City Council — 2016-03-21

City Council Regular Meeting

This meeting starts at 7:41 in a recording that covers several meetings.

Attendance

Robert A. Boisselle present · Ward 4 Alderman; Donald L. Conn Jr. present · President, Alderman at Large; Scott M. Forbes absent · 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 present · Ward 6 Alderman; John N. Tramontozzi present · Ward 1 Alderman; Francis X. Wright Jr. present · Ward 3 Alderman; Michael P. Zwirko present · Alderman at Large

Agenda

Minutes

CITY OF MELROSE BOARD OF ALDERMEN BULLETIN● MARCH 21, 2016 Aldermanic Chamber Regular Meeting 7:45 PM

ORDER-2016-119 Opening Statement Regular Meeting of the Board of Aldermen to be held on Monday, March 21, 2016 at 7:45 P.M. in the Aldermanic Chamber, City Hall, Melrose, MA Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Robert A. Boisselle Ward 4 Alderman Present Scott M. Forbes Ward 7 Alderman Absent 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 Present John N. Tramontozzi Ward 1 Alderman Present Francis X. Wright Jr. Ward 3 Alderman Present Michael P. Zwirko Alderman at Large Present Donald L. Conn Jr. President, Alderman at Large Present

ORDER-2016-104 Utility Petition Petition of Comcast for Grant of Location to place new underground conduit to provide service to 417 Main Street, Melrose Passed as Amended

ORDER-2016-120 Presentation Presentation by Raftelis Financial Consulting & Woodcock & Associates regarding water and sewer utility rate setting. Tabled Board of Aldermen

ORDER-2016-121 Acceptance Accept grant in the amount of $75,000 from the Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development Mass Marketing Partnerships/Office of Travel & Tourism Program. Funds are to be deposited into Fund #4022, Beebe Estate Improvements. Assigned to Committee Public Service Committee

ORDER-2016-122 Grant City of Melrose Page 1 5/15/2016 4:49 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen March 21, 2016 Acceptance of FY2016 Traffic Enforcement Grant in the amount of $7,500.00 from the Commonwealth of Mass., Executive Office of Public Safety and Security's Highway Safety Division to Fund #4023. Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2016-123 Appropriation Authorization to Appropriate $131,835.18 in Borrowed Funds from the High School Science Lab Project (Fund 3367) to the High School Interior Renovations Project (Fund 3372) Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2016-124 Transfer Transfer of $2,415.00 from Unemployment Expenses (019132-544400) to various Inspectional Services Accounts as set forth herein Assigned to Committee Finance Committee

ORDER-2016-125 Appointment Appointment of Ward Hamilton, 87 East Emerson St., to the Historical Commission for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2019 Assigned to Committee Public Service Committee

ORDER-2016-126 Appointment Appointment of Maya Jamaleddine, 10 Melrose St., to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2018 Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2016-127 Appointment Appointment of Ellyn Ruthstrom, 15 Vine St., #1, to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2019 Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2016-128 Appointment City of Melrose Page 2 5/15/2016 4:49 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen March 21, 2016 Appointment of Cathryn M. Mercier, 466 Pleasant St., to the Melrose Public Library Board of Trustees for a three-year term; said term to end on the last day of February, 2018 Assigned to Committee Public Service Committee

ORDER-2016-129 Appointment Appointment of Jessica Joy Buster, 164 Derby Road, to the Commission on Women for an initial term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2017. Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2016-130 Appointment Appointment of Gail Marcia Cass, 10 Sunset Road, to the Commission on Women for an initial term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2017. Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2016-131 Appointment Appointment of Mary Julie DeLillo, 13 Circuit St., to the Commission on Women for an initial term; said term to expire on the last day of February, 2018 Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2016-132 Appointment Appointment of Lorraine DiCesare, 61 Willow Street, to the Commission on Women for an initial term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2018. Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2016-133 Appointment Appointment of Katherine P. Kennedy, 103 Mt. Vernon Ave., to the Commission on Women for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2019 Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2016-134 Appointment City of Melrose Page 3 5/15/2016 4:49 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen March 21, 2016 Appointment of Kristina Pechulis, 46 Reading Hill Ave., to the Commission on Women for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2019 Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2016-135 Appointment Appointment of Lata Bhopale Williams, 24 Henry Ave., to the Commission on Women for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2019 Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2016-106 Presentation Presentation regarding the Visual Budget and the new Melrose online GIS System and online applications Placed on File

ORDER-2016-112 Appointment Reappointment of Laura Paladino, 67 Ardsmoor Rd., to the Memorial Hall Board of Trustees for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February, 2019. Passed

ORDER-2016-111 Appointment Reappointment of Mary M. Sexton, 19 Sears Ave., to the Memorial Hall Board of trustees for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2019. Passed

ORDER-2016-109 Appointment Reappointment of Mathew S. Helman, 69 Lynn Fells Parkway, to a three-year term on the Human Rights Commission; said term to expire on the last day of February, 2019. Passed

ORDER-2016-108 Appointment City of Melrose Page 4 5/15/2016 4:49 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen March 21, 2016 Reappointment of Susan Worrall, 251 Upham St., to the Council on Aging for a three-year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2019 Passed

ORDER-2016-107 Appointment Reappointment of Francisco Brincheiro, 276 Upham St., to the Board of Health for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2019. Passed as Amended

ORDER-2016-110 Appointment Reappointment of Joseph P. Nevin, Jr., 415 East Foster St., to the Liquor Licensing Commission for a six-year term; said term to expire on the first Monday in June, 2021. Passed

ORDER-2016-113 Appointment Reappointment of Edward W. Waystack, III, 50 Glen Street, to serve as a Trustee of the Melrose Public Library for a three-year term, said term to expire the last day of February, 2019. Passed

ORDER-2016-117 Grant Accept FY 16 State 911 Support and Incentive Grant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety (EOPS) in the amount of $56,187.00; fund #2595 Passed

ORDER-2016-118 Donation Donation from the Connor Trust Fund in the amount of $85,000 to fund a Feasibility Study for Renovations to the Melrose Public Library; said funds to be deposited into Fund No. 2886 Passed

ORDER-2016-116 Acceptance Accept grant in the amount of $641,000 from the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development Mass Works Infrastructure Program; said funds to be deposited into Fund No. 4019 Passed

ORDER-2016-114 Authorization City of Melrose Page 5 5/15/2016 4:49 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen March 21, 2016 Authorization to Execute Lease Agreement: five- year lease agreement with All American Investment Group, LLC for the purchase of a new 2015 Vactor Sewer Truck. Passed

ORDER-2016-115 Grant Authorization to Accept a Grant in the amount of $8,000.00 from the Massachusetts Associates of Health Boards in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and to Execute an Agreement with the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards/Massachusetts Department of Public Health Passed City of Melrose Page 6 5/15/2016 4:49 PM

Transcript

▶ 8:06 rise and join me in saluting the flag i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic from which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all in accordance with the massachusetts open meeting law our meeting this evening will be recorded and will be available for your viewing pleasure on local melrose cable television motion to open the floor for public participation mr president second alderman mortimer moves to open the floor for public participation the motion is seconded by alderman's work oh all those in favor of commencing public participation please indicate by saying aye aye aye is there anybody opposed motion passes and at this time we will conduct

