City Council — 2017-06-05

City Council Regular Meeting

This meeting starts at 17:20 in a recording that covers several meetings.

Attendance

Robert A. Boisselle absent · 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● JUNE 5, 2017 Aldermanic Chamber, Melrose City Hall Regular Meeting 7:45 PM 562 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176

ORDER-2017-168 Opening Statement Regular Meeting of the Board of Aldermen to be held on Monday, June 5, 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 Absent 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-2017-140 Operating Budgets (City, School, Regional School) City of Melrose Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2018 in the amount of $77,397,009.19 (Seventy-Seven Million, Three Hundred Ninety-Seven Thousand, Nine Dollars and Nineteen Cents) Recommitted Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-169 Transfer A Transfer in the amount of $59,400 from various accounts to: Medtax Exp Medicare Tax, City Portion-$42,000; Info Tech. Exp Professional Services - $15,000; and Inspectional Services, Professional services - $2,400. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-170 Transfer A transfer in the amount of $5,000.00 from Health Salary and Wages (015111- 511000) to Health Professional Services (015112-529000). Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-171 Transfer City of Melrose Page 1 7/12/2017 6:19 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen June 5, 2017 A transfer from various Public Works Salary accounts to various Public Works Salary accounts as set forth herein. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-172 Transfer A Transfer in the amount of $15,000 from Memorial Hall Salaries (016931- 511000) to Memorial Hall miscellaneous supplies (016932-530501). Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-173 Appropriation An Appropriation in the amount of $160,000.00 from FY14 Overlay Surplus (01- 123014) to Public Works, Drain Design Study (014012-529026). Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-174 Grant Acceptance of Mass in Motion Grant (Fund # 4503) Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-175 Authorization Authorization to appropriate $60,000 from: Fund 3376-Fire Station Roof Bond to: Fund 3382 - HVAC Repairs Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-176 Agreement Approval of Lease Agreement with Archdiocese of Boston Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2017-115 Proclamation Proclaiming Melrose a Purple Heart City and Designating It as a Purple Heart Trail Passed

ORDER-2017-128 Administrative Order Amending Part I, Section 19.01 of the Administrative Code in accordance with Section 5-1 of the Melrose City Charter to increase the membership of the Commission on Women in the City of Melrose from seven members to nine members. Tabled Board of Aldermen

ORDER-2017-166 Utility Petition City of Melrose Page 2 7/12/2017 6:19 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen June 5, 2017 Petition of National Grid to install one (1) new SO Pole and one (1) new SO anchor on Pratt St., Melrose in accordance with Plan #24043322 Tabled Board of Aldermen

ORDER-2017-165 Request Proposed Revisions to City Charter for the City of Melrose as recommended by the Charter Review Committee for consideration by the Board of Aldermen Tabled Board of Aldermen

ORDER-2017-144 Enterprise Fund FY18 Ambulance Enterprise Fund Budget in the amount $887,544.99 (Eight Hundred Eighty Seven Thousand, Five Hundred Forty Four Dollars and Ninety Nine Cents). Passed

ORDER-2017-145 Enterprise Fund An Appropriation from Ambulance-Retained Earnings in the amount of $141,984.32 to the Ambulance Reserve, Retained Earnings account and Ambulance Equipment. Passed

ORDER-2017-153 Revolving Fund/Reauthorization Reauthorization of the Beebe Estate Revolving Account # 2750 for FY2018 Passed

ORDER-2017-156 Revolving Fund/Reauthorization Reauthorization of Inspection Services Revolving Account #2658 for FY2018 Passed Board of Aldermen

ORDER-2017-158 Revolving Fund/Reauthorization Reauthorization of Police Department False Alarm Revolving Fund # 2665 for FY18 Passed Board of Aldermen City of Melrose Page 3 7/12/2017 6:19 PM

Transcript

▶ 17:36 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. Ten present. Here we have a quorum. Could everybody please rise and join me in saluting the flag. 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 recorded and will be periodically rebroadcast on Melrose Cable Television. Mr President, I have before me the minutes of our meeting for April 24th, May 1st, May 8th, and May 8th with the joint meeting with the school committee.

