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2007-02-05 Regular Meeting Beverly City Council 7:00 PM Feb. 5, 2007 Roll Call: Councilors Present: John Burke, William Coughlin, Timothy Flaherty, Miranda Gooding, Patricia Grimes, Kevin Hobin, Donald Martin, Maureen Troubetaris, Paul Guanci Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag: Led by Councilor Appointments: Public Hearings and Presentations: 7:05 PM Public Hearing-Appropriation To Account No. Beverly Drainage Project ($350,000) Refer to Finance and Property Immediately following Public Hearing: Rosemary Maglio re Sidewalk 8:00 PM Mayor's State of the City Address STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS Ladies and gentlemen here and watching at home-It is my privilege and my distinct pleasure this evening to update you on the state of our fine City of Beverly. As I speak to you tonight, it is a busy time for Beverly - an exciting time, a time of promise and opportunity, but not an easy time. You may wonder why I have chosen to give this talk later than my colleagues in nearby communities. I felt this address would be more informed, and informative, if I had the benefit of some early insight into the state of the State and our new Governor recently provided that. It has not been an easy time for any of the cities and towns of Massachusetts. We suffered drastic cuts in local aid throughout the previous Governor's tenure. Contrarily, Governor Patrick has clearly and consistently expressed his desire to increase local aid to cities and towns. This is welcome news to me and every other municipal leader across the state. At the same time, however, the new Governor has announced an anticipated One Billion Dollar shortfall in State revenues this year. Like all of us, the Governor has his work cut out for him. While I did personally hear him say just days ago that there will be a modest increase in Chapter 70 School Aid, the State's ability to make any substantial difference in our coming fiscal year is extremely limited. As much as the state of the State affects Beverly, so too does the state of the North Shore. I believe it is obvious to most of us that ours is a regional economy. Countless numbers of us live in one community, work in another, and frequent businesses, shops and restaurants up and down the North Shore. Success in one community adds to the success of another and, contrarily, no one North Shore community can be a great success unless the region overall is performing reasonably well. Recognizing this, several months ago the mayors and town managers of a dozen North Shore communities - from Lynn to Newburyport and including Danvers, Gloucester, Peabody and Salem - joined together to found the North Shore Coalition. The Coalition's express purpose is to promote and advance this region's legislative needs on Beacon Hill. I am pleased and honored to have been chosen to chair the Coalition, whose very first priority is to help bring spiraling costs of municipal medical coverage under control. I will provide further updates as our efforts on this and other important issues progress. We've talked about the State, we've talked about the region, now let's talk about Beverly. Let's take a look at where we've been, where we are now and where we have the opportunity to go. Throughout the time I have been privileged to be your Mayor, we have held to one consistent theme - that careful and appropriate development can fund the rebuilding and revitalization of our infrastructure. That rebuilding and revitalization has been absolutely necessary after decades of neglect left our schools, our parks, our very neighborhoods in states of decay and disrepair. Those of you who have lived in Beverly for a long time likely know full well how far we have come while those of you who have moved here more recently may know only parts of our success story. It is one worth retelling. In 1994 Beverly faced an Eight Million Dollar deficit and the threat of receivership. Our bond rating was "junk." Services to our elderly and to our youth were reduced to almost nothing. Schools were outdated, public buildings lay in disrepair, parks and playgrounds were just large patches of dust. Working together, we have changed all that. We have worked hard to consistently produce surpluses in our operating budget and to cause the City's bond rating to be increased seven times, the most recent increase occurring just today. I'll talk a bit more about that very shortly. We have rebuilt our elementary schools and have committed ourselves to rebuilding our high school. We have restored our parks and playgrounds and reinstated the many valuable programs that serve our elderly and our youth. We have built a successful homeless shelter which has kept many a poor soul safe from the winter's cold. We have solved major flooding problems in several neighborhoods and are now working hard to solve them in several more. We have done all of this without the overrides being debated in cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth. Beverly has done all of this by fostering appropriate new growth. Let's look at two good examples-the 13 renaissance of the Cummings Center and the construction of the Airport Connector Road, better known as Sam Fonzo Drive. Cummings Center now houses over three hundred businesses, provides over three thousand jobs and pays the City of Beverly more than 1.6 Million Dollars annually in real estate taxes, more than