City Council — 2018-05-07

City Council Regular Meeting

This meeting starts at 31:24 in a recording that covers several meetings.

Attendance

Manisha Bewtra present · Alderman at Large; Robert A. Boisselle present · Ward 4 Alderman; Scott M. Forbes present · Ward 7 Alderman; Jennifer L. Lemmerman present · Ward 2 Alderman; Kate Lipper-Garabedian present · Alderman at Large; Shawn M. MacMaster present · Ward 5 Alderman; 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 · President, Alderman at Large

Agenda

Minutes

CITY OF MELROSE BOARD OF ALDERMEN BULLETIN● MAY 7, 2018 Aldermanic Chamber, Melrose City Hall Regular Meeting 7:45 PM 562 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176

ORDER-2018-167 Opening Statement Regular Meeting of the Board of Aldermen to be held on Monday, May 7, 2018 at 7:45 P.M. in the Aldermanic Chamber, City Hall, Melrose, MA No Action Taken Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Manisha Bewtra Alderman at Large Present Robert A. Boisselle Ward 4 Alderman Present Scott M. Forbes Ward 7 Alderman Present Jennifer L. Lemmerman Ward 2 Alderman Present Kate Lipper-Garabedian Alderman at Large Present Shawn M. MacMaster Ward 5 Alderman 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 President, Alderman at Large Present

ORDER-2018-168 Resolution A Resolution Recognizing National Police Week 2018 Placed on File

ORDER-2018-169 Revolving Fund/Reauthorization AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING REVOLVING FUNDS IN THE CITY OF MELROSE Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2018-170 License - Second Hand Dealer 2018-2019 2nd Hand Dealer Renewals Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2018-171 License - Second Hand Dealer City of Melrose Page 1 5/23/2018 9:02 AM Minutes Board of Aldermen May 7, 2018 2018-2019 2nd Hand Dealer Non-Renewals Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2018-172 License - Hackney License 2018-2019 Taxi Renewals Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2018-173 License - Hackney License 2018-2019 Taxi Non-Renewals Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2018-174 License 2018-2019 Livery Renewals Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2018-175 License 2018-2019 Livery Non-Renewals Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2018-176 License - Gasoline Storage 2018-2019 Gasoline and Storage Renewals Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2018-177 Amending Revised Ordinances Proposed FY19 Sewer Rates Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2018-178 Amending Revised Ordinances Proposed FY19 Water Rates Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2018-179 Appropriation City of Melrose Page 2 5/23/2018 9:02 AM Minutes Board of Aldermen May 7, 2018 An Appropriation from Free Cash (01-324001) in the amount of $284,210.00 to Police, Salary and Wages (012111-511000) to fund the settlement of a 3 Year Contract with the Police Superior Union. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2018-180 Amending Something Previously Adopted Amend Melrose Revised Ordinances, Chapter 24, Article II - Fire Department, Sec. 24-32(E) - Emergency Rescue Vehicle, to set fees for FY 19. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2018-181 Enterprise Fund Mt. Hood Enterprise Fund Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2019 in the amount of $1,585,597.28 (One Million, Five Hundred Eighty Five Thousand, Five Hundred Ninety Seven and Twenty Eight Cents. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2018-182 Enterprise Fund Ambulance Enterprise Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 2019 in the amount of $923,783.75 (Nine Hundred Twenty Three Thousand, Seven Hundred Eighty Three Dollars and Seventy Five Cents. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2018-183 Operating Budgets (City, School, Regional School) City of Melrose Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2019 in the amount of $79,399,945.73 (Seventy-Nine Million, Three Hundred Ninety-Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred Forty-Five Dollars and Seventy-Three Cents). Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2018-184 Enterprise Fund Water Enterprise Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2019 in the amount of Five Million, Two Hundred Nineteen Thousand, Sixteen Dollars and Sixty Nine Cents ($5,219,016.69). Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2018-185 Enterprise Fund City of Melrose Page 3 5/23/2018 9:02 AM Minutes Board of Aldermen May 7, 2018 Sewer Enterprise Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2019 in the amount of Eight Million, Fifty Four Thousand, Thirty Five Dollars and Seventy Three Cents ($8,054,035.73). Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2018-153 Utility Petition Petition of National Grid and Verizon New England, Inc to relocate one jointly owned pole on Prospect Street; relocate existing pole #3426 approximately 15 feet to the west, per customer request, near 26 Prospect Street, Melrose, MA in accordance with Plan marked : Prospect St, Work Request #25817223, dated 2/26/2018 Set Public Hearing

ORDER-2018-186 Utility Petition Petition of National Grid to install 160’ of 4” Plastic Low Pressure Gas Main onto Fairfield Ave., extending from the existing 6” Cast Iron Low Pressure main on Lebanon Street in accordance with Plan #GP-MEL 1195559-18-77; dated 03/26/2018 Tabled Board of Aldermen

ORDER-2018-163 Donation Acceptance of Donate Life Melrose donation in the amount of $10,000.00. Said funds to be deposited in Fund #2892 Passed

ORDER-2018-161 Authorization Approval of the proposed Municipal Aggregation Plan and authorization of the Mayor to execute and submit the plan to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities for review and approval. Passed

ORDER-2018-160 Appointment Appointment of Rilda Kissel, 3 Cottage Street, Melrose to the Melrose Commission on Women for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2021. Passed

ORDER-2018-159 Appointment City of Melrose Page 4 5/23/2018 9:02 AM Minutes Board of Aldermen May 7, 2018 Appointment of Kristyn Bunce DeFilipp, 22 Lynn Fells Parkway, to the Melrose Commission on Women for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2021. Passed City of Melrose Page 5 5/23/2018 9:02 AM

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▶ 31:28 It can be viewed on the city's website or at mmtv3.org. At this time, I'd ask that the Madam Clerk please call the roll. Alderman Bewtra? Here. Here. Alderman Boisselle? Here. Here. Alderman Forbes? Here. Here. Alderman Lemmerman? Here. Here. alderman Letter garabedian here alderman here alderman mcmaster here here alderman medeiros here here alderman Tramontozzi yeah here alderman wright yeah here alderman's worko president here 11 members present constitutes quorum at this time i would ask that i don't think my name was i i think you're you're right i didn't name from miss medeiros Mortimer yeah yeah we're glad you're here at this time even though we did it earlier you can't do it enough so I'd ask that everybody stand rise and pledge

▶ 32:26 Michael P. Zwirko: allegiance with me with liberty and justice for all. Mr. President, I make a motion to open the floor for public comment. Second. Thorp been a motion made by Alderman Mortimer to open up the floor for public comment. It has been seconded by Alderman Forbes. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? There are none. The floor is now open for public comment. Where any member of the public wishes to speak on any item that is on the agenda, please come forward, state your name and address, please, for the record and for the minutes. Hi, my name is Jerry Morose. um your address sir yeah 62 mount vernon street thank you sir melrose mass usa 12176 um so i'm here to speak about of several different of the items on the agenda tonight um two in

▶ 33:30 particular are the issues of water rates and sewer rates and it's a um an annual event with me here that you know I went to if not all the majority of the water and sewer committee meetings this year and you know heard every bit of the public discussion around what's behind the water and sewer rates and what the proposal might be and I'm here to give testimony that some of the most important issues in addressing what the water and sewer rates should be were never raised in any appropriate fashion within the water and sewer committee and you know some of the big issues are cost of services is you know when you make a water rate you're actually making a statement about who pays not just how much for water but who

▶ 34:15 pays what relative portion of the water system based on the fact that we have a water system based on the use of the water system Thorp a lot of factors there they're called cost of service and Thorp you know dissertations written about how to apply cost of service analysis to water and sewer systems although we had a consultant in here a couple years ago with the big spreadsheet they didn't even approach a cost of service analysis for our system that's one major element that's missing and you know one downstream effect of that is that our system is still vulnerable for being sustainable because of the fact that we rely way too much on the volumetric portion of the bill for what are largely fixed costs in our system and it should not be news to

▶ 35:03 any of you here I brought this up here for a number of years when we have it when we have a wet year and possibly this year could be that way and we have a low use of the people we will be under funding our water system based on the revenues we bring in the small little raise in the sewer base rate that's proposed for this year isn't sufficient to offset the vulnerability we have in that regard what I'm trying to point out here is that the more that your cost of service aligns the more that your rates align with the cost of the service provided to the individual customers and how they're applied the more authentic your system is and so your systems revenues respond to the costs whether they're increased or decreased in that way so when you do go to review these

