ORDER-2021-158 : Petition of National Grid to install approximately 880 feet of concrete encased electric ducts from existing manhole A-510 to an existing pad mount transformer at 585 Lebanon St. in accordance with Rowe St. Plan #27967397

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▶ 30:59 Cory Thomas: from national grade yes moses welcome nice to have you in the city council chamber again thank

▶ 31:03 Speaker 4: you sir good evening councillors my name is moses okokuro i'm here on behalf of national grid my address is 170 medford street in malden so basically this poll as customer just mentioned they want to extend you know her driveway so we are obliged to move the pole to accommodate that

▶ 31:25 Cory Thomas: driveway okay go ahead excuse me sir um so we're talking on order 2021-158 this is a petition of national grid to install approximately 880 feet of concrete encased electric ducts from existing manhole a510 to an existing pad mount transformer at 585 lebanon street in accordance with rose

▶ 31:49 Speaker 4: street plan number 27967397 okay so i'm sorry i took you back yeah thank you so there's this is actually for the purpose of providing electric service to merrill's wickfield hospital yes thank you so there's actually an existing service but we've been having issues with um squirrels going up a tree over our pole line construction that strips the electric service to this customer so this is something that's needed urgently thank you yeah

▶ 32:22 Mark Garipay: yes thank you for being here i have a just a couple questions regarding regarding Rose Street, how long do you think that this project is going to be going to take? And my understanding is we're going to be digging a trench in order to do that.

▶ 32:47 Speaker 4: Well, it may actually take, I can't be definite as to how long. Maybe, I'm not sure, maybe two weeks, plus, minus. i don't know how long to take them you know to take you know to dig let's say if they do well let me not be too straightforward you know i have to you know confirm and probably get back to you yes we actually contract this out to a civil you know different contracting firm i don't know usually typically the turnaround time yeah in looking at the list in the application there's a lot of neighbors that could be impacted along rose street what's the process going to be for a neighborhood meeting in order in order to uh inform them and keep them informed of when the project's going to start what's what to expect well similarly we sent out letters you know for this petition here and we can also inform them prior to the construction fees to let them know within this you know time frame we'll be doing this section up from the you know beginning of from Green Street down to the hospital location. Yeah, so we'll send out letters to them. Will the neighbors be able to have a meeting right on Rose Street so they have any concerns or questions that can be answered? Sure. If we could set that up, I would like to be involved in that. Okay, that's fine.

▶ 34:13 Mark Garipay: And then what communication has there been with the hospital And have we had the public safety, any of the public safety police and fire involved in this where that's going to close down Rose Street for potentially eight hours a day, I would assume, for two weeks? And that's the direct route for the emergency room.

▶ 34:32 Speaker 4: Well, that's a good question. We are still at the planning phase. I'm sure when we get close to construction, we'll make adequate arrangements for that. We've actually been in touch with someone from the hospital, Mr. Jerry. we had a meeting with him with hi bonnie was present and we all walked through the entire length of the conduit run and he's already aware so whatever requirements we have to make in order to make the job move forward i'm sure we'll be glad to do it yes okay and and then after the after the project's complete what's the plan um for repaving the road um that's a direct access for public safety for ambulances you know we tend to see all the time if we just do the trench and we we just put a top over it they tend to sink and and the roads deteriorate a lot quicker so

▶ 35:26 Speaker 3: is there a point i can answer that question um bonnie race city engineer it's nice to actually meet you all in person welcome sorry i'm late i thought we were up at 7 45 i would have been here sooner um so the road restoration um elena and i have discussed this typically we would ask they their trenches all on one side of the road so typically we would ask them to pave from the gutter line to the center line of the road and in some cases since that road is not in great condition what we do is we figure out what the value of that paving would be and they just give us um a donation and we put it towards our road restoration program so the city then would go back and do a full curb to curb mill and overlay through that section um that's most likely what

▶ 36:22 Mark Garipay: we'll end up doing yes i appreciate you taking time today to speak with me but um that i think that section of of uh row street from porter to green is in is in shape as is porter from from row up to bellevue um so yeah anything we can do to to make sure we're done when the project's done that it's paved and and we're not going to be dealing with the city's not going to be dealing with the expenses down the road um that would appreciate that and i'm sure the residents would

▶ 36:50 Speaker 3: too um thank you i've uh and just to address some of your other questions also um as as we get closer to actually them starting the work we will have more coordination with public safety um i do have a memo of conditions for them and one of those conditions is that they coordinate with the hospital on access for ambulances and also general public safety and keeping traffic flow moving and we will definitely have a neighborhood meeting with the residents in fact i just came from one that we did for a gas project earlier this evening so we'll set that up as soon as we know when they're going to be starting great i appreciate it thank you thank you for being here

▶ 37:33 Cory Thomas: thank you mr race um barring objection i'd like to uh close the public hearing for order 2021-158

▶ 37:46 Cory Thomas: public hearing is now closed um i'd like to make a barring objection i'd like to make a motion to order open order 2021 159 a public hearing petition of national grid to relocate one jo pole number 1570 on orient avenue beginning at approximately 276 feet north of the center line at the orient ave and east emerson street intersection to be moved plus or minus 14 feet to the north and once again we are under suspension of the rules we'd like to welcome moses okokoro from national grid and once again miss race from the department of public works