City Council — 2020-08-17

City Council Regular Meeting

This meeting starts at 1:00:41 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● AUGUST 17, 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-2021-12 Utility Petition Petition of Massachusetts Electric Company d/b/a National Grid and Verizon New England, Inc. to install I JO Pole on Franklin St beginning at a point approximately 80 feet west of the centerline of the intersection of Woodland Ave. and one pole approx. 50ft south of existing pole on Franklin St. Passed

ORDER-2021-14 Appropriation An Appropriation in the amount of $243,285 from Capital Stabilization (account 84052-590000) to Public Works Equipment (account 019313-551002) to purchase a new street sweeper. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2021-15 Grant Acceptance of Two (2) MassDOT Shared Streets and Spaces Program Grants. One for Pedestrian and Cyclist Accessibility Improvements funded at $19,560 and the second, the Melrose Parklet Project funded at $39,600. Passed

ORDER-2021-18 Appointment City of Melrose Page 1 8/21/2020 11:07 AM Minutes City Council August 17, 2020 Appointment of Emily Minton of 33 Waverly Place., to the Melrose Commission on Women Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2021-17 Appointment Appointment of Jodi Dwyer of 85 Lynde Street, #2., to the Melrose Commission on Disability Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2021-16 A Bond Request for the authorization to issue Refunding Bonds to refinance $2,965,000 of General Obligation Bonds issued May 1, 2009. The order would be in effect for this request and for opportunities identified in the future that meet the requirements under Massachusetts General Law. Passed

ORDER-2021-19 Calling Election Calling A State Primary Tuesday, the First Day of September, 2020 Passed

ORDER-2021-5 Appointment Appointment of Paula Weiner, 25 Clinton Road, to the Commission on Disability for a two-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2022 Passed

ORDER-2021-3 Appointment Appointment of Erik Hutchinson, 9 Winthrop St, Apt #2, to the Commission on Disability for a two-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2022 Passed

ORDER-2021-9 Appointment Appointment of Karen Burke to the Commission on Disability for a one-year term, to serve as the elected/appointed official member; said term to expire on the last day of February 2021. Passed

ORDER-2021-1 Accepting Act of Legislature/Local Option City of Melrose Page 2 8/21/2020 11:07 AM Minutes City Council August 17, 2020 An order to accept Massachusetts General Law c.44, §55C for the purpose of establishing an Affordable Housing Trust Fund in the City of Melrose. Passed

ORDER-2021-2 Amending Revised Ordinances An Order amending Chapter A, Article II of the Administrative Code of the City of Melrose by inserting a new Section A-222 as set forth herein Hold City Council

ORDER-2021-11 Grant Authorization to Accept an MAPC Grant and a Community Compact Program Grant and Authorize the Mayor to Execute an Agreement with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council for a Housing Production Plan Passed

ORDER-2021-13 Contract Acceptance of a Net Metering Credit Agreement between the City of Melrose and Ampion for energy and cost savings. The agreement authorizes the production of alternative energy on behalf of the city through a State-endorsed program. Passed Appropriations Committee City of Melrose Page 3 8/21/2020 11:07 AM

Transcript

▶ 1:00:36 Jen Grigoraitis: Yeah. Okay. All right. The time is 8.01 p.m. on Monday, August 17th. I am President Grigoraitis, and this meeting of the Melrose City Council is called to order. 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 of the city council will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible we will 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 website and on mmtv3.org adam clerk can you please call the role

▶ 1:01:25 counselor sonella here counselor eccles counselor eccles i see him so i'll give him i think he lost his key thanks for gary pay yeah yeah yes counselor demoliting yes counselor mcmaster here counselor mcnaught here Councilor Migliorelli? Here. Councilor Stewart? Here. Councilor Thomas? Here. Councilor Tramontozzi? Here. President Grigoraitis? Here. 11 present. 11 present. We have a quorum of the council. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to open the public hearing for order 2021-12. Motion to open public comment. Second. Oh, on a border, do we have to open public comment? Yeah, I believe we can go directly into the hearing and then do public comment. We have to start the hearing an 8 PM counselor.

▶ 1:02:40 Jen Grigoraitis: Oh, okay. I'd like to make a motion for a meeting consideration of 2021 dash 12. I apologize I what was what is the motion that's before us? I'm having some technical. A motion for immediate consideration on 2021-12. Point of order, Councilor Thomas. I think the appropriate motion is just to hold a public hearing at 8 p.m., which is currently scheduled. That takes priority. We hear from the petitioner of Massachusetts Electric Company on this. Thank you, Councilor Tramontozzi. Councilor Thomas, do you wish to make a motion to open the public hearing? yes do we have a second second so we have a motion by councilor thomas seconded by councilor sanella to open the public hearing on order 2021-12 madison please call the roll sanella

▶ 1:03:49 Yes. Eccles? Yes. Garrapay? Yes. Jamaleddine? Yes. McMaster? Yes. McNaught? Yes. Migliorelli? Yes. Stewart? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Tramontozzi? Yes. Grigoraitis? Yes. 11 yes. Okay, 11 yes. So the public hearing is now open. Rigoritis? Yes. 11 yes. Okay, 11 yes. So the public hearing is now open. This is a petition of the Massachusetts Electric Company doing business as National Grid and Verizon to install an IJO pole on Franklin Street. Do we have representatives of National Grid coming forward to speak in the public hearing? We do. We have, I'm bringing in Elena Farrakas-Ellis. Bringing in Elena, who would you like in the room? Is Moses from national grid on the call? Yes, he is. Okay. So he should be in and I think that should be it. Just me and him should be sufficient.

▶ 1:04:58 So, I can start out. Moses, are you can you hear us? Looks like you on mute. Yeah. Can you unmute yourself? Yeah, I'm sorry about coming in. Okay, great. We can hear you. So I'll just give a quick introduction and then and then I'll turn it over to Moses to describe the project and then. I can discuss the conditions letter that put together. So, is this this is the 1st grant of location that we've had with this board? Is that correct? Correct. Okay. So, typically, the process is that that the petitioner will submit the plans proposing what they want to do. Um, we'll present it in front of the board. I usually present with the petitioner and then. Um, and then I run through the comments that has on the project and then the commission and then the council.