ten times the taxes paid when the property was acquired in 1995. Those taxes pay for teachers in our schools, policemen on our streets and firefighters in our stations. Sam Fonzo Drive has already attracted millions of dollars in investments by Electric Insurance and Aero Manufacturing, companies which are now paying the City of Beverly hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in real estate taxes. Those taxes heat the Senior Center and plow our roads through the winter, staff our parks and playgrounds through the summer and staff our libraries year round. We are presently finalizing the sale of four additional parcels of land along Sam Fonzo Drive and the development of those parcels will create new jobs and new revenue. Before looking at our current needs and priorities let me share the terrific news to which I just referred. Earlier today we learned that Moodys, the internationally recognized bond rating agency, has raised our bond rating yet again, for the 7th time, to a higher investment grade level. This increase is a testament to our demonstrated ability to meet our financial responsibilities and a strong endorsement of our financial practices. Most importantly, the increased rating will allow us to borrow money at more favorable rates. Our outside investment banker has estimated our resultant savings as follows: Assuming that the rate impact of the City's bond rating upgrade is somewhere between 10 and 25 basis points, the range of savings on the $32,500,000 High School project would be $422,000 (at 10 basis points) to $1,056,000 (at 25 basis points) over the life of the bonds. Turning to our current needs and priorities, without a doubt the most important task we face is the design and construction of a new academic wing for our high school and the complete refurbishment of that school's common spaces. Last February the City Council courageously appropriated the funds necessary for this project, saving the high school's accreditation and averting catastrophic harm to property values throughout the City. Since that appropriation we have been working very closely with the Massachusetts School Building Authority, which we fully expect will pay for at least half the cost of the project. Beverly was one of the first ten of well over one hundred communities to submit a Statement of Interest in a new project to the Building Authority-thus, we have a very good place in line. We recently completed our search for a Project Manager and we are about to sign a contract with our first choice of architects-the Mount Vernon Group, designers of several award winning high schools. We have assembled a School Building Committee and our Superintendent has drafted a very thorough Education Specification detailing the needs and requirements he believes this project can and should address. We have prepared the enrollment projections required by the School Building Authority. In short, we are doing everything required by the Building Authority, and we are doing it in strict compliance with their regulations. As the design of the construction and renovations comes into shape over the coming months, our School Building Committee will be very busy considering the many issues and opportunities this project presents. One such issue is whether to incorporate into the design artificial turf athletic fields on which all of our teams could play, including those teams that presently play at Hurd Stadium. Hurd might well remain as a multi-purpose athletic field. Goodness knows we don't have enough athletic fields. The recommendations on this and the many other issues to be considered by the School Building Committee will weigh heavily in the final design decisions. We are all committed to delivering the best possible school, with the longest possible life expectancy, that we can. Having said that, I do feel compelled to remind everyone that we have also committed to financing this project from our General Fund. All of our decisions must take into account the fact that the General Fund must pay all of the City's operating costs year to year, and it is far from limitless. We need to pay particular attention to the rate of growth of those operating costs. Additionally, while I have said the High School project is the most important task before us, it is certainly not the only task before us. Another priority for this new year is to make additional progress on flood control projects. We will begin construction on the Raymond Farms Storm Drainage Project this Spring. The Public Hearing necessary to approve design funds for the north Beverly Drainage project was held this very night and this Council's swift approval of those funds will allow us to move that project forward. A detailed design will take approximately four months to complete, after which we can obtain the required permits and begin construction later this year. And lastly, we will within the month publicly review prospective additional detention basin capacity in the Chubbs Brook neighborhood. As many of you know, the current system successfully handled the Mother's Day storm until its week-long duration finally overwhelmed the detention capacity on the fifth day thus highlighting the need for additional storage. So, the High School project is moving forward, the flood control projects are moving forward, but two other important projects are not. Not yet anyway. As many of you know, each year we develop a Capital Expenditure Plan that