City Council — 2018-05-21
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▶ 29:17 Michael P. Zwirko: Yeah. Sure. Is there a motion to suspend the rules? So moved, Mr. President. Second. Second. Motion to suspend the rules by Alderman Mortimer has been, excuse me, point of order, Alderman Wright. Yeah, my understanding is a public hearing. Yeah. So we wouldn't need to suspend the rules for purpose of public hearing. To call the representative up? No. No. All right, at that time, I, the motion will be withdrawn. Yeah, it will. Thank you for the point of order, Alderman Wright. At this time, will the representative from National Grid please come forward? How are you doing? My name is Brennan Powell, 170 Medford Street. I'm an engineer with National Grid Electric in Malden. So, yeah, it's pretty straightforward.
▶ 29:55 The residents at 26 Prospect Street are renovating their home, and they would like the pole moved 15 feet to the west, nearer to the property line of number 34. any any questions all the mid Forbes thank you could you just describe like the work to be done is this this is normal routine work for you the timeline that's involved is it's going to be any disruption to curb sidewalks street traffic things like that currently the pole is in the grass strip Thorp no sidewalks that exist on that street and the new pole will be also in the public way on that grass strip on the edge of the pavement it'll probably take the crew about four hours to do it and there shouldn't be any disruptions to there
▶ 30:45 Francis X. Wright Jr.: wouldn't be any outages for any of their residents they can do the whole thing live outstanding thank you Alderman Wright thank you mr. president my understanding is that the butter I actually stopped and spoke with them this evening has no opposition to this even though the poll will be moved closer to their driveway um so uh i wanted to speak to the representative of national grid and make sure you're aware of the eight conditions that the city engineer has set forth right i have them in front of me i have all of them okay and do you have any issues with meeting any of those conditions of course not okay and when you say it will take four hours to replace the pole uh how How long will it take to actually move the wires from the original pole over to the new pole?
▶ 31:41 Francis X. Wright Jr.: Will that take place over time? That will take place over time. After we install the new pole, we send a work order over to Verizon and Comcast and the other fiber optic companies that are on the pole, and they have their own scheduling process they go to. and then when they are all off the old pole and attached to the new pole our crews will come back and remove the stub okay there is no sidewalk there so I'm just want to make sure there'll be the detail officer there or some way yep pedestrians because there are a lot of people who walk around that neighborhood with their dogs or just generally out for a walk and that they'll be able to get around that now even though it's only four hours that installation site
▶ 32:35 right yep we'll have a police detail there we'll try to be as least of the disruption as possible great thank you thank you any other member of the board willing to speak on this no other members what is the will of the board motion to close the public hearing second yes excuse me sir if you're going to could you please come to the table and state your name and address my name is Mike fix I live at 14 prospect on the abutter on the other side of the property I have a pole in my driveway as well 3825 is the pole number so it's the next pole in line does this prevent me the distance that he's moving the pole away from me moving my pole at some point in the future uh i would have to look at it and evaluate
▶ 33:34 it in the field um there is a limit on the distance obviously that we can have between poles because the wires will sag after a certain distance um but then again depends on the distance how much you would like to move it and uh i'm about four feet as well okay so i mean I mean, again, if you want, we can meet in the field and go over it, and I'll give you my card, but I don't have to evaluate in the field. Okay. That's good. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Fix. I see in the audience we have another member of the public wishing to speak on this. If you could please come forward, sir. My name is Mike Catallo. I live across the street from the pole, 25 Prospect Street. Just in case people didn't hear you due to the microphone, do you mind repeating your name and address?
▶ 34:22 My name is Mike Cataldo. I live at 25 Prospect Street. I live across the street from the pole. Thank you. My concern is my Ys go directly from my house to the pole. Where are my Ys going to go now? So we can mid-span your service drop, which I have included in the job packet that I gave to the crews, to make sure that it remains in the direct line across to where it was originally attached. It doesn't necessarily need to be attached to the physical pole. we can kind of float house services because they're not very heavy okay so right now that's where it is right so you you say it's going to stay in the same place it's not going to wrap around that's correct it will not wrap around your house okay yeah we don't yeah okay that's
▶ 35:05 my question thank you thank you Thorp another member of the audience that's uh wishing to speak on this order you could also do the same your name and address when you get to your chair thank you Like a t-shirt Just to remind everyone what's happening tonight, you know Scott Hewitt 19 Prospect Street basically the same situation as Mike Cataldo my wires. I'm across the street. I'm curious how they're gonna be coming to my house So they will be coming from the same point of attachment on the secondary crib where they're currently located They won't we won't be pulling wires. We won't be All right drag you want to make sure I mean most of the wires are relatively close to the pole This is gonna leave me like in the middle of the dip between the two poles. So the new pole that goes in we
▶ 35:54 Michael P. Zwirko: We buy only class 3 size 40 foot poles now. Yeah, that's the only thing we stock So we try to lift that crib up All right, get the secondaries up a little higher just you know for a for that reason and you know We don't want dump trucks and right, you know other things hitting them trash trucks and what sort so thank you thank you sir any other members of the public wishing to speak at this time we do have a motion on the floor public you close the public second was made by alderman Medeiros earlier I forgive forgive the board I do not remember who seconded that motion at the time seconded by alderman Mortimer all those in favor of closing the public hearing any opposed the public hearing on this order is now closed thank you motion to
▶ 44:37 Good evening, sir. Good evening. My name is Sean Kilcullen. I am the gas supervisor that will be overseeing this project. pretty straightforward but i can answer any questions that anyone may have any alderman alderman forbes uh again can you just describe the work to be done timeline if Thorp any traffic disruption just for the public watching at home uh so we're gonna be right uh we're gonna be extending a new gas main from the existing gas six inch cast iron low pressure gas main on lebanon street down the private road uh fairfield ave to in front of number 11 uh fairfield ave and then we're going to run a service from the new gas main to the house at 11 fairfield ave the only disruption to traffic will be when we're on lebanon street um but the gas main there is on
▶ 45:41 the same side as fairfield ave so it should be a minimal disrupt disruption and i would anticipate that project only taking probably less than a week to complete okay is there a timeline when you plan on starting that work uh Thorp no timeline at this time but it will probably be sometime early this summer okay and i believe i see that you have the conditions that are there for the city i received them today yes you have no uh anticipate no worries following those no no objections to them okay thank you very much thank you any other alderman wishing to speak on this? Alderman Medeiros. Can we check and see if Thorp any members of the public willing to speak? Are there any members of the public in the gallery here this evening that are willing
▶ 46:24 to speak on this order? Could you please come up, sir? State your name and address, please, for the record. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Nathaniel Dean, D-E-A-N, and I live at 251 Lebanon Street, which is at the corner of Budding Fairfield and Lebanon Street. And my question for National Grid is what if any impact is that going to be on any groundwork along or abutting our property line and whether or not that's going to be an interruption to service for our gas connectivity or any other utilities and what if any timeline is there for any of those interruptions or impact I don't see any impact as far as interrupting your gas service from what I'm looking at on our map that we have right now what we're going to be doing
▶ 47:11 on fairfield ave is a trench it'll be approximately 18 inches in width and four feet deep and it will go wherever we have an open corridor to put that uh the main as far as like in between other other utilities that are in the street there that's something that i would go over with the dpw or the uh someone from the dpw department so they we can agree on placement of the new gas main but beyond that I don't see it there any being any other impact and if there was an impact we would contact you ahead of time before anything happens excellent thank you very much thank you sir any other members of the public or anyone else in the gallery that like to speak on this order seeing none Alderman Medeiros motion to close the public hearing second has been a motion