▶ 1:06:18 If you vote to approve, the project would typically vote to attach my conditions to the approval as, as a condition of the approval. So, this is a project that is proposing 1 poll on Franklin street. The description was a little bit confusing. And the number 1 looked like an eye also in the, um. Application, but a is a jointly owned poll. Which would be national grid and Verizon, and there were 2 descriptions. Which also made it seem like 2 polls, but it's actually just 2 different measurements to the same poll location. So the proposed poll is 1 poll on Franklin street. That is both 80 feet West of the center line of woodland and 50 feet South of the pole. The existing poll on Franklin street.

▶ 1:07:10 This is to serve the new single-family unit at 42 Warren Ave, where a second structure has been built on the same property. I think it's a garage that has now been turned into a dwelling unit. Moses, do you want to describe the actual installation? Yep. I can go ahead and do that. Good evening, councillors. My name is Moses Okokoro. I'm here on behalf of National Grid Electric side. My address is 170 Medford Street in Malden. So basically like I just mentioned, National Grid is petitioning to install a jointly owned pole on Franklin Street. The pole will be going on the front edge of the sidewalk. almost at the property line between 42 warren street and 890 franklin street thank you thank you so um do you want me just to continue on and review the conditions that we

▶ 1:08:20 wrote up yeah if you can continue on and then we can confirm if there's any Member of the public wishing to speak during the public hearing and then after that we can take questions from any counselors okay so uh the memo outlines uh nine conditions or nine comments uh most of which are conditions some of them are just general descriptions so the first just describes um the project itself where the poll is located um the second is just a note that so i had a a conversation today with Bob Coulter from National Grid who's the one who submits the he his name is always on the grant of location request. I did have a question as to why a new poll needed to be installed to serve one service to one home and he indicated that National Grids

▶ 1:09:16 and Verizon's commitment is that in order to serve a property they will put up to one poll and then one service line into the house at no cost um if we wanted to require the property owner in this case to put in an underground service to avoid the need to install that pole um the the wire we measured it out it would have been about 140 feet of underground conduit and it would have needed to cross either franklin street or warren and in this case it would have really needed to cross franklin street because the pole at warren has some large verizon equipment on it that would preclude probably uh most likely it would preclude running a riser up that pole with a conduit so i was told it would need to go to franklin street um and just throwing numbers

▶ 1:10:11 out there the um gentleman from national grid indicated that that might be about a twenty thousand dollar expense for the property owner um and where there were no conflicts with the poll going in in this location um they they saw that as the best option um so then moving on to our conditions uh we require that the applicant pull a permit from a street opening permit from the engineering division that they meet with us to select the exact final location in the field um that they have all utilities marked out to avoid any conflicts uh that they notify any abutters impacted by the work at least 48 hours in advance of starting the work um and that they meet any conditions of our street opening permit as well including um covering any police details

▶ 1:11:09 that are required which surely on franklin street would be required um and they maintain access for vehicles and for pedestrians um and then they're required to restore everything back to city standards so that if they have to pull any sidewalk blocks or anything they have to put those back meeting the city standards um i know we've had some issues recently with national grid not meeting the city standards in some of their repairs and they are planning to bring in a contractor who specifically does concrete work to make those final repairs Um, per city ordinance, they're required to allow space on the pole for the city. There's a certain area of the pole where they're required to have city. Um.

▶ 1:11:55 Jen Grigoraitis: Availability for wires fiber or anything that we might need. And then they need to coordinate the work directly with Rick can tone in the engineering division. Um. Before they start any work, at least 48 hours prior. So those are the recommended conditions. Moses, do you have anything you want to add before we do public comment? Well, none for now. Okay. Thank you. Thank you both very much. Are there any Member of the public wishing to speak in this public hearing portion regarding the installation of the J.O. pole on Franklin Street? If so, if you can please raise your digital hand. Do we see anyone now? Okay. At this time, are there any questions from counselors on this issue? Counselor?

▶ 1:12:50 John N. Tramontozzi: You're on mute. Thank you. President. This is a poll in a request with more than 1. I have a direct interest in this. Um, was were neighbors, the butters notified of the petitioners request. Yes, they were, and have you received any negative comments or questions? I have not, but the notice comes out from national grid. But I have no, I have not been made aware of any comments that have come in. Okay. I'm not aware of any negative comments or feedbacks. from any of the abutters to the property uh would would the installation of this poll require any construction or tearing up of franklin street no it appears to be okay great and um uh it and i agree that there was some confusion in the actual

▶ 1:14:00 memo itself uh relating to this order it this is not going to be a new poll that's going to be next existing pole it's just one pole being installed uh on the franklin uh near uh warren street yes okay and uh and there's going to be overhanging wires across uh franklin street to the pole on the other existing pole on the other side yes presumably moses might be able to clarify but i believe it would be just the service coming across onto the new pole and then over to the house um moses is that correct yep that's correct i don't know if i can share my screen now is it possible um just for the benefit of that see if i can make your presenter okay you have privileges you want to share your screen yep i'm doing it now okay it's coming it feels like need to load

▶ 1:15:57 Yes, yeah, this is from the street. Warrant is on this side, so this is where the poll is going. Existing poll. From the north side, which is for 3. And then the new poll that the house we're heading with your word was. Thank you for sharing that sir. appreciate it thank you thank you councillor Tramontozzi do you have any additional questions no additional questions but um at this time i i will make a motion to uh attach to the order the memo of conditions of the department of public works as outlined by the director second so we have a motion from councillor Tramontozzi seconded by councillor thomas to attach the memo of conditions conditions submitted by ms proakis ellis is there any discussion

▶ 1:17:12 Jen Grigoraitis: case seeing none madam clerk can you please call the roll sonoma yes yes gary yes malady yes mcmaster Yes, I said, yes. Sorry. I'm sorry. I feel like we're off. Like, I'm getting a delay or something anyone. Okay. Did you I see? Okay. Stewart? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Tremontose? Yes. Grigoraitis? Yes. Eleven, yes. Eleven, yes. So the conditions are now attached. Are there any other councillors with questions for Mr. Okokoro or Ms. Elena Provicasellas? I don't know why I just said your full name there. I see none. Is there a motion to close? Oh, I'm sorry. Councilor Thomas apologies. I would like to make a motion to close this public hearing. So, we have a motion by Councilor Thomas seconded by Councilor Eccles to close the public hearing. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll?

