##VIDEO ID:jf8JWMEGVSw## javanni Rodriguez pursuing to chapter 20 of the acts of 2022 this meeting of the budget and finance committee is being conducted both in person and via remote participation a reminder that persons who would like to listen or view this meeting while in progress May either attend in person at here at the city council chamber or use any of our uh social media Accounts at this point can you please join me in the pledge [Music] stat counselors I'm going to start with the new business from November 7th since that meeting was cancelled to be fair um to those individuals we're going to start off with item 56-24 authorization to expend $112,000 on under the sorb address verif verification program AVP grants and we have director sheeper here from the Lawrence Police Department good evening City councils this is my name is Rosa sheeper director of support services at the Lawrence Police Department um and I'm here to present the sex offender Grant the Lawrence Police apply for the sex offender Grant and we were granted $12,000 on this grant um to pay for over time this grant will be used uh by the swor officers for locating offenders and verifying address um and verify address for for sex offenders so this is to ver verify addresses um how are we doing with updating the list of sex offenders cuz that was an issue in the past I haven't I haven't checked recently so I don't know where we're at with that okay for that I brought a sergeant P was was hello ladies gentl hello Sergeant how are you I'm uh Sergeant Mar P attacus I oversee the over see the administrative division at the PD and uh detective John he here uh handles the sex offenders and uh so your question is upda me the site so we've updated the City of Lawrence website where there's access right to the State website and that's updated on a daily basis uh every city in town does that now it just goes right to mg and it goes right to their site and uh all that information is updated immediately by them awesome thank you any other questions any other questions councelors council president just to follow up on um The Madame The Madame Shar uh Infante there was a video before um with the sex offender face oh inside the police department no it was like on channel 22 and so far so one that that didn't get update for quite some time well that's they have access to that through the portal now through that mass.gov all the faces will be there all the addresses and everything will be there uh we can we really don't have we really don't have the capability of doing that part anymore of of updating ourselves it's a lot of it's a lot of work and it's just a lot of uh changes that have to be made and the state doesn't follow you so when they press on that link on the city of w Lawrence website under the S Link Sex Offender link that whole that whole TV section will come up most PDS don't have that TV in their lobbies anymore how like I how many sex offenders we are currently leing in the city of lence right now we have 193 register sex offender and what what levels can you specify the amount for we have level one we have 45 that either live or work here level one does not uh register with us they registered you before you go to that number can you define what level one level two and level three me level one is the the chance of reoffending is very minimal to no to no chance at all level two they have a a little higher risk of offending level three they have a a a good amount of risk to reoffend so me that mean that they get arrested for more than one time for the same it could be the crime like like a violent I I I apologize for the a violent rape or something like that they would be made at level three okay do you mind uh providing us next time because we're going to see in this again at the full Council level do you mind bringing up what what is the definition based on the law so we can have a better understanding yeah uh not just on the uh potential second offense but on the definition as of what it means to to be in each level and then can you provide us with the number per level sure and we can tell you that right now it's uh there's 10 114 level two offenders 45 level one 114 level two and 44 level three and there's also the next level is silent uh sexual violent predator and we don't have thank God we don't have any no no no no there is no is SVP yeah and what the grant does allows us to do more checks at their homes uh we start with the level 3es then we go to level twos uh we had a smaller Grant this past last year's Grant uh were able to get full rest warrants for people that said they lived in a certain location no longer live there and I don't know if you have this and uh break it down a little more but like if you don't have it can you bring it to us next week uh how many of those how many of those um 100 almost 100 uh sex offenders are considered are on are also on the uh on the homeless list okay I can try to do that yeah and um they have to uh some of them might not be on that homelessness but most of them are but they have to register as homeless which means they have to come see me every month yeah to and and also uh how many of those are leaving within uh common Community perhaps uh a roomy house okay so if you don't have those that's fine next week sure we can do at least if you can get those numbers so homeless room and houses and you want to know the definition of each level I just want I want to take this opportunity to apologize for the music in the background it's um a a static or I don't not static a station interference um we are we've been trying our best to get this resolved and we make progress and then we you know it's it's very complicated so I apologize to you guys here and to the people watching at home thank anything else Council can I have a motion to to send with a favorable recommendation oh make the motion motion the seconded by Council marmal [Music] discussion I the eyes have it next item is 58-24 authorization to pay prior year invoices in the amount of $1,390 with9 for Amazon and WB Mason and this was brought to us by the library director I don't see her here however we do have all the information counselors I'll make a motion to send it to full councel with a fair recommendation motion has been made probably second in discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I and the eyes have it all right we're going to the top of the agenda um order we'll leave um we're going to leave the airport one for last um that we buil can can get here all right item 54524 authorization to expend 1,000 one 100,000 $130,000 for the mass Trail Grant from EO e EA for sper River gation brought To Us by our Financial Manager suin sink I thought it was just it's just you s it's just me you have the floor good evening counselors um this the city was awarded a $130,000 grant from eoea to do um to plan a phase renovation of a failing Bridge which is connecting the Julia Silvio Park to the orange General Hospital campus it's part of the spet river Greenway um the scope of work under this grant is to assess the condition of the bridge to do environmental permitting which includes the mass historic commission project notification form the wetlands protection act notice of intent and the chapter 91 water dependent application um we will also be preparing the design plans for the renovation of the bridge and this will um queue us up to um apply for additional funding um in the mass Trails Grant in FY 27 to fund the um actual construction on the bridge this grant is um an 80% um reimbursable Grant and the match will be coming from inine staff time from staff in our office who will be working on this project and also we're going to put some cdbg um out of the infrastructure line item councelor there any questions council president good question to you m share U is what percentage of the design this grind is going to put uh going to put us at the 10% level or 25% level oh we're going to be at 100% for design when we're done with this money mhm okay any other questions counselors seeing none I'll entertain a motion I'll I'll make a motion to send it to the for coun a recommendation motion has been made probably second in discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I and the eyes have it thank you thank you counselors next item is item 54624 authorization to expend 22,7 for from the formