City Council — 2014-06-16

City Council Regular Meeting

Attendance

Jaclyn L. Bird present · Alderman at Large; Robert A. Boisselle present · Ward 4 Alderman; Donald L. Conn Jr. present · President, Alderman at Large; Scott M. Forbes present · Ward 7 Alderman; Gail Infurna present · Ward 5 Alderman; Jennifer L. Lemmerman present · Ward 2 Alderman; Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis present · Alderman at Large; Monica C. Medeiros present · Alderman at Large; Peter D. Mortimer absent · Ward 6 Alderman; John N. Tramontozzi present · Ward 1 Alderman; Francis X. Wright Jr. absent · Ward 3 Alderman

Agenda

Minutes

CITY OF MELROSE BOARD OF ALDERMEN BULLETIN● JUNE 16, 2014 Aldermanic Chamber Regular Meeting 7:45 PM Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Jaclyn L. Bird Alderman at Large Present Robert A. Boisselle Ward 4 Alderman Present Scott M. Forbes Ward 7 Alderman Present Gail M. Infurna Ward 5 Alderman Present Jennifer L. Lemmerman Ward 2 Alderman Present Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis Alderman at Large Present Monica C. Medeiros Alderman at Large Present Peter D. Mortimer Ward 6 Alderman Absent John N. Tramontozzi Ward 1 Alderman Present Francis X. Wright Jr. Ward 3 Alderman Absent Donald L. Conn Jr. President, Alderman at Large Present

ORDER-2014-146 Amending Revised Zoning Ordinances Amending Melrose Revised Zoning Ordinance to create a Rail Corridor Overlay District and other related zoning amendments as set forth herein. Tabled

ORDER-2014-167 Contract Reauthorization of the Inter-Municipal Health Agreement between the City of Melrose and the Town of Reading with regard to Shared Health Services Passed

ORDER-2014-168 Transfer Transfer of 35,000.00 from Workers Comp Indemnification to various accounts as set forth within Passed

ORDER-2014-124 Utility Petition Petition of National Grid for a Grant of Location to relocate pole and install guy lines from area at Woodcrest Drive along Sheffield Road in a westerly direction for approximately 120 feet. Tabled City of Melrose Page 1 Updated 7/21/2014 1:02 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen June 16, 2014

ORDER-2014-151 Appointment Appointment of Auxiliary Police Officers for a term of one year; said term to expire on the first Monday of March, 2015 Leave to Withdraw

ORDER-2014-136 Revolving Fund/Reauthorization Reauthorization of Revolving Account #2657 Waste Collection & Recycling for FY15 Passed

ORDER-2014-128 Operating Budgets (City, School, Regional School) City of Melrose Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2015 in the amount of $70,418,700.98 (Seventy Million, Four Hundred Eighteen Thousand, Seven Hundred Dollars and Ninety Eight Cents) Passed

ORDER-2014-143 Revolving Fund/Reauthorization Reauthorization of Revolving Acct # 2665 Police False Alarm for FY2015 Passed

ORDER-2014-141 Revolving Fund/Reauthorization Reauthorization of the Council on Aging Donation Revolving Account # 2811 for FY2015 Passed

ORDER-2014-147 Appropriation Appropriation in the amount of $6,500.00 From Account 29062 - 590000 (Parking Tickets) To account 019313-551049 (Capital Outlay Police Vehicles). Passed

ORDER-2014-153 Request Requesting that the City Auditor advise the Board of Aldermen in writing of the amounts certified by the Department of Revenue each year in the Water Enterprise Fund and Sewer Enterprise Fund. Passed Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2014-157 Authorization Acceptance of Melrose Common Grant from the Commonwealth of Mass., Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs; Fund #4010 Passed City of Melrose Page 2 Updated 7/21/2014 1:02 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen June 16, 2014

ORDER-2014-156 Appointment Reappointment of Mary Edwards, 43 Boston Rock Road, to a three-year term on the Council on Aging; said term to expire on the last day of February, 2017. Passed

ORDER-2014-158 Transfer Transfer of $500.00 from Election - Part-time Salaries & Wages (A/C #011621- 512000) to City Clerk-Advertising (A/C #011612-520500) Passed

ORDER-2014-165 License - Hackney License Application of Sheakh Sandhal d/b/a All Star Limousine, Inc for a Private Livery Service License (1 vehicle) at 97 Pleasant Street, #C - Melrose, MA Passed

ORDER-2014-163 Appropriation Appropriation in the amount of $48,838.00 from Water Enterprise Free Cash Account #6100-319000 to the Water Enterprise Reserve Account # 6100-330001 Passed

ORDER-2014-164 Appropriation Appropriation in the amount of $30,970.00 from Sewer Enterprise Free Cash Account #6000-319000 to the Sewer Enterprise Reserve Fund Account # 6000- 330001 Passed

ORDER-2014-162 Authorization Amend existing JRM Contract for the Curbside Collection & Transportation of Solid Waste Passed

ORDER-2014-161 Authorization DPW Surplus Property Disposal Passed

ORDER-2014-160 Amending Something Previously Adopted Request to Increase the Spending Cap of the Beebe Estate Revolving Account # 2750 for FY2014 Passed City of Melrose Page 3 Updated 7/21/2014 1:02 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen June 16, 2014

ORDER-2014-159 Transfer Transfer of $10,000.00 from various ambulance accounts to Ambulance Professional Service account (650052-529000) as set forth within Passed

ORDER-2014-108 Amending Revised Ordinances Amending Melrose Revised Ordinances, Chapter 222 – Vehicles for Hire by adding: Requirements for Livery Licenses as set forth herein. Passed as Amended City of Melrose Page 4 Updated 7/21/2014 1:02 PM

Transcript

▶ 0:00 Melrose Board of Aldermen for June 16, 2014. Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll, please? Alderman Bird. Here. Alderman Casatelli. Here. Alderman Forbes. Here. Alderman McKernan. Here. Alderman Lemmerman. Here. Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Here. Alderman Medeiros. Here. Alderman Mortimer. Here. Alderman Tramontozzi. Here. Alderman Wright. Here. President Vaughn. Here. Nine Cousins. Here. We do have a quorum before we salute the flag. Alderman Mortimer asked me to indicate that he cannot attend the meeting this evening because he is at his daughter's graduation from the Winthrop Elementary School. Very good. Could you all please join me in saluting the flag? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for

▶ 0:52 which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Yes, thank you. I have with me the minutes of the Board of Aldermen June 2nd, 2014 meeting. I would ask that this board accept these minutes without reading. So moved. Alderman Tramontozzi moves that we accept the June 2nd minutes of the Board of Aldermen meeting. Motion is seconded by Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Is there any discussion relative to the motion? All those in favor of the motion indicate by saying aye. Aye. anyone opposed motion passes at the minutes of june second meeting are hereby accepted thank you motion to open the floor for public participation second alderman medeiros moves that we commence

▶ 1:39 public participation the motion is seconded by alderman voicel on the motion all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes this is the portion of our meeting where any member of the public can come forward and speak relative to any order that is on our agenda and before i call people up to speak i would also like to indicate that our meeting is being taped by mmtv and will be rebroadcast for your viewing pleasure at periodic intervals during the coming weeks is there anybody who wishes to speak relative to any order that is on the agenda this evening my name is arnold conch 66 cram or lane melrose massachusetts i'm here to comment on one of the items in the budget involving the free tree planting program.

