2026-10-13 - City Council

Alright, this is the City Council Committee on Ways and Means. This is Tuesday, October 13, 2026. We're at 6 p.m. I have Councilor, Councilor Nukeem, President, Councilor Hodges, Chair, and Councilor

Patrittuño. We have three members present. We do have a quorum. To the flag, we pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under

God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Alright, we have one item on the agenda and this is an order offered by Councilor Stephanie Smith as President. It ought to request a consideration

of an appropriation of $110,197.59 from the Capital Stabilization Fund and a repurpose of $126,802.41 and previously appropriated but unspent capital funds totaling $237,000 for the purchase of a

front-end loader for the Department of Public Works. Motion to invite the DPW director up. Second. I'd like to invite the guest up with his partner. Please introduce yourselves. My name is Bob Knox,

Director of City Services here in the City of Everett. And Anthony Shenner, Fleet Superintendent and Business Manager for DPW. So who are you? Well, so I guess we can begin with if you just want to

give us a summary of what exactly this allocation is for in your own words. So we're looking to replace a front-end loader that is used year-round for the Department of Public Works. It's to replace a

2016 model that had numerous repairs and maintenance on it. Just last year we had to down the piece of equipment and we put $36,000 into it. It was down for four months and we had to rent a piece of

equipment. We can't go another winter under the same circumstances, depending on a machine that isn't capable of serving us here in the city. So this would primarily be for plowing in the winter? It

can be used for loading vehicles year-round, but the biggest thing is using it for loading salt and stuff for the winter. Plowing snow, loading trucks, it primarily spends a lot of time in the yard.

But yeah, it's year-round, but snow is the biggest concern. Okay, and if any of my colleagues have any further questions? Any of us have a question? Can I hear from the top seat there? Mr. Knox, do we

have a maintenance report on the previous machine? We do, Anthony can speak on the maintenance of the machine. Yeah, so we did follow the manufacturer's service intervals. They were all by hours, not

miles, like a normal vehicle would be. So Komatsu recommended every 500 hours that the oil be changed, the fuel filter be changed as well. The machine averaged about 350 hours a year, so we were doing

that seasonally. At 1,000 hours, we did do the transmission service. 2,000 hours, we did the front and rear differentials. As Bob had already mentioned, in October, unfortunately, the transmission had

went on that. So it did go out to Komatsu Deal. It was out there for four months where the transmission was rebuilt and overhauled. You know, as he said, it's a 2016. It's going to have other services

coming up. There's a lot of wear and tear on the machine from pins on the main boom, the bucket. The rear differentials are leaking now. A lot of the hydraulics are dry rotted. Unfortunately, that

yard kind of doesn't know justice with all the salt in the yard, kind of eats away at that machine for its main purpose. So, yeah, so it has been maintained, but it's getting tired. Now, for the 2016,

what is the life expectancy of a machine like that? What was it, a Komatsu, you say? Yeah, a Komatsu, yeah. What is it like? I mean, are we right around that? We're right in line. They're typically 10

to 15 years. So, I mean, we're hitting that 10-year mark. And then, you know, everyone's use is different on machines. You know, if it's a landscaping company with it, that it's not being used as

hard, as aggressive, you know, probably going to get a little bit longer out of the machine. I mean, with us, we're doing a lot of heavy-duty work. Again, that winter work takes its toll on it,

especially with the salt. So, yeah, we are kind of right in line with it, yes. And I think, Mr. Knox, you said we previously had been renting a machine. We did, yeah, last winter. Do you know the

numbers on how well it would cost us monthly and what it would cost us for the year? Did we do it for one year, two years? We released it by month, from October to... October through April 1st, when

the machine was down. It cost about $6,500 a month, which came out to about $32,000 for that time that it was down. How many months was that? Five months. Yeah. Now, I know, do they give you a demo or

do you just go and say, "Give me this machine"? I know usually they give demos. Have anyone demoed this machine? Yeah, so we've had four different machines, different makers down there that we've

demoed. We've had the different operators using them, loading, moving them around. We've come to that this is the one that we want to purchase. So, we have a demo there at the yard now, but they do

have one in stock if this gets approved for us to get immediately. What about attachments? Does it go on? Obviously, I know from experience, the machine says that in there, it loads the trucks. But do

we have a blade for it? Can we put it out in the machine? Do we have a snowblower? Do we have forks for it? So, the good thing with this machine, it's referred to as the coupler on the machine that

the attachments can go on and off of. And I was able to match it to the specific, it's called JRB Coupler. So, I was able to match this machine with what our Komatsu currently has. So, all our blades,

forks, anything we already have can go on this machine. So, we won't have to spend any extra money on attachments. And if we need it on the street to put a blade on it, we can attach it. We have the

blade, like I said, that we can just switch over from the old machine. I got no further questions from the chair. For the front and the old front end loader, are we going to salvage it? Is it still

going to be like a backup machine? I think for right now, since we just put the money into the machine, we're going to try to hold onto it for a little bit as a backup and see how it goes. But I

wouldn't spend any more major money on repairing it. So, it makes sense going into it because we did spend all that money to hold onto it for backup. And then we'll have to see from there how it goes.

But I wouldn't put any more big money into fixing anything. Okay. No, I'm always, especially what the winter is supposed to have, it would be great to have a second machine out for us. Thank you.

Excuse the customer and guest. So moved. Second. You're excused. You're outside. Thank you very much. Fable action. Second. Fable action. Roll call, vote. You do. One vote. You do. One vote. You do.

What's your pleasure? Fable action. Fable action. So, move. Second. Roll call, vote. You say all in favor. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Any one opposed? Motion to adjourn. We refer to this. Second. Do we

refer it to? We refer it to regular meeting tonight. We refer it to regular meeting tonight. Motion to adjourn. Second. Thanks. All right. This is the City Council Committee of Legislative Fans and

Elections. This is Tuesday, October 13, 2026. We're at 6.30 p.m. I am Councilor Mackenzie. Present. Councilman. Present. Councilor DePierry. Present. Councilor Rogers. Here. We do have four members

present. We do have a quorum. We stand and salute the flag. We already saluted the flag. That's it. What happened earlier? At the previous. My previous one? Yeah. I did salute the flag. You're welcome

to do so again, if you will. Okay. Thanks, John. All right. The only piece of business is the ordinance offered by Council. Stephanie Smith's president. The ordinance establishing a tax title payment

agreement in the city of Everett. Council Smith. Chair. Chair, I think it's the administration. Is it as present? President. So I would like to invite the city solicitor to speak on the ordinance.

