City Council — 2016-10-17

City Council Regular Meeting

Attendance

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 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● OCTOBER 17, 2016 Aldermanic Chamber, Melrose City Hall Regular Meeting 7:45 PM 562 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176

ORDER-2017-33 Opening Statement Regular Meeting of the Board of Aldermen to be held on Monday, October 17, 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 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 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-2017-30 Utility Petition Petition of National Grid for installation of underground conduit at 204 Howard Street (install 9-5" concrete encased conduits from National Grid driveway to MH 523 Howard Street) in accordance with Plan #16528668, dated September 27, 2016. Passed as Amended

ORDER-2017-34 Presentation Presentation on AARP's Event on Preventing Identity Theft Placed on File

ORDER-2017-35 Grant Acceptance of the Regional EOAF Grant in the amount of $40,000, to be deposited in fund #4025. Assigned to Committee Finance Committee

ORDER-2017-36 Appropriation City of Melrose Page 1 12/30/2016 2:30 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen October 17, 2016 An Appropriation of $9,593.40 From the Contract Stabilization Fund to various accounts as set forth herein for the funding of the first year of the new three year contract most recently executed between the City of Melrose and the Local 272 Clerical Union. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-25 Request Amend Section 220-89 of the Melrose Traffic Code to adjust commercial permit parking fee Passed

ORDER-2017-26 Bond Authorization of a Bond in the amount of $540,500 through the MWRA's Sewer System I/I Local Financial Assistance Program. Passed

ORDER-2017-27 Bond Bond in the amount of $400,000 for Design and Project Management Services for Modular Classrooms at the Winthrop and Hoover Schools and Renovations to the Horace Mann School Passed

ORDER-2017-29 Request Be it hereby requested that the appropriate designee of the City Clerk of the City of Melrose appear before the Board of Aldermen of the City of Melrose to discuss the implementation of the new "Early Voting" procedures. Placed on File City of Melrose Page 2 12/30/2016 2:30 PM

Transcript

▶ 0:00 Okay, if everybody could come to order. Good evening, everyone. My name is Donald Conn. This is the regular meeting of the Melrose Board of Aldermen for October 17th, 2016. Could you please call the roll, Ms. O'Shea? Alderman Boisselle? Here. Here. Alderman Forbes? Here. Here. Alderman Infurna? Here. Here. Alderman Lemmerman? Here. Here. Alderman McAteer-Margolis? Here. Here. Alderman Medeiros? Here. Here. Alderman Mortimer? Here. Here. Alderman Tramontozzi? Here. Here. Alderman Wright? Here. Here. Alderman Zwirko? Here. Here, President Conn. Here. Here, 11 present. Okay, we have a quorum, could you all please rise and join in saluting the flag? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

▶ 0:42 and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. President, I make a motion to open the floor for public participation. Second. Alderman Mortimer moves that we commence public participation. The motion is seconded by Alderman Forbes before I call for a vote on the motion. Everybody should be aware that this meeting is being videotaped and will be rebroadcast on local Melrose cable television. On the motion to suspend the rules, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes, the rules are suspended. This is the portion of our meeting where any member of the general public can come to the table in the center of the room,

▶ 1:30 identify themselves, and speak relative to any issue which is on the agenda for this evening. Is there anybody who wishes to speak? Come forward please. That's it. Anyone else? Motion to close public participation. Hi, my name's Jerry Rose. Thank you for having two of my most passionate topics on the agenda, info infiltration and education. Two with one. You know, absolutely, there's no question that we should vote to bond $540,500 at 0% interest to do inflow and filtration work with the extra benefit of getting $1.5-plus million free from the MWRA. No-brainer, right? The problem with that, though, is that if we limit it, again, as I've been saying for years here, to the money the MWRA provides us, that's what everybody else is using across the whole MWRA, and we don't make headway relative to everybody else to actually lower our water and sewer bills.

