ORDER-2017-166 : Petition of National Grid to install one (1) new SO Pole and one (1) new SO anchor on Pratt St., Melrose in accordance with Plan #24043322

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▶ 39:28 Speaker 6: communities division and authorized the mayor to execute a contract with the Department of Energy Resources funds to be deposited into fund number four zero

▶ 39:39 Speaker 5: three zero that order will be referred to the Committee on Appropriations order

▶ 39:46 Speaker 6: number 2017 dash 166 petition of National Grid to install one new SO pole and one new SO anchor on Pratt Street Melrose in accordance with plan number two four zero four three three two two this order was the subject

▶ 40:00 Speaker 5: matter of a public hearing at our june meeting members of the board had some questions relative to this and this order was tabled for this evening motion to remove from the table second alderman inferno moves to remove the order from the table the motion is seconded by alderman medeiros on the motion all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes uh just for the edification of the general public we did receive a memorandum today from the city engineer relative to conditions that she is recommending relative to the grant of this application hopefully all of you have seen it and the gentleman from national grid indicated to me that he has seen this as well

▶ 40:49 Gail Infurna: motion to suspend the rules to um bring national grid second alderman inferno moves to suspend the

▶ 40:53 Speaker 5: rules to hear from uh representative of national grid the motion is seconded by alden voicel on the motion all those in favor aye aye anyone opposed motion passes good evening uh tim

▶ 41:09 Speaker 7: lyford national good electric 170 medford street malden um this pole location um was going to be the replacement of an existing tree guy support that currently goes to a dying tree in on the

▶ 41:43 Speaker 7: property of the church um at 200 franklin street and again it is both a pole set and an anchor as well to support the existing pole line that we have on pratt street have you had a chance to

▶ 41:53 Speaker 5: familiarize yourselves with the conditions in ms prowakis ellis's uh letter i believe i did yes and do you have any concerns or questions relative to compliance with those conditions

▶ 42:05 Speaker 7: i don't believe so um when i spoke to the city engineer on the phone i believe we were both on the same page and went over pretty much everything that she listed in both conditions eight and nine um and i believe i answered all of her questions to the best of my ability as well

▶ 42:32 Monica C. Medeiros: okay any questions albany medeiros thank you uh in the conditions she indicates that and i i think you did at the last meeting as well that the new poll would the height should be 30 feet is that correct that's correct and the existing pole is 45 feet that's correct so the new new support pole will be 30 feet will be 15 feet less than the existing most poles that are installed

▶ 42:51 Speaker 7: for this use are usually much shorter than poles that have elect electric infrastructure on them because this is just for the support it's it only has to be roughly around 30 feet

▶ 43:10 Monica C. Medeiros: thank you for that clarification at this point i'd like to move to add the conditions of the memorandum from elena paracas ellis our city engineer dated today july 17 2017 to the order

▶ 43:27 Speaker 5: second the motion alderman medeiros is moving that we amend the grant of location to incorporate the conditions that are set forth in the city engineer's letter dated today the motion is seconded by alderman mortimer is there any discussion relative to the motion to amend

▶ 43:46 Speaker 5: all those in favor aye aye anyone opposed motion passes motion to recommend as amended as amended

▶ 43:58 Speaker 5: oh yeah actually it's passage this is a full board second alderman inferna is moving to recommend the order as amended the motion is seconded by alderman medeiros is there any any discussion on the motion to recommend so shake it you call the roll

▶ 44:18 Speaker 2: please yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes that