CITY OF WORCESTER

CITY CLERK DEPARTMENT

CALENDAR OF THE CITY COUNCIL – FEBRUARY 8, 2000

7:00 P.M.

Convened:  7:02 P.M.

Adjourned:  9:50 P.M.

 

 

1.       INVOCATION – Rev. Lee F. Bartlett

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church

 

2.       PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE/STAR SPANGLED BANNER

 

3.       ROLL CALL – All present except Councillor Petty

 

4.       ITEMS OF CITIZEN INTEREST

 

4a.     ITEMS OF DEPARTMENTAL OR EMPLOYEE INTEREST

 

PETITIONS

 

          5 REFERRED TO PUBLIC SERVICE & TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE

 

5.       Councillor Timothy P. Murray on behalf of Lawrence Racow request city take over responsibility of street lights on Camelot Dr., Merlin Court and Tristan Court.

 

          6-10 REFERRED TO TRAFFIC & PARKING COMMITTEE

 

6.       Councillor Timothy P. Murray on behalf of Walter Thomas request to implement resident parking only on Mulberry St. in vicinity of Our Lady of Mercy Church, 70 Mulberrry St.

 

7.       Councillor Stephen T. Patton on behalf of Nicholas Pellegrino request to add Thornton Rd. to list for consideration of speed humps.   

 

8.       Philomena Powers request handicap parking in front of 125 Perry Ave.

 

9.                 Richard Reynolds request to consider re-instituting the “Right on Red” at the bottom of Exit 16 (eastbound) and the intersection of East Central St.

 

10.     Y. George Thibaudeau request handicapped parking signs be removed from in front of 54 Sever St.

 

11.     COMMUNICATIONS OF THE CITY MANAGER

 

APPOINTMENTS

 

 1.      NON-CITY COUNCIL CONFIRMATION:

 

A.      Notification of the appointment of Lucille S. Corbett, Maria C. Gorsuch-Kennedy, and Mariann Paladino, and the reappointment of Beatrice Haddad, Francis S. Harvey Jr., Robert T. Cronin and Ann D. Walsh to the Elder Affairs Committee.

 

Placed on file

 

B.      Notification of Constable appointment, Arthur L. Ball.

 

Placed on file

 

  2.     CITY COUNCIL CONFIRMATION:

 

A       Notification of the appointment of Chester F. Caswell to the Hope Cemetery Board of Commissioners.

 

Recommitted to the City Manager

 

B.      Notification of the appointment of Roberto Sanchez to the Community Development Advisory Committee.

 

Appointment confirmed

 

C.      Notification of the appointment of Karen Nugent to the Affirmative Action Advisory Committee.

 

Appointment confirmed

 

D.      Notification of the appointments of Mary R. LaBree, and Albert N. Powers to the Advisory Committee for Persons with  Disabilities.

 

Appointments confirmed

 

TRANSMITTAL

 3.      AIRPORT:

 

 4.      ASSESSORS:

 

 5.      BUDGET OFFICE:

 

A.      Communication relative to Status report on FEMA/MEMA reimbursements – Franklin Street Fire.

 

Referred to Municipal Operations Committee

 

B.      Communication relative to Budgetary Projections for FY01-05

 

Referred to Finance

 

 6.      CIVIC CENTER:

 

 7.      COMMUNICATIONS:

 

 8.      DEVELOPMENT:

         

A.                                       Communication relative to Union Station/Accessibility

Complaint.

 

Held to February 29, 2000

 

B.      Communication relative to Oklahoma City Canal Initiative.

 

Referred to Commerce & Development Committee

 

C.      Communication relative to Detailed Breakdown-in-staff Council/WRA-Versus Counsel Hired Outside.

 

Referred to Commerce & Development Committee

 

D.      Communication relative to Worcester Redevelopment Authority (WRA) Monthly Report (December 1999).

 

Referred to Commerce & Development Committee

 

 9.      ELDER AFFAIRS:

 

10.     ELECTION COMMISSION:

 

A.      Communication relative to One Polling Place Change.

 

Placed on file

 

B.      Communication relative to Voting at Clark Street School.

 

Placed on file

 

11.     EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICES:

 

12.     EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING:

 

A.      Communication relative to Worcester Info Tech Project.

 

Referred to Commerce & Development Committee

 

13.     FIRE:

 

A.      Communication relative to Paul Tsongas  Award.

 

Placed on file

 

B.      Request City Council accept with gratitude a Thermal Imaging Camera, valued at $22,500.00 which was donated by the Infrared Components Corporation of Utica, New York in memory of the six Firefighters lost in the December 3rd fire at 266 Franklin Street.

