr chairman um so this is now the um the third time that we've talked about this order and i just wanted to say i think that this order has evolved to a place where i think we're very comfortable with its language the um we don't need to go through what this ordinance really pertains to but the modifications that we made at the last meeting i think are somewhere where the feedback was very good especially from this committee as well as from non-voting members of this committee and kind of looking forward to pushing this order through to the full board this evening so i certainly will remain here open to further questions or comments but i would like to move that this order be recommended for passage i'm","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=1440s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":2101.3,"end_sec":2161.8,"similarity":0.895,"text":"you madam chair thank you for being here this evening um so i look forward to supporting this order um and i do appreciate the um you know we're on tv right now right so uh the the service that mmtv provides not only to our residents but also folks that want to get involved in public access tv as well as the derivative effect that it plays in our middle and high schools with the av clubs and the like I think we've got some great staff over there and always very helpful looking to kind of expound on the activities and programming that they give to the city so thank you my question for you isn't really it's somewhat tied to this because you brought up the issue of funding and about a year ago we this board unanimously supported a resolution to advocate against an FCC policy that was really going to hamper funding mechanisms for MMTVs across the nation and I'm just curious that has now gone into effect and do you have or has MMTV gone under any type of review do you know what the impacts of that will be on your","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=2101s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":2189.68,"end_sec":2201.93,"similarity":0.813,"text":"to that effect well thank you for the update I know that that change went in a couple of months ago so I was interested to see but again great service that you and the community are provided by this and and the work that you do and outreach so thank you very much thank you manager thank you motion to","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=2189s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":2483.03,"end_sec":2491.34,"similarity":0.644,"text":"counselor zorco thank you madam chair um seeing that we're still under suspension could i ask a few questions of the city solicitor at this time certainly seeing that he's here in the audience","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=2483s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":2497.57,"end_sec":2501.53,"similarity":0.631,"text":"good evening thank you for being here so i just have a um so the last time we met on this um","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=2497s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":2505.6,"end_sec":2507.96,"similarity":0.739,"text":"I believe it was just prior to Thanksgiving.","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=2505s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":2647.79,"end_sec":2658.41,"similarity":0.78,"text":"move forward this evening and with the home rule petition because our liquor license Commission it doesn't isn't issuing these licenses it's actually","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=2647s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":2658.91,"end_sec":2693.66,"similarity":0.743,"text":"just the effect of the sale at a different level correct I mean this is a policy determination of this City Council under under safest legal approach would be to impose this type of restriction statutorily what rather than on a regulatory which is what word which is what is before us right understood okay thank you for the clarification because I did get a little confused by the comments by my colleagues so I just wanted to clarify that what we what we have before us and what if we choose to dispose of this in moving forward or holding in committee so it was helpful for the clarification this evening thank","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=2658s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":2895.64,"end_sec":3000.48,"similarity":0.902,"text":"i'm nostalgic counselors work go thank you madam chair so we have a letter here excuse me we have a letter here from mayor broder um that outlines um his thoughts on this um outlines the thoughts of the melrose chamber of commerce which has also sent us correspondence and you know we we debated uh for a good healthy amount of time the last time we met on this order and reading from the mayor's letter here it says i respectfully ask for your favorable action so certainly i work in litigation at my my day job there's litigation is always active if you were to stop the legislative movement of things because of pending litigation litigation nothing would ever change the benefit of that is is that because things are always fluid in a just society a ruling comes out things can certainly be overturned i think that we are we're talking a little bit about apples and oranges here the legislature can always amend a home rule petition they've done before in the past they've looked at home rule petitions and approved them they've rejected them that's always a threat i think we're not doing anything that's out out of bounds and in fact i actually think we're doing what's called careful consideration of this order and it was discussed ad nauseum over the greater part of 2019. i don't support holding this in committee i think we can certainly move forward tonight without further delay if this is delayed if it fails this item can't come up before the new council until june further kicking the can down the road even from a home rule petition standpoint we've had a lot of healthy discussion about this we've heard from our community i think we can move forward in a positive way on this order thank you uh counselor mcnaught hi","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=2895s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":3317.95,"end_sec":3322.2,"similarity":0.668,"text":"within six months 37 of the board of the City Council's rules thank you and just","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=3317s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-16","video_id":875,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 16 2019","meeting_id":2915,"start_sec":4344.4,"end_sec":4397.87,"similarity":0.88,"text":"thank you just a couple words thank you all like councillor Bewtra I didn't prepare any remarks this evening it's we'll hear this a lot tonight but I think anybody in this position is very grateful to the residents