▶ 8:55 public participation any individual who wishes to speak on any item on our agenda is welcome to come to the table in the center of the room identify themselves and they will be heard sir i'll take advantage of that opportunity um i'm jerry morose um i'm here to speak about the water and sewer process um you know i'm glad to see that we have a new consultant i look forward to having some good rational analysis of our of our water rate structure I do appreciate this is separate from what they're doing but I do appreciate that we are finally looking at inflow and infiltration issues in the city like everything else the sooner you do it the cheaper costs and especially in the MWRA district the sooner we do it relative to everybody else the better bang for the buck we get

▶ 9:47 for it but to the water rate issues specifically there are a number of issues to evaluate and I think that a number of those will will be self evident as we get into them I'd like though to understand how we can have opportunity for dialogue discussion interaction there are a lot of premises that people might come to the table with about why the rate should be in a certain way or not in another way and what I fear is what we've had in other years here is that we end up having a meeting in May or a meeting in June where somebody gets up here and presents something that's then the baseline and at that point it's difficult to have a conversation a discussion a real hashing out of the issues involved and why one way might seem a good way to do

▶ 10:48 something but there are other issues about that we haven't had that opportunity in the last few years that I've been coming here to talk about water and sewer issues I have attended the water and sewer committee meetings you know a few minutes of speaking in advance of those meetings doesn't again prevent present an opportunity to engage in these issues and and so I as I said I think it was last July you know that was a time to start a new process of evaluating the water rate structure going forward I fear that we're actually a little bit late right now and I would like to find a way that that you know I personally as well as other members of the public can plug into the process so we can understand what's behind the proposal that will come forward to here

▶ 11:36 in May or June and one issue that I want to highlight that people can have disagreements about legitimately is this issue of a conservation rate the tiered rate structure that we have now around the country people use tiered water rate structures for various reasons but to blindly accept that because it's used in the National Water Works Association recommends it in certain circumstances that we should automatically do it here I would like to really have a real discussion around that because in my view we don't need we don't have an issue with water supply here and if we ever did we can have that kind of you use limitations of water ban for watering or washing cars or whatever that could certainly control that we aren't getting conservation by having

▶ 12:24 this small tiered rate structure we have we're not getting conservation and what we're doing is we're just penalizing people who might naturally use more water like people that might have you know four or five children and a couple parents and a couple grandparents in a house you know it doesn't cause them to conserve water they have to use what they have to use and then you just make them pay for it and I find that exploitive and so that's one issue that you know a consultant might might come to you and say oh well in earnest well this conservation structure is good I would like an opportunity to be able to at some level challenge what their premises are around there have some conversations from dialogue some some arguments some rebuttal so we can get to

▶ 13:10 the issues because what my goal here is is that this year we can actually iron out these issues and basically if we can iron them out and have everything be calm it'll be easy for you going forward if we have a rate structure that works if we have things that are the costs of the service I should say whether whether rates or the the the charges are commensurate with the cost of the service that to me is good public policy you want people to pay for what they use you have to pay for your costs and a little bit of whatever the overhead costs your true costs I don't see that the water and sewer enterprise fund ought to be a a profit Center for the city in any way I don't see that it should actually be used to offset the cost of city services in the schools or

▶ 13:59 other buildings where water is in charge to them there are a number of issues so I appeal to you as a board please find a way to let the public engage in the process because number one it will guide the process and if the public is also involved with the process the public will know why you got to where you got and even if there are disagreements that the disagreement might be a valid disagreement and we know what the what the basis for that is I appeal to you I don't know you know I can suggest a number of ways I leave it to you though But please provide a way for real engagement in these issues not just a presentation and then a vote. Thank you. Thank you, sir Anybody else who wishes to speak tonight?

▶ 14:48 Peter D. Mortimer: Motion to close public participation. Mr. President again Alderman Mortimer moves to conclude public participation the motion second by Alden Boycelle on the motion all those in favor All right, you want to post motion passes public participation is hereby concluded for this evening. Mr President I have before me minutes of our meetings from January 11th and January 19th and I ask that they be accepted into the record without reading alderman Mortimer moves to accept the minutes second the January meetings without reading the motion is seconded by Alderman Boyce L is there any discussion all those in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye aye anyone opposed motion passes those Those records will be accepted.

▶ 15:38 Order 2016-120, presentation by Raphtalus Financial Consulting and Woodstock and Associates regarding water and sewer utility rate setting. Mr. President, I request immediate consideration. Alderman Mortimer requests immediate consideration of Order 216-120. Is there an objection to immediate consideration of the order? There is not. Mr. President, I make a motion to lay this order on the table. Alderman Mortimer moves to suspend the rules for the purpose of making a motion to lay the order on the table. Is there a second to the motion to suspend the rules? Second. Motion is seconded by Alderman Boisselle. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes, the rules are suspended.

▶ 16:20 Motion to lay the order on the table, Mr. President. Seconded. Alderman Mortimer moves to table the order. The motion is seconded by Alderman Zwirko. On the motion to table, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes, that order will be tabled. members of the public who are watching this evening we intend to discuss that order and to hear from the new water and sewer consultant at our meeting on April 4th order 2016-1 21 accept grant in the amount of $75,000 from the executive office of housing and economic development mass marketing partnerships office of travel and tourism program funds are to be deposited into fund number 4022 bb estate improvements that order will go to the committee on public service

▶ 17:10 order 2016-122 acceptance of fiscal year 2016 traffic enforcement grant in the amount of seven thousand five hundred dollars from the commonwealth of massachusetts executive office of public safety and securities highway safety division to fund number four zero two three that order will be referred to the committee on protection and license order 2016-123 authorization to appropriate 131 835 dollars 18 cents in borrowed funds from the high school science lab project fund number 3367 to the high school interior renovations project fund number 3372 that order will be referred to the committee on appropriations Board of 2016-124, transfer of $2,415 from unemployment expenses, account 019132-544400, to various inspectional services accounts as set forth herein.

▶ 18:14 Board of 2016-124 will go to the Committee on Finance. Order 2016-125, appointment of Ward Hamilton, 87 East Emerson Street, to the Historical Commission for a three-year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2019. That order will go to the Public Services Committee. Order 2016-126, appointment of Maya Gemaleddin, 10 Melrose Street, to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2018. That order will go to the Committee on Appropriations. Order 2016-127, appointment of Ellen Ruthstrom, 15 Vine Street, No. 1, to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2019. That order will also be referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

▶ 19:10 Order 2016-128, appointment of Catherine M. Mercier, 466 Pleasant Street to the Melrose Public Library Board of Trustees for a three-year term, said term to end on the last day of February 2018. That order will go to the Public Service Committee. Order 2016-129, appointment of Jessica Joy Buster, 164 Derby Road to the Commission on Women for an initial term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2017. That will go to the Committee on Health, Education, and Welfare. Order 2016-130, appointment of Gail Marsha Cass, 10 Sunset Boulevard, excuse me, 10 Sunset Road, to the Commission on Women for an initial term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2017. That order will go to the Committee on Health, Education, and Welfare.

