City Council — 2017-02-21

City Council Regular Meeting

This meeting starts at 8:37 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 present · Ward 7 Alderman; Gail Infurna present · Ward 5 Alderman; Jennifer L. Lemmerman absent · Ward 2 Alderman; Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis present · Alderman at Large; Monica C. Medeiros absent · 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● FEBRUARY 21, 2017 Aldermanic Chamber, Melrose City Hall Regular Meeting 7:45 PM 562 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176

ORDER-2017-97 Opening Statement Regular Meeting of the Board of Aldermen to be held on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 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 Absent Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis Alderman at Large Present Monica C. Medeiros Alderman at Large Absent 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-2017-98 Appointment Appointment of Charles Harak, 14 Country Club Road, to the Melrose Housing Authority to fill the unexpired term of Frank Giso; said term to expire on the first Monday of March, 2022. Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2017-99 Appointment Reappointment of Kathryn Harlow, 42 Lynde St., to the Human Rights Commission for her first full term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2020. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-100 Appointment City of Melrose Page 1 4/21/2017 1:33 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen February 21, 2017 Reappointment of Adam LaFrance, 46 Trenton St., to the Human Rights Commission for a second full term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2020. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-101 Appointment Appointment of Samantha Hawkins, 17 Circuit St., to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2020. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-102 Appointment Appointment of Andrea Razi-Thomas, 106 Walton Park, to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2020. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-103 Appointment Appointment of Michael Stankavish, 610-A Main Street, to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2020. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-104 Appointment Appointment of Elish Barker, 77 Maple Street, to the Commission on Women to fill the unexpired term of Katy Kennedy; said term to end on the last day of February 2019. Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2017-105 Establishment of Fund Establishment of the Melrose Commission on Women Donation Fund (Fund #2888) Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-106 Transfer City of Melrose Page 2 4/21/2017 1:33 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen February 21, 2017 A transfer from Projected Debt Interest (017522-549100), in the amount of $7,850.73 to various Inspectional Services accounts as set forth within.. Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2017-107 Resolution A RESOLUTION, honoring Maribeth Harrington for her contributions to the City of Melrose as Clerk of Committees. Placed on File

ORDER-2017-86 Appointment Appointment of Maureen Burnham, 72 Damon Ave., to the Melrose Commission on Women for a three-year term; said term to end on the last day of February 2020. Passed

ORDER-2017-92 License - Common Victualler Licenses renewed: Common Victualler for the year commencing January 1, 2017 Placed on File

ORDER-2017-93 License - Common Victualler Licenses Not Renewed: Common Victualler for the year commencing January 1, 2017 Placed on File

ORDER-2017-94 License - Class II Motor Vehicle Licenses renewed: Class II Motor Vehicle for the year commencing January 1, 2017 Placed on File

ORDER-2017-95 License - Class II Motor Vehicle Licenses Not Renewed: Class II Motor Vehicle for the year commencing January l, 2017 Placed on File

ORDER-2017-87 Grant City of Melrose Page 3 4/21/2017 1:33 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen February 21, 2017 Acceptance of the EMD FY 2017 Training Grant in the amount of $76,070.61 from the Commonwealth of Mass., Executive Office of Public Safety (EOPS); Fund #4006 Passed

ORDER-2017-89 Grant Acceptance of training grant in the amount of $2,550 from the Association of Food and Drug Officials to attend the National Environmental Health Association Conference; Fund #4511 Passed

ORDER-2017-88 Grant Acceptance of Food Establishment Training Grant in the amount of $12,150 from the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO); Fund #4510 Passed

ORDER-2017-91 License - Common Victualler Application of Mohammed Riad Karcouche and Djillali Belabbes for a Common Victualler License: DJ&R LLC d/b/a Gerry's Pizza, 517 Main Street, Melrose, MA Passed

ORDER-2017-85 Appointment Reappointment of Jessica Joy Buster to the Melrose Commission on Women for a three-year term; said term to end on the last day of February 2020. Passed

ORDER-2017-90 Bond Authorization of a Bond in the amount of $5,950,000.00 to pay for costs of fabricating and installing modular classrooms at Hoover and Winthrop Schools and for renovations at the Horace Mann Elementary School Passed

