City Council — 2021-10-18
Attendance
Christopher Cinella ; Jack Eccles ; Mark Garipay ; Jen Grigoraitis ; Maya Jamaleddine ; Shawn M. MacMaster ; Jeff McNaught ; Leila Migliorelli ; Robb Stewart ; Cory Thomas ; John N. Tramontozzi
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Minutes Approval
- Public Comment
- Communications from His Honor, The Mayor And Other City Officials
- ORDER-2022-40 : Title III b Grant Award FY22
- ORDER-2022-41 : Signs and Lines Program Grant for the Lincoln School
- ORDER-2022-42 : An Appropriation in the amount of $317,693.00 from the Contract Stabilization Fund, (84042-590000) to the Fire Department Salary & Wage and Overtime Accounts (012211-511000 & 012211-513000). These funds are for Year 1 (FY21) and Year 2 (FY22) of the recently executed 3 Year Collective Bargaining Agreement.
- ORDER-2022-46 : An Appropriation in the amount of $46,863.00 from Ambulance Retained Earnings, (84182-590000) to the Ambulance Enterprise Salary & Wage and Overtime Accounts (650051-511000 & 650051-513000). These funds are for Year 1 (FY21) and Year 2 (FY22) of the recently executed 3 Year Collective Bargaining Agreement.
- ORDER-2022-43 : Application of Abdinasir M. Ahmed d/b/a Galmudug, Inc. for a Hackney Carriage License (1 Cab) at Essex Street Stand
- ORDER-2022-44 : Livery Car Service Licenses Renewed commencing May 1, 2021
- New Business
- ORDER-2022-45 : An Order seeking information on the Administration’s proposal to create permanent bike lanes on lower Main Street
- Orders Out of Order
- Orders from Committee
- ORDER-2022-39 : Approval by the Melrose City Council of the City's ward and precinct boundaries and map as enumerated herein in accordance with Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 54, sections 1 and 2 and the 2020 U. S. Census population data.
- ORDER-2022-36 : Appointment of Tim Bailey, 62 Glen St., to the Planning Board for a five-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2026.
- Rule 53 Reports
- Adjournment
Minutes
CITY OF MELROSE CITY COUNCIL BULLETIN● OCTOBER 18, 2021 Council Chamber, First Floor, Melrose City Hall Regular Meeting 7:45 PM 562 Main Street, 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-2022-40 Grant Title III b Grant Award FY22 Assigned to Committee
ORDER-2022-41 Grant Signs and Lines Program Grant for the Lincoln School Passed
ORDER-2022-42 Appropriation An Appropriation in the amount of $317,693.00 from the Contract Stabilization Fund, (84042-590000) to the Fire Department Salary & Wage and Overtime Accounts (012211-511000 & 012211-513000). These funds are for Year 1 (FY21) and Year 2 (FY22) of the recently executed 3 Year Collective Bargaining Agreement. Assigned to Committee
ORDER-2022-46 Appropriation An Appropriation in the amount of $46,863.00 from Ambulance Retained Earnings, (84182-590000) to the Ambulance Enterprise Salary & Wage and Overtime Accounts (650051-511000 & 650051-513000). These funds are for Year 1 (FY21) and Year 2 (FY22) of the recently executed 3 Year Collective Bargaining Agreement. Assigned to Committee
ORDER-2022-43 License - Hackney License City of Melrose Page 1 10/19/2021 2:42 PM Minutes City Council October 18, 2021 Application of Abdinasir M. Ahmed d/b/a Galmudug, Inc. for a Hackney Carriage License (1 Cab) at Essex Street Stand Assigned to Committee
ORDER-2022-44 License - Hackney License Livery Car Service Licenses Renewed commencing May 1, 2021 Assigned to Committee
ORDER-2022-45 Request An Order seeking information on the Administration’s proposal to create permanent bike lanes on lower Main Street Assigned to Committee Public Works Committee
ORDER-2022-39 Administrative Order Approval by the Melrose City Council of the City's ward and precinct boundaries and map as enumerated herein in accordance with Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 54, sections 1 and 2 and the 2020 U. S. Census population data. Passed
ORDER-2022-36 Appointment Appointment of Tim Bailey, 62 Glen St., to the Planning Board for a five-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2026. Passed City of Melrose Page 2 10/19/2021 2:42 PM
Transcript
▶ 0:00 Christopher Cinella: October 18th, City Council meeting, the time is 7 45, Chris Cinella, President, pursuant to enact extending certain COVID-19 measures signed in by Governor Baker on June 16th, 2021. Uh, not being revision to this March 12 executive order spending check the vision of the opening law. City council to be conducted participation. Could you please call the. Councilor Eccles, Councilor Garrett pay. Yeah, Councilor Grigoraitis. Councilor Grigoraitis, can you guys hear me? I can, I can also Grigoraitis. Can you hear us? I can see your face. Can you nod? I don't think she can hear us. Councilor Jamaleddine? Councilor McMaster? Here. Councilor Migliorelli? Here. Councilor Stewart? Here. Councilor Thomas? Looks like he's having some Wi-Fi issues.
▶ 1:24 Councilor Tramontozzi? Here. Councilor, President Cinella? Here. And Councilor Eccles? Here. Also Grigoraitis, can you hear us? Yeah, sorry. Something wasn't plugged in. I can hear you. And President Thomas, can you did you see me? Madam clerk? I did and I'll call you Councillor McNaught. Yeah. Oh, great. Councillor Thomas is in twice. Looks like he's fixing his issues. Right. Oh, we have way too much benefit of the doubt. Oh, we have twins twin Thomas's. 1 vote though. Um. professor is in without uh objection i'd like to uh prove um without reading our october 4th meeting objections without objection i'd like to open the floor for public comment got a couple people that wish to speak this evening okay um colonel driscoll has notified
▶ 2:30 us that he wishes to speak so i'm going to try and unmute him now colonel driscoll can you hear us i can hear you can you hear me yes yes everybody yes okay thank you good evening my name is bob driscoll i live at 33 thurston road in melrose i am a melrose firefighter and the secretary treasurer of local 1617 for the past 14 years the contract you'll be voting to fund is very simple included are two items negotiated for the city and two items negotiated for our members. The two items for our members were requested at the first bargaining session 18 months ago. They are items the city had already given to other city bargaining units. The fact it took 18 months and a week away from an arbitration
▶ 3:24 hearing to agree to these terms is not lost on our members. The past 19 months battling COVID has been challenging and difficult for our membership. When a COVID positive citizen needs to go to the hospital, we are the ones who provide the initial care and take them to the emergency room. Many of our members themselves have become COVID positive carrying out their duties. Yet every day, every call, the members of Local 1617 have been there for the citizens of Melrose. The 8.2 million federal dollars provided to the City via the American Rescue Plan spells out how the City may spend the money. One of the options is an allowance of premium pay for first responders. The City has informed us they would not be doing such.
▶ 4:16 This also is not lost on our members. For too many years, the members of Local 1617 have lived in decrepit and dilapidated firehouses. I have taken many of you on the council on tours of our facilities. This past summer, one of the hottest on record, we did not have air conditioning for the better part of a month. While we support the construction of a new library, nothing has been done to the houses we live in 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Until recently, a new committee was announced the day before the library funding vote. This also is not lost on our members. I hope you support this fair contract and I hope the city soon comes to realization that their employees are their greatest asset. I thank you for
▶ 5:06 your time. Thank you. We do have Mr. McSweeney. I'm going to make him unmute him now. Mr. McSweeney can you hear us? Hi everybody. I'm Mr. McSweeney, 160 West Wyoming Avenue. I just wanted to very briefly speak tonight on order 2022-41, which is the Signs and Lines program. I know a lot of these grants often get immediate consideration. So on behalf of the Ped Bike Committee, just wanted to thank Councilor McMaster for his advocacy on behalf of this grant for the Lincoln School and to say that we support it. It's a small amount of money and it's not gonna be transformative for street safety at the Lincoln School, but it's great for our city to participate in this grant program when the state offers it.
▶ 6:01 In particular, I thought that Councilman McMaster's work, I thought that Councilman McMaster's work, you know, a couple of years ago at this point, he put together a parent community survey to collect feedback from the Lincoln School community on what they saw as challenges and opportunities around street safety. at the Lincoln School. He spoke with multiple members of our committee about feedback on that survey, trying to solicit our ideas. He did the same thing. He heard of this grant opportunity, which was recently presented by Judy Crocker, who is our city's Safe Routes rep at the school committee. So I think it's just a great example of community collaboration between elected officials,
▶ 6:51 School communities advocates, and we just wanted to fake counselor master for his efforts and to say that we support the great. Thank you. Thank you anybody else. Do not believe anyone else has their hand raised at this time. All right, there's no objection to now close public comments. Comment is now closed communications from his honor. And other city officials want to read the orders. We were going to go back to the clerk of committees reading them. Order 2022 dash 40. Title 3 B grant award for fiscal year 2022. Go to the appropriations committee order 2022. Dash 41 signs and lines program great for the Lincoln school. Councilor McMaster. Thank you, Mr. President. At this time, I'll be seeking immediate consideration and just by way of proffer to the Council, we were notified as the City about this grant just on October 5th, with a request to sign the Memorandum of Understanding on October 15th.