describes those projects we believe are necessary to the City and the estimated costs of doing them. We have done many of them and are doing the ones I just talked about now, but two very important projects remain to be addressed. I think we all know what they are. The first is a modern middle school at the present Memorial site of seventeen acres. By all accounts, very good things are going on inside the Briscoe building. But that building and its six acres are not our long-term future. The Memorial site is. The second project is the construction of first-class public safety facilities. These two projects are necessary to Beverly but until recently I just could not see any way to fund them. I do now. It is called "Smart Growth." Smart Growth invests time, attention and resources in restoring and revitalizing downtowns. It is an environmentally conscious attempt to create and preserve a sense of community by promoting mixed use, walkable neighborhoods near public transportation. Through its housing and alternative transportation choices, its green spaces, its recreational and cultural attractions, successful Smart Growth creates health, social, environmental and economic benefits for the entire community. One of those economic benefits is increased tax revenue and increased tax revenue is what we need to get the middle school and public safety facilities done. 14 A competent, well-financed developer who recently completed the impressive Depot Square Condominiums project has acquired considerable land around the Depot Train Station and is now looking to invest in excess of One Hundred Million Dollars in Smart Growth development of that area. Part of his proposal contains a number of buildings seventy-five feet in height and while there are already three buildings in that area that currently stand this tall, seventy-five feet is some twenty feet higher than present regulations permit. Four years ago the Master Plan recommended allowing taller buildings in parts of the downtown. It concluded that Beverly's failure to permit six and seven story buildings even where they would be appropriate was costing the City significant tax revenues every year. The loss of that revenue which continues today impedes our ability to fund improvements to our infrastructure, improvements that directly benefit our quality of life. We have since spent much time and energy looking at other communities and how they have approached this very issue. Now, with a Smart Growth proposal before us, it is time to act. This very night an Order is being introduced to the City Council which would create a well defined district, along part of Rantoul Street between Bow Street and the Edwards School, where prospective developers could apply to the Planning Board for a Special Permit which, if approved by the Board after careful consideration, would allow a project to be built twenty feet higher than now permitted. This Order has been very carefully developed, with appropriate safeguards for nearby properties. Its passage is absolutely essential to our ability to fund the two major projects remaining in our commitment to a renewed and revitalized infrastructure-a new middle school and modern public safety facilities. I urge all of you to actively support this order by contacting your City Councilors. We have the very real chance to do something that will benefit all of us - our children and ourselves. We can embrace Smart Growth and the opportunity that is before us, or we can debate tax overrides, or we can live without a new middle school and without modern public safety facilities. I believe our choices are that clear. I also believe very strongly that the right choice is equally clear. The order before the Council this evening is critical to our quality of life here in Beverly, and I urge you to help get it passed. Carefully planned development in appropriate places benefits us all. Now for a look at some other projects of significance. The Edwards School Condominiums have turned out quite well. Of the 28 units built, 23 have now been sold. We have similar plans for the McKay School site and a request for the zoning modifications necessary to enable that project is currently before the City Council. As you may recall, proceeds from the sale of the McKay site and tax revenues from the residences to be built there are expected to partially fund the High School project. It all ties in folks. Another project in process is on our waterfront. The owner of the very popular "Black Cow' Restaurants in Hamilton and Newburyport wants to open in Beverly at the old McDonald's site, next to Port Marina. We have reached substantial agreement on a lease. State officials have been extremely helpful in navigating a maze of bureaucracy, and the formal permitting process will begin very shortly. I am optimistic that we will succeed in bringing this waterfront restaurant to fruition. Another project important to all of us is the proposed Route 128 overpass near Brimbal Avenue. That design is being funded by the State. This project would provide direct access to and egress from land on both sides of Route 128, reducing travel on Brimbal Avenue by 40 percent. It will improve the quality of life for many of our residents in the Brimbal Avenue and Dunham Road area by diverting the heavy traffic associated with the North Shore Music Theater and the nearby industrial developments. The project will also effectively address ever-increasing traffic