City Council — 2019-10-21
Attendance
Manisha Bewtra ; Robert A. Boisselle ; Scott M. Forbes ; Kate Lipper-Garabedian ; Shawn M. MacMaster ; Monica C. Medeiros ; Peter D. Mortimer ; John N. Tramontozzi ; Francis X. Wright Jr. ; Michael P. Zwirko
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Minutes Approval
- Public Comment
- Communications from Her Honor, The Mayor And Other City Officials
- ORDER-2020-35 : Acceptance of FY20 State 911 Department Emergency Medical Dispatch Grant Program in the amount of $18,000.00 to fund Cataldo Ambulance Company Emergency Services.
- ORDER-2020-38 : A Special Act to authorize the City of Melrose, acting through it's Liquor Licensing Commission, to convert up to three (3) retail food establishment licenses for the sale of wine and malt beverages to licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages for off premises consumption.
- New Business
- ORDER-2020-36 : Establishing a Designated Parking Space at City Hall for Veterans of the United States Armed Forces
- ORDER-2020-37 : Request for the City of Melrose to produce infrastructural data relating to all municipal sewer lines.
- ORDER-2020-39 : Request for Update on the Status of the Community Mitigation Funds Grant
- ORDER-2020-40 : An Order Requesting the City of Melrose to adopt Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 33 ,Section 59 (effect of military service on salary, seniority, and leave allowances of public employees)
- Orders Out of Order
- Orders from Committee
- REPORTS - RULE 53
- Calendar
- ORDER-2019-34 : Amending Melrose Revised Ordinances to add Chapter 222, Article IV: Shared Mobility Vehicles
- Adjournment
Minutes
CITY OF MELROSE CITY COUNCIL BULLETIN● OCTOBER 21, 2019 Council Chamber, First Floor, Melrose City Hall Regular Meeting 7:45 PM 562 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176 Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Manisha Bewtra At-Large Present Robert A. Boisselle Ward 4 Present Scott M. Forbes President/Ex Oficio Absent Kate Lipper-Garabedian At-Large Present Shawn M. MacMaster Ward 5 Present Monica C. Medeiros At-Large Present 7:50 PM Peter D. Mortimer Ward 6 Present John N. Tramontozzi Ward 1 Present Francis X. Wright Jr. Ward 3 Present Michael P. Zwirko At-Large Present
ORDER-2020-35 Grant Acceptance of FY20 State 911 Department Emergency Medical Dispatch Grant Program in the amount of $18,000.00 to fund Cataldo Ambulance Company Emergency Services. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee
ORDER-2020-38 Home Rule Petition/Special Act A Special Act to authorize the City of Melrose, acting through it's Liquor Licensing Commission, to convert up to two (2) retail food establishment licenses for the sale of wine and malt beverages to licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages for off premises consumption. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee
ORDER-2020-36 Request Establishing a Designated Parking Space at City Hall for Veterans of the United States Armed Forces Assigned to Committee Public Service Committee
ORDER-2020-37 Request Request for the City of Melrose to produce infrastructural data relating to all municipal sewer lines. Assigned to Committee Public Works Committee
ORDER-2020-39 Request City of Melrose Page 1 10/24/2019 12:04 PM Minutes City Council October 21, 2019 Request for Update on the Status of the Community Mitigation Funds Grant Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee
ORDER-2020-40 Acceptance An Order Requesting the City of Melrose to adopt Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 33 ,Section 59 (effect of military service on salary, seniority, and leave allowances of public employees) Assigned to Committee Legal & Legislative Committee Legal & Legislative Committee
ORDER-2019-34 Amending Revised Ordinances Amending Melrose Revised Ordinances to add Chapter 222, Article IV: Shared Mobility Vehicles Placed on File City of Melrose Page 2 10/24/2019 12:04 PM
Transcript
▶ 0:04 Peter D. Mortimer: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. It is Monday, October 21st. This is the regular third Monday meeting of the month, meeting of the Melrose City Council. I am the longest standing member of the Melrose City Council and in the absence of our president, Scott Forbes, who is out of town on a business trip on behalf of homeless veterans, it is my role to call the meeting to order, and the first bit of procedure that we have is to open the floor for nominations for a president pro tem. Alderman Zwirko has made a motion to open nominations, duly seconded by Alderman Boycelle. All in favor of opening nominations, please say aye. Any opposed, hearing none, nominations are now open. Alderman, excuse me, City Councilor Wright, please. I nominate Peter Mortimer.