▶ 2:57 Even if we save that much infiltration into the ground or that much inflow, if everybody else doesn't commensurate with us, our water rates don't go down, our sewer rates don't go down. So this idea that administration presents that, oh, we have a program now instead of projects. It's nice to be organized and know what we're doing and get the biggest bang for the buck. But if somebody doesn't take the lead and say we're going to invest substantially in I&I improvement in this city, we're going to be suffering and sitting here year after year and year complaining about our high sewer bills. Now, I heard two competing issues the other night at the Thursday night meeting. and and and I do want to interject here that there hasn't been good public

▶ 3:56 process in my view for either of these issues we still haven't had you know when this is coming up there hasn't been an opportunity to hear the realm of all the issues that need to be addressed in inflow infiltration or in regards to modular classrooms but what I heard the other night was very telling I heard on On the one hand, we had our administration saying, oh, we're well below our debt limit, so we can easily do this. Pay no attention to the details of it. We're going to be 4% or 5% below that. No problem. But then on the other hand, I heard our administration saying, oh, well, you know, we got to look at our debt limit, and we don't want to do more I&I work maybe until FY20 because then

▶ 4:38 something else will be coming off the debt, and so we'll be able to add more then. The two are integrated, right? Every bit of money we waste on a modular classroom project or for something that's not critical to doing that is then not available to us at some level for inflow and infiltration, which is the best investment we can possibly make in this district. Another element that stands out clearly to me is that we have this rush to do modular classes because, oh, heavens, we might not have room for kids in kindergarten next September, right? it's almost like the pork in Washington right you lay in something else it's not a part of that thing but we're going to pass it along with it anyway and

▶ 5:29 irrespective of whether Horace Mann needs to have some better spaces or not that's not the issue why you're rushing right now about modular classrooms right Horace Mann is not going to take any more students next year with that renovation so those issues ought to be separated and I believe that there's a real good discussion to have around horace mann and around the schools in general that's not happened the mayor is willing to kick the can down the road as he described the other night about at some point in the future beyond me we have to have a conversation about the winter school well what i've seen this district do time and again right now is to put money into the schools without a valid master plan that addresses education facilities in our district all

▶ 6:14 We're working on a master plan. As far as I can tell, we're not necessarily doing a good job around facilities with that. But there are so many issues that you're making this decision about that you don't have in the room with you. You don't have in the room that large elementary schools, very large ones, are much better academically for students, much better professional development-wise for teachers, much better economically for administration. you know this idea this lovely concept of you know neighborhood schools that we want to hold out this facade of oh aren't we so wonderful with neighborhood schools you know they aren't necessarily neighborhood schools as plenty of disappointed new homeowners will tell you they

▶ 6:57 moved into the district of this school and suddenly their kid ends up over here that's not a neighborhood school you know the school district calls a school choice now and of course it's only your choice based on whether or not it fits their needs of where they can put you again these issues aren't present in your decision. They weren't present Thursday night in your decision. The other issue that certainly isn't in your decision that, you know, this NASDAQ, I don't even know what I want to call it. I don't want to even do it justice by calling it a study. I was around last November when they came here and presented the stuff. They told us nothing that we didn't already know. It wasn't already public information. And they made

▶ 7:39 representations that frankly had no basis for anybody to make a decision on you can't make a decision today based on what they said validly based on what they said you can't make a valid decision on deciding to build up these modular classes because of what they said another larger issue about modular classrooms that that makes me wonder about them is that modular classrooms will be forever stuck at the elementary schools if the wave moves up into middle in high school at some point you can't just pick them up and go and bring them over to the fells way and put them on the the the cabbage patch or something it doesn't work right but and i know there are some people who are parochial about their kids and don't want their fifth grade is

▶ 8:27 suddenly to be up at the middle school with all those nasty bad kids and who were you know at these little elementary schools before but the thing is is that fifth grade going to the middle school is a far better opportunity academically and socially for them than staying in what a lot of them feel is in a school that's not engaging them anymore they've already been there for five years they're done with it they want to move on but what are we going to do because a few parents called you or called mayor Dolan are called some school committee members suddenly we're going to say that oh oh you know we absolutely have to have all the fifth graders stay in the elementary schools educationally nobody made any