▶ 2:34 I'm not talking about replacement trees. Most people are, a lot of people aren't aware that any homeowner may request a tree along the, quote, tree belt in front of their house or in certain cases it can be set back on their property. When I discussed the offer of free trees with the DPW management last fall, they said that they buy 50 trees a year at $200 each, and almost all are used for requests for a free tree, not replacements. To plant the tree requires a three-man crew, a truck and a backhoe, and sometimes permits from utility companies. Except for watering, maintenance is provided for a year. The funds come from the mayor's free cash account, which comes from the general fund voted on by the aldermen.

▶ 3:26 Not surprisingly, last fall, an alderman told me of a homeowner requesting a tree to improve the view of the house and then sold it. Basically, we're talking about a taxpayer-subsidized expenditure that should not be used to enhance private property and only be used for a replacement tree. Should a homeowner desire a tree, I am sure it could be arranged at their expense. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Anybody else who wishes to come forward, please do so. Motion to close public participation. I have a, hold on, I see some movement back there. Alderman Infern is moving to close public, is somebody, oh, I saw some movement. Thank you, is this the public hearing on the? No. No, it is not.

▶ 4:18 This is public participation. Thank you, I wasn't clear when I just walked in. I'm Jerry Morose. Speaking tonight about the budget that you're considering tonight. There are a lot of good things that the city does with the money that we get from tax payers and from beyond. And the city is in good shape. There are some issues with our budget though that trouble me a little bit in the way that we fund certain things. Much of what we fund apparently, and I use the word apparently because it's impossible to look at the details of the city and what we spend money on. But apparently are funded by things that aren't quite in what I can tell coming from the tax base pay for things that ought to be funded by the tax base.

▶ 5:19 And I paid a lot of attention to the school department and where a lot of expenditures are paid there and things happen there but on the city side as well I see certain things that are payments made by people that then are applied at some level toward what I believe would be city functions and I'm going to mention a few things and the reality is I don't have the data to prove one way or the other which is I'd like to be able to understand it but but let me give you an example it's my sense from not seeing expenditures in the school side that the schools are paying for the water and sewer they use. It's not clear that those schools' water and sewer are being paid by the tax base. It feels as if the school's water and sewer costs are at some level being borne by

▶ 6:03 the rate payers of the water and sewer enterprise fund, which means then that we have people who use water and who use more water paying a disproportionately large share of their burden toward the school system even the trash fee you know that the trash fee it doesn't seem like the trash fee that we all pay in the aggregate the the $200 per year is actually all going to cover the trash itself and that there's not other expenses that are paid around that we don't know because we don't see exactly what all these what all these costs are and and those are just a couple examples i could go on about the people who use the schools the the recreation department basketball um kids and their parents who pay a huge amount of money toward using the facilities

▶ 6:58 of the school now we know that a lot of that is a profit to the school you know what they pay goes beyond what it costs for the custodians and maybe for the utilities and that type of thing and so So those funds are used to pay for more services or responsibilities of the city that shouldn't be borne by certain segments of the population based on their use of certain things. Education stations is another similar thing where we make a profit off of the parents of younger kids in Melrose, the kids who are school age or even a little bit before. And the question isn't do we want to fund all the things we fund, but the question is what's the responsible and appropriate and at some level responsible way

▶ 7:45 of funding them if our taxes that we have currently and under prop two and a half we're limited won't pay for the things that we seek to do as a city should we be more honest about what we're seeking to do and try to reign either reign that in or be more open and honest about what we need to have higher taxes to be able to pay for those functions instead for the last number of years we've we've we've applied costs of the city it feels to me as if we've applied costs of the city we've applied funds of individual people towards cost of the city and that troubles me and I and I and you know there's no other venue to come and talk about this except under a budget discussion and which is why I come here today there are a couple other issues on

▶ 8:30 another side that i do find concerning as well you know the the city charter puts the mayor on the school committee and i i pay attention to what happens with the mayor and the school committee and how it's represented that way you know the school committee even though their budget doesn't show it spends about 45 million dollars in the city money it's it'll probably be more than that this year and in the mayor as a member of that school committee has already a an opportunity to decide if they want to do something innovative with the schools when you're when you're applying 45 million dollars to something you know if they wanted to carve out 10 000 or 100 000 or 200 000 say to do something innovative that would be great the city budget that we have now though gives the

▶ 9:19 the mayor ten thousand dollars essentially to decide about what he sees as my or maybe he has some advisors of his or something to help decide what they think is innovative I have a disagreement with that what I see those funds being applied to I don't see as as innovative I'm not saying they aren't worthwhile there aren't some great things but that isn't that isn't kick-starting innovation in our schools it's not getting people to think completely differently about how we educate students how we how we construct our education system here. It's basically, historically, been about applying, you know, let's do this nice thing and this nice thing, and this is a worthwhile thing, but it's not innovation. And so it's a small amount of money, $10,000, and it almost seems ridiculous to be

▶ 10:04 bringing it up here. But philosophically, like my other side of my statement tonight, philosophically, the schools can do something innovative if they want to. The mayor can certainly has enough power in the school committee to to advocate for a reform agenda or an innovation agenda he doesn't do that there I don't know why the city gives the mayor money to do that separately another thing along that same line that comes to mind actually is the the Messina grants that we've started a couple years ago you know we've always had the shouldn't say always but for a long time we've had the Melville's Council for the Arts cultural Council and um and it's a group of people who long-standing have been

▶ 10:47 together to decide you know how to use whatever funds we have for arts for our city and to now go in and we've done the last couple years and it's on the the proposal again this year is now we're going to carve out another $10,000 to give to a separate group of people again under the mayor at some level to decide about arts and and it just feels to me that we are a bigger city than putting everything under the realm of the mayor's purview at some level about who he picks to put on a certain committee of that type of thing and and again it's troubling these these are not huge amounts of money as money goes but as principles go I believe that they do amount to a fair amount of Melrose deciding what's important to us are we being open and upfront about what we're

▶ 11:41 trying to do and what the true cost of that is or at some level do we you know I'm not going to ask the question I'm going to say the statement I believe that we hide the true cost of certain functions of the city government in schools so that it's not exposed to people to be able to make an independent assessment of quote is that amount of resources worth what the result of that function is. And you're looking at a big budget tonight, and you're probably long past the idea of looking at details. And I guess I would hope that as we go into next year, that some of these issues we start to think about, and think about more honestly about, and I shouldn't say honestly, think about more carefully about what is the true intent and what is the true

▶ 12:36 result of these little things that we do that seem innocuous but at some level they kind of go to the core of at some level undermining prop two and a half and I'm not even advocating here whether we should be raising taxes beyond prop two and a half and not I think we just should be open and upfront about it the The other, anyway, I just hope that, well, this is the other thing that actually is one last thing of concern to me, is that the budget you're apparently working off of tonight, the proposal, and I think I saw it on the website, it's dated April 24th. And I brought this up to people a month and a half ago or so that there are some anomalies in that April 24th budget. There are a lot of FY14 actual columns amounts that are higher and some are significantly higher than what the FY14 projected amount is.

▶ 13:37 And when I'm doing budgets in my realm of things, you know, I want to have that projected being as accurate as possible because that projected is what I'm really basing my decision for the next year on. And for you to still be working on that April 24th document, and this is almost two months later now, and the fact that, you know, it could be a simple mistake why those figures are so out of whack in some cases, but that that's still the public document we're working off for the budget doesn't give the public confidence that we're really looking at these numbers carefully and trying to figure it out. We hope that behind the scenes somebody has and there's just an anomaly there and nobody's figured out how to take care of that and the numbers are all transferring perfectly.

▶ 14:17 But I would rather see things from June 16th on that document or June 12th on that document to be able to make a real comparison about are the things we're budgeting for FY15 really in line with what we needed to spend in FY14 and that we have spent in FY14. Anyway, thank you for your time. Thank you, sir. Is there anybody else who wishes to address the board on public participation? Motion to close public participation. Second. Alderman Inferno moves to conclude public participation. The motion is seconded by Alderman Forbes. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Public participation is hereby concluded. Chair would entertain a two-minute recess so that we can set up for our joint public hearing with the planning board.

▶ 15:10 So moved. Second. Alderman Bird moves for recess, seconded by Alderman Inferno. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. the board is in recess for a very short time please if they have seats to take okay we are back from recess this is a joint public hearing on order 214-146 pursuant to generalize chapter 40a whenever there is a proposed zoning amendment to our zoning ordinances we are required to convene a joint public hearing with the planning board to hear from members of the public relative to the proposed zoning change madam clerk could you please call the role of the planning board planning board member michael cassavoy here here uh mr edward cassidy here here

▶ 16:05 is andy sewell's award here here mr paul king here here mr robert mccaddo here here Mr. Chairman of the Patrol, John Sadowski, Jack Walsh, and Chairwoman Collin-Rubin. I believe we have a quorum of both boards. At this point in time, we're going to commence the public hearing. We're first going to hear from representatives of the planning department who are going to explain the proposal, And then anybody who wishes to come forward and address us can come forward, and we will listen attentively to whatever you have to say. If you folks could start, please. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here tonight. My name is Denise Gaffey. I'm the Director of Planning and Community Development.

▶ 16:55 Denise Gaffey: To my left is Manisha Bhutra. Manisha is a consultant, a planner with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, MAPC. They're the regional planning agency. And we have partnered with them on this initiative. We've been working with MAPC for about the last 18 months, originally to do the visioning process for the real corridor, which culminated in the corridor with the real corridor plan, and most recently to work on this zoning initiative, which is one of the primary recommendations from the plan. So we're really pleased to have MAPC's participation this evening. And there's a lot of information here. know when i sent the order down there's a cover letter and the the ordinance itself and several

▶ 17:43 Denise Gaffey: other attachments so i'm going to attempt to outline these these different documents and i have a few slides to go through but i thought first it would be very useful to read aloud the cover letter that the planning board sent to the um the alderman and the mayor to initiate this zoning amendment um for the benefit particularly of the public and um who are watching from home and who are present this evening so they can understand a little bit of the background and the the process that sort of went into this so if you can just indulge me i will read this letter first it's about two pages and it's dated may 14 2014 date and it's sent to the mayor mayor don't honorable mayor dolan and honorable board of alderman to his honor and the members of the

▶ 18:30 Denise Gaffey: board at its regular meeting on april 28th 2014 the planning board voted to submit the attached zoning ordinance amendment to the board of alderman this zoning proposal involves the creation of a real corridor overlay district which provides opportunities for residential commercial and mixed-use developments in the tremont essex street neighborhood area it represents the culmination of approximately a year and a half long effort by the office of planning and community development and the metropolitan area planning council to determine a vision for the bb1 zoning districts along tremont and essex street as well as to develop zoning regulations which maintain the ease of access and walkability in the area while

▶ 19:15 Denise Gaffey: improving infrastructure and encouraging redevelopment that is sensitive to the surrounding neighborhood this zoning initiative stems from the commuter rail corridor plan for the area which was developed by MAPC in October 2013 the corridor plan was created as part of a public process which included two well attended public meetings with residents business owners and property owners to outline a vision for the Tremont Essex Street neighborhood area the commuter real corridor plan includes recommendations regarding land use and zoning transportation and public realm improvements the recommended zoning amendments in the plan are intended to help capitalize on the opportunities and overcome the impediments of the

▶ 19:55 Denise Gaffey: corridor in order to stimulate investment in the area following the creation of the corridor plan the Planning Board zoning subcommittee met weekly beginning in January of 2014 to draft zoning amendments for the area as recommended in the plan as part of this process the zoning subcommittee held a community meeting to gather feedback from residents about the proposed zoning amendment for the area this meeting confirmed that the zoning subcommittee and neighborhood residents share a common vision for the area a mix of residential and commercial office developments which are built on a pedestrian scale take advantage of neighborhood and the city at large for the past four months the zoning subcommittee has been working to draft a

▶ 20:35 Denise Gaffey: zoning amendment that promotes this vision the draft zoning proposal was favorably received at the community meeting and forwarded to the full planning board for review after further discussion and revision the full planning board voted unanimously to submit the proposed amendment to the Board of Aldermen for passage. The resulting zoning proposal, referred to as the Real Corridor Overlay District, is structured as an overlay district and will function the same way the Smart Growth Overlay District in the lower Washington Street area functions. This means that in the BB-1 zoning district along Tremont and Essex Street, a property owner can choose to develop according to the rules and regulations of the underlying BB-1 zoning district or

▶ 21:17 Denise Gaffey: the proposed real corridor overlay the smart growth district zoning language was used as the basis for creating the real corridor overlay regulations as the city has seen very successful projects permitted and created in the lower washington street area as a result of this zoning after extensive consideration the overlay zoning approach was chosen again because it provides for strong design and dimensional standards for new developments while ensuring that the existing businesses in the tremont and essex street area are not made non-conforming the density and dimensional standards of the real corridor overlay are roughly equivalent to the urc standards but adjusted to allow for a slightly higher density and dimensional setbacks that

▶ 21:56 Denise Gaffey: would allow for structures to be located closer to the streetscape the real corridor overlay also includes an extensive list of design standards in order to promote high quality design and create a pedestrian friendly environment in this area where all properties are located within walking distance to either Cedar Park or Highlands commuter rail stations. In addition to creating a new section of the zoning ordinance to accommodate the Real Corridor Overlay District, this initiative involves amending Section 235-5, definitions, Sections 235-6, which is the establishment of districts, Section 235-7, the zoning map, and Sections 235-71.1, which is the Smart Growth District. Section 235-5 is amended to add new definitions for assisted living facilities and substance

▶ 22:44 Denise Gaffey: abuse treatment centers to the zoning ordinance. Those definitions don't currently exist, those uses. Section 235-6 is amended to create the new rail corridor overlay district. Section 235-7 amends the zoning map to display the rail corridor overlay boundaries. The new designation applies only to the properties located in the BB-1 zoning districts along Tremont and Essex streets. And Section 235-71.1 amends certain provisions in the existing Smart Growth District. As you know, site plan review has become a very important tool, allowing the Planning Board to guide development to be compatible with the character of existing development in Melrose and to limit the negative effects or impacts of new development on the community.

