CITY OF WORCESTER

CITY CLERK DEPARTMENT

CALENDAR OF THE CITY COUNCIL - MAY 16, 2000

7:00 P.M.

 

                                                                  Convened:  7:04 P.M.

                                                                 Adjourned:  8:50 P.M.

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1.          INVOCATION- Rev. Arthur Oakes

                                      Church of the Nazarene

 

2.          PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE/STAR SPANGLED BANNER

 

3.                 ROLL CALL - All present except Councillor Patton who

                                   arrived at 7:20 P.M.

 

HEARINGS AND ORDERS - 7:00 P.M.

 

          Hearings held - Orders adopted

 

4.          MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY and NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY for a joint pole relocation on: CHESTER ST.

 

5.          MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY and NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY for a joint pole location on: KENNEBEC ST.

 

6.          MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY and NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY for a joint pole relocation on: MONTGOMERY AVE.

 

          4a-6a ADOPTED

 

4a.          Granting permission to MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY and NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY for a joint pole relocation on: CHESTER ST.

 

5a.          Granting permission to MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY and NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY for a joint pole location on: KENNEBEC ST.

 

6a.          Granting permission to MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY and NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY for a joint pole relocation on: MONTGOMERY AVE.

                                                    

7.          ITEMS OF CITIZEN INTEREST

 

7a.          ITEMS OF DEPARTMENTAL OR EMPLOYEE INTEREST

 

PETITIONS

 

          8 REFERRED TO PLANNING BOARD

 

8.          Mexhite Bequiri request zone change at 7 Victoria Ave. from RS-7 to RL-7 to utilize the extra building on my lot for in-law unit.

 

          9-13 REFERRED TO PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE

 

9.          Therese A. Chasse et al request private street maintenance on Ashley St. from Clarissa St. to Burghardt St.

 

10.     James McDermott request sidewalk repair in front of 110 Barnard Rd.

 

11.     Alfa Young request resurfacing of Royal Rd.

 

12.          Andrew Verdolino et al request private street maintenance on Ashley St. between Burghardt and Nathaniel Sts.

 

13.     Edwin Coghlin, Jr., President, Coghlin Electric Contractors request resurfacing of Prescott St. from Concord St. to North St.

 

13a.          Councillor Janice L. Nadeau on behalf of William Reiser request Public Works resurface or repair Claremont Square.   Referred to Public Works Committee - Suspension of Rules

 

 

 

          14 & 15 REFERRED TO TRAFFIC & PARKING COMMITTEE

 

14.          Mayor Raymond V. Mariano on behalf of Robert Goldman, Greendale Mall, request Stop sign at corner of Neponset St. where it intersects with the drive entrance/exit to parking lot. Also to consider other traffic strategies to ensure public safety as may be needed.

 

15.          Councillor Paul P. Clancy, Jr. on behalf of Christine Bellino request Stop sign on Ingleside Ave. at intersection of Cohasset St.

 

15a.          Michael W. Galvin et al request City Council support for allocation of any State Aid from Lottery revenue in excess of amount already appropriated in the fiscal 2001 budget be used exclusively for projects related to ADA compliance as identified by the ADA Task Force.  Referred to Finance - Suspension of Rules

 

CHAIRMAN'S ORDERS

 

          15b-f FROM FINANCE -  Adopted - Suspension of Rules

 

15b.   That the salary of the City Council Secretary be raised to Pay Grade 35, Step 6.

 

15c.          Request City Manager report to City Council as to where he might consider a 1% cut, 2% cut and 3% cut in the tax levy budget with departmental input.

 

15d.          Request City Manager to consider reserving any free cash that may be generated for the sole purpose of the Public Health Nurses contract.

 

15e.          Request City Manager set up and personally attend a bargaining session with the Public Health Nurses and attempt to settle this contract before City Council is forced to approve the budget.

 

15f.          Request City Manager report what happens if the City of Worcester settles for it's employees a 1% contract, 2% contract, 3% contract and a 4% contract.