▶ 35:52 water and sewer rates in the committee and then back here in the full board I hope that you'll ask certain questions about that another issue of water and sewer rates that I want to raise is the fact that in my view that we have we basically do an end run around proposition two and a half with our water and sewer system and budget the municipal use of water and sewer in our city is not insignificant by any means yet the city is not paying its share of the water and sewer revenue so the enterprise funds are standalone separate funds they're an accounting mechanism let's be clear within the city budget but that does not mean that the city gets to get free water and sewer use and take the city's water and sewer use and put it on the backs of the rate

▶ 36:40 payers instead of where it belongs on the taxpayers and I know some of you think that that well it's one or the other the same bucket but it's not there are different people who apply to the different buckets or the buckets apply of different people and it is not authentic it is not honest to be having costs of our city paid for by people who aren't under the structure of how our city receives its revenues and how it's designed to receive it i think that's inappropriate and at some point in time i hope that this board will stand up and do the right thing even if it means you know Thorp pain right um the rate ratepayers have pain right now you're trying to put pain or the way the budget has been done the last few years you're putting a lot of pain on ratepayers some

▶ 37:28 of whom are taxpayers but some of whom aren't and the pain should be on the taxpayers and the city should be able to you know again we need to evolve our city to make things real not make things arbitrary and that underscores a lot of the issues here i do want to say that um this is not essentially a part of the water and sewer rates but it does impact them obviously is that i understand that the little bit of inflow and infiltration work that we did over the last year or more has had a huge positive impact on our city so i thank you and i well i basically thank the mwra for having the money that we then use because Because this board, although you appropriated that money, it's basically free money that

▶ 38:20 you would be crazy not to take from the MWRA anyway. And if anything that I've ever said proves to be correct about INI, it's that the more you invest in it, the bigger payback you'll get. And so with the rate of inflation of construction costs, the sooner you do it, the more bang you get for the buck you spend. If you wait longer and you have, you know, 8%, 9%, 10% construction cost inflation, you're going to be buying less progress with the money later. So putting the money up front now, while Thorp a lower interest rate environment in the, you know, we don't know where interest rates go, but they're likely going to go up some point here more. And that's another element that will significantly reduce over the long term.

▶ 39:05 You can't do anything about it this year, but it will reduce over the long term the water and sewer rates for our customers relative to where they are today. and then I did make a point in the in the earlier session here about the fact that what's presented to this board as a operating budget does not have valid information in there and I really challenge this board to push back on the on the mayor's office or whomever you have to push back on and say that you want a real document this project a projected column should not be made up it should not be some arbitrary amount from something else and and again I haven't had the time to do a complete analysis of the budget this year yet but in my first cursory look at it I see lots of discrepancies and I see things

▶ 39:56 that you know even the aldermanic salaries I know there was you know we know we know what the aldermanic salaries go to and I know there was a thing a couple years ago but it went you know way down one year and way up another year and then the budget was this and but then we spent way more than the budget and you know we've got to have a sense of what it costs for all the manic salaries and i know it includes the the staff here as well but as much attention as you will pay to the people who sit at this table from the departments and talk to you about things if you don't have real numbers in front of you you you can't make a real decision and and that's what fundamentally has to change here is

▶ 40:35 that is that we should be able to be very close about our budgeting year by year on so many things because we can we can tweak those discrepancies that we see year by year as long as we ignore the discrepancies they just persist in perpetuity and and I I look forward to a good you know round of discussions about the budget as I've said before I don't think it's worthy of this board to whine about state revenues or anything else you have a job to do here and the job is is how do you fulfill the needs of our city which can seem unlimited with limited resources and those again as I was talking about earlier those are policy decisions you need to make what is more important how do we make certain

▶ 41:25 that we survive this and survive that at the same time and if you do make an expression of needing more money at some point in the future you can do that but if you're not authentic about showing a process here I'll be the first person to say I don't trust that more money is going to get applied for the benefit of our city rather than wasted through the city budget as I see other monies do because nobody's paid specific attention to it so you know I look forward to a good vigorous discussion about all the budget items and the water and sewer items I I don't tolerate as you well know the misinformation that often is presented here at these meetings from people who ought not to be presenting you with poor or wrong information and and I would love to hear all the people

▶ 42:14 that come in front of this board speak to the facts specific facts and not the rhetoric that would really help the discussion here for the budget as you go over the next month and a half thank you thank you sir any other members of the public wishing to speak at this time motion to close public comment mr. president second motion to close public comment made by alderman Mortimer seconded by alderman Boisselle all those in favor aye any opposed public comment is now over move to section 3 which is communications from her honor the mayor and other city officials. Order 2018-168, a resolution recognizing National Police Week 2018. Alderman Lemmerman. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to ask for

