CITY OF WORCESTER
CITY CLERK DEPARTMENT
CALENDAR OF THE CITY COUNCIL
– OCTOBER 12, 1999
7:00 P.M.
Convened: 7:09 P.M.
Adjourned: 9:40 P.M.
1. INVOCATION – Rev. George A. Kohl
Belmont St. Baptist Church
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE/STAR SPANGLED BANNER
3. ROLL CALL – All present
except Councillor Cooney how arrived at 7:12 P.M.
ORDINANCE COMMITTEE HEARING
– 7:00 P.M.
4. REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD Upon the Order of Mayor Mariano, Councillors Luster, Nadeau, Finnegan, Cooney, Patton, Clancy, Petty and Murray that the City Council approve the establishment of an Overlay Arts District located on Main St. from Madison St. to Hammond St. and further, request the City Manager to work with local and private organizations to aggressively promote said district.
On a roll call vote of 11 Yeas and 0 Nays the Ordinance Committee accepted the Report of the Planning Board and approved the Order. Reconsideration was denied on a voice vote.
5. Granting permission to MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY and NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY for a joint pole location on: PROUTY LANE.
6. REPORT OF THE RULES COMMITTEE Upon the Order of Councillor Lukes requesting City Council to vote to establish a Standing Committee on College/Community Relationships.
Council accepted the Committee Report – To be Second Item of Business October 19, 1999
7. Resolution – That the City Council hereby go on record requesting the City Manager to consider making the Public Health Nurses fact finding final and binding. (Cooney)
Resolution adopted
on a roll call vote of 10 Yeas and 1 Nay (Lukes) Reconsideration denied on a
voice vote
8. ITEMS OF CITIZEN INTEREST
8a. ITEMS OF DEPARTMENTAL OR EMPLOYEE INTEREST
9
REFERRED TO THE PARKS DEPARTMENT
9. Councillor Timothy J. Cooney, Jr. on behalf of Bernard & Barbara Thibeault request Parks Department have tree removed from in front of 35 Eunice Ave.
10-13
REFERRED TO THE PLANNING BOARD
10. Joseph & Kathleen Gallagher request to extend sewer main in Martha Ave.
11. Sandra Ellis et al in opposition to the location of the Boston Gun Range, we request to change the Zoning Ordinance so that other such facilities will not be allowed to open in school and residential districts. Also, request City Council ensure adherence to and enforcement of all existing laws/regulations pertaining to this facility.
12. Mayor Raymond V. Mariano on behalf of Mike Sacco request private street conversion on Trevor Lane.
13. Elias Atamian, E & E Realty Trust request relocation of the zone line for property located on the northeasterly line of Grafton St. owned by Warren Brandt from BL-1.0, 400’ into RL-7 to move existing business.
14 & 15 REFERRED
TO PUBLIC SERVICE & TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
14. Jason Dallas & Maureen Mulcahy request street light on Pole #4 across from 12 Inwood Rd.
15. Councillor Janice L. Nadeau on behalf of residents of 1050-1060 Main St. request Worcester Regional Transit Authority replace the bus shelter in front of 1050-1060 Main St. with a new shelter that has benches.
16-18 REFERRED TO
PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
16. Roland Morin, Jr. request sidewalk repair on Bowling Green Lane side of my property at 24 Tarrytown Lane.
17. Carmine Algieri et al request private street maintenance on Maranda St.
18. Councillor Stephen T. Patton request repair of sidewalk in front of Thorndyke Rd. School.
18a. Councillor Janice L. Nadeau on behalf of Deana Szaramangos request
Public Works replace sidewalk in front of 15 ½ Richards St. Referred
to Public Works Committee – Suspension of Rules
18b. Councillor Michael C. Perotto on behalf of Lisa Rivers et al
request resurfacing of Fox St. Referred
to Public Works Committee – Suspension of Rules
19 REFERRED TO
TRAFFIC & PARKING COMMITTEE
19.
Gerald
Tuori, Dean for Institutional Advancement, Becker College request a marked
pedestrian crosswalk at the intersection of Sever and William Sts.
