ORDER-2015-200 : Petition of Comcast for Grant of Location to place new underground conduit to provide service to 423 Main St. as set forth herein.

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▶ 16:32 Gail Infurna: public hearing alderman um well we can commence the public hearing and at this point 803 the

▶ 16:46 Peter D. Mortimer: public hearing is declared open um did you read the whole order uh no but i will uh i think we will get three readings out of anybody but i'll go ahead and read it petition of comcast for grant of location to place new underground conduit to provide service to 423 main street as set forth

▶ 17:01 Gail Infurna: here in great thank you very much alderman and do we have anybody from comcast here this evening

▶ 17:08 Gail Infurna: do we have the public do a presentation first hi i'm jim fitzpatrick from comcast welcome thank

▶ 17:20 Gail Infurna: you maybe you could just explain what you're doing and okay yeah we're petitioning to um

▶ 17:23 Speaker 8: for a grand location to provide service to 423 main street that block of buildings intention is to intercept an existing conduit which is in the rear of the parking lot in the rear of the building place in a 24 by 36 hand vault over the over the existing trench and then from that vault trench in about 200 feet to the rear of 423 across the park a lot to the rear of

▶ 18:03 Gail Infurna: the building um right so that pub that's your presentation yes okay i'm gonna um ask you to step away and see if there's anybody from the public which i'm not sure if there's anybody from the public here to make any sort of statements no no all right mr fitzpatrick come on down again um at that time at 8 0 5 we'll declare the public hearing closed and now we'll open up for questions from the board alderman Boisselle in your plans you have the

▶ 18:31 Robert A. Boisselle: vault in the parking lot uh but you have two lines coming out to 423 and 441 main street are you

▶ 18:43 Speaker 8: doing two lines at the same time no the one going to 441 that's the existing uh that's the existing conduit so we'll be intercepting i kind of highlighted this here so we'll be coming off

▶ 18:56 Robert A. Boisselle: that vault yeah going to the rear of four so the one with the 200 feet is basically the new line yes okay now is there any infrastructure underneath this area that you have a problem with

▶ 19:06 Speaker 8: um not that i know but we won't know until you know we call dig safe and

▶ 19:15 Robert A. Boisselle: have it all marked out okay and you applied to the engineering department for the appropriate permits yes okay thank you very much thank you madam chair i'll say to alderman Boisselle are there

▶ 19:24 Gail Infurna: any further questions alderman Tramontozzi yes thank you uh there is a memorandum from

▶ 19:36 John N. Tramontozzi: city engineer andrew street who talks about that there is a city culvert associated with an outlet to el pond in that area have you seen that memorandum uh dated june 19th i don't think

▶ 19:51 John N. Tramontozzi: i have that okay because um he um he has incorporated some information i think that would be important uh says comcast and the designated contract will be responsible strict adherence to all requirements um as i said forth within the street opening permit including permit

▶ 20:06 John N. Tramontozzi: fees insurance bonding requirements and then he goes on to talk about the installation of the proposed cover will require crossing a city cover associated with the outlet to el pond is covered as a main trunk line draining the largest watershed in mero so we don't want any uh problems with uh any uh interference with uh or any covers that drain that water yeah so um this will be in i'm going to ask that the memorandum be incorporated into the permitting requirements uh in that uh it would be uh strictly adhered to okay because you're going to be you're going to be digging yes yep do you know how far down you're going to be digging approximately

▶ 20:48 Speaker 8: two feet okay and then you're gonna two foot cover we'll put our pipe and have a two foot cover and

▶ 20:51 John N. Tramontozzi: then you're going to be paving uh to to the specs required by the city engineer and um and you know

▶ 21:00 Speaker 8: we'll maintain the trench for the life of the trench you know if there's ever a problem we'll come back and do any repairs that need be okay all right good thank you okay i'll set you now

▶ 21:16 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: um thank you madam president i i too um am concerned that you're not aware of this um requirement um of the of the culvert the drainage culvert that comes from el pond

▶ 21:34 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: you were not made aware of that i'm not aware of it no okay um it's a it's a significant um undertaking to maintain and avoid that i believe so um i'm hesitant to personally

▶ 21:48 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: approve this without having you speak and look over the plans with the engine with the city

▶ 21:57 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: engineer um it's the main culvert that we use to drain el pond when we we have a whole system and

▶ 22:04 Speaker 8: is extra water that's coming in so i mean if it's a matter of just meeting with the the town

▶ 22:09 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: engineer i mean we could certainly do that and agreeing to the requirements that are stated

▶ 22:13 Speaker 8: therefore they're in okay now i mean we did the line to 441 main street and i don't think there

▶ 22:21 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: was any problems so so you're just doing are you just um excavating in the parking lot area is that where you are you're not in the street at all no okay and you're not going on the sidewalk

▶ 22:34 Speaker 8: along that stretch no there's like a grass area in the rear of the parking lot right um that's where our existing trench is and that's where we'll place the vault and kind of it's almost like a straight shot right to the rear of the building yeah i i don't know for sure but i think

▶ 22:47 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: that's partly where the culvert is so you may have encountered it before without okay or before i

▶ 22:57 Speaker 8: don't know when you did 441 so so could i get a copy of that or sure okay right right yep um

▶ 23:02 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: and so will the parking lot be inaccessible to the public during that time well i mean probably a

▶ 23:09 Speaker 8: portion of it no we'll have to do men working signs cone off the area police detail if need be

▶ 23:20 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: um when would you anticipate that work starting i'm sorry when do you anticipate the work starting

▶ 23:29 Speaker 4: as far as the time during the day or no like next week or if oh no i mean this tonight once

▶ 23:32 Speaker 8: it's approved then i go back and i let them know it's approved um financially it's approved with comcast so it's kind of whenever we get the approval we can go ahead and do it you know

▶ 23:46 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: know so within within a short period within the next few weeks you would expect to be doing that I could sure yeah it's the whole area is fairly disrupted there if you've driven by it because of all the other road construction there so in my mind it would be nice to see that it was done like concurrent with that so that when the rest of that work is done you're not

▶ 24:08 Speaker 8: impacting them yeah I mean whenever it's good whenever it's good for the town I i mean we don't have to do it we'll do it whenever it's you know available and how many days do you

▶ 24:18 Speaker 8: think it would take to do it i'm thinking it's probably a day to do the saw cut for the trench a day of trenching laying the pipe and back filling and probably another day of um patching resurfacing you know depending on traffic and problems with parking it might be another day I mean typically a job that size we can finish up in a few days thank you okay right for the

▶ 24:58 Francis X. Wright Jr.: time thank you with regards to patching what exactly will the process be because what we don't want to see is a patch that ultimately creates a dip will will your trench be dug in such a way that you'll either cover the conduit with a hard surface of some type and then cover it with soil that will be compacted or

▶ 25:23 Speaker 8: how exactly it's kind of whatever the town specs are so I mean if you if you require flow fill would do that if it's gravel then it would be compacted gravel then whatever the town requires for finish as far as asphalt so I guess I

▶ 25:45 Francis X. Wright Jr.: would ask that we amend the order to include a condition that it be that the fill and patching be to the satisfaction of both the city engineer and the

▶ 26:01 Peter D. Mortimer: Department of Public Works second the motion sure I don't have the letter in

▶ 26:06 John N. Tramontozzi: front of me is it in there it is in the point of information yeah number seven talks about all the unsuitable material encounter during the excavation removed and backfill shall be installed on maximum 8 inches lips and it's no specified in that memorandum I think engineer Street does a pretty good job job in outlining his his specs and his requirements so we will make now move

▶ 26:33 Gail Infurna: that did you have any comment that's what I was gonna I was gonna make this I

▶ 26:35 Peter D. Mortimer: was gonna say a lot of these questions that we're having here are things that have already been covered in the memorandum I'm sure mr. Street and mr. Shanna have looked at this they're the experts they know what's right for the paving they're gonna work with you and I'll make that motion yeah so that we include his memorandum in the record and includes the concerns about uh compacting the crushed stone um and any other things that the experts uh who run our infrastructure have so i'll make that

▶ 27:07 Gail Infurna: motion and i think we might have one more speaker i think alderman Boisselle did you have another

▶ 27:11 Robert A. Boisselle: question jim what you may want to do is get a copy of that letter right away before scheduling because they're talking about excavating test pits also doing video uh inspections before and after the construction and so forth so it gets a little more involved in what you're discussing at this point and also it also talks about uh double shifts doing the construction i'm not sure if comcast does that aspects but you might want to be aware of those especially number uh three and six number three and six so so double shifts mean like possibly nights or something

▶ 27:49 Speaker 9: talk to the engineer on that aspects of it once you get it done as fast as

▶ 27:54 Robert A. Boisselle: possible yeah okay and again test pits and video inspections will be required

▶ 27:59 Gail Infurna: Thank You madam are you all set to make that motion is there um do you

▶ 28:04 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: anticipate any impact to the current businesses in that block no no no you're

▶ 28:12 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: just what are you laying like fiber or fire sir no this this isn't a five it's

▶ 28:16 Speaker 8: Just a coax. Just a coax? It'd be for video, high speed internet, and telephone.

▶ 28:23 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: And it's going into the back of that building? Yes. Okay. But you don't anticipate that anyone will, current occupants of that building will be without service for any time?

▶ 28:33 Speaker 8: No, no. Because- Only when we do the cut over, splicing the line, but we'll do that on off hours, early morning.

▶ 28:41 Speaker 4: Okay, thank you.

▶ 28:46 Peter D. Mortimer: i'll make the motion first that we include uh mr street's conditions as part of the permit

▶ 28:54 Gail Infurna: second yeah alderman mortimer makes a motion to include the um memo from um the city engineer seconded by alderman Boisselle any further discussion all those in favor all those opposed that is amended and motion to pat for passage on the grant of location as amended all the men

▶ 29:17 Gail Infurna: makes a motion for passage seconded by alderman Boisselle on as amended as amended on further discussion seeing none all those in favor aye all those opposed um that um order gets passed and thank you very much for coming this evening thank you and i i'm sure you'll take that back to your your company and great thank you thank you thanks mr fitzpatrick i need to sign this right