City Council — 2021-11-15

City Council Regular Meeting

This meeting starts at 40:20 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

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CITY OF MELROSE CITY COUNCIL BULLETIN● NOVEMBER 15, 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-2022-48 Appropriation An appropriation from the Rideshare Special Revenue Fund (#2921) in the amount of $9,049.20. Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2022-49 Classification of Property Request to set a Public Hearing on Classification of Property for December 6, 2021 at 8:00 PM and subsequently determine the Classification of Property. Assigned to Committee

INFO-2022-1 Informational An Informational Order on Melrose Kind Day, November 20, 2021 File

ORDER-2022-31 Request A Request for Information from Northeast Metro Tech: New Building Project / Melrose Debt Obligation Placed on File

ORDER-2022-34 Rules of Order of the City Revised Rules of Order of the Melrose City Council Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2022-40 Grant City of Melrose Page 1 11/16/2021 10:41 AM Minutes City Council November 15, 2021 Title III b Grant Award FY22 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. Passed

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. Passed City of Melrose Page 2 11/16/2021 10:41 AM

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▶ 40:51 Christopher Cinella: 12th, executive order, depending on the open meeting law. Just being on the most constantly conducted remote. Hello. Counselor Eccles here. Counselor here. Counselor here. Counselor. Counselor. Councillor McNaught. Here. Councillor Migliorelli. Here. Councillor Stewart. Here. Councillor Thomas. Here. Councillor Tramontozzi. Here. And President Cinella. Here. Levin. Thank you. And just before we get started a quick plug for the girls volleyball team which is a playoff game tomorrow night 7 p.m. in Watertown against westborough tickets can be purchased online put that plug in for my former teacher coach shelley and if there is no objection i would like to approve our council meeting minutes from november 8th without reading objection those minutes are now approved

▶ 42:15 Christopher Cinella: if there's no objection i'd like to open the floor for public comment Do we have anybody who wishes to speak this evening? Is there anyone attending at the time who would like to speak? We've got a couple attendees, but one person is the presenter later. No one is raising their digital hand at this time. Okay, there's no objection. I'd like to close the floor for public comment. Seeing no objection, public comment is now closed. Any communications from the mayor and other city officials? We have order. 2022-48 an appropriation for the rights to share special revenue fund number 2921 in the amount of nine thousand forty nine dollars and twenty cents appropriations we have order number 2022-49 request to set a public hearing on classification

▶ 43:19 Jeff McNaught: of property for december 6 2021 at 8 pm and subsequently determine the classification of property councilman hey mr president um at this time i would like to move for immediate consideration on this matter but i want to explain uh that it is solely for the purposes of setting a public hearing uh there will be no discussion on this this evening the remainder of the order would be sent to appropriations for review and discussion on monday november 29th um So, uh, if I would like to move for immediate consideration in this order again, solely for the purpose of setting a public hearing. Rejection to immediate consideration. Seeing none. So, Mr. President, um, I make a motion to set the public hearing for this matter for December 6, 2021.

▶ 44:17 1, at 8 PM, in accordance with the mass general law chapter 40, section 56. Motion made for setting up a public hearing for December 6. 8 PM for the 2nd. 2nd, by counseling. Any discussion seeing none please call the roll. Can you hear me now? Yeah. 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 Cinella? yes 11 yes new business info we have order info 2022-1 an informational order on melrose kind day november 20th 2021. councilor eccles uh mr president i would like to make a motion for

▶ 45:49 media consideration on this order at this time media consideration before us this time any objection seeing none this matter is now before us i think believe um if we could without objection suspend our rules so that we could get a few folks to speak this evening so you know objection our rules are now under suspension shall i bring in the attendee yes ms darwin can you hear us uh yes the floor is yours There we are. Hi everyone. We just wanted to take a few minutes to talk to you about Melrose Kind. This is our sixth annual celebration of kindness in Melrose and it will take place next Saturday, November 20th. Actually this year it'll take place on November 19th which is Friday and on November 20th. November 19th we'll be celebrating in all of our public

▶ 47:03 schools all of our elementary school students are writing letters to senior citizens here in town last year it was one of the biggest highlights for us the roosevelt elementary school had their students write notes to our seniors that we all know were extremely isolated uh during the pandemic and they were treasured they were you know affixed to refrigerators and windows and read countless times and the response we're still actually getting thank yous so we're super excited to say that we have over a thousand letters going to seniors this year um and then we have exciting things happening at the middle school and the high school too yeah the middle school we have the entire middle school writing um get well cards and thank you cards to the stat to the patients

▶ 47:51 and staff at the high school at the hospital laura's wakefield hospital and we just today picked up 900 letters from high school students who have written to their favorite educators over the years. So we feel that it's a huge community building event and our goal is just to get the word out there to as many people as we can. Melrose Kind is also purchasing breakfast and lunch for everyone at the hospital? Dunkin' Donuts absolutely blew us away with $2,500 worth of gift cards that they sent us. Originally we had asked for a hundred gift cards for the overnight crew at the hospital. They believe in the mission and sent us 500. We met and talked about the best way to distribute and utilize those gift cards.