19a. Councillor Michael C. Perotto on behalf of Earl Caldbeck request
handicap parking at 29 Windsor St. Referred to Traffic & Parking Committee
– Suspension of Rules
20 HEARING SET FOR OCTOBER 19, 1999 – 7:00 P.M.
20. CULLINAN ENGINEERING for two conduit locations on: CEDAR
ST. Amended to Chenot Associates, Inc. as petitioner
21. Christine V. Flynn et al request a City Council vote for the
purpose of directing the Massachusetts Highway Department to remove the
following route from the list of proposed access roads to the Worcester
Regional Airport: Hope Avenue
Alternative, described as commencing at I-290 Exit 10 to Hope Ave., crossing
Webster St., continuing parallel along Knox St., crossing Hadwen Park, Heard St.
and Pineview Ave., joining James St. and passing through Grandview Ave. with a
final connection to Goddard Memorial Dr.
Petitioner spoke – Referred to
Public Service & Transportation Committee and the City Manager’s Ad Hoc
Committee
1. NON-CITY
COUNCIL CONFIRMATION:
A.
Notification of the reappointment of Catherine H.
Levine, Edward J. Saksa, Katherine J. Davitt and Emily J. Hunte, to the Elder
Affair Commission.
B. Notification of the reappointment of John N.
Barbale, Jr., to the Zoning Board of Appeals.
2. CITY COUNCIL CONFIRMATION:
A. Notification of the reappointment of
Francis J. Farrell, Jr., to the Civic Center Commission.
3. AIRPORT:
4. ASSESSORS:
5. BUDGET
OFFICE:
A. Communication relative to Federal Medicaid
Program/”Bundled Rates”.
6. CIVIC CENTER:
7. COMMUNICATIONS:
8. DEVELOPMENT:
A. SUPPLEMENTAL – Communication
relative to an update on the efforts to bring a Professional Baseball Franchise
to Worcester.
9. ELDER
AFFAIRS:
10. ELECTION COMMISSION:
11. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICES:
12. EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING:
13. FIRE:
A. Communication relative to Fire Class.
B. Communication relative to Next Projected Hiring of
Firefighters.
C. Communication relative to Status Report –
Fire Department Study by TriData Corporation.
D. Communication relative to Repair Bay Doors
at the Central St. Fire Station.
14. HUMAN RESOURCES:
A. Communication relative to Public Health Nurses.
15. INFORMATION SERVICES:
16. LAW:
A. Communication relative to Union Station Urban Revitalization
Project.
B. Communication relative to Eminent Domain Powers – City &
W.R.A.
C. Communication relative to Special Permits.
17. LICENSE COMMISSION:
18. PARKS, RECREATION & CEMETERY:
A. Request adoption of a resolution to accept
with Gratitude a Donation of $400.00
from the Men’s Over Thirty League to benefit the Parks, Recreation, and
Cemetery Department’s “Christoforo Columbo” East Park Baseball Facility.
B. Request adoption of a resolution to accept
with Gratitude a Donation of $1000.00 from Tufts Health Plan and the Worcester
Area Chamber of Commerce to benefit the Parks, Recreation, and Cemetery
Department’s Christoforo Columbo East Park.
C. Request adoption of the resolution to
accept with Gratitude a Donation of $500.00 from the American Legion Post 204
to benefit the Parks, Recreation, and Cemetery Department’s (Tivnan Field) Lake
Park.
D. Communication relative to a comprehensive
plan to address the myriad of issues facing Worcester Urban Forest. I am recommending an appropriation of fifty
thousand dollars (item #28L) in overtime resources.
19. PLANNING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT:
A. Request adoption of two orders relative to
transferring jurisdiction and ultimate-disposition of the Cambridge Street Fire
Station.
B. Communication relative to FY’ 1999
Violence Against Women Act Grant Award.
C. Communication relative to Joint Pole Location
– Prouty Lane.
D. Communication relative to Executive Office
of Public Safety Programs Division Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block
Grant Program.
Placed
on file
20. POLICE:
A. Communication relative to Status of Gun
Buy Back Program.
B. Request adoption of an Ordinance Amending
Chapter Fourteen of the revised Ordinances of 1966 relative to Regulation of
Pawnbrokers.
C. Communication relative to Police
Patrols/Interior Bailey Field.
21. PUBLIC HEALTH & CODE ENFORCEMENT:
A. Communication relative to Earth Moving
Operation – Second, Third and Fourth Streets.
B. Communication relative to property at 54
Fairhaven Road.
C. Communication relative to Boyden Street.
22. PUBLIC LIBRARY:
23. PUBLIC SCHOOLS:
A. Communication relative to progress report on the Worcester Vocational High School.
24. PUBLIC WORKS:
A. Communication relative to Status Report
#11 – Street Resurfacing Projects.
B. Communication relative to Traffic
Signal/Lincoln Village Area.
