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City Council — 2022-01-18

City Council Regular Meeting

This meeting starts at 25:55 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; Manjula Karamcheti present · Ward 1; Shawn M. MacMaster excused · Ward 5; Leila Migliorelli present · At-Large; John Obremski present · Ward 2; Robb Stewart present · Ward 3; Ryan Williams present · Ward 7

Agenda

  1. Call to Order (25:20)
  2. Reading of the Minutes (27:05)
  3. Public Comment (27:22)
  4. Public Hearings (27:58)
  5. New Business (28:03)
  6. INFO-2022-4 : Request for Information regarding ARPA funding (Item #9582) (28:10)
  7. Communications from His Honor, The Mayor And Other City Officials (28:21)
  8. ORDER-2022-61 : Authorization to accept a grant in the amount of $6,500 from the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency -MEMA (Item #9579) (28:30)
  9. ORDER-2022-62 : Reappointment of Joanne Perperian, 357 Porter Street, Melrose as Assistant City Clerk for a one year term ending on the first Monday in February, 2023. (Item #9544) (28:45)
  10. ORDER-2022-63 : Authorization to accept a grant in the amount of $54,918 from the Massachusetts Office on Disability's Municipal ADA Improvement Grant Program (Item #9581) (29:08)
  11. ORDER-2022-64 : Authorization to Appropriate $75,000 to Fund Feasibility Study and Schematic Design for Roof Replacement Projects at the Hoover and Horace Mann Schools -Fund #3383. (Item #9580) (29:30)
  12. Unfinished Business (29:49)
  13. Reports from Committees (29:57)
  14. ORDER-2022-57 : Authorization to Accept a Grant in the amount of $12,093.60 from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to acquire one electric vehicle charging station under the Massachusetts Electric Vehicle Incentive Program (MassEVIP) Workplace & Fleet (WPF) Charging Program. Funds will be deposited into fund #4053. (30:06)
  15. Expiries (32:06)
  16. ORDER-2022-30 : An Order on the Status of Green and Howard St. Electrical transmission Line (32:12)
  17. Rule 53 Reports (33:40)
  18. Adjournment (34:25)

Minutes

CITY OF MELROSE CITY COUNCIL BULLETIN● JANUARY 18, 2022 Web-based remote meeting Regular Meeting 7:57 PM , Melrose, MA 02176 Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Jack Eccles At-Large Present Mark Garipay Ward 4 Present Jen Grigoraitis Ward 6 Present Maya Jamaleddine At-Large Present Manjula Karamcheti Ward 1 Present Shawn M. MacMaster Ward 5 Excused Leila Migliorelli At-Large Present John Obremski Ward 2 Present Robb Stewart Ward 3 Present Ryan Williams Ward 7 Present Christopher Cinella President Present

INFO-2022-4 Informational Request for Information regarding ARPA funding (Item #9582) Assign to Committee Appropriations & Oversight Committee

ORDER-2022-61 Grant Authorization to accept a grant in the amount of $6,500 from the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency -MEMA (Item #9579) Assigned to Committee Appropriations & Oversight Committee

ORDER-2022-62 Appointment Reappointment of Joanne Perperian, 357 Porter Street, Melrose as Assistant City Clerk for a one year term ending on the first Monday in February, 2023. (Item #9544) Assigned to Committee Finance Committee

ORDER-2022-63 Grant Authorization to accept a grant in the amount of $54,918 from the Massachusetts Office on Disability's Municipal ADA Improvement Grant Program (Item #9581) Assigned to Committee Appropriations & Oversight Committee

ORDER-2022-64 Appropriation City of Melrose Page 1 1/20/2022 6:18 PM Minutes City Council January 18, 2022 Authorization to Appropriate $75,000 to Fund Feasibility Study and Schematic Design for Roof Replacement Projects at the Hoover and Horace Mann Schools -Fund #3383. (Item #9580) Assigned to Committee Appropriations & Oversight Committee

ORDER-2022-57 Grant Authorization to Accept a Grant in the amount of $12,093.60 from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to acquire one electric vehicle charging station under the Massachusetts Electric Vehicle Incentive Program (MassEVIP) Workplace & Fleet (WPF) Charging Program. Funds will be deposited into fund #4053. Passed City Council

ORDER-2022-30 Request An Order on the Status of Green and Howard St. Electrical transmission Line Recommitted City of Melrose Page 2 1/20/2022 6:18 PM

Transcript

▶ 26:16 Christopher Cinella: by governor baker on june 16th of 2021 that extended the remote meeting provisions of his march 12th executive order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law this meeting of the mara city council will be conducted via remote participation madam clerk if you could please call the roll councilor eccles councilor Garipay yeah president councilor Grigoraitis here councilor maladin here councillor Karamcheti here councillor mcmaster councillor Migliorelli here councillor Obremski here councillor stewart here councillor williams Here. President Tonella. Here. Ten present. Great. And if there is no objection, I would like to approve our minutes from the January 10th, 2022 meeting. Seeing no objection, our minutes are approved from that meeting.