Second. Oh, so Stephanie's audience, we've made a motion to invite our attorney. Oh, Christ. Good memory. All in favor? I vote whistle. Sorry about that. I had a little brain freeze. No worries. It's

okay for me to get started? Yes. So what you have before you is an ordinance to essentially allow the treasurer collector's office to enter into payment agreements with people who are entitled to

redeem a parcel and tax title. So basically what's required of this is it's a state, it's a statute at the state level. We can accept it by enacting an ordinance at the local level. And what it does

is it actually keeps things out of tax title. If somebody can make the payments within a certain time period and it actually allows people to keep their homes. So it usually, it ends up actually

creating more housing stability for people. So where I came in is really just kind of setting the legal parameters around this. So the state law has been in effect for a long time and in 2024, the

legislature made some amendments to it to essentially permit people to enter into even more flexible payment agreements. So previously you had to have a maximum of five years and folks had to put up

25% of what they owed on their taxes. That's now been extended to 10% down over 10 years. But in working with the administration on this, we were looking to kind of strike the right balance between

getting the taxes that the city needs in a timely manner while also decreasing the amount of payment right up front that people have to pay. So what we're basically proposing is 10% down, which is the

absolute minimum. So if somebody's entitled to redeem a parcel and tax title, if they want to enter into a payment agreement, they have the option to do that up to five years. If they put 10% down of

the amount that they owe and if they comply with all of the terms of the payment agreement, the treasurer collector has the ability to actually waive 100% of the interest that would accrue over the

life of that agreement. So it does incentivize the person to pay, but on the back end, it also allows the city to provide a little bit of flexibility so that people can have some more assurance about

what they're paying over time. I'll stop there in case you have any questions. Could I ask a quick question? Jack, just because I'm a little confused, so people are in tax title? Is that what this is

for? So you have to be able to redeem your property and tax title. So if something's gone to foreclosure, they wouldn't be entitled to this process because the foreclosure process has already

happened. This is really in a situation where it hasn't quite gone to foreclosure yet. The person still owes money on the parcel. So it means that they're entitled to basically pay money to the city

in order to get their parcel back. So this kind of creates an avenue for people to sign an agreement with the city for, you know, over the course of five years, they agree to pay a certain amount of

money every month or every year, and they put a certain amount up front. That's 10 percent of the total cost of what they owe. Do we have something similar to that now that we do it like commercial?

People on a business or something like that, the person may be behind in his taxes that owns the property, but the individual that rents off them, do we have something like that, I thought we had

something like that we could actually deny a license if the money wasn't paid. Yeah. So under a different statute, we do have the ability to, you know, deny licenses or permits for certain things. If

people do OS money, this is kind of, you know, if we're just talking about people's parcels, they have to be up to date with certain other bills like their water bills and electric and everything like

that. But the main point is that if somebody is entitled to redeem their parcel and tax title, this kind of creates an avenue for doing that. And so we don't have this statute on the books right now

at the local level, which would mean that, like from a legal perspective, it would just mean we don't have the ability to enter into these right now. It is something a lot of other municipalities do,

and I think they found it to be beneficial both for some stability and assurance about how much money the city is going to receive that it owes and what the taxpayer is obligated to pay. How much

would you have to owe before, say you would go to $100,000 in tax title? So I think that's a great question. I don't have the answer right now, but I'm happy to get the numbers and somebody would pay

a percentage of that and then have to pay it over five years. Exactly. On top of the taxes obviously, right? So if you think about it, like, you know, and I guess maybe if you think about like a

credit card agreement or something like that, like when you agree to like open a credit card, you're basically agreeing to, you know, make minimum payments on it. So essentially what this is, is an

agreement to allow the taxpayer to pay certain minimum payments over the course of five years in order to get their property back from tax title. And if they miss a payment? So if they miss a payment,

you know, there are pretty strict terms. You know, I would say I'm the type of person where I would say you don't want to necessarily throw the baby out with the bathwater. You know, I think we could

have certain provisions to say, you know, if you haven't paid this month and you're going to owe us this money the next month, I think if there were certain infractions that continued to happen, we

would probably have language in the agreement to say, okay, we're not going to, we're going to terminate this agreement because you've breached the conditions of it. But the goal really is to make

sure that people have some stability and know that they'll be able to, you know, have their homes back from tax title at some point. One more question. I'll open up. How much is usually allowed before

you go into foreclosure? Like you mean the amount of taxes? I mean, how much of all the taxes? I mean, that's, you know, if I didn't pay you for five years and I don't go into foreclosure, that means

I have a chance to redeem myself interest free or is there interest on top of the money that's due? Yeah, that's a great question. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I'd be happy to speak to

Treasury and see what the average maybe is here. All right. Thank you. Councilman and now Councilor Parham. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening. Right now, do the residents have the ability before

textile to pay their taxes in different payments and commercial? So our treasurer collector is statutorily obligated to collect partial payments right now. This is just kind of a function to add more

assurance to the process if that's your question. But can they pay their taxes in different installments like commercial and residential before they default? So technically no, which is why the

legislature created this agreement because rather than just creating a funnel for homes to go into tax title, they wanted to create likely wanted to create an opportunity for people to be, to redeem

those back by entering into an agreement. And not every municipality might want to, um, I don't want to say take on the risk, but they might not want to engage in the process of going through these

agreements, which is why it's not mandatory. It's something that we can accept at the local level. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Miss Munson and your research and looking at other municipalities.

Do you know how the 10% number matches up? Is that a standard that other municipalities are using? Yeah. So the range actually is, um, it's mandated by statute. So 10% is the minimum, um, you know,

obviously it used to be 25% and they made it a little bit lower. So we obviously always have a little bit of flexibility. We can't make things necessarily, um, more challenging in conflict with state

law. But, um, you know, in working with the administration, we thought it would be a good balance to have the agreements basically go for five years right now, the max is 10, um, it used to be five.

Um, we also thought it would be a good idea to waive a hundred percent of the interest that accrues over the life of the agreement. If the person complies with all of the terms and then the 10% is

also the mandatory minimum for, um, what you have to pay in terms of 10% of the full amount that you owe that used to be 25. So and it used to be 25 at the, at the state level. So two years ago, they

decided to make it even less burden some for taxpayers by reducing that number and making the life of the agreements longer. I assume we're probably seeing a need for this. Um, is, is it happening

more and more often? So I would say from, yeah, speaking from a legal perspective, I will say that I think it's always a good idea because you know, there are a lot of properties that do go into tax

title and this is a way to help people redeem their properties and, and have some assurance that they're going to be able to stay in their homes. Last question. I know most of this is structured by

MGL, but is it common practice for one individual to make the decision or do other communities have a board per se board of assessors or whatever it may be make that decision about whether or not we

adopt this? Uh, it says here that pretty much the treasurer would be the decision maker in forming these agreements. Yeah. So that's pretty much based on, um, I would say that's standard for the

statute. Yeah. So it's, it's authorizing, it's the statute that authorizes the collector treasurer to like to perform certain functions, including accepting partial payment. Um, so this is part of

that whole scheme. But the reason we have to come to you is because we have to accept it at a local level, which requires legislative approval. All right. Thank you, Ms. Munson. And I will say, um,

the one thing I will note too is that we can legally by statute treat any of the, um, categories within the categories differently. So when we have assessment categories, the agreement has to be the

same for each person. And the reason for that is so it's uniform and there's, you know, no discrimination or any inequity and how it's how the process goes forward. Perfect. Thank you. Do we have any

more questions? If I may, just one more. So you, this would go out over 10 years. So we're proposing, um, the administration's proposing actually a five-year agreement. Five years. What if you, what

if you negligent in your regular tax title and in between after you make a deal, then you're negligent and your taxes the following year. What happens then? So, um, that's a good question. I think

that's probably something that we would work out in the terms of the agreement because obviously we're talking about tax title for a specific set of a period of time because you're obviously paying

10% of whatever you owe on that. Um, I'm sure that we would be able to put language in there basically saying that, you know, you agree to pay the rest of your taxes on time. Otherwise you'd end up in

a position where like every tax year you could potentially have a different payment agreement. But typically what municipalities do is they obligate the person to be up to date on their other taxes

because they already owe. Do you have a number on the amount of money owed to the city? Um, the, the figure on outstanding tax title that's owed to the city. I don't, but I can get that for you. Okay.

