City Council — 2020-05-18

City Council Regular Meeting

This meeting starts at 1:14:24 in a recording that covers several meetings.

Attendance

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

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CITY OF MELROSE CITY COUNCIL BULLETIN● MAY 18, 2020 Web-based remote meeting Regular Meeting 7:45 PM , Melrose, MA 02176 Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Jen Grigoraitis President, ex oficio Remote John N. Tramontozzi Ward 1 Remote Jeff McNaught Ward 2 Remote Robb Stewart Ward 3 Remote Mark Garipay Ward 4 Remote Shawn M. MacMaster Ward 5 Remote Cory Thomas Ward 7 Remote Jack Eccles At-Large Remote Christopher Cinella At-Large Remote Leila Migliorelli At-Large Remote Maya Jamaleddine At-Large Remote

ORDER-2020-96 Appropriation An Appropriation from Free Cash (01-324001) in the amount of $2,500,000 to various Stabilization Funds. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2020-97 A Acceptance Melrose Police Vehicle Donation The Melrose Police requests the City of Melrose accept a vehicle donation from Metropolitan Insurance Company to be used by the Melrose Police Middle School SRO to raise awareness for Autism. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2020-98 Grant Acceptance of the FY20 Firefighter Turnout Gear Grant in the amount of $2,500.00. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2020-99 Appointment Appointment of Bonnie Clapp, 177 First Street, to the Human Rights Commission to fill the unexpired term of Maya Jamaleddine; said term to expire on the last day of February 2021. Assigned to Committee

ORDER-2020-100 Appointment City of Melrose Page 1 5/27/2020 1:21 PM Minutes City Council May 18, 2020 Appointment of Elizabeth Ticcioni, 14 Irving Street, to the Human Rights Commission to fill the unexpired term of Leila Migliorelli; said term to expire on the last day of February 2021. Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2020-101 Resolution A Resolution in Recognition of the Melrose Fire Department Placed on File

ORDER-2020-102 Resolution A Resolution in Recognition of the Melrose Police Department Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2020-86 Appointment Reappointment of Michael Stankavish, 9 Harding St., to the Human Rights Commission for a second full term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023. Passed Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2020-85 Resolution A Resolution Honoring the Melrose Chapter of the 84 Movement--Fighting Youth Tobacco Use in Massachusetts Placed on File Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2020-79 Establishment of Fund Establishment of OSHA Reserve Stabilization Fund Passed

ORDER-2020-76 Bond Authorizing a loan in the amount of $100,000 for costs of conducting a planning study and final design for repair or replace the Department of Public Works' Salt Shed. Passed as Amended

ORDER-2020-69 Bond Authorizing a Bond in the Amount of $2,311,205 for building repairs to Memorial Hall. Passed

ORDER-2020-103 Appropriation City of Melrose Page 2 5/27/2020 1:21 PM Minutes City Council May 18, 2020 Divided order: An Appropriation in the amount of $579,000 from Free cash (account 01-324001) to various capital accounts as set forth herein. Passed City of Melrose Page 3 5/27/2020 1:21 PM

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▶ 1:14:06 Jen Grigoraitis: Yes. President Grigoraitis. Yes. Chairman Sinella. Yes. You're recessed. All right, recess. President Griggs, it's all you. All right, thank you, Chairman Sinella. It is 8-14 on Monday, May 18th, and the meeting of the Melrose City Council is now called to order. I am President Grigoraitis, pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12th, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law and the governor's March 15th 2020 order imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather in one place this meeting will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible post an audio or video recording transcript or other comprehensive record of these proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting on the city of Melrose

▶ 1:14:57 Jen Grigoraitis: website and on MMTV3.org madam clerk can you please call the roll councillor Sinella yeah councillor Eccles here councillor Garipay here councillor DeMoladine here councillor McMaster here councillor McNaught here councillor Migliorelli here councillor Stewart here councillor Thomas here Tramontozzi? Here. President Grigoraitis? Here. 11 present. Okay, 11 present. We have a quorum. The meeting may, will proceed. Do we have a motion for public, to enter into public comment? Motion to open public comment. We have a motion to open public comment by Councillor Stewart, seconded by Councillor Cinella. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll. Sinella. Yes. Eccles. Yes. Garipay. Yes. Jamaleddine.