▶ 43:02 immediate consideration of this order. Alderman Lemmerman proposes immediate consideration of this order. Is there an objection? Hearing none. A motion to suspend the rules so that we may read the order and bring up the members of the Melrose Police Department who are here tonight, including Chief Lyle. Second the motion to suspend Alderman Lemmerman moves to suspend the rules pursuant to the order 2 0 1 8 dash 1 6 8 it has been seconded by Alderman Forbes all those in favor aye any opposed would you like to come up thank you very much to the members of the board for allowing for immediate consideration of this order so we may read the resolution into the record with the members of the police department here with us tonight and thank you to

▶ 44:12 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: Lyle and the officers for coming tonight to join us I know there are several officers that were here as well and they were called away to another situation to respond to a situation in the city which I think is just indicative of why we present this resolution every year so before I read it as in past years I'd like to give a quick bit of background and also give Chief Lyle an opportunity to speak as well National Police Week takes place every year within the calendar week of May 15th which is known as Peace Officers Memorial Day. This is a special day to recognize those law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. Here in Melrose, we remember three people in particular. Melrose Police Officer Joseph Paul Martin worked in the department for

▶ 44:55 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: 10 years and on May 31st, 1969, Officer Martin responded to a call that resulted in a foot chase with two suspects. As a result of that chase, Officer Martin suffered a heart attack and later died, leaving behind a wife and two children. On September 5, 1985, Melrose Crossing guard Mary Foley stepped between a group of children and a speeding car. She saved the kids by pushing them out of the way, but in the process was struck and killed herself. Officer Garrett Swayze grew up in Melrose and graduated from Melrose High School in 1989. In 2009, he became an officer with the University of Colorado Police Department, and on November 27, 2015, he responded to a report of an active shooter, and he was shot and killed protecting his

▶ 45:34 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: community. Police Week is also a time to recognize the incredible duty and responsibility taken on by all police officers and the sacrifices they make to do this job. We are thankful to the Melrose Police for the work that they do every single day that allows us to live in safely in this community and for the many additional ways that they contribute to our community through coffee with a cop events, educational community meetings, an annual golf tournament just to name a few and this is also a good time to plug that the second annual golf tournament is now open for registrations and will take place on august 24th so for all of these reasons through this resolution we hope to show our gratitude for all law enforcement officers who regularly put the safety of their communities

▶ 46:13 ahead of their own including those with us here tonight so before we read the resolution i'd like to ask chief lyle if you have a few words um just a couple couple things thank you so much This has been kind of a tough year for Massachusetts, New England, and law enforcement in general. We've lost 47 officers since January 1. Most recently, Sergeant Gannon of the Yarmouth Police Department, and today they buried Corporal Eugene Cole from the Somerset County Sheriff's Department up in Maine. Melrose Police Department went up there today. We were down in Yarmouth, representatives of the department. so please you see an officer it's just he is a member of your community I'm a memory of community all these gentlemen here and the guys that are working the

▶ 47:04 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: shift we're members of the community and we care about our community thank you well now read the resolution a resolution recognizing National Police Week 2018 whereas there are approximately 900,000 law enforcement officers certainly serving communities across the United States including the dedicated members of the Melrose Police Department, and whereas the Melrose Board of Aldermen honors and commends all those who risk their lives while serving the citizens of Melrose in order to protect our safety and welfare, and whereas May 15th is designated as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of all fallen officers and their families, and whereas the names of these dedicated public servants are engraved on the walls

▶ 47:43 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., and whereas 360 names of fallen heroes are being added to the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial this spring and whereas among the names included on the memorial are those of morrow's police officer Joseph Martin and morrow's native University of Colorado police officer Garrett Swayze and whereas the service and sacrifice of officers Martin and Swayze and all officers killed in the line of duty will be honored during the national law enforcement officers memorial funds 30th annual candlelight vigil as part of National Police Week which takes place this year on May 13th to 19th now therefore be it resolved that the Mauro's Board of Aldermen formally designates May 13th through 19th 2018 as