▶ 1:00 Peter D. Mortimer: Councillor Wright has nominated Peter Mortimer for the role of President Pro Tem, duly seconded by Councillor Zwirko. Are there any further nominations? Seeing none, Alderman Boisselle has made a motion to close nominations, duly seconded by Councillor Lippa Garabedian. All in favor of the motion to close nominations, please say aye. Any opposed? We will now have a vote on the one nominee. All in favor of Peter Mortimer for President Pro Tem of the City Council, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed, hearing none, Peter Mortimer is duly elected as President Pro Tem of the Melrose City Council. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll? Councilor Bewtra? Here. Councilor Boisselle? Here. Councilor Lipper-Garabedian?
▶ 1:47 Peter D. Mortimer: Here. Councilor McMaster? Here. Councilor Medeiros? Councilor President Pro Tem Mortimer? Here. Councilor Tramontozzi? Here. Councilor Wright? Here. Senators Worko. Here. President Forbes. Having sufficient members of the city council present for a quorum, this meeting is in order and would you all rise now and join me in saluting the flag of the United States of America. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, individual with liberty and justice for all. Is there a motion to open the floor for public comment please? Duly made by Councilor Zwirko, seconded by Councilor Boisselle. All in favor, please say aye.
▶ 2:43 Peter D. Mortimer: Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, the floor is now open for public comment. Quick point of order, Mr. President. Yes, please. Could you just remind the audience that this meeting is being recorded just pursuant to the open meeting law? Certainly, this meeting is being recorded pursuant to the open meeting law and is available for future viewing on MMTB or on the City of Melrose website. Councilor Lipper-Garabedian, please. Just a point of order on our agenda, it was going to move to accept some minutes, but can we do that after the public comment period? We will do that after the public comment. And the reason for that is in case anybody in the city, residents have looked at the minutes and they have some commentary that something
▶ 3:25 needs to be added or amended they could come to the table and say so so we will do that subsequently thank you for the point of order and now we are ready for public comment if there is anybody from the please step forward sir state your name and address for the record please James Keene I'm at 182 Woodcrest Drive Melrose thank you sir and I am a member of the Melrose Veterans Advisory Board who has been asked to appear tonight to express our appreciation to the board for entertaining the veterans plate or veterans parking spot adjacent to City Hall as part of the brave act I understand it's going to go to committee and we will be having our meeting so we'll be discussing that our position on
▶ 4:13 Peter D. Mortimer: on the matter, but our position right now is just to express our deep appreciation for this. It may be a small thing, but these small things mean a lot to the veterans community here. And so I want to express, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very, very much. You're welcome, sir. And thank you for coming forward to point that out. Motion to close public comment. Councilman Zwirko has, Councilor Zwirko has made a motion to close public comment, duly seconded by Councilor Boisselle. All in favor of closing public comment, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed, hearing none, public comment is now closed. Councilor Lipper-Garabedian, please. Thank you, President Pro Tem Mortimer. I would move that we accept the minutes
▶ 4:58 Peter D. Mortimer: from our meetings on August 19th, September 3rd, September 9th, and September 23rd. Without reading. Without reading, thank you. Councilor Lipper-Garabedian has made a motion to accept the aforementioned minutes the previous meetings without reading. Second. Duly seconded by Councilor Boycelle. All in favor of said motion, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed, hearing none. Those minutes are accepted and will be included in the record and spread across the archives of the City Council of the City of Melrose. Doing all right so far. Stick with City Council, 19 years, it doesn't extinguish easily. I made these cheat cards for myself, so it keeps saying City Councilor. All right We will now proceed with this
▶ 5:47 evening's business Madam clerks, would you please let the records reflect that we have been joined now by Council of Medeiros and We're ready for the first order please under the heading of communications for honor the mayor and other city officials, please proceed order Order 2020-35, acceptance of fiscal year 20 State 911 Department Emergency Medical Dispatch Grant Program in the amount of $18,000 to fund Cataldo Ambulance Company Emergency Services. This order will be sent to the Committee on Appropriations. Order 2020-38, a special act to authorize the City of Melrose acting through its Liquor Licensing Commission convert up to two retail food establishment licenses for the sale of wine and malt beverages
▶ 6:40 to licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption. This order will also be sent to the Committee on Appropriations. We will proceed now to new business. Order 2020-36, establishing a designated parking space at City Hall for veterans of the United States Armed Forces. This order will be sent to the Committee on Public Service. Order 2020-37, request for the City of Melrose to produce infrastructural data relating to all municipal sewer lines. This order will be sent to the Committee on Public Works. Order 2020-39, request for update on the status of the Community Mitigation Funds Grant. This order will be sent to the Committee on Appropriations. Order 2020-40, an order requesting the City of Melrose to adopt Massachusetts General