▶ 23:27 Denise Gaffey: With the experience of a few site plan review applications in the Smart Growth District behind us, The Planning Board has come to recognize a few areas of the existing Smart Growth District regulations that can be improved to encourage the types of uses and development desired for the lower Washington Street area. In particular, the Board feels that prohibiting banks, financial institutions, and substance abuse treatment center uses from this area will be beneficial. Several additional modifications to the Smart Growth District overlay are recommended as well as noted in the material submitted in which I'll describe a little further later this evening. Essentially, that is the bulk of the letter.

▶ 24:06 Denise Gaffey: It concludes by attaching three documents. And I think I'll just show those documents. In addition to the cover letter, it's the 15-page overlay language. This is the text of the overlay. And there's also a summary sheet, which is two pages. and the lower Washington Street Smart Growth District overlay, which is modified in a track changes mode. So you can very easily see what we're recommending to modify as part of this process. And finally, we also attached, at a later date, a map for everyone's information. And all of this information is up on the city's website today for anyone in the public who wishes to read it further. And finally, the letter just concludes by, we usually do just by outlining the process describing the um the regulations for uh um for

▶ 25:04 approving zoning which requires that the board of alderman wait at least 21 days from the date of the public hearing for the planning board to report back and um we recognize with this zoning in particular that this is really just the the first conversation that we'll have with on this we're really eager to hear your feedback to hear the feedback from the public and we look forward to coming back at a later date and in talking about it in further detail so with that i thought i would just launch into a couple of slides if i can get this to work great great so um just by way of overview i i'm actually just going to quickly go through the first couple of slides because we really already talked about the background here the the commuter rail corridor plan upon which

▶ 26:00 Denise Gaffey: this whole process as based and the plan identifies as as i mentioned earlier recommendations for land use zoning transportation and public realm improvements there's a market study analysis that was done initiated by mapc as part of that process which has some interesting information about what we believe the market demand is for new development along the corridor and we also discuss and break down the the comments that were received by the community in the two neighborhood meetings that we had. And I would encourage everyone to take a look at the document if they haven't had a chance to do it. It's on the website. You can reach it through MAPC's website at MAPC.org-slash-MLROS-TOD, T-O-D stands for

▶ 26:46 Denise Gaffey: Transit Oriented Development. And then, again, this next slide is just outlining what the major recommendations from that study, which were the land use and zoning recommendations, transportation, and public realm. And of course, as I mentioned, the planning staff and the planning board have been working on the zoning amendment recommendations since January. And that's what we're here to talk about tonight. And on this slide, I'm just identifying the major proposal, which is the recommendation for the creation of a new section in the zoning ordinance. This section would be numbered 235-71.2. So that would fall right behind 71.1, which is the Smart Growth District overlay for the lower Washington Street area.

▶ 27:30 Denise Gaffey: And this would be a new overlay for the real corridor overlay district. And on the right of that slide is a map that outlines the corridor. It's a little hard, I know, to see on this small slide. slide but it essentially runs from along the real corridor from Melrose Street self skips over the BC which is the Cedar Park neighborhood commercial area and then continues on Essex Street essentially to where the station landing property is on on Foster and loops back on Willow Street and that is again as As was mentioned, the underlying zoning is the BB1 zoning and we would keep that zoning intact and overlay these additional, the reason it's called an overlay is it allows for additional uses through this overlay tool and for property owners.

▶ 28:35 Denise Gaffey: So the goals, again, of the proposed rezoning is to help capitalize on the opportunities and overcome the impediments of the corridor, stimulate investment in the area via implementation of the recommendations in the plan and offer zoning that will enable desired development where there is a market for that. And while I showed you, I just want to loop back for a second here, while I showed you the boundaries, I will point out that in the text of the zoning itself, all the parcels are identified. So the map and parcel numbers for all of the parcels, there's about 40 of them, are identified and articulated in the zoning, so it's very clear which parcels are in the zoning overlay and which parcels are outside of the overlay.

▶ 29:21 Denise Gaffey: So now I'm going to get into some of the sort of detailed proposals. And it is, as I mentioned, a 15-page document, so I'm not going to go through it line by line, but I'm going to attempt to just hit the highlights. And the first slide here is the purpose section, and this is our attempt to sort of outline and articulate what we think a real corridor overlay project should look like and what distinguishes that from another project in Melrose. But the purpose of the overlay district is to promote economic development and neighborhood revitalization through the redevelopment of underutilized structures in sites, to provide housing options which are sufficient to meet the needs of households at varying income

▶ 30:07 Denise Gaffey: levels in different stages of life, to promote high-quality, sustainable design that reinforces and enhances neighborhood identity, to create a pedestrian-friendly environment that promotes walking, bicycling, transit use, and encourages reduced vehicle ownership, and finally to promote a mix of compatible uses. And these are very similar purposes in our Smart Growth Overlay District as well. And the definitions and applicability slide, this is essentially just outlining that a rail corridor overlay district project has to comply with all sections of the zoning, again Section 235-71.2. Requirements of the underlying zoning district are modified only for rail corridor projects. And finally, any requirements in the zoning ordinance not specifically modified in this

▶ 31:06 Denise Gaffey: section remain in effect for real corridor projects, and real corridor projects are subject to site plan review, and I think that's a really important piece of this. This is also, again, this is the same process that we use with the Smart Growth District overlay. These are projects that if they meet all of the dimensional criteria and they're in allowed use, they become permitted uses, but they nonetheless still have to go through a rigorous process in front of the planning board. Our site plan review process, for those who are familiar with it, is quite rigorous, and we have very strong standards and criteria in our zoning ordinance, and we think it's worked really well to try to help manage development, manage maybe any of the negative impacts that

▶ 31:52 Denise Gaffey: might be related to a development project to sort of understand those in advance and control for them and have very strict and rigid architectural design standards that we think, as evidenced by the projects in the lower Washington Street area, have served the community really well. And this is just, this slide is simply a slide of the zoning, this is the, obviously the city, the entire city of Melrose, and you can't see it very well, but it breaks the city down into the different zoning districts, and I'm afraid you can't, really can't see very well but there is the corridor right here that we're talking about the other thing i like about this slide although you can't read it quite well on the screen is it has all of the

▶ 32:39 Denise Gaffey: dimensional criteria for the different zoning districts here which is useful to refer to and so establishment of the real quarter overlay district and i know that some of this may sound a little bit redundant but this is this is language in the ordinate the um in the proposed amendment that just establishes the rail corridor the rail corridor is an overlay district that applies to land in the bb1 district along essence hermont street east of the railroad tracks and again all of the parcels are identified in the zoning permitted uses this is a pretty important slide these are the uses that the subcommittee and spent a lot of time talking about and thinking about whether these would be appropriate uses of these are the kind of uses that we want to

▶ 33:25 Denise Gaffey: encourage we've deliberately excluded certain uses which we can talk about and we've presented this in our neighborhood meeting to the community in order to get some feedback and and and receive positive feedback for for this I'll read through the list the permitted uses in the corridor would be multifamily residential townhouse in apartments retail uses personal and consumer services sort of like your dry cleaners and your tailors retail food establishments actually that's not on the slide but that's the retail food establishment is the the was the is the use that was created a few years ago by the by the alderman for allow for retail food stores that allow for the sale of beer and wine professional and business office like architects and engineers

▶ 34:15 Denise Gaffey: that kind of thing insurance companies veterinary hospitals that's a use it's actually not allowed we don't think anywhere in Melrose and we thought it would be there there are some some examples of that use already in that corridor and we think it's a it's a good news restaurants and coffee shops we'd love to encourage that artists studios assisted living that's another use that's currently not allowed well it's not a use that's articulated in our zoning ordinance so we create a definition for the use and we think the corridor would be a great location for an assisted living type proposal. And finally, mixed residential and business uses, mixed uses. And these are some of the dimensional and density regulations, which I will walk through.