ORDER-2017-96 Grant Acceptance of the FY 2017 State 911 Department Support and Incentive Grant in the amount of $56,187.00 from the Commonwealth of Mass., Executive Office of Public Safety (EOPS); Fund #2595 Passed City of Melrose Page 4 4/21/2017 1:33 PM

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▶ 8:24 seconded by Alderman Wiesel all in favor aye opposed this committee is adjourned stay tuned for the full committee which will be beginning shortly what could come to order please welcome everybody this evening my name is Donald Kahn this is the regular meeting of the Melrose Board of Aldermen for February 21st, 2017. Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll, please? Alderman Fussell? Here. Alderman Forbes? Here. Here. Alderman Inferno? Here. Here. Alderman Emmerman? Alderman McAteer-Margolis? Here. Here. Alderman Medeiros? Alderman Mortimer? Here. Here. Alderman Tramontozzi? Here. Here. Alderman Wright? Here. Here. Alderman Zwirko? Here. Here. President Kahn? Here. Here. Nine present. Okay, we have a quorum, but everybody please rise and join me in saluting the flag.

▶ 10:38 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Our meeting this evening will be videotaped and will be rebroadcast on Melrose Cable Television. Motion to open the floor for public participation, Mr. President. all the water moves to open the floor for public participation motion is seconded by baldman's work Oh on the motion all those in favor all right motion passes this is the portion of our meeting where any member of the public can come forward identify themselves and speak on any order that is on our agenda for this evening sir could you identify yourself please my

▶ 11:28 name is Jeremy Rose I live at 62 Mount Vernon Street thank you for allowing me to address you tonight I sent the alderman an email earlier it was probably maybe too late for some of you to see before the meeting but I wanted to get on the record some of the issues that I see about this modular classroom bond proposal now I expect I'm wasting my time tonight but I appealed to you to step back from the brink. Alternatives far superior to the modular classroom proposal weren't given due analysis, consideration, and hearing by administration prior to being brought to the board. True to form, the administration has already foreclosed all options for the Alderman to consider, but one. In short, I ask you to vote down the modular classroom bond and invest

▶ 12:18 the money in creating central campus space which could bring together fifth grade students from around the city don't keep them isolated in elementary schools schools they've grown out of physically academically and emotionally don't sell them and their readiness short as the mayor apparently does instead I asked you to increase capacity at the middle school in the high school campus increasing capacity there to house fifth grade students would easily allow the existing elementary schools to accommodate the bubble of students passing through the lower elementary years today if you don't increase capacity at the middle school what's your plan when the same bubble reaches the middle school in a few years and there isn't enough room there right now

▶ 12:57 we have excess capacity at the middle school that's not being used because we have a low numbers of students there and we're wasting that space if you don't provide more space at the middle school when this bubble goes forward you're going to hold the sixth grade students back in the elementary schools if in fact we have you know excess capacity there and not at the middle school you You know, will you at that time belatedly spend several million dollars at the central campus, possibly leaving at the same time some classrooms empty at the elementary level? Increasing capacity at the central campus provides flexibility for the future. Building inflexible capacity at the elementary schools leaves zero flexibility for the future.

▶ 13:41 If you build capacity at the middle school, there's a nexus there between middle school and elementary. And if we need to, we can move people up. we don't need to we can keep them down we can move back and forth you can't you don't get any benefit if you make all the increased capacity elementary as they grow older there's no place for them to go without doing something else this proposal to spend six and a half million dollars and ultimately nine million about nine million to add five classrooms at the elementary level is misguided at best it commits money to the ineffective and inefficient divided resource model which isolates grade level students and teachers at at elementary schools around the city.

▶ 14:16 In that model, students aren't drawn together with enough critical mass to service them well. Establishing additional isolated elementary classrooms with teachers separated from their grade level teaching peers across the city is ineffective for both professional development purposes and educationally for our children. Not increasing opportunity or capacity for fifth graders from around the city to learn together prevents them from growing to their potential. You hold them back, keeping them at the elementary schools. There is also a productive economy of scale, which is impossible to harvest when you waste, also, $9 million on five modular classrooms. That economy of scale comes from the fact

▶ 14:57 that if you have a whole bunch of fifth graders together in one place, you can divide them amongst the number of teachers you need for them, instead of having holes in various schools around the city where we have the same numbers of teachers where we could have one fewer teacher for the grade than we might have when they're all spread around the city. I might have said that wrong, I apologize. The mayor wants you to believe that there was a valid public process to determine that spending so much of this money is the best solution to current space constraints. There wasn't. You can be sure that I attended school committee meetings, a couple school building committee meetings, and the meeting last spring at the Lincoln School.