▶ 20:01 Order 2016-131, appointment of Mary Julie DeLillo, 13 Circuit Street, to the Commission on Women for an initial term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2018. That order will also go to the Committee on Health, Education, and Welfare. Order 2016-132, appointment of Lorraine DeCesar, 61 Willow Street, to the Commission on Women for an initial term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2018. That order will also go to the Committee on Health, Education, and Welfare. Order 2016-133, appointment of Catherine P. Kennedy, 103 Mount Vernon Ave, to the Commission on Women for a three-year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2019. Committee on Health, Education, and Welfare

▶ 20:47 for that order as well. Order 2016-134, appointment of Christina Pachulis, 46 Redding Hill Ave. to the Commission on Women for a three-year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2019. That order will also go to the Committee on Health, Education, and Welfare. Order 2016-135, appointment of Lata Bopel, Williams 24 Henry Ave to the Commission on women for a three-year term said term to expire on the last day of February 2019 that order will also go to the committee on health education and welfare and before we commence the public hearing do we have any orders out of order this evening we do not okay if you folks could turn to your agenda at this point we're going to consider what

▶ 21:36 Under 2016-104, petition of Comcast for granted location to place a new underground conduit to provide service to 417 Main Street, Melrose. If there's anybody who's here to speak on that order, could you please come forward to the table in the center of the room and identify yourselves? I am Jim Fitzpatrick from Comcast. so Comcast would like to propose a grand location to place a new conduit underground to feed for 17 Main Street from the rear of the parking lot in the rear of 417 Main Street we plan to intercept Comcast existing service put a put a vault over that and then trench from that vault across the parking lot to the rear of for 17 Main Street hey could you describe the work that you're

▶ 22:41 going to be perform performing the time it would take and the corrective work please yeah this has been Barone he's going to be doing the work so we're gonna we're gonna cut the parking lot at a two-foot depth laying a two-inch conduit and I know there's questions about the culvert but we we met with the town engineer Rick yeah Rick and there's a section of the parking lot in the rear of 417 it's like a grass island that we proposed to when we come to the culvert just hand dig and place the conduit in this grass island so we won't be disturb in the culvert at all and can you indicate how long the work will take and what corrective work you'll take at the completion of the work please well take us one day to install the conduit and we'll put a layer of binder so the

▶ 23:45 cars will be able to drive on it that night we'll just do half at a time so the cars can go in and out so won't disturb traffic at all the issue here is on the plans it's shown to grind and pave a good part of the parking lot that we're not going near and using the grind and pave method we have pictures of the parking lot it's all deteriorated so it can't be ground at all we can repair our trench it will look better than what's there but to do the grind and overlay method but was on this permit it just doesn't work okay if you gentlemen could step back for a moment we'll ask you to come back for questions we have to see whether there's anyone else who wishes to be heard this evening thank you is there anyone else who wishes to be heard in connection with

▶ 24:46 the public hearing this evening sir could you identify yourself please okay good evening everyone i'm john chena director of public works um our engineering staff has worked with the applicant in this regard it's actually been going on for quite some time we believe that we found a resolution to the project that meets their needs ultimately meets the needs of the melrose business that needs fiber and cable in order to move on with internet and online orders we our city engineer circulated a memorandum this morning and i apologize it was late but we were having discussions with the applicant as late as on friday afternoon to try to reach some resolution to to this um situation um i want to pay particular attention to three points actually

▶ 25:42 four that are four of the ten conditions that we'd like to have the uh order amended with the first is that we would like a assigned board placed in the parking lot 48 hours in advance of the project to notify customers of that area that you know work will happen and when it will happen we're also not allowing more than six parking spaces to be impacted at any given time and no more than one intra entrance to the parking lot can be restricted at any given time we're also would also like to see that the work be completed within two days again our engineer's discussion with the applicant that seems pretty feasible The work will cross the El Pond Brook culvert, which is in the rear of that parking lot.

▶ 26:35 The applicant has agreed to hand dig around the culvert. In lieu of them hand digging, we've lifted the requirement to video inspect the culvert. Whenever people cross the culvert with heavy machinery, we always require a video inspection before and after. um we we're considering to waive that in lieu of the handwork that they're proposing and uh lastly we are requiring a standard trench restoration technique given that the um the proposed corridor is significantly different than what was proposed last year i just wanted to forward those a little follow-up on the conditions did you just repeat that last one requiring a trench a standard trench repair on the um on the trench given the new corridor proposed

▶ 27:33 initially there were initially the run was closer to the entrance to um grove street but now that they've pulled away and they're making use of an existing manhole that's in the grass strip between the senior home and the parking lot it's a totally different corridor so the trench repair is what we have agreed upon okay before we go to questions we need to close out the public hearing is there anyone else who wishes to be heard in connection with the public hearing relative to this grant of location motion to close the public hearing second alderman inferno moves to conclude the public hearing the motion is seconded by alderman MacMaster margolis on the motion all those in favor aye aye anyone opposed motion passes the public hearing is concluded the order is before you

▶ 28:31 Robert A. Boisselle: could i have the director of dpw come forward could we have a motion to suspend the rules please so moved second alderman water removes to suspend the rules the motion is seconded by alderman Boisselle on the motion all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes the rules are suspended you have the floor ultimate good evening john thank you for coming hey um question concerning the six parking spaces um if the if car are you going to allow parking in the area also beyond that those six parking spaces we'd like to leave as many spaces as available as possible now if any cars are damaged who's responsible for that well as part of the process we'll have a um we'll have a permit a bond and insurance of the contractor doing the work and

▶ 29:20 Robert A. Boisselle: obviously we don't want that to happen they'll also be required to get a police detail while they're working in there but should any damage of any sort happen the uh the insurance would absolutely be on file with the city okay good uh my next question there was some discussion by the contractor concerning the grinding of the parking area has that been resolved i mean he left with the aspects that they're not going to be doing that yeah that's all set we've we've um we've decided on a conventional trench repair yeah would you explain the conventional uh that so that's the the trench that the trench that they um that they dig to install a conduit will be backfilled will be paved with binder grade will be allowed to settle and they'll come back

▶ 30:07 Robert A. Boisselle: and put another layer of asphalt on it so you'll see a trench that's probably i would say two feet wide two to three feet wide going across the parking lot okay and if it does sink a bit they will be back the permit requires a one-year warranty on all the work okay and if it happens after that one-year warranty are they still responsible for that well comcast really needs to do business with us so they've always been very good in restoring their fences the excavation is only two feet deep right and the compaction on two feet should be um substantial enough to yeah um like that with all the construction that's been going on in melrose for the past couple years if you don't pack it correctly it collapses and we sort of learned our

▶ 30:54 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: lesson on that i just want to make sure a one-year guarantee one day one year one day we start seeing the trench start going down because of poor packing we also do compaction testing good on all utility contractors in melrose okay make sure that they achieve that so thank you very much john thank you mr chairman alderman mctermar villas uh thank you mr president um mr shena does the dpw intend on doing other any other repairs to that parking lot at this time or around that same period at all no no no okay um and also i wondered if um i didn't know in the memorandum um any hours of work standard hours of work however we are requiring that the work will be completed in its entirety within two days within two days I know that there's

▶ 31:49 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: a I think a karate school back there that has some after-school pick up and drop off it's another condition is that all all businesses in the area be notified 48 hours in advance with a notice and then we put the board out there to catch the people who use it for parking and so that they'll know and there'll be a comcast representative on site if people if any of the businesses have i think you just met them concerns mr fitzgerald great patrick sorry great thank you mr president thank you very much mr president um superintendent chenna uh what's the uh reason that this uh work is necessary is it just it's one out i'll let um no it's a new connection that's the answer the need sorry what's the

