City Council — 2020-02-24

City Council Regular Meeting

This meeting starts at 40:18 in a recording that covers several meetings.

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Christopher Cinella present · At-Large; Jack Eccles present · At-Large; Mark Garipay present · Ward 4; Jen Grigoraitis present · President, ex oficio; Kate Lipper-Garabedian present · At-Large; Shawn M. MacMaster present · Ward 5; Jeff McNaught present · Ward 2; Leila Migliorelli present · At-Large; Robb Stewart present · Ward 3; Cory Thomas present · Ward 7; John N. Tramontozzi present · Ward 1

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CITY OF MELROSE CITY COUNCIL BULLETIN● FEBRUARY 24, 2020 Council Chamber, First Floor, Melrose City Hall Regular Meeting 7:45 PM 562 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176 Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Jen Grigoraitis President, ex oficio Present John N. Tramontozzi Ward 1 Present Jeff McNaught Ward 2 Present Robb Stewart Ward 3 Present Mark Garipay Ward 4 Present Shawn M. MacMaster Ward 5 Present Cory Thomas Ward 7 Present Kate Lipper-Garabedian At-Large Present Jack Eccles At-Large Present Christopher Cinella At-Large Present Leila Migliorelli At-Large Present

ORDER-2020-65 Resolution Melrose Complete Count Working Group - Census 2020 Advisory Committee Placed on File

ORDER-2020-66 Resolution A Resolution for State Action to Combat Nip Bottle and Single Use Water Bottle Litter Assigned to Committee Legal & Legislative Committee

ORDER-2020-67 Surety Bond Renewal of Surety Bond of City Clerk, City of Melrose in the amount of $15,000.00 for the year 2020 Assigned to Committee Finance Committee

ORDER-2020-68 License Application of Said Tazgui D/B/A Limo Connect, for a Livery Service License (1 vehicle) at 70 East Wyoming #1, Melrose, MA Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2020-52 Administrative Order City of Melrose Page 1 3/5/2020 1:56 PM Minutes City Council February 24, 2020 Amending Chapter A, Article II of the Administrative Code of the City of Melrose by inserting a new Section A-221 Establishing a Commission on Disability Passed

ORDER-2020-59 Transfer A transfer in the amount of $25,000 from Temporary Projected Debt Interest (017522-549100) to City Solicitor, Professional Services (011512- 529000). Passed

ORDER-2020-60 Grant 911 Training Grant Award - MPD This grant award provides funding for all Melrose Police Dispatch Officer to attend advanced education courses relevant to the handling of 911 Calls for Service. Passed

ORDER-2020-61 Grant Authorization to Accept a Grant in the amount of $9,500.00 from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) through the 2020 Heat Smart Massachusetts Program; and Authorize the Mayor to Execute a Contract; funds to be deposited into Fund #4039 Passed

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 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. Passed as Amended City of Melrose Page 2 3/5/2020 1:56 PM

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▶ 39:44 Jen Grigoraitis: motion to adjourn second motion to adjourn made by Vice Chair Sinella seconded by Councilor Stewart all in favor any opposed thank you stay tuned for the full City Council meeting okay it's 7 51 p.m. on February 24th and the meeting of the Melrose City Council is called to order I am President Grigoraitis in accordance with the Massachusetts open meeting law this meeting is recorded by Melrose cable access and will be available for viewing in its entirety on MMTV and through the city website link will the clerk please call the roll Councilor Sinella yep Councilor Eccles here Councilor Garipay here Councilor Lipper Garabedian here Councilor McMaster here Councilor McNaught here Councilor Migliorelli here Councilor Stewart here

▶ 41:17 Jen Grigoraitis: Councilor Thomas here Councilor Tramontozzi here president Grigoraitis here 11 present we have 11 present and there being the necessary quorum the council will proceed please rise and salute the flag at this time we will move to the public comment portion of our meeting where the member of the public and comment on anything before us on tonight's agenda I'll entertain a motion motion open the floor for public comment second we have a motion to open the floor of public comment from Councilor Sinella seconded by Councilor Eccles all in favor any opposed the motion carries seeing no members of the public to participate in public comment tonight I'll entertain a motion to close public comment we have a motion to close public comment by

▶ 42:21 Jen Grigoraitis: Councilor Sinella seconded by Councilor Thomas all in favor any opposed the motion carries okay will the clerk of committees please read the communications from the mayor and other city officials voter 2020-65 the melrose complete count working group census 2020 advisory committee okay so we have this motion before us i'll entertain a motion for immediate consideration it's not a motion second we don't it just as anyone is opposed if there's no uh we don't have to second do we have any up do we have any objections to immediate consideration for this order okay hearing none um do we have a motion to suspend the rules for any discussion motion to suspend the rules second we have a motion to suspend the rules by Councilor sanella seconded