and the present roadway safety issues caused, in large measure by the highway's antiquated design. The process of assessing this project's impact on the environment has been underway for several months. A comprehensive Environmental Impact Report evaluating and mitigating the project's impact on the environment is being prepared at present and we expect it to be completed early this summer. We look forward to the public participation process that will then unfold, and I sincerely hope all interested citizens will get involved in that process. I am also optimistic about another project - the construction of an ice skating facility near the intersection of Sam Fonzo Drive and Henderson Road adjacent to the new two new playing fields recently built there. That privately financed and operated facility, on land to be leased from the City, will provide revenue to Beverly and recreation to residents of all ages. We have worked diligently, for well over a year, drafting a thorough Request for Proposals that will ensure the facility, its construction and its operation pose absolutely no threat to its surrounding environment. In an abundance of caution, we have worked closely with the Beverly-Salem Water Supply Board in this regard. The RFP for the skating facility will be issued next week on February 14th. All of the projects I've mentioned this evening are important to Beverly, but none is more important than our environment. We must recommit ourselves to the preservation of our environment and make every effort to live that commitment. One simple but substantive way to do that is recycling. Recycling saves our environment. It reduces greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the amount of energy used by industry. It reduces emissions of air and water pollutants by decreasing the need to extract and process new raw materials from the earth, saving natural resources. Reprocessing used materials to make new products reduces the consumption of natural resources. Recycling saves energy. The steps in supplying recycled materials to industry typically use less energy than the steps in supplying virgin materials to industry. So, recycling saves our environment, saves natural resources and saves energy. But it may not surprise anyone here tonight to hear me say that my favorite part about recycling is this - it saves money. Recycling reduces solid waste and reducing solid waste reduces disposal costs. Every ton of paper, plastic, cardboard and tin that goes into recycling instead of our trash saves us Seventy-five Dollars, and in a city of our size, that adds up very fast. While we explore ways to increase our recycling savings in the upcoming Trash Collection Contract, we already possess our most effective means to maximize those savings, and that is us, all of us. Every one of us, in every household, has to make every effort to recycle and yes, it is an effort. But it is worth it. We will be saving the environment, we will be saving natural resources, we will be saving energy and we will be saving money. 15 So there you have it. From school projects through Smart Growth, from flood control to restaurants and recycling, we have a very ambitious agenda, but we have the energy, the enthusiasm and the expertise to match. We also have a good track record. While always looking to improve, I and my administration, take some satisfaction in the role we have played in helping to make Beverly a better place. Looking ahead, I see the opportunity to bring the High School project to completion, on budget and on time, with maximum reimbursement from the State. I see the opportunity to complete the flood control and other projects I've talked about tonight. I see the opportunity to revitalize Rantoul Street and to fund a new middle school and modern public safety facilities. I see the opportunity to finish many of the important things we started not all that long ago and I very much want to do that. For all of these reasons, and because this is the City I love, I intend in November to ask the citizens of Beverly for the privilege of continuing to serve as Mayor. I vow tonight to spend every day between now and then earning that privilege. I know that everyone in this Chamber this evening is dedicated to making Beverly an even better place so I ask all of you, and every Beverly citizen not here tonight, to join me in the effort to do just that. Let us all rededicate ourselves to the tasks before us. And let us all never forget that we share a good and worthy goal - an even better Beverly, for all of us, of every age, from every neighborhood. Thank you. Acceptance of Minutes: Meeting of January 16, 2007 Communications from His Honor the Mayor: # February 5, 2007 Honorable City Council City Hall Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Honorable Council: As per the attached note from Purchasing Agent David Gelineau, please take action to surplus a parcel of land some 941 square feet in size belonging to the Hannah School. The School Department has already surplussed this parcel. Very truly yours, William F. Scanlon, Jr., Mayor Refer to # February 5, 2007 Honorable City Council City Hall Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Honorable Council: As per the attached communication from Purchasing Agent David Gelineau, please take action this evening to declare the easement at the end of Brimbal Hill Drive between the City of Beverly and Verizon as surplus property. Very truly