ORDER-2016-121 : Accept grant in the amount of $75,000 from the Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development Mass Marketing Partnerships/Office of Travel & Tourism Program. Funds are to be deposited into Fund #4022, Beebe Estate Improvements.

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▶ 1:25:23 Michael P. Zwirko: order two zero one six dash one two one from committee second Alderman's work Oh

▶ 1:25:28 Speaker 1: moves to remove order two zero one six dash one two one from from committee that is the acceptance of a grant in the amount of $75,000 from the executive office of housing and economic development as marketing partnership funds are to be deposited into fund number 402 to BB estate improvements on the motion to remove the order from committee all those in favor aye anyone opposed whatever is removed from committee and it is before you motion to

▶ 1:26:01 Speaker 3: recommend second all the most about that section

▶ 1:26:03 Speaker 1: alderman's worker moves the passage of the order the motion is seconded by alderman mortimer

▶ 1:26:13 Monica C. Medeiros: alderman medeiros i believe we have mr shenna in the audience i believe we do and we're under suspension of the rule so maybe we could hear from him thank you mr shenna could you address

▶ 1:26:27 Speaker 7: this order please good evening everyone um melrose uh received a grant in the amount of 75 000 from the executive office of housing and economic development it's part of the mass marketing partnership an office of travel and tourism program the mmp-mott program we're requesting that those funds be deposited into fund 4022 which the auditor's office has created for the bb estate improvements the public works department has worked with the bb estate trustees and we intend to use these funds to make improvements to the exterior of the building mainly repainting but obviously this scraping and some miscellaneous woodwork that has to happen as well any other repairs that we we see on the exterior we will proceed with as well our engineering office went through a dirty bead process to procure a painter he was supposed to start today but didn't for obvious reasons um so the intent is to is is to paint the exterior make improvements to the exterior with this grant once we expend the funds they will reimburse them fully

▶ 1:27:44 Speaker 1: does the city have any financial responsibility in terms of this grant no it does not

▶ 1:27:52 Michael P. Zwirko: any questions alderman zorco i said question is any discretion allowed within the use of this money or is it only for exterior painting and rehab no it's for improvements to the building

▶ 1:27:58 Speaker 7: and actually we got a very competitive bid with the timing that and there are some there's contingency obviously in the budget but there's some there could be some surplus funds that we identified to even make some interior improvements we're in just last week we had a discussion with the trustees so they're mulling some options over at this point in time right so will the color be

▶ 1:28:22 Speaker 7: bright yellow in fact it's historic the building is obviously historically well aware of that um and there is there are some heavy restrictions on the means and methods so we included those all with our with our bid and the vendor that we selected has a lot of experience doing these types of historical buildings we met with them last week we all feel comfortable so you should see the building being painted hopefully as soon as the weather warms up

▶ 1:28:53 Speaker 6: Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you.

▶ 1:28:55 Speaker 1: Thank you.

▶ 1:28:58 Monica C. Medeiros: To the naked eye, I guess $75,000 for painting seems low, but because this is a historic building and there's many repairs in terms of the wood and stuff like that, I imagine that goes up very quickly, the price. Do you think that this is an adequate amount to cover what's needed to be done? and do you you know do you think that we will need to do to expend more money we

▶ 1:29:29 Speaker 7: feel very comfortable that the money that the grant is going to bring in fact that's why we bid it first to make sure that we were in the right price range before we proceeded but we have an actual bid we have contingency and I said we actually have some additional funds as well so we're very comfortable

▶ 1:29:46 Monica C. Medeiros: the grant will cover it we think it's we might have a little leftover possibly we're not like leftover but in addition to what we thank you thank you all the

▶ 1:29:57 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: McAteer Margolis thank you I just wondered mr. Shannon will this impact

▶ 1:30:02 Speaker 7: the use of the building at all we're working with the trustees right now may they're not that busy so their rentals pick up in the summertime so we're working with them at trying to try to not impact them as much and along the

▶ 1:30:16 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: questions of Alderman Medeiros if as they're you know doing their work they find you know rot in a gutter or what have you there is sufficient funds to do

▶ 1:30:28 Speaker 7: those kinds of repairs the way we crafted the bid is there is a there's a lump sum to paint it there's a there's a line item that sets up contingency to deal with woodwork and framing and and then there's some change order work that could be applicable as well we'll have one of our engineers managing it on a day-to-day basis so as those issues come up we can we can deal with and figure

▶ 1:30:50 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: out how to compensate them and have the trustees or have you consulted with the

▶ 1:30:56 Speaker 7: Historical Commission on it so the trustees have been very involved and we're very grateful there's a lot of talented great people people on that board they assisted us with even writing the specification and there's a lot of historical experience on that board so we seem to be okay and ready to go thank

▶ 1:31:13 Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll, please?

▶ 1:31:18 Speaker 2: Alderman Boisselle? Yes. Yes. Alderman Forbes? Yes. Yes. Alderman Inferna? Yes. Yes. Alderman Lemmerman? Yes. Yes. Alderman McAteer-Margolis? Yes. Yes. Alderman Medeiros? Yes. Yes. Alderman Mortimer? Yes. Yes.

▶ 1:31:39 Speaker 1: Alderman Tramontozzi?

▶ 1:31:40 Speaker 7: Yes.

▶ 1:31:41 Speaker 1: Yes.