 

 

 

ORDERS

 

15g.          Request Administration report on meeting with Mass. Highway Department relative to Washington Square.  Motion-Perotto @ #8A CM - Adopted

 

15h.          Request Administration provide clarification as to what might be expected as a result of the Franklin St. realignment and garage issue.  Motion-Clancy @ #8A CM - Adopted

 

15i.          Request City Manager contact commercial real estate brokers within the City of Worcester to do an appraisal of the Public Works facility on Shrewsbury St. to see if it is worthwhile putting the property out for an RFP.  Motion-Perotto @ #16B CM - Adopted

 

15j.          Request City Manager to secure an opinion from the Mass. Department of Revenue on the application of Section 33 of Chapter 44 of Mass. General Laws as it pertains to an appropriation for an increase in pension allowances.  Motion-Irish @ #16C CM - Adopted

 

15k.          Request City Manager report what the Mass. Cultural Council funds the City of Boston, per capita as compared to Worcester and Springfield.  Motion-Murray @ #19E CM - Adopted

 

15L.          Request City Manager report who will be the City's negotiator relative to Brownfields tax agreements.  Motion-Nadeau  @ #19G CM - Adopted

 

15m.          Request City Manager report if the City factored in the consequences of the passage of the Brownfields legislation into the City's Overlay Account for this next fiscal year.  Motion-Lukes @ #19G CM - Adopted

 

15n.          Request City Manager provide City Council with an update on legislation proposed by the MNA for additional funding for Public Health Nurses in schools.  Update to include when legislation was presented, what committee it was referred to and if it is a part of the State budget.  Motion-Murray @ #21B CM - Adopted

 

15o.          Request City Manager provide City Council with an executive summary of Item 24A of the City Manager's Calendar of May 16, 2000.  Motion-Perotto @ #24A CM - Adopted

 

15p.          Request City Manager to consider putting back $10,000-$15,000 into the Bulk Waste Pick Up Program or increasing it for the purpose of having bulk waste picked up in possibly six weeks instead of eight weeks.  Motion-Perotto @ #24B CM - Adopted

 

15q.          Request City Manager, within the next week, to come up with an appropriation of $15,000 for the Bulk Waste Pick Up Program for this fiscal year to decrease wait from eight weeks to six weeks.  Motion-Clancy @ #24B CM - Adopted

 

15r.          Request City Manager to contact the State delegation to let them know how unhappy the City is with the Chapter 90 funds the City of Worcester will be receiving and request that the $1.1 million be brought back to the City.  Motion-Perotto @ #24C CM - Adopted

 

15s.          Request City Manager to allocate the $500,000 in the Capital Budget, if voted, to resurface Boardman St., Caprera Rd., Patch St. and Liscomb St.  Motion-Perotto @ #24C CM - Adopted

 

15t.          Request City Manager and Fire Chief to send out thank you letters to those who have donated for the purchase of fire equipment.  Motion-Petty @ #26A CM - Adopted

 

15u.          Request City Manager report on what type of fire equipment that has been purchased and will be purchased in the future.  Motion-Petty @ #26A CM - Adopted

 

15v.          Request Administration during the course of their discussions with Amtrak coming to Union Station that the increased handicap use might be another reason for Amtrak to consider moving sooner on coming to Union Station.  Motion-Murray @ #30B CM - Adopted

 

15w.          Request  City Manager report if positions described in Item 30C of the City Manager's Calendar of May 16, 2000 are new positions or are they transfers of City personnel.  Motion-Nadeau @ #30C CM - Adopted

 

15x.          Request City Manager report on the source of funding for the positions described in Item 30C of the City Manager's Calendar of May 16, 2000.  Motion-Lukes @ #30C CM - Adopted

 

15y.          Request City Manager report on all funding going into the WRA as to where those funds come from.  Motion-Lukes @ #30C CM - Adopted

 

15z.          Request City Manager report on the status of Chapter 58, Section 8 proposal relative to properties in Land Court that have liens that is currently in the Department of Revenue.  Motion-Nadeau @ #30D CM - Adopted

 

15aa.          Request City Manager investigate and report to City Council on the posting of signs on buildings that would present a problem to firefighters fighting a fire inside of that building.  Motion-Clancy @ #30D CM - Adopted

 

15bb.          Request City Manager consider contacting Domenic Messigliano of the East Side CDC for appointment to the Community Committee dealing with problem buildings in the City of Worcester.  Motion-Perotto @ #30D CM - Adopted

 

15cc.          Request Mayor to request the School Committee Plant meet with neighbors of Falmouth St. to discuss issues at the Quinsigamond School.  Motion-Clancy @ #17CC - Adopted

 

15dd.          Request City Manager report on the status of security at Kahr Arms and involvement of federal investigative bodies.  Irish - Suspension of Rules - Adopted

 

15ee.          Request Health and Code Department inspect wall that is falling down along sidewalk on lower Perkins St. near Forestdale.  Murray, Perotto - Suspension of Rules - Adopted

 

16.          COMMUNICATIONS OF THE CITY MANAGER

 

                                                                 Thomas R. Hoover

                                                                     City Manager

                                  City Council Calendar for May 16, 2000

 

APPOINTMENTS

 

 1.          NON-CITY COUNCIL CONFIRMATION:

 

A.               Notification of the reappointment of Joe Boynton to the Planning Board.

 

Placed on file

 

B.                Notification of the reappointment of Lee F. Bartlett to the Worcester Memorial Auditorium Board of Trustees.

 

Placed on file

 

C.               Notification of the appointment of Robert Z. Nemeth, and the reappointment of Brian K. Carroll, to the Airport Commission.

 

Placed on file

 

D.               Notification of the appointment of John J. Magnant, to the Conservation Commission.

 

Placed on file

 

E.                Notification of the appointments of James J. Convery, and Leonard J. Morse, and the reappointments of Robert O. Bonin, and Edward M. Morin, DMD to the Health Board.

 

Placed on file

 

F.                Notification of the appointments of Edward W. Byrnes, and Vite J. Pigaga, to the Parks, Recreation and Cemetery Commission.

 

Placed on file

 

G.          Notification of the appointment of Francis X. Sena, to the License Commission.

 

Placed on file

 

H.          Notification of the appointment of Robert K. Flanagan, and the reappointment of Albert M. Toney III, and Luis Lizano, to the Human Rights Commission.

 

Placed on file

 

I.                   Notification of the appointments of Michael W. Bowie, and James D. Shanahan, and the reappointment of Clarence Plant, to the Off-Street Parking Board.

 

Placed on file

 

  2.     CITY COUNCIL CONFIRMATION:

 

A.               Notification of the appointment of Carol A. Arakelian and Bridget Curtis, to the Advisory Committee on the Status of Women.

 

Appointments confirmed on a roll call 10-0 (Patton absent)

 

B.                Notification  of the appointment of Maria Gonzalez, to the Affirmative Action Advisory Committee.

 

Appointments confirmed on a roll call 10-0 (Patton absent)

 

                                                        TRANSMITTAL                               

 

 3.          AIRPORT:

         

 4.          ASSESSORS:

 

 5.          BUDGET OFFICE:

 

  6.          CIVIC CENTER:

 

 7.          COMMUNICATIONS:

 

 

 

 

 

 8.          DEVELOPMENT:

         

A.               Communication relative to correspondence sent to Commissioner Matthew A. Amorello, Massachusetts Highway Department, relative to Worcester’s development needs around Union Station and Washington Square.

 

Placed on file

 

B.          Communication relative to the ‘Worcester 100’ Ambassador Program.

 

Recommitted to the City Manager

 

C.               Communication relative to CD-Rom Demonstration.

 

Referred to Commerce & Development Committee

 

 9.          ELDER AFFAIRS:

 

A.               Communication relative to Prescription Deliveries to the Elderly.

 

Referred to Health Committee

 

10.          ELECTION COMMISSION:

 

11.          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICE:

 

12.          EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING:

 

13.            FIRE: 

 

A.            Request City Council accept with gratitude a donation in the amount of $1,322.82 that was collected from a coin drive.

 

Order adopted with gratitude

 

 

 

 

14.            HUMAN RESOURCES:

 

A.               Communication relative to the State Legislature’s Special Commission studying binding arbitration.

 

Placed on file

 

B.                Communication relative to the Christino Hernandez former Human Rights Report.

 

Recommitted to the City Manager

 

C.          SUPPLEMENTAL - Communication relative to the PAR 10 Hiring in the Fire Department.

 

          Tabled under privilege (Luster) - To be Second Item of Business

          May 23, 2000

 

15.          INFORMATION SERVICES:

 

A.               Communication relative to Feasibility of Purchasing Desktop Computing Services.

 

Referred to Municipal Operations Committee

 

16.                  LAW:

 

A.               Communication relative to Medical City Tax Increment Financing Agreement.

 

Referred to Commerce & Development Committee

 

B.                Recommendation relative to putting together an RFP for the Public Works facility site on Shrewsbury Street.