▶ 32:37 Peter D. Mortimer: question what what is the reason that this work is necessary please to feed um the the tenants at 417 main street which is papagino's right and uh i believe the the block next door which is like 421 to 429 right provide them with Comcast internet services you know so it's just internet not electricity no no no it's just coax video internet and telephone all right yeah my my daughter goes to that karate school so I'll let people know that I see them as well did does anyone happen to know is Papa Gino's intending to uh put up cable televisions um in is this the plan that's behind this do they want to have television screens up so the patrons can sit and eat pizza and watch i'm not sure if that's the

▶ 33:36 reason again it could be for the high speed for the business um i don't get into the sales part of it right um just the construction end i could find that out all right you can certainly find that out for you yeah if you could find out and you can contact me i'm very easy to find or you can contact me through superintendent chenna have you heard anything about that superintendent superintendent chenna what the uh no i don't know what they want the service for but i know it's been over a year that they've been trying to get this and researching different ways to get this the comp cast into these two buildings right um the other option would be to open up main street which we really frown upon and again it's another costly endeavor because of the concrete that's

▶ 34:18 under that pavement for comcast right and ultimately for the customer absolutely thank you now the voltage on this is very low yeah it's 90 volts right and this particular line um probably won't even have voltage on it um it depends um if there's a lot of customers you might need an amplifier so you'd have to power up that amplifier through the cable right but you know this I think this probably six tenants and I don't we won't won't require an amplifier so there'll be no voltage and if it is it's low voltage all right because we've all heard the stories where a dog or a child walks over one of these culverts and get shocked yeah and there's a lot of kids traversing back and forth there but the probability of that is zero absolutely

▶ 35:09 Monica C. Medeiros: no everything's grounded and it's just low voltage you it wouldn't even penetrate thank you very much thank you superintendent that's all i have mr president thank you uh is there currently uh mr shena access for verizon for fios for any kind of fiber to these buildings other than this or is this it um i think they might come off of main street yeah i think so um but this would obviously give them a different another alternative um This proposed drawing that we're seeing with Mr. Shenna's memo, I think, shows this red line going across the parking lot. Will there be any issues with emergency access in and out? Will that whole thing be dug up at once? No, the conditions that we set forth only allows them to restrict one driveway entrance at a time.

▶ 36:09 Monica C. Medeiros: Requires a police detail. And, again, that's all there to protect public safety and the patrons of that parking lot so we can keep the parking lot accessible and open and not shut it down for two days. That's in this memo that you provided today, which you're hoping that we'll adopt as conditions. Yes. Yeah, for members of the public, the memo that we all keep referring to is a memo dated March 21, 2010. I unfortunately hadn't seen it before this evening, but I appreciate the printed copy. uh and then my my last question is about the culvert how far down is the el pon culvert uh no more than two feet below the road so so where this digging is going is is very very close to it which is why we're requiring the hand digging and it's an option that the applicant

▶ 37:00 Michael P. Zwirko: decided to proceed with and now we definitely appreciate that now do you do you think there's likelihood that that would damage the culvert even the hand digging not hand digging no thank you thank you all the men's work oh yeah thank you mr. president so just had a quick question and I do appreciate this memo the attempt to move away from the the grinding because I just feel like that would further impact a lot of the parking spots that we have down there so I do appreciate the compromise also that you're you've put in here in number five that no more than six parking spaces will be used at the time I'm just curious not to box you in but are you planning on doing this work Monday through Friday as opposed to a Saturday and a Sunday is that the goal yeah I

▶ 37:44 Robert A. Boisselle: think we're gonna do it to a regular I was okay they through Friday and that was all I had I mean there's less traffic there and the spaces are highly coveted in the weekend so for our you know business district to be great if that could be done Monday through Friday yeah that shouldn't be a problem thank Thank you, appreciate it. Okay, is there anyone else for the first time before we start the tour of speakers for the second time? Alderman Boisselle. Just to bring the Alderman up to date on the concern of the internet at the pizza shops. A lot of the franchises are now pushing for online ordering and they're pushing very heavy for that. And also for the hand phones while you're on the train.

▶ 38:25 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: your pizza get off the bus and pick it up and you're off and running so just a point of interest thank you alderman alderman MacMaster margolis for the second time thank you um when you were talking about the culvert and the alderman Medeiros was inquiring how low down it was so i was wondering if um if we have any like really bad torrential 100-year storms in the future does that is that culvert impacted is it apt to overflow or anything like that no not at that location we've never had an issue at that location I mean the parking lot floods down there but that's because it's that's because it's couldn't catch basins are connected into that culvert which fills but we've never had significant flooding so you wouldn't anticipate down the line that

▶ 39:15 with any kind of that would impact their project puddling that that would impact the project the culvert I mean the the conduit yeah no okay that's all thank you anyone else the order is before you as is the memo of March 21st 2016 motion for passage motion to amend the order by including the memo you just mentioned as part of the jacket okay do we have a second for either motion alderman Medeiros seconds the motion to amend the order to make the grant of location contingent upon the condition set forth in the memorandum of march 21st 2016 is their discussion relative to that motion on the motion to amend all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes The order as amended is before you. Motion to recommend as amended.

▶ 40:14 Motion to recommend as amended. We have a second. Second. Motion for passage as amended, second. Motion is seconded by Alderman Boisselle. Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll, please? Alderman Boisselle. Yes. Yes, Alderman Forbes, Alderman Inferno. Yes. Yes, Alderman Lemmerman. Yes. Yes, Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Yes. Yes, Alderman Medeiros. Yes. Alderman Mortimer? Yes. Yes. Alderman Tramontozzi? Yes. Yes. Alderman Wright? Yes. Yes. Alderman Zwirko? Yes. Yes. President Conn? Yes. Yes. Ten years. That order passes. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, do we have any orders from committee this evening? Mr. President, I make a motion to take order 2016-106. There's a presentation regarding the visual budget and the new Melrose online GIS system and online applications.

▶ 41:22 I make a motion to take this order from committee. Alderman Mortimer moves that we remove order 2016-106 from the Appropriations Committee. Is there a second? Second. Second by Alderman Medeiros. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion passes. The order is removed from committee. a motion to suspend the rules that we may hear from the appropriate city officials here in attendance regarding this order. Alderman Mortimer moves to suspend the rules. Second. Second. Second by Alderman Zwirko. On the motion to suspend, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. The order is before you. Gentlemen, would you like to come forward and declaim relative to this order, please? Good evening, I'm Mike Lindstrom from the Mayor's Office.

▶ 42:28 I'm here along with City Auditor Patrick De La Russo and City Assessor Chris Wilcox. well chris sets up i can just briefly explain uh why we're here tonight um we're here tonight to share some information on a couple new initiatives that we've released that we're pretty excited about that we feel further increased two-way communication with residents and delivering that information over a variety of different multimedia platforms um you may remember a couple years ago the city was awarded a mass municipal innovation award for the our city series and the co-winner that year as i like to call second place was arlington for their um visual budget they were runners up to us um but when the mayor and i saw that pres that program that

▶ 43:09 that presentation uh we thought it was pretty awesome and we wanted to try to bring that to melrose um what melrose visual budget is it's a new online tool that's going to provide the public with a visual presentation of the approved city budget that's you know that is approved each june what it's going to do it offers a representation of the city's financial history outlook as well as illustrate key trends visual budget displays historical data as well as back to 2012 fy12 and goes all the way with future projections to fy20 it's going to allow citizens to understand how the budget has changed how that impacts them including cuts to state aid and increased reliance on property taxes i think what the most unique feature of this program is why we

▶ 43:51 like it so much it actually lets you in put in your personal tax bill for your house and it's going to tell you across every city department down to how much it costs how much what you pay as an individual for your snow for snow to be cleared to what you pay for the health director um down to the penny per what your tax bill for the current fiscal year um is the other i think i think we can all speak as is alderman or by city department heads here i think we can all agree that there's a demand for information from our residents from our constituents at all times not just between 8 a.m and 4 p.m when city halls open and i think we made a lot of great advances in the last couple years with that especially with the city's twitter our online services i think the

▶ 44:33 mayor's blog but what chris is going to walk you through tonight is the next step we're going to explain why visual budget is an important tool in this but also why our new melrose maps online features is going to provide the 24 7 information that our residents require when they need it I think what it's also important that he can touch on too is that these features can also lay the groundwork what may be possible for the future in terms of online permitting and different incorporating other city departments into this so you know overall by increasing transparency I think we're able to advance and deepen the civic dialogue between all of us and our constituents at this point I'm going to hand it over to Chris for a very

▶ 45:10 brief presentation thank you my office fields a lot of questions as far as the budget goes one of the most common questions we get is how much of my tax dollars are going to certain departments certain functions of the city when Patrick and and Mike brought up that they went to the MMA meeting and they talked about this software I wanted to jump in on the project because I thought it would definitely help out the average homeowner that just wants to go on and find out what they're spending a lot of these budget documents are about 70 pages this is a simple version it's a visual version that the average homeowner can go on and see their where their tax dollars are being spent if you go to page three on your handout I actually just did a slide so you can

▶ 46:16 follow along I know a lot of this font is very small to read from across the room the three main parts of this visual budget are revenues expenses and funds so over here in the green you'll actually see the revenues that's your tax revenue and that's actually going to be broken down into the tax levy local receipts state aid and other available funds so that's everything in green and you can zoom in and click and as you do that I entered in $5,500 which is the average tax bill in Melrose so if you look to the left hand side over here as you go in these will actually change so let's get into the expenses and then you can see exactly where that $5,500 from your tax bill has gone so on the expense

▶ 47:12 side we have a broken down between schools and city departments so right here is exactly where sixteen hundred dollars and seventeen sixteen seventeen from the $5,500 goes to the city department size side public safety is split between police and fire and you can actually go down to expenses and salary so you can go to this level pretty much for any of the expenditures or expenses in the city budget the next one is funds so this funds is good fund set up is going to be for budget stabilization a stabilization fund and OPEB every year that we change the budget will be reflected here we currently have nine years of budgets every year in January we're going to update to the next budget when the new tax rate is out and we have the approved

▶ 48:15 levy so every year this will be adjusted starting in 17 going forward those are all projections so we actually have numbers going forward for any of the tax residents and and they can actually interact you know all the way to 2020 and kind of see exactly where that will be one of the other things you can look at is tablet tabular view this is actually just kind of a different way of looking at the same numbers just a you know how much it increased over one year and what the total amounts are for the people who want more numbers this is kind of where I get into it sometimes I I like the visual budgets but I also want I want to see the numbers behind it so what we do is we have a CSV which is

▶ 49:03 an excel file of every single number that we use for our projections and our actuals for revenues for for revenues expenses and the funds so let me just open this up and this is this is all the revenues so we have 69 lines down of just revenues and projections all the way to 2020 and everything back to 2012 so someone can easily download that and go line by line the expenses we have 196 different lines and that's reflective of everything that's in there so let me just it's a lot of data but if someone really wants to go with that level you can go to that level you can add also it's a formulas in and run with the Excel and and really show where things are going and as far as this visual budget

▶ 50:06 this is right on our website this is one block right on our main page we want to make it available so people could click on it we have a brief intro to it and we have a contact just in case anyone has any questions real quickly we did if you go to that page we did set up a special email address I think it's a MVB at city of Melrose org where if you have specific questions on anything that you saw on visual budget we'll get answered for you and I would be remiss if I didn't thank the three people that put so much time into this that aren't here tonight Carrie Ann Golden and Bridget Gein from the auditor's office and also Donna Cardillo who have put countless hours into making this program work with

▶ 50:45 the software developers and no way we would have been able to get it done without all the time they put into it also yeah the next item for the presentation is the Melrose maps online it's on page seven this is something that I take great pride in in the assessor's office we actually have to publish tax maps and we also have to have the assessments every year this is a website that combines both of those into a user-friendly platform for for residents businesses and anyone on boards or commissions in the city to use a lot of this data is updated every 24 hours there's no reason to call the assessor's office to get the ownership information it is available as of last night at 10 o'clock all of my data that I want updated is updated in the

▶ 51:34 background and it's pushed out to this site it's been extremely helpful with other departments we have 10 different sites that we've built for other departments the planning department has their own site the assessors have their own site this is actually a version of the staff site so let me just quickly show you the site works off what's called a triple search it's either an owner a parcel ID or a location everything's factored into searching by that one of the addresses that I'll search is a City Hall 562 Main Street this has to be a one-to-one match this has to be something that's existing in the assessing database you can't put in any address that does not exist in the city of Melrose after you enter in the address you have I'd say about 50 lines

▶ 52:29 of information down on the left-hand side that you can sort through everything except the assessed values are updated like I said 24 hours the assessed value is only updated once we have them approved by the Department of Revenue one of the functions I like the most on this is from the bottom of that page we can click over to the actual assessment record for that property and someone can actually get the sketch or the photo for 9,000 parcels in the city so you can go from parcel to parcel pull up this kind of detailed information we get a lot of calls from lawyers offices potential buyers of homes they love this website they go to it quite a bit since we've done a soft launch we haven't advertised we had roughly 3,000 people going to the public site and about

▶ 53:17 I'd say about 877 of those were from Melrose or Massachusetts so it's it's very powerful another thing that we added to this site and this is a staff site it's password protected we have the the option of actually pulling the property up on pictometry that's basically an aerial so if you have meetings about parking areas or you're trying to look at a property this is probably one of the best images that you can get for a property you can actually spin around the property and you can zoom in quite a bit and there's a measurement tool and a bunch of other tools that you can use the building department's currently using this public safety I hope to have a little more training the school departments using it a lot of people are actually using this

▶ 54:13 so it's 24 hours a day seven days a week it's up and available and it doesn't bother me at all when people go in and use it certain sites we have certain passwords because we can only have 25 users of pictometry at once so but the public site is open for anyone you can have 10,000 people on at once so though that's pretty much the the site that we have some of the things we're going to add in the next few months is we're actually going to build a mobile site something that's actually phone friendly there's a lot of this information that you don't need on a phone so we're going to whittle everything down as far as the functions and we're gonna have something that we can launch we're gonna try and