▶ 18:39 I make a motion that these minutes be accepted into the record without reading. Second. Alderman Mortimer moves that we accept without reading the minutes from the meetings that he indicated in his motion. motion is seconded by alderman inferno are there any comments relative to the motion all those in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye aye anyone opposed motion passes the minutes are accepted motion to open for public participation second alderman inferno moves that we commence public participation motion is seconded by alderman Mortimer on the motion all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes this is the portion of our meeting where any member of the public can come forward and discuss any item

▶ 19:23 that is on our agenda for this evening and for those who wish to discuss the budget later on in the meeting we will be having a public hearing on the budget which hopefully will commence close to 8 p.m. is there anybody wishes to speak at this time motion to close public participation second alderman Forbes moves to conclude public participation motion is seconded by alderman on the Motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes, public participation portion of our meeting is concluded. Mr. President, I make a motion that we suspend the rules and take the orders out of order to take the tabled orders first, specifically order 2017-115. Second. Alderman Mortimer moves that we consider order 2017-115,

▶ 20:11 claiming melrose a purple heart city and designating it as a purple heart trail motion is seconded by alderman forbes on the motion all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes the order is will be considered at this time mr president i make a motion to remove said order from the table second the motion alderman water removes to remove the order from the table the motion is seconded by alderman forbes as we all know motion to table which removed from the table is non-debatable all those in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye aye aye anyone opposed motion passes the order is removed from the table and it is before you mr president excuse me i make a motion to suspend the rules that we may hear from our veteran service officer and other

▶ 20:54 dignitaries here today and i move that they may approach the podium second mortimer moves to suspend the rules motion is seconded by alderman forbes on the motion to suspend the rules is there any discussion. All those in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Anybody who's here to enlighten us on the order please come forward. Good evening. Thank you so much for having us here. My name is Alicia Rudden. I'm your Director of Veterans Services. I'm Brian Ouellette, Commander of the Western Massachusetts Chapter 875 of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. I'm Jim Michette. I'm on the board for veterans here in Melrose. Do you want to start Tim? Yeah. Hi, thanks for having us here tonight. I want to say

▶ 21:44 that I've lived in six states and I've been back from Vietnam for 50 years and this is the first town that has welcomed me as a veteran and it's the first town that I've walked in a parade since I came back from Vietnam. I'd like to say that I appreciate the respect and honor that you give all the servicemen and women and it's amazing to see how many people participate also the honor that you give people that have made the ultimate sacrifice has always been strong in this town and I know all the veterans appreciate that I think there is one category that I think there needs to be recognized and that's servicemen women who have earned a purple heart and we would like to have that honor and respect by having

▶ 22:39 this be a purple heart city thank you excellent remarks mr president board members thank you for uh having us here tonight uh uh the city of melrose has a reputation uh throughout the state as an outstanding veteran community one that supports veterans uh uh to a great degree as a vfw state officer i can tell you that the melrose post is as well known for its activities He's in town, and it's an honor to be here. I'm joined tonight by two of my fellow patriots of the military order of the Purple Heart, two patriots who made the bodily sacrifice in combat for our nation. Wayne Henry was wounded in 1969 in Vietnam. This is Wayne. And Kurt Power was wounded in 2005 in Iraq. In our chapter, in the Western Massachusetts chapter, we have two father and son Purple Heart recipients,

▶ 23:32 Jim Bouchard and Josh Bouchard. Jim wounded in 1969 and his son Josh wounded almost 40 years to the day in 19 or 2009. I was wounded in September of 2010 and my son Kevin was wounded seven months later in Kabul in Afghanistan. The Purple Heart transcends all generations. It transcends all uh walks of life and this action today by by you by the board members is very welcome we appreciate it we're all just doing our job any one of us will tell you uh but we're very very honored that you would thank us in this special way and uh i would really like to have uh melrose at that list of of communities that uh at least has been personally involved in adding to it'll be a very welcome event tonight thank you thank you sir any discussion or comments relative to

▶ 24:27 this order if it pleases the board i would like the opportunity just to read the proclamation that you would all had a chance to look at thank you whereas the people of the city of melrose have the utmost gratitude for all men and women who have selflessly served their country and and community in the armed forces, and whereas veterans have paid the high price of freedom by leaving their families and communities, placing themselves in harm's way for the good of many over the good of the few, and whereas the contribution and sacrifice of the men and women from Melrose who served in the armed forces have been vital in maintaining the freedoms enjoyed by our citizens, whereas many men and women in uniform

▶ 25:14 from the city of Melrose have given their lives while serving in the armed forces, And whereas the city of Melrose has a proud tradition of military service and many of our citizens have earned the Purple Heart Medal as a result of being wounded while engaged in combat with enemy forces. Now therefore let it be resolved the Board of Aldermen do hereby proclaim Melrose as a Purple Heart community, one of the few communities in Massachusetts so designated, honoring the service and sacrifice of our nation's men and women in uniform that were wounded or killed all in combat against the enemy to protect the freedom enjoyed by all Americans in witness on this day the first day of May 2017 and here tonight

▶ 25:57 to present the 5th of June 2017 do we have our sign that we can we would like to present members of the board with your very own Purple Heart sign and your framed proclamation so I have something to oh yes read yours thank you this is an eager anticipation of this event certificate of appreciation presented to Melrose Massachusetts I'm becoming a Purple Heart community in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts honoring all who made the ultimate sacrifice and those who are wounded in action by the hand of the enemy while defending our country in all wars from Melrose Massachusetts as well as honoring August 7th as Purple Heart Day signed Brian White commander of the Western Mass chapter mr. president I make a motion that we accept the designation of the

▶ 26:55 city of Melrose as a purple hot city thank you very much would you guys like to take some photos motion for a short recess before that I want to call the vote on the session to recommend the order there's been a motion to recommend the order all those in favor please indicate by saying aye Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? The motion passes. Alderman Forbes is moving for a brief recess. Second. Second by Alderman Mortimer. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? The motion passes. The board is in recess. Thank you folks. And you. And we've got all of you, one, two, three. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you folks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'll see you in the neighborhood.

▶ 29:34 Thank you, I'll see you in the neighborhood, all right. So, Lisa, right? Thank you so much. I'll try. That's why we have to have the Western Mass. We don't have one. How do we do that? We'll spread it around. Spread it around. We had another one. They only had two songs because they were going over. I don't think they... Not that they have to play my chords. But I mean, there's just a lot of military things that you know, okay the board is back from a brief recess we have a public hearing on the city budget for this fiscal year which is scheduled to commence at 8 p.m mr president i make a motion that we convene the public hearing at this time and mortimer moves that we commence the public hearing the motion is seconded by alderman inferno on the motion all those in favor

▶ 31:42 all right anyone opposed motion passes anybody who wishes to comment on the city budget for this particular year please come forward good evening julie de la circuit street um my comments are just um really i look at the numbers and and my comments are more just questions i have that i will put out there i know they probably you guys have looked at the budget and whether these questions can be answered but it's just some things that i've noticed One in particular was looking at and using the veterans maybe that line item because they just talked about the $400,000, yes, we'll get 75% back, but if you look at 2017 actual, it's only $290,000 or something like that, but we're budgeting $400,000.

▶ 32:32 And so those are the sort of questions that I have is if actual in 2017 is only $290,000 and we're budgeting $400,000, what is that increase? Because, you know, we don't see that. So some of the other items, you know, I look at when I looked at the cemetery and, you know, markings are up 150%, landscape 58, cement and concrete up 80%. So those are the types of things that I look at and question, because I do budgets where I am, that those types of percentage increases really stand out and really, I think for the public to understand it, because you post that budget with these drastic increases with nothing much behind it. and so those you know I question that I think budgeting overtime for police and

▶ 33:26 fire I get it that's going to be overtime but to budget the that at 18 and 16 percent increases is another question of what is it I get this year it was up a lot it was hot way higher than the what you budgeted but what's behind that to say that next year it's going to be as close to that it looks like it looks like they're trying to budget close to what 2017 actual was so I just I just because I look at it that way I know I have questions I know other people have had questions about what is it because there's no there's not a lot of detail behind to understand it and I'm not sure how much conversation gets into the the nitty-gritty of the the budget I just want that's that's for me that's what i want to put out there is that there probably should be a little more information on why

▶ 34:24 uh why some of these numbers are so i mean parking salaries up 56 it's not a lot of money small amount but is that a second person is that increasing hours what is that that things like this are increasing by those dollar amounts so that's all i have to identify yourself please sir my name is Jordan Rose I came here a few weeks ago and I at the beginning of the budget process and I talked about what I feel is the inadequacy of the budget document that that's been presented to you by the city I took a look at over a number of years a little longitudinal study of every year what was projected by the mayor's office in this document to be the total amount projected for the present fiscal year in this case would be 2017 and then I looked at later what

▶ 35:44 came up to be the actual 2017 and there's large discrepancies and what the the fallacy of this document here in terms of using it as a budgeting document is it's giving you at some level an arbitrary projection of what 2017 is going to be you know this document here today was printed on May 4th a month ago it had ten months of the fiscal year included in it there were only two months left but in those two months that were left there are huge additional projection that aren't at all linear with the with the original ten months but going back in historically and looking at what was projected by this document from which that projected line item is what the the proposed budget for next year is based on and you know it often shows you know point one

