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City Council — 2021-09-13

City Council Regular Meeting

This meeting starts at 1:27:57 in a recording that covers several meetings.

Attendance

Christopher Cinella present · President; Jack Eccles present · At-Large; Mark Garipay present · Ward 4; Jen Grigoraitis present · Ward 6; Maya Jamaleddine 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

Agenda

  1. Call to Order (1:27:48)
  2. Minutes Approval
  3. Public Comment
  4. Resolutions (1:28:58)
  5. Communications from His Honor, The Mayor And Other City Officials (1:29:05)
  6. ORDER-2022-26 : Acceptance of FY22 Massachusetts Urban Agriculture Grant in the amount of $9339.00 for replacement of 23 gardening beds at the Melrose Community Gardens. (1:29:12)
  7. ORDER-2022-27 : Appointment of Anthony Chui to serve as Health Director for the City of Melrose (1:29:32)
  8. ORDER-2022-28 : Appointment of Seamus Kelley, 259 West Emerson St., to the Affordable Housing Trust, for a one-year term, said term to expire the last day of January 2022. (1:29:42)
  9. ORDER-2022-29 : Authorization of a Bond in the amount of $21,010,000, for the purpose of paying costs of the Melrose Public Library Renovation Project (1:29:56)
  10. New Business (1:30:08)
  11. ORDER-2022-30 : An Order on the Status of Green and Howard St. Electrical transmission Line (1:30:15)
  12. ORDER-2022-31 : A Request for Information from Northeast Metro Tech: New Building Project / Melrose Debt Obligation (1:30:27)
  13. ORDER-2022-32 : A request and recommendation that the honorable City Council authorize in-person early voting for the November 2, 2021 Municipal Election in the City Council Chamber at Melrose City Hall (1:30:40)
  14. ORDER-2022-33 : Calling City Election, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 (1:30:57)
  15. Orders Out of Order (1:31:06)
  16. Orders from Committee (1:31:11)
  17. ORDER-2022-18 : Acceptance of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) grant in the amount of $8,374,174. (1:34:22)
  18. ORDER-2022-23 : Acceptance of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) from a FY2022 State Budget earmark providing grants to Councils on Aging (1:35:18)
  19. ORDER-2022-24 : Request for the authorization to issue $1.5 million bond to fund for the roadway component of the City's Multi-year Utility and Roadway Improvement Program (1:32:42)
  20. Rule 53 - Reports (1:36:12)
  21. Calendar (1:36:22)
  22. Adjournment (1:36:28)

Minutes

CITY OF MELROSE CITY COUNCIL BULLETIN● SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 Web-based remote meeting Regular Meeting 8:15 PM , Melrose, MA 02176 Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Christopher Cinella President Present Jack Eccles At-Large Present Maya Jamaleddine At-Large Present Leila Migliorelli At-Large 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 Jen Grigoraitis Ward 6 Present Cory Thomas Ward 7 Present

ORDER-2022-26 Grant Acceptance of FY22 Massachusetts Urban Agriculture Grant in the amount of $9339.00 for replacement of 23 gardening beds at the Melrose Community Gardens. Assigned to Committee

ORDER-2022-27 Appointment Appointment of Anthony Chui to serve as Health Director for the City of Melrose Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2022-28 Appointment Appointment of Seamus Kelley, 259 West Emerson St., to the Affordable Housing Trust, for a one-year term, said term to expire the last day of January 2022. Assigned to Committee Health, Education & Welfare Committee

ORDER-2022-29 Bond Authorization of a Bond in the amount of $21,010,000, for the purpose of paying costs of the Melrose Public Library Renovation Project Assigned to Committee

ORDER-2022-30 Request City of Melrose Page 1 9/14/2021 3:48 PM Minutes City Council September 13, 2021 An Order on the Status of Green and Howard St. Electrical transmission Line Assigned to Committee

ORDER-2022-31 Request A Request for Information from Northeast Metro Tech: New Building Project / Melrose Debt Obligation Assigned to Committee

ORDER-2022-32 Election A request and recommendation that the honorable City Council authorize in- person early voting for the November 2, 2021 Municipal Election in the City Council Chamber at Melrose City Hall Assigned to Committee Finance Committee

ORDER-2022-33 Calling Election Calling City Election, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Assigned to Committee Finance Committee

ORDER-2022-18 Grant Acceptance of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) grant in the amount of $8,374,174. Passed

ORDER-2022-23 Grant Acceptance of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) from a FY2022 State Budget earmark providing grants to Councils on Aging Passed

ORDER-2022-24 Bond Request for the authorization to issue $1.5 million bond to fund for the roadway component of the City's Multi-year Utility and Roadway Improvement Program Passed City of Melrose Page 2 9/14/2021 3:48 PM

Transcript

▶ 1:27:53 Christopher Cinella: thank you uh chair mcnaught great uh welcome uh everybody to the um september 13th city council meeting uh time is uh 8 14. i am president uh chris sanella and pursuant to the suspension of certain provisions of the open meeting law of the governor this meeting of the city council will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible we'll post a comprehensive record of these proceedings as soon as possible after the the meeting on the Student of Melrose website, mnm3.org, the public can find online access instructions to view this meeting on the Student of Melrose website. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll? Yes. We are recording. Turn the screens on, dive in.