▶ 1:16:01 Jen Grigoraitis: Yes. McMaster. Yes. McNaught. Yes. Migliorelli. Yes. Stewart. Yes. Thomas. Yes. Tramontozzi. Yes. Rigoritis. Yes. 11 yes. Okay, the motion carries. At this time, we are in public comment. during which any member of the public may virtually come forward to speak on any item on the agenda. If you are participating via WebEx and wish to speak, please digitally raise your hand. And if you're on an iPhone, you need to swipe in order to be able to do so. I don't remember which direction you swipe. Do we have anyone waiting to participate in public comment? I do not see anyone, Madam President. Motion to close public comment. Okay, we have a motion to post public comment by Councilor Garipay, seconded by Councilor Stewart.

▶ 1:16:56 Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Councilor Cinella. Yes. Councilor Eccles. Yes. Councilor Garipay. Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine. 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 the motion carries public comment is now closed madam clerk of committees can you please read the communications from his honor the mayor and other city officials order 2020-96 an appropriation from free cash account zero one dash three two four zero zero one in the amount of two million five hundred thousand to various stabilization funds this order will be referred to the appropriations committee order 2020-97 a melrose police vehicle

▶ 1:17:58 donation melrose police requests the city of melrose accept a vehicle donation from metropolitan insurance company to be used by the melrose i'm sorry melrose police middle school sro to raise awareness for autism this order will be referred will be referred to the appropriations committee order 2020-98 acceptance of the fy20 firefighter turnout year grant in the amount of two thousand five hundred dollars this order will be referred to the appropriations committee order 2020-99 appointment of bonnie clap 177 first street to the human rights commission to fill the unexpired term of maya Jamaleddine said term to expire on the last day of february 2021. this order will be referred to the health education and welfare committee

▶ 1:18:45 Jen Grigoraitis: Order 2020-100, appointment of Elizabeth Ciccione, 14 Irving Street, to the Human Rights Commission to fill the unexpired term of Lila Migliorelli, said term to expire on the last day of February 2021. This order will be referred to the Health, Education, and Welfare Committee. Madam Clerk of Committees, can you please read the new business? Order 2020-101, a resolution in recognition of the Melrose Fire Department. Madam President? Yes, Councillor McMaster. At this time, I am seeking immediate consideration. Okay, we have a request for immediate consideration by Councillor McMaster for Order 2020-101. Do we have any objections? Okay, seeing no objections, this order is now before us. Do I have an entertain a motion to suspend the rules?

▶ 1:19:35 I believe we have some members that we wish to bring forward. Is that correct, Councillor McMaster? Yes, I believe we have with us Chief Kalina, as well as President Skahr of the Fire Union. And I'm not sure if Mayor Bird is able to join us or if Mr. Prendergast will be represented. I'll make a motion to suspend the rules. Second. All right. We have a motion to suspend the rules by Councillor Stewart, seconded by Councillor Tramontozzi. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Councillor Sanella? Yes. Councillor Eccles? Yes. Councillor Garipay? yes councillor de maladeen yes councillor mcmaster yes councillor mcnaught yes councillor Migliorelli yes yes councillor stewart yes councillor thomas yes councillor Tramontozzi yes president Grigoraitis

▶ 1:20:35 Shawn M. MacMaster: yes 11 yes hey we are under a suspension of the rules councillors mcmaster and stewart i will turn this over to you uh thank you madam president do we have video of our guests or are they uh can they hear us yes i can hear you good evening everybody evening chief mr starr with us there he is good evening thank you both for joining us this uh evening as uh background this is a resolution filed by Consular Stewart and I. The resolution was filed on May 4th which as some of you probably know and I know Chief Kalina and President Starnow is International Firefighters Day. We very much appreciate of course all that our firefighters do throughout the course of the year but we certainly recognize how difficult and challenging these last few months have been with the

▶ 1:21:45 Shawn M. MacMaster: COVID-19 pandemic and what it has called upon you chief and your team to do in terms of preparedness and in response so we very much appreciate that and it's also not lost on me that we are hearing this resolution this evening just two days after a significant fire in Los Angeles where 12 firefighters were injured eight of whom remain in the hospital also just yesterday in Manhattan. Some of you may have heard that there was a major fire, excuse me, in Harlem at a furniture store where one firefighter was injured. Later on, I think Consular Stewart's going to talk a little bit more about these types of personal heroics that are not always seen, so I will leave that to Consular Stewart to talk about. And you know what I would just say, and some of

▶ 1:22:41 Shawn M. MacMaster: you may have seen the video of the conflagration in Los Angeles where firefighters were exiting a building trying to get down from the ladder. And you'll see on that there are three firefighters who get down and they're on the top of the the apparatus heading away from the fire. Next thing you know there is a massive explosion. And what did the three firefighters do? They They didn't jump off of the apparatus. They didn't continue running in the opposite direction. They literally turned around and ran towards the explosion because their brothers were on the ladder. So I do think, as sad and tragic as that is, and we certainly extend our thoughts and prayers and well wishes to them, their brothers and sisters,

▶ 1:23:28 Shawn M. MacMaster: and certainly their family and their community in Los Angeles, it is still, I think, fitting that we are honoring are men and women in the fire department today. So I will proceed to read the resolution. City of Melrose in City Council, a resolution in recognition of the Melrose Fire Department. Whereas firefighters are formally recognized and celebrated during the month of May, and whereas International Firefighters Day is observed annually on May 4th, and whereas the field of firefighting has evolved over the years to include medical aid, hazardous waste cleanup and biohazard emergencies, as well as participation in search and rescue operations and preparedness activities to prevent domestic and foreign terrorism.

▶ 1:24:16 Shawn M. MacMaster: Whereas the Melrose Fire Department has continually operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 151 years. And whereas the Melrose Fire Department is comprised of 57 firefighters who staff three fire stations strategically located throughout the city. And whereas the Melrose Fire Department is broken down into four suppression groups made up of two engine companies, one ladder company, one rescue company. And whereas in 2019, the Melrose Fire Department responded to 4,495 service calls, including 279 fires, 2,480 medical aids, 272 motor vehicle crashes, and dozens of drug overdoses. And whereas in the first four months of 2020, the Melrose Fire Department has responded to 1,320 service calls, including 73 fires, 740 medical aids, 56 motor vehicle crashes, and 23 drug overdoses.

▶ 1:25:20 Shawn M. MacMaster: And whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has placed additional demands on the Melrose Fire Department and exposed its members to a novel virus at great personal risk. and whereas each and every day our firefighters risk their personal safety for the health and welfare of the general public and whereas the Melrose Fire Department represents the very best of the firefighting profession. Be it resolved, we the members of the Melrose City Council do hereby express our sincere appreciation for the men and women of the Melrose Fire Department for their hard work, selflessness, bravery and sacrifice on behalf of the City of Melrose and in recognition hereof be it further resolved that on this 18th day of May in the year 2020 a copy of this resolution be spread upon the records of

▶ 1:26:08 Robb Stewart: the Melrose City Council offered by Sean M McMaster City Council award 5 and Rob Stewart City Council or Ward 3 attested by members of the Melrose City Council madam president at this time I would ask that counselor Stewart be recognized as my co-sponsor to say a few words? Certainly, Councillor Stewart. Thank you, Madam President, and through the Chair, thank you, Councillor McMaster, for those fine words. I'll be brief, but I just want to let you know that I was very proud to co-sponsor this resolution with Councillor McMaster. I echo Mr. McMaster's sentiments, And I think the numbers speak for themselves in terms of the effort and the amount of work that you do that is largely unrecognized or unknown,

▶ 1:27:06 Robb Stewart: but absolutely critical and essential to the community. Throughout the year, particularly during these trying times, as part of the frontline team to battle COVID-19, the men and women of your department make personal sacrifices to go out and respond to all of the community needs, whether it be a fire or the related issues that you deal with on a day-to-day basis. I think the recent example of the Willow Street fire and how this was quickly and efficiently contained without any loss of life, without and avoiding any spread of the fire to additional buildings and a tightly built area within the community is a real testament to the value that you bring when the time of crisis arise. So I want to thank you personally