▶ 1:18:35 Councilor yes, Councilor Eccles. Yes, yes. Counselor, yes, yes. Counselor not yes. Counselor, yes. Counselor Stewart yes. Counselor Thomas yes. Yes, yes. Present. Yes, 11 yes 11. Yes. So the public hearing is now closed. Do we have a motion? motion to open public comment now so I'm so councillor Stewart made a motion to open public comment councillor chairman Tosi were you about to say something else I was gonna say we could go back to the the previous committee and suspend the moment before we take a motion to record to for passage of that order 20 twenty one twelve so we can we could probably make a motion to to recess back to the committee meeting that's ongoing right so we so we can we can take one

▶ 1:20:01 Jen Grigoraitis: motion at a time so we can we have a motion on the table for or on the floor for public comment for the council meeting and there's a suggestion that we could also recess from the full council meeting and return to the legal legislative meeting that we just recessed from and then come back to this meeting counselor mcmaster yes thank you madam president i i don't believe you heard me but i had made a motion to recess prior to counselor stewart so i'm happy to uh call that if if counselor stewart would like to uh proceed on his motion but i just uh i did make that motion um i don't think that was her thank you i did not did i hear that counselor stewart madam president i can withdraw my motion

▶ 1:20:43 Jen Grigoraitis: Okay, so the motion to vote for public comment is with John. Thank you. Counselor Stewart. We have a motion before us to recess. Is there a 2nd 2nd, 2nd, you have a motion by Council McMaster 2nd, invite Council to recess the council meeting and return to the legal legislative committee meeting. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll? Counselor, counselor, yes, counselor, yes, counselor, yes, Councilor McMaster. Yes. Councilor McNaught. Yes. Councilor Migliorelli. Yes. Councilor Stewart. Yes. Councilor Thomas. Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi. Yes. President Grigoraitis. 11 yes, so the full council is recessed and I will now turn it back over to chairman for the legal and legislative. Thank you, Madam president. Thank you. Mr. city solicitor for your patients and.

▶ 1:58:21 Jen Grigoraitis: And you want the whole role? Sure. Thanks. sure we're still waiting for a few people like i'm okay um Migliorelli yes stewart yes thomas yes Tramontozzi yes rigoritis yes so i think that was nine yes for opening public comment Okay, so the motion carries. So, at this time, any member of the public wishing to speak to any item on tonight's agenda may do so. And if you'd like to speak, please raise your digital hand. And I just want to say for those Member of the public who have been waiting to speak, thank you for bearing with us. It was a night of a lot of back and forth in and out of meetings and some materials that had to be dealt with at certain times. So, thank you for your patience. Do we have anyone wishing to speak?

▶ 1:59:38 Yes, Jonah. I will unmute Jonah now. Thank you are unmuted. Great. Thank you. Can you hear me? Yes, can you please just state your name and address for the record? Sure. Jonah Karen's a 515 Lebanon street. So, I'm the chair of the volunteer led and pedestrian and bicycle committee. And the order that I'm speaking to is 2021 dash 15. This 2 part mass dot grant application actually originated with the pedestrian bicyclist committee. As a plan that we developed in May this year, and submitted to the city in June. Inspired by examples from around the region and the world of similar projects designed to calm traffic. and make streets safer for people being outside with their families and neighbors and accessing our local parks schools trailheads and

▶ 2:00:42 businesses this grant provides funding for parklets which are a great way to create more space for people visiting our business districts and we're really excited to see the city piloting locations for four of those parklets and we look forward to working with interested residents and city staff and the chamber of commerce to develop semi-permanent versions of these parklets that can be reinstalled annually the grant funds also funds slow streets and sidewalk extensions which are quote-unquote quick build efforts that utilize low-cost materials like traffic cones and temporary barriers saw horses and signage these projects can be installed quickly and they can be modified relocated or removed quickly as well this grant funding will allow

▶ 2:01:28 the city to respond to resident requests and address locations where we have knowledge of speeding and traffic volumes and where there is demand for extra space for people walking running cycling families and neighbors spending time outside on their block just trying to get the kids out of the house something i think many of us are well aware of these days etc so with the receipt of this funding um this effort really enters a new phase of Implementation up into this point, it's been a lot of behind the scenes sort of quickly trying to get in the queue with mass dot to get a share of that 5Million dollars. And now that we've secured it, and ideally with your passage and acceptance of the grant tonight, our committee firmly commits to partnering with the city council and your constituents.

▶ 2:02:12 Or all of our neighbors to implement these projects in a community driven, open and transparent process. And really on streets where the community wants to try them and where they will have the desired impact of supporting healthy activity and mobility. While also improving street safety and reducing vehicle speeds. We've actually already begun to hear requests from people who've seen these projects popping up in other places, or saw a copy of our earlier plan that we put out in public on our Twitter feed and things like that. And who want to see these things implemented on their streets. We don't want to impose anything on any. particular street we'd really you know ideally have these projects sort of

▶ 2:02:51 originate in a grassroots way now that the funding is available and actually the committee is developing communication materials for the city to use in soliciting input to these projects and vetting locations for them so this grant actually fulfills a recommendation from the 2017 master plan notice forward to allocate funds for quote traffic calming and traffic management pilot projects close quote and it also requires no matching funds from the city and we're doing all we can from a volunteer perspective to help shore up the effort and minimize the demand on city staff time and resources and importantly also the projects that it funds will not limit emergency access for vehicles emergency response