▶ 1:28:59 We do not have any resolutions. None. Clerk, if you want to start off with communication from his honor, And there are other city officials sure order 2022 dash 26 acceptance of 22 Massachusetts, urban, agricultural grant in the amount of 9,339 dollars for replacement of 23 gardening beds at the most community gardens. Order 2022 dash 27 appointment of Anthony to to serve as health director for the city of. Health education and welfare. Order 2022-28 appointment of Seamus Kelly 259 West Emerson street to the affordable housing trust for a 1 year term said term to expire the last day of February. Excuse me January 2022. The health education and welfare order 2022-29 authorization of a bond in the amount of 21Million, 10,000 dollars for the purpose of paying costs of the Melrose public library renovation project.

▶ 1:30:07 Committee on appropriations. Do we have any new business? We do. Order 2022-30, an order on the status of Green and Howard Street electrical transmission line. Committee on public works. Order 2022-31, a request for information from Northeast Metro Tech, new building project slash Melrose debt obligation. Committee on operations order 2022 dash 32, a request and recommendation that the honorable city council authorized in person early voting for the November 2nd, 2021 municipal election in the city council chamber and at Malibu city hall. It's good 2022 dash 33, calling the city election for Tuesday, November, November 2nd, 2021. Finance committee orders out of order. And orders from committee, um.

▶ 1:31:11 Jeff McNaught: Frozen and hear you frozen. You look like you're under water. Can you hear me now? Yes. Yes, I have a few things I'd like to pull from committee. Mr. President. Great. Are you ready? First, Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to pull order 2022-24 request for the authorization to issue a $1.5 million bond to fund for roadway component of the city's multi-year utility and roadway improvement program. Did you want to conjoin those to pull those out of committee just to have one roll call vote? that would be fantastic let me read you all the numbers so that's uh orders a motion to conjoin order 2022-24 2022-18 and 2022-23 okay a motion to enjoy following three orders second committee a by councilor mcnaught seconded by councilor Grigoraitis madam clerk if you

▶ 1:32:32 call the roll councilor eccles yes councilor Garipay yes councilor Grigoraitis yes councilor Jamaleddine yes councilor mcmaster yes councilor mcnaught yes councilor Migliorelli yes councillor stewart yes counselor thomas yes councilman yes president sanella yes 11 yes i'd make a motion for passage uh if you want to just go one by one of those individual orders i think that's sure you want me to read them again i'm happy to do that just the title thank you yeah the by the title you mean just the order number yes motion for passage for order 2022-24 did i hear a second second all right we have a motion before us by council mcnaught for 2022-24 seconded by councillor Grigoraitis any discussion seeing none madam clerk please call the role councillor eccles yes

▶ 1:33:55 Yes. Councilor Garipay. Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis. Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine. Yes. Councilor McMaster. Yes. Councilor McNaught. Yes. Councilor Migliorelli. Yes. Councilor Stewart. Yes. Councilor Thomas. Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi. Yes. President Cinella. Yes. 11 yes. Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion for passage for order 2022-18. Okay, that's our ARPA. Second. Yeah, that's the ARPA order. Thank you. Seconded by Councilor Grigoraitis. Any discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Councilor Eccles. Yes. Councilor Garipay. Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis. Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine. Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes.

▶ 1:35:10 Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. President Sinella? Yes. 11 yes. Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to pass to order 2022-23. This is the $50,000 for the grant for the Council on Aging. Motion for pass to be made by Councillor McNaught, seconded by... Second. Councillor Jamaleddine, any discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Councillor Eccles. Yes. Councillor Garipay. Yes. Councillor Grigoraitis. Yes. Councillor Jamaleddine. Yes. Councillor McMaster. Yes. Councillor McNaught. Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. President Cinella? Yes. Eleven yes. Thank you. Anything to report under Rule 53?

▶ 1:36:20 I see the hands go up. Click on the calendar to take a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second by Councilor McNaught, seconded by Councilor Jamaleddine and Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli. Yes. Councilor Stewart. Yes. Councilor Thomas. Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi. Yes. President Sinella. Yes. Eleven yes.

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