Grant of Easement for 204 Tremont Street
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B. (ID # 2026-1533): Grant of Easement for 204 Tremont Street Denise Gaffey explained that this easement is related to the Tremont Street fire station construction, and the request is to accept a grant of easement on National Grid's behalf in order for them to maintain, operate, and install a new underground electrical system to service and support the new station. She clarified that National Grid would own and pay for the transformer equipment while seeking permanent access for maintenance. Motion to Recommend made by Councilor Vandiver Seconded by Councilor Kowal All were in favor and motion passed (President Freeman had momentarily stepped out of the room thus he did not vote) RESULTS: ACCEPTED [UNANIMOUS] TO: City Council AYES: Jason Chen, Maya Jamaleddine, Manjula Karamcheti, Elizabeth Kowal, John Obremski, Christopher Park, Devin Romanul, Kim Vandiver NAYS: None ABSENT: Cal Finocchiaro, Ryan Williams VI. ADJOURNMENT Motion to Adjourn by unanimous consent made by Chair Romanul at 8:21 PM All were in favor and meeting was adjourned 4 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS | STANDARD CONTRACT FORM This form is jointly issued and published by the Office of the Comptroller, the Executive Office fo
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▶ 1:19:12 Devin Romanul: Thank you. All right. And last but not least on our agenda, ID number 2026-1533, grant of easement for 204 Tremont Street. Apparently, it's easement night here in the- ... Rome Region second meeting. Joining us this evening, Denise Gabie. How are you?
▶ 1:19:27 Denise Gaffey: Great. Doing well, thank you. Good evening. So this order relates to the fire station on Tremont Street that we are rebuilding, and the request is to accept a grant of easement on National Grid's behalf in order for them to maintain and operate and install a new underground electrical system to service and support the new station. This relates to a grant of location that was in front of the board several months ago, and that was for the new pole and service coming into the building. I think there was a bit of a miscommunication on National Grid's part in terms of the fact that this easement also needs to get accepted. So I think it would've been much more efficient had that been done at the same time, but here we are. It's very straightforward and routine language, and it's been reviewed by the city's solicitor, and she took no issues with it. So just here to request your acceptance.
▶ 1:20:25 Devin Romanul: Wonderful. Thank you so much. Do any of my colleagues have any questions? Councilor Chen.
▶ 1:20:32 Jason Chen: To clarify, do we own the transformer, or are we paid as part of the project for National Grid to do the work- Right ... on the transformer, but they own it, and then this is to give them access to maintain and- Correct ... fix?
▶ 1:20:45 Denise Gaffey: Yeah. The project will install the pad that it sits on, but they bring the transformer in, then make all the connections to it, and then the easement is for permanent access to the city property, so they can maintain.
▶ 1:20:59 Jason Chen: Okay. And I'm asking because I'm thinking about a recent meeting about our newer fire stations are going to use more electricity- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm ... which is why we need to upgrade- Mm-hmm ... our switchgear and our transformers. Right. And we have to pay our part to prep it, but the actual equipment is owned by National Gear and National Grid and paid for by them?
▶ 1:21:25 Denise Gaffey: The transformer, to my knowledge, is. It's not part of the project. It's not coming out of the project budget. Yes. Yeah. Great. And I'm sure we will be back for all those other projects as well. Yeah. Including the police station once we get the paperwork together for that one.
▶ 1:21:39 Speaker 3: Got it. Okay. Thank you.
▶ 1:21:40 Devin Romanul: Sure. Perfect. Up next, I have Vice Chair Vanderberg.
▶ 1:21:43 Kimberly Vandiver: Thank you. To that point, I guess one, if I'm remembering correctly, National Grid, once they have this transformer, they don't have to restrict its usage to the fire station, right? They could use it to serve the general vicinity?
▶ 1:21:55 Denise Gaffey: I think if there's more capacity there, they could, yes.
▶ 1:21:59 Kimberly Vandiver: That was, I believe, what I had seen. So to me, this seems like a reasonable thing, and I motion to recommend.
▶ 1:22:08 Speaker 4: Second.
▶ 1:22:09 Devin Romanul: Second. Motion made by Vice Chair Vanderberg, seconded by Councilor Kowal. I know it was... Right. It was between two of you. Anyway.
▶ 1:22:18 Speaker 2: We're the same person tonight, so.
▶ 1:22:19 Devin Romanul: Right. All right. That's right. On discussion. Seeing none. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?
▶ 1:22:26 Speaker 2: Vice Chair Vanderberg? Yes. Councilor Chen? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine? Yes. Councilor Kam Chetty? Yes. Councilor Kowal? Yes. Councilor Abrumsky? Yes. Councilor Park? Yes. President Freeman?
▶ 1:22:41 Speaker 2: Chair Romanul.
▶ 1:22:43 Devin Romanul: Yes. All right. That passes. It'll go before our next City Council meeting a week from this evening. And thank you so much, Ms. Gab, for joining us. Thank you very much. That being our last item on our agenda, I'll now motion by unanimous consent to adjourn. Seeing none, no objections, we are now adjourned.