▶ 9:11 investigation as to what would be good for our fifth graders or our eighth graders for that matter there's you know I can back up every proposal that I have and I hope you understand this about me I can back them up with data I can back them up with solutions you know the idea about being a fortune to house the administration somewhere I'd rather see you put some modular offices in the dead space between the middle school and high school to put administration there with one connection to the high school so they can use the bathroom when they want to you know that solves that solution now you've got eighth graders being able to mix in between the middle school and the high school as they need you've got

▶ 9:49 fifth graders being able to be up in the middle school integrating with things the range of possibilities that's with that option you're foreclosing on if you agree to go ahead tonight with these modular classrooms I also want to bring into the room here the fact that you know you know I go to meetings and you know I pay attention you know I participate any opportunity that I'm given I went to that meeting in May that was supposed to be the meeting that everybody's referring to that we had the input from the community there was no community input we could write something on an index card and hand it in and I I can tell you none of the concerns I put in those index cards were ever brought up

▶ 10:31 or addressed at that meeting. Is that valid public process? I've asked you here for better public process so many times around a variety of issues. In the short time you give me tonight, it does not do justice to the complicated decision that needs to be made. Now it's great for the administration to walk in here and say, oh, we've got a wonderful opportunity for you. Just vote for this and give us $4.4 million. I don't even know if the $4.4 includes the $400,000 for the architect or not. But it is more complicated than they present to you. I went to school building committee meetings. Not every one of them. But there wasn't a process where people were talking about what's the educational viability

▶ 11:17 of modular classrooms versus an eighth grade academy and a fifth grade into the middle school. Middle schools in the country are grades five to eight, by the way. It's a great process where you actually can develop a really good culture around eighth graders actually being great integrated role models for fifth graders as they develop. It gives the eighth graders a good opportunity to stand up and be good humans when a lot of them might otherwise do something else, when you give them responsibility. Some of the best schools take their older kids and make them mentors for the younger kids and bring them through. aren't doing that here again i could go on and on and on with with so many of those things um

▶ 12:04 i would love to be able to have an opportunity to do that and show you the information behind all these issues if you vote tonight for modular classrooms and the bond it's done a couple other quick points that i'd like to make we aren't getting the benefit of good competitive bidding in these projects you've all heard the administration here talking about oh our team with tapay and with with with charlie hay and with patrick and all these things and how wonderful it is well who's going to waste the time to bid out a project if it's already a done deal for tapay right how do we know somebody else who doesn't know us might come in and say hey i got a great idea that because i don't know you i'm able to see because i'm not embedded with you all the time

▶ 12:49 we only got two bidders for the simple little design work we did what does that tell you it's supposed to be i mean i'm sure it'll be advertised properly but have we undermined our public policy goals of having good new exciting cost-effective solutions through a public bidding process that's open and available to everybody i i throw that out i mean when i hear the talk at these meetings sometimes certain things stand out and i i heard a lot of that at the school committee meeting i even heard it the other night uh you know the mayor's talking about their great team we've had them with the Lincoln and I can't remember all the different whether it's a Lincoln or Roosevelt they weren't with or whatever but you know the science labs and you know even doing the

▶ 13:33 Hoover windows everything else in terms of water and sewer we've been over this before but still it goes unrebutted when administration presents this this idea that we have to take money from from people and stick it in an account and let it sit there forever, for perpetuity because we need, quote, some reserves for some future thing that's not happening is ridiculous. We needed that money yesterday. We needed that money last year, two years ago, three years ago, yet to do I&I work, what did we do with it? We stuck it in an account. It's doing nothing for us there. As long as we're making large capital improvements year by year into our water and sewer system we don't need to have those reserves there's three ways of paying

▶ 14:27 for projects right you can pay for them operationally every year boom we're going to pay this money for something you can pay for them later on by getting the money now through a bond and paying them over time or you can prepay them and have the money there to pay for them now we're wasting the resources of our water and sewer rate payers by letting as much money sitting in there like is it a million dollars now between the two i don't know it's you know there's so many numbers are thrown around there it's crazy and the surplus this year is going to be huge right the problem the problem is is that like i and i is the thing that gives us the best return on investment had we done i and i instead of these water meters we'd start to be seeing in

▶ 15:09 this fiscal year the benefit of that but we're not and again i want to emphasize that until we get together don't just act like oh we've got this great program until we get together and actually invest substantial money in I&I it's not going to help us all the money you bond and spend if you do it the same rate as everybody else with MWRA funds it gets us nowhere so where's the solution going to come from it's not coming from the mayor it's not coming from the water and sewer department it's not coming from the water and sewer committee when When there's a gap like this in the city, where does it come from? Does the buck stop with you? Do you have to do something or are you powerless to do something?