Uh, uh, council, um, what's your name? You know, councilman, would you, uh, board of assessor, uh, would you like to come up? Yeah. Uh, Ben, would you know the answer to that if we, no, okay. All

right, before you guys, what should we do? Well, should you excuse the customary thanks? Second. No, she made it. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think you do bring up, um, the very

valid point and that's an important piece of this puzzle. Um, so whether we leave it in committee till that's figured out or refer it out with no recommendation. But I do think, um, that is an

important thought to be had. Maybe we should leave it in committee and, uh, you can actually brother cell because it doesn't have a preamble. So they need to provide us with a preamble. So it's going

to be another couple of weeks so they can get that information to you before you take your vote on enrollment. You should be able to get the information that she agreed to provide, uh, the chairman to

read a model. So I would move to refer this out of committee with no recommendation pending the receipt of the preamble and answer some of our questions. All right. Second. All in favor? All right.

Opposed? Uh, motion made and, uh, approved, uh, for what, do we have a specific time date? We have two weeks. We have a month. Uh, what is there any time tables? You get the preamble, you have to

advertise it, so it's probably going to be, I'm going to say it's probably going to be about a month and that'll come back to here. You're going to be voting on it. Okay. So let's say you have the

preamble. It will be before you for enrollment. Yeah. And the questions that you ask should be answered. Okay. She would be nice to you by that time. Got all that? Beautiful. Motion to adjourn?

Second. Those remain seconded. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Uh, yeah. No, you said it. Order. Check one, two, check one, two, one, two. Good evening. Today is Tuesday, October 13th. It is now 7 p.m.

Will the clerk please call the roll? Council. Council. Council Capone. Present. Council DePiero. Present. Council Garcia. Present. Council Hanlon. Present. Council Martins. Present. Council Ween.

Present. Council Patrantonio. Present. Council Marchese. Present. Council Rogers. Here. Council President Smith. Present. Eleven members present, Madam President. Eleven members present and we do have

a quorum. Will you please stand and salute the flag? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with

liberty and justice for all. Council Garcia. Madam President, I motion to take items number one, two, and three collectively. Second. Motion made and seconded to take items one, two, and three

collectively. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Clerk, please read items one, two, and three. Items one, two, and three are all public hearings. Madam President, item one is an order

requesting that the city council consider renaming village landing to Haley's village landing in honor of Haley Keene as it was her place of peace. Second. Motion made and seconded to open the public

hearings. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Motion to lay the item on the table. Second. Motion made and seconded to open the public hearings. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The

ayes have it. Motion to lay the item on the table. Second. Motion made and seconded to lay the public hearings on the table. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Madam President, I

motion to take item number four out of order. Second. Motion made and seconded to take item number four out of order. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Clerk, please read item number

four. Item number four is an order offered by Councilor Stephanie Smith as President. An order requesting confirmation of the appointments of the following individuals as new members of the Everfire

Department. Declan Smith, Philip Sordillo, Ryan Petrantonio, Joseph Dunbrack, Nick Simonelli, Panagiotis Coteopolis, Ryan Considine, Jefferson Palencia, and Rafael Ribiero. Move for favorable action.

Second. Motion made and seconded will the clerk please call the roll. Councilor Elsie Jablon. Yes. Councilor Capone. Yes. Councilor DePierro. Yes. Councilor Garcia. Yes. Councilor Hamlin. Yes.

Councilor Casey. Yes. Councilor Martin. Yes. Councilor Ween. Councilor Petrantonio. I'm sorry. Councilor Rodgers. And Council President Smith. Yes. Ten yeas, zero nays. Ten yeas, zero nays. You've now

been confirmed. Any of the families want to come up and take pictures. Feel free to come inside the chambers if you want to take a picture of this or video. Feel free to walk right up. If it is, are

we ready? Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear that all faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me. All the duties incumbent

upon me. As a firefighter. As a firefighter. In the Everett Fire Department. In the Everett Fire Department. According to the best of my abilities. According to the best of my abilities. And

understanding. And understanding. Agreeable to the rules. Agreeable to the rules. Regulations. Regulations. Laws. Laws. Ordinances enchada. Ordinances enchada. Of the city of Everett. Of the city of

Everett. So help me God. So help me God. I. I. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. That I'll be a true faith and allegiance. That I'll be a true faith and allegiance. That I'll be a true faith. To

the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And I'll support the laws. And Constitution. Of the Commonwealth. So help me God. I. Do solemnly swear. That I'll be a true faith and allegiance. To the United

States of America. And I'll support the Constitution. Of the United States. Of the United States. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations firefighters. We're going to take a five minute

recess. Just for the public to know and then we'll come back. Thank you. The meeting is now back in session. Yep. Council Garcia. Motion to open the public hearings. Second. Motion to take items one,

two, and three from the table. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Will the clerk please? Oh, he already read it. So for item number one, Councilor Petrantonio. Again, like I told last

meeting, this is a village family. Unfortunately, Hailey, who loved the village landing, she used to get on there, spend a lot of time down there. Unfortunately, she took her own life down there. And

I want to do something nice for the family. I'd like, I'd like to keep the village name in there. Like I talked about last time, but I'd like to have at Hailey's village landing. And I hope I got this

full council support. Madam president, I also am a co-sponsor of this and I support exactly what Councillor Petrantonio was saying. Hailey was a classmate of mine at Everett High School. We were in

some art together. We attended some Chicago together and having one of the most optimistic people that I have ever met in my life. So knowing about her mental health struggles and what evolved was

very surprising to me. And I'm glad that we can at least use this as an opportunity to openly talk about mental health and advocacy for it going forward in the city of Everett. Thank you. I'm going to

ask three times, is anyone in favor of this petition? Is anyone in favor of this petition? Is anyone in favor of this petition? That portion of the public hearing is now closed. I'm going to ask three

times, is anyone opposed to this petition? Is anyone opposed to this petition? Is anyone opposed to this petition? That portion of the public hearing is now closed. Councillor Petrantonio? Move to

close the public hearing first. Motion made in second to close the public hearing. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Do you guys have it? And we have a favorable action on the table. Seconded.

Seconded. The clerk please call the roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Eleven yeas, zero nays. Eleven yeas, zero nays. We have still renamed the village landing to Haley's village landing

and owner of Kaylee Clean. Can we send an order down to the city services? They can make a couple of signs up. To Arby Knox. He can make a couple of signs up. I'll get with the family. We'll see how

we want to draw it up. I believe you'll work with Mr. Knox and Mr. Ronan to get those signs made. Perfect. I believe we already have for the next item. Item number two. We've already read it. I would

motion to invite representative up. Second. Motion made and seconded to invite the representative from National Grid just to remind everyone this is the leaning poll conditions on Cottage Street. Good

evening. Thank you, Madam President. So we're requesting to install. Jose Luis is already at 170 Medford Street. We're requesting to install a new guide pole to offset the cable tension coming from

Autumn Street, which would avoid leaning poles on Cottage Street. Thank you. Are there any questions? If I may, just from the chair, are you putting a double pole in to alleviate the leaning pole? Or

what is what is being you just putting like taking a pole and putting a new one in? So it'll be a brand new pole. It'll kind of be like, you know, the 10 McKinley Street pole that we did a while back,

basically a pole across the street. Brand new pole. We're doing this because the owner at 127 Cottage Street has a pole on their property and they want us to remove it. So we're trying to relocate

that pole basically to go on public. OK, thank you. Councilman Wien. Thank you, Madam President. Through you to National Grid, I just wanted to ask what the work hours for this project will be. Set

the pole. We'll probably take a day to do that. OK, thank you. Thank you. Any further actions? Motion to excuse our guests for the customary thanks. Second. Motion be seconded to exclude the

petitioner. All is in favor. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. I'm going to ask three times. Is anyone in favor of this petition? Is anyone in favor of this petition? Is anyone in favor of this

petition? That portion is now closed. Is anyone opposed to this petition? Is anyone opposed to this petition? Is anyone opposed to this petition? That portion is now closed. It's the pleasure of the

council. Motion made and seconded for fable action. Clerk, please call the roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Councilman. Yes. Councilman Casey. Yes. Councilman. Yes. Council President Antonio. Yes.