▶ 15:38 in none of those settings was their productive process and none of those meetings was the better option of investing money at the nexus between levels competently presented evaluated or even discussed the lincoln school meeting was worthless at harvesting ideas and sparking rational analysis it was a skewed presentation by administration marketed toward exploiting the natural but naive fears of parents of younger elementary children That was not public process, it was propaganda. Without surprise, parents of those young elementary students responded against any option but the modular classrooms, as they were led to by the mayor's process. The mayor appears again to be acting for short-term political expedience

▶ 16:24 rather than supporting the success of present and future generations of Melrose students. He exploits the worries of parents of young elementary children that it would be somehow harmful for fifth graders to be welcomed into an increased capacity at the middle and high school levels. He allows them to believe their 10 and 11-year-olds would be harmed attending fifth grade in a middle school setting. They wouldn't be harmed. They would be far more likely to thrive there. Around the country, there are large numbers of fifth grade students attending middle schools, which effectively address their academic, social, and emotional needs. It's actually a better model of five to eight middle school,

▶ 17:00 or even five to seven, and other things like that. Does the mayor have so little confidence in our 10 and 11 year old children, he believes somehow they won't thrive as thousands and thousands of other students around the state and around the country do. The mayor asserts that it would cost a million dollars and somehow that's a bad thing to create replacement office space for central office administrators if we were to increase capacity at the high school in the middle school. Well, you're spending $9 million to hold them down in the elementary level. The total cost of creating additional central campus space and for administration would be far less than what's being proposed here. It could create a wonderful space for 8th grade students,

▶ 17:42 and I assert it would be far less than we're talking about today, with far better results, both socially, emotionally, and academically for our students. The mayor makes many declarations in his statements, and they rival some of those emanating from the White House these days. He doesn't exactly use the phrase, finely tuned machine, but claims instead, this project is a textbook example of how major decision-making should work at the local level. It may be a textbook example of how he wants to exploit a citizenry uninformed about the deeper issues, to foist his short-sighted will onto the community without complete evaluation of the harms it brings, nor the educational possibilities it forecloses upon.

▶ 18:22 It may be from his parochial textbook, but not from any textbook that would benefit our students, and our students need that. Let me draw you a parallel. have learned to oppose policies which would subsidize natural gas pipelines. They learned that subsidized pipelines would make it economically less feasible to develop renewable resources due to the artificially low prices that such gas subsidies produce. Subsidizing such pipelines would stymie renewable resource development for decades to come. Similarly in Melrose, if you vote to double down on poor, inefficient, and ineffective student and teacher separation models in Melrose through building these modular classrooms, you will prevent Melrose from moving to a more effective and efficient educational model

▶ 19:07 for at least a couple decades longer. Once you waste this $9 million, it won't be cost-effective to do the right thing. You won't invest in the better options later because you won't have the money and you've already done it, similar to the natural gas pipelines. How many more generations of Melrose students do you wish to condemn to be underserved in our schools you will click you will you will rely on the fact that somehow the school committee and the superintendent all explored these options and you know vetted them thoroughly and you know determine they weren't they weren't good I didn't see that anywhere in the process in paying attention to the processes of the schools for a lot of years I frankly wasn't surprised you

▶ 19:54 You know, I appeal to you to please look at this more carefully. Please consider it. Please don't just rubber stamp the administration's railroad track proposal again. The $9 million of spending you're likely to approve tonight will perpetuate the harms done to this generation of students and several more to come. Neighborhood schools may seem a lovely notion to cling to, but educationally it's anachronistic and harmful. It's harmful to students because there aren't critical masses of students and teachers to accomplish effective differentiation for students' varying needs. It's harmful to students because as we will isolate teachers from their teaching peers, they have less opportunity for collaboration, learning from each other, and sharing talent

