ORDER-2017-30 : Petition of National Grid for installation of underground conduit at 204 Howard Street (install 9-5" concrete encased conduits from National Grid driveway to MH 523 Howard Street) in accordance with Plan #16528668, dated September 27, 2016.

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▶ 19:06 Speaker 1: motion uh a public hearing scheduled tonight which is petition of national grid for installation of underground conduit at 204 howard street there's been a motion made and seconded to commence the public hearing all those in favor aye aye anyone opposed motion passes anybody who was here this evening to speak at the public hearing please come forward identify themselves is there a representative for national from national grid could you come forward please sir if you could

▶ 19:54 Speaker 1: describe the project particularly focusing on the work that national grid is proposing to do whether there's going to be disruption to a public street or a public sidewalk that would be greatly

▶ 20:05 Speaker 7: appreciated absolutely national grid is looking to install some new conduit starting at the existing substation at 204 howard street and the conduit will extend to the existing manhole 523a that is that is currently in the sidewalk right outside the substation grounds. The construction will require the sidewalk to be dug up, which will subsequently be repaired to its original condition by National Grid. If anyone would like to see it, I do have some prints showing the civil construction that will be taking place.

▶ 20:40 Speaker 1: And can you describe how long the trench will be and how much the sidewalk will be disturbed?

▶ 20:45 Speaker 7: trench in the public right away will be approximately 20 feet the actual construction starting from the substation before it gets to the public right away and the sidewalk is roughly 200 feet or so if you could step back

▶ 21:03 Speaker 1: for a second we want to see if anybody else is here and then I'm sure the

▶ 21:11 Speaker 1: board will have questions for you sir is there anybody else here this evening to

▶ 21:24 Speaker 1: speak on this issue? Apparently not. Motion to close the public hearing. Second. Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves to conclude the public hearing portion, seconded by Alderman Inferno. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Sir, if you could come forward again, please. I'm sure some of the aldermen will have questions for you. Alderman Lemmerman. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you very much for being here this evening. Just a couple of questions. So I see in the conditions, I noticed that

▶ 21:40 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: you're you're just getting that print out have you seen these before i have not seen this one before so this is something that you would have to make sure we're um you know conditions that you could meet for this yep um the it looks like the hours will be limited to nine third from 9 30 to 3 30. um and this is this street howard street in general is an extremely busy street in in in Melrose will you have a police detail for the time that you're there it's a

▶ 22:21 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: busy road we generally have police detail yes great and I also want to just make sure that you will notify all the neighbors in the area I know that it's sort of right in front of your property but there's a lot of neighbors around

▶ 22:31 Speaker 7: the um so the on the petition that we submit it has an abutters list on it too so all the people that live in the area will generally be notified before the

▶ 22:42 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: construction begins do you know how long this should take it's not a lot of work

▶ 22:50 Speaker 7: if I were to I'm not unfortunately not operation that's good but I would assume it would take anywhere from one to three days okay and this might be more of a

▶ 23:04 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: question for DPW who I know is not here this evening so I might this is also very close to the Saugus border I think it's within my memory I believe it is

▶ 23:17 Speaker 7: maybe within a mile or so I'm not 100% sure on that one though okay I mean my

▶ 23:23 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: question would just be what you know is this something that we should notify this the town of Saugus as well that this will be going on just to be good neighbors that this is happening but that might not be it might be for DPW I

▶ 23:38 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: can follow up on that and it's only the sidewalk that will be disrupted it's not the street itself yes only sidewalk and that will all be put back yep at the end

▶ 23:45 Speaker 7: yep it will be basically rebuilt to original condition great okay thank you

▶ 23:57 Speaker 1: very much thank you anyone else okay what is before you I'm sorry one of the

▶ 23:59 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: conditions is in regard to an additional trench that the city might require use of at some point is that something that you're aware of and willing and able to

▶ 24:20 Speaker 1: supply. Which one is that? Number seven. It's access to your conduit. It's not a trench. It's granting access to your conduit. Right. But for city purposes. In the case of this, if we're not

▶ 24:30 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: actually requesting it, the extra one, but I think we usually want to have access to it if necessary.

▶ 24:45 Speaker 8: That can be done. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Would you be looking for a

▶ 24:52 Monica C. Medeiros: a motion to accept uh to attach the conditions to this order mr president Welch i i really wouldn't

▶ 24:55 Speaker 1: be looking for anything that would be up to the will of the board of all the ministers whether that's something that they're interested in if i was sitting there i would probably be interested in adopting the conditions that have been put forward by our city department alderman

▶ 25:08 Monica C. Medeiros: leverman already mentioned these uh conditions but just uh to make sure we're all tidy i would like to move to add the conditions listed in the memorandum from elena proakis ellis our city engineer to the board of aldermen dated october 17 2016 which is in our packet to the order second

▶ 25:34 Speaker 1: alderman medeiros moves that we add the conditions set forth in the october 17th communication from the public works department to the grant of location for the performance of the work the motion is seconded by alderman mortimer is there any discussion relative to the motion

▶ 25:55 Monica C. Medeiros: you have the floor all the materials then and in that same vein i'd like to move to add that we also have the applicant notify the town of saugus within 48 hours prior to the commencement of the work to be performed as well

▶ 26:14 Speaker 1: second okay what i would like to do is call for a vote on the initial motion and then we'll hold second motion in abeyance and we'll see how motion number one makes out and then we'll move down the road on the motion to accept the conditions recommended by the uh public works department all those in favor aye anyone opposed motion passes alderman medeiros is moving that we add an additional condition condition number eight that the town of saugus be notified prior to the performance of the work the motion has been seconded by alderman mortimer is there any discussion on that motion all those in favor of the motion to further amend the grant location to accept condition number eight indicate by saying aye aye aye anyone opposed motion passes the order is so amended is there any further discussion on the order as amended and re-amended

▶ 27:08 Speaker 1: motion recommend alderman lemmerman moves for passage second seconded by alderman forbes is there any discussion on the motion all those in favor please indicate by saying aye aye anyone opposed thank you very much sir thank you thank you if we could now move on to communications