▶ 2:03:34 vehicles nor really for service vehicles or for residents again temporary materials easy to move and easy to get out of the way if necessary for emergency response so we thank you for your time tonight thank the city and the administration and department heads on this practice and Gaffey for championing this effort and partnering with us we respectfully request the City Council's vote in favor of accepting this grant and we really do look forward to continuing to work with all of you to implement these projects together thank you for your time thank you do we have anyone else wishing to speak a public comment i don't see any other hands raised um miss foot there was no one else who indicated via email that they wanted to speak correct no emails no

▶ 2:04:32 voicemails emotional closed public comment second so we have a motion to close public comment by counselor stewart seconded by counselor sanella madam clerk can you please call the role Councilor Sinella? Yes. Councilor Enfield? 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 so public comment is now closed so returning to item 4 of our agenda which was the public hearing in order 2021-12 is there does is there what is the will of the council regarding this order motion for passage second so we have a counselor mcmaster can you just um

▶ 2:05:47 Jen Grigoraitis: you read the order number can you just read the actual order i'm just confused so we have a motion for recommendation for passage by councillor Tramontozzi seconded by councillor thomas for order 2021-12 uh the petition of the massachusetts electric company doing business as national grid and verizon new england inc to install one jo pole on franklin street beginning at a point approximately 80 feet west of the center line of the intersection of woodland ave and one pole approximately 50 feet south of existing pole on franklin's thank you madam president you're welcome councilman master and this was amended to include um ms proakis ellis's conditions during our earlier section of this meeting so is there

▶ 2:06:36 any discussion on the motion before you okay being none madam clerk can you please call the roll councillor sanella yes councillor Eccles yes councillor garrifin yes councillor Jamaleddine Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. at this time we'll go to the communications from his honor the mayor and other city officials madam clerk of committees order 2021-14 and appropriation in the amount of 243 285 dollars from capital stabilization account 84052-59000 to public works equipment account 019313-551002 to purchase a new street sweeper this order will be sent to the appropriations committee order 2021-15 acceptance of two max dot shared streets and spaces program

▶ 2:08:02 Jen Grigoraitis: grants one for pedestrian and cyclist accessibility improvements funded at nineteen thousand five Five hundred sixty dollars and the 2nd, the models parklet project. Funded at 39,600 dollars. Do we have, I believe there's a counselor Thomas. I'd like to make a motion for a meeting consideration on this order 2021 dash 1, 5. Second counselor McMaster. Sorry, proceed with that. My apologies. So we have a request for a media consideration, which is. before us is unless there's a any an objection from any one counselor I seeing none the order is now before us I found some McMaster yeah madam president at this time I believe we have to suspend rule 34 a as this is a municipal finance matter in order in order to have it in order to for media

▶ 2:09:04 Jen Grigoraitis: consideration in order to go forward on it just be appropriate to suspend that rule uh without doing so it has to go to finance yes thank you at that time at this time for that thank you so we have a second so we have a motion by council mcmaster seconded by councillor Garipay to suspend rule 34a for this order 2021-15 which is now before us is there any discussion Adam Clark, can you please call the roll? Councilor Sinella? Yes. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garibaldi? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis? Yes, 11. yes 11. yes. So rule 34 a is now suspended and I believe we do have Member of the administration here to speak to this. Correct?

▶ 2:10:14 Jen Grigoraitis: Incorrect yes. Okay. So I'll entertain a motion to suspend the rules so that we can bring. Those folks forward motion is to spend the rules 2nd. So, we have a motion to suspend the roles by Councilor Thomas seconded by Councilor McNaught. Madam clerk, can you please call the role? Councilor yes. Councilor Eccles yes, yes. Counselor, yes, counselor. McMaster yes, yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. President Grigoraitis? Yes. 11 yes. 11 yes, the motion carries. Who are we bringing forward? I think it's just me. Hello, Ms. Pravi-Casales, you have the floor. Okay, thank you. So thank you for considering this immediate consideration the intent of this grant as uh jonah from the pet bike committee also um

▶ 2:11:28 briefly mentioned is for these grants to be quick build projects and um in by mass dot standards that is assumed to be um something that can be implemented in a matter of about six weeks and so if we were to go through the the typical process of grant acceptance through the city council we would be looking at four of those six weeks being in the process of being sent to committee and then back to the full council so that was obviously not an available option if we were to accept this grant so i appreciate your willingness to consider this tonight um just to give a little brief uh background on the project so these projects the mass dot shared streets uh grant opportunity was a direct response to the covet 19 pandemic

▶ 2:12:23 and is supposed to allow more outdoor spaces more shared spaces for communities to use for walking biking dining shopping you know anything that can be done outdoors that we could be allowing for additional space for so as jonah mentioned the pet bike committee had made some suggestions earlier on in the pandemic and some of those uh qualified under this grant program and then the city had also been simultaneously looking at parklets to begin with it's an idea that we had always been very interested in potentially providing some shared spaces especially in the business districts um so the the way the grant uh would work is that that we would be implementing it in different phases. So the parklets, the temporary parklets

▶ 2:13:16 that you see presently, those were funded, both the barriers and the tables and chairs through the operating budget at this time. And those are intended to be pilots. So that's what we were considering phase one of our project and did not relate to the grant, but was something we were trying to do anyway. In phase 2 of the project, which is funded by a portion of the grant, that's the 39,000 and change portion. That would entail making the parklets a little more permanent and a lot prettier. So. What what we've proposed is some barriers that are similar to something that the town of Andover had done. The application included a picture, it's sort of a white fencing with planter boxes. Uh, that would replace the orange barriers that we have to date.

▶ 2:14:10 That doesn't have to be what it looks like, but that's how we priced it out. So we have that 39,000 and change. To make those parklets both look nicer and also to put platforms on the ground such that they become flush with the sidewalk surface. So they're fully accessible right now in order to get into them. you'd have to go down the curb ramp into the street at the crosswalk, let's say at Starbucks, and then go into the parklet. That way, if you were disabled and you couldn't step off the curb, so that would be addressed as well. The 19,000 plus that we got in the other grant Is for 2 different initiatives 1 is slow streets and 1 is sidewalk expansions. And so the mayor's office is considering phase 2 to include both the enhanced parklets.