of the city for having bestowed upon them the ability to sit in this horseshoe and to make decisions that affect the very fabric of our community. Sometimes we're talking trash cans, other times we're talking plastic bags. It may seem small, but the reality is, is what we deal with is the quality of life here in this community, and it's very important. And I'm honored, and it was a life goal that has been achieved by myself to be here this evening. I will miss it dearly, and it's been a great, great experience of mine. And even when I would leave here sometimes a little terse sometimes when I leave here happy it's still something that I take with me and it was a profound experience that I will never forget thank you very","url":"https://vimeo.com/380064431#t=4344s","page_url":"/video/875"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-10","video_id":876,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee December 10 2019","meeting_id":2904,"start_sec":2282.22,"end_sec":2285.15,"similarity":0.654,"text":"say thank you and for the record I always supported doubling your pay I've","url":"https://vimeo.com/378849578#t=2282s","page_url":"/video/876"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-10","video_id":876,"video_title":"Melrose School Committee December 10 2019","meeting_id":2904,"start_sec":2288.25,"end_sec":2348.62,"similarity":0.881,"text":"learned a lot by watching this body in my time fortunately in an elected capacity and I've enjoyed it and I know that this job is often said to be the toughest role in government I believe that to be the case but it's important that I feel that I recognize the service that you have done over the years for for this community on behalf of the students it's been a pleasure to watch the changes in this composition of this board as well as the improvements that have been made across our community at various levels and disciplines and also i would like to also say thank you to our superintendent for her years of service it's probably not a day goes by where she doesn't have a difficult conversation that comes with the territory and the work is never done but as my time is coming to an end i wanted to say thank you for your service members of this council it's greatly appreciated as well as former mayor inferno who sat on this board for at least 22 23 months that's all i had to say i wish you well thank you counselor thank","url":"https://vimeo.com/378849578#t=2288s","page_url":"/video/876"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-02","video_id":878,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 2nd 2019","meeting_id":2893,"start_sec":1023.38,"end_sec":1063.38,"similarity":0.887,"text":"you mr. president I would move for passage of this however I'm remiss to say that I noticed two scrivener's errors that I should have caught a week ago that I did not so I just just some housekeeping keep keeping here please on my part we still have Board of Aldermen that is written in the order itself I just like to update that to City Council to reflect the body that we now are and then in the definition section it's not alphabetized correctly I placed director above compostable which we just need to drop so just you know to tidy things up I'd like to move to further amend the order at this time with those two noted changes and again apologies on the author's part council's worker has made a motion to amend the","url":"https://vimeo.com/377122585#t=1023s","page_url":"/video/878"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-12-02","video_id":878,"video_title":"Melrose City Council December 2nd 2019","meeting_id":2893,"start_sec":1077.62,"end_sec":1125.12,"similarity":0.919,"text":"you i will now move for passage of this order and i and i would like to say um as we reach this vote you know this order was filed in august but much of the work for this order happened in the months and weeks way before it was even filed testament to the um which was then called the melrose recycling committee is now zero waste melrose and a lot of the work of the folks here in this horseshoe as well as in the public generally and true to the case of the zero waste motors group just because this order passes the work doesn't end just like when we took care of the plastic bags in here in melrose the work still continues and we go forth knowing that this is is a momentous occasion for the city so i just wanted to say thank you and i'm very proud of this order and the work of my colleagues to get this passed second the motion for passage as","url":"https://vimeo.com/377122585#t=1077s","page_url":"/video/878"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":90.14,"end_sec":94.96,"similarity":0.77,"text":"the public president madam chair i move that we close public comment at this time do you have a","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=90s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":183.47,"end_sec":198.22,"similarity":0.788,"text":"you for being here this evening on this order just a very brief set of questions here so you said that you want to replenish the account so this is obviously going to be for inspector work going forward this is not for","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=183s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":203.16,"end_sec":210.5,"similarity":0.755,"text":"right now and how long do you think about like what's the time frame that thirty thousand dollars should give you I mean I know it's based on work but","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=203s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":217.88,"end_sec":225.43,"similarity":0.687,"text":"the hope that if that gets us through May hopefully there'll be a larger budget item line for some maybe some full-time inspector work here it's","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=217s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":238.72,"end_sec":247.47,"similarity":0.795,"text":"is for only for building inspector so this monies won't be used for any of the upgrades to the system for permitting that you've previously requested","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=238s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":271.46,"end_sec":275.48,"similarity":0.65,"text":"running good to know thanks for the update those are the only questions i had at this time madam","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=271s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":2937.51,"end_sec":2987.97,"similarity":0.875,"text":"first i'd like to say uh as well just echo some of the sentiments by my colleague president forbes to the folks that showed up tonight to speak on behalf of this order we all have busy lives and to give a personal story off add some important background to these orders into why they're filed so thank you very much for that and for your service in addition to what