▶ 54:52 pull the billing information so tax bill information and maybe water bill information and add add that to our databases anything that exists with a database and an address we can add to the system and we're not paying anyone to do it this is all done in-house Jane Pitts in the planning department and I are the ones that actually administer this site and we don't pay a dime for any anyone to come in and work on it we do it all ourselves so we're slowly going to add things over over the years some of the things we have on it for federal things we have the FEMA maps that are on there we have some state maps we have the MBTA rail locations and the bus routes so as as those date as that data becomes available what we'll add it in and we're also building a lot

▶ 55:37 Robert A. Boisselle: of data in-house to one of the things that I'm building is all the sales I have a sales map every year that I do and this is a tool that I'm going to use to to show that but i'll stop there i can talk for hours on this so if you have any questions you mentioned the the pictures that you're showing here on the budget you had an actual link right at the uh welcome to city of melrose site is there a link to these maps so you said there's a public one yes but I don't see any link here we're in the process of adding a lot of online applications we had a discussion of how we want to display it it's currently under the assessing site right now there's a direct link on the handout but we are gonna add it multiple places in the

▶ 56:33 Robert A. Boisselle: website is my so right now it's at the assessor's office that's correct you might have a thousand hits by the time you get back to your office tomorrow morning maybe my next question should go to the auditor and the point all the numbers that I see here especially in the sheets I am a numbers individual also the projections that you're doing for 2018 19 and 20 is that based on a certain percentage number that you're working with or has been offered or how we how what number are we projecting for 2020 because some of these numbers numbers really go up, they certainly do. If I may, through the Chair, what we've done is a couple of things, and I just want to backtrack for one moment, because I think that's a great question.

▶ 57:23 The model provides the, from 2012 to 2016, the actual numbers, the actual numbers that were voted for the budget, and the actual revenues that we, other than state aid, So we estimate we'll fund the FY16 budget, period. Because as everyone knows, the end of the year hasn't come yet, and I'm always cautious about possibilities there. But having said that, what we've done is then take, we're using 3% in general for salary increases. Now that does not mean a 3% cost of living. What happens is that within contracts, union and also this pertains to non-union, there are steps that individuals receive as part of their pay. The steps could be 2.5% between steps and on top when you add a collar on top of that

▶ 58:22 whether it's 1% or 2%, you see how fast you can reach a 3% increase in salaries. It doesn't take much. Expenses we're targeting in general, again, these are general because the objective here is going forward to show that these would not be unreasonable expectations for cost. Expenses are generally 2%. What we've done is the areas that we feel, for example, health insurance, which is always the wild-tide, we feel that warrant a greater percentage. We've modified that. And we're going to do it again and again as we get closer to the real expectation moving forward on the budget. But for purposes of placement, they're not unreasonable by virtue of their category. So that's what we're trying to accomplish in the budget process.

▶ 59:18 One of the things that you and I did speak about is included in that package, which I'm happy you came to my office to talk about, is the annual cherry sheet analysis, 2012 to 2017. It shows all the state aid and all the assessments that pertain to it. You will be receiving this as part of your budget package from now on. But this is also embedded as a subset into this visual budget package. So this is a subset of this. If this was my tax recap with such a tax rate, that's also incorporated as a subset into visual budget. So the objective here is to incorporate these subsets of revenue into a program that can hopefully lay out for everyone, including myself, better perspective on where the actual cost per department are incurred.

▶ 1:00:27 And when you include these subsets, it makes it easy because people can go on the Mass Department of Revenue website, actually look up for themselves the state aid and the state assessments each year, including potentially FY17, and they can do that. However, that can be time consuming. So we've done that for you here. We've taken all the tax recap, which sets your tax rate. That's incorporated here to save steps. So it's a resource. I hope people appreciate that. I look to it also as a resource. It's just one more element that we have to better communicate to everyone. what is this budget made up of and where does the money go that you're paying out in taxes every year and as much uncertainty as there is in the budget

▶ 1:01:24 process because I can assure you this says the weather actually changes budgets as we saw last year in particular forget about what we saw today the state aid also changes but what doesn't change is the fact that we're at 96% residential right now, where the primary supporters is the tax levy of your budget. And I don't see that percentage fluctuating in years ahead. So there is stability in these numbers because what it shows is literally that 70% of the tax of the budget is funded by taxation now. Previous years it was less, but since the state has withdrawn their support down to about 18% now, from days of maybe 24, 25%, they've shifted that burden onto the tax payer. That's all they did.

▶ 1:02:15 And they're contributing less, and the tax payer's paying more. So this clearly shows that we're recognizing that, and also, quite frankly, as Mike Lindstrom indicated, we're trying to reach out to make it easier for people at home to say, hey, what's this all about? What does this budget mean? The budget that we pass is also incorporated in here. All prior years of budgets this board passed, five years, is in here. So instead of someone having to go back and look up every department, it's all in here. One place, one stop shopping in a way. I think you can see that on the lower left on any of the diagrams, the historical trends are pretty interesting. As you can see, the line graphs on any city department, which way they've moved,

▶ 1:03:01 or where they've been stable, or where they've been shifts in policy and things like that, so. And it's not a perfect model, it's not intended to be. It is, though, I think a very reliable indicator of where we've been and potentially where we could go at those levels of spending. So if we all recognize that perhaps they're too aggressive, the percentages, we collectively can work to bring that down, which is very important too. So in many, many ways it's a great tool, just like what Chris has shown us tonight. Just some more tools to help everyone get a better understanding of where we're at. I like the way you say where we're going. For instance, on page three on the visual budget you have funds at $5.3 million for

▶ 1:03:49 Robert A. Boisselle: the year 2016, and 2017 it looks as though you're down to $3 million for funds. So it looks as though we're spending $2.3 million of those funds are in reserve for the 2016 budget so it gives you quite an impression well you want a good that's the number that's the visual that you see up there now right a good feature here is that other years will show expenses outpacing revenue however so everyone can be at peace just as the past years that we they're in here the five years and every year thereafter by law that cannot happen when you set your tax rate, the left side has to equal the right. So the variance could be like this on paper, but the reality is this city, any city in the Commonwealth or town cannot pass a budget unless it's equilibrium, revenue equals expenses.

▶ 1:04:47 Robert A. Boisselle: So those are out there showing the deficits at those spending levels. However, the reality is you can never be at that point because you can never have a tax rate certified unless your revenue equals your expenses, period. So that's peace of mind there. Very good, gentlemen, it looks fabulous and I think the public's really going to enjoy it and it may be an interesting budget cycle this year after people see this. And again, be prepared, your servers better be prepared for an onslaught of information people coming in looking for this information. Thank you very much, gentlemen. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And just so the public is not confused, the fiscal 2017 budget has not been submitted to the Board of Aldermen yet.

▶ 1:05:34 And for years beyond fiscal 2016, these are purely projections. So people should not be confused that any of these amounts have been voted. This is a model for people to see what the financial projections are. They are not real numbers. Alderman will still despite the the visual aspects of this will still be voting on the budget each year and I hope that that doesn't confuse anybody and I'm sure it won't okay before I recognize Alderman Medeiros is the act of the actual past year budgets in total going to be contained in this or are we going to or are they going to be summaries of budget categories the actual past year budgets are all from 12 to 16 they're in there in there so So they're all going to be-

▶ 1:06:20 They're all in there. Anybody could look at the full, actual past year budget, sorry. Yes. They're all in there. Also, what's in there is only in there for 17 is the governor's budget proposal for state aid, and that's it, because that's the last piece of information we had when we went live was the governor's proposal for state aid, and that's it. So the next time 17 will be updated is when the budget's approved by the board. I'm not supposed to ask questions, but I've got one more. Who's going to be responsible for distilling and inputting the financial data? Who owns this? We have a team, as Mike indicated, my office principally. We're responsible, and we'll make sure that it's updated with the actual data that's passed by this board.