Councilmember Rogers. No. And Council President Smith. Yes. Ten yeas, one nay, Madam President. Ten yeas, one nays. The petition is passed. Clerk, please. We already read number three. You have to

invite the petitioner up again for this. Make a motion to invite the petitioner up. Second. Motion made and seconded to invite the petitioner up. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Yes. As a reminder,

this is overhead to underground service for Rivera Beach Parkway Lighting. Thank you, Madam President. Jose Luis Aziria, 170 Medford Street in Maldon. So we're requesting to install approximately five

to ten feet of conduit from an existing pole to a meter cabinet, which will serve new lighting for the northern strand trail connection at the Santilly Circle Connector. And this project is for the

City of Everett. Thank you. Council Martins. Thank you, Madam Chair. Three year. Good evening. Will this project entail any road closures? I believe the contractor, so we're only petitioning for the

portion from the pole to the meter, which is only about five feet. They will have to do their own permits to install all the lighting fixtures and anything else that they need for the lighting, which

that'll be a separate petition or permit approval process. But for our scope of work, we don't need to close the road. We're just only interrupting the sidewalk. I'm just bringing it up because

recently we had a project by National Grid that closed Broadway at the rotary with no signage, no previous notice. So we need to know, I'm just asking because it's for their beach parkway, it's a

major roads. If there will be disruption of traffic, we need like a spines, something telling people in advance so they know an actual detour is that lead people in smart ways that they can actually

navigate through the city because it hasn't been, hasn't been working. Thank you. Thank you. Council Rogers. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you for joining us tonight. So will this resolve the

lights that are out on the parkway currently? Is that related to this or is it separate? Yeah, I think it's separate. There's a few stakeholders for this project. I believe DCR and DOT and MBTA,

they're working on this project, but it's only a section for pedestrian bike path access. And I believe it's about 11 lights that serve this. So just if we could be mindful, maybe you can take a ride

there tonight on your way back, but on the parkway, there are an abundance of lights out. And it's because of where it is, the nature of it. It's very difficult to call them in poll by poll, but

there's so many that are all right now that do need to be addressed. Additionally, as you, as you are familiar, I cannot support any national grid pieces tonight until we have a resolution, which it

sounds like we're very close to finding one regarding the river green pathway in general. So I will be voting no, even though I do support the essence of this. Thank you. Thank you. Excuse our guests.

Second. Motion made in second to excuse. I guess all is in favor. Aye. Opposed. You guys have it. I'm going to ask three times. Is anyone in favor of this petition? Is anyone in favor of this

petition? Is anyone in favor of this petition? That portion is now closed. Is anyone opposed to this petition? Is anyone opposed to this petition? Is anyone opposed to this petition? That portion of

the public hearing is now closed. Fable action. Second. Motion made in seconded for favorable action. I think, do we have to close the public hearing first? Yes, we do. To close public hearing.

Second. Motion made in second to close the public hearing and motion for fable action. Clerk, please call the roll. Councilor Allis, did you want? Yes. Council Capone? Yes. Council Capone? Yes.

Council Pero? Yes. Council Castilla? Yes. Council Marchese? Yes. Council Martins? Yes. Ten yeas. One nay, Madam President. Ten yeas. One nay. The petition has passed. Motion to open public

participation. Second. Motion made in seconded to open public participation. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Yes. Have it. Is there anyone here for public participation? Okay. Stephanie? Yep. Come

on up. If you could just state your name for the record. Yep. Stephanie McCullough, 46 Calhoun Ave, Everett. I am here to basically just encourage you guys to pass the ordinance that restricts data

center construction in the city. We're seeing some problems right now with the fact that we delayed, and sorry guys, I don't know why I'm out of breath, delayed in the innovation district and now

they've filed a subdivision and that kind of hamstrings our response. So I think even if it's not perfect, getting something on the books is really important and beneficial. So thank you guys for

keeping that moving along. Other than that, just advocating for the stop the stuff ordinance from Councilor Rogers. I've ordered from restaurants and other cities that have similar ordinances. It's so

unobtrusive. It just asks, do you want utensils of your order? Yes or no. So it doesn't impact the user experience at all. Should save businesses money if anything. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you,

Ms. McCullough. Anyone else for public participation? Motion to close public participation. Second. Motion made in second to close public participation. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have

it. Madam President, I motion to approve the minutes of the September 14th and September 28th meeting. Second. Motion made and seconded to approve the minutes of the special meetings on the 14th and

28th. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Madam President, I motion to suspend the rules and take item number seven out of order. Motion made and seconded to suspend the rules and take

item number seven out of order. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Clerk, please read item number seven. Item number seven is an order offered by Councilor Stephanie Smith as

president. An order requesting approval of the appointments of the following individuals as members of the Everett Redevelopment Authority, Kristen Barrows for two years, Rebecca Edmondson Karom for

three years, Barry Erickson for four years, and Jarlobes for one year. Councilor Garcia? I do want it. Before we start, I'd like to make a motion to suspend rule 20. Second. Motion made and seconded

to suspend rule 20. Councilor Garcia? I was just going to acknowledge that we do have some of the candidates up here. Thank you. Yes, well, just before we appoint them, that's all. Well, we were going

to refer it to the Committee on Legislative Affairs. I'm not going to vote for that. I want this committee up and running yesterday. My understanding is we haven't received all resumes. So to give

more time for that, we haven't received all the resumes. We've lost the bait, but anything that can enhance taking down that building or rehab that building over square, I don't want to delay. I don't

care what you have to say yes. Councilor Martins? I'd just like to amend the item to fix the spelling of the last person's name. It should be J-O-A-O for Joelle Lopes. Motion to amend the item to

spell the first name correctly. So J-O-A-O. Second. Motion made and seconded to amend Joelle's name. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Do you guys have it? Second. There was already a motion on the

table to send to Legislative Affairs. Do you have a second? Okay. Was there a second to that motion? Yes. Councilor Rogers had seconded that, which supersedes the favorable action. We can do a voice

vote. I mean, we can do a roll call vote, Legislative Affairs. And the administration has, and for me, they'll provide the resumes prior to that meeting. We do have the attendees in the audience

tonight, but the resumes will be provided prior to that meeting. We can do a roll call vote as a send to committee. You're welcome. Councilor Elsijouin? Yes. Councilor Capone? Councilor DePere?

Councilor Garcia? Yes. Councilor Hamlin? Yes. Councilor Casey? No. Councilor Queen? No. Councilor Petrantonio? No. Councilor Rogers? Yes. Councilor Smith? Yes. Councilor Smith? Excuse me, too. Seven

yeas, four nays. Seven yeas, four nays. That has been referred to committee. The attendees will be notified of when the committee meeting is, and we will be reviewing the resumes and they'll ask any

questions and that we may have in that meeting. So thank you for coming and staying up here tonight. We really appreciate you. Clerk, please revert to item number five. Item number five is an order

offered by Councilor Stephanie Smith as president, proclamation making Everett a purple hot city, and to recognize August 7th annually as Purple Hot Day. Favorable action? Second. Motion made and

seconded for favorable action. Roll call vote. Councilor Elsijou? Yes. Councilor Perks? Yes. Councilor Perks? Yes. Councilor DePere? Yes. Councilor Garcia? Yes. Councilor Hamlin? Yes. Councilor

Martins? Yes. Councilor Perks? Yes. Councilor Smith? Yes. Eleven yeas, zero nays. Eleven yeas, zero nays. We'll send this to Everett is now a Purple Heart City, and August 7th is Purple Heart Day.