 

Order adopted with gratitude

 

14.     HUMAN RESOURCES:

 

A.      Communication relative to Report of Firefighter Certifications.

         

Referred to Public Safety Committee

 

15.     INFORMATION SERVICES:

 

16.     LAW:

 

A.      Communication relative to changes in subscription rates and certain programming changes, received from Charter Communications.

 

Referred to Public Service & Transportation Committee

 

B.      Request adoption of an amendment to the Revised Ordinance to Prohibit the Parking of Buses in Residential zones.

 

Voted to advertise proposed Ordinance

 

C.      Communication relative to City Council Order – School Transportation.

 

Order adopted

 

17.     LICENSE COMMISSION:

 

18.     PARKS, RECREATION & CEMETERY:

 

A.      Communication relative to Status Report – City Hall Improvement Projects.

 

Referred to Public Works Committee for February 9, 2000 meeting

 

19.     PLANNING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT:

 

A.      Request adoption of a resolution approving the submittal of a grant application to the United States Environmental Protection Agency for a Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund pilot.

 

Resolution adopted

 

B.      Request adoption of a resolution authorizing the City of Worcester to apply for a Pedestrian Safety Education and Enforcement Grant with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor’s Highway Safety Bureau.

 

Resolution adopted

 

C.      Request adoption of a resolution to file an FY 2000 D.A.R.E./Tobacco Control Summer Day Program Grant Application with the Governor’s Alliance Against Drugs.

 

Resolution adopted

 

D.      Request adoption of a resolution to file and accept a Multi-Year Enhanced School Health Service grant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

 

Resolution adopted

 

20.     POLICE:

 

21.     PUBLIC HEALTH & CODE ENFORCEMENT:

 

A.      Communication relative to Demolition of the Worcester Cold Storage Building.

 

Placed on file

 

B.      Request adoption of three resolutions authorizing the City to apply for three Tobacco Grants.

 

Three Resolutions adopted

 

22.     PUBLIC LIBRARY:

 

23.     PUBLIC SCHOOLS:

 

A.      Request City Council accept with gratitude a donation in the amount of $9,000.00 from the Greater Worcester Community Foundation to be used for adult education outreach at the University Park Campus School.

 

Order adopted with gratitude

 

24.     PUBLIC WORKS:

 

A.      Communication relative to Status Report – Street Resurfacing Project FY 2000.

 

Referred to Public Works Committee

 

B.      Communication relative to Replenishing of Trees.

 

Referred to Youth, Parks & Recreation Committee

 

C.      Communication relative to Recommendation for Future Disposal of Street Sweepings and Catch Basin Cleanings.

 

Referred to Public Works Committee

 

D.      Communication relative to Current Sidewalk Repair Program.

 

Referred to Public Works Committee

 

E.      Communication relative to “No Parking Sign” on Salisbury Street at Park Ave.

 

Recommitted to the City Manager

 

F.      Communication relative to Resident Sticker Parking Bans/Highland Street.

 

Referred to Traffic & Parking Committee

 

G.      Communication relative to map of the exact location of the Yard Waste Drop Off – Site off of Lincoln Street.

 

Placed on file

 

H.      Communication relative to Barry Road Extension.

 

Referred to Traffic & Parking Committee

 

I.       Communication relative to Accelerated Learning Laboratory School.

 

Referred to Traffic & Parking Committee

 

25.     PURCHASING:

 

A.      Recommend adoption of amendments to the Responsible Employer Ordinance.

 

Voted to advertise proposed Ordinance

 

B.                Communication relative to Responsible Employer Ordinance Enforcement.

 

Referred to Commerce & Development Committee

 

C.      SUPPLEMENTAL – Communication relative to Responsible Employer Ordinance Enforcement, “Enforcer of the Year” award.