▶ 15:53 Do you have to wait for the mayor to say, oh, we should bond something out for I&I and make it work, we should use reserves? You do have the power here. You know you do. At one level or another, you have the power to make something work. It's not happening. So thank you again for voting to bond the $540,500, which allows us to get free over 1.5 million, and the 540,000 is a zero-interest loan. And that's great for the work that'll do. But if we don't do better than everybody else, we're stuck in the same hamster wheel we've always been in. And, you know, the modular classrooms and spending extra money on Horace Mann, and, you know, if we already – last point, and then I'll go. know we already went 26 years violating federal law with Americans with

▶ 16:48 Disabilities Act 1990 when President Bush signed that 26 years we've gone without making that accessible we have other schools we haven't made accessible either certainly nothing's fully accessible except a new building you know you really should look at what the thresholds are but how much money you put into Horace man before you are forced to make it all compliant you're probably under that but really do we want to keep investing more money in in these schools that aren't doing anything for us especially the smallest ones and not to figure out a way of making our facilities provide opportunities for us educationally because right now our facilities and it's not whether they're old or new it's not whether they're pretty or ugly you know i i know places in india that in the middle of

▶ 17:37 nowhere that are the most decrepit places in the world that do some of the best education right what it's about is providing the right structure educationally not physically and so please i know they want you to rush it i know it's presented to you and you have to vote today or it's not going to happen and everybody's and you're going to have people screaming that there's nobody in school next september but can you take a step back can you separate the horace man from the other modular things can you take a step back from both of them and say what's the opportunity at the middle school in high school because when you have a wave goes through there and now you have too many kids you're not going

▶ 18:17 to take sixth graders and put them back in the modular classrooms at Horace Mann and Winthrop are you you know there are so many issues there I'd like the opportunity to have the issues fully discussed in vetted and have some rebuttal to the the the pre-gone conclusions that are brought here by administration thank you thank you sir anybody else who wishes to speak this evening motion to close public participation second Alderman Mortimer moves to close public participation motion is seconded by Alderman Porcel on the motion all those in favor aye opposed motion passes motion to commence the public hearing for order number 2017-30 second yeah we do have a motion uh a public hearing scheduled tonight which is petition of national grid for installation of

▶ 19:12 underground conduit at 204 howard street there's been a motion made and seconded to commence the public hearing all those in favor aye aye anyone opposed motion passes anybody who was here this evening to speak at the public hearing please come forward identify themselves is there a representative for national from national grid could you come forward please sir if you could describe the project particularly focusing on the work that national grid is proposing to do whether there's going to be disruption to a public street or a public sidewalk that would be greatly appreciated absolutely national grid is looking to install some new conduit starting at the existing substation at 204 howard street and the conduit will extend to the existing manhole 523a that is

▶ 20:19 that is currently in the sidewalk right outside the substation grounds. The construction will require the sidewalk to be dug up, which will subsequently be repaired to its original condition by National Grid. If anyone would like to see it, I do have some prints showing the civil construction that will be taking place. And can you describe how long the trench will be and how much the sidewalk will be disturbed? trench in the public right away will be approximately 20 feet the actual construction starting from the substation before it gets to the public right away and the sidewalk is roughly 200 feet or so if you could step back for a second we want to see if anybody else is here and then I'm sure the

▶ 21:07 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: board will have questions for you sir is there anybody else here this evening to speak on this issue? Apparently not. Motion to close the public hearing. Second. Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves to conclude the public hearing portion, seconded by Alderman Inferno. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Sir, if you could come forward again, please. I'm sure some of the aldermen will have questions for you. Alderman Lemmerman. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you very much for being here this evening. Just a couple of questions. So I see in the conditions, I noticed that you're you're just getting that print out have you seen these before i have not seen this one before so this is something that you would have to make sure we're um you know conditions that