Clerk, please read item number six. Is an order offered by Councilor Stephanie Smith as president, an order proposing to amend the city's administrative code by replacing the Youth Commission with the

Recreation and Youth Commission. I was going to suspend the rules to take that in ten collectively, but vote separately. Is it too late to do that now? To take item number six in ten collectively, but

vote separately. Do you want to allow it? Second. Second. See, it's pretty important when we send it to a committee. It is. We're just taking six in ten collectively. Six in ten. Motion made and

seconded to take item number six in ten collectively. All those in favor? Clerk, please read item number ten as well. Item ten is an order offered by Councilor Stephanie Smith as president, an order

proposing to remove the Youth Commission from Chapter Two of the revised ordinances by rescinding Article Three, Division 11 of said chapter. Council Garcia? Yes. Madam President, for item number six,

since we are voting separately, I would motion to refer to the City Council Office to prepare legal advertising for a required public hearing on the order, which will be held at a future regular

council meeting. Second. Motion made and seconded to refer to the City Council Office to prepare legal advertising on the motion, Councilor Petrantonio. Does this change jobs descriptions of what

they're responsible for at all, is it just for paperwork-wise? I believe that's going to be discussed in committee, but I believe there is just a small change and then a, and I believe that the format

of the members is a little different, so I don't know if it's five and going to seven or something like that. It is not jobs, it's only for the commission outside of it. They believe it's a volunteer

board. Okay, I just don't want to create another department, that's what I'm scared of. No, no, this is the board that would over kind of overseas and works on it. Okay, do we take a vote on that one

yet? No, I heard a motion only. All right, so motion to refer to the City Council Office for legal advertising. All those in favor? Opposed? The ayes have it. What's your pleasure, Council Agostia, on

item number 10? For item number 10, I motion to postpone to the next regular meeting of the City Council. Motion made and seconded to refer item number 10 to the next meeting of the City Council. All

those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. That's number 10, right? That was number 10. Sorry, I was jumping ahead. No, that was number 10. That one we just did. Now we're going back to eight.

Item number eight is an order by Councilor Stephanie Smith as president, an order requesting approval to accept and expand a donation of $20,891 from Fiesta Shows to support the City of Everett to

youth development and enrichment activities. Favorable action. Motion made and seconded for favorable action. Roll call vote. Councilor Alcindor Gwen? Yes. Councilor Capone? Yes. Councilor Garcia?

Yes. Council member Casey? Yes. Councilor Martins? Yes. Councilor Queen? Yes. Councilor Petruccio? Yes. Councilor Rogers? Yes. Councilor President Smith? Yes. 11 yeas, zero nays. 11 yeas, zero nays.

We have accepted the donation of $20,891. Item number nine is an order offered by Councilor Stephanie Smith as president, an order requesting authorization to borrow $2,057,100 from the Massachusetts

Water Resources Authority, from WRA, through its Local Water System Assistance Program, for the 2026 Water Main Replacement Project. Councilor Garcia? Madam President, I motion to refer this to the

Committee on Ways and Means. Second. Motion made and seconded to refer to the Committee on Ways and Means. Councilor Martins, on the motion? On the motion. I'm not on the committee, but I'd like to

ask the procurement office or anyone from the administration to also send with this item the breakdown as to what they're spending it on. This is something I've always asked the previous

administration when we come up with these numbers, what's the actual breakdown? How much are we spending on pipes? How much are we spending on labor? How much are we spending on pavement? And I hope

this is also a solution for Maplewood Street that they made a mess last year. So if they can submit that to committees when it comes back to us, it's complete. Yep. And then if anyone else has further

questions, if you could submit them to the legislative aide, we're going to invite the superintendent of water as well as our chief financial administrative officer so he can explain what the

project's about, answer some of the questions that Council Martins had, and then kind of any financial questions as well. So if you have any more questions, please submit them to Catherine and we'll

get them in the Ways and Means meeting. All those in favor? Opposed? The ayes have it. Clerk, please read item number 11. We're on the committee reports now and item 11 is an order offered by

Councilor Stephanie Smith as president. An order requesting consideration of an appropriation of $110,197.59 from the capital stabilization fund and a repurposing of $126,802.41 in previously

appropriated, but unspent capital funds as attached totaling $237,000 for the purposes of a front end loader for the Department of Public Works. I believe they met this evening. I'm not sure if this

came out favorable. Yep. They met this evening. They answered a bunch of questions. What was that? So it came out with no recommendation. We're waiting for two pieces of information. No, this one

came, this is like, yeah, this one came, this one came out favorable and they provided us with the maintenance reports and also what they were going to use with the, um, what they were going to do

with the previous front end loader. So, um, this did come out favorable from the kettie motion to accept the committee report and favorable action motion made in second to accept the committee part

and favorable action. Roll call vote. Yeah, that's the peril. Yes. Can't see him. Can't see my case. Yes. Can't see my, yes. Can't see me. Yes. That's a petrantonio. Yes. Council Rogers. That's a

president Smith. Yes. 10 years. One name. Ten years. One day. The item has been appropriated. Clerk, please read on number 12. I don't remember 12 is it on itself. My concert. Stephanie Smith is

president and no one. It's establishing a tax title payment agreement in the city of Everett. Philip Martins, I believe this is the one. Everything that I just said, the motion was moving to postpone

it to the next meeting pending the two pieces of information requested from committee. Second. Motion made in second to postpone to the next meeting pending the information requested. All those in

favor. Aye. Opposed. The ayes have it. Clerk, please read on number 13. Is a madam president isn't one that's offered by council, Katie Rogers and no one's promoting environmental sustainability by

reducing single use plastic service where and single use package condiments. Council Rogers. Thank you, Madam President. First, we need to I need to make a motion to amend 12 dash 2008 dash a to

change minimize cost reductions to minimize costs. Just a word change. Second. Motion made in seconded to amend the wording. All those in favor. Opposed. The ayes have it. Thank you. So this is up for

ordainment tonight. So it's already been enrolled and essentially this is again, not a ban. I think there's a lot of misconceptions in the public. There's no banning of forks and spoons. It's a micro

change. It's a small thing that's going to make a tangible difference inside and outside of Everett beyond what we just see littered on our street. It also affects what goes into our landfills. It

prevents waste at the source and it lowers overhead expenses and helps businesses protect their profits. It encourages mindful consumption and it's a win-win policy models after tried and shrewd

examples from across the commonwealth. It's endorsed by the Sierra Club and it has proven that business is actually like this ordinance in cities where it's been ordained because it helps them reduce

their overhead costs and expenses and reducing unnecessary waste. We also have our city solicitor Jacqueline Munson up here tonight who I would like to make a motion to invite up because I do know

that people have been asking questions about this ordinance and I'd prefer if we ask our city solicitor directly. Second. Motion made in seconded to invite the city solicitor before us. Do you yield

the floor? Councillor Rodgers are you going to ask? So I'll yield the floor and then if you want to give a little bit of context that may be something that I missed or anything like that and then if

any of my colleagues have any questions that they can refer to you. Yeah, absolutely. So I think again the gist of the ordinance is really to it's something that other municipalities have done.