▶ 43:08 Paul Brodeur: by Councilor Migliorelli all in favor aye any opposed okay so the rules are suspended and the order is before us do we have any questions that you do see the mayor here in the audience or we can I can hit entertain a motion perhaps you all know that it's census time perhaps the most exciting thing if you are looking for work is the census it's looking for folks they pay about 27 bucks an hour and they're looking higher but the bigger picture is the census is underway for folks who don't know the census is required by the Constitution once every ten years and it really creates the formula by which members of Congress are divided and most federal grant money or federal dollars are distributed so the

▶ 44:05 Paul Brodeur: accuracy of the count makes a big difference to a lot of ways that that most gets impacted particularly in terms of of federal funding so it is imperative to do that the creation of this of this committee is something that the Census Bureau contemplates and a lot of cities and towns most cities and towns do it it tends to focus a little bit more on communities that might have challenges getting getting accurate counts because there might be diversity issues language issues isolation within the community that is not so much the case here but it still behooves us to make every effort to make sure everyone is counted and that we do make sure we're reaching what might be hard to reach populations so the majority of this work will really be to draw

▶ 44:59 Paul Brodeur: attention to the census and importantly to reassure folks that this data is as secure as any federal data can be there is federal law around this data that says it cannot be shared with any other agency so for folks that might be concerned about whether or not this would create an immigration problem for someone or law enforcement uh issue for someone it will not and the purpose of the census is to carry is to count every single person in the district regardless of their immigration status criminal status it is literally to count every resident and that might be a little bit of a hard sell quite frankly these days but it is important to deliver that message again and make sure that we count every person that we can i want to thank the president for a partnership

▶ 45:56 Jen Grigoraitis: in moving this forward thank you mr mayor do we have any questions move to place the resolution on file we have a motion to move to place the resolution on file second a second a motion by Councilor mcnaught seconded by Councilor snell to place the resolution on file all in favor any opposed okay the resolution is placed on file thank you Clerk of committees, do we have additional new business? Order 2020-66, a resolution for state action to combat nip bottle and single-use water bottle litter. Madam President, I'd like to make a motion for immediate consideration. We have a motion for immediate consideration. Do we have any objections? Objection. We have an objection. Okay, so that motion does not carry.

▶ 46:53 We will refer this order to the Legal and Legislative Committee. order 2020-67 renewal of surety bond of city clerk city of melrose in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars for the year 2020. okay this order will be referred to the finance committee order 2020-68 application of said tesgu doing business as limo connect for a livery service order one vehicle at 70 east wyoming number one melrose mass this order will be referred to protection and license committee okay do we have any orders out of order we do not do we have any orders from committee counselor libra garabedian thank you madam president i would move um that we remove order number 2020-52 amending chapter a article 2 of the administrative

▶ 47:44 Jen Grigoraitis: code of the city of melrose by inserting a new section a-221 establishing a commission on disability from the appropriations committee okay so we have an order before us to move a motion before us to move order dash 2020 dash sorry i'm losing my numbers um 52 52 um do we have a second second all in favor any opposed okay thank you and this comes to the full city council with a recommendation for passage so what i would move that we um accept this um ordinance okay so we have a motion for a recommendation for passage do we have a motion no oh sorry i am moving oh you are moving i'm sorry my apologies we have a motion do we have a second second so we have a motion by council regarian in a second by counselor thomas um sure

▶ 48:38 Leila Migliorelli: why not all in favor aye any opposed okay thank you do we have any additional orders from the committee yes madam president i'd like to move to remove order 2020-59 a transfer in the amount of twenty five thousand dollars from temporary projected debt interest account number zero one seven five two two dash five four nine one zero zero to city solicitor professional services account number zero one one five one two dash five two nine zero zero zero okay do we have a second so we have a motion by Councilor Migliorelli seconded by Councilor stewart all in favor aye okay the order is before you um and i'd like to uh recommend passage you have to order passage yes we have a motion to record we have a motion to recommend passage by Councilor

▶ 49:20 migliorelli seconded by Councilor sanella all in favor any opposed the order passes i believe that's everything for orders from oh eight vote i'm sorry we have to do it's a roll call vote we should do that for both actually for both okay sorry my apologies no it's okay It's fine. So we should do order 2020-52? Correct. Roll call vote for order 2020-52. Councilor Sinella? Yes. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Lipper-Garabedian? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Thomas yes Councilor Tramontozzi yes president Grigoraitis yes 11 yes and now for order 2020-59 Councilor Cinella yes Councilor Eccles yes