 

Placed on file

 

26.     TREASURY:

 

A.      Request adoption of an order transferring the property located at 4754 Harrison Street from Tax Title Custodian to the Executive Office of Planning and Community Development for disposition.

 

Order adopted

 

B.      Request adoption of an order transferring ownership of certain tax foreclosed parcels from the jurisdiction of certain tax foreclosed properties.

 

Referred to Land Use Committee

 

27.     VETERANS' SERVICES:

 

28.     FINANCE:

 

A.      Recommend that Fourteen Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty Three Thousand Dollars ($14,783.00) be transferred from Account #340-91000, Elder Affairs Personal Services, and appropriated to Account #340-92000, Elder Affairs Ordinary Maintenance, to provide funds for the purpose of payment for moving costs, establishing a computer lab for seniors, landscaping and other program expenditures related to the opening of the new Senior Center.

 

Order adopted on a roll call 10-0

 

B.      Recommend that the current authorized apportionment’s from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the amount of One Million Forty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Seventy Five Dollars and Ninety Five Cents ($1,047,575.95) be appropriated to Account #41C440, DPW Street Resurfacing to provide funding for current and future street resurfacing obligations.

 

Order adopted on a roll call 10-0

 

Also referred to Public Works Committee for informational purposes

 

C.      Recommend that Four Hundred Seven Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty Seven Dollars Ninety Five Cents ($407,957.95) be transferred from Account #91C755 Worcester Public Library Rehabilitation, and appropriated to Account #55C702, Library Rehabilitation Construction to provide funds for the payment of contractual obligations related to hazardous material abatement, selective architect and other charges for the Worcester Public Library.

 

Order adopted on a roll call 10-0

 

D.      Recommend that Forty Nine Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety Dollars and Seventy Cents ($49,890.70) be transferred from Account #91C711, Building Rehabilitation, and appropriated to Account #26C704, Fire Department’s Building Rehabilitation to provide funds for the purpose of payment for repairs to roof work at South Division and Greendale Fire Station.

 

Order adopted on a roll call 10-0

 

E.      Recommend that Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) be transferred from Account #170-91000, Human Resources Personal Services, and appropriated to Account #172-96000, Unemployment Compensation Ordinary maintenance, to provide funds for the purpose of funding projected shortfall in the fiscal 2000 Unemployment Insurance budget.

 

Order adopted on a roll call 10-0

 

29.     ORDINANCES/ORDERS:

 

30.     MISCELLANEOUS:

 

A.      Communication relative to All-America City 2000 Competition.

 

Placed on file

 

B.      SUPPLEMENTAL - Communication relative to Current Heating Oil Crisis.

 

Placed on file

 

COMMUNICATIONS

 

12.     George W. Tetler, III, Seven Hills Charter School transmitting Disclosures of Financial Interest of various Trustees of Seven Hills Charter School.

 

Placed on file

 

13.     James DelSignore, City Auditor transmitting report explaining the nature of expenditures for furniture and equipment for the new North High School.

 

Referred to Education Committee

 

14.     Mary Lou Hood, Municipal Clerk, Belleville, New Jersey transmitting Resolution relative to the December 3, 1999 fire in the City of Worcester.

 

Placed on file

 

ORDERS

 

14a.   Request Administration report to City Council within the next three weeks as to what bills have and have not been paid relative to the Franklin St. fire.  Motion-Perotto @ #5A CM – Adopted

 

14b.   That March 7, 2000 be the first Finance hearing date and that City Councillors submit items to be heard at that time dealing with the budget.   Motion-Lukes @ #5B CM – Adopted

 

14c.   Request Administration to provide a report as to the distribution of all lottery aid received by all major cities in Massachusetts.  Motion-Perotto @ #5B CM – Adopted

 

14d.   Request City Manager to keep City Council updated on work with the legislative delegation on the $14.8 million loan authorization for the WRA cost over-runs.  Motion-Murray @ #5B CM – Adopted

 