this order seeks to do i would just want to make sure if we are going to be requesting additional information from the administration that in between the time that their records or policies are updated if any benefits have been sought under the change and updated brave act proposals to ensure that we were in fact compliant with the benefits requested at the time so i would just make that","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=2937s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":3173.28,"end_sec":3198.12,"similarity":0.855,"text":"as set forth here in council's work thank you mr chairman um pleased to be here tonight i'm very happy about this order and some of the work that has gone on um in our community regarding this and um really i've been taken aback by not only the the comments that we received this evening but also that we've received via email and i just want to remind folks that when we first heard this order back in the beginning of October we had a member of our","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=3173s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":3198.9,"end_sec":3225.12,"similarity":0.881,"text":"community the youth a sixth grader at the time come and speak about the importance this was to her and I made some outreach afterwards and the amount that the item of recycling climate waste reduction is on the forefront of our youth minds is something really that we need to kind of behold and just wanted","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=3198s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":3226.12,"end_sec":3307.33,"similarity":0.91,"text":"tip my hat to that individual who came before us that evening and spoke so here we are this evening we have had this out in the the public for about the late august of this year but that does not signify the mountains of work that has occurred on this and i before i proceed to just some structural changes i just wanted to say thank you to the members of the metals recycling committee which is now known as the zero waste melrose committee for their work in really helping to not only educate but bring about awareness for this and as was alluded to earlier by a member of the public the market the private market is actually moving in this direction so while we still will be on the forefront of the communities in massachusetts that are making a change to ban polystyrene food storage items the market itself the private market is actually already moving ahead most recently and obviously a big splash it being Dunkin Donuts as we have seen how popular that product is here in Massachusetts as well as New England so the times they are changing as an order once stated but what we've done so in the meantime i had a conversation last week","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=3226s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":3308.04,"end_sec":3342.91,"similarity":0.892,"text":"with a member of the shaw's corporate office and i was really just picking the gentleman's brain about other municipalities in melrose and do they have any you know issues with this and they said no they're coping with it but he did offer to me two small little tweaks to the ordinance that would be gratefully um helpful to their their business and i'll explain um but before i do so there is a um an email that i had our clerk of committees uh miss foote put in each of my colleagues mailboxes as well as electronically yeah i apologize we're going to have to recess","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=3308s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":3359.66,"end_sec":3366.16,"similarity":0.842,"text":"time to take a pause before i get into the proposed amendment so at this time i would move","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=3359s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":3425.11,"end_sec":3426.86,"similarity":0.624,"text":"I did make a motion. It was not a second.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=3425s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":3492.82,"end_sec":3499.82,"similarity":0.736,"text":"these orders and one point of order before we open for public comment please read the three orders that are before the committee so members of the public are aware of what they could comment on certainly thank you sure so","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=3492s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4252.41,"end_sec":4260.06,"similarity":0.79,"text":"Mid-sentence but well-timed. So thank you, Mr. Chairman.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4252s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4260.78,"end_sec":4327.6,"similarity":0.893,"text":"So as I was saying, I had a conversation with a gentleman at the Shaw's corporate offices and before i get walking through this amendment which is actually a very formative one i just want to give a little bit of an explanation so as folks may know if they go into a supermarket in the not only in the sections like the bakery the produce the butchery you'll come across items that are wrapped not only in cellophane but generally are in a polystyrene tray um i'm going to categorize categorize for just discussion purposes two of them one is what i will call proprietary which is labeled wrapped and put out for consumption excuse me by shaw's itself and then there is that which would come from another manufacturer or a third party which is also in butchers like a poultry company etc so i'm speaking with this gentleman he had said look we'll be responsible for everything that we do whether it's produce whether it's in the butcher anything that's in the store that we wrap or sell we will use","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4260s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4328.4,"end_sec":4332.53,"similarity":0.749,"text":"a material that is compliant with this proposal but he cautioned against us extending that","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4328s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4333.17,"end_sec":4397.86,"similarity":0.901,"text":"to these third parties noting that again the market is changing hopefully food third-party vendors like Tyson's, Purdue, etc. will be modifying the packaging in which they've sold, but they don't really have an option. Their only option is not to sell those goods, and that would be very harmful for their business. So in the spirit of compromise, in speaking with this gentleman and understanding that other like-minded and well-willed communities in the commonwealth have adopted such a provision i have proposed two very small changes to two definitions in the definition section which is section c to allow for this this carve out so in one of the definitions which is disposable food container i am adding a phrase that phrase is","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4333s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4401.0,"end_sec":4487.44,"similarity":0.914,"text":"on the food provider's premises that will be added after or packages prepared foods so the new definition will read and I'll read it with the insertion of that phrase disposable food container means all food and beverage containers bowls plast plates trays cartons cups designed for one-time or non durable uses on or in which any food vendor directly places or packages prepared foods on the food providers premises or which are used to consume foods this includes but is not limited to food service where for takeout foods and leftover food from partially consumed meals prepared at food establishments so again I'm just inserting a phrase on the food providers premises noting that the companies that I'd mentioned like Tyson and Purdue there's nothing that there has been prepared on those premises then finally in the definition for prepared food it will now read and there's two strikeouts here so it will read prepared food means any food or beverage packaged or prepared for consumption on the food providers premises using any cooking or food preparation technique or provided from further food preparation what is struck in that definition is the term weather and then or off so again containing it to on the premises for which the proprietary package is sold so","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4401s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4489.56,"end_sec":4545.9,"similarity":0.906,"text":"this this mirrors the this is belt and suspenders for a company like a corporate conglomerate like Shaw's and other supermarket retailers and it is in line with what other municipalities have done i will also add that they have complied a community like newton for example um this uh this polystyrene ban is already in place and they have a star market in that municipality so um i just wanted to explain that and i wanted to once again say thank you to the members of the zero waste coalition that is the language that will be before you to amend this ordinance but given the work that we've we've done as a community for this i would like to make that amendment and also favorably recommend this for passage throughout the committee but i will leave it there without a motion at this time mr chairman just so i can","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4489s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4561.16,"end_sec":4578.9,"similarity":0.874,"text":"this uh order before us this evening mr chairman um as i had previously stated and again um to make it easier did not come out in this print but i did send a copy via email and there's a hard copy before us so as the two definition changes i had so um spoke about earlier","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4561s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4630.42,"end_sec":4634.8,"similarity":0.692,"text":"we recommend for passage to the full board of the amended order okay councilor zyrko has moved for","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4630s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4691.31,"end_sec":4719.83,"similarity":0.852,"text":"Councillor McMaster thank you mr. chairman happy to talk again so this this this order actually showed up at the same time that we just discussed the last order there is I had some takeaways actually many more takeaways on this order than I did regarding polystyrene before I go in I just like my colleagues to some who supported the past order all right so what this seeks to do and I","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4691s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4720.54,"end_sec":4731.95,"similarity":0.895,"text":"I will also add that trying to get items before the members here this evening, I also had the clerk of committees circulate in the same way I did with the last order, proposed changes for this.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4720s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4732.9,"end_sec":4760.77,"similarity":0.892,"text":"But essentially, over the past three or four years now in the spring, because we've had very mild winters and it seems that we're going to be on trend for further mild winters, have seen an uptick in various types of rodents and wildlife in the spring generally harsh winter is very harmful to offspring and it hasn't been the case so we have seen an uptick in rodents so to that I have also noticed on trash day","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4732s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4761.62,"end_sec":4775.9,"similarity":0.879,"text":"in my neighborhood and throughout the city that bags of trash will just be left out on the curbside for pickup generally in the spring in the summer","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4761s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4776.92,"end_sec":4836.47,"similarity":0.903,"text":"when it's warmer this is just open available for the taking so seeking to try to mitigate some of the instances with rodents that we've experienced I didn't think that it was too much of an ask to require that trash be placed in a receptacle for pickup previously when we spoke about this in October I noted that the trash can should be covered and securely fit but through discussion at that meeting there was some concerns raised by my colleagues about trash lids blowing away being thrown and strewn around the neighborhood so I understood that and I also was asked to do some additional research on our surrounding communities as to what ordinances may or may not exist for refuse being placed in a container whether covered or not I also have some of that information and","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4776s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4838.13,"end_sec":4847.36,"similarity":0.799,"text":"what I will say is it does overwhelmingly trash for pickup is required to be in some sort of a receptacle those could be contingent on","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4838s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4848.16,"end_sec":4890.2,"similarity":0.883,"text":"whether or not there is a specific type of recycling and trash reduction program in that municipality I for purposes of the request made by my colleagues I reviewed the communities of Medford Saugus Wakefield Malden Redding Winchester and Stoneham I figured that was a good enough bellwether because it does contain our surrounding communities I'll take the two easy ones first Stoneham has no ordinance regarding a container or a receptacle and it says quote bags must be closed and tied if not in barrels so that is their standard Winchester they have a transfer station as many folks may know so there's no","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4848s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4891.38,"end_sec":4954.2,"similarity":0.913,"text":"need for a barrel there unless you want to put it in a barrel in your car reading states for a private receptacle and that placement of garbage and rubbish in receptacles is required Malden as folks may know they do have a pay-as-you-throw plan but they do ask and they define receptacles for their removal Wakefield states that each household is assigned a trash collection bin this was also brought up by a colleague at the meeting that we had in October there are some as I alluded to earlier some municipalities that have specific plans that also assign barrels in communities because they have certain type of trash removing trucks that actually have robotic arms etc so Wakefield is a little bit different Saugus was interesting although they did state the need for a container or a receptacle but they really just require","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4891s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4954.83,"end_sec":4963.7,"similarity":0.877,"text":"that the Board of Health promulgate kind of any regulations there too and I couldn't find anything further what I did quote in this instance though was","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4954s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4964.51,"end_sec":4988.9,"similarity":0.908,"text":"just the idea that it needs to be stored in a proper receptacle for no more than 24 hours and then Medford of course is actually very similar to Wakefield in the sense that they have a program where the city assigns the receptacle and it actually needs to be authorized by the Department of Public Works I will also","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4964s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":4989.76,"end_sec":5006.07,"similarity":0.886,"text":"add that the contract for trash services here in Melrose is up for renewal in 2021 which is probably anywhere between 12 to 18 as most 24 months so certainly there could be discussions about that but that was likely to be two springs from now so","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=4989s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5008.67,"end_sec":5021.11,"similarity":0.903,"text":"the the spirit of this order really was simply just to have trash bags removed from the curbside they're sitting there in the Sun they're sitting there all day sometimes overnight and it is just open game season for for rodents it's a it's","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5008s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 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so","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5059s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5067.41,"end_sec":5110.96,"similarity":0.922,"text":"those were just some small changes that I made to the existing order in the hopes that we could get this to pass I just do think it's important that we just have trash bags in a proper receptacle like I said for folks that walk early in the morning either with their dog or with their son or daughter to school or even on their commute especially on some of those mornings in July where it's 85 degrees at 530 in the morning you have multiple bags of trash that generally contain food waste sitting in the Sun and it is just a quality of a life issue and it's another way that we can mitigate the growing rodent population in the city so with that that's my opening and I look forward to hearing more feedback from my colleagues thank you mr. chairman","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5067s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5592.99,"end_sec":5622.72,"similarity":0.902,"text":"other counselors for the first time councilor zorkov thank you mr chairman so um i just wanted to explain it and greatly appreciate the feedback you know not only the first time but also tonight on this I really enjoyed this is actually the stuff I like the most is working through these orders and trying to find a way to to make it happen but also still have some teeth and still be effective and I will also add that in the last two years I have learned way more about trash than I ever thought that I would learn about in this role and I found that I like trash don't","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5592s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5623.43,"end_sec":5695.33,"similarity":0.9,"text":"quote that so the the reason for the 35 gallons just to give some perspective really was to try to hope in the whole you know zero wastes you know if you make a it's like roads right if you make more roads more people drive right so it's you know by having a smaller barrel hopefully we could also impact that but I hear you sometimes we have you know a really nasty fall and people like big trash cans to hold more you know yard waste and in the like I don't want people really the spirit of this is mainly quality of life and in rodent mitigation right so I don't want people to have to go home flip over their trash can and say geez I've got a 48 gallon trash can and now I'm in violation of this order I mean that's not really the spirit so if I have to amend to make it that's no larger than 51 gallons I'm happy to do so obviously hopeful with the spirit of all the work that's occurring in the community with trash reduction that it doesn't have to be 50 gallons you could have a smaller one right so so I understand that I will also say that it's obviously helpful","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5623s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5696.34,"end_sec":5800.87,"similarity":0.897,"text":"that it be covered but it just seems so simple to me the trash be in a container and when I see on a trash day that trash isn't in a container I just I get so frustrated because it just you're just seeing bags of trash on the ground so if it doesn't have a cover that's okay I agree that it won't be as effective as a mitigator to the the road rodent populations but certainly it's going to be a deterrent which right now we don't even have that then the the final thing I will say is you know this this ordinance really came to be during a a transition of a DPW director so feedback from the city was scant if if at all and I think that now with these changes I think if we were to amend this order further and request that we receive some feedback not only from our interim director but also the new administration that wouldn't be a detriment to the hopeful future passage of this and I'm happy to even work further on this but I think right now it's it's it's it's in a really good spot that at least gets us over where we want to be which is just put your trash in a container for a whole host of reasons I will also add in this this isn't in