2026-11-10 - City Council Meeting
Summary
Built from the posted agenda only; the meeting has not happened yet.
- 30-page agenda; minutes of the October 13 meeting for approval.
- Petition 8a would put 416 Belmont St. and nearby parcels in the Commercial Corridor Overlay District (to the Planning Board): 416 Belmont Street Commercial Corridor Overlay District.
- Petition 10f asks for an ordinance authorizing licensed cannabis social consumption establishments: Cannabis Social Consumption Ordinance.
- City Manager Eric Batista brings the FY27 tax classification package (two proposed regulations) and two FY27 budget adjustments, each with a preferred option to adopt: FY27 Tax Classification.
- Also from the City Manager: an Elderly Exemption Program order and a $1M street and sidewalk resurfacing investment (Street Resurfacing Capital Loan Program).
- Grants totaling about $566,000, among them $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Chairman's orders and councilor orders include an emergency preparedness plan request from Kathleen M. Toomey (13b).
Agenda
- 5a: minutes of the October 13 meeting.
- 7a to 7c: hearings on conduit locations: Charter Communications at 135 Kenberma Rd., and National Grid on Main St. and Newbury St.
- 8a: petition to amend the zoning map to place 416 Belmont St. and nearby parcels in the Commercial Corridor Overlay District, referred to the Planning Board.
- 8c to 10c: many traffic and public works petitions.
- 10d, 10e: set hearings for November 17 at 6:30pm on National Grid conduit locations at 116 and 124 Rodney St.
- 10f: ordinance request to authorize licensed cannabis social consumption establishments (M.G.L. c.94G, section 3(b)(3)).
- City Manager items: appointments (Delgado to the Community Preservation Committee; Kuffour to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund; five reappointments to the Citizens Advisory Council); rodeo draft ordinance communication (11.15A); Veterans Services relocation and Veterans Day events (11.19); FY27 tax classification package, two proposed regulations, and two FY27 budget adjustments, each with a preferred option to adopt (11.26B, 11.26D); Elderly Exemption Program order (11.26E); $1,000,000 street and sidewalk resurfacing investment (11.26F).
- 11.35 grants: $350,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (Collections Stewardship); $192,247.25 State 911 Department (Primary PSAP grant); $200,000 Massachusetts DESE for Recreation Worcester; $23,800 United Way of Central Massachusetts (Worcester Cares 4 Kids); $500 donation from the Greater Worcester Community Foundation.
- 11.36A: transfer of $39,124.88 among CDBG grant accounts.
- 11.37: prior-year invoice payments: Treasury (CC1062) $11,204.60; Innovation and Technology (CC1031) $2,849.88; Parks (CC1078) $1,773.17; various DPW $27,819.48; Youth Opportunities (CC1049) $1,079.26; Fire (CC1044) $696.95.
- 12a to 12m: chairman's orders: reports on inclusionary zoning exemptions for for-sale housing, roaming cats and xylazine overdoses, plus Traffic and Parking committee recommendations.
- 13a to 13i: councilor orders, including Satya B. Mitra's student loan repayment idea (13a) and Kathleen M. Toomey's request that the City Manager consider an emergency preparedness plan for emergencies, demonstrations or civil unrest (13b).