14e.   Request Law Department report what the City’s rights and responsibilities are, what the City’s appellate rights are, what written opinion, if any, or logic was attached to the opinion and the Law Department’s evaluation of said opinion relative to the Union Station Accessibility Complaint.  Further, whether this is a matter for Executive Session.  Motion-Lukes @ #8A CM – Adopted

 

14f.    Request Administration report on what process has taken place to date to address whatever issues are outstanding with the MBTA and Amtrak for service at Union Station and what steps are going to be taken to resolve those issues.  Motion-Murray @ #8A CM – Adopted

 

14g.   Request Administration provide additional information on requirements that are being asked of the City of Worcester and requirements that are all along the rail line as to handicapped accessibility to trains.  Motion-Clancy @ #8A CM – Adopted

 

14h.   Request City Manager provide City Council with a report on the status of negotiations for bus transportation at Union Station, including costs the City may need to incur to entice bus companies to leave their current leases and come to Union Station.  Motion-Luster @ #8A CM – Adopted

 

14i.    Request Administration provide City Council with a copy of the decision from the hearing held on Monday, February 7, 2000 relative to Union Station handicapped platform accessibility.   Motion-Abraham @ #8A CM – Adopted

 

14j.    Request City Manager again contact Oklahoma City and ask how many specific throughways had to be disrupted in order to put in the canal and if throughways were not disrupted how they broached the issue.  Motion-Clancy @ #8B CM – Adopted

 

14k.   Request Administration report on the status of the Purchase and Sale Agreement relative to property at Washington Square, how the City could acquire the property and what the potential arrangement would be.   Motion-Clancy @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14l.    Request Administration report as to whether the menu of all projects the Worcester Redevelopment Authority is currently working on and staffing meets the Worcester Redevelopment Authority Director’s definition of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority and whether all projects have the same utilization of resources and focus for the team that has been built.  Further, request Director of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority submit a report that states whether all the Worcester Redevelopment Authority’s projects are most appropriate for the Worcester Redevelopment Authority, that the Worcester Redevelopment needs additional resources in certain areas to manage certain projects on an ongoing basis.   Motion-Patton @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14m.  Request Administration provide City Council with a complete report on the sale of tax credits for Union Station with all financial included; value of tax credits, how much the City receives, how much the Worcester Redevelopment Authority receives and any other terms or conditions.   Motion-Patton @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14n.   Request Administration provide City Council with a copy of the contract between the Worcester Redevelopment Authority and the law firm of Foley, Hoag & Elliott and resulting invoices since 1992.  Motion-Abraham @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14o.   Request Administration provide City Council with a copy of the contract and resulting invoices from the law firm of Nixon & Peabody regarding Union Station.  Motion-Abraham @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14p.   Request Chief Development Officer to provide a status report on the hotel at Washington Square.  Motion-Lukes @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14q.   Request City Manager provide City Council with a follow-up report as to where the salaries of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority are being paid from.  Report to include a breakdown of salaries being paid to each staff person and the source of that funding and what benefits each staff person has, including car or transportation allowance and to whom that benefit is being paid.  Report to include 1993 to the present.  Motion-Lukes @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14r.    Request Administration provide City Council with copies of all employment contracts with outside counsel for the Worcester Redevelopment Authority since 1993.  Motion-Lukes @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14s.   Request City Manager report if there is a precedent for the Worcester Redevelopment Authority giving mortgages and securing property by mortgages and giving extensions on loans.  Report to include what receivables are outstanding and what happens on May 15, 2000 if the $50,000.00 loan to the Second Baptist Church is not paid; what options the Worcester Redevelopment Authority or the City has, what will be the process for collection.  Further, request a copy of the mortgage given to the Second Baptist Church by the Worcester Redevelopment Authority and records of any payments on principal or interest.  Motion-Lukes @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14t.    Request City Manager and City Auditor to provide City Council with a report concerning the City Council’s ability and legality of asking for Worcester Redevelopment Authority expenses to be funneled through the Auditor’s office.  Motion-Lukes @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14u.   Request City Administration and City Auditor to provide City Council with a cost benefit analysis of the City taking over the Worcester Center Boulevard Parking Garage, including projected revenues to be derived from said garage.  Motion-Murray @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14v.   Request Administration report as to when tenancy can be expected in the Union Station building, given the garage situation.  Further, request report as to reasonable, practical dates that the City can get a garage available for the facility to make tenancy plausible.  Motion-Clancy @ 38D CM – Adopted

 

14w.  Request Administration report on ground floor retail at Union Station as to who is responsible for leasing out the space, whether there is any activity in that area and will that come in with completion of the garage.  Motion-Patton @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14x.   Request City Manager provide City Council with a report indicating who in the City family has the use of cars and what allowances the City has that are motor vehicle related.  Motion-Lukes @ #8D CM – Adopted

 

14y.   Request the Department of Employment and Training consider steering clients towards the particular labor segment of information technology.  Motion-Luster @ #12A CM – Adopted

 

14z.   Request Administration inform City Council as to the date of the cable rate hearing and if the public can attend and testify.  Motion-Perotto @ #16A CM – Adopted

 

14aa.  That the City Council of the City of Worcester hereby endorses holding one of the cable rate hearings in the City of Worcester.  Motion-Lukes @ #16A CM – Adopted

 

14bb. Request Administration provide City Council with dates and locations of hearings relative to the sale of Charter Communications to AT&T and request that one of the hearings be held in the City of Worcester.  Motion-Lukes @ #16A CM – Adopted

 

14cc. Request City Manager provide City Council with increases in cable rates for the last five years, including the current year.  Also include a chart showing the basic rate and some of the premium channels, tracking increases for two or three connections in a household.    Motion-Clancy @ #16A CM – Adopted

 

14dd. Request City Manager to report what the Administration is doing to let all department heads know of the possible cost savings through longer term contracts.  Motion-Murray @ #16C CM – Adopted

 

14ee.  Request Administration report if the summer D.A.R.E. program is any different that then regular year program.  Motion-Clancy @ #19C CM – Adopted

 

14ff.   Request Administration report on whether or not the summer D.A.R.E. program can be expanded to include 7th graders.  Motion-Luster @ #19C CM – Adopted

 

14gg. Request City Manager report on plans for resurfacing that portion of Adams St. at Shrewsbury St.   Motion-Perotto @ #24A CM – Adopted

 

14hh. Request Administration provide City Council with an update concerning the draft discharge permit and costs associated with that permit.   Motion-Patton @ #24B CM – Adopted

 

14ii.   Request Administration report what negative impacts the disposal of street sweepings and catch basin cleanings will have on the neighbors in the area of Greenwood St.   Motion-Abraham @ #24C CM – Adopted

 

14jj.   Request City Manager report if the traffic signal approved by City Council in the area of the Accelerated Learning Laboratory School will be funded.  Motion-Luster @ #24I CM – Adopted

 

14kk. Request Traffic Engineer report as to the feasibility of using an early warning system of parallel rows of pulsating amber lights that are triggered when a pedestrian steps into a walkway, instead of a traffic light.  Motion-Lukes @ #24I CM – Adopted

 

14LL. Request City Manager to consider Block Grant funding and other sources to fund the traffic signal in the area of the Accelerated Learning Laboratory School.  Motion-Nadeau @ #24I CM – Adopted

 

14mm.Request City Manager to request the Health and Code Department to check seals on oil trucks.  Motion-Murray @ #30B CM – Adopted

 

14nn. Request City Manager to take whatever plan of action is necessary now relative to the heating oil crisis.   Motion-Nadeau @ #30B CM – Adopted

 

14oo. Request City Manager provide City Council with copies of House Bill 3210 and other references to legislation referred to in the letter received from the Boxborough Board of Selectmen.   Lukes – Suspension of Rules - Adopted 

 

 

15.     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)           

 

REPORT

 

          16 REFERRED TO PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE

 

16.     REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD Upon the Petition of Mirick Perkins requesting City Council consider converting Waycross St. from a private street to a public street.

 

TO BE ORDAINED

 

          17-38 ORDAINED ON A ROLL CALL 10-0

 

17.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for handicap parking in front of 20 Hacker St.

 

18.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for handicap parking in front of 29 Windsor St.

 

19.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for handicap parking in front of 83 Rodney St.

 

20.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for handicap parking in front of 17 Hampden St.