▶ 8:23 Shawn M. MacMaster: We had requested an extension to the Department of Transportation in order to get this matter before the Council as it has to occur. So that's just the reason I'm seeking immediate consideration is there's urgency in terms of accepting this grant any objection to be a consideration. Seeing none, this order is now before us. You want to speak further on just very briefly Mr. President before we turn it over, I believe to miss Reese, the city engineer who's here I'm just I'm thankful to the mayor for prioritizing this and working in collaboration with me as well. as with the ped bike committee as you heard they offered input throughout the way principal st george at the lincoln school the lincoln school pto as mr mcsweeney said this really was a
▶ 9:14 collaborative effort among various stakeholders and a good opportunity for the city to improve the roadway there at the lincoln school corridor so at this time mr president i'm happy to turn it back to you to call on Ms. Reese to provide more information. And if there's no objection at this time, I would like to suspend our rules so we can hear from Ms. Reese. Seeing there's no objection, our rules are now suspended. Bringing her in now as a panelist. Thank you. Can you hear me? Yes. Yep. Okay, great. So this program, the Signs and Lines program, its focus is for safety around schools and accessibility for walkers bikers and people who use other modes of transportation besides cars it's a very fast hitting program i spoke to diane hansen today
▶ 10:17 who's the administrator of the program the way it works is once we sign the letter of the memorandum of understanding. MassDOT will put together a team of people to come out and block the site and look at what our ideas were for the site and also maybe come up with some other ideas for the site. And they will actually put together a plan including a set of plans for construction and the goal is to get something out and constructed in the spring. We need to complete all the work by June 30th, so it has to happen this fiscal year, but it's very feasible. What we're proposing is mostly line painting, so signage on the street itself, warning of the approaches to the school and getting drivers to slow down a little bit as they approach that zone
▶ 11:21 And make it safer, like I said, for walkers and bikers coming to the school. So, I'd be happy to answer any questions anybody has about the program. I didn't see any hands go up. Did I miss anybody? Does anybody have any questions? Motion for passage, Mr. President. Passage made by Councilor McMaster, seconded by Councilor Eccles. Any discussion? Seeing none. Adam clerk role. Councilor Eccles yes. Councilor Garth a yes. Councilor Grigoraitis radius yes. Counselor, yes, counselor McMaster. Yes, counselor make not. Yes, counselor. Yes, counselor Stewart. Yes, counselor Thomas. Yes, counselor yes. President, yes 11. yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Thank you. Good evening. Mr. Clark. Order 2022 dash 42.
▶ 12:42 An appropriation in the amount of 317,693 from the contract stabilization fund. Count 84042-590000 to the fire department salary and wage and overtime accounts. account 012211-511000 and account 012211-513000. These funds are for one year, fiscal year 21, and year two, fiscal year 22, of the recently executed three-year collective bargaining agreement thank you that will go to the committee and appropriations order 2022-46 an appropriation in the amount of 46 863 from the ambulance retained earnings account number 841 82 dash five nine zero zero zero zero to the ambulance enterprise salary and wage and overtime accounts account six five zero zero five one dash five one one zero zero zero and account six five
▶ 14:15 zero zero five one dash five one three zero zero zero these funds are for year one fiscal year 21 and year two fiscal year 22 of the recently executed three-year collective bargaining agreement i'll go to the appropriations committee order 2022-43 application of abd nasir and ahmed dba gal gal dug incorporated for hackney carriage license one cab at essex street stand gotta go to protection and license order 2022-44 livery car service licenses renewed commencing may 1st 2021 that'll go to protection and license new business order 2022-45 in order seeking information on the administration's proposal to create a permanent permanent bike lanes on lower main street sponsored by councillor Shawn mcmaster that'll go to public works any orders uh voter
▶ 15:34 Leila Migliorelli: saying none we have some orders from committee start with councillor Migliorelli thank you mr Mr. President, I'd like to motion to pull up from committee, the Finance Committee Order 2022-39, approval by the Melrose City Council of the City's Ward and Precinct Boundaries and map as enumerated herein in accordance with the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 54, Sections 1 and 2, and the 2020 U.S. Population Data, U.S. Census Population Data. This comes to the, well, this comes to the committee, to the council with no recommendation. So, motion to move this out of committee 2022 dash 39, maybe a counselor and maybe early. And 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, of the counselor, any discussion on pulling this out of committee.