▶ 2:15:11 And the slow streets component of of that 2nd grant. Slow streets are basically if a neighborhood comes forward and says, we'd like to. Block off our neighborhood to resident traffic only. We would put up saw horses with signs that say slow streets that have some contact information. If people had a comment that they didn't like the slow street. Or that they loved it, whatever they want to. To give us for feedback, and so those signs will be set up on a saw horse that would basically block. The majority of the traffic, but the residents would know that they could go around those and then it allows kids to bike in the street people to jog or walk or whatever else they want to do. Congregate in small socially distinct groups in the street.

▶ 2:16:01 And so that is very much we didn't propose any particular neighborhoods that is neighborhood driven. If if West Wyoming came in and requested to be a slow street. We would have to say, no, if circuit street came in and requested to be a slow street. I can't imagine why we wouldn't say yes. So it's going to be taken on a case by case basis. We can't just shut down major roads and send the traffic through detours. But on small side streets that are only cut through unless you're a resident. Those are very easy to do and so that's that's what the slow street. Project looks like they would be open to. Local traffic, first responders, trash trucks. And, you know, anyone else who needs to gain access mail trucks.

▶ 2:16:54 Those would all be allowed to go around the barriers and it would be set up to make that easy. Then the last phase of the project. Is the sidewalk expansion and that is part of the 19,000 grant. That is where we would take a sidewalk. This is what some other towns have done largely in more urban areas, but we would take a street. And we would put cones along what would normally be a parking lane. We would make sure we still have room for traffic to get by in both directions. And we would expand the sidewalk so that more people could bike more people could walk. Or jog, and that would really be some of our connecting neighborhoods, like. Bellevue is a good example for something like that. It's a wide street.

▶ 2:17:44 It goes for a long length and so you could. You could close off a portion of the side of the road, which would allow for. You know, a lane for people to do. Other recreational activities within it. Porter street was another that was suggested, so we would start with probably the lowest hanging for streets ones where we don't think it would really disrupt traffic at all that have very little parking. That's normally utilized and test them out and the great thing about those is that they will be built with. Saw horses and cones, and if a neighborhood doesn't like them, we will do outreach before we put anything out. But if the neighborhood thinks they want it, and then decides that they don't want it.

▶ 2:18:27 We can just send our guys back out to pick up the, the saw horses and the cones and the signs and then move them on to a different location. And then the last part of that 3rd phase. Is that the mayor's office is looking at expanding parklets into some other areas. Um, particularly alleyways are 1 thing that's being looked at. I know central terrorists was recently voted by the traffic commission to no longer be. Available to vehicular traffic that's along the side of the where it was very dangerous anyway. For cars to be driving, so it frees up that space for a potential parklet. And now there may be other similar spaces that we can look at. So. That's the rundown of the grant funding. It is available to us immediately. In fact.

▶ 2:19:16 I received an email today that the treasurer collector's office got 1 of the 2 payments already today, and they were looking for a deposit account to put it in and I just asked them to please wait until. This meeting in the vote tonight, and presuming that that it's a favorable vote, then we will deposit the money into our accounts and start purchasing the items. Thank you. Are there any questions from counselors? Okay, seeing none. Counselor Stewart. Thank you, Madam President. I just wanted to make a statement about this initiative. I'm. well highly supportive of this and uh prior to the um the whole pandemic breakout where everything closed down i was a regular attendee at the pet bite committee

▶ 2:20:15 Robb Stewart: and the excitement uh that is in that committee uh i think and the the work that they do is well demonstrated by this plan that's been thought out that's been brought a number of examples from different communities and I think it's a tremendous asset to this town. I just want to point that out and have the administration recognize that this group of volunteers consistently meet and really objectively try to find great ways to utilize the city's alternative ways of moving around basically to its maximum potential and I encourage the administration to continue to work with them including bringing various aspects of the administration to the committee and not by proxy but by direct contact as if it's it's a tremendous value add from the interactions that I saw you get

▶ 2:21:22 Robb Stewart: get results like this. It helps Ms. Paroi Casales plug in to what they're thinking about on a consistent basis. I know they communicate a lot with her, but I think that it helps her bring her ideas as well and across communication. So with that, I think this is a great initiative, I fully support it. And thank you, Ms. Paroi Casales for clearly identifying the details of the plan. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilor Stewart. Councilor Serapis? Yes, thank you. Ms. Perico, just one question on the Safe Street portion of it. And I apologize if you had mentioned it and I missed it. If a neighborhood was to come forward as a Wood Alderman, I'm sure I may get some requests on this. If a neighborhood was to come forward, do they need a 100%

▶ 2:22:18 uh need the whole everyone on the street um 100 for this or is it a percentage or how how how is that going to work so we haven't we haven't strictly established that um we would need a vast majority i would say um i would say we're unlikely to need a hundred percent because oftentimes they're people who just aren't going to weigh in one way or another if we have very vocal opposition then we're unlikely to to attempt to do it on a particular street um you know the idea is for this to be a very positive thing and we don't want to be arguing with with residents or with neighborhoods um trying to force this on anyone it's not you know it it only really provides a benefit to the direct neighborhood in which it's set up

▶ 2:23:16 And so, if a neighborhood doesn't want it. Or once it's out, if if a neighborhood. Opposes it, then then we would just take it back up. So. Yeah, we haven't specified what percentage we would need. I think it would probably also be case by case, you know, if it's a street with 12 houses, and we have 10 of the 12, I would say we'd move forward very likely move forward and. And just see how it goes and see if those last couple of folks. Weigh in, as I mentioned, there is going to be contact information on all the signs. So we have. We've set up an email address that is shared streets at city of Melrose dot org. And it's on the parklet signs right now, and it will be on all the signs. So if someone misses the opportunity to weigh in when the neighborhood.