▶ 20:36 and best practices that various teachers can offer. If the best interests of our students were in mind through this process, the citizens in this Board of Aldermen could have learned that our students are harmed by the prospect of wasting this $9 million building what really are temporary classrooms at the elementary schools. The mayor made a claim in his statement to you that this option allows us to maintain our neighborhood school concept, a true middle school in a traditional 9 to 12 high school without quote shoehorning students that might not be socially, emotionally, or educationally ready for a jump from fourth grade to the middle school and from seventh grade to the high school. Across the country, there are students who transition to a middle school beginning in

▶ 21:17 fifth grade. The mayor's use of language to kind of not say that fifth graders are going to middle school, but fourth graders are going to middle school, the mayor's idea to say that eighth graders are going to high school, or seventh graders are going to high school now based on doing something different, it's hyperbole, right? The language and hyperbole the mayor used betrays his lack of rational arguments to support the concept of modular classrooms here. He wouldn't resort to making such characterizations as he did in his statement if his position was supported by something other than his alternative facts. It will be difficult for you to stop this train wreck now, but do you really want to

▶ 21:53 watch the consequences of not doing so undermine the interests of our children in our schools for decades and decades to come? I urge you, please, it won't be easy to say no to this and to make accommodations for the fall, but what is being done here is basically a knee-jerk reaction to do something that is gonna handcuff us from doing better things that need to be done for our kids in the future thank you for your consideration of my comments tonight I hope to hear some vigorous discussions about this I'm glad to come back here if you wish to support any of the statements I've made and to show you why what I said here has some foundation to it and why I could ease I could very easily rebut some of the assertions that was made to the process by the mayor and

▶ 22:42 and other people that came here thank you thank you sir motion to close public participation mr president yeah it doesn't appear that anybody else is in the chamber with us this evening alderman mortimer moves to conclude public participation motion is seconded by alderman forbes on the motion all those in favor aye aye anyone opposed motion passes public participation is hereby concluded for this evening if we could move to uh communications from his honor the mayor please order number 2017-98 appointment of charles harak 14 country club road to the melrose housing authority to fill the unexpired term of frank gizzo said term to expire on the first monday of march 2022. that order will go to the committee on health education and welfare

▶ 23:32 order number 2017-99 reappointment of catherine harlow 42 line street to the human rights Commission for her first full term said term to expire on the last day of February 2020 that order will be referred to the Committee on Appropriations reappointment of Adam LaFrance oh excuse me order number 2017-100 reappointment of Adam LaFrance 46 Trenton Street to the Human Rights Commission for a second full term said term to expire on the last day of February 2020 that order will also go to the Committee on Appropriations. Order number 2017-101, appointment of Samantha Hawkins, 17 Circuit Street, to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2020. That order will also go to

▶ 24:22 the Committee on Appropriations. Order number 2017-102, appointment of Andrea Radzi-Thomas, 106 Walton Park, to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2020. That order will be referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Order number 2017-103, appointment of Michael Stinkavish, 610A Main Street, to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2020. That order will also be referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Order number 2017-104, appointment of Elish Barker, 77 Maple Street, to the Commission on Women to fill the unexpired term of Katie Kennedy, said term to end on the last day of February 2019.

▶ 25:14 That order will go to the Committee on Health, Education, and Welfare. Order number 2017-105, establishment of the Melrose Commission on Women Donation Fund, fund number 2888. That order will go to the Committee on Appropriations. Order number 2017-106, a transfer from projected debt interest number 017522-549100 in the amount of $7,850.73 to various inspectional services accounts as set forth within. order will be can will be referred to the committee on protection and license we have new business for this evening please order number 2017 107 a resolution honoring Mary Beth Harrington for her contributions to the city of Melrose as clerk of committees thank you mr. president may ask for immediate

▶ 26:16 consideration. Alderman Inferna asks for immediate consideration of order 2017-107. Is there an objection to immediate consideration? There is not. And then may I approach the podium so that you can read the resolution? Alderman Inferna is moving to suspend the rules so that we might read and present the resolution which is the subject matter of this order. Second. Seconded by Alderman Mortimer. We're on the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Ms. Harrington, would you mind coming up here for just a short time? So as we all know, and some members of the public may know, but many probably do not know, that the Board of Aldermen has had the extreme privilege of having Mary Beth Harrington as our clerk of committees for more than 16 years.