Wellesley's done it. Some other municipalities west of here Cambridge does it. It really is just to give people the option where you select if you want some of these single use items that it just

won't be a default anymore. So if you go into like a door dash or an Uber Eats app some places you'll notice if it's coming from a certain city there are some options that you have to go through and

then you can select whichever one you want like if you want ketchup you want spoons you want forks so the default will just be that you don't get those things. It is not a ban on the things. It's just

saying that the legal position is really just saying for restaurants and Everett that you have these types of takeout services you just need to tell them what you want and they'll be able to provide

it for you. Council I'll see Jaboon. Thank you Madam President while reading I noticed that there was a section about ISD. Can you explain to the community what the rule will be? Yeah, so ISD would

really be like the code enforcers of this. So ISD performs a lot of functions you know they give they handle some sanitation things they give tickets you know we have a municipal hearing officer in

the city that's actually the paralegal who's in my office so when somebody appeals a ticket that they have received it goes right to our office in some way. So ISD would be responsible for essentially

issuing tickets for violations. When I was working with Councillor Rogers on this we don't really have some municipalities have like a very active health department and a board of health that issues

these types of tickets we don't have that here in Everett and they they play a very important but a different role. So ISD really would be the only department that would be able to do this but they

would have to do it equitably and working with Councillor Rogers like if I remember correctly the goal was really not to you know be generating revenue from the tickets it really is more of a

deterrence factor it's not the goal is not to be you know charging people money for unintentionally violating this. What would be a violation? It would likely be if they were not compliant with the

ordinance or if they were just, you know, giving people single use plastic items, even if they were saying that they didn't want them or if they were not creating some sort of mechanism for asking

people if those were the things that they wanted. So because of this piece, someone could basically call and say this restaurant just passed out a piece of utensil to someone that didn't want it and

ISD could go give them a fine. Theoretically yes, but my expectation would be that even if somebody was making that call and making a complaint, that there would be a reasonable investigation from

code enforcement about whether it actually happened. Just out of a piece of utensil. Okay, thank you. So just to be clear, there's nothing legally wrong with the ordinance. So I think if there are

differences in policy, I'm happy to help work through those with the council. But, you know, we cannot if there's a concern about disproportionate enforcement, like I said, all of the municipal

hearing officers that's in my office. So Council Garcia, thank you, Madam President. That did touch upon my question, but to add to it. So with the ticket, what is the fee that we're even going to be

charging with that? So I don't have the ordinance in front of me right now, but I believe there's tiers for tickets. And I think that it might be a first warning, a second warning, and then it might

be a financial again, and the bird. It's not to create a financial burden. This is, I think, and you know, I don't want to speak for Council Rogers, but I think it's more to kind of recalibrate and

set expectations about being environmentally friendly where we can be. Thank you. And this is fully on ISD because I'm just trying to figure out the enforceability piece to it. We don't want just ISD

sitting around in businesses, making sure that they're not. And I know it is a separate issue, but we did the plastic bag ban, but there are still stores that give them out. And I fished them out of

my bushes every couple of weeks. So there are still plastic bags floating around in the city. So I'm just, I don't know. I don't know. I understand the sentiment of it. There are some restaurants here

that actually do already do that. I've had the question asked, so it's just the enforceability piece that I'm weary about. Yeah. And I think from a legal perspective, I think it's not to necessarily

make things perfect. It's just to make things better. Council Patrantonio. On the fines. I look, I'm looking at the, the packet. Are we taking the fines out? You delete these fines, get them crossed

out in red. Is that deleting them? Is that, am I seeing that on page 97? So I have not seen a version. Is this like, I think those are just the track changes. Those might be the track changes. The

track changes. Yeah. So we are going to be fine. And if ISD find somebody to give out, gives out for knives, we will have, there is going to be a fine. Am I seeing this right? Yeah. I don't have a

copyright in front of me. I'd be happy to take a look just to know what you're referring to, but the, the clerk's going to read the fines out loud. Yeah. So it's 97. Yeah. So originally counselor, it

was for the first through third was a written warning. Fourth was 25 fifth was subsequent. And I believe the change is, um, first, uh, the same. It just, oh yeah. So they just renumbered it. That's

all it is. So it's just a renumbering. So it's the same thing. So first through third, it just track changes. There was just a show, but there was no $25, $50. That's still a fine for each time. For

each time. Okay. So, you know, what scares me is that if I'm a restaurant owner and I have people working for me, I'm going to say, listen, I'm not supplying no Fox, no condo, nothing, because I'm

scared. One of my employees might give something out in his ISD out in front, checking the bags and getting fined. That's what's going to end up happening. You know that the restaurants ain't going to

supply any utensils at all. And I'm not, I mean, I'm not going to be happy if I go get a salad and I go to work and I got to know each other, get to eat with my hands. It's not going to be a very

nice, a nice meal. Correct. I am correct that it would probably not be a nice way to eat your salad, but my expectation is not that. And again, this, I'm just speaking from wearing my solicitor hat

and speaking from a legal perspective. Um, legally other municipalities have enacted this before. My expectation is not that ISD would be like parked outside waiting for, yeah, checking to make sure

that there's, Yeah, I know. I mean the ISD pot, I might exaggerate a little, but I'm talking about a restaurant owner though. If I'm an owner, I'm not, I'm not buying any plastic. That's my feel. I'm

not buying any plastic at all cause I'm, I'm scared. You know, one of my employees might give it out and it's hard enough to, um, small businesses are trying to make it in the city now and to burden

with, you know, people might say what's $50, but $50, you know, to some of the restaurants is, is, you know, it was $50, you know? So I just, I mean, I like the idea helping the environment and stuff,

but it just scares me that a restaurant owner might eliminate a utensils altogether. Thank you. Any further questions for the city? So do you have a question for the city? So I said, council Rogers.

Thank you, madam president. Just, uh, some questions, clarifying questions on my end too. Um, so we do have a system here where there's built in three communication efforts between the city and the

business before there's any implementation of talking about fees. Correct. We had talked about that. Yes. Okay. And our business is currently allowed to charge for condiments if they choose. If say I

have a business and I'm selling tartar salt, like I have fish and chips and I want to sell extra tartar sauce. I'm sure they could. I'm sure there's places where it can be free, but I'm sure different

things cost different amounts. And so there wouldn't be anything that would preclude a restaurant from doing that. And just to ensure, uh, to councilor Alsey's point, we do not want discrimination of

any type. So we definitely don't want businesses being selected or watched in particular. It wouldn't be a word of mouth thing where say a person has agreements with the business that operates next

door to them. And they keep calling the city and saying, Oh, they're giving out forks. It would have to be, we're really looking for a conversation here and not so much a penalty. Is that correct?