▶ 2:24:07 Petitions to be added and then has comments afterwards, they have a mechanism to make those comments. Thank you, thank you. Any other counselors. Hey, what is the will of the council? Second, do we have a motion to approve made by counselor Stewart? Seconded by counselor. Is there any discussion Adam clerk? Can you please call the role? Counselor, yes. Yes, uh, yes. Counselor, yes. Counselor McMaster yes, yes. Counselor, yes, yes. Counselor Thomas yes, yes. Present Grigoraitis yes, 11. Yes. 11 yes and the order carries back to you madam clerk of committees order 2021-18 appointment of Emily Minton of 33 Waverly Place to the Melrose Commission on women this order will be sent to the committee on health education and

▶ 2:25:33 welfare order 2021-17 appointment of Jody Dwyer of 85 line Street number two to the Melrose Commission on disability this order will be sent to the Committee of Education and Welfare. Order 2021-16, a request for the authorization to issue refund bonds to refinance $2,965,000 of general obligation bonds issued May 9th, 2009. The order would be in effect for this request and for opportunities identified in the future that meet the requirements under Massachusetts general law. Councillor Migliorelli. I'd like to motion for immediate consideration as I believe this is a time-sensitive matter. Okay so we have a motion for immediate consideration by Councillor Migliorelli. Is there any objection? We don't need a

▶ 2:26:23 second. That's okay just if there's no objections. Okay seeing none the order is before us. I do believe we have the treasurer here to speak on this pleasure is here hello hi ms armada welcome to your first city council meeting the floor is yours well thank you very much uh good evening as uh you stated our advisors at hilltop securities have identified an opportunity to refund or refinance a series of bonds uh two two million nine hundred and sixty five million of them that would result in savings of approximately three hundred sixty four thousand dollars net of costs over the remaining life of the bond issue now the hilltop team continuously scours our data for ways to save the city money

▶ 2:27:31 through their analysis of our debt issuances and the current market environment There are a lot of criteria that go into these analysis, and this opportunity of this size doesn't come along every day. In this case, the savings are significant on an annual basis between $35,000 and $40,000 per year for the remaining life of the bond. uh the order before you is worded very broadly to include both the general obligation bonds and the mwra bonds so that this will give us flexibility in the event another opportunity is discovered so that we can act quickly and take advantage of the market environment are there any questions Thank you, Ms. Armada. Are there any questions from the council? Okay. Seeing none, Councillor

▶ 2:28:35 Shawn M. MacMaster: McMaster? Madam President, as this is another municipal finance matter, I would make a motion at this time to suspend Rule 34A. Second. We have a motion by Councillor McMaster, seconded by Councillor Spurge to suspend Rule 34. Sorry, Councillor McNerally, do you have a- If it's already suspended prior to the meeting, do we have to suspend it again? Councilor McMaster? That's a good point, Councilor Cirelli. We may not have to. I would defer to President Grigoraitis on it if we don't want to take another roll call. I had made a motion specific to the prior matter, the grant. I'm not anticipating this, but I think Councilor Mazzarelli may be right. If it was suspended once, it's to be suspended for the entirety of the meeting.

▶ 2:29:23 Jen Grigoraitis: I don't have a preference one way or the other. I'm comfortable letting it stand that it's been suspended for the entirety of the meeting. So anyone have any other financial orders, bring it on. So, Councilor McMaster, are you comfortable withdrawing your motion? I am, thank you. I'll withdraw at this time. Thank you, Councilor Stewart. Um, what is the will of the council passage motion for passage and we have a motion for passage made by council and regularly seconded by Council or not. Is there any discussion? Being on Madam clerk, can you please call the role? Counselor, yes. Yes, yes. Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes.

▶ 2:30:36 President Grigoraitis? 11 yes. 11 yes, the motion carries. Thank you, Ms. Armada. Okay, moving on to new business. Madam Clerk of Committee. order 2021-19 calling a state primary tuesday the first day of september 2020. counselor Migliorelli make the motion for immediate consideration so we have a motion for immediate consideration of order 2021-19 is there any objections okay seeing none the order is before us i believe mosa are you planning to speak to this uh i i can um if you would like me to come forward um i think as you know now that this council has done this several times uh this is just a formal statement that we'll be having an election on september 1st it's a primary um you can find the sample ballots uh for the various parties available on our

▶ 2:31:49 website at city of meadows.org slash elections um and i you know would love to take the opportunity to kind of remind the public of your various options for voting for this election season this fall um we've received thousands and thousands of mail-in ballot applications which we're now in the process of mailing out ballots and receiving quite a few back early voting starts this coming saturday august 22nd in memorial hall which is different than the past when it's been in city hall it'll be open 2 to 7 p.m on saturday 10 to 3 p.m on sunday and then normal city hall business hours monday through friday ending august 28th and then of course the final reminder is that the polling locations have changed temporarily for these two elections all voters who choose

▶ 2:32:43 Cory Thomas: to vote on election day we'll vote um in the melrose gymnasium um complex on melrose street which is behind the middle and high schools um does anyone else have questions i believe counselor thomas had a question thank you madam president uh madam clerk uh i've seen a lot of notices go out online um have notices about the election changes gone out via mail uh to people that might not be on the internet or social media um english is the second language um and so forth can you please talk about what has gone out to the general public uh as far as public notices yep we've done several press releases with uh various new newspapers we sent um a postcard to all households and businesses in melrose and uh another mailing will be going out um hopefully

▶ 2:33:36 to time it just a few days before the election to remind people about the polling location change uh and that will be that postcard hopefully will be warden precinct specific so you'll know what your warden precinct is when you get the postcard so when you go to the middle school uh you won't be wondering which line you should walk in you'll uh you can match your card to the the actual uh polling location great thank you so much sorry i hit the button that didn't go through with counselor stewart followed by councilor Jamaleddine thank you madam president uh madam clark can can you do the public a favor and allay any of the concerns the potential concerns that may be coming forth based on some of the national news about uh potential delays in mail um

▶ 2:34:38 thank you counselor stewart uh so i think first and foremost um everyone um should know that we have a secure ballot dropbox that's been permanently installed in the alleyway between the post office and city hall so um on essex kind of you would turn on to from essex street uh that is securely locked it's a secure dropbox anyone who's used it will know that uh it's you really only have enough space to put one ballot in at a time um and it has multiple keys and we only uh allow we have it everything kind of secure on that and um so i think for anyone who's concerned about um their ballot making it to city hall via the us mail uh that would be your best option we're also receiving um mail-in ballot applications through that dropbox

▶ 2:35:31 um you can also of course come into city hall uh city hall does have um pretty specific protocols to um visit as a member of the public uh we're open in the mornings 8 30 to 12 30 you need to enter on the lower level of main street and check in you know and answer some health questions before you move forward upstairs but you're welcome to do so if you would be more comfortable handing off your ballot in in person um but so far our experience has been that um people voting using the U.S. Postal Service, our first round of ballots, where we mailed out over 3,000 ballots the first day, we actually received hundreds back the next day. So I think the Melrose Post Office has done an excellent job so far, so I have confidence in their ability to get

▶ 2:36:24 Maya Jamaleddine: ballots to us and the application cards in a timely way. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilor Stewart. Councilor Jamaleddine, did you have anything? Thank you, President. Also, I would like to thank Ms. Camusa for all the hard work that you and the election office have done. I know it's going to be a busy month ahead of you. I wanted to ask if you did target specific population and outreach that you did. so we've um reached out to all senior housing um specifically to explain to them what their choices are so that um all the housing complexes have received through their directors um direct communication um about the changes um and we'll be doing um in two everbridge calls so the

▶ 2:37:25 Maya Jamaleddine: the reverse 911 system um this later this week to talk about early voting and then again next week to talk about the polling location change so that should reach other residents that don't um have you know spend a lot of time on the internet or don't read print newspaper so um those are those have been since our in the council on aging has also done specific outreach for seniors um that has been what we identified as the most um the the population that we think would need the most specific outreach related to these changes awesome do we know about that about how what is the percentage um that we of answers we received till now sorry the percentage of approximate percentage of how much did we receive like the answers of um specifically from this population

▶ 2:38:24 um and when you say answers do you mean applications or do you mean application application um we i don't know a specific number of percentages for that age group um i mean we've had we're well over we're you know well over 30 percent of our total registered voters in melrose have opted to do some kind of mail-in um voting at this point um so i think so far i think from you know what i hear anecdotally i think that we've had a pretty even distribution of Member of the public who have chosen mail-in voting but we definitely have received quite a few from seniors so they're definitely aware of their choices and have communicated with us directly about that one last question when um the if you can just explain to us when the voters

▶ 2:39:15 would like to mail back their application um uh some have been confused about whether to put one stamp or two stamps um so if you can just explain that um so the actual so they don't um it's postage paid so they don't need to um the only postage that has that we have to worry about is when we mail them the ballot the city does have to pay for that postage but from a voter perspective everything they return has been postage paid perfect okay thank you thank you councillor eccles i think we maybe just lost no i'm here um i'd like to make a motion for passage okay councillor Garipay did you have a question yes i did one uh one more question for miss camoso uh on the uh early voting you had mentioned that and forgive me uh you had mentioned that uh

▶ 2:40:12 it's early going is the same as city hall hours correct and right now city hall hours are 8 8 are we 8 to 12 30. so when i say city hall hours it's city hall business hours not the hours that they're open to the public so it's standard open city hall hours so 8 30 to 4 monday through thursday and 8 30 to 12 30 on friday okay so it's pre more or less pre-covered hours is what we're what it's open for early because it's again we're only the open to the public doesn't mean that we all close we're still open until i just i just wanted that clarification i appreciate the clarification thank you so we currently have a motion by councillor eccles for passage is there with a second by councillor mcnaught any discussion adam clark can you please call the

▶ 2:41:02 Jen Grigoraitis: the role. Councilor Sinella. Yes. Councilor Epples. 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 yes 11 yes 11 yes the motion passes thank you ms camosa uh i don't believe we have any orders out of order and i believe we have now come to the orders from committee portion of our agenda councillor eccles thank you madam president i would like to make a motion to pull order 2021 2021-9-3 and dash five out of committee from earlier so we have a motion by counselor echo poll orders 2020 dash i have to try and find my agenda 2020-1 is it one three and five

▶ 2:42:10 nine nine three and five nine three and five from committee is there a second second with a second from counselor Migliorelli is there any discussion Clark, can you please call the roll? Sinella? Eccles? Yes. Garibaldi? Yes. Maladine? McMaster? Yes. McNaught? Yes. Migliorelli? Yes. Stewart? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Tramontozzi? Yes. Frigaretis? Yes. Levinas? Levinas. Those orders are now before us. counselor Ackles can we can we put them together can I do it or I could just do I can just do a motion for motion for passage of order 2021-9 oh Kristen did you want to say it was what did you want to say something sure yeah I'm being confusing um i guess i guess i'll i'll push into can i motion to conjoin 2021-9 3 and 5. second

▶ 2:43:29 Jen Grigoraitis: so we have a motion by councillor eccles seconded by rick master to conjoin orders 2021-9 3 and 5. is there any discussion seeing none madam clerk can you please call the roll Sinella? Yes. Eccles? Yes. Tarapay? Yes. Jamaleddine? Yes. Nassar? Yes. Don? Yes. Migliorelli? Yes. Stewart? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Trematose? Yes. Rigoraitis? Yes. 11 yes, so that motion passes. The orders are now both before us and conjoined. counselor Eccles uh motion for for passage of the conjoined order second do we have a motion for passage of the conjoined order made by councillor eccles seconded by councillor mcnaught is there any discussion adam clerk can you please call the role yes um just point of clarification i do think we need to read the orders technically

▶ 2:44:41 Jen Grigoraitis: I don't know if I have them before me okay so order 2021-9 appointment of Karen Burke to the commission on disability for a one-year term to serve as the elected slash appointed official member said term to expire on the last day of February 2021 order 2021-3 appointment of Eric Hutchinson 9 Winthrop Street apartment 2 to the commission on disability for a two-year term said term to expire on the last day of february 2022 in order 2021-5 appointment of paula weiner 25 clinton road the commission on disability for a two-year term said term expire on the last day of february 2020. uh now i'll take the role uh counselor sonala yes counselor eccles yes council Garipay yes councilor tamaledine yes council mcmaster yes council mcnaught yes