▶ 48:23 Police Week in the City of Mauro's and publicly salutes those men and women who have committed their lives to public safety in our community and in communities across the nation on this seventh day of May 2018. Thank you so much. Motion to place the order on file Mr. President. Second. The motion to place the order on file by Alderman Mortimer, second by Alderman Lemmerman all those in favor any opposed file next item order 2018 dash 169 an ordinance authorizing revolving funds in the city of Melrose that order will be sent to the committee on appropriations order 2018 dash 170 2018 to 2019 secondhand dealer renewals that order will be sent to the committee on protection and license order 2018-171 twenty eighteen the

▶ 49:52 twenty nineteen second-hand dealer non renewals that's be sent to the committee on protection and license order 2018-172 twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen taxi renewals that order will be sent to the Committee on protection and license as well order twenty 18-173 twenty 18 to 2019 taxi non renewals that will also be sent to the Committee on protection and license order 2018-174 2018 to 2019 livery renewals that order will be sent to the Committee on protection and license order 2018-175 2018 to 2019 livery non renewals I'll be sent to the Committee on protection and license order 2018-176 2018 to 2019 gasoline and storage renewals that will be also sent to the Committee on protection and license order 2018 177 proposed fiscal year 19 sewer rates it'll be sent to the

▶ 50:49 committee on appropriations order 2018 178 proposed fiscal year 19 water rates that will also be sent to the committee on appropriations order 2018 179 an appropriation from free cash 0 1 3 2 4 0 0 1 in the amount of two hundred and $84,210 to police salary and wages 0 1 2 1 1 1 dash 5 1 1 0 0 0 to fund the settlement of a three-year contract with the police superior union that will be sent to the committee on appropriations order 2018 dash 180 amend Melrose revised ordinances chapter 24 article 2 fire department section 24 through 32 e emergency rescue vehicle to set fees for fiscal year 19 that order will be sent to the committee on appropriations order 2018-181 Mount Hood Enterprise Fund

▶ 51:46 operating budget for fiscal year 2019 in the amount of one million five hundred eighty five thousand five hundred ninety seven and twenty eight cents I'll be sent to the committee on appropriations order 2018-182 ambulance Enterprise Fund budget for fiscal year 2019 in the amount of nine hundred twenty three thousand seven hundred eighty three dollars and 75 cents now we sent to the committee on appropriations order 2018 dash 183 city of Melrose operating budget for fiscal year 2019 in the amount of seventy nine million three hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred forty five dollars and 73 cents I'll be sent to the committee on appropriations order 2018 dash 184 water enterprise operating budget for fiscal year 2019 in the amount of five million

▶ 52:37 two hundred nineteen thousand sixteen dollars and 69 cents I will also be sent to the committee on appropriations order 2018 dash 185 sewer enterprise operating budget for fiscal year 2019 in the amount of eight million fifty four thousand thirty five dollars and seventy three cents I will also be sent to the committee on appropriations now brings us to the items that are tabled what order 2018 dash 153 patrician of National Grid and Verizon New England Inc to relocate one jointly owned pole on Prospect Street relocate existing pole number three four two six approximately 15 feet to the west per customer request near 26 Prospect Street Melrose Mass in accordance with plan marked Prospect Street work request number two five eight one seven two two three dated to

▶ 53:29 Michael P. Zwirko: twenty six twenty eighteen I'd like to remove order 2018 one five three from the table Alderman Boisselle moves to take order two zero one eight dash one five three from the table has been seconded by Alderman Medeiros I wish to make an announcement that the public hearing for this order will be May 21st 2018 at 8 p.m. at this time all those in favor of removing the item replacing the item on the table rather I apologize opposed none the date of that will be set for May 21st 2018 at 8 p.m. elect to lay the latest item or order back on table second to place the item back on the table the motion has been made by by alderman Boisselle it's been seconded by alderman mortimer all those in favor aye aye aye any opposed

▶ 54:29 Robert A. Boisselle: next item in new business order 2018-186 petition of national grid to install 160 feet of four inch plastic low pressure gas main onto fairfield avenue extending from the existing six inches cast iron low pressure main on lebanon street in accordance with plan number gp-mel-119-5559-18-77 dated march 26 2018. mr president alderman Boisselle i would like to have immediate consideration on order two two zero one eight one eight six to consider because for for immediate consideration to set a date for a public hearing all members moves for immediate consideration for the purposes of setting the public hearing is there an objection hearing none this public hearing will be on may 21st 2018 at 8 15 p.m in this chamber second the motion to set the public