▶ 7:32 Monica C. Medeiros: law chapter 33 section 59 effect of military service on salaries seniority and leave allowances of public employees this order will be sent to the committee on legal and legislative matters we have no orders out of order we have no orders from committee we will proceed now to item Roman numeral 8 on our agenda reports from committees first we have the school committee please thank you as the school committee liaison just some updates from the last meeting they're back to doing the school spotlight so this past meeting was the spotlight was on the high school and they talked a lot about the senior capstone project and the transition from going using all the seniors having to do a senior paper to
▶ 8:22 Monica C. Medeiros: doing a senior capstone project so so far that's working very well we saw an example and it's a great example of what personalized learning can look like one thing that the school committee wanted everyone to know is that there's actually a shortage of paraprofessionals and so they are hiring and if anybody is interested in being a paraprofessional they're looking for paraprofessionals at the Lincoln the middle school and the high school and also for crossing guards and drivers so people can contact the superintendent's office at seven eight one six six two two thousand we had a retirement of Mary Ann Farrell who's a longtime employee with the school system and was the director of administrative
▶ 9:08 Monica C. Medeiros: finance and administrative affairs and they approved a new appointment of Leah DeLorenzo Secor who was most recently finance manager in Weymouth and she'll START OCTOBER 28th. WE REVIEWED THE RESULTS OF THE YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR SURVEY AND I THINK SOME OF THE IMPORTANT DATA TO SHARE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE LOOKED AT THIS IN A REGIONALIZED WAY WITH THE WHOLE MIDDLE SEX LEAGUE. SO WE BASICALLY PARTNERED OUT TO HAVE THE ANALYSIS OF THE DATA DONE WITH THE MIDDLE SEX LEAGUE. AND THE NEXT SURVEY IS IN 2021. items of note Melrose at 63.9% had the highest rate in the area of students who never or rarely wear a helmet while riding a bicycle Melrose is also among the highest highest to report feeling sad or hopeless Melrose at 59.4% had the
▶ 10:09 Monica C. Medeiros: highest percentage of students reporting use of alcohol at least once in their lifetime and the highest level of those reporting binge drinking overall Melrose is a little bit higher in substance use than the Middlesex League and both Melrose and Reading middle school students were the most likely to report having sexual intercourse compared to the rest of the participants in the Middlesex League that was at 4.6 percent compared to 2.8 percent in the league but most students most also had notably the most students that were reported not being physical physically active at fourteen point nine nine percent so that's just activity other things that are note is a lot going on here yeah that's important the Beebe school the school committee is going to have some
▶ 11:06 Monica C. Medeiros: discussions on that and what's going to happen to that building I know it's of importance to the community on October 29th at their next meeting they'll have a presentation on the educational programs and discussion they'll discuss the parameters and the plans for a public forum on the BB school programming and that will be held that public meeting the week of November 19th and when they're scheduled and expected to take a final vote on the educational program for the Beebe school on December 10th thank you very much councillor Medeiros and now on to the traffic Commission report from councillor Boyce out please there will be a traffic a special traffic Commission meeting tomorrow night October 22nd at 5 30 p.m. in this council chamber the agenda item
▶ 11:55 Robert A. Boisselle: is resident a resident request to repeal the current overnight parking restriction in the city of Melrose and or amend the existing law so that prohibition does not apply to vehicles registered to an address within the city of Melrose now this meeting will be open for public participation at this time that's all I have thank you very much councillor Boyce L we've done the new business we've done that so now we will proceed to the calendar order 2019-34 amending melrose revised ordinance ordinances to add chapter 222 article 4 shared mobility vehicles this order comes from the legal and legislative committee with a recommendation to place on file motion to place on file council medeiros has made a motion to place this order on file duly
▶ 12:54 Peter D. Mortimer: seconded by councillors work out on discussion seeing none all in favor please say aye aye any opposed this order will be placed on file is there are there any counselors who have appointed personal privilege before we call for the adjournment uh seeing none alderman excuse me counselor's work oh almost made it through the whole night right at the end cut council's Mrs. Werko has made a motion for adjournment, duly seconded by Councilor Lippa Garabedian. All in favor of adjournment, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, we are adjourned. Thank you, one and all.