▶ 21:55 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: you could meet for this yep um the it looks like the hours will be limited to nine third from 9 30 to 3 30. um and this is this street howard street in general is an extremely busy street in in in Melrose will you have a police detail for the time that you're there it's a busy road we generally have police detail yes great and I also want to just make sure that you will notify all the neighbors in the area I know that it's sort of right in front of your property but there's a lot of neighbors around the um so the on the petition that we submit it has an abutters list on it too so all the people that live in the area will generally be notified before the construction begins do you know how long this should take it's not a lot of work

▶ 22:49 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: if I were to I'm not unfortunately not operation that's good but I would assume it would take anywhere from one to three days okay and this might be more of a question for DPW who I know is not here this evening so I might this is also very close to the Saugus border I think it's within my memory I believe it is maybe within a mile or so I'm not 100% sure on that one though okay I mean my question would just be what you know is this something that we should notify this the town of Saugus as well that this will be going on just to be good neighbors that this is happening but that might not be it might be for DPW I can follow up on that and it's only the sidewalk that will be disrupted it's not

▶ 23:41 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: the street itself yes only sidewalk and that will all be put back yep at the end yep it will be basically rebuilt to original condition great okay thank you very much thank you anyone else okay what is before you I'm sorry one of the conditions is in regard to an additional trench that the city might require use of at some point is that something that you're aware of and willing and able to supply. Which one is that? Number seven. It's access to your conduit. It's not a trench. It's granting access to your conduit. Right. But for city purposes. In the case of this, if we're not actually requesting it, the extra one, but I think we usually want to have access to it if necessary. That can be done. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Would you be looking for a

▶ 24:48 Monica C. Medeiros: a motion to accept uh to attach the conditions to this order mr president Welch i i really wouldn't be looking for anything that would be up to the will of the board of all the ministers whether that's something that they're interested in if i was sitting there i would probably be interested in adopting the conditions that have been put forward by our city department alderman Lemmerman already mentioned these uh conditions but just uh to make sure we're all tidy i would like to move to add the conditions listed in the memorandum from elena proakis ellis our city engineer to the board of aldermen dated october 17 2016 which is in our packet to the order second alderman medeiros moves that we add the conditions set forth in the october 17th communication from

▶ 25:40 the public works department to the grant of location for the performance of the work the motion is seconded by alderman mortimer is there any discussion relative to the motion you have the floor all the materials then and in that same vein i'd like to move to add that we also have the applicant notify the town of saugus within 48 hours prior to the commencement of the work to be performed as well second okay what i would like to do is call for a vote on the initial motion and then we'll hold second motion in abeyance and we'll see how motion number one makes out and then we'll move down the road on the motion to accept the conditions recommended by the uh public works department all those in favor aye anyone opposed motion passes alderman medeiros is moving that we add

▶ 26:36 an additional condition condition number eight that the town of saugus be notified prior to the performance of the work the motion has been seconded by alderman mortimer is there any discussion on that motion all those in favor of the motion to further amend the grant location to accept condition number eight indicate by saying aye aye aye anyone opposed motion passes the order is so amended is there any further discussion on the order as amended and re-amended motion recommend alderman lemmerman moves for passage second seconded by alderman forbes is there any discussion on the motion all those in favor please indicate by saying aye aye anyone opposed thank you very much sir thank you thank you if we could now move on to communications

▶ 27:29 from his honor the mayor and other city officials order 2017-34 presentation on aarp's event on preventing identity theft. Alderman Boycelle. A motion for immediate consideration on this order 2017-34. Alderman Boycelle requests immediate consideration of order 2017-34. Is there an objection to immediate consideration? There is not. Motion to suspend the rules to hear from the representative from the AARP, Jane Ahern DePillipe, to discuss the upcoming lecture on preventing identity theft that. Second the motion. I think it already was seconded. Motion was made by Alderman Boisselle to suspend the rules. Motion is seconded by Alderman Medeiros on the motion. All those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. The order is before you if you'd like to discuss the

