Public Works Committee — 2024-12-02
Attendance
Mark Garipay ; Ward Hamilton ; Manjula Karamcheti ; Leila Migliorelli ; John Obremski ; Kimberly Vandiver
Agenda
Minutes
CITY OF MELROSE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE CALENDAR● DECEMBER 2, 2024 Council Chamber, First Floor, Melrose City Hall Committee Meeting 7:15 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 Absent Leila Migliorelli President, Ex Oficio Present
(ID # 12209) Utility Petition Petition of Verizon for Grant of Location to install duct bank from existing utility on the westerly side of Main St., just north of the town line with Malden, as shown on Plan # 1A7F1MU Recommend Conditions City Council City of Melrose Page 1 12/4/2024 12:18 PM
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▶ 5:27 Kimberly Vandiver: I am Councilor Vandiver, the chair. Joining me today are Vice Chair Hamilton and voting members, counselors, Kara Chetty and Garey, and Member Exofficio, president Melissa. We are also joined by non-voting members, counselors, Stewart Aldine, Romano Williams, and Pinocchio. This provides notice of the quorum for the record in accordance with the open meeting law. This meeting is being recorded and broadcast on our local cable access channel MMTV. It'll be available for future viewing through the City of Melrose's website@cityofmelrose.org. The public comment portion of the meeting is where any member of the public may speak to items on the agenda at this time, if there are no objections and with unanimous consent,
▶ 6:10 Kimberly Vandiver: 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 item on our agenda tonight? See no one in the room. Um, Madam Clerk, is there anyone online? There's not. No one in line at this time. Uh, if there are no objections and with unanimous consent, I'll now close the public comment portion of our meeting. Public comment is now closed since we do have members of the administration and, uh, petitioners here tonight to speak on the items before us. I motion by unanimous consent to suspend Rule 37 B before we proceed. Seeing no objection, rule 37 B is now suspended tonight. We have one order before us.
▶ 6:53 Kimberly Vandiver: This order is ID number 1 2 2 0 9 Petition of Verizon for grant of location to install Duct Bank from existing utility on the westerly side of Main Street, just north of the town line with Malden as shown on plan number one A seven F1 Mu U. Um, uh, tonight we have, uh, Ms. VAs from the city, uh, engineering department and a Verizon representative here to speak with us. Uh, would you please, uh, address the members, uh, and present the proposal? Yes. Good evening. Honorable members of the Public Works Committee of the city of Melrose. Name is Alexander Lasting Marrero, M-A-R-R-E-R-O, resident Senting Cross Street in Malboro, Massachusetts, an employee of Pike, PIKE, telecom and renewables, LLC, an authorized contract of Verizon,
▶ 7:53 new England Incorporated. Been asked to speak by Verizon about the petition in front of you this evening. Verizon is hereby petitioning to place four four inch PVC concrete in case converts starting for existing manhole 68 located on the town line with the city of Mel of Malden, and running approximately 421 feet in a north northerly direction to existing manhole 15. Horizon is hereby requesting this petition as the existing duck bank between those two condos is collapsing. We are trying to run new cabling through that network. Are there any questions from the committee? Councillor Garipay. Um, just to be clear, you, you're running from one manhole to the other. You're not gonna be ripping up any, any
▶ 8:50 of the street down there or, Well, as part of the installation process, we'll be digging a three foot trench in order to place in the conduit network between the two manholes And I guess Ms. Reese Main Street. Um, barely it's been, when was the last time that was paved? Are we gonna a curb to curb down there being the, because such a busy street or That part of Main Street is outside of the area that was just repaved a couple of years ago. Um, they will do temporary restoration now because of the weather. Um, and we'll have them come back in the spring and, and do more permanent, but it won't be curb to curb. Will it be from the middle, middle at least the middle of the road to the sidewalk? I mean to
▶ 9:35 The curb. The, the location of the duck bank is pretty close to the sidewalk. Um, so I believe that we had said, um, yeah, our, our, um, our standard is one foot outside the trench to the curb line if it's that close to the curb. So it most likely will not be all the way to the center line. So looking on the map, the dark, uh, solid black line is the curb or is it the dotted line on the map? The, the dark solid line is the curb? Yes. The dotted line D notes the property line between public and private way. And is that on the side of the street that we just did all the painting for the bike lanes? It is, and if those are disturbed, those can be replaced. If we're only doing a foot on either side
▶ 10:34 Mark Garipay: and over time we tend to see that those trenches tend to sink. I would, I would think, you know, it's not found, not packed down Good. Where if we went from the middle of the street to the curb, are we gonna, is it gonna be any pedestrian safety issues with, with bikes? Well, letting it sit over the winter will actually help with some of those settling effects. And so then when they come back in the spring and mill it and repave it, there shouldn't be any settlement. Okay. Thank you. Could you remind me when the work is anticipated to start and how long it'll take? Uh, I don't have a particular date, obviously we're trying to beat the winner at this point. Uh, as it should take based on footage,
▶ 11:23 Manjula Karamcheti: it should be about two weeks of work, basically, once they start from when they, uh, put complete the, uh, temporary repairs as she, as she mentioned. And then in the spring we'll do the more permanent repairs. So that's gonna be another week. Ms. Ms, maybe this is a question for you, but just thinking about, um, how different departments in the city work together around redirecting traffic during that time, given the location is one that's pretty heavily track trafficked between Melrose and Malden, just thinking about how that will be set up and, you know, safety for bikers, pedestrians and cars sort of in that area since it's so busy. Yeah, they're responsible for having a traffic safety plan following M-U-T-C-D
▶ 12:16 Devin Romanul: standards, setting up that traffic management plan and maintaining safety for pedestrian cyclists. That's part of the conditions. Okay. Nothing further. I Counselor Ramal. Thank you so much. Um, this may be covered in that, uh, aforementioned plan, but do you imagine that there are any, uh, bus stops on the, I I can't remember which route is on there. Is it the 1 31, 1 36, 1 37 on the stops on that area? Do you imagine any of those would be affected within That 421 feet? Yeah. Um, I do not know the answer to that question. We can look into it. I dunno that either. Any other counselors? No, I don't know that I'm not familiar with the area, So I don't know. We'll check into that and we'll make
▶ 13:02 Robb Stewart: accommodations if necessary. Sounds good. Councilor Stewart? Thank you, Madam Chairman. Madam Chairman on voting member, but I wanna provide some feedback. Uh, I do concur with, uh, council Rae's concern regarding, um, disturbing the, the, the bike lane. Uh, I think, you know, it's somewhat pristine now. Uh, and once you start digging into it, it's never the same, uh, particularly if you do not go from curb to a certain person out. And from that standpoint, uh, it, it's concerning. Thank you, Madam Chair. Are there any counselors who wish to ask questions or, uh, of either the petitioner or the engineering department? Um, and, uh, if, if I may ask one question, um, will any of the a budding areas,
▶ 14:04 Kimberly Vandiver: including Pine Banks Park or the businesses, will access to them be impacted during, during that time? Um, there will be, there will be some, uh, Lawson parking. Um, the work is all in the street, so, uh, sidewalk and the, and the entrances to those businesses will be open and we'll make sure that the contractor maintains, um, access in and out of any driveways. Okay. Thank you. Uh, at this time, what is the will of the committee? I will make a motion to recommend. Okay. Motion to recommend from Councilor Karen Chetty. Second. Second from Councilor Repe. Anyone on discussion? I believe this is a voice vote. Um, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. This passes and will be brought to the next Bill Council meeting