 

Referred to Public Works Committee

 

 

 

 

C.               Communication relative to the Appeal of the City Solicitor Opinion/Mass General Laws.

 

Held to be First Item of Business May 23, 2000

 

17.          LICENSE COMMISSION:

 

18.          PARKS, RECREATION & CEMETERY:

 

A.               Request adoption of a Resolution to file and accept a Grant from the Massachusetts Department of Education for the 2000 Summer Food Service Program.

 

          Resolution adopted

 

19.          PLANNING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT:

 

A.               Communication relative to “Youth As Resource” program.

 

Referred to Youth, Parks & Recreation Committee

 

B.                Communication relative to the Sale of Former Cambridge Street Fire Station.

 

Placed on file

 

C.               Communication relative to the MLK Day Care Center and “Middle Main” project.

 

Placed on file

 

D.               Communication relative to the FY 2000 DARE Summer Day Program Award.

 

Placed on file

 

E.                Communication relative to the Massachusetts Cultural Council grants.

 

Placed on file

 

F.                Request adoption of the resolution authorizing the filing of a Self – Help Program Grant with the Division of Conservation Services.

 

Resolution adopted

 

G.               Communication relative to a Home Rule Petition with the Great and General Court.

 

Order adopted

 

H.               Communication relative to the disposition of City owned property located at the east side of Oden Avenue, Assessor’s Parcel 16-39-23.

 

Councillor Perotto recused on a roll call

 

Placed on file

 

I.                   Communication relative to $60,000 for Community Schools and $30,000 for Visions.

 

Referred to Community Development Committee

 

J.                  Request adoption of the attached resolution approving the Submittal of a Grant Application for a Sam’s Foundation Economic Development Grant to assist in the Promotion of the Arts District.

 

Resolution adopted

 

K.          Communication from the City Manager relative to the purchase of additional open space land at Crow Hill

 

Order adopted on a roll call 10-0 (Mariano absent)

 

 

 

 

 

20.            POLICE:

 

A.               Communication relative to Forcible rape and aggravated assault statistics.

 

Referred to Public Safety Committee

 

B.                Communication relative to Rationale/Number Marked and Unmarked Police Vehicles.

 

Referred to Public Safety Committee

 

C.               Request City Council accept with gratitude a donation from the Worcester Lodge of BPO Elks, 233 Mill Street, Worcester, MA in the  amount of ($400.00) Four Hundred Dollars, appropriated to the Worcester Police Department D.A.R.E. accounts 25T-603.

 

Order adopted with gratitude

 

21.            PUBLIC HEALTH & CODE ENFORCEMENT:

 

A.               Communication relative to the Illegal Dumping.

 

Placed on file

 

B.                 Recommend that the table of organization for the Department of Health and Code be amended by adding four public health nurse positions at paygrade 80A.

 

Referred to Health Committee

 

22.            PUBLIC LIBRARY

 

A.               Communication relative to Annual Customer Survey.

 

Referred to Education Committee

 

 23.      PUBLIC SCHOOLS:

 

 

24.            PUBLIC WORKS:

 

A.               Communication relative to WPI report by J.R. Graves.

 

Placed on file

 

B.                Communication relative to Bulk Waste Pick Up Program.

 

Referred to Public Works Committee

 

C.               Communication relative to Chapter 90 Funds.

 

Referred to Public Works Committee

 

25.          PURCHASING:

 

26.            TREASURY:

 

A.               Communication relative to Donations/Fire Equipment.

 

Placed on file

 

27.            VETERANS' SERVICES:

 

28.            FINANCE:

 

A.               Recommend that Three Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy Six Dollars and Sixty Eight Cents ($3,876.68) be transferred from Account #330-07 Reserve for Appropriation Damage Settlement, and appropriated to Account #250-92000, Police Department Ordinary Maintenance, to provide funds for the purpose of payment for repairs to a Police Department vehicle.  These funds represent insurance reimbursement for damages to a Police cruiser.

 

Adopted on a roll call 11-0

 

 

 

 

 

B.                Recommend that Four Thousand Four Hundred Fifty Five Dollars ($4,455.00) be transferred, when and as received, from Account #91C780, Capital Equipment, and appropriated to Account #45C703, Water Department Capital Equipment, to provide funds for the purpose of purchasing a (4) Type 3 Mobile Radio (Dash Mount) for the Water Department, as approved in the Capital Improvement Program.