▶ 2:45:43 John N. Tramontozzi: councilor Migliorelli yes councillor stewart yes councillor thomas yes councillor chaman cozy yes president Grigoraitis yes 11 yes 11 yes so the motion carries and those orders are now approved thank you counselor at goals counselor mcnaught is there anything you wanted to pull up from legal and ledge no i don't think so because of the procedural issue i believe it has to be contemplated at our next council meeting am i correct in saying that i believe i believe we can do one of the orders i'm not sure counselor chemistry um yes um madam president and uh chairman mcnaught i have a suggestion um i would like to uh pull from committee order 2021 uh i'm sorry 2021-2 uh from committee uh the reason uh is to uh schedule a public hearing

▶ 2:46:53 Jen Grigoraitis: uh because this is a change to an administrative code and in order to do so we have to hold a public heating public meeting a public hearing pardon me it's getting late on the order so uh order 20 21.2 counselor sorry i just i think we actually need to first pass order 2021-1 because that's the us accepting the law that allows us to change the code um yeah good point okay so uh how about if i uh co-join orders 2021-1 and 2021-2 uh to co-join it for purposes of removing them from committee all right do we have a second second so we have a motion by councillor Tramontozzi seconded by councillor mcnaught to conjoin orders 2021-20 2021-1 and 2021-2 um to remove them from committee is there any discussion madam clerk can you please call the roll yes

▶ 2:48:00 Yes. Pfeffels? Yes. Garoppolo? Yes. Maladine? Yes. McPhister? Yes. McNaught? Yes. Migliorelli? Yes. Stewart? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Tremontose? Yes. Rigoritas? Yes. Levinas? 11 yes. Motion passes. So the orders have been conjoined for the purpose of moving from committee. council chairman says yes now at this time i would uh make a motion for passage of order 2021-1 in order to accept massachusetts general laws chapter 44 section 55c for the purpose of establishing an affordable housing trust fund in the city of morrows second so we have a motion by councilor Tramontozzi seconded by councillor mcnaught for passage of order 2021-1 is there any discussion seeing none madam clerk can you please call the roll councillor sanella yes

▶ 2:49:06 John N. Tramontozzi: councillor eccles yes councillor Garipay yes councillor maladin yes council mcmaster yes councillor mcnaught yes councillor mcgrady yes Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. A. Now, if I now, if I'm an order, I would like a regarding The order number 2021 dash 2 in order amending chapter. article two of the administrative code of the city of meadows by inserting a new section a-2 2-2 has set forth herein to schedule for a public hearing um date that i would defer to the clerk of committees for a date on that article city clerk for a date i believe our next meeting september 8th okay look we ask do that for public hearing at 8 p.m on september 8th second motion made by councillor Tramontozzi seconded by councillor mcnaught

▶ 2:50:26 Jen Grigoraitis: schedule a public hearing related to order 2021-2 for september 8th at 8 p.m is there any discussion being none madam clerk can you please call the roll sanella yes Eccles yes Yes. Yes. Yes. McMaster. Yes, not. Yes, yes. Stuart. Yes, Thomas. Yes, yes. Yes, 11. Yes 11. Yes. So the motion passes to schedule the public hearing. Thank you. Thank you very much. No problem. No problem, Jeff. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to step on that. That was a big lift for a rookie. I appreciate it. Okay, anything else related to legal and lunch. Moving on to appropriations counselor. Yes, I would like to. Conjoined orders 2021 dash 11 and 13. The purposes of bringing them up. We have a 2nd, I'm sorry, I didn't hear if someone said something.

▶ 2:51:49 So, we have a motion to conjoin orders 2021 dash 11 and 2021 dash 13 for purposes of bringing them up from committee made by counselor. Seconded by counselor. Is there any discussion? Madam clerk, can you please call the role? Yes, yes, yes. Yes, McMaster. Yes. Like, not really. Yes. Stuart. Yes. Thomas. Yes. Chairman. Yes. Yes. 11, yes, 11. yes. So the motion passes counselor. Okay, so order 2021 dash 11 authorization to accept an grant and community contact. Program grant and authorize the magic execute agreement with the metropolitan area planning council for housing. Production plan comes from appropriations or motion for recommendation. Do we have a 2nd, or is that a motion? That's a motion. I need a 2nd, 2nd.

▶ 2:53:08 We have a motion by counselor, seconded by counselor care pay. Siege of order 2021, is there any discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Councillor Sinella? Yes. Councillor Eccles? Yes. Councillor Garipay? Yes. Councillor Dimaladeen? Yes. Councillor McMaster? Yes. Councillor McNaught? Yes. Councillor Migliorelli? Yes. Councillor Stewart? Yes, counselor Thomas. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. 11, yes, 11. Yes. The motion carries counselor back to you and we have over 2021 dash 13 acceptance of a net metering credit agreement between the city of Melrose and ambient for energy and cost savings. agreement authorized the authorizes the production of alternative energy on behalf of the city

▶ 2:54:09 Jen Grigoraitis: through the state endorsed program and i would motion for passage second so we have a motion for which made by counselor sanella seconded by counselor stewart for order 2021-13 is there any discussion none madam clerk can you please call the role counselor snella yes counselor Ethels. Councilor Garipay. Yes. Yes. Sorry. That's okay. Councilor Tamaladeen. Yes. Councilor McMaster. Yes. Councilor McNaught. Yes. Councilor Migliorelli. Yes. Councilor Stewart. Yes. Councilor Thomas. Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi. Yes. President Krigeraitis. Yes. 11 yes. 11 yes. so the motion carries. Motion to adjourn. Second. We have a motion to adjourn by Councilor Sinella, seconded by Councilor Stewart. Third. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

▶ 2:55:21 Sinella? Yes. Eccles? Yes. Garipay? Yes. Jamaleddine? Yes. McMaster? Yes. McKnight? Yes. Migliorelli? Yes. Stewart? Yes, Thomas. Yes. Chairman Josie. Yes, yes. 11. yes. We are adjourned. Thank you all. See you soon.

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