▶ 1:07:06 Okay. Alderman Medeiros, I'm sorry to preempt your time. You have the floor. That's just fine, Mr. President. I think it complements it. um the dreaded question I must ask I think it's very exciting is how much does this cost the cost of the whole program was a one-time cost of $3,000 that we when we approved this program you guys you guys approved an order for it last year it's a one-time cost there's actually really quick there's like nine towns using its Arlington and over Mansfield Cohasset Essex Somerset born Lexington ourselves and what we've recently done also is at by being selected as a community compact there was a night an additional IT grant that was available and we actually formed a regional we won't have any more cost for

▶ 1:07:54 Monica C. Medeiros: this program but to possibly enhance and add some more user-friendly like dashboard and things the communities we applied for a regional application through the community compact for money to further enhance this next year but if not we're comfortable with the level of data that's being provided here but any time there's an opportunity for some state money we thought is a regional there's no like ongoing no there's no maintenance cost all the money was trained they trained us this gov and that that's it that's great and then just back to I think what mr. Della Russo had said that or I'm not sure if mr. Lindstrom that the last thing that's in there is the governor's budget governor's budget proposed budget so that has not just so the public knows

▶ 1:08:39 Monica C. Medeiros: that too that the legislature may very well that's a moving target out with different numbers too so that again is and you said that the actual real numbers are in place from 2012 to 2016 I thought when I saw the drop down that mr. Wilcox put up that there were some previous years prior to 2012 there no I don't maybe just be partial I think that might be part of what you could put in I think we decided look like 2007 so it's just poor angle I guess this gives good perspective on what was spent in previous years Donna would kill me if I had any more years so this has in it right now the operating budget are any of the outside enterprise fund budgets incorporated in here like water sewer enter no they are not do you anticipate that you know coming on board in the

▶ 1:09:43 future well these two reasons really what the first and foremost is that this was designed for the operating budget I secondly those are self supported by fees and rates and not supported by taxation so at some point if one of these and as Mike was saying one of those enhancements would allow for that absolutely we'll put that in I just we can get that additional grant to do that I'd love to do that I think the point of the first iteration of the software was to be able to actually get tax bill it was taxable in the operating budget to enter and to be accounted for which was the goal of this first round and so things like when it's we see things like funds like that doesn't include anything

▶ 1:10:25 Monica C. Medeiros: just that's that's kind of off-budget it doesn't include like like the revolve funds or all the evolving funds under 53 and a half no it does not so that stuff is completely separate how about and you know some of the things I guess that I that I'd like to see incorporated and perhaps it is and especially the Melrose maps maybe some election stuff the wards and precincts yep we have that I just show you real quick so as part of the layers I included it on page sorry page eight we have zoning let's go to the whole city this was a fun one this was out of the trash days so a resident if they're a new resident or they're moving to another part of the city they can actually go in and see the trash day and

▶ 1:11:21 as far as there you go I can tell you this year this came in handy I use this tool to estimate the override in a certain precinct for someone I used I actually traced all the parcels and I was able to answer that question in a couple hours instead of a couple days so it's very powerful to have this on my side in the office but yeah anytime there's any change to this map we'll update it okay and is there capability or something maybe to look forward to of incorporating some of the mapping of trails or things like that at Mount Hood or around in some of them right now the the way that we're actually doing trails open street map is of open source GIS site and that gives residents the ability to take a GPS on trails and actually map themselves and with some

▶ 1:12:21 Monica C. Medeiros: techie types they can actually add layers to this there are some trails that are over by the golf course that are in there I guess I can ask the Conservation Commission or recreation if they have any additional information and we can get it up I think that at times that maybe the open space project that Denise Gaffey had kind of led that a while back I think they had talked a little bit about it so it'd be great if it could be incorporated and you know especially if we get to the point where there is a phone app terrific to take with you thank you thank you Alderman Mortimer which one was out it was the map of the entire city yep no it's just kind of it's where oh yeah this is this is the one I'm interested yes does anyone know what this parallelogram is

▶ 1:13:18 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: here are these lines those are outlines for the surrounding city so that parallelogram is revere this is revere it actually touches melrose down the 99 line that's correct this is and that address that's that's a pretty comfortable property we get a we get a chunk of tax on the town line yeah the i think the uh motel hotel down there is actually partially in melrose that's all i have thank you mr president hey is there anybody else alderman thank you um this is this is going to be um fabulous for those people who are up at 3 a.m and want to data mine i'm only disappointed that we don't have the um water and sewer funds on there that'll be the next step i think if you can get any of those um kinds of funds in there eventually it will be helpful to everyone um but i think it's great

▶ 1:14:17 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: I think it's really awesome. I've just been playing around with the site a little bit while Chris has been going through it. And I actually looked at the map site a couple weeks ago, and I wondered, when you were talking about having it linked to other departments, so when you look at the zoning map and you can see what different neighborhoods are zoned for, does it link then to the planning department or the zoning regulations? So people, like if people want to build an addition on their house, they can see where their house is and then they can link to see that they have such and such a setback or such and such a height restriction or that kind of thing? Yes, we have the option of spatially showing where the zoning is, but also on each parcel we can attach data to it.

▶ 1:15:06 And part of the assessing data is the actual zone. so at some point we could put a link where they click on whatever the zone is and it can go to a document that stored all this is actually I should have mentioned this earlier this is all in the cloud we're not paying for any server for this we're not helping the IT department is only providing as I call the lights on this is a web-based product and it's on the cloud but we could restore one of those zoning documents on could link to like the zoning ordinances anything like on the trash piece where it says the trash day could link to the trash ordinance that says how many barrels you can put out or whatever my yes one of my projects that I really want to do is where someone

▶ 1:15:47 enters in an address for maybe a potential house or maybe the current residents and they see all the bills and everything city related and those links would be very important there where they can click on and get the documents that are relevant to their property and not just general documents and I think it's It's just amazing and I congratulate all of you for pursuing this and doing it in house so effectively. So good luck with it. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Orders before you, what's your pleasure? I'll place on file, Mr. President. Second. Alderman Mortimer moves to place the order on file. Alderman Boyce-Hell seconds the motion. On the motion, all those in favor of placing this order on file indicate by saying aye.