▶ 36:39 percent change or two percent change or something like that but the fact is that change is often of an arbitrary number if you go back and you look at the real numbers of what was actually spent in that current fiscal year, and then compare it to the budget, the budget increases are huge, year after year after year. I mean, you have to ask yourself, how does so much money become available in free cash every year? Now, I'm not saying that you don't want to have a little bit of a buffer in certain line items to take care of unforeseen increases, in that there may be some things that come and lower than expenses and something's higher and you want to adjust between them but a budget such as this appears to structurally misstate what the intended expenses are for the current year

▶ 37:29 they're not showing you a history and i want to be clear about this in the current document you have now the only actual number it shows you for a full year is the fy 16 number they don't show I'm going to show you FY15 and 14 so you can see about what it's been, so that you could then notice how far off this projected 2017 figure is. In the process with the Appropriations Committee, no one asked the question, well, how do you arrive at that projected budget for 2017? You know, it always seems feasible, well, if 2017 is this, well, that seems reasonable to go to 2018 for this amount, but the basis of that 2017 projected number is not stated, and in fact, going back and looking at it historically, it's blatantly wrong in a lot of cases.

▶ 38:22 the work that I did to look at this budget was made infinitely more difficult because of the fact that this document isn't presented to the citizens or I believe to the Board of Aldermen here in a format that you could actually put into a spreadsheet and analyze right now the city certainly has a capacity to give you a document that's usable and workable and for those of you to have the expertise and, you know, working with spreadsheets and being able to take different columns and put them together, you should be able to have in front of you ten years of data and how it changed year by year, the actuals. You should be able to have a spreadsheet that shows for you where we are at the end of April

▶ 39:07 or beginning of May of 2017 and by what rationale somebody came up with this projected 2017 number. Now, in other years, when I've raised this issue, in other years when I've raised this issue, the city auditor has said, well, pay no attention to the projected thing, it's not really relevant, it's just some artifact of munis that's not really real or anything else. But yet, even though that's what's said, the percentage change from one thing to show what you're budgeting for this year is based off of that number. I could go item by item, line by line in this budget, and show you where this applies. And where there, in my view, is egregious money grabs in this budget. You don't want me to do that, I'm sure.

▶ 40:16 But I guess I wonder, does anybody really care we aren't actually looking at real numbers to make real, that's the word I'm looking for, thoughtful and deliberate and to some degree, as best we can, accurate representations of what we actually will spend this year and what we probably will spend next year. And, you know, the apparent answer to that is no, that nobody cares because year after year after year, we have the same situation where we have a document that really doesn't provide the real information that a person trying to evaluate a budget would really want to see and know. Maybe everybody's happy with that. Maybe everybody's happy with a whole lot of money that's extra in the budget every year

▶ 41:17 that then can be allocated by some process next year to use some of that money for other things. disagree with that process is I think that the Board of Aldermen here should be at this point in the year for FY 18 planning out its strategy and its policy next year that it doesn't next year get done in kind of an ad hoc fashion oh well we have this much money over here what are you gonna do with it and too many years you know we often use money for snow removal and I understand and I think most people understand the basis for why you under budget snow removal class possibly but I've seen too many times in this room that a decision has been made to do something with free cash that people are all here hyping it up

▶ 42:08 think it's a wonderful thing but it really hasn't been considered in the context of all the other expenses you make in the city and what policy you're expressing by that and and you know frankly and over the years a number of of items have been thrown to the school department to do some willy-nilly thing that really hasn't benefited the city it's wasted our money there's a number of other things that have done that way as well that I would love for this body to engage in the total amount of money we expect to have for next year and into actually prioritize a budget based on real numbers because as long as you leave everything so murky and gray you're not making a policy decision on on the priorities of your spending and what you want to use with the money you

▶ 43:05 know you have a little more time for you consider this budget you know I would ask that you asked for the city auditor in the mayor's office to produce for you a document that shows what was the actual FY 14 what was the actual FY 15 what was the actual FY16? Let's compare that to a document that shows what a real projected number for FY17 would be, and then let's look at the FY18 in the context of that. We don't need to see the 2017 original, revised, actual, and projection all in a document. We could have that in one separate document to provide a justification for how you get to the FY17 projected, but if you saw 14 15 16 an accurate and defensible FY 17 projection and then see the FY 18 next