▶ 28:23 the order please. Good evening everyone. For those of you who don't know me I'm Jane Ahern DeFilippi. I am a resident of Ward 4. I am on the Executive Council of Melrose Council on Aging and I am also on the executive council of Massachusetts AARP. For those of you who don't know what AARP is, we're a non-profit, a politically non-partisan organization, a social welfare organization, and our membership in the entire United States is about 38 million, and our purpose is to provide a good quality of life for persons over the age of 50. Now, one of the things that is causing a lot of problems in the quality of life as experienced by not only our senior members of society but also everyone is the prevalence of fraud

▶ 29:14 and that takes place in minuscule little everyday incidences that happen within the town of Melrose city of Melrose and telephone calls from fraudsters were trying to separate people from their money and that's why I'm really here today there for those of you who are familiar with a recent film and I'll go right to it catch me if you can this is an or this is a film about a young man who did some marvelous things between the ages of 17 and 21 certainly nothing that I ever did. He was able to steal so many millions of dollars by writing fraudulent checks. Again, that's something that we see frequently. He portrayed himself as a doctor, a lawyer, and an airline pilot. He did so many terrible, terrible things that they had

▶ 30:19 a movie about him. But the reason that I'm here tonight is because that man, Frank Abagnale, has joined with AARP in order to help people understand how fraud takes place. And he will be coming to Memorial Hall on November the 15th. You all have this little flyer set out for you. I want you to know that this is only one of eight cities in the United States that Frank Abagnale will be coming to visit. And that's why I really felt it was important for, we all felt it was important to be here, to let you know that this man, this important person, is going to be coming into your city, visiting perhaps people who are from all of your wards, but also the surrounding towns and villages. So we wanted to make sure that you knew that there were going to be an awful lot of people coming to see him at Memorial Hall on November the 15th.

▶ 31:20 everyone is invited please know that this is an AARP sponsored event but it's no ways limited to persons who are AARP members you don't even have to be 50 years of age to come and see him it is a totally free event the only thing that we request for the purposes of the fire department and the police department is that you do register and then we would love to have you there I'd be willing to certainly entertain any questions about any arp or about this particular event thank you very much orders before you do we have questions or a motion motion to place on file second alderman inferno moves to place this order on file motion seconded by alderman Boisselle on the motion all those in favor anyone opposed okay thank you very much that order will be placed on file and

▶ 32:15 hopefully you'll have good attendance at your event thank you so very much order 2017-35 acceptance of the regional eoaf grant in the amount of forty thousand dollars to be deposited in fund number four zero two five this order will be referred to the committee on finance order 2017-36 an appropriation of nine thousand five hundred ninety three dollars forty cents from the contract stabilization fund to various accounts is set forth herein for the funding of the first year of the new three-year contract most recently executed between the city of melrose and the local 272 clerical unions this order will be referred to the committee on appropriations we have any new business this evening are there any orders out of order we have any orders from

▶ 33:15 Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis: committee okay are there any reports from alderman who are members of non aldermanic committees pursuant to rule 53 yes mr. president the library building committee met and we had an opportunity to review some preliminary drawings from the architect and discuss timelines and plans for possible grant applications next year has that committee scheduled another meeting not at this time but we will be meeting again I believe before the grant is submitted thank you hey could we move on to the calendar please order 2017-25 amend section 220-89 of the Melrose traffic code to adjust commercial permit parking fee. This order comes recommended from the Committee on Appropriation. Is there a discussion

▶ 34:19 relative to this order? Motion to recommend. Excuse me? Motion to recommend? Passage. Is there a second? Second. Motion made by Alderman Boisselle to recommend. Seconded by Alderman Mortimer. Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll, please? Alderman Boisselle. Yes. Yes. Alderman Forbes. Yes. Yes. Alderman Inferna. Yes. Yes. Alderman Lemmerman. Yes. Yes. Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Order 2017-26, authorization of a bond in the amount of $540,500 through the MWRA's Sewer System I.I. Local Financial Assistance Program. sort of was recommended for passage in the Committee on Appropriations motion for passage second Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves for passage the