▶ 1:28:03 Robb Stewart: as a member of the community and also as a representative of this community for your continued commitment and to the wellbeing of the City of Milhouse. So thank you, Fire Chief Kalina, And thank you, Mr. Stare. We very much appreciate your efforts. I'm present. Thank you, Councilor McMaster and Councilor Stewart. Chief Kalina, President Starr, is there anything that you'd like to say to the council? You don't have to, but you're welcome to speak. Chief Kalina. Yes, good evening everybody. I just wanted to say thank you to the councilors who filed the order and the resolution and to all of you councilors that are supporters. not only for this order but the throughout the years it means a lot to

▶ 1:28:55 my members and we have the support of the council and then the city as a whole the firefighters they do so much day in and day out and they receive every little recognition and for their duties regardless we're all very proud to serve the city and we don't do but we just we do we truly love our job and we're happy to serve the citizens of Melrose and appreciate your recognition of my firefighters very much appreciated thank you thank you chief President Starr you're on mute you hear me now all right so I basically just wanted to uh reiterate what the chief had just said um very proud to represent uh the members of local 1617 and um you know it's uh it's it's been great to serve with them and serving the citizens of melrose we've gained a lot of support from

▶ 1:30:09 Jen Grigoraitis: the citizens as well as city council from anything from uh you know just wishing us well and um i know even some of the city councilors christenella dropped off uh hand sanitizer and masks and uh we definitely feel feel the support from from you and we'll always be here to look after the city of Melrose so we look forward to continuing to get your support and thanks so much for this recognition this resolution thank you and thank you both and your members for all that you do on behalf of the city of Melrose every day and thank you to counselors McMaster and Stewart for bringing forward this resolution at this time do we have any other counselors wishing to speak hey at this time we can continue on with our new business motion

▶ 1:31:00 Paul Brodeur: place up there sorry yes motion to place on file by councillor Tramontozzi seconded by councillor mcmaster madam clerk can you please call the roll um madam president i sounded like the mayor might be wanting to come in i don't know if it was in reference to this okay i solved my there he is i saw my text scroll down because i'm getting a luke garrick effect here um but i did want to jumped in are you guys getting that echo i'll try to be brief because i don't know what's going on but i i do want to thank the the men and women of the metworth fire department in particular because they have served my family well in particular with my mom and dad being frail there have been several times over the course of the last several years where they've had to transfer out my

▶ 1:31:56 Paul Brodeur: my parents. And we have a bit of a history on my father's side of folks being on the job, but now retired, passed away. But I know from them what that means. And I certainly, on behalf of my family, want to thank you for the terrific work you did in making sure my mom and dad were safe and got what they need. Thank you, gentlemen. you mr. mayor at this time I believe we had a motion on the before us to place this resolution on file and we were going to call the roll councillor Sunilla yes councillor Eccles councillor garipay councillor de maledine yes councillor McMaster yes councillor McNaught yes councillor Migliorelli yes councillor Stewart yes yes yes yes okay 11 yes the resolution has been placed on file thank

▶ 1:33:07 Jen Grigoraitis: you gentlemen for joining us this evening we appreciate it thank you thank you okay madam committees can we continue with our new business you're on mute Kristen $10 order 2020-102 a resolution in recognition of the Melrose Police Department and this order will be sent to the Appropriations Committee where I believe where the chief will already be joining us aha Thursday evening do we have any orders out of order we do not do we have any orders from committee do we have any reports from councillors under rule 53 I see none can we move to the calendar order 2020-86 reappointment of Michael Stankovich nine Harding Street to the Human Rights Commission for a second full term expired in the last day of February 2023 okay and this comes from

▶ 1:34:07 Jen Grigoraitis: health education and welfare with a recommendation for passage counselor Eccles motion for passage we have a motion for passage of order 2020 dash 86 from councillor Eccles seconded by councillor Migliorelli we have any discussion hey madam clerk can you please call the roll councillor Sanella yes councillor Eccles yes councillor Garipay yes councillor Jamaleddine yes councillor McMaster yes councillor McNaught yes councillor Migliorelli yes councillor Stewart yes councillor Thomas yes councillor Tramontozzi yes president Grigoraitis yes 11 yes 11 yes so the motion passes congratulations to mr. Stankovic on his reappointment madam clerk of committees for 2020-85 a resolution honoring the melrose chapter of the 84 movement fighting youth tobacco