▶ 55:32 Scott M. Forbes: hearing for may 21st the motion made by alderman Boisselle to set the public hearing has been made has been seconded by alderman mortimer all those in favor aye aye opposed and i would like to have this order set on the table motion made to set the order on the table second has been seconded by alderman mortimer all those in favor any opposed order lays on the table move to any items out of order any orders from committee we're now reports rule 53 this is the portion of the the meeting where any member that sits on a body outside of this of which they are liaison or a member report alderman Forbes Thank You mr. president the water and sewer committee met on Tuesday April 24th Alderman's workout actually was there to present was there for presentation to

▶ 56:28 Scott M. Forbes: look at a couple of options of shifting water and sewer debt on to real estate taxes it's something other communities and the Commonwealth have done appreciate you coming in and providing that information to us the assessor's office did a study and came to the conclusion that it would not benefit the ratepayers from doing that shift so after a careful analysis and a round table discussion we made a motion to place that order on file but again we appreciate you coming in and giving us that information as far as an operations update the Warwick Road water main project is just about complete as of April 24th there were only 16 services left to replace a couple of the sideline connections on Warwick and Stevens Road and then Warwick and Vinton streets. As

▶ 57:16 Scott M. Forbes: of today Thorp been 19 out of 55 lead service upgrades that have been completed. Also the city engineer did make mention as estimated that 113,000 gallons per day are still leaking from our water pipes which is important that we continue the i and i and the construction projects that we have planned for the fiscal year Thorp still a couple of uh projects in certain wards that still need to be upgrading and they're proactively taking care of those situations monthly billing we're about 7 i think i think more people are going to sign up as word to mouth continues to spread a lot of residents do pay their bills online but there is a cost to all this and it was is mentioned that about 600 more bills a month are being sent out from the treasurer's office mwira advisory board

▶ 58:15 Scott M. Forbes: information the new catchphrase is 2.4 by 24 which is the objective for the mwira to come down to a 2.4 percent increase on a yearly basis by the year 2024. also they're looking their five-year capital improvement plan to be capped at 1.2 billion dollars with a B the advisory board is trying to bring that down to nine hundred and fifty million but obviously good things are on the horizon as far as rate plans that were discussed there are a couple options that are being presented down to the board option one is to keep everything as it stands right now which would be a 1.5 percent increase in water no increase in the water base fees and there would be a zero volumetric increase in sewer with a 2% increase on the base fee as we try to

▶ 59:09 Scott M. Forbes: get that up to the 10% option 2 would be moving the first tier up to 22 cubic feet option 3 would be raising the first tier up to 2,500 cubic feet it would be just good to have those options so we could look at them in real time as far As far as reserves are concerned, currently there are retained earnings 412,429 dollars in water, 379,450 dollars in sewer. So in order to reach the 10 percent reserves that we've set before us here as a board, we would only need less than 20,000 dollars from those retained earnings to meet our goals. So we're a year ahead of schedule, which is a great thing. So if we move forward with the $20,000 allocation, we're still going to have approximately a little less than $800,000 between water and sewer.

▶ 1:00:05 Scott M. Forbes: And so what we would like to do is the committee would be considering repurposing those retained earnings into capital improvement projects in the fall. A couple of orders that are going to be proposed that are going to be before us. of them is to borrow a little over a million dollars in the mwra sewer program for ini in a just over another million dollars in available mwra water programs again these are uh the water is a zero percent interest paid back in 10 years the sewer is 75 grant 25 0 interest paid over 10 years with those two allocations there'll be about 900 000 for us to borrow uh from the ebwra when Thorp really no without a sunset clause so basically those those monies will always be available for us as long as we come back and use them and it could be another

▶ 1:01:02 Scott M. Forbes: 600 000 available in july there are three main projects that are going to be done one of them is going to be on east emerson street from strafford road to lincoln and garfield road to east emerson to porter then Thorp the ashmont street uh project from crescent avenue to pleasant street and lastly the florence street project from west foster to west wyoming avenue and i believe that is it thank you mr president motion to accept the uh report from our representative the water and school commission second no need for a motion for such is there any other member of the board that i would uh i would like to have uh some discussion on that that's why i make the motion sure so i make the motion and to accept it to accept the report to