C. Communication relative to issues Concerning
City Traffic.
D. Communication relative to New Phone Number
for DPW – Street Division.
25. PURCHASING:
A. Communication relative to Responsible Employer
Ordinance Enforcement.
B. Communication relative to List of Vendors.
26. TREASURY:
A. Communication relative to Chapter 58 Section
8 Proposal – Department of Revenue.
27. VETERANS’ SERVICES:
28. FINANCE:
A. Recommend that Two Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars ($2,500.00) be transferred from Account 900-92000 City Manager
Contingency, and be appropriated to Account #140-92000 OPCD Ordinary Maintenance
to provide funds for the purpose of providing consultant services for the Lake
& Pond Grant project.
B. Recommend
that Forty Two Thousand Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($42,250.00) be transferred
from Account #91C711, Building
Rehabilitation, and appropriated to Account #75C702,Centrum Building Rehabilitation.
C. Recommend that Four Thousand Dollars
($4,000.00) be transferred from Account #900-92000 City Manager Contingency,
and be appropriated to Account #140-92000 OPCD Ordinary Maintenance.
D. Recommend that Sixty Thousand One Hundred Fifty Seven Dollars Twenty Cents ($60,157.20) be transferred from Account #91C780, Capital Equipment, and appropriated to Account #45C703, Water Department Capital Equipment, to provide funds for the purpose of purchasing the following pieces of equipment.
DESCRIPTION AMOUNT
(1) Crew
Cab Truck w/plow $23,799.00
(1) Meter
Utility Truck $36,358.20
Total $60,157.20
for Water Department as
approved in the Capital Improvement Program.
E. Recommend that Seven Hundred Seventeen
Thousand Dollars ($717,000.00) be transferred, from Account #91C738, Reservoir Rehabilitation,
and appropriated to Account #45C728, Reservoir Rehabilitation.
F. Recommend that Six Thousand Seventy Five
Dollars Eighteen Cents ($6,075.18) be transferred, from Account #330-07,
Reserve for Appropriation Damage Settlement, and appropriated to Account
#330-92000 Health Department Ordinary Maintenance.
G. Recommend that Two Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars ($2,500.00) be transferred from
Account #900-92000 City Manager Contingency, and be appropriated to Account
#140-92000 OPCD Ordinary Maintenance,
to provide funds for the purpose of funding the second appraisal performed
on the city owned land in Shrewsbury,
Massachusetts (Police Rifle Range)
H. Recommend that Eighty Five Thousand Dollars ($85,000.00) be transferred, from Account #91C780, Capital Equipment, and appropriated to Account #66C701, Treasury Department Capital Equipment.
I. Recommend that One Hundred Fifty Five
Thousand Dollars ($155,000.00) be transferred, from Account #91C784, Parks
Improvement, and appropriated to Account #72C702, Parks Site Improvements.
J. Recommend that Thirty Three Thousand
Seven Hundred Forty Eight Dollars
Seventy Two Cents ($33,748.72)
be transferred, from Account #91C780,
Capital Equipment, and appropriated to Account #71C701, Parks Department
Capital Equipment, to provide fund for the purpose of purchasing the following
pieces of equipment:
DESCRIPTION AMOUNT
(1)
Skidsteer Loader (Contract Adjustment) $2,038.72
(1)
MAD-VAC $25,000.00
(1) High
Speed Copier $6,710.00
Total $33,748.72
for Parks Department as
approved in the Capital Improvement Program.
Order adopted on a roll call 11-0
K. Recommend that One Million One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars
($1,110,000.00) be transferred from 91C790 School Construction and appropriated
to the following accounts:
ACCOUNT DESCRIPTION AMOUNT
33C715 Norrback School Equipment $150,000.00
33C717 Vocational School Construction $610,000.00
33C718 Forest Grove Construction $350,000.00
Total $1,110,000.00
for
various contractual obligations related to various school construction projects
Order adopted on a roll call 11-0
L. Recommend that Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00 be transferred, from Account #900-92000, City Manager’s Contingency, and appropriated to Account #720-91000, Parks Department Personal Services.