▶ 35:02 Denise Gaffey: And before I do that, I just want to flip back for a second. A couple of uses we decided not to include. We specifically decided not to include banks and financial institutions in the corridor. We thought there were banks, there were plenty of opportunities for banks and financial uses in other areas of Melrose. We specifically prohibit drive-throughs of any kind in the corridor. And we also drive-throughs, any type of business that has a drive-through component is prohibited. And substance abuse treatment centers is another use that we prohibit in the corridor. dimensional and density regulations so again kind of going back to well a couple of things the the interesting thing about this quarter is it's it's

▶ 35:57 Denise Gaffey: not quite well used well the smart growth district dimensional criteria was very helpful for us as a starting point what we recognize pretty quickly is the quarter itself looks very different the parcels are much smaller they're longer and shallower, and they have a different profile. So we really had to sort of step back, and we couldn't just simply apply the dimensional criteria that works so well in the Smart Growth District. We really had to think. We had to look very closely at what we had to work with and then develop criteria that we thought made the most sense. And so the minimum lot area, for example, is only 10,000 square feet, and that actually Normally that's because there are many of the parcels are about that size.

▶ 36:45 Denise Gaffey: There are actually quite a few parcels that are smaller than that. And we recognize that there will need to be some consolidation of parcels in the future in order for redevelopment to occur throughout the corridor. There are some parcels that could be redeveloped today under this criteria, but other parcels will need to be consolidated in order to get to that size. the 10,000 seemed like a comfortable minimum lot area frontage minimum frontage is 50 feet minimum lot depth is 90 feet again that's sort of an acknowledgement of the existing lot depths which are about they're there anywhere from 90 to greater than that but they're not usually less than 90 and 90 is a pretty pretty comfortable distance minimum front yard we actually

▶ 37:33 Denise Gaffey: have something interesting here we have a minimum front yard in a maximum front yard and we spend an awful lot of time as a subcommittee talking about what these dimensions should be and we came up with 10 feet for the minimum and 15 feet for the maximum and so the reason for that is we really want to try to encourage the structures to be closer to the street we want to try to create a sense of place and try to enliven the streetscape and help to fill in some of the gaps that might exist along the corridor today by sort of having a more um you know conforming and consistent streetscape and so um that's that was our thinking with the the 10 feet minimum and the 15 feet maximum there's a minimum side yard setback of five feet we have a provision here

▶ 38:19 Denise Gaffey: that makes an exception if the parcel abuts a urb zone which is a residential zone there are only I think two parcels like that in this corridor, but there are a couple of parcels that are adjacent not to commercial, not to a commercial district, but to a residential district. They're the parcels along Union Street in the corridor. And so we thought if there was some redevelopment to occur there, that there should be a more generous setback to those parcels. And minimum rear yard of 10 feet, and again, 15 feet would be for the URB zone, and 5 feet for a corner lot. And the reason the corner lot is different is in Melrose, if you're a corner lot, you have two fronts and two rears. You don't have a side.

▶ 39:04 Denise Gaffey: We talked about the maximum front yard, although there is a provision that allows for a slightly more generous setback on the front yard, as long as there is a courtyard area or some kind of seating area, so an area for the public to enjoy. And the residential density is very similar, as I had said before, to the URC's density. And we're sort of looking at the URC, which is one of the closer residential districts to this corridor as a guideline for the density. The URC is a sort of density that I think the community is pretty comfortable with. We've had a couple of projects like Station Landing and 185 Essex Street that kind of conform to that density. So that's where the 35 units per acre kind of fit into that model.

▶ 39:55 Denise Gaffey: Maximum floor area of 1.5, 10% open space and that may not seem like a lot of open space but it's sort of an acknowledgment that there's a lot of open space already in the corridor. There's actually one of the beauties of the corridor is that there's an abundance of parkland and recreation land along it, and we thought the 10% would be adequate. And finally, there's the maximum height. So the four stories and 50 feet is the maximum height, although we allow for a fifth story and up to 62 feet under certain provisions, and that, again, is kind of an acknowledgment that we have parcels here that are a little bit more modest in size and we need to be little bit more creative about about the allowance for density and however that

▶ 40:45 Denise Gaffey: said if if a part if a development proposal is to to go to that height to exceed the four stories and go to the fifth story it can only be done under a step back provision so the that fifth story has to be stepped back about 20 feet and and that's to sort of minimize any of the visual impact from that additional height the other the other thing that's required is a public amenity associated with that additional height the granting of the additional height there's a requirement to sort of give back in terms of a courtyard or sitting area and there's more more details in the language of the ordinance and how that's going to work but for the purposes of the presentation that's that's essentially what the what the intent is and parking is the next slide

▶ 41:36 Denise Gaffey: we are attempting here to really take advantage of the fact this is this is a transit oriented area and as we talked about a lot as we talked about a lot in the vision study in the planning document that was done we really we we are blessed by having close proximity both to Cedar commuter rail station the Highlands commuter rail station downtown lots of bus service and even Oak Grove mass transit which isn't that far away so we think given the the close proximity to transit that we can be a little bit more liberal about the parking standards so what we're recommending is one space per dwelling unit and one space one visitor space per every ten residential units for residential use for office retail and other uses the requirement would be one

▶ 42:28 Denise Gaffey: space per 500 square feet gross floor area and for assisted living which is a little bit different we had to sort of educate ourselves about the assisted living use and what their needs and requirements are and we did a lot of research in other communities and talked to other planners and other communities about what they what they think reasonable parking standard is and came up with the standard of one space per four dwelling units plus one space per employee on the largest shift so we know all the employees are going to be have their own parking we're really you know we we are concerned we don't want to have create a parking problem with projects and have spillover parking into the neighborhoods and we but we think there's an opportunity here so the four

▶ 43:16 Denise Gaffey: dwelling one preferred dwelling units in one space per employee should allow for sufficient parking again understanding with the assisted living use that many of the the residents in development like that do not have cars do not have access to cars but they do have visitors so we want to be sure to accommodate that and there's regulations regarding off-street parking setbacks i'll just quickly read through these from a public street the setback for parking is 20 feet and we're trying to just we would like to try to create a create place spaces and places that don't look like parking lots so that's why the setback for the parking from an internal way five feet from a structure five feet from a side or rear lot line where a budding property is also within the overlay

▶ 44:10 Denise Gaffey: district it's five feet from a lot line abutting the railroad right-of-way five feet and from any other side or real lot line it's 10 feet bicycle parking we are this proposal would require parking bicycle space of one space per five dwelling units for residential uses one space per five vehicle parking spaces for the assisted living facility use and for all other uses one space per 1,000 square foot gross floor area and we think these are pretty pretty high standards for parking we don't really have anything quite like it in our zoning it's probably even a little more aggressive than our smart growth district zoning we think but we think it's appropriate again we're trying to encourage the use of alternative means

