Public Works Committee — 2024-02-20
Attendance
Mark Garipay ; Ward Hamilton ; Manjula Karamcheti ; Leila Migliorelli ; John Obremski ; Kimberly Vandiver
Agenda
Minutes
CITY OF MELROSE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE CALENDAR● FEBRUARY 20, 2024 Council Chamber, First Floor, Melrose City Hall Committee Meeting 7:30 PM 562 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176 The public should take notice that the Melrose City Council may, on certain occasions, have a quorum in attendance due to standing committees of the City Council consisting of both voting and non-voting members. Members attending this duly posted meeting are participating and deliberating only in conjunction with the business of the standing committee. Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Kimberly Vandiver Chair Present Ward Hamilton Vice Chair Present Mark Garipay Present Manjula Karamcheti Present John Obremski Present Leila Migliorelli President, Ex Oficio Present
PET-2024-4 Utility Petition Petition of National Grid for grant of location to construct line of underground electrical conduits on School Street. Plan #30859177 Ought to Pass City Council City of Melrose Page 1 2/21/2024 8:48 AM
Transcript
▶ 0:24 Kimberly Vandiver: Yep. All right. Good evening. It is seven 30 Tuesday, February 20th, and this is the meeting of the Public Works Committee. I'm Counselor Vandiver, the chair. Joining me are Vice Chair Councilor Hamilton and voting members, counselors, Kara Chetty, Garey, and Reky, as well as Member ex Officio President Elli. We are also joined. Uh, we have no non-voting members present. Uh, this provides notice of the quorum for the record, um, and, uh, in accordance with the open Meeting law. This meeting is being recorded and broadcast on our local cable access channel MTV. It will be available for future viewing through the City of Melrose's website@cityofmelrose.org. The public comment portion of the meeting is when any member
▶ 1:14 Kimberly Vandiver: of the public may speak to items on the agenda at this time. And if there are no objections and with unanimous consent, I will open the public comment portion of our meeting. Seeing no objections, we are now in public comment. Is there anyone here to speak regarding the items on our agenda tonight? Seeing no one in person, Mr. Clark, is anyone online? Uh, we don't have any, uh, participants online at this time. Thank you. Uh, if there are no objections and with unanimous consent, I will now close the public comment portion of our meeting. Public comment is now closed, uh, because we have, uh, members, uh, from the administration and from National Grid here tonight to speak on items before us.
▶ 1:55 Kimberly Vandiver: I'd like to motion by unanimous consent to suspend Rule 37 B before we proceed. There being no objections. Rule 37 B is now suspended. Uh, tonight we have one order before us. The order before us is petition 2024 dash four Petition of National Grid for grant of location to construct line of underground electrical conduits on School Street Plan number 3 0 8 5 9 1 7 7. Um, uh, would, uh, would representatives please sit at the speaker table and, um, introduce themselves and address the, uh, uh, address the members of the council? Good evening. I'm Vni Reese. I'm the city engineer. Uh, Good evening. My name is Rafael Car, representing National Grid one 70 Metaphor Street in molding. Um, are there, uh, questions from the committee
▶ 2:53 for either representative, uh, counselor Garey? Yeah. Can you just give us a little, um, uh, recap of what you're gonna be doing at that location? I know, I know we're gonna be putting underground conduit, but if you don't mind just for the, uh, residents, um, at home listening. Yes, Sir. Thank you for, for the question. Well, in this case, it will be, um, a simple upgrade of our residential service. Actually, uh, over there was, um, a 100 amps, a single phase a service, but actually they are making a project like a big house with a EV project there at ev charging station also with the house. And they are asking, initially they were asking 600 amps, but we discussed, and now they are asking only 400 amps, single phase.
▶ 3:50 So the, the way that we found to serve that, that service will, we are gonna replace an existing pole that it is in front of the, of the house, between the property line, between the 89 school street and the other, the other, the other property. And we are asking to make a trench to install a two four inch PVC conduit to serve this house because in this case, the pro, the, the owner wants to be fed by underground and not by an overhead service. And so this petition is for a grant of location for 12 feet of that four inch PVC conduit that will go through the city's sidewalk. Um, it will not cut into the road at all. It'll only be on the sidewalk from the pole to the property line. Okay. And when we cut the sidewalk,
▶ 4:48 Kimberly Vandiver: it's not just gonna be a trench, I'm assuming we're gonna do the four by four whole total sidewalk panel Without making So, because because it's winter right now and we can't pour concrete, we, we are going to allow them to patch it with asphalt until the spring, and then they'll have to come back and replace the full panel. Okay. Thank you. No more questions. Thank you. Are there any other questions? Okay. Uh, what is the will of the committee? I'll make a motion to recommend this for passage. Second, We have a motion for passage, uh, from Councilor Repe with a second from Councilor Chetty. Um, anyone on discussion? Uh, and I believe this is a voice vote. Voice vote. Uh, all in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed?
▶ 5:48 Leila Migliorelli: Okay. Uh, this order will be brought to the next full council meeting with a recommendation for passage. At this time, we've concluded our business, the chair will entertain a motion to adjourn. Motion to Adjourn. Second. Nice To meet you. A motion to adjourn made by Councilor Cam Chetty, seconded by Councillor Garipay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. And we are now adjourned For the evening. The time is 7:45 PM on Tuesday, February 20th, 2024. This is a meeting of the Melrose City Council. Called to order. And I am President Melli in accordance with Massachusetts Open Meeting Law. This meeting is being broadcast and recorded by Melrose Cable Access tv, and will be available for viewing in its entirety on MMTV