▶ 48:45 We brought a hundred to the bread of life, 50 to the 2 food pantries here in Melrose. There's something really special about thinking about, you know, a warm cup of coffee on a cold night for someone that is struggling. So we're super excited about that part too. So, on Friday, the DPW will be getting lunch. I believe the City Council might be buying lunch for the City Clerk's office. We've got a lot of things going on in the schools. And on Friday, Chris Rodolico from Follow Your Art will be creating our mural downtown right next to the YMCA in preparation for our big day of kindness on November 20th. This year, we're really excited about having live music at the space outside of the YMCA wall.

▶ 49:37 We call it the kindness patch, but we have a number of performers from Porch Fest that are coming to perform from, I think around 9, 9.30 until three o'clock. So cross your fingers for good weather for us. We have got Girl Scout troops showering love to the police. We've got Boy Scout troops doing it for the fire department. Really what we're trying to do is just connect important organizations and say thank you. So, we appreciate the opportunity to come on to share with you and we would ask that you share with your constituents. If you could just share the message that this is what we're celebrating and people can participate in any way they want. Yep, so we've done a lot of coordination for the organizations in Melrose, but really, this is a, an event for citizens in Melrose.

▶ 50:30 and what we're hoping is to see lots of random acts of kindness happen between just regular old Melrosians. So the more we get the word out there and the more you help us in continuing it, the more likely that'll happen. And it'll be a big, huge day of kindness, which is what we're looking for. And the last thing, just a quick shout out, we've got some amazingly generous retailers, restaurants that have supported us with gift cards. Today, Mary Beth and I filled out about 75 letters to individuals in and around town that are making a difference in their own way. And we're just hoping that that has a ripple effect and we reach as many people as we can. Yeah. So that's it. That's all we have.

▶ 51:15 John N. Tramontozzi: Great. Any questions? Thank you. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yeah, thank you, Mr. President. And thank you ladies for coming in sharing uh this very exciting uh two days event um couple quick questions one is uh do you have a website that we can uh share to our constituents on social media and also um if if we can send donations is there a way to uh donate to your organization thank you very much for that question our our website john yeah our website is melrosekind.com or dot org either one will work and we're melrose kind on all social media and our uh email address is melrokind at gmail.com so basically you type in melrose kind and you'll find us and there's a donate now button right in the middle of our website oh we'll also have um t-shirts and um melrose kind mugs for sale

▶ 52:19 uh with proceeds going to continue to fund kindness initiatives in the future that'll be on the 20th too yeah and just the we became a non-profit uh this is our sixth annual as we know as we said before um and what we found was the response was extremely well received and people loved the concept and they said ah we hate waiting a whole year to do something like this in and around town selfishly we love it too so we became a non-profit and we're hoping to fund initiatives like this on an ongoing basis so you know maybe it's a formal pen pal program between elementary schools and the senior housing units maybe it's a community garden you know an intergenerational dance there's a ton of opportunity so we're grateful for the support yeah that's wonderful

▶ 53:10 Cory Thomas: thank you so much for uh being here and thank you for that information thank you mr president thanks for having us council toss thank you mr president miss darwin and miss nelson i would say miss roach miss nelson uh thank you so much for being here um this is such a great event you know you don't focus on just one group or one school or one age group um you really spread this around throughout the whole community you bring the community together um it's such a positive thing as we head into the holidays uh in the winter so i just want to thank you both for being here and for all you do uh for the community so thank you very much thanks gory thanks you actually bring up a great point is that a lot of people say you know we need to teach kindness to

▶ 53:50 children but our feeling is that it is a community event and there's always more kindness to learn so we appreciate you saying that it isn't just one demographic that we're targeting anybody Anybody else? Did I miss anybody? Councilor Garipay? I just wanted to echo Councilor Thomas comments. Thank you both for all you do and for taking this project on and the community appreciates it. So, thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Anybody else? Okay, thank you very much for coming on this evening. Very kind of you. What is the will? Please come visit us on Saturday. Yeah, I want a motion to place this on file. Councilor Eccles motion to place on file. 2nd. Place on file me by Councilor Eccles 2nd, by Councilor Tramontozzi. Any discussion? Seeing none.