▶ 45:01 Denise Gaffey: of transportation and we think by requiring bicycle parking that's going to help to attract people to these developments that are have that mindset and open space in streetscape enhancements we already talked about the the requirement for 10% open space we have also setting up a requirement in here that rail corridor overlay projects will contribute to the city's streetscape improvement fund it's just it's being this is it this would be a new fund this is a little different than the smart growth district which whereby we created an open space fund and thought that that made sense that to contribute to open space and recreation needs in the community in this case since we're spending a lot of time talking about this particular corridor

▶ 45:54 Denise Gaffey: and the need for streetscape improvements and the fact that there are a lot of needs in the in the term on Street corridor for revitalization we thought it made sense for the fund to contribute specifically and directly to a streetscape improvement fund so the zoning would create this fund developments would need to contribute $1,100 per dwelling unit for the for residential units uses and $1 per square foot for all other uses and design standards probably five or six pages alone of this ordinance goes into all the design standards so I'm not gonna go through that all tonight I'm just gonna we've got a couple of bullets here just to identify the different design standards and they're very actually very similar to the design standards that we

▶ 46:40 Denise Gaffey: use for the smart growth district and we think again that that's been really successful so there's standards regarding building design architecture and materials things of that nature landscaping general site design parking standards site lighting standards infrastructure and signage and affordable housing any project any development in the real quarter overlay district just like the smart growth district or really any other project in mellows would would be required to contribute to the affordable housing program which is essentially 10% of residential use for residential projects 10% of the units are required to be affordable and those units would count on the on our affordable housing inventory and this provision is also in our smart growth

▶ 47:39 Denise Gaffey: district provision and a it's about owning ownership and maintenance of common facilities internal streets ways and parking areas she'll be privately owned and maintain maintenance shall remain the responsibility of the owner real quarter projects with dwelling units for sale she'll have a residential residential residents association in order to ensure proper maintenance of common open space and facilities. And phasing, development phasing. We have this provision in the Smart Growth District also that for some projects, certainly for larger size projects, maybe this won't apply as much in the real corridor as it does in the Smart Growth District corridor, but we do at least want to plan for the possibility

▶ 48:20 Denise Gaffey: that projects may be phased and we do allow for that. Rail corridor project may be developed in phases and the phasing shall be specified and outlined in the site plan approval. So it has to be part of that original permitting approval. Lot area coverage, open space, affordable housing, off-street parking, required mitigation shall correspond with the sequence of development such that during each phase of a rail corridor project these requirements are met. And finally, this slide is just articulating what I had read in the cover letter that we're also amending a couple of other sections of the zoning ordinance. Just to be clear, while we create this overlay district, we also need to amend a couple of

▶ 49:07 Denise Gaffey: other provisions. For example, Section 235-5, which is the definition section of the ordinance. So we have created a definition for assisted living facilities. have created a definition for substance abuse treatment centers and if that's approved by the alderman those definitions will then get incorporated into our zoning and I didn't I didn't create a slide for them but there is those definitions are outlined in that two-page handout the summary handout amend section 235-6 again that's just this is sort of a housekeeping thing just to say that we're creating the district amend 235-7 to display the boundaries just to make it clear on that and we'll make it clear on the zoning map we'll probably outline the boundaries in a dark print and then

▶ 49:56 Denise Gaffey: finally amend section 235 dash 71.1 to modify certain provisions in the existing smart growth district and again as I mentioned is a sort of mentioned in the cover letter we recognize as part of this process that there were some sort of new ways of looking at things or innovative techniques that we hadn't been thinking about when we created the Smart Growth District or just some new uses that we wanted to include or exclude that we hadn't originally thought about with the Smart Growth District. So we thought it made sense to use this process to also make those changes. example we are suggesting modifying the permitted uses to exclude banks and financial institutions in the smart growth district much like the real

▶ 50:46 Denise Gaffey: quarter also to exclude substance abuse treatment centers as we're proposing for the real quarter and also to a lot but to allow for retail food establishments which wasn't a use when we created the smart growth district several years ago so those are the changes in in that particular section there's also a couple of modifications that were changed for some language changes allowing for some shared parking provision and this is language that when we presented the zoning to the public in our neighborhood meeting two months ago we got some great feedback from residents actually about shared parking and trying to encourage unique and innovative ways of creating parking so we got some we actually had

▶ 51:30 Denise Gaffey: some nice language contributed by one of the members that we we tweaked and incorporated into the zoning and we think it makes sense to put it incorporated into the smart growth district zoning also there's a provision that we've tweaked about sustainable design that we that we've recommended there's also some more we tightened up the language about screening the parking and screening loading areas. And we also tighten up the language in the signage piece to prohibit signage above the first floor. So, again, these are now provisions in the real corridor overlay that we think should also apply to the Smart Growth, so we recommend those modifications. And that is all illustrated in the document that's 18 pages, and it says, Lower Washington

▶ 52:20 street industrial zone and it's done in track changes so you can pretty easily go and see exactly what we're recommending modifying I think that's it that's it for my overview and really look forward to hearing hearing your comments hearing from the public and continuing this dialogue thank you very much if you ladies could step back for a moment so we could see whether there other individuals who wish to speak during the public hearing is there anybody in the audience who wishes to speak about the proposed zoning change and actually before I call anyone forward people who are watching at home should understand that no vote is going to be taken this evening this is the introduction to these zoning changes to the Board of Aldermen as miss Gaffey

▶ 53:08 said this matter will be referred back to the Planning Board which will make a formal report to us and the Alderman will discuss this at future meetings is anybody in the audience who wishes to speak relative to the uh matter that's before the public hearing it does not appear to be anybody else who wishes to speak chair would entertain a motion to conclude the public hearing so moved second we have a motion by alderman mccarty margolis seconded by alderman Boisselle to close the public hearing all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes the public hearing is hereby concluded the chair would entertain a a motion for a short recess moves to recess motion seconded by Alderman Forbes on the motion all those in favor anyone opposed what stands in recess filled the back to this seat

▶ 54:07 please up time for the board thank you hey thank you for approaching here okay we're going to reconvene the board of aldermen and continue on with our alderman's meeting for this evening With respect to Order 214.146, the Chair would entertain a motion to retain that order on the table. So moved. Second. Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves to table that order. Motion is seconded by Alderman Boisselle. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? That order shall be laid on the table. Order 2014-167, reauthorization of the inter-municipal health agreement between the City of Melrose and the Town of Redding with regard to shared health services. Alvin Boisselle. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to request immediate consideration for Order 2014-167.

▶ 55:20 Alvin Boisselle requests immediate consideration of the order. Is there an objection to immediate consideration? There does not appear to be. Very good. like to request the suspension of the rules so we can have the health director come up and explain the order alderman Boisselle moves to suspend the rules relative to this order on the second by alderman inferno on the motion all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes the rules are suspended ms clay do you want to explain this order for us please sure um as you're aware we We have an inter-municipal agreement with the Town of Wakefield and the Town of Redding for health department services. The current agreement with the Town of Redding expires on June 30th.

