ORDNC-2023-1 : Reauthorization of City of Melrose Revolving Fund table as first adopted by City Ordinance June 18th, 2018 and annually thereafter. Revolving Funds are further authorized under Massachusetts General Law Chapter 44 Section 53E 1/2.

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▶ 54:46 Speaker 2: Um, councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor son? Yes. Counselor Les? Yes. Counselor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Che? Yes. Counselor Williams? Yes. President Gu? Yes. And Chair Mcle? Yes. That's nine. Yes. Unanim,

▶ 54:59 Leila Migliorelli: That motion carries. And, um, the next up related to inspection services is the revolving account, 26 58. Um,

▶ 55:09 Leila Migliorelli: any questions from the council or do you wanna make any remarks? Um, director Tallarico before we,

▶ 55:22 Speaker 9: Um, just, I think I, as far as the revolving account, this account, um, is for a certificate of inspections. Again, I haven't had, um, enough time to kind of go through this plan right now. Um, uh, my predecessor did spend some money on copiers and some other, um, some other equipment for the, um, that's why we didn't use that total amount, but I, I do anticipate using that full amount. Um, the certificate of inspections are annual biannual inspections that are, uh, state mandated, uh, any, uh, place of assembly, any business hospitals, uh, Melrose Wakefield Hospital. Um, we need to inspect all those places. And there's obviously a fee associated with it, but, um, the program wasn't really instituted yet or fully instituted here. There's some gaps in between, um, what we should be, um, charging people and or, or notifying people. And I, I believe I need those funds to, uh, notification outreach to a lot of the, a lot of these free family homes is supposed to be inspected, um, on a biannual basis. And a lot of people aren't aware of that. And when you start sending out information on that, you get a lot of pushback. So there's gonna be a lot of phone calls, there's gonna be a lot of emails going back and forth. There's gonna be a lot of education. Um, right now we're targeting the places of assembly, uh, the large places, churches, um, restaurants, um, uh, that, you know, the, uh, hospitals, um, uh, all, all the large, uh, places. But the smaller ones, uh, we're not, we're not really, um, utilizing, uh, our staff to kind of go at, um, start that program. So I do anticipate that we're gonna use those funds.

▶ 57:22 Speaker 1: Questions from the council? Just,

▶ 57:25 Leila Migliorelli: I guess I have one question on the revolving fund balance sheet that we were provided. Um, it says the balance as of May 4th is 26,000, and the revenues are zero. So that reflects with, wait.

▶ 57:38 Speaker 1: Is that your understanding?

▶ 57:42 Speaker 9: My request is not for 26,000. It's,

▶ 57:45 Leila Migliorelli: No, it's not the request, it's the balance that's in the revolving fund. The inspection services revolving fund 26 58.

▶ 57:51 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's something Auditing can probably answer better than I can. I, I, you know, I have an allocated amount and I know that there's some transfers and balances in there that, um, that kind of seem off, but they're probably better to answer that question than I.

▶ 58:12 Speaker 1: Thank you. Um, is there any other questions or, motion by Counselor Council,

▶ 58:18 Speaker 5: I shall make a motion to Move this to the bottom line.

▶ 58:22 Speaker 3: Second.

▶ 58:23 Leila Migliorelli: Motion to Move Inspection Services revolving account 2 6 58 made by to the bottom line made by Counselor Stewart. Seconded by Counselor Car Shady. Anyone on discussion? Mr. Clerk, will you please call the roll?

▶ 58:36 Speaker 2: Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor son? Yes. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Council Gepe? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Che? Yes. Councilor Williams? Yes. President Gregs? Yes. And Chair mc? Yes. That's nine. Yes. Unanimous.

▶ 58:50 Speaker 1: That motion carries. Thank you very much. Thank you

▶ 58:52 Speaker 9: Everyone. Have a great night. Thank you. Have a

▶ 58:53 Speaker 1: Good one. Thank you. Uh,

▶ 58:56 Leila Migliorelli: I'll entertain a motion to hold appropriation 2023 dash 28 and committee. Motion to hold. Second. Second. Motion to hold made by President Greg re seconded by Counselor Eccles. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Also entertain a motion to hold Ordinance 2023 dash one in committee. So

▶ 59:17 Speaker 6: Moved. Second.

▶ 59:19 Leila Migliorelli: Counselor Williams Motions to hold. Hold. Ordinance 2023 And Committee Seconded by Counselor Ella. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Motion to adjourn. Madam Chair.