CITY OF WORCESTER

Public Works Committee Meeting

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Worcester Senior Center
128 Providence Street

Convened: 6:02 P.M.

Adjourned: 7:11 P.M.


Mayor
Konstantina B. Lukes

 

www.ci.worcester.ma.us

 

Clerk of the City Council
David J. Rushford

Committee Members

Chairperson Paul P Clancy Jr.
Councilor Michael J Germain
Councilor Philip P Palmieri
 


Present Were:Chairperson Councilor Paul P Clancy Jr.
Councilor Philip P Palmieri
 
Also:DPWP Staff Person Paul Moosey
DPWP Staff Person Matthew Labovites
DPWP Staff Person Joyce Lee
State Representative John Fresolo
City Clerk David J. Rushford, clerk
 
1.

DISCUSSION ITEM

1a.

Communication of the City Manager transmitting informational communication relative to Water Drainage Issues in the Vicinity of Broad Meadow Brook.
# 9.13B CM July 28, 2009

Attachments
Chairman's Orders

Request City Manager to commence with the engineering of Phase One recommendation of the Brightwood Avenue/Broad Meadow Brook Drainage Study which involves the construction of a parallel drainage system.

Request City Manager commence the permitting process for the Phase Two recommendation of the Brightwood Avenue/Broad Meadow Brook Drainage Study which involves the dredging of an area of Broad Meadow Brook.

Request City Manager to seek out federal funding for the dredging of an area of Broad Meadow Brook which is recommended as Phase Two of the recommendations in the Brightwood Avenue/Broad Meadow Drainage Study.

Request City Manager investigate the possibility of converting a portion of the Sunderland Road Price Chopper parking lot to an impervious surface and/or for an expansion of the existing retention pond located behind homes on Arborwood Drive.

Request City Manager add the Phase One recommendation (parallel drainage system) of the Brightwood Avenue/Broad Meadow Brook Drainage Study to the 2010 Capital Program so that construction may take place during calendar 2010.

2.

PETITIONS

2a.

Joseph Amorello, President of A.F. Amorello & Sons, Inc. request to extend a low pressure force main, approximately 150 feet in a southerly direction at the end of Balis St., at the petitioner's expense and subject to a prior agreement.
# 8c CC July 28, 2009

Attachments

Recommend Approval

2b.

Joseph Amorello, President of A. F. Amorello & Sons Inc., wish to extend a low pressure force main, approximately one hundred fifty feet in a southerly direction at the end of Balis Ave., at own expense and subject to a prior agreement.
# 6i CC August 11, 2009

Attachments

Recommend Leave to withdraw