▶ 56:08 The Board of Selectmen in Redding passed approving a one-year extension of the agreement last week, which is why there was the delay in it being on your agenda until your last meeting. Normally, it would have been earlier, so it could have gone through the committee process. I was on vacation, so I wasn't at the meeting. My understanding is the reason they're only doing a one-year extension rather than a three-year commitment is that they have a number of new members of the Board of Selectmen who are reexamining how they do business and want to take the time to – they're looking at every department there. and didn't feel like they wanted to commit to three years while they were in the process of

▶ 56:58 doing their reviews other than the term of years there are no substantive changes to the agreement there's no other changes to the agreement it's exactly the same okay questions for ms clay motion for passage second alderman voyzel moves for passage of order 214-167 the motion is seconded by alderman inferna on the madam clerk could you call the roll please yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes that order for two passes thank you miss clay order 2014 dash 168 transfer of $35,000 from workers comp indemnification to various accounts is set forth within Alderman Inferno thank you mr. chairman I asked for immediate consideration of this order Alderman Inferno requests immediate consideration of 214 168 is there an objection to immediate

▶ 58:12 consideration there appears not to be motion to suspend the rule so we can hear from mr. Paisel second regarding this order Alderman Inferno moves to suspend all applicable rules relative to this order the motion is seconded by alderman forbes on the motion all those in favor aye anyone opposed motion passes the rules are suspended the order is before you good evening thank you uh the uh the order before you there are two items in here that i'm speaking to the info telephone line request and the department equipment office supplies request the office supplies request is for basically to fund a shortfall related mostly to paper and toner supplies for the City City Hall general government side of the ledger and the information technology telephone

▶ 59:11 expenditure is for large part due to a consolidation of how we provide internet services in the city in a consolidation of that between city and school for some increased efficiency so that request is to to fund that shortfall in that line item as well mr. chairman I'm sorry could you just repeat the end of that please mr. pesos the consolidation of it's the noise in the hall was sorry so typically in the past we had internet service provided at the schools from schools internet service provided separately from City Hall we've consolidated those two and they you know the way the the the billing works it comes over to the to the city side so this is to fund that uh internet service on the school side thank you

▶ 1:00:04 do we have any questions for mr pesos relative to these items apparently not motion to recommend motion for passage actually second alderman inferno moves for passage of the order the motion is seconded by alderman mccarty margolis is the discussion on the motion and clerk could you call the roll please yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes the order passes thank you gentlemen thank you thank you very much good night tabled order number 2014-124 petition of national grid for a grant of location to relocate pole and install guy lines from area at woodcrust drive along sheffield road in a westerly direction for approximately 120 feet this order has been languishing on the table since our last meeting

▶ 1:01:23 alderman inferno do we have any further update regarding the work we have to take some action with the order first before we can get into the motion to remove the order from the table seconds inferno moves to remove the order from the table the motion is seconded by alderman forbes on the motion all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes um alderman inferno we do have a communication that came out today from andrew street who indicates that all of the items have been addressed relative to the conditions to the grant of location with the exception of the requested tree trim work has not been performed national grid has informed the engineering division that the work is scheduled for tuesday june 17th 2014. so that is our update

▶ 1:02:12 Monica C. Medeiros: from the engineering department thank you parliament maderos i apologize as my computer thing here has crashed for the second time tonight is that part of our order requirements yeah is it in the system yesterday not only to yeah it was a letter yes yeah i haven't seen it this did come out come out today it was issued today by mr street i'd like to see that that be added if it's not already to the order for the record yep that can certainly be done you have the floor oh No, just lamenting on the failures of these machines. Alvin Boisselle. I'd like to make a motion to put this back on the table until we get final clearance from the engineering department that the tree trimming has been completed.

▶ 1:03:08 We've been in a number of situations that these companies have promised to do things. And two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, a year later, nothing has been done. So at this point, I just propose to put this back on the table. Second. Alderman Boisselle moves to return the order to the table. The motion is seconded by Alderman Inferna. Motion to table is non-debatable. All those in favor of tabling the order indicate by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion returns to the table. We have any orders out of order this evening? Are there any orders from committee? Mr. President, from the Appropriations Committee, order number 2014-128, after weeks of review and deliberations and debate, hearing from department heads,

▶ 1:04:12 John N. Tramontozzi: the schools, and all the department chairmen, I believe this is now ready for a vote by this board, and that is order 2014-128, City of Melrose operating budget fiscal year 2015 in the amount of seventy million four hundred eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars and ninety-eight cents I ask that that be removed from the Appropriations Committee all the chairman Tosi moves to remove order 214 128 which is the city budget order from committee seconded by Alden bird on the motion all those in favor aye anyone opposed motion passes the orders before you I move for passage of the motion I'll strike that passage of the order 2014-128 as move the bottom line of 70 million four hundred eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars and ninety-eight

▶ 1:05:02 cents alderman chairman toes he moves that the board accept the bottom line of two seventy million four hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred in dollars in eighty nine cents ninety so 98 cents second motion is seconded by alderman mcateer margolis on the motion is there any discussion all those in favor of the motion indicate by saying aye aye anyone opposed the order is now before you chair would entertain a motion from members of the board we should move the bottom line no alderman mcateer margolis is moving for passage of the order second second second by alderman byrd is there any discussion on the motion alderman medeiros thank you i know a lot of time and effort has been put into this order from our committee

▶ 1:06:02 Monica C. Medeiros: from the administration and department heads and so on and i will be supporting that tonight there are a few things that i i hope that as we move forward throughout this year that we keep an eye on i was a little bit distressed that for the second year in a row we're using free cash to sort of balance this budget for the the school department and i hope that's not exactly our role but I know we're doing as much as we possibly can to assist the schools even like this evening when we are consolidating the internet service that there's been a lot of questions that have come up and come to my attention about how we're handling the so I'd grants which I know President Khan spoke at length about at our recent meeting and that those really are expenditures

▶ 1:07:11 of our tax dollars and so I hope we keep an eye towards that and hope that there's proper public input and openness to the discussions from the groups that are administering those funds and making those allocate allocations on our behalf thank you up anyone else on the motion that's before the board could you call the roll please yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes that order passes are there any other orders from committee this evening mr. chairman point of order order two zero one four one five one I believe that was withdrawn but do we need to address that that order has not been finally acted upon what it can't be withdrawn by the executive it has to be acted on by the board so I would has has

▶ 1:08:28 it been in committee it has been in committee yes somebody legal and legislative right chairman right is not here this evening so there's been an indication from the mayor that he wishes not to proceed with this order it's awaiting some final action by the board of all the so I move that we would that we remove this order from committee Alderman McAteer-Margolis removes that We will remove Order 214-151 from committee. The motion is seconded by Alderman Byrd. Any discussion relative to the motion to remove the order from committee? On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. The order is removed from committee and is before you for discussion. Motion to table or motion to withdraw?

▶ 1:09:24 Monica C. Medeiros: Whatever you believe to be the appropriate motion, Alderman. my understanding is the administration does not wish to go forward motion to withdraw Alderman McAteer-Margolis is moving to give this order leave to withdraw the motion is seconded by Alderman Byrd is there discussion on this order or the motion Alderman Medeiros thank you I know that they've been working for some time and I hope we come to a resolution as a city with this matter rather quickly because I know there are several members of the Miller's auxilary who have been acting and training and meeting for some time and I do hope that that there's a resolution to this thank you anything further on the motion all those in favor of giving the order leave to withdraw indicate by saying aye anyone opposed

▶ 1:10:22 motion passes the order will be given leave to withdraw are there any other orders from committee this evening would you call the calendar please order 2014-136 reauthorization of revolving account number 2657 waste collection and recycling for fiscal year 15. this order was recommended by the appropriations committee motion for passage second alderman chairman tozy moves for passage the motion is seconded by alderman forbes is there any discussion relative to order two fourteen one three six could you call the roll please yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes that order passes order 2014-143 reauthorization of revolving account number 2665 police false alarm for fiscal year 2015 appropriations committee recommended that

▶ 1:11:39 this ought to be passed for passage alderman bird moves the passage of the order second seconded by alderman chairman tozy is there any discussion relative to this order and clerk would you call the roll please yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes what a two fourteen one four three passes order 2014-141 reauthorization of the council on aging donation revolving account number 2811 for fiscal year 2015. this order also comes from committee recommended for passage motion for passage second bird moves for passage of this order seconded by alderman mcintyre margolis is their discussion relative to order 214-141 could you call the roll yes Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. That order passes as well.