Yeah. And I, again, you know, looking at it just from my legal perspective, um, discriminatory enforcement is illegal. I'll just put a period at the end of that sentence. It's illegal. Yeah. Um, so

this is a neutral ordinance. Um, again, you know, if there are a ton of tickets that seem to be all coming from one place, I'm sure it's, I would have a question about it again. Like I said, the

municipal hearing officer works in my lastly, do we have a checks and balances so it's not entire, like, would you be able to see if there was a business that was getting, uh, an exponent amount of

fees from this would you, that would you, that would raise a flag on your end. So you would be able to identify if there were an issue as far as a business being bullied. So from a legal perspective,

if the municipal hearing officer informed me that let's say only one business and let's say it was a minority owned business, that was the only business that was being fined or targeted. I would have

questions about that. Okay. Thank you. Councilor Capone. Just like a quick question. So if I went to Everett square and I wanted to buy a soup and I didn't ask for a spoon and they put a spoon in the

bag, they could be fine for putting a spoon in the bag. Theoretically. Theoretically. There's nothing. And again, this is again, just from my legal perspective, this is all legal. It's really, you

know, the question comes when it comes before you as a legislative body is whether or not you want to enact it from a policy perspective. Thank you. Any further questions for the city solicitor? Last

question, councilor pastor Antonio, can we eliminate the fines? So that would be up to, that would be up to the council. Okay. Yeah. Motion. So we can, if you wanted to, you certainly could do that. I

wouldn't recommend it because we do have statutes that have usually when we're issuing tickets, there has to be something on the other end in order for it to actually be a ticket. I mean, I, I, I

could support this. If we weren't fine in the businesses, I would support this. If we weren't fine in anybody, as long as money does have the kind of moments pocket and we just, you know, awareness

and public, um, you know, participation and, and just letting the restaurants know I would just, I could support it. If there was no fines, that's my opinion. Do you have a question for the city

solicitor? Councilor Elsie Jaboon? Okay. Motion to excuse our guests for the customer. Thanks. Second. Motion made in second and to excuse, I guess, to the customer. Thanks. What's the pleasure of the

council? Motion for favorable action. Council Patrantoni on the motion. I'd like to make them kind of make a motion. I just want to say, if you amend it and say no fines, it reverts to the regular

fine schedule, which is much higher than these. So regardless, you can't put anything in that says no fines in ordinance to be enforced needs to have good. It has to have a fine. So if you eliminate

the fines from this, it reverts to the fine schedule. We just increased like recently one dash eight. So the, the, the, the numbers that we have here that they were made up especially for this

ordinance. Yes. All right. Thank you. Clerk, please call on the motion. Councillor Elsie Jaboon was first. I just want to be clear that based on what Councillor Patrantoni said, we, we cannot

eliminate the fine. It's either or. Okay. Thank you. Councillor Wayne. Thank you. I wanted to make a motion to amend the fees to start at five cents or even have that as a consideration. If we can't,

we have to choose between having fees or no fees. There's, there's no cross debating. Councillor Matins just seconded that. I think you, I would propose sending it back to committee. If you're going

to be like, we can't be like debating the fine schedule on the floor here. So if we want to do any changes, I propose sending it back to committee. If that is the will of the council or I would ask

for, is there a motion for? So moved. Cause my colleagues seem in dope. Okay. Fable action. Now to send it back to committee so they can decide what fee structure they want. Unless you want to take a

roll call. And if that doesn't fly, take a vote now. Okay. So I'll resend my motion. So Councillor DePiero resends the motion and it's fate. Is there a second to fable? I started motion and made a

second for favorable action. This is for ordainment. We're up for a daement. Councillor Alice Egyptwin. No. Councillor Capone. No. Councillor DePiero. Yes. Councillor Garcia. No. Councillor Hanlon.

No. Councillor Markeyzi. No. Councillor Martins. Yes. Councillor Wien. No. Councillor, Pedro Antonio. Councillor Rogers. Yes. And Councillor, president Smith. No. That would be three a's, eight nays.

You have fields to ordain the ordinance. Clerk please read item number 14. Item number 14 is a ordinance offered by Councillors Stephanie Smith as president, Councillor Stephanie Martins, Katie Rogers

and Vivian Wien. A zoning ordinance regulating data centers in the city of Everett. I believe we have the planning board director here to discuss this. Motion to invite the planning director. Second.

Motion made and seconded to invite the planning director before us. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Yes. Have it. We also have the director of development here if there's any questions for her as well.

Good evening. Miss Latansi, can you just explain to us what is the ordinance before us? Sure thing. For the record, Matt Latansi, director of planning and development. So before you today is an

ordinance regulating data centers citywide. As you may recall, we had a very long discussion with regard to data center regulations for solely the Everett Docklands Innovation District, which is the

roughly 100 acres that is now controlled by the Davis companies that's undergoing a master plan special permit. So through that discussion and the vote, we were able to adopt regulations pertaining to

the review and approval of data centers strictly within that geographical area, the hundred acres. This is for citywide application of the ordinance. It is a copy and paste essentially of all of the

binding language that existed in that Everett Docklands Innovation District zoning and now applies at citywide. So this is a two part ordinance. The first part is to amend the definition section,

section two of the zoning ordinance to just define what a computer room is, what a data center is, what a small data center is, and what a large data center is. So that is four new definitions that

would be added into section two. And then it creates a brand new section 38 in the zoning ordinance. Section 38 would be titled data centers and provides all of the relevant language. Again, it's a

mirrored copy of what was discussed and adopted for the Everett Docklands Innovation District into a citywide ordinance. Any questions, council, a question to you. Why didn't we do that when we, when

we were talking about the Davis Cooper, about, you know, the Docklands? Why didn't we just do it citywide? I just, I'm kind of confused. I thought it was citywide. I didn't just think it was so that

partial. Yeah. So I believe the impetus was that there was a potential of a data center being located within that development area specifically. So the ordinance therefore was targeted just to that

development area. As we discussed further, we both as a city, and I believe as a city council body thought that there should be a citywide ordinance. We thought too, that the citywide ordinance just

may take a little bit more time. And given that time was of the essence with a master plan special permit currently in front of the planning board for review and adoption, that we wanted to first pass

just the Davis, Davis companies land first and then with a concurrent track, but it did get delayed a little bit. So it's taking a bit more time do the citywide. We just didn't want to conflate the

two. It could have been adopted as one, but just given that we did have a proposal in front of us for the Davis companies land, we first did the Davis companies and then we moved on to citywide. Yeah.

Cause I was, when I seen it on the calendar again, I said, we're talking about a data center. Again, I thought we, we worked all this out and we will, we will buy, we had our ordinance on the books.

We had a strict strict one too, thanks to Katie Rogers and her friend. And I thought we were done with this and I seen it back on there and I couldn't understand why, but now you want to explain to

me. Thank you very much. Any further questions? Motion to excuse our guests for the customer. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Miss Silatansi, Councillor Marchese. Just quick, maybe. Is it for Miss

Silatansi? Maybe it's a, maybe you can answer this. Okay. What, what are we actually voting on here for the citywide thing? Is that what it is? Yeah. So right now we're voting. We already, I believe,

passed, uh, one specific for the innovation district and this is now to create a new one for citywide. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. Um, motion made and seconded for our favorable action clerk. Please

call the roll. Council. No. Council Capone? No. Council DiPierro? Yes. Council Garcia? Yes. Council Marchese? Yes. Council Matuski? I'm sorry. That's still written on my sleeve. Council Hanlon? No.

The Martins? Yes. Council Martins? Yes. Council Wien? Yes. Council Martino? Yes. Council Rogers? Yes. Council Smith? No. That's, uh, seven yays, four nays. Seven yays, four yays. It has been enrolled.

We're now going on to new business. Only the sponsors can speak on the items. Clerk, please read item number 15. Item number 15. We're on the new business, Madam President. 15 is an ordinance, issued

an order offered by Council Stephanie Smith as president. An order calling for the state general election calling for the designating and fitting of the polls for the state election. Favorable action.

Second. Motion made and seconded for favorable action. Roll call vote. Council Elsie Dewitt? Yes. Council Capone? Yes. Council DiPierro? No. Council Garcia? Yes. Council Hanlon? Yes. Council Marchese?