 

21.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for handicap parking in front of 21 Plantation St.

 

22.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for handicap parking in front of 175 Hamilton St.

 

23.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for handicap parking on the north side of Jefferson St. near Vernon St.

 

24.     Amending Section 71 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to allow left turns only from the left lane for westbound traffic on Sunderland Rd. into Grafton St.

 

25.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to prohibit parking on the east side of Ashton St. between Sturgis St. and Duxbury Rd.

 

26.     Amending Section 40 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for resident permit parking on the north side of Wade St. near Ward St.

 

27.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to prohibit parking on the east side of Rockdale St. between Utility Pole #9 and #12.

 

28.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to prohibit parking on both sides of Mayfield St. between #103-111.

 

29.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for handicap parking and 15 minute parking in front of 44 Portland St.

 

30.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for one hour parking in front of 122 Shrewsbury St.

 

31.     Amending Section 29 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 providing for Stop sign on Quissett St. at Zenith Dr. to face northbound traffic.

 

32.     Amending Section 29 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 providing for Stop sign on Zenith Dr. at Quissett St. to face eastbound traffic.

 

33.     Amending Section 29 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 providing for Stop sign on Fenwick St. at Westbrook Rd. to face northbound traffic.

 

34.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to rescind handicap parking in front of 9 Channing St.

 

35.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to provide for handicap parking on the south side of Fremont St. near Cambridge St.

 

36.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to rescind handicap parking in front of 94 Houghton St.

 

37.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to rescind handicap parking in front of 144 Maywood St.

 

38.     Amending Section 42 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Ordinances of 1996 to rescind handicap parking in front of 98 William St.

               

 

TABLED UNDER PRIVILEGE

 

          39 TAKEN OFF THE TABLE AND REFERRED TO PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE

 

39.     REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS Upon the Communication of the City Manager transmitting communication relative to new North Lake Ave. Yard Waste Drop-off Site: recommend adoption of the accompanying Order authorizing the Commissioner of Public Works to move forward with plans to move the North Lake Ave. Yard Waste Drop-off Site to the corner of Lincoln St.

 

TABLED ITEMSNo Action Taken

 

40.     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. (Tabled 11/19/96)

 

41.     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.   (Tabled 10/13/98)

 

42.     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. (Tabled 10/20/98)

 

43.     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. (Tabled 10/20/98)

 

44.     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. (Tabled 1/12/99)

 

45.     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. (Tabled 9/7/99)

 

46.     REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC AND PARKING Upon the Petition of Councillor Paul P. Clancy, Jr. requesting Traffic Engineer to consider a turning lane indicating “right turn only” for  northbound traffic on Grafton St. at the intersection of Sunderland Rd.: recommend Petition be denied.  (Tabled 1/4/00)        

 

47.     REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC AND PARKING Upon the Communication of the City Manager transmitting communication relative to “Right Turn Only” lane for northbound traffic on Grafton St. at the intersection of Sunderland Rd.: recommend Communication be denied.     (Tabled 1/4/00)

 

48.     REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD Upon the Petition of Lawrence A. Brodeur, Attorney on behalf of Reed & Prince Manufacturing Corp. & Horizon’s Development Associates, Inc. requesting an alteration and relocation of Waller Ave. to create an access drive for the proposed supermarket and a private parking area for 3 residential properties on Waller Ave.  All work to be completed in accordance with a Definitive Site Plan Approval by the Planning Board.   (Tabled 2/1/00)

 

SCHEDULED MEETINGS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES

 

FEBRUARY 8, 2000       ETHNIC & MINORITY           COUNCIL CHAMBER

     5:30 P.M.

 

FEBRUARY 9, 2000       PUBLIC WORKS   

     5:00 P.M. – VIEW OF CITY HALL BUILDING

                          View to start in City Council Office

 

     6:00 P.M. -   MEETING – COUNCIL CHAMBER

 

 

FEBRUARY 10, 2000     COMMERCE &                       ROOM 310

     6:30 P.M.                   DEVELOPMENT                     CITY HALL

 

MARCH 9, 2000             EDUCATION                          COUNCIL CHAMBER

    5:30 P.M.