▶ 1:13:00 Order 2014-147, appropriation in the amount of $6,500 from account 29062-59000, parking tickets, to account 019313-551049, capital outlay, police vehicles. Finance Committee voted to recommend this order. Motion for passage. Alderman Medeiros moves for passage of the order. Second. Second by Alderman Tramontozzi. is there discussion on the motion could you call the role please yes yes yes that order passes order 2014-153 requesting that the city auditor advise the board of alderman in writing of the amounts certified by the department of revenue each year and the water enterprise fund and sewer enterprise fund appropriations committee recommended that this ought to be passed motion for passage second alderman bird moves for passage of the order

▶ 1:14:17 the motion is seconded by alderman medeiros is there any discussion relative to this order all those in favor of passage of the order please indicate by saying aye aye anyone opposed that order passes order 2014-157 acceptance of melrose common grant from the commonwealth of massachusetts executive office of energy and environmental affairs fund number 4010. this order comes from the appropriations committee with a recommendation for passage motion for passage second alderman mcatear margolis moves for passage the motion is seconded by alderman forbes any discussion on the motion i'll make jamar goals just to um comment that i think this is another example of our um our resources really being used

▶ 1:15:09 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: effectively with the planning department they applied for and received a two hundred thousand dollar grant in order to redo our common and they're matching that money with fifty thousand that's coming from the open space fund from the development from the smart growth district so i think that's particularly appropriate tonight when we were talking about the new overlay district to see the things that we're able to do by changing our zoning and and really planning effectively and very grateful for the wonderful staff that we have that's able to put these things together and i'm sure it's going to be a fabulous project up there at the common so i'm happy to support it thank you anyone else could you call the roll please yes yes yes yes

▶ 1:16:07 yes yes yes yes that order passes order 2014 dash 156 reappointment of Mary edwards 43 boston rock road to a three-year term on the council on aging said term to expire on the last day of february 2017. ms edwards reappointment was recommended by the hew committee motion for passage second alderman inferno moves passage of order 214-156 the motion is seconded by alderman boyce l on the motion all those in favor on discussion alderman inferno i just want to stay because i did misspeak at um our committee meeting saying that with the library that she is an active member of the Council on Aging I know she's done a lot of work down there and she really enjoys working with the seniors down there and helping them

▶ 1:16:58 out so I apologize for the library mistake but she's active with the library too thank you on the motion all those in favor anyone opposed that order passes order 2014 dash 158 transfer of $500 from election part-time salaries and wages account number zero one one six two one dash five one two zero zero zero to city clerk advertising account number zero one six one two dash five two zero five zero zero this order was recommended for passage by the finance committee motion passage second problem verb moves for passage seconded by alderman forbes is there any discussion on the motion I'll shake it you call the roll please yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes that motion passes what a 2014 dash 165 application of Sheik Sandell doing

▶ 1:18:08 business as all-star limousine incorporated for a private livery service license for one vehicle at 97 Pleasant Street number C Melrose Mass protection and license voted to recommend approval of this license motion for passage second Alderman Medeiros moves for passage the motion is seconded by Alderman Boycelle is there any discussion all those in favor indicate by saying aye aye is there anyone opposed that order passes order 2014 dash 163 appropriation in the amount of forty eight thousand eight hundred thirty eight dollars from water enterprise free cash account number six one one excuse me six one zero zero dash three one nine zero zero zero to the water enterprise reserve account number six one zero zero dash three three zero

▶ 1:19:00 zero zero one the Appropriations Committee recommended this order for passage motion for passage second Alderman Boisselle moves for passage of the order the motion is seconded by Alderman Byrd is there any discussion relative to this order yes yes yes yes yes yes yes what a 214 163 passes what Order 2014-164, appropriation in the amount of $30,970 from Sewer Enterprise Free Cash, account number 6000-319000 to the Sewer Enterprise Reserve Fund, account number 6000-330001. This order was also recommended for passage by the Appropriations Committee. Motion for passage. Second. Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves for passage of the order. The motion is seconded. by alderman Boisselle is there any discussion relative to this order all the roll please

▶ 1:20:18 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes that order passes Order 2014-162, amend existing JRM contract for the curbside collection and transportation of solid waste. After discussion in the Appropriations Committee, the committee recommendation was passage of this order. Motion for passage. Second. Alderman Forbes moves for passage of Order 214-162. The motion is seconded by Alderman Boisselle. Is there discussion relative to the motion? Alderman McAteer-Margolis. um just uh thank you mr chairman we did receive um an update on this order uh earlier um i think it was before the weekend actually regarding the financial impact and um i was happy to see that the scenario that the superintendent of public works and his staff is

▶ 1:21:25 suggesting over the next five fiscal years looks to be a savings to the city of about 1.25 million dollars we may have other orders filed to discuss issues relative to this so be it is there further discussion relative to this order could you call the roll please yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes the order passes order 2014-161 dpw surplus property disposal this order was also recommended for passage in the appropriations committee motion for passage second all the boys L moves for passage of order 2 1 2 14 1 6 1 the motion is seconded by alderman Forbes is the discussion relative to this motion yes yes the order passes order 2014-160 request to increase the spending cap of the BB estate revolving account number 2750 for fiscal year 2014

▶ 1:23:02 this order was also recommended by the Finance Committee motion to recommend second passage alderman inferno moves to passage seconded by alderman Boyce L is their discussion on the motion please call the roll yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes that order passes as well order 2014-159 transfer of ten thousand dollars from various ambulance accounts to ambulance professional service account six five zero zero five two dash five two nine zero zero zero as set forth within finance committee recommended passage of this order motion for passage second alderman mcintyre margolis moves for passage of 214-159 the motion is seconded by alderman Boisselle is there discussion relative to this order yes yes yes yes yes yes

▶ 1:24:23 yes yes president yes the order passes order 2014-108 amending melrose revised ordinances chapter 222 vehicles for hire by adding requirements for livery licenses as set forth we're here in and the legal and legislative committee at its last meeting recommended to pass this order as amended by adopting in total the revised ordinance that was submitted to the committee and has since been submitted to the board and I believe is part of the public record motion to recommend as amended not motion for passage as amended second alderman McAteer-Margolis moves for passage of the order as amended the motion is seconded by Alderman Boyce L is there any discussion relative to this order yes yes yes yes yes yes you know

▶ 1:25:39 the order passes to adjourn McAteer-Margolis moves to adjourn second seconded by Alderman Boisselle on the motion to adjourn all those in favor of adjournment indicate by saying aye is there anyone opposed motion passes board stands adjourned

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