ORDER-2017-134 : Acceptance of the FY 17 Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Enforcement and Equipment Grant in the amount of $3,749.96 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Office of Public Safety and Security's Highway Safety Division.

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▶ 15:55 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: Second. Alderman Ferner moved, seconded by Alderman Medeiros. All in favor? Aye. public participation is closed. We have two orders before us this evening. Order 2017-134, the acceptance of a fiscal year 17 pedestrian and bicycle safety enforcement and equipment grant in the amount of $3,749.96 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of Public Safety and Security's Highway and Safety Division. I see in the audience that we have Chief Lyle

▶ 16:30 Gail Infurna: someone motion to suspend the rules to bring chief lyle forward second alderman in front of

▶ 16:33 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: move seconded by alderman medeiros all in favor all right um chief lyle would you like to join us

▶ 16:49 Speaker 9: at the table and tell us a little bit about this rant please thank you uh we're fortunate enough again to receive this grant pedestrian and bicycle safety so uh it's certainly fitting for the way the city is redesigning now the roadways so we're going to apply it that way as far as enforcement for certainly crosswalks and if the board has any areas that they would like addressed please email me it's not a large sum of money but we certainly can do what we can with with the funds we have as far as equipment we're going to look to purchase a couple of the crosswalk homes the ones that seem to get destroyed fairly quickly they're very expensive they're about 350 dollars a piece so i'd like to purchase two and use the rest of the funds for enforcement

▶ 17:33 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: there's a non-matching grant it is a non-matching grant thank you is there anyone that has any questions for chief lyle regarding this grant motion i recommend for passage alderman lemon moves to recommend this seconded by alderman inferno any further discussion all in favor aye aye opposed this carries unanimously it will be recommended to the full board for our next

▶ 17:56 Speaker 9: meeting thank you for coming down tonight i will also say that i was notified today that we received the alcohol compliance grant and those funds are going to be used we're going to use bicycle officers we'll backfill officers so they can go in our remote areas of the city and see what we can do for the summer months great thank you thank you thank you for sharing that with us the second