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National Grid Petition for 204/206 Tremont Street WR#31174939 to install 1 JO POLE to mount the new transformer for new fire station project.
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ii. (ID # 2025-216): National Grid Petition for 204/206 Tremont Street WR#31174939 to install 1 JO POLE to mount the new transformer for new fire station project. 3 Discussion on this petition: Both of the pole petitions for these Tremont Street sites are for a pole and underground conduit work. The detailed documentation states this clearly but it is not mentioned in the shortened titles of the petitions. Councilor Garipay asked about the location of the pole, it will be on Melrose Street and the conduit will go under the street to the fire station. Motion to Amend to include wording for conduit made by Councilor Williams Seconded by Councilor Vandiver All were in favor and motion passed Motion to Recommend as Amended to include wording for conduit made by Councilor Williams Seconded by Councilor Romanul All were in favor and motion passed. RESULT: PASSED AS AMENDED [UNANIMOUS] AYES: Cal Finocchiaro, Mark Garipay, Ward Hamilton, Maya Jamaleddine, Manjula Karamcheti, John Obremski, Devin Romanul, Kim Vandiver, Leila Migliorelli, Ryan Williams NAYS: None ABSENT: Robb Stewart
Transcript
▶ 39:29 Speaker 7: Nope. Okay. Let's move on to item number two, which is National grade petition for 204 slash 206 Tremont Street, WR 3 1 1 7 4 9 3 9 to install one Jo Pole to mount the new transformer for the new fire station project. Sorry.
▶ 39:45 Speaker 9: So I'll, I'll turn it over to Ralph on Aman. But I do wanna point out that the, both of these next two, they were submitted as both a poll and a conduit. There's an underground component and a overhead component that are both in the application, but the wording on the agenda is one or the other for each. Um, but the item is for both the pole and the underground for the fire station. And then the same pole and underground for the 12 to 14 Essex. So I found, uh, Tremont, excuse me. So I found that a little bit confusing in the way that it was in the new system. Maybe this is just a product of our new, um, you know, working out the bugs in the new system.
▶ 40:27 Leila Migliorelli: Okay. So just to clarify, so the first or the, this one that I just read, that's for a poll. The one after that is for underground and you're, they're, you
▶ 40:36 Speaker 9: Need to both, both are for a poll and underground.
▶ 40:38 Speaker 7: Oh, both are for a poll and underground.
▶ 40:43 Speaker 7: Got it. Not the same ones.
▶ 40:44 Speaker 9: And they were contained that way in the documents that were uploaded. Okay. Just the title doesn't reflect both. Okay. But it was submitted by National Grid as both?
▶ 40:53 Speaker 7: As both. Okay. So, So
▶ 40:58 Speaker 7: Yeah, you talked about it and we'll, we'll talk
▶ 41:00 Speaker 10: About this. Good evening, Rafael from National Grid Distribution Design one 70 met fourth Street. So this one is for the, the new project of the Melrose Fire, uh, fire Department. So like the DPW director said we are gonna need a new pole because they, the other poles are already used with other equipment. And also this was the one that was proposed the best location, eh, for, from the, the designer of the project. And the other, the other poles are even like closer to the MBTW? No, the MBTA. So it's not, it's gonna be hard to get permission for them to use that pole. So we just need to install a pole and then also install underground conduit to fit the new transformer. That is gonna be exclusively for the fire station.
▶ 41:57 Speaker 7: Okay. Thank you. Um, questions from the council Councilor Repe,
▶ 42:02 Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm a little confused on this one. Two poles
▶ 42:05 Speaker 10: Only One Poll. One
▶ 42:06 Speaker 9: Poll, one pole and undergrad conduit from the poll into the new transformer. So crossing the sidewalk,
▶ 42:11 Mark Garipay: But the pole is gonna be at 1424.
▶ 42:14 Speaker 1: We're still on 2 0 4.
▶ 42:16 Speaker 10: 2 0 6. The, it will be like a 45, uh, feet class, two wood pole, wooden pole.
▶ 42:22 Speaker 2: Where's the pole gonna be? It's gonna
▶ 42:24 Speaker 9: be on Melrose Street. Melrose Street. Um, near, you know the driveway that goes down right now into the fire station off of Melrose Street before the bridge it's there. Okay.
▶ 42:34 Mark Garipay: And then the underground conduits
▶ 42:36 Speaker 10: From that pole Directly to the property.
▶ 42:40 Speaker 9: To Where? To the property. Property under the sidewalk. To the property, to the fire station. Okay.
▶ 42:44 Speaker 2: So we're just talking the fire station right now? Yes, correct. Alright, thank you. Yeah,
▶ 42:49 Speaker 7: Thank you. Any other questions? No. Okay.
▶ 42:54 Leila Migliorelli: Thank you. Alright, so I'll, I'll restate it again now that I've also figured out. So this is a poll. So it's the, there's two orders, one, two separate locations. This is the location by the fire station 204 slash 206 Tremont Street, both a pole underground conduit. Now we're gonna talk about 1424 Tremont Street, which also has a pole and underground conduit two. Okay,