▶ 44:01 to that that would be useful to see and also what I the analysis that I ran through looking at what was presented as a projected of every year versus what turned out to be the actual and the discrepancies between that I think that would be useful for this board to see because if every year they project this and you budget in anticipation of that projection and the actual amount ends up being far less and that happens year after year after year at a line item that should indicate something to you that maybe they're doing the same thing this year and you know with all the work that you put into this budget you know week after week in this process of the two two months here I would think that you'd want to do something that's of more significance rather than just say

▶ 44:50 oh yep that looks nice so that looks you know feasible because you're looking at numbers that at some level aren't real so you know please if in the time left I hope that you can do that and the other thing that never shows up really here in this process and I know it's not an inherent part of the budget per se but we don't see the income side of this right we see some revenue from some sources but it might be nice to see this budget and its total bottom line compared to what the expected totem bottom line would be with all the you know from the cherry sheet from other things that we have money coming in from as well as the fees that we have here if that was all shown in one place so we could see all of that together to see what we really have because frankly if

▶ 45:45 If we're expecting to have a lot more revenue than this budget anticipates, that also puts ourselves in the position of the Board of Alderman not having the opportunity to express what your relative priorities are for things based on the amount of money you can legitimately expect to have coming in. So I'm talking about higher level process issues here. We could go in and talk about any line items in exquisite detail if you want. But there are, as you know, hundreds and hundreds of them here. But thank you very much for your time. Thank you, sir. Is there anybody else who wishes to speak this evening? Motion to close the public hearing, Mr. President. Second. The member is making a motion to close the public hearing.

▶ 46:44 The motion is seconded by Alderman Forbes. All those in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? motion passes okay if we could please move on to communications from his honor the mayor and other city officials order number 2017 dash 169 a trigger in the amount of fifty nine thousand four hundred dollars from various accounts to med tax X Medicare taxed city portion 42,000 infotech expected professional services 15,000 and inspectional services professional services two thousand four hundred dollars that order will be referred to the committee on appropriations order number 2017 dash one seven zero a transfer in the amount of five thousand dollars from health salary and wages zero one five one one

▶ 47:41 That order will also be referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Order number 2017-171, a transfer from various public works salary accounts to various public works salary accounts as set forth herein. That order will also go to the Committee on Appropriations. Order number 2017-172, a transfer in the amount of $15,000 from Memorial Hall salaries 016931-511000 to Memorial Hall miscellaneous supplies 016932-530501. That order will go to the Committee on Appropriations. Order number 2017-173, an appropriation in the amount of $160,000 from fiscal year 14 overlay surplus 01-123014 to Public Works Drain Design Study 014012-529026. That order will also go to the Committee on Appropriations. Order Number 2017-174, Acceptance of Mass in Motion Grant, Fund Number 4503.

▶ 49:23 That order will also go to the Committee on Appropriations. Order Number 2017-175, Authorization to Appropriate $60,000 from Fund 3376, the Fire Station roof bond to fund 3382 hvac repairs committee on appropriations for that order as well order number 2017-176 approval of lease agreement with archdiocese of boston and that order will be referred to the committee on appropriations okay if we could move along we have several orders that are on the table order number 2017-128 amending part 1 section 19.01 of the administrative code in accordance with section 5-1 of the melrose city charter to increase the membership of the commission on women in the city of melrose from seven members to nine members

▶ 50:26 motion to remove this order from the table mr president alderman mortimer moves to remove the the order from the table. Second. Seconded by Alderman McAteer-Margolis. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? The order is before you. I will note that there has been a public hearing set for this order for June 19th at 8 p.m. Motion to return the order to the table, Mr. President. Second. Alderman Mortimer moves to return the order to the table. The motion is seconded by Alderman Lemmerman. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. order number 2017-166 petition of national grid to install one new so pole and one new so anchor on pratt street melrose in accordance with plan number two four zero four three three two

▶ 51:16 motion to remove this from the table second alderman inferno moves to remove order 2017-166 from the table motion seconded by alderman mortimer on the motion all those in favor aye aye anyone opposed motion passes the orders before you a motion to remand this um back to the table we have a public hearing on monday june 19th second alderman inferno moves to return this order to the table motion is seconded by alderman mortimer on the motion all those in favor aye aye anyone opposed and for those of you who are watching at home and don't understand why we go through this obtuse exercise of removing orders from the table and then putting them back on the table under our rules if we do not do that then the order would expire do we have