▶ 1:16:32 Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That order will be placed on file. Thank you for coming in. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Have a good evening. Great presentation. Okay, steaming along, do we have any orders out of committee? Any additional orders from committee this evening? I make a motion to remove order 2016-112 from committee. Alderman's work on moves that we remove order 2016-112, reappointment of Laura Palladino, 67 Ardsmoor Road to the Memorial Hall Board of Trustees for a three year term. Second the motion. second by alderman mortimer on the motion to remove the order from committee all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes the order is before you this order was recommended earlier this

▶ 1:17:44 evening in the public service committee motion recommend motion for passage second second for passage the order seconded by alderman mortimer is there any discussion all those in favor passage of the order indicate by saying aye Anyone opposed? That order passes. Do we have additional orders from committee? I make a motion for order 2016-111 to be removed from committee. Second. Alderman Zwerchel moves to remove order 2016-111, reappointment of Mary Ann Sexton, 19 Sears Ave., to the Memorial Hall Board of Trustees for a three-year term. Motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer on the motion to remove the order from committee. All those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. the order is removed from committee it is before you it was recommended earlier this evening in the

▶ 1:18:37 Peter D. Mortimer: public service committee motion for passage second alderman mcintyre margolis moves for passage of the order the motion is seconded by alderman voicel is there any discussion all those in favor of passage please indicate by saying aye aye is there anyone opposed that order passes mr president i make a motion to remove order 2016-109 the reappointment of matthew s hellman of 69 lindfeld's parkway to a three-year term on the human rights commission said term to expire on the last day of february 2019. alderman mortimer moves to take 2016 109 from the appropriations committee second seconded by alderman tram and tozi is there any discussion on the motion all those in favor please indicate by saying aye aye aye opposed motion passes the order is moved removed from committee

▶ 1:19:34 it is before you it was recommended earlier this evening in the committee on appropriations motion for passage second alderman wright moves for passage of the order the motion is seconded by alderman mortimer is there any discussion on this order all those in favor of passage please indicate by saying aye aye anyone opposed that order passes do we have any reports pursuant to rule 53 from alderman who are members of outs automatic representatives to outside committees Alderman Inferno thank you very much mr. president the traffic Commission met this past Wednesday and two of the orders will be taking up at our next meeting so that would be the chestnut Street as well as the Alden Street issues will be were tabled to the next

▶ 1:20:32 meeting and do you have the date of the next meeting Alderman it would be the third Wednesday in June I'm not sure of the date thank you any other reports from committees we could commence the calendar police order 2016 dash 108 reappointment of Susan Worrell 251 Upham Street to the council on aging for a three-year term said term to expire on the last day of February 2019 this water was recommended for passage in the HEW committee motion for passage second alderman Mortimer moves for passage the motion is seconded by alderman Lemmerman is there any discussion all those in favor of passage of the order indicate by saying aye aye anyone opposed that what it passes order 2016 17-107 reappointment of Francisco Branchero 276 Upham Street to the Board

▶ 1:21:26 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: of Health for a three-year term said term to expire on the last day of February 2019 this order came recommended for passage from the ATW committee Alderman Lumberman Thank You mr. president during our Health Education Welfare Committee meeting when we took up this order it was correctly pointed out that mr. Branchero no longer lives at 276 Upham Street so I'd like to make a motion to amend this order to reflect his current correct address which is 14 Geneva Road second the motion motion to amend to correct the discrepancy in the address of the applicant the motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer on the motion to amend all those in favor aye anyone opposed motion is passed the order as amended is before you motion for passage as amended

▶ 1:22:14 mr. president second Alderman Mortimer moves for passage of the order as amended the motion is seconded by Alderman Lemmerman do we have any discussion all those in favor of passage of the order please indicate by saying aye aye is there anyone opposed that order passes order 2016-110 reappointment of Joseph P Nevin jr. 415 East Foster Street to the liquor licensing Commission for a six-year term said term to expire on the first Monday in June 2021 this order comes to you recommended from the Committee on Protection and License motion for passage mr. president again Alderman Mortimer moves the passage of the order the motion is seconded by Alderman Boycelle any discussion relative to the motion all those in favor please indicate by saying aye

▶ 1:23:02 okay is there anyone opposed that order passes order 2016-113 reappointment of Edward W Waystack the third 50 Glen Street to serve as a trustee of the Melrose Public Library for a three-year term said term to expire at the last day of February 2019 and this order was recommended for passage in committee motion for passage second right moves for passage second by Alderman Lemmerman is there any discussion all those in favor of passage please indicate by Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That order passes. Board of 2016-117, accept fiscal year 16 state 911 support and incentive grant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety in the amount of $56,187 to fund number 2595.

▶ 1:23:56 Okay. The Committee on Protection and License recommended passage of this order. Motion for passage. Second. McAteer-Margolis moves for passage the motion is seconded by Alderman Boycelle is there any discussion relative to the motion yes yes yes yes yes yes president yes yes 10 years that order passes order 2016-118 donation from the Connor Trust Fund and the amount of $85,000 to fund a feasibility study for renovations to the Melrose Public Library said funds to be deposited into fund number 2886 this order was recommended for passage in the HEW committee motion for passage second Alderman Lemmerman moves for passage. The motion is seconded by Alderman Boisselle. Is there any discussion relative to the motion?

▶ 1:25:05 Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll? Alderman Boisselle. Yes. He is Alderman Inferna. Yes. He is Alderman Lemmerman. Yes. He is Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Yes. He is Alderman Medeiros. Yes. He is Alderman Mortimer. Yes. He is Alderman Tramontozzi. Yes. He is Alderman Wright. Yes. He is Alderman Zwirko. Yes. He is President Conn. Yes. He is 10 years. That order passes. Order 2016-116, accept grant in the amount of $641,000 from the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, MassWorks Infrastructure Program, set funds to be deposited into fund number 4019. This order was recommended for passage by the Public Works Committee. Motion for passage. Second. Alderman Medeiros moves for passage.

▶ 1:25:52 The motion is seconded by Alderman Boisselle. Is there discussion? Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll? Alderman Boisselle. Yes. Alderman Inferna. Yes. Alderman Lemmerman. Yes. Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Yes. Alderman Medeiros. Yes. Alderman Mortimer. Yes. Alderman Tramontozzi. Yes. Alderman Wright. Yes. Alderman Zircon. Yes. Alderman Conn. Yes. That order passes. Order 2016-114, authorization to execute Five-year lease agreement with All-American Investment Group, LLC, for the purchase of a new 2015 Vactor sewer truck. The Public Works Committee voted to recommend this order for passage. Motion for passage. Second. Alderman Inferno moves for passage. Motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer. Is there discussion on the motion?

▶ 1:26:48 Could you please call the roll? Alderman Boisselle? Yes. Yes. Alderman Inferno? Yes. Yes. Alderman Lemmerman? Yes. Yes. Solomon McAteer-Margolis. Yes. Yes. Solomon Medeiros. Yes. Yes. Solomon Mortimer. Yes. Yes. Solomon Tramontozzi. Yes. Yes. Solomon Wright. Yes. Yes. Solomon Zverko. Yes. Yes. President Kahn. Yes. Yes. 10 yes. That order passes. Order 2016-115, authorization to accept a grant in the amount of $8,000 from the Massachusetts Associates of Health Boards in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Public health and to execute an agreement with the massachusetts association of health boards massachusetts department of public health this order was recommended by the hew committee motion

▶ 1:27:33 for passage second alderman Boisselle moves for passage the motion is seconded by alderman lemmerman is their discussion relative to the motion would you call the role please alderman Boisselle yes yes alderman inferna yes yes alderman lemmerman yes yes alderman makati margolis yes he is all the medeiros yes yes alderman mortimer yes yes alderman trey matosi yes he is alderman right yes he is alderman Zwirko yes he is president Conn yes he is 10 years that order passes motion to adjourn mr president seconded alderman mortimer moves that we adjourn the meeting the motion is seconded by alderman Zwirko all those in favor of adjournment please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Is there anybody who opposes adjourning? Motion passes. The

▶ 1:28:21 board stands adjourned. Thank you folks.

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