▶ 16:23 Seeing none, Madam clerk, please call the role. Counselor Eccles yes, counselor care pay. Counselor Grigoraitis yes, I'm solution. Yeah, counselor McMaster. Yes, Councilor McNaught. Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. President Cinella? Yes. 11 yes. Thank you. So this order is now before us. What is the will of the committee as the committee changed its mind? Discussion on the order. Councilor Migliorelli? Thank you, Mr. President. Just to kind of brief the council members who were not on the meeting on Thursday night, we had Mike Owens, the community engagement director for the secretary of state's office to speak to the finance committee and Mr.
▶ 17:31 Leila Migliorelli: Owens in that meeting went over the detailed description of how the secretary of state's office use the 2020 census data to reconfigure award boundaries. Um, and they had abided by, uh, following guidelines that no precinct can be above 4000 residents and that each precinct has to be within 5% of an average precinct size. The secretary of state's office urged the council to turn in the map as soon as possible so that they can then, in turn hand over what they call the shape file to the legislature for them to see the locally approved maps and try to conform their districts appropriately. Um, beyond that, Mr. Owens had stated that the map provided by the state is not quoting him, not a suggestion. And this is something that we should act on as soon as possible.
▶ 18:24 Shawn M. MacMaster: So, for that reason, I'll be motioning for passage. 2nd, we should made for passage. Maybe I constantly or at least 2nd, like, is there any additional discussion? Councilor McMaster. Thank you, Mr. President. I plan to just rest on the comments that I made at the finance committee, not say anything further on the map itself. I did want to say that presumably if this does pass the council tonight to the residents of the current Ward 5 that I'm committed to working with Councilor Stewart and the incoming Councilor of Ward 7 to help transition Any issues that are that are ongoing in Ward 5? Thank you. Mr. President. Thank you. Any other comments questions. Oh, thank you. Mr. President. I'll just expand on what council McMaster said. I believe all 7 wards will see some.
▶ 19:25 Jen Grigoraitis: Chips in there where their word lines are drawn. Certainly the most significant is word 5, or that's where we've had the bulk of our population growth. But I just I'm sure that this body. Those of us who will be continuing to serve those of us who will be stepping down and those that will be joining us in January are committed to making sure that all residents of the city of Melrose know who their representatives are and know how to access us and how to seek assistance from the city. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else on discussion? Please call the roll. Councilor Eccles. Yes. Councilor Garipay. Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis? Yes. Councilor Tshamaladeen? Yes. Councilor McMaster? No. Councilor McNaught? Yes.
▶ 20:17 Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. President Cinella? Yes. And, yes, we have another, um, counseling. Thank you, Mr. President at this time, I'd like to make a motion to pull up from protection and licensing order 2022 dash 36, the appointment of Tim Bailey, 62, 1 street. To the planning board for a 5 year term, the term to expire on the last day of February, 2026. 2nd, I'm thinking of his motion to pull 2022 dash 36 of committee. Seconded by Councilor Eccles. Any discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll? Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine? Yes.
▶ 21:28 Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi. I'm sorry, Thomas. But, okay, yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. President Cinella? Yes. Levin, yes. Okay, that's now out of committee and before us. Councilor Garipay? Mr. President, at this time, I'd like to make a motion for passage. This comes from protection and licensing with a favorable recommendation. So I make that motion at this time. Passage made by Councilor Garipay, seconded by Councilor Thomas. Any discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk please call the roll. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine? Yes. Councilor McMaster?
▶ 22:28 Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Councilor Stewart? Yes, Councilor Thomas. Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi. You forgot Councilor McNaught, but yes. I think you forgot him. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Sorry about that. President Cinella. Thank you, Councilor Tramontozzi. Yes. 11 yes. So, do we have anything to report under rule 53? There's a, there's going to be a traffic commission meeting between now and our next meeting where the lower main street South main street project will be reviewed. The time is, but it will be able to be accessed virtually and it will be on Thursday. October 28. Yeah, thank you. Anything else to report under rule 53. You guys want to talk about the Red Sox. To adjourn at this time, take a motion to adjourn.
▶ 23:49 2nd, Jeremy, because the second by counselor Stewart. Please call the role. Councilor Eccles yes. Counselor yes, Councilor Grigoraitis. Yes, councilor. Yeah, Councilor McMaster. No, Councilor McNaught. Yes, I'm so I'm really. Yes, counselor Stewart. Yes, counselor Thomas. Yes, counselor. Yes, president. Yes, 10 yes, I'm good evening. Bye, John.