▶ 1:35:17 use in massachusetts okay and this order comes from us from comes to us from health education and welfare with a recommendation to place on file i move to place this order second okay we have a motion to place the order on file by councillor eccles seconded by councillor mcnaught do we have any discussion okay seeing none madam clerk can you please call the role. Councilor Sanella? Yes. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor DeMoledine? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. councillor thomas yes councillor Tramontozzi yes president Grigoraitis yes 11 yes okay so the order has been placed on file madam clerk of committee order 2020-79 establishment of osha reserve

▶ 1:36:23 Jen Grigoraitis: stabilization fund okay and this order comes to us from the appropriations committee with a recommendation for passage um clerk i make a motion to uh recommend passage second so we have a motion for passage by councillor sanella seconded by councillor mcnaught is there any discussion okay seeing none madam clerk can you please call the roll councillor sanella yes councillor eccles yes councillor Garipay yes councillor demoladine yes councillor mcmaster yes councillor mcnaught yes councillor Migliorelli yes councillor stewart yes councillor thomas yes councillor Tramontozzi yes president Grigoraitis yes 11 yes okay 11 yes so the order has passed madam clerk of committees order 2020-76 authorizing a loan in the amount of 100 000 for costs of conducting a planning study and final

▶ 1:37:25 design for repair or replace of the department of public works salt shed okay and this order comes to us from the appropriations committee with a recommendation as amended by substitution a motion to recommend passage second we have a motion to recommend passage by councillor senella seconded by councillor Garipay is there any discussion okay seeing none madam clerk can you please call the role Councilor Sanella? Yes. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi yes yes yes yes so this passes as with the recommended substitutions Adam clerk of committee 2020-69 authorizing a bond in the amount

▶ 1:38:32 Jen Grigoraitis: of two million three hundred eleven thousand two hundred and five dollars for building repairs to Memorial Hall and this order comes to us from the Appropriations Committee with the recommendation for passage recommend passage second we have a motion for passage by councillor sanella seconded by councillor Migliorelli is there any discussion okay seeing none madam clerk can you please call the role councillor snella yes councillor eccles yes councillor Garipay yes so Jamaleddine yes Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Ciamantosi? Yes. President Grigoraitis? Yes. 11 yes. 11 yes, so the order has passed.

▶ 1:39:27 Jen Grigoraitis: Okay, we have one more. Madam Clerk of Committees? 2020-103, a divided order and appropriation in the amount of $579,000 from free cash account 01-324-001 to various capital accounts as set forth herein. And this comes from the Appropriations Committee with a recommendation for passage. Motion for passage. Second. There's a motion for passage by Councilor Cinella, seconded by Councilor Migliorelli. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Councillor Sinella? Yes. Councillor Eccles? Yes. Councillor Garipay? Yes. Councillor DeMoladine? I think Councillor DeMoladine froze. I'll come back. Councillor McMaster? Yes. Councillor McNaught? Yes. Councillor Migliorelli?

▶ 1:40:27 Yes. Councillor Stewart? Yes. Councillor Thomas? Yes. Councillor Tramontozzi? Yes. Councillor Williams? Yes. Councillor Williams? Yes. Tramontozzi? Yes. President Grigoraitis? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine, can you hear us? She's got a low beam with our message. Oh, there she is. There she is. Can you hear us, Councilor Jamaleddine? Yes. Yes. Thanks for the vote. Perfect timing. Okay, 11 yes. Okay, 11 yes, the order passes. Thank you, Madam Clerk of Committees. Seeing nothing else. Motion to adjourn. Okay, we have a motion to adjourn by councillor senella seconded by councillor thomas madam clerk can you please call the roll councillor senella yes councillor eccles councillor Garipay yes councillor Jamaleddine yes councillor mcmaster

▶ 1:41:39 yes councillor mcnaught yes councillor Migliorelli yes councillor stewart yes councillor thomas yes counselor Tramontozzi yes president Grigoraitis yes 11 yes okay this meeting is adjourned and we will be returning to appropriations thank you all thank you welcome back to part two of appropriations adam clark yes we have to we have a quick time check and recording sure so um as soon as the city clerk um gives me back the host privileges i'll be able to tell you the time but i do see it's The event recording is in progress. Can we pick up where we left off? Do we have to vote this back into session? Say that again? You're asking me questions, sorry. Take a vote to reconvene. That's okay. So we left off with line item budget 692, community events.

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