▶ 27:22 Christopher Cinella: And if there's no objection, I would like to open up for public comment. Seeing no objection, we are now open for public comment. We have anybody wishing to speak on any items. This evening that's on our agenda. I do not see anyone raising their digital hand at this time. All right, if there is no objection, I would like to close public comment. Public comments is now closed. How many public hearings this evening? No new business, excuse me other than nothing from the mayor, but our city council. Madam clerk info. 2022 dash 4 request for information regarding our funding. That will go to the appropriations and oversight committee. And communications from his honor, the mayor and other city officials.

▶ 28:27 Order 2022 dash 61. Authorization to accept the grant in the amount of 6500 for the Massachusetts emergency management agency. I'll go through the appropriations oversight committee. Order 2022 dash 62. Reappointment of Joanne preparing 357 Porter street Melrose. As assistant city clerk for a 1 year term ending on the 1st, Monday in February 2023. I will go to the finance committee order 2022 dash 63. Authorization to accept the grant in the amount of 54,918 from the Massachusetts Office of Disabilities Municipal ADA Improvement Grant Program. That will go to appropriations and oversight. Order 2022-64. Authorization to appropriate 75,000 to the fund feasibility study and schematic design for roof replacement projects at the Hoover and Horst Mann schools.

▶ 29:43 Christopher Cinella: fund number 3383 i'll go to the appropriations and oversight committee i don't have any unfinished business this evening um anything from committee counselor rigoritis thank you mr president at this time pursuant to rule 35 i would make a motion to pull up order 2022-57 from the appropriations and oversight committee second we have a motion by council Grigoraitis to pull 2022-57 out of committee, seconded by Councillor Eccles. Any discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, you can call the roll. Councillor Eccles? Yes. Councillor Garipay? Yes. Councillor Grigoraitis? Yes. Councillor Jamaleddine? Yes. Councillor Karamcheti? Yes. Councillor McMaster? Councillor Migliorelli? Yes. Sorry. Councillor Obremski? Yes. Councillor Stewart? Yes. Councillor

▶ 30:47 Jen Grigoraitis: Williams? Sorry. Yes. President Sinella? Yes. 10 yes. All right. 2022-57 is now before us. Councillor Guterres? Thank you, Mr. President. Order 2022-57, which is an authorization to accept a grant in the amount of $12,093.60 from the Mass DEP for the Electric Vehicle Incentive Program charging program comes from Appropriations and Oversight with a recommendation for passage. And at this time, I would motion to recommend to pass. Motion for passage made by Councilor Grigoraitis. Who wants to second? Second. Seconded by Councilor Karamcheti. Any discussion? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine?

▶ 31:50 Mark Garipay: Yes. Councilor Karamcheti? Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Obremski? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Williams? Yes. President Cinella? Yes. And yes. Passes and expires. Order 2022-30. An order on the status of Green and Howard Street electrical transmission line. Councillor Gareve. Thank you, Mr. President. At this time, I'd like to remit this order back to committee. As you all know, I co-sponsored this with former Ward 2 Councillor McNaught. And I have not had a chance to update. And bring the new council or board to Mr. over console or bremski up to speed on the neighbors concerns and some of the other items. So I, I have spoken to the chairman of the public works committee and he supports this.

▶ 32:56 So, at this time, I'd like to make a motion to remit this order back to the public works committee. 2nd, motion to. And back to committee made by constantly. 2nd, by counselor, any discussion seeing none. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Counselor apples yes. Consular care pay. Yes, that's a lot. Grigoraitis. Yes, counselor. Yeah. councillor karen cheedy yes councillor Migliorelli yes councillor Obremski yes councillor stewart yes councillor williams yes president senella yes ten yes nothing to report under rule 53 councillor Garipay thank you mr president just a point of privilege uh i just wanted to remind the community that we have an election um next tuesday the 25th regarding the northeast metropolitan uh folk funding for the new school so

▶ 34:09 Mark Garipay: the election is going to be from 11 to 6 p.m at the high school middle and high school gym i believe i'm not sure if it's the middle of the high school but you're going to be going in the same center entrance for both of them so i just wanted to remind the residents of this community with the election is going to be held next tuesday january 25th thank you thank you and perhaps we can get something on our social media social media wizard and do we have a motion to adjourn at this time motion to adjourn seconded everyone in favor all right we got a motion to adjourn made by council Garipay seconded by council williams madam clerk please call the role councillor eccles yes councillor Garipay yes councillor Grigoraitis yes councillor Jamaleddine yes councillor Karamcheti

▶ 35:04 yes councillor Migliorelli yes councillor bremski yes councillor stewart yes councillor williams Yes. President Sinella. Yes. And yes. Thank you. Have a good night, everyone. Have a great night.

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