29. ORDINANCES/ORDERS:
30. MISCELLANEOUS:
23. RECESS
TO FINANCE AND ORDINANCE: No Action Taken
FINANCE
a) #40CC
June 22, 1999
Order – Request City Council to schedule Finance sessions
beginning the first week in January 2000 in order to commence discussions
regarding budget issues. (Lukes)
b) #41CC June 22, 1999
Order – Request
City Manager to present a budget for the next fiscal year with a rate of growth
that is either at the rate of inflation or excludes new growth, whichever sum
is lower. (Lukes)
c) #63CC September 21,
1999
Order – Request
City Council pledge to maintain the existing tax rate for the next three fiscal
years. Further, request City Council
instruct the City Manager to prepare the next three budgets using only “new
growth”, state and federal funds and existing tax revenues. (Mariano)
23a. Request City Manager to provide City Council with a report on
reimbursement rates for nurses. Motion-Murray @ #5A CM – Adopted
23b. Request City Manager to consider including the Chairperson of the
Civic Center Commission as a member of the Sports Stadium Task Force. Motion-Clancy
@ #8A CM – Adopted
23c. Request City Manager to consider including neighborhood advocates
on the Sports Stadium Task Force. Motion-Murray @ #8A CM – Adopted
23d. Request City Manager to provide City Council with a timeline on
what has to be accomplished in order for the seventeen firefighters to be
hired. Motion-Petty @ #13A CM – Adopted
23e. Request City Manager to provide City Council with a breakdown of
the Fire Department budget for the current year, including retirements, what
the cost for the new fire class will be considering it’s the last quarter of
the fiscal year. Motion-Clancy @ #13A CM – Adopted
23f. Request City Manager report what the cost will be to put the
seventeen firefighters on and where that cost is going to come from. Motion-Nadeau
@ #13A CM – Adopted
23g. Request City Manager report if the City is still funding the
twenty nine vacancies in the Fire Department.
Further, if funding is being used for overtime. Motion-Nadeau
@ #13A CM – Adopted
23h. Request City Manager report on the number of women who took the
firefighter exam and the scores they received.
Motion-Luster @ #13A CM – Adopted
23i. Request Administration report if there is enough time to put the
five women on the new firefighter class.
Motion-Luster @ #13A CM – Adopted
23j. Request Administration report as to how they could have some
preservation of the status of the five women as applicants to the Fire
Department at the same time deal with processing the seventeen. Motion-Lukes
@ #13A CM – Adopted
23k. Request City Manager to report on the possibility of reserving
five females for a future fire class. Motion-Luster @ #13A CM – Adopted
23l. Request City Solicitor to generate a report for City Council as to
the scenario that would have to be created for the City Council to request a
project labor agreement to be placed in the bidding process. Further, if the Library project and
Vocational School project could be used as examples. Motion-Clancy @ #16B CM –
Adopted
23m. Request City Manager provide a report differentiating the
activities of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority, the Development Office and
the Office of Planning and Community Development. Motion-Perotto @ #16B CM –
Adopted
23n. Request City Manager provide City Council with a statement as to
why the City needs a Redevelopment Authority.
Motion-Lukes @ #16B CM – Adopted
23o. Request City Manager report if urban tree planting activity would
be a Block Grant funding mechanism for the Block Grant eligible areas, and if
so, how much money could be committed in each of the four years to funding
it. Motion-Clancy @ #18D CM – Adopted
23p. Request Administration consider funding temporary employees for
the cemetery work this summer. Motion-Patton @ #18D CM – Adopted
23q. Request Administration to consider any grant areas available for
purchase of trees to vegetate the rest of the City. Motion-Perotto @ #18D CM –
Adopted
23r. Request Administration look into tax levy dollars for tree
replenishing. Motion-Perotto @ #18D CM – Adopted
23s. Request Commissioner of Public Works report as to how the
Department of Public Works might assist the City in the replenishing of trees
in order to produce long term savings in the City’s water and sewer rates. Motion-Murray
@ #18D CM – Adopted
23t. Request Administration to respond as to whether or not the
License Commission has any involvement in the licensing of Pawnbrokers. Motion-Clancy
@ #20B CM – Adopted
23u. Request Administration to provide City Council with a
comprehensive report on all of the particular properties that have been cited
by the Health and Code Department for any and all violations. Motion-Clancy
@ #21C CM – Adopted
23v. Request Administration provide City Council with written substantiation
from sub-contractors as to why they could not meet the requirements of the
Responsible Employer Ordinance. Motion-Clancy @ #25A CM – Adopted
23w. Request Administration report on whether or not there is any
emphasis on trying to give local vendors a chance at the City’s business.
Motion-Luster @ #25B CM
Councillor Lukes moved to amend: Further, request report as to what percentage of vendors listed in Item 25B of the City Manager’s calendar of October 12, 1999 are Worcester based.
Order adopted, as
amended
23x. Request City Manager provide City Council with a report as to the
initial amount of money in the City Manager’s Contingency Account and a
drawdown report of that account. Motion-Patton @ #28A-L CM – Adopted
23y. Request City Solicitor to provide City Council with an opinion as
to what the mechanism would be to implement the School Health Nurses becoming
part of the School Department. Motion-Lukes @ #7CC – Adopted
23z. Request Administration report on Barry Rd. Extension history. Motion-Patton
@ #26CC
Councillor Petty moved
to amend: Further, request City Manager contact Massachusetts Electric in order
to work out an agreement to keep the street lights on Barry Rd. Extension
operational.
23aa. Request City develop a comprehensive community notification plan to
keep Worcester residents posted relative to threats in their neighborhood. Said plan to consider using: (1) reverse 911 system; (2) municipal cable
television channel; (3) targeted mailing; (4) regular media updates; (5) door
to door canvas effort where needed and appropriate. Mariano -Suspension of
Rules – Adopted
23bb. Request City Manager investigate the reverse 911 citizen
notification system used in Denver.
This system is designed to notify up to 1,200 citizens electronically by
telephone, of dangers or alerts on a street by street basis. Mariano
– Suspension of Rules – Adopted
23cc. Request Administration look into doing upkeep on desks in City
Council Chamber. Lukes – Suspension of Rules - Adopted
24 REFERRED TO
ORDINANCE COMMITTEE FOR A HEARING
24. REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD Upon the Petition of Matthew P. Stepanski, President, C.M.I.M.E., Inc. request to amend the Zoning Map by changing the current RS-7 zoning designation for property northerly of Shore Dr. to MG-1.0.
25 ACCEPTED
25. REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD Upon the Petition of Philip Shwachman, President, First American Realty, Inc. on behalf of Liberty Sq. Development Trust request to discontinue and remove Layard Place, a private way, beginning at its intersection with Main St. easterly to its terminus, from the Official City Map.
26 GIVEN LEAVE TO
WITHDRAW AT REQUEST OF PETITIONER
26. REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD Upon the Petition of Jayne A. McGinn requesting to make public Barry Road Extension.
27. Communication of the City Manager recommending that Twelve Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Eight Dollars and Fifty Cents ($12,688.50) be transferred from Account 331-46, Belmont Home Retained Earnings and appropriated to Account 045S505, Belmont Home Advertising, to provide funds for the purpose of payment for advertising costs for proposed sale of the Belmont Home.
28. Communication of the City Manager transmitting communication relative to an RFP for the sale of the Belmont Home.
29. Chairman’s Order from Youth, Parks & Recreation Committee – Request Administration to consider using the current site of the Vocational School, on the side of the Boys Club, as park land after discontinuance of use as a Vocational School.
30. Chairman’s Order from Youth, Parks & Recreation Committee – Request Administration to consider eliminating the softball field on the Belmont St. side of the Vocational School site plan.
31. Chairman’s Order from Youth, Parks & Recreation Committee – Request Administration to reconsider keeping educationally sound, the size of the parking area for the new Vocational School.
32. REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD Upon the Petition of Jonathan Finkelstein, Esquire on behalf of Smallwood Village Associates, Inc. requesting City of Worcester make Travis St. public.
33. Tabled In Part – Order – Request Administration report on
whether the Worcester Redevelopment Authority intends to sell the tax credits
of the Union Station Project, the value of the tax credits, the intended use of
the proceeds of the sale and further, request City Manager to request the
Worcester Redevelopment Authority to forbear from the sale. (Lukes)
Tabled – request City Manager to request the Worcester Redevelopment Authority to forbear from the sale.
34. Order – Request City Council invite the Chair of the Civic Center Commission, head of the Convention and Visitors Bureau and the City’s Chief Development Officer to a meeting to discuss the marketing and efforts to attract conventions to Worcester. (Mariano)
OCTOBER 12, 1999 RULES & COUNCIL CHAMBER
6:30 P.M. REGULATIONS
8:00 A.M.
OCTOBER 28, 1999 PUBLIC WORKS COUNCIL CHAMBER
6:00 P.M.
NOVEMBER 4, 1999 COMMERCE & ROOM 409
6:00 P.M. DEVELOPMENT CITY HALL
NOVEMBER 8, 1999 TRAFFIC & PARKING COUNCIL CHAMBER
6:00 P.M.