yours, William F. Scanlon, Jr., Mayor Refer to # February 5, 2007 Honorable City Council City Hall Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Honorable Council: 16 I hereby reappoint, subject to your review and recommendation, Mr. Larry Jaquith, 40 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA 01915, to serve as a member of the Design Review Board. His term will be effective until December 1,2009. Very truly yours, William F. Scanlon, Jr., Mayor Refer to # February 5, 2007 Honorable City Council City Hall Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Honorable Council: I hereby reappoint, subject to your review and recommendation, Ms. Patricia Murphy, 34 Appleton Avenue, Beverly, MA 01915, to serve as an Alternate Member to the Zoning Board of Appeal. Her term will be effective until October 1, 2011. Very truly yours, William F. Scanlon, Jr., Mayor Refer to # February 5, 2007 Honorable City Council City Hall Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Honorable Council: I hereby reappoint, subject to your review and recommendation, Mr. David Lang, 2 Fosters Point, Beverly, MA 01915, to serve as a member of the Conservation Commission. His term will be effective until June 30, 2008. Very truly yours, William F. Scanlon, Jr., Mayor Refer to # February 5, 2007 Honorable City Council City Hall Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Honorable Council: I hereby appoint, subject to your review and recommendation, the following to serve as members of the Council on Aging: Claire-Marie Hart 5 Cornell Road Beverly, MA 01915 Edward Glichouse 22 Foster Drive Beverly, MA 01915 They will replace Mr. Pietro Nuccio and Bruce Doig. Their terms will be effective until June 30,2009. 17 Very truly yours, William F. Scanlon, Jr., Mayor Refer to # February 5, 2007 Honorable City Council City Hall Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Honorable Council: I hereby submit for your information the attached Annual Beano Report from the Friends of the Beverly Council on Aging. Very truly yours, William F. Scanlon, Jr. , Mayor Refer to # February 5, 2007 Honorable City Council City Hall Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Honorable Council: As you know, one police cruiser was totaled in the recent fatal crash on Cabot Street. The other two cruisers of the same make, model and vintage have been taken off the road as a precaution. Our chief mechanic, Brad Koch, has recommended that the City purchase Dodge Charger vehicles based on braking excellence, overall quality and price. We are in the process of procuring three Dodge Charger vehicles on an emergency basis. Funds from the "Reserve for Unforeseen Account" in the amount of Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000) will be needed to pay for these vehicles. I hereby request a transfer of said $60,000 to account "Police Department - Cruisers" from account "Reserve for Unforeseen." Said sum of money to be expended under the direction of the Chief of Police. Finance Director, John Dunn's note which is attached provides additional informative details regarding this matter. The emergency declaration to procure these vehicles is based on the high miles driven on many of our remaining cars. Please set a Public Hearing date on this matter at your first convenience. Thank you. Very truly yours, William F. Scanlon, Jr. Mayor Refer to Finance and Property # February 5, 2007 Honorable City Council City Hall Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Honorable Council: Attached please find the proposed amendment to the "CC" Zoning District along a portion of Rantoul Street between Bow Street and the Edwards School. 18 Tina Cassidy, Planning Director has written a cover note summarizing features of this proposed legislation which is also attached. Please set a Public Hearing to discuss this important piece of proposed legislation at your earliest convenience. Thank you. Very truly yours, William F. Scanlon, Jr., Mayor Refer to Leqal Affairs and Planninq Board Communications from Other City Officers and Boards: # January 29,2007 Honorable City Council C/o Mrs. Frances Macdonald City Hall Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Councilors: RE: Parking Ordinance Change Request, Bartlett St. We have received a request from the Beverly Fire Department to extend the NO PARKING zone on Bartlett St.. Current City Ordinance Chapter 14, Section 120 prohibits parking on the west side of Bartlett Street from Cabot Street to Lovett Street. The fire trucks cannot make the left turn onto Bartlett St. from Lovett St. if vehicles are legally parked on Bartlett St. southerly beyond Lovett St. We recommend extending the NO PARKING zone to 19 Bartlett St., which would give adequate clearance for fire tucks to turn. Please take the necessary action to amend Chapter 14 Section 120 as follows: Delete: Sec. 14-120 Bartlett Street, Westerly side from Cabot Street to Lovett St. Add: Sec 14-120 Bartlett Street, Westerly side from Cabot Street to 19 Bartlett St. Very truly yours, Christopher J. Negrotti, Traffic Sergeant Safety Officer Refer to Leqal Affairs #1A January 24, 2007 Mrs. Frances A. Macdonald, City Clerk 191 Cabot St. Beverly, MA 01915 RE: Recommendation from Planning Board on Joint Public Hearing/Zoning Amendment Dear Ms. Macdonald: At a meeting of the Beverly Planning Board held on Thursday, January 18, 2007, members of the Board voted unanimously to recommend to the City Council that a