▶ 52:05 Michael P. Zwirko: any orders out of order this evening do we have any orders from committee alvin's work oh thank you mr president i make a motion to remove this order two zero one seven dash one six five from the committee second the motion to remove the order from committee alderman's work on moves to remove the order from committee motion seconded by alderman mortimer is there any discussion on the motion all those in favor aye aye anyone opposed alderman's work are you on the floor thank you mr president i'd like to also make a motion to schedule a public hearing on monday june 19th at 8 20 p.m to discuss this order second the motion to set the public hearing alderman's work moves to schedule the public hearing on june 19th at 8 20 p.m and for those

▶ 52:53 Michael P. Zwirko: of you who are watching this order is proposed revisions to the charter for the city of melrose as recommended by the charter review committee for consideration by the board of aldermen is there any discussion relative to the motion to set the public hearing i just wanted to state that this um is in accordance with section 9.6 section 9 6 of the charter in order to take action by june 15th by setting the public hearing we have been cleared by the city solicitor that this is to uh taking action on this order um and the public hearing will be uh set for june 19th thank you weldon anyone else on the motion to schedule the public hearing all those in favor aye aye anyone opposed motion passes the order is still before you what's

▶ 53:40 your pleasure i make a motion to place the order on the table second alderman's worker moves to put the order on the table motion is seconded by alderman mortimer on the motion all those in favor Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? The order will be tabled and the public hearing will be convened on June 19th at 820 p.m. Could we move to the calendar, please? Order number 2017-144, fiscal year 18, ambulance enterprise fund budget in the amount of $887,544.99. Appropriations Committee voted to recommend this order for passage. Motion for passage, Mr. President. Alderman Mortimer makes the passage. Motion is seconded by Alderman Forbes. Is there any discussion relative to the motion? Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll, please?

▶ 54:28 Alderman Forbes. Yes. Yes. Alderman Inferno. Yes. Yes. Alderman Lemmerman. Yes. Yes. Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Yes. Yes. Alderman Dearest. Yes. Yes. Alderman Mortimer. Yes. Yes. Alderman Tramontozzi. Yes. Yes. Alderman Wright. Yes. Yes. Alderman Zwirko. Yes. Yes. President Kahn. Yes. Yes. Ten years. That order passes. Order number 2017-145, an appropriation from Ambulance Retained Earnings in the amount of $141,984.32 to the Ambulance Reserve Retained Earnings Account and the Ambulance Equipment Account. This order was also recommended for passage in the Appropriations Committee. Motion for passage, Mr. President. Second. Alderman Mortimer moves for passage. This motion is seconded by Alderman McAteer-Margolis.

▶ 55:19 is their discussion could you call the roll please alderman forbes yes yes solomon inferno yes yes alderman Member yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes president yes yes 10 years that order passes order number 2017-153 reauthorization of the bb estate revolving account number 2750 for fiscal year 2018. this order was also recommended for passage in the appropriations committee motion for passage mr president second alderman mortimer moves for passage motion is seconded by alderman inferna is the discussion relative to the motion Mr. Shea, could you call the roll, please? Alderman Forbes. Yes. Yes. Alderman Inferno. Yes. Yes. Alderman Lemmerman. Yes. Yes. Alderman McAteer-Margolis.

▶ 56:19 Yes. Yes. Alderman Medeiros. Yes. Yes. Alderman Mortimer. Yes. Yes. Alderman Tramontozzi. Yes. Yes. Alderman Wright. Yes. Yes. Alderman Zwirko. Yes. Yes. 6 5 8 for fiscal year 2018 this order was recommended for passage and appropriations motion for passage mr. president move to passage motion is seconded by inferno is the discussion on the motion could you call the roll please Alderman Forbes yes yes Alderman Inferno yes yes Alderman Emmerman yes yes Alderman McAteer-Margolis yes yes Alderman Darius yes yes Alderman Mortimer yes yes Alderman Tramontozzi. Yes. Yes. Alderman Wright. Yes. Yes. Alderman Zwirko. Yes. Yes. President Conn. Yes. Yes. Tendious. That order passes. Order number 2017-158,

▶ 57:14 reauthorization of Police Department False Alarm Revolving Fund number 2665 for fiscal year 2018. Appropriations Committee recommended passage of this order. Motion for passage, Mr. President. Second. Alderman Mortimer moves for passage. the motion is seconded by alderman forbes is there discussion mr shaker can you call the role please alderman forbes yes yes solomon inferno yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes president khan yes yes 10 years that order passes motion to adjourn mr president Second. Alderman Adler moves that we adjourn the meeting. The motion is seconded by Alderman Inferno. On the motion to adjourn, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes.

▶ 58:10 We are hereby adjourned. Thank you, folks.

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