▶ 1:01:54 Michael P. Zwirko: accept the report yes you're breaking away for some precedent here yeah alderman mortimer moves that we accept the report uh from alderman forbes on his dissertation of the water and sewer committee meeting from april 24th that has been seconded by alderman Boisselle on discussion thank you very much mr president point of order point of order i'd be happy to check the rule but i understood when i presented rule 53 uh to our orders uh our i'm sorry our rules of order here as a board that the purpose was simply to report and not to discuss i'm looking at the city clerk and she seems to be nodding her head rule 53 reads that members shall report back to the board of alderman point is taken at this time i'd say that the motion's out of order

▶ 1:02:51 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: as proffered by alderman mortimer very good thank you very much is there any member of the board of aldermen that sits on another committee that they would like to alderman kate Letter garabedia sure and welcome back thank you so i'm a little fuzzy perhaps but i just thought i would give everyone a quick update on the school committee meeting that happened on April 24th I was not able to attend in person but I did watch and I think last time that we spoke I had shared with you that on April 10th the school committee voted six to one to put forward an unbalanced budget that the mayor Inferna and her staff took under consideration and worked I think also with the superintendent to think things through on the 24th the school committee came

▶ 1:03:34 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: back together mayor inferno found or repurposed reallocated about a hundred and seventy five thousand dollars of funds to go toward the Delta that was between the balanced budget and what the school committee had proposed and then the superintendent put forward a round of additional cuts that would lead to a balanced budget there was some discussion on that and then the school committee voted four to three to approve the balanced budget that I think we will be discussing in future meetings so I think it's a quick quick summary the record includes a revised changelog that's pretty helpful that we can all look at as we take a look at this thank you for that any other members see none we'll move now to the calendar order 2018 dash 163 acceptance of donate life

▶ 1:04:27 Michael P. Zwirko: melrose donation in the amount of ten thousand dollars said funds to be deposited in fund number two eight nine two this order came from the appropriations committee with a recommend recommendation for passage motion for passage it's been a motion for passage made by alderman lemmerman has been seconded by alderman mortimer uh this will require a roll call um vote if the madam clerk could call the roll oh excuse me i apologize on discussion hearing none Okay. Madam Clerk, call the roll. Okay. Alderman Bewtra? Yes. Yes. Alderman Boisselle? Yes. Yes. Alderman Forbes? Yes. Yes. Alderman Lemmerman? Yes. Yes. Alderman Lipper-Garabedian? Yes. Yes. Alderman Sean McMaster? Yes. Yes. Alderman Medeiros?

▶ 1:05:16 Yes. Yes. Alderman Mortimer? Yes. Yes. Alderman Tramontozzi? Yes. yes 11 yes that order passes for our 2018 dash 161 approval of the proposed municipal aggregation plan and authorization of the mayor to execute and submit the plan to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities for review and approval this order also came from the Appropriations Committee and it did come with a recommendation for passage motion for passage second motion for passage made by alderman Lemmerman seconded by alderman Mortimer on discussion hearing none I'm clerk to my calling the roll alderman Bewtra yes yes alderman boys out yes yes alderman Forbes yes yes alderman Lemmerman yes yes alderman Letter Garabedian yes yes alderman McMaster yes yes alderman

▶ 1:06:08 Michael P. Zwirko: Medeiros yes yes alderman Mortimer yes yes alderman Tramontozzi yes yes alderman Rita yes yes alderman Zwirko president yes yes that order passes 11-0 order 2018-160 appointment of rilda kissel three cottage street melrose to the melrose commission on women for a three-year term said term to expire on the last day of february 2021 this comes from the health excuse me health education and welfare committee with a recommendation for passage motion for passage in in accordance with the committee recommendation mr president it's been a motion made for passage by alderman mortimer is there a second second second by alderman mcmaster on discussion hearing none all those in favor aye aye any opposed none that order also passes order 2018-159

▶ 1:07:03 Michael P. Zwirko: appointment of kristen bunn steve phillip 22 lindfels parkway to the morrow's commission on women for a three-year term said term to expire on the last day of february 2021 This order also came from the Health, Education, and Welfare Committee with a recommendation for passage. Motion for passage, Mr. President. Motion for passage made by Alderman Mortimer. Is there a second? Second. Second made by Alderman McMaster. On discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? That order also passes. Motion to adjourn, Mr. President. And a motion to adjourn made by Alderman Mortimer. Second. Second by Alderman Forbes. All those in favor? Aye. We are adjourned. Good evening.

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