ORDER-2016-115 : Authorization to Accept a Grant in the amount of $8,000.00 from the Massachusetts Associates of Health Boards in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and to Execute an Agreement with the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards/Massachusetts Department of Public Health

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▶ 1:16 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: is order number 2016-115 authorization authorization to accept a grant in the amount of eight thousand dollars from the massachusetts associates of health boards in partnership with the massachusetts department of public health and to execute an agreement with the massachusetts association of health boards massachusetts department of public health motion to suspend the rule so that we could

▶ 1:41 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: hear from denise gaffey we have a motion to suspend the rules by alderman inferna seconded by Alderman Boisselle all in favor aye any opposed we are under suspension of the rules we have Ms. Gaffey to speak with us tonight thank you for being here oh you're welcome good evening

▶ 1:53 Denise Gaffey: I'm happy to be here I believe you have in front of you a copy of the award letter that we received for this grant award in the amount of eight thousand dollars and we saw an opportunity to apply for for a grant through the department of public health for healthy aging and healthy planning activities, and given where we are with our master planning process, it seemed like a great opportunity to expand the scope of our master plan to include considerations of healthy planning and healthy aging. In particular, it would allow us to do some very specific focus groups with our senior center population, our senior population, I should say. And so essentially this will augment the funding that we have and the services that we have through MAPC for our master plan effort. So we are in the midst of that right now. I know many of you have been actively involved in our process and are aware that we recently had a public forum that was very well attended and we got some great feedback. still on track to try to to progress with our master plan for completion this summer and this funding will just help us make sure we're hearing from a broad range of voices and incorporate that that healthy element whether it be through zoning or other types of initiatives into our plan thank

▶ 3:25 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: you motion to recommend the motion to recommend second seconded by alderman MacMaster margolis is Is there any discussion on the order? Alderman Inferna.

▶ 3:31 Gail Infurna: Thank you very much. Thank you, Denise, for coming before us this evening. I was just looking at the letter regarding the grant, and there are, I believe, maybe, is this thing always goes too fast, maybe eight criteria, things to agree with, and are you in agreement with all those things that, you know, have to make a decision? Absolutely. Yeah, good, thank you very much.

▶ 3:56 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: Thank you. also just want to mention we were joined as well by alderman medeiros who is a member of the

▶ 4:05 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: committee any other questions or comments alderman thank you i just wondered um if this would help you sort of reach out to um i know you said the senior center but like reach out to others sort of like um health care providers or the hospital to collaborate on um healthy senior living that

▶ 4:22 Denise Gaffey: kind of thing yeah we were just talking about that this morning we had um our monthly master plan committee meeting and we were talking about various ways that we could do some outreach and we thought some targeted interviews um would be a great way to do that and i think um and not just not just in this healthy uh you know aging uh category but for some other categories as well but um absolutely i think that would we'll be able to do and sort of collaborating with the board of

▶ 4:47 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: health and the mass and motion grant and all that sort of thing too exactly great good thank you thank you for pursuing it any final comments thanks I know I had been at one

▶ 5:02 Monica C. Medeiros: of the I think the open space meeting and there have been some discussion about you know maybe it might be nice to have benches or things along walking routes so that there were places say maybe for somebody who might need to take a break is that the kind of thing that we might see in come out of this so

▶ 5:21 Denise Gaffey: we might see consider we might see recommendations for for ideas that we could add to our you know site plan review for example if we're reviewing a project and making sure there are amenities for for you know all populations but certainly amenities that foster sort of healthy living so that

▶ 5:43 Speaker 3: could be an example for sure thanks thank you thank you okay we have a

▶ 5:46 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: motion made and seconded for to recommend for passage all in favor any opposed okay this motion this order will be recommended for passage at the next full board meeting you know the drill you won't have to be back for that okay thank you very much I think we're asking you to stay for the next order anyway probably so I'm just gonna make some room sure the next order on our agenda is order number 2016 that's 118 it's a donation from the Connor trust fund in amount of $85,000 to fund a feasibility study for renovations to the public Melrose Public Library said funds to be deposited into fund number 2886 thank you very much for also joining us partner from the library and we're still under suspension of rules would you like to give a opening statement on the well