▶ 50:25 Jack Eccles: Councilor Garipay yes Councilor Pagarabedian yes Councilor McMaster yes Councilor McNaught yes Councilor Migliorelli yes Councilor Stewart yes Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. President Grigoraitis? Yes. 11 yes. Okay. And we'll now move on to reports under Rule 53. Do we have any councillors who have reports? Councilor Eccles? On February 11th, the school committee had a discussion about the superintendent's budget narrative. They spoke about the Beebe School and they received a presentation about the dangers of vaping in schools. And also it should be known that there will be a public forum on the Beebe School March 7th at 10 a.m. in the high school learning commons any additional reports

▶ 51:13 Shawn M. MacMaster: from committee under rule 53 Councilor McMaster Thank You madam president the Veterans Services Advisory Board met last on February 18th just a reminder to the public and to my colleagues is that the chili charter fest will be held on Sunday March 22nd from 12 to 3 o'clock that will be at the lieutenant Norman Prince VFW post number 1506 on Main Street. In order to enter you can, I believe everybody here actually has received a slip in your mailbox, but the public can contact our Veterans Services Officer Karen Burke here at City Hall to get some more information and to fill out a registration form. As a reminder the proceeds from this event actually support the trip where the Veterans services advisory board takes middle school students to washington each year

▶ 52:07 Shawn M. MacMaster: this year last year was to honor vietnam war veterans this year is to honor veterans from iraq that trip will be between may 7th and may 9th also the golf tournament the annual golf tournament that supports veterans will be held on saturday september 26th that will be at mount hood at 8 a.m and the next meeting of the uh the board will occur on um february excuse me march 10th that's all thank you madam president thank you very much any additional reports okay hearing none we'll move to the calendar committees order 2020-60 and 9-1-1 training grant award Melrose Police Department this grant award provides funding for all Melrose Police dispatched officers to attend advanced education courses

▶ 53:05 relevant to handling of 911 calls for service okay this order comes to the council from the Appropriations Committee with a recommendation for passage I would move for passage we have a motion for passage seconded by Councilor Thomas I believe this is a roll call vote Councilor snella yes Councilor Eccles yes Councilor Garipay yes council of the Pagarabedian yes Councilor McMaster yes Councilor McNaught yes Councilor Migliorelli yes Councilor Stewart yes Councilor Thomas yes Councilor Tramontozzi yes president Grigoraitis yes 11 yes 11 yes so the order passes order 2020-61 authorization to accept a grant in the amount of nine thousand five $500 from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center through the 2020 heat smart, Massachusetts program and

▶ 54:05 Authorize the mayor to execute a contract funds to be deposited into fund number four zero three nine This order comes to the council from the Appropriations Committee with a recommendation for passage Counselor look for Gary. Thank you president Grigoraitis. I would move that we pass this We have a motion. We have a motion to pass it by Councilor Kip Lipper-Garabedian seconded by Vice Chair Sonnella all in oh this is a roll call vote I apologize Councilor Sonnella yes Councilor Eccles yes Councilor Garipay yes Councilor Lipper-Garabedian yes Councilor McMaster yes Councilor McNaught yes Councilor Migliorelli yes Councilor Stewart yes Councilor Thomas yes Councilor Tramontozzi yes President

▶ 54:48 Jen Grigoraitis: yes order 2020-38 a special act to authorize the city of Melrose acting through its liquor licensing Commission to convert up to three 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 this order comes to us from the Appropriations Committee with a recommendation to pass as amended Councilor the precarious thank you in light of that I will move that we pass uh pass as amended thank you we have a motion for passage we have a motion from Councilor libra garabedian seconded by Councilor sanella for passage as amended this is also a roll call vote Councilor sanella yes Councilor eccles yes Councilor Garipay yes Councilor

▶ 55:35 Jen Grigoraitis: libra garabedian yes Councilor mcmaster no Councilor mcnaught yes Councilor migliorelli yes Councilor stewart no Councilor thomas yes Councilor chaman tozi yes president Grigoraitis yes nine yes nine yes the order passes do we have any additional items on the calendar we do not okay we are at the end of tonight's agenda i'll entertain a motion to adjourn second adjourn we have a motion by Councilor snella seconded by Councilor eccles all in favor Aye. Any opposed? The motion passes. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.

City Council — 2020-02-24

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