▶ 54:59 Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis? Yes. Counselor, yeah, counselor McMaster. Yes, counselor mix not. Yes, council, Emily really? Yes, counselor Stewart. Yes. Counselor Thomas yes, yes. President, yes 11 yes. Unanimous. Good night ladies. Thank you. Thank you. Good night. Good evening. What are the orders of the day order? 22. 2022 dash 31 request for information. From Northeast Metro tech, new building project. Slash Melrose debt obligation is coming out of appropriation. Assuming to 8, it was returned because it was past the 45 days. Councilor McNaught? Mr. President, I'm going to point to Councilor McMaster, the maker of this order. I believe he wishes to speak on it.

▶ 56:18 Did I miss your hand? I don't know if I saw it. Go ahead, Councilor McMaster. Thank you, Mr. President. This order is actually moot because of the recent votes of City of Chelsea and the City of Saugus. So at this time, I'd be making a motion to place on file. 2nd, she made the place on file by console, McMaster, 2nd, by console, like, not any discussion. Seeing none, Madam clerk, please call the roll. Councilor Eccles yes. Counselor yes, Councilor Grigoraitis. Yes, yes. Councilor McMaster yes. Councilor not yes. Council of yes, counselor Stuart. Yes, counselor Thomas. Yes. Council of yes, president. Yes, 11 yes, order 2022 dash 34. Revised rules of order of the city of the Melrose city council.

▶ 57:29 Christopher Cinella: This was similar to the prior rule prior order. This was sent to legal and led pursuant to our rules. Um, I'll assume a rule 8 council rules of order. This was returned because we're back 45 days. No action from legal and ledge as our rules of order have been suspended already. This meeting. There's no objection I would move this consent. That the item be set to appropriations committee for consideration review rather than. back to legal pledge all councils can vote and no objection that will go back go to appropriations do you have any orders from the committee going on council mcnaught so president we have um order 2022-42 an appropriation in the amount of 317 693 dollars from the contract stabilization fund um eight four zero four two dash five nine

▶ 58:59 Jeff McNaught: zero zero zero zero zero to the fire department salary and wage and overtime accounts zero two zero one two two one one dash five one one zero zero zero and zero one two two one one These funds are for year 1, FY21, and year 2, FY22 of the recently executed three-year collective bargaining agreement. This comes from the Appropriations Committee with a recommendation for passage, and at this time, I move for passage. Second. Second. Motion for passage on 2022-42, made by Councilor McNaught, seconded by Councilor Any discussion seeing none, Madam clerk, please call the roll. Councilor Eccles yes. That's what Gary pay. Yes. That's a lot. Grigoraitis. Yes, I was a melody. Yeah, Councilor McMaster.

▶ 1:00:03 Jeff McNaught: Yes, Councilor. Yes, Council, Emily really. Yes, Councilor Stewart. Yes, Councilor Thomas. Yes, that's the treatment. Yes. President, yes 11. yes. Back up a 2nd to 22 dash 40. Mr president, it's okay. Can I go to the next, uh. Line, and then go back to 2240. 20 that's fine thank you uh so um next we have order 2022-46 an appropriation in the amount of 46 863 dollars from ambulance retained earnings eight four one eight two dash five nine zero zero zero zero to the ambulance enterprise salary and wage and overtime accounts six five zero zero five dash five one one zero zero zero and six five zero zero five one dash five one three zero zero zero these funds are for year one fy21 and year two fy22 of the recently executed three-year

▶ 1:01:17 collective bargaining agreement this comes from the appropriations committee with a recommendation for passage and at this time i move for passage second passage uh made by counselor mcnaught seconded by Councillor Eccles. 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. Councillor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. Presidents in all? Yes. 11 yes. Mr. President, my apologies. I did gloss over the first order from committee, which is Order 2022. It's my vision. I apologize.

▶ 1:02:22 order 2022-40 it's the title 3b grant award fy 22. this comes from the appropriations committee with a recommendation for passage at this time i move for passage motion for passage made by counselor mcnaught on 22-40 seconded by counselor Grigoraitis 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 Councillor Migliorelli? Councillor Stewart? Yes. Councillor Thomas? Yes. Councillor Tramontozzi? Yes. President Cinella? Yes. 11 yes. To report under Rule 53, at this time I'll take a kind motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second. Motion to adjourn made by Councillor McNaught. Seconded by Councillor Eccles.

▶ 1:03:54 Please call the roll. Councillor Eccles. Yes. Councillor Garipay. Yes. Councillor Grigoraitis. Yes. Councillor Jamaleddine. Yes. Councillor McMaster. Yes. councillor mcnaught yes councillor Migliorelli yes councillor stewart yes councillor thomas yes councillor treyman tozy yes president sanella yes 11 yes have a good evening everyone

City Council — 2021-11-15

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