Yes. Council Martins? Yes. Council Wien? Yes. Council Patriona? Yes. Council Rogers? Yes. And Council President Smith? Yes. Ten yays, zero nays, Madam President? Ten yays, zero nays. The election has

been called for Tuesday, November 3rd, um, at your polling locations. Clerk, please read item number 16. Item 16 is a resident Madam President's resolution offered by Council Stephanie Martins. A

resolution to place a 15 minute parking sign in front of bakes and cakes on Noah Street. Council Martins? Madam President, first I'd like to make a motion to, um, amend the item to add the ward five

council win and also council Marchese. Second. Motion made and seconded to amend to, uh, Elsie Dewitt. Elsie Dewitt win, Capone, and Marchese. Add the entire council. Add the entire city council.

Okay. The entire council. Motion made and seconded to, um, add the entire city council. All those in favor? Opposed? Yeah, I have it. Council Martins. So this is a business they used to have free

parking then two years ago we added meters and then they used to have a 15 minute sign and then we took the sign down. We never replaced it and they continuously get enforced specifically at their

busiest times and being a bakery, people mostly in and out just grabbing their items and leaving. They have been to city hall at least six times between the two administrations, one of them a major

meeting we had at the beginning of the year with this administration and still no change. So like to make a motion to refer this item to the traffic commission to return the 15 minute parking sign in

front of their business and also would highly recommend that we review the entire parking plan for downtown because we have 15 minute signs in front of businesses that don't make sense such as hair

salons. What are you going to do in 15 minutes at a hair salon and not in front of bakeries where it makes sense? Second. Aye. Clerk please read item number 17. Item number 17. Madam President this is

a resolution offered by Councillor Stephanie Martins, currently now Superintendent Michael K Marchese and resolution to make a portion of recovered ARPA funds be dedicated to small businesses that did

not previously get a chance to apply for assistance. Councillor Martins. Thank you Madam President so back in 2021 the city of Everett received about $47 million in economic recovery funds which we

hoped some of it would go to businesses it took five years for only 45,000 to be made available to businesses. The application process was very complicated the communications about it was very limited

and not enough businesses got to apply and some of the businesses also had faced some retaliation and did not receive funds. So this is a conversation that started already with the new administration

back in May and I just wanted to receive an update regarding funds that were now clawing back to see if we can reopen these applications of these funds that were supposed to go to businesses to allow

more businesses to apply for them. So I would like to refer this item to the administration for a response actually now refer to government operations and the administration can provide a response and

or speak on the item to see what's happening with the funds being clawed back and any intentions to reopen the applications. Motion made and seconded to refer to government ops invite the

administration. Council Martins if you can just let the legislative aid know who from the administration would like to invite and any questions that they should be prepared to talk about. I believe

Ms. Slimboy has been working on it and we've been corresponding via email. So motion made and seconded to refer to the government ops all those in favor. I oppose the ayes have it motion referred to

government ops at a number 18 and present as a resolution offered by Councilor Michael Mike hazing a resolution requesting that the city consider sitter eliminating the number four through four to

seven PM restriction on the northbound side of Broadway beginning at Sweets are Circle that's for the bus lane going northbound. I'd like to also amend this by adding Council Smith second motion made

and seconded to amend to add Councillor Smith all those in favor. I have it. The issue I see here is all day long. We don't have to. We have parking there and the buses go by all of a sudden between

four and seven which is business time for a lot of the restaurants that are down there. You can't park there so the ticket and people who are walking across the street the by the money with our

vendors. It's the dumbest of it's probably one of the dumbest things that we have a list of Everett of the play the worst things you could do in the world and I'll probably mention like two or three

of them here but this is outrageous and they should be eliminated during the day the casket pocket but at night time four to seven am I missing something so you go out in the middle then you go on the

side. It's crazy. So I guess we would refer this to the traffic commission. Second motion made and seconded to refer to traffic all those in favor. Opposed. The ayes have it. Move item is referred to

traffic clerk please read item number 19. Item number 19. Madam President is a resolution of council Michael my case the resolution requesting that the traffic commission into a transportation

department provide a list of the modes of transportation that are allowed to use bike lanes and if any current bike lanes in the city could be eliminated on the authority of the city. Another

ingenious thing we did in the city of Everett we have tight streets so we put a bike lanes making more dangerous for everybody. Bike lanes on three streets I believe the main street Broadway and Ferry

Street and all useless. Someone's gonna get killed on them and it's just a matter of time and they've been going down regularly right now. There's people driving 10 20 30 miles an hour. Nobody has

license plates on these things. It's dangerous. So when there's no room that they want to sidewalks. First of all you have a bike lane. What's the interpretation that we have for bike lane? Is it

electric? Is it gas? What can use the bike lane? If it's a bike and it's self powered that's one thing but it's not being self powered. It's just another lane of speed. First that should be eliminated

and second of all the modes of transportation and also the three bike lanes that are in our cities should be eliminated if we could do it. I don't know what the state obligation is but it's

ridiculous. It's terrible. The bike lanes are even too small some place and it's dangerous for everybody and they're forcing people on the sidewalks and running people over the sidewalks. It's crazy.

So I just hope that the traffic commission can get a look at this and put the common sense theory to what this should be. We should not have bike lanes here. Bike lanes are nice down the village

underneath the bike lane but it's crazy. So I'd just like to refer to this also the traffic commission. Second. Motion made in second to refer to traffic. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes

have it. Clerk please read item number 20. Item number 20 is our final item. Madam President it's a resolution offered by Council Michael Marchese. A resolution requesting that a determination be made

as to whether it would be possible to offer seniors who own and live in a multifamily dwelling a 50% decrease in property taxes for said property. A piece I put forward last year that I thought was a

good piece that ain't any person that rented to blow a blow market person should probably have that section of their taxes eliminated which would have made sense. They would have kept people in the

apartments. This one here is a lot of seniors on fixed income who have longtime tenants who probably pay practically nothing to live up there and now they're finding as the taxes and water bills go up

and the insurance bills go up that they're having problems meeting you know and make an ends meet. I know we do discounts for homeowners but I think we go a little further. The person's over 75 or

something like that. I don't know how many are here that own houses but it's something that we should look into. I just think it would be good to keep the seniors out of here and keep them comfortable

especially the electric. Everything's going to the sky. These people you know if they're getting 800 bucks for an apartment from the friend upstairs that doesn't cover nothing. You know it's crazy but

I don't know. I'd like to make a motion to send this to the board of assessors and just if they could come before us and see if it's possible you know get a small age things maybe 75 and up who own

multi unit houses that maybe have people as their age living in the houses so they could put the heat on have a decent meal and you know maybe fix up their house a little bit before it falls over.

Second. Motion made seconded to refer the assessors. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Aye. Councilor Weane. Thank you Madam President. So I just wanted to speak on point of personal privilege and

recognition of indigenous people say which we observed yesterday and I would like to acknowledge that the land on which we gather today has long standing ancestral connections to indigenous peoples

including the Pawtucket people and long before ever it was established indigenous communities lived along the mystic and Maldon rivers maintaining deep connections to the land and waterways that

continue to shape our city so in recognition of indigenous peoples day I'd like to honor the histories cultures and continued presence of indigenous peoples while recognizing the importance of

preserving this history listening to indigenous voices and respecting their enduring connections to the land we call home so thank you. Thank you Council Martins. I just want to let the public know

that on Thursday the 15th at the parland library at 7 p.m. there will be a nonpartisan informational session about the nine ballot questions for the elections and everyone is invited 7 p.m. on the

15th. Thank you. Motion to adjourn. Second. Motion made and seconded to adjourn. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Aye.