▶ 27:16 And during that 16 years, I would suggest that the bulk of what we've done right has been because of her support and hard work. And when we screw up, it's because we haven't listened to her or followed her guidance. I think I speak for the whole board in indicating that it's been a pleasure to serve with you. We will miss you and we wish you well in your future endeavors. know that you do not like to be in the spotlight but tonight you have no choice and if the board would indulge me i'd like to read a resolution that we will present to miss harrington at the conclusion here and this is a resolution honoring mary beth harrington for her contributions to the city of melrose as clerk of committees and it's offered by myself and signed

▶ 28:04 by all members of the board of alderman whereas mary beth harrington has served a clerk of committees from 1999 until the present and will be retiring effective february 28 2017 whereas during her tenure ms harrington has served with and given support advice and sage counsel to 28 aldermen and 13 presidents of the board of aldermen whereas as a result of her broad technical knowledge ms harrington took on responsibilities which were well beyond her original job description including serving as webmaster for the city in which she created and maintained efficient and appealing web pages for all city departments writing management administrative guides which documented management policy and procedures for the human rights

▶ 28:54 commission researching planning implementing and training on a new electronic legislative process in melrose city government ensuring broad access to information a systematic approach to boards and commissions as a way of conducting business and whereas mary beth harrington served as the day-to-day contact person with the public at large and patiently and tirelessly sought to assist any and all individuals who contacted her whereas mary beth harrington has done her job in an exemplary manner and has demonstrated incredible conscientiousness i hope i spelled that right and as a result of her diligence has made things easier for all who have had the honor to work with her be it resolved that in recognition of her many years of dedicated service to the city of melrose

▶ 29:42 and its citizens the board of aldermen proudly presents this resolution to marybeth harrington and offers that this resolution be spread upon the records of the city of melrose and a special copy of this resolution which i just happen to have here be presented to Mary Beth Harrington. Would you like to make any kind of a closing statement here? It's your opportunity. You've had to listen to us for all these years. It must be something that you'd like to add. Motion to adjourn. I really appreciate the opportunity that all of you have given me. I think Gail's the only sitting board member that is still here that when I was elected and she was not one that voted for me at that time that being said we're good

▶ 30:48 friends and I have really it's been an honor and thank you place on file second of an inferno moves to place the order on file the motion is seconded by alderman McAteer Margolis all those in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye aye motion passes that order will be placed on fire does anyone have any orders to be submitted out of order this evening do we have any orders from committee I shouldn't to take order 2017 86 the appointment of Maureen Burnham at 72 dump Damon Avenue to the Merrill's Commission on women out of order Alderman Purcell moves to remove order 217-86 from committee second second Motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye.

▶ 31:48 Anyone opposed? Motion passes. This order was recommended for passage in committee earlier this evening. Motion for passage. Second. Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves for passage. Motion is seconded by Alderman Zwirko. Is there any discussion on the motion? All those in favor of passage of the order, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That order passes. Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Mr. President, request that we take order 2017-9293 that were co-joined in committee, from committee. Alderman McAteer-Margolis, request concurrent action on order 217.92 and 217.93. Is there a second? Second. Motion seconded by Alderman Mortimer. On the motion for concurrent action, all those in favor?

▶ 32:40 Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Motion to pass it. Motion to place on file. Motion to remove the orders from the committee. Motion. Yeah, we need to call a vote for the motion to remove the orders from the committee. Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves to remove the orders from the Committee on Protection and License. Second. Seconded by Alderman Mortimer. Is there any discussion relative to the motion? On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. These orders were reported out of the Protection and License Committee with a recommendation of place on file. Motion to place on file. Second. Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves to place the orders on file. The motion is seconded by Alderman Inferna.

▶ 33:24 Is there discussion relative to the motion? All those in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Those orders will be placed on file. Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Mr. President, I request to take orders number 2 0 1 7 9 4 and 9 5 concurrently out of order out of committee to join the orders I second the motion Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves for concurrent action relative to these two orders the motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer on the motion all those in favor aye anyone opposed motion passes and Alderman McAteer-Margolis you're moving to remove those orders from committee yes second motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer is there any discussion relative to the motion to remove the orders from committee all