▶ 35:21 Monica C. Medeiros: motion is seconded by Alderman Forbes is their discussion relative to the motion for passage Alderman Medeiros thank you I just want to say a few words and just clarify that I know that was brought up today in public participation and in and also i think one of the emails that was brought to our attention and why don't we use a different source of funds for this or why don't we the aldermen spend more money to do more work and i just want to point out and clarify that you know our job here is i know all of you know in the chamber but obviously to make it clear to the people at home that we are presented proposals by the administration being the the mayor's office and that's that's his role as the executive

▶ 36:08 Monica C. Medeiros: in our role as the legislative body that handles um voting on the appropriations and the legislative part of it we can approve things we can only we can cut things but we we can say no but we really can't change and add more proposals we're not like the house of representatives that can start spending bills and things like that so things uh in order to spend money need to come before us from the mayor's office so thank you thank you anyone else who wishes to discuss this order can you call the roll please alderman Boisselle yes yes alderman forbes yes yes solomon inferno yes yes alderman lemmerman yes yes alderman mcintyre margolis yes yes alderman Medeiros yes yes alderman Mortimer. Yes. Yes. Alderman Tramontozzi. Yes. Yes. Alderman Wright. Yes. Yes. Alderman Zwirko. Yes. Yes. President Conn. Yes. Yes. 11 yes. That order passes.

▶ 37:14 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: Order 2017-27, bond in the amount of $400,000 for design and project management services for modular classrooms at the Winthrop and Hoover schools and renovations to the Horace Mann school. this order was recommended by the committee on appropriations motion for passage mr president second alderman mortimer moves for passage the motion is seconded by alderman boycelle on discussion alderman Lemmerman thank you mr president um i just wanted to take a moment to address some of the issues brought up around the horse man renovations um and just you know stress that this is this is certainly a facilities issue this is not a cosmetic issue what's what's proposing to be done here currently we do not have the spaces that are needed for the proper

▶ 38:01 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: curriculum we are sort of stuffing everything into one room at the end of the building so it's certainly not cosmetic ADA compliance is a real concern and a real issue and I think the fact that it hasn't been we have buildings that haven't been in compliance for 26 years is really just all the more reason to take advantage of the opportunity but finally and perhaps most importantly which was brought up during our meeting is the safety issue at Horace Mann which is that you can literally get very far into this building before anybody even sees you and that you have to check in there's no line of vision and there's no check-in point which this does rectify originally this was looked at as a place for modulars you know after some some real analysis it didn't make sense

▶ 38:42 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: there but in fact the modules really only dealt with one of those issues and and the way that we're proposing it now or that's before us now that's being proposed deals with all three so just wanted to make sure that that was something that you know the public was aware of as we were taking this vote thank you thank you all anyone else who wishes to speak on this order follow the role please harlem and brazil yes yes solomon forbes yes yes solomon inferno yes yes solomon lemmerman yes yes solomon mcintyre margolis yes yes solomon medeiros yes yes solomon mortimer yes yes solomon trematosi yes yes all Alderman Wright? Yes. Yes. Alderman Zwirko? Yes. Yes. President Conn? Yes. Yes. 11 yes. That order passes.

▶ 39:28 Order 2017-29, be it hereby requested that the appropriate designee of the city clerk of the City of Melrose appear before the Board of Aldermen of the City of Melrose to discuss the implementation of the new early voting procedures. This order comes from committee with a recommendation to place on file after we had a presentation relative to early voting at our committee meeting. Motion to place on file. Second. Alderman Forbes moves to place the order on file. The motion is seconded by Alderman Boycelle. Is there discussion relative to this order? Alderman Medeiros. Thank you. And just a reminder that early voting starts on October 24th. Thank you. On the motion to place the order on file, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed?

▶ 40:15 Motion passes. That order will be placed on file. Motion to adjourn, Mr. President. Second. Alderman Mortimer moves to adjourn. The motion is seconded by Alderman Forbes. On the motion for adjournment, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. The meeting is hereby adjourned.

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