this ordinance but it's just something to think about going forward which I thought was really pragmatic on a lot of the communities that I researched was that in terms of a penalty if you don't recycle they don't pick up your trash some communities and I fail to say that I don't know if we do that here in Melrose but it's a really good belt and suspender approach right and I would also add that in addition to you know a fine structure if your trash","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5696s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5801.74,"end_sec":5832.08,"similarity":0.888,"text":"isn't in a container maybe we don't pick it up that's one way to help police the problem because you know we when we went through some improving of recycling practices here in the community we did some this is at the time when we had a recycling coordinator we did some recycling audits and those proved very very effective and we could do the same here so I just just wanted to put that out there I have spoken this is my second time and so at this time I would like to just move to amend the ordinance what I would like to do is I would like to move to amend it as proposed which was written although I'm making one","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5801s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5832.76,"end_sec":5838.48,"similarity":0.765,"text":"small change which is I'm striking 35 gallons and making it 51 so what is","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5832s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5839.3,"end_sec":5850.78,"similarity":0.86,"text":"before you are proposed amendments to section C D and E as we've discussed this evening so I would move that we further amend the order as outlined","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5839s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":5875.9,"end_sec":5885.95,"similarity":0.843,"text":"discussion thank you mr chairman i was just going to state at this time because i would like to have some feedback on this ordinance before we move forward i would just ask or move rather that","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=5875s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8505.74,"end_sec":8534.21,"similarity":0.831,"text":"thank you madam chair thank you for being here this evening um i have just a couple of quick questions so I did pull up the the memorandum that's dated September 27th of 2018 and that talks about how in conjunction with the grant that we've applied for the first 26 904 so at the time we knew that these funds were going to be dedicated for it says here at least perform an analysis and I'm guess","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8505s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8535.2,"end_sec":8554.08,"similarity":0.827,"text":"I'm just wondering is that this is kind of building off of what councillor Bewtra said is that standard operating procedure I mean it seems to me that we would want to kind of get feedback before we apply for funds for an analysis or at least perform an analysis in a public way that would be much cheaper so I just like did we do this in reverse fashion now we we wanted data","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8535s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 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to what the resource issue is i mean where are we in terms of ranks fully staffing where we've been plans that you know of and certainly understood what you can and can't discuss or what you may or may not know but i'm just i'm worried about you know this grant of only a hundred thousand dollars in the work that really","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8735s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8876.05,"end_sec":8927.5,"similarity":0.868,"text":"be difficult during transition so i just i there's a lot of things um in departments where the kind of like the kitchen sink everything kind of falls there right and you know dpw is absolutely it so when there's you know a period where there's a position that's either temporary or not filled it can cause stress down the whole operational chain so i just wanted to bring that up i mean i think that the spirit of all this is great i remember when you know we were able to receive this grant i want to say this you know it was even floated back in 2014 and then finally ultimately you know funds were available so being able to use these funds for areas where there is a concern especially with that certainly being a high corridor for for flow various types of flow so you know it's it's not we just we want to see movement and I think","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8876s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8928.87,"end_sec":8950.38,"similarity":0.842,"text":"that's really the concern at least primarily tonight and I'm glad to hear that it's the feeling is mutual my last question is you said that and it states this in the September 27th 2018 memo that I referenced but we're gonna have to apply for the additional balance right do they I know that these grants","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8928s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":8953.04,"end_sec":8973.67,"similarity":0.858,"text":"are somewhat new but in terms of their authority if we say if we go to them with you know six of these eight annotating why exactly we've gone through the process and why six of these eight have been selected do they have any discretionary authority at that point or do they what was what happens","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=8953s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":9029.62,"end_sec":9056.4,"similarity":0.803,"text":"the guide post is helpful there that was just um to the extent this comes back to the public and maybe they raised something that wasn't previously caught or it's outside of that that scope i would just want to know about that going in but appreciate that this whole process is very new to me so um not not necessarily the grant process but how this has worked so So the information you provided tonight has been helpful. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=9029s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10451.66,"end_sec":10494.42,"similarity":0.888,"text":"thank you for being here thank you for burning the midnight oil with us this evening i do want to start off not only with praise but i i really want to drill down as to why i am going to be so effusive in that praise very often we're asked for non-static data very often um we either get a powerpoint or a spreadsheet that's put in a pdf form that we have to kind of look like look at and analyze and what's before us this evening and that also is available to the public on the city assessor's website is a very um active and um i'm forgetting the word i'm trying","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10451s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10495.2,"end_sec":10567.74,"similarity":0.895,"text":"to think of here but interactive type of a format where you can take all of this data that you have graciously compiled across the Commonwealth you can go all the way into the Berkshires and look up tax rates you can manipulate that data to really kind of ask your own question and find your answer where we are asked routinely by members of the public to you know further analyze data that's provided to us not get something that's static and here you've done that this is for Melrose maybe not you know in the private sector and other other mediums this is a change and it's a lot of work and it's deeply appreciated that we can in real time while you're speaking and while counselors can even do it while I'm speaking look at various what the effect of the shift is and there's other data points that they can move to so it's a long-winded way of saying this is great I hope that the pen the public benefits from this it's good for all of us here in this chamber and I just wanted to say thank you for aggregating all this data and putting it in this type of a format versus something that's","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10495s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10569.16,"end_sec":10579.03,"similarity":0.781,"text":"static so thank you I will also add that we are greatly served by Chris here because he is the are you the president now you're a current president of the","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10569s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 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take care of this evening which is the selection of a minimum residential factor second","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10623s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10802.08,"end_sec":10822.08,"similarity":0.865,"text":"Yeah. So, again, just to really just to get out there, so this we are going to the levy limit here of 2.5%, and that is additional. Now, again, this doesn't factor in growth, as we know, but that figure here is on slide 2, and that's 1.438 million. Is that correct?","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10802s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10849.72,"end_sec":10854.08,"similarity":0.652,"text":"Yes. Thanks for clarifying. Yes. Correct.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10849s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10859.23,"end_sec":10871.93,"similarity":0.827,"text":"we will see I want to talk now about this shift so this is kind of where we do a little bit of a dance every year and it's important you know we hear a lot and we heard a lot certainly in 2019 earlier this year about how the","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10859s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10872.58,"end_sec":10901.95,"similarity":0.881,"text":"difficulty that Morales is faced with is that we're you know 95% residential so if I could ask my colleagues just to follow along in my questioning if you to go to the last slide and on the right hand in blue green and i guess pink or magenta you'll see that the shift that's defaulted for us although we can because this is a dynamic presentation we can move those figures along but we'll take what's been defaulted to us at 1.50","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10872s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10902.61,"end_sec":10922.16,"similarity":0.868,"text":"i i would ask that you follow in green the single family increase so if we chose a shift of 1.50 the single-family increase property tax would be seven hundred and eighty seven dollars is that correct and if we went all the way up to the limit of the shift","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10902s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10922.78,"end_sec":10957.41,"similarity":0.919,"text":"which is one point seven five that's again that's shifting the burden we would see if this the increase of property taxes go below to six ninety eight so if we were to choose a one point seven five residential property taxes would increase 698 so what that means is it's actually about a hundred and nine dollars less than if we chose 1.50 that's on the single family property now when you flip it you look at commercial and this is where it gets into the fact that the swings are so much higher because","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10922s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10958.77,"end_sec":10960.84,"similarity":0.671,"text":"we only have five percent commercial property on the 1.5 end there's going to be an actual","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10958s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10961.6,"end_sec":10988.64,"similarity":0.881,"text":"decrease commercial property will decrease 26 from last year but if you go all the way up to 1.75 it increases two hundred two two thousand two hundred and fifty eight dollars that is a i mean that is a curve that's almost exponential so um you can see how just incremental movements in the","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10961s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":10989.54,"end_sec":11098.41,"similarity":0.931,"text":"in the shift really sway much larger on the commercial side than they do on the residential so when i look at this i try to think to myself well geez you know property owners single family homeowners in the community um you know they don't have the benefit of making money off of their property they live in their home their tax rate isn't something that they're you know able to obviously they can get the benefit of the valuations going up etc but you know a Starbucks or a CVS or Shaw's or even a boutique firm I mean yeah they're paying taxes but at the same time they're a profit center too so that they are in commerce but we also want to think about creating a business environment where when folks are looking to come to Melrose to open a business that they're not in a prohibitive environment and if I you know opened up the newspaper and january and i read that commercial property taxes increased two hundred two thousand two hundred and fifty eight dollars i would say to myself wow that seems like a very large jump so here's where we have to do a little bit of a dance and look at what shift we we feel is not only an affordable burden on our property owners uh residential wise but also something that is still creating an environment that's favorable for um our small but yet important uh commercial uh tax base so i just want to go over those swings because every time i see this chart every year i am just amazed at the