Joint Public Hearing be held between the Planning Board and the Council relative to City Council Order #1, to amend Section 29-23.E of the Zoning Ordinance relative to the residential reuse of existing public buildings. Sincerely, Richard Dinkin, Chairperson Refer to Leqal Affairs Communications, Applications and Petitions: # Notification of Name Change from The Press Box to The Sports Connection 19 Refer to Leqal Affairs # Application Lodging House License-276-278 Rantoul Street (Formerly Lighthouse) Refer to Leqal Affairs # Application Lodging House License-325 Cabot Street, Beverly Affordable Housing, former the Mayflower Refer to Leqal Affairs # Communication relative to 06 order 268-Sidewalk on Pleasant St. Refer to # Communication relative to encroachment of city property at Pleasant St. Refer to Reports from Committees: #06-198 The Committee on Finance and Property to whom as referred the matter of Communication relative to the sale of the GAR Hall have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit: Receive and Place on File Order read once and adopted 9-0 Vote #15 The Committee on Finance and Property to whom was referred the matter of reappointments to Planning and Construction Committee, Maureen Hobin, Cheryl Sydorko, Rod Maxner, Ray Bouchard, Tim Brennan, Robert Griffin and Dan Skolski have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit: Recommend the council approve the appointments Order read once and adopted 9-0 Vote #280-06 The Committee on Finance and Property to whom was referred the matter of Communication relative to Joint Consolidation Committee have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit: Receive and Place on File Order read once and adopted 9-0 vote #16 The Committee on Finance and Property to whom was referred the matter of Appropriation to Account "North Beverly Drainage" ($350,000) have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit; Submit the accompanying order and recommend its adoption Ordered: That the City Council approve the request of the Mayor for an appropriation of Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000.00) to account "North Beverly Drainage Project" from the "Sewer Account." Said sum of money to be expended under the direction of the Director of Engineering. 20 Order read once and adopted 9-0 vote # The Committee on Finance and Property to whom was referred the matter of Transfer to Account Police Cruisers have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit; Submit the accompanying order and recommend its adoption Ordered: That the City Council hold a Public Hearing on Monday February 20, 2007 at 7:05 PM in Council Chambers, Third Floor, City Hall, 191 Cabot St., Beverly, MA relative to a transfer to account Police Cruisers in the amount of $60,000.00 #1 The Committee in Legal Affairs to whom was referred the matter of Joint Public Hearing relative to Residential Reuse of Existing Public Building have considered said matter and beg to report as follows, to wit: Submit the accompanying order and recommend its adoption. Ordered: That order #1 be amended to read that the City Council and the Planning Board will hold a Joint Public Hearing on Monday March 5, 2007 at 7:05 PM in council chambers relative to a Zoning Amendment entitled "Residential Reuse of Existing Public Buildings" Order read once and adopted 9-0 Vote #260-06 The Committee on Legal Affairs and accounts to whom was referred the matter of Zoning Change (Rantoul Street) have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit: Receive and Place on File Order read once and adopted 9-0 Vote #265-06 The Committee on Legal Affairs to whom as referred the matter of Zoning Change-Residential reuse of existing buildings have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit Receive and Place on File Order read once and adopted 9-0 Vote #18 The Committee on Legal Affairs to whom was referred the matter of Appointment as Constables-Gary Modugno and James Cameron have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit: Recommend the Council approve the appointments Order read once and adopted 9-0 Vote # 06 - 273 The Committee on Public Services to whom was referred the matter of Communication from National Grid relative to improvements have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit: Receive and Place on File 21 Order read once and adopted 9-0 Vote #17 The Committee on Public Services to whom was referred the matter of Appointment Parks and Recreation, Deborah Ploszay, Jeffrey Rubin and Gary Lambert have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit: Recommend the Council approve the Appointment Order read once and adopted 9-0 Vote #19 The Committee on Public Services to whom was referred the matter of Reappointment to Library Board of Trustees, Anthony Kline and Kathleen McMahon have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit: Recommend the Council approve the Appointments Order read once and adopted 9-0 Vote #20 The Committee on Public Services to whom was referred the matter of Appointment to Library Board of Trustees, Roseann Benson have considered said matter and beg leave to report as follows, to wit: Recommend the Council approve the Appointment Order read once and adopted 9-0 Vote Unfinished Business: Resolutions: # Eagle Scout Jonathan Kenney # Eagle Scout Matthew Harting Motions and Orders: # Meeting adjourned: PM Frances A. 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