▶ 34:15 those in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye opposed that motion passes the orders are removed from committee they are before you with a recommendation to place the orders on file motion to place on file second Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves to place the orders on file the motion is seconded by Alderman Boycelle is there discussion on the motion all those in favor please indicate by saying aye aye aye anyone opposed motion passes those orders will be placed on file do we have any reports from alderman who are members of outside committees it pursuant to rule 53 Alvin Forbes thank you mr. president a couple weeks ago the committee on water and sewer did meet I had some handouts I was gonna pass to you unfortunately I don't have them with

▶ 35:06 Scott M. Forbes: me tonight i'll make sure that they will get to you either through email or through regular channels but just to summarize what happened we did receive our final water and sewer usage numbers for the year we do not have the mwra assessment as of yet that will be coming in the in the in the coming weeks so we can actually kind of put a a number together as to what our fiscal year usage is going to be we will continue to forecast and make repairs and do research on the infrastructure problems that we have underneath our underneath our roadways we continue to work on the completion of the meter replacement project get that last 10 to 15 percent on board we also voted not to hire a consultant for this fiscal year we felt that the current model as is we

▶ 35:55 Scott M. Forbes: would like to see how it'll go for the next 12 months there obviously will be discussion and dialogue moving forward as we get closer and closer to budget time so thank you mr. president is there another meeting scheduled at this time Alderman Forbes there is a meeting scheduled in March I will be sure to to let the board know as well as everybody watching at home thank you thank you anyone else who has a report from any outside committee if we could turn to calendar please order number 2017-87 acceptance of the EMD fiscal year 2017 training grant in the amount of seventy six thousand seventy dollars and sixty one cents from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety fund number four zero zero six this order was recommended by the

▶ 36:45 Committee on protection and license motion to approve motion second the motion for passage. Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves for passage of the order. The motion is seconded by Alderman Tramontozzi. Is there any discussion relative to the motion? All those in favor of passage of the order please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That order passes. Order number 2017-89, acceptance of training grant in the amount of $2,550 from the Association of Food and Drug officials to attend the National Environmental Health Association conference fund number four five one one motion for passage second recommended in the Health Education and Welfare Committee Alderman Purcell is moving for passage the motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer is the discussion

▶ 37:37 relative to the motion all those in favor of passage please indicate by saying aye aye aye anyone opposed that order passes order number 2017-88 acceptance of food established training grant in the amount of twelve thousand one hundred fifty dollars from the Association of Food and Drug Officials fund number four five one zero motion for passage second Alderman Boisselle is moving that we adopt the committee recommendation which was passage of the order the motion is seconded by Alderman Warnemer there's the discussion on this order all those in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye aye aye anyone opposed that order passes order number 2017-91 application of Mohammed Riyadh Karkoosh in Dejali the lab is for a common victorial license DJ and our

▶ 38:35 LLC doing business as Jerry's Pizza 517 Main Street Melrose mass detection and License Committee recommended passage of this order motion to pass is that good Alderman McAteer-Margolis moves for passage the motion is seconded by Alderman Boisselle is there discussion all those in favor aye anyone opposed the order passes order number 2017-85 reappointment of Jessica Joy Buster to the Melrose Commission on women for a three-year term said term to end on the last day of February 2020 motions for passage second moves that we dropped the committee recommendation of the passage of the order the motion is seconded by alderman Mortimer is the discussion all those in favor order number 2017 dash 90 authorization of a bond in the amount of five million

▶ 39:37 and nine hundred fifty thousand dollars to pay for cost of fabricating and installing modular classrooms at Hoover and Winthrop schools and for renovations at the Horace Mann elementary school this order comes to you from the Appropriations Committee with a recommendation for passage motion for passage mr. president Alderman Mortimer moves for passage of the order second second seconded by Alderman McAteer-Margolis is there discussion relative to this order yes yes yes yes yes that order passes order number 2017 96 acceptance of the fiscal year 2017 state 9-1-1 department support and incentive grant in the amount of fifty six thousand one hundred eighty seven dollars from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public

▶ 40:45 Safety fund number two five nine five this order comes to the board recommended for passage by the Committee on protection and license motion for passage second I'll be back to you my goal is most passage the motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer. Is there discussion relative to this order? Motion. All those in favor indicate by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? That order passes. Motion to adjourn, Mr. President. Second. Alderman Mortimer moves that we adjourn the meeting. The motion is seconded by Alderman Forbes. All those in favor of adjournment please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Is there anybody who opposes adjournment? If not, the board stands adjourned.

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