the the difference between the very incremental rises in gains on the residential side and the huge swings on the commercial given the makeup of our parcels here in melrose so those are the only questions that i had at this time but um i just wanted to hear from my other colleagues and i wanted to point that out and once again seriously i this format is","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=10989s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":11684.27,"end_sec":11696.69,"similarity":0.835,"text":"sure of course so the the i'll just make one last comment on these slides so the the the last one that i thought was very interesting was just the valuations oh excuse me the um i think it's six of eleven um yeah six of eleven this brings me back to my economist days uh value of property class","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=11684s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":11700.26,"end_sec":11729.5,"similarity":0.887,"text":"from 1985 to 2019 there's a lot of data there but i i point folks to about the late 2008 time frame and then to present especially for personal property that that growth is it's just shocking that valuation so it's just really speaking not only to melrose but also you know the greater boston areas just boom in terms of personal property which is when you see graph that way","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=11700s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":11730.47,"end_sec":11752.6,"similarity":0.869,"text":"it's nearly it's it's over doubled i mean it's that is a quite quite a spike um so homeowners certainly have benefited from that and then when we talk about the shifts you know and i agree with uh my colleagues um all three of them about where they're trying to land on this and this is kind of you know i'm like a frog i don't know which lily pad i'm going to land on and um you know but i","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=11730s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":11753.37,"end_sec":11902.47,"similarity":0.928,"text":"often come back to you know if this for the folks that are looking at this on the city website it defaults from 1.5 to 175 i mean you can go even further and we could you know if we wanted to we could reduce taxes greatly on commercial properties here in melrose right and vice versa but i think it's important to remember that you know for residential homeowners they are the ones that are not only getting the benefit of all of the services they're also the ones that are paying for a bulk of those services and a cafe or a pizza shop or you know is as favorable as we can make these tax rates we're still never going to get the type of industry that we would really want that's going to bring in huge you know commercial uh benefit to to our roles so i i think that thinking about one-to-one um you know trying to get the increase in line on a dollar-to-dollar basis isn't exactly where we want to be i think we want to be thinking more about in terms of the use of the services the cost of those services because for the most part commercials commercial properties i mean they're not putting children in school right they're not all that so i think that their burden could be a little bit higher and they have the benefit of making a profit off of their property we talk about this when we discuss water and sewer right you know starbucks i mean they might have a high water bill but they're literally just passing the costs on to you every time you go in there and get a frap or what have you so you know we don't have that benefit um so i i actually do like looking a little bit further i'm more comfortable with the 1.63 that seems about right to me i don't think it's as prohibitive it's about 100 bucks a month for a commercial property tax owner um you know that that's not a huge lift and i will also my last comment is when i look at the map or the table rather of the cip shift over the years last year i made this comment and looking at the data now i realized how wrong i was but i thought we were generally trending up towards 1.75 and all of a sudden we were never going to be able to move and when you go back to like 2004 this is like an ekg so it actually goes up and down depending on where the numbers fall so it it pleases me so to speak that we're not on a static or a level where we're constantly approaching one or the other um so even though we have seen other towns are generally at 1.75 as the chair chairwoman noted those towns differ a little bit i'm i think i'm getting more and more comfortable with that 1.63 uh shift so thank you thank you i guess i'll just make one final","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=11753s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":12113.46,"end_sec":12129.47,"similarity":0.889,"text":"i i'm i'm comfortable with 1.63 i think that um i mean i think again we could we could shift one way or the other i think the comments raised by alderman counselor boizel are well taken and i understand where he's coming from there i i do think that um you know we offer our our","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=12113s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-25","video_id":880,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 25th 2019","meeting_id":2882,"start_sec":12130.08,"end_sec":12177.29,"similarity":0.912,"text":"commercial proprietors an affluent market we offer them you know the resources that this community provides is you know safe for their business to operate in it's if i were a small business owner understanding that budgets are tight i would certainly want to open up shop in melrose it's a different type of commercial economy but it's certainly one that's um that's welcoming and and has an appetite for uh supporting its local businesses so um i i think the difference you know we're talking about in terms of you know per annum of six dollars on the residential side that's certainly uh for a smaller benefit uh to commercial i'm comfortable with 163.","url":"https://vimeo.com/375638216#t=12130s","page_url":"/video/880"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":1954.18,"end_sec":1959.66,"similarity":0.764,"text":"a point of reference 9 summer street is close to east wyoming avenue is that correct yes okay","url":"https://vimeo.com/374128117#t=1954s","page_url":"/video/882"},{"person":"zwirko-michael-p","date":"2019-11-18","video_id":882,"video_title":"Melrose City Council November 18th 2019","meeting_id":2874,"start_sec":2186.16,"end_sec":2195.78,"similarity":0.77,"text":"can come back yeah thank you thank you again for being here this evening i actually didn't have anything to say coming in this evening but you said something during your questioning earlier and I wanted to seek some clarifying questions so you can take the 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