 

Adopted on a roll call 11-0

 

C.               Recommend that Thirty Seven Thousand and Seventy Dollars ($37,070.00) be transferred from Account  #91C711, Building Rehabilitation, and appropriated to Account #75C702, Centrum Building Rehabilitation, to provide funds for the payment of contractual obligations relative to the installation of the Fall Protection System at the Centrum Center.

 

Adopted on a roll call 11-0

 

D.               Recommend that Thirty Seven Thousand Nine Hundred Dollars ($37,900.00) be transferred from Account #91C711, Building Rehabilitation, and appropriated to Account #26C704, Fire Department Building Rehabilitation, to provide funds for the payment of contractual obligations related to the installation of (12) Overhead Doors at various Fire Stations, as approved in the fiscal 2000 Capital Improvement Program.

 

Adopted on a roll call 11-0

 

E.                Recommendation that Twenty Three Thousand Eight Hundred Fourteen Dollars and Twenty Five Cents ($23,814.25) be transferred from the following accounts:

          From           Description                                         Amount

          14SOM20          OPCD OM                                                    $5,000.00

          14SSAL23          OPCD Salaries Year 23                            $3,315.33

14S41923          Henry Lee Willis Center                              $1,684.67

14S42025          Black FBI                                            $11,984.61

14S42625          Parks Improvements                                  $60.32

14S49425          East Side CDC/ED                                     $1,769.32

                                                                               Total     $23,814.25

 

          and be appropriated to the following accounts:

 

          To                    Description                                  Amount

          14S40620          South Worcester Industrial Park Appraisal   $5,000.00

          14S40123          Urban Renewal Year 23                                            $5,000.00

           14SSAL25   OPCD Salaries Year 25                               $13,814.25                   

                                                                          Total              $23,814.25

 

To perform additional appraisal services for the South Worcester Industrial Park, to provide the local matching requirements for a feasibility study at the proposed Franklin Medical/Science Park, and to transfer program income generated during the fiscal year in accordance with the Community Development Block Grant Year 25 distribution.

 

Councillor Perotto recused on a roll call

 

Order adopted on a roll call 10-0

 

F.                Recommend that One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars, ($120,000.00) be transferred from Account #91C706, Worcester Senior Center Rehabilitation, and appropriated to Account #04C703, Senior Center Building Rehabilitation, to provide funds for the General Contractor and associated costs for the Senior Center Rehabilitation Project.

 

Order adopted on a roll call 11-0

 

G.               Recommend the adoption of a Loan Order in the amount of One Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($125,000.00) to be appropriated to Account #91C702 for the purpose of funding the acquisition of Open Space land

 

Order adopted on a roll call

 

29.          ORDINANCES/ORDERS:

 

 

 

30.            MISCELLANEOUS:

 

A.               Communication relative to the Youth Recreation Programs.

 

Referred to Youth, Parks & Recreation Committee

 

B.                Communication relative to the decision of the Architectural Access Board granting the variance for the Union Station  project.

 

Referred to Commerce & Development Committee

 

C.               Communication relative to the actions necessary to accomplish the transition of the accounting and legal operations of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority to the City of Worcester.

 

Referred to Commerce & Development Committee

 

D.               Communication transmitting the Abandoned Building Task Force Report.  Also announcing the formation of a community wide task force to study the issues.

 

Referred to Housing & Neighborhood Revitalization and Public Safety Committees

 

COMMUNICATIONS

 

17.     Helen A. Friel, Assistant to the Superintendent/Clerk of the School Committee transmitting communication relative to No Trespassing Notification on Quinsigamond School.

 

Placed on file

 

18.     Helen A. Friel, Assistant to the Superintendent/Clerk of the School Committee transmitting communication relative to playground equipment for the Multiple Intelligences School at Dartmouth St., restoration of bathrooms and painting where needed.

 

Placed on file

 

19.     Helen A. Friel, Assistant to the Superintendent/Clerk of the School Committee transmitting communication relative to Multiple Intelligences School at Dartmouth St. being combined with Grafton St. School.

 

Placed on file

 

20.          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)    

 

d)         #5B CM  February 8, 2000

   Communication of the City Manager relative to Budgetary Projections for FY 01-05.

                                                        

e)          #5A CM  May 2, 2000

   Communication of the City Manager recommending adoption of the Fiscal 2001 Operating Budget for the City of Worcester in the amount of $403,783,334.29.

 

f)           #54CC  May 9, 2000    

   Communication of James DelSignore, City Auditor transmitting   report regarding cost of pension increases under MGL Chapter 32, Sections 90A, C, D and E.

 

g)          #55CC  May 9, 2000

             Communication of James DelSignore, City Auditor transmitting report regarding the status of the Worcester Retirement System's investment portfolio and if there are funds available within it to cover the cost of MGL Chapter 32, Section 90 pension increases if they are granted.

          

h)          #101CC  May 9, 2000

   Order - Request City Manager to include in his annual budget a recommendation for an increase in the pension allowances for all employees who have retired under the provisions contained in Sections 90A, C and D of Chapter 32 of Mass. General Laws and further, that said increase amount to one-half of the rate of regular compensation payable to employees of such city holding similar positions at time of increases.    (Irish)

 

REPORTS

 

          21 & 22 REFERRED TO ORDINANCE COMMITTEE FOR

                        HEARINGS

 

21.          REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD Upon the Report of the Planning Board upon the Communication of the City Manager requesting adoption of an ordinance amending the Worcester Zoning Ordinance relative to the regulation of Indoor/Outdoor Shooting Ranges.

                                           

22.          REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD Upon the Communication of the City Manager transmitting communication relative to Shooting Gallery Zoning Ordinance Amendment.

 

TABLED ITEMS - No Action Taken

 

23.          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)

 

24.          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)

                                                     

25.          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)

 

26.          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)

 

27.          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)

                                                             

28.          Communication of the City Manager transmitting communication relative to Architectural Access Board Issues.  (Tabled 4/4/00)

 

29.     Order - Request City Solicitor to develop an Ordinance concerning permitting of spite fences in commercial and residential zones.

             (Murray, Patton, Irish, Abraham, Lukes)   (Tabled 4/11/00)

 

30.          Communication of the City Manager recommending that Seventy Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00) be transferred from Account #91C704, Central St. Bridge and appropriated to Account #14C711, Brosnihan Sq. Gateway to provide funds for the payment of contractual obligations related to engineering and land taking for the Brosnihan Sq. Gateway project.   (Tabled 4/25/00)

 

31.     Order - Request City Manager provide a report to City Council regarding the feasibility of using Green Hill Park Landfill for catch basin and/or street sweeping materials, include in said report the feasibility of using Green Hill Park Landfill two up to ten years.

               (Petty, Murray, Irish)    (Tabled 4/25/00)

                                                       

32.     Order - Request City Manager provide City Council with a report detailing all expenses associated with the legal appeal of the siting of the Worcester Vocational School, this year to date, and any estimated projected expenses either pursuing the Green Hill Park location or relocation to another site.   (Petty, Murray, Irish)    (Tabled 5/9/00)

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SCHEDULED MEETINGS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES

 

MAY 15, 2000                 PUBLIC SAFETY           COUNCIL CHAMBER

   6:00 P.M.               Re: Emergency Medical Services

                                         portion of Tri-Data Fire Study

 

 

MAY 24, 2000                 PUBLIC SAFETY           COUNCIL CHAMBER

   5:30 P.M.               Re: Fire Prevention & Support

                                        Services portion of Tri-Data

                                        Fire Study

 

 

MAY 24, 2000                 COMMERCE &              COUNCIL CHAMBER

   7:00 P.M.                     DEVELOPMENT

                                  Re: E-Commerce Forum

 

 

MAY 25, 2000                 COMMUNITY                COUNCIL CHAMBER

   7:00 P.M.                       DEVELOPMENT

 

 

JUNE 7, 2000                   PUBLIC WORKS           COUNCIL CHAMBER

    5:00 P.M. - General Items

    6:00 P.M. - Proposed Clark St. Yard

                       Waste Site

    7:00 P.M. - Airport Compost Site

                                               

BUDGET HEARINGS

 

TUESDAY, MAY 16 - 4:00 P.M.            TUESDAY, MAY 23 - 4:00 P.M.

 

Veterans Service                                         Employment & Training

Office of the City Treasurer                       Human Resources

City Hospital - Federal Debt Payment       Human Rights

Pension Obligation Bonds                         Workers Compensation

Debt Services - Principal & Interest          Unemployment Insurance

Information Services                                  Public Safety (I.O.D.)

Worcester Centrum Centre                        Health Insurance

Worcester Auditorium                               Building Insurance

Emergency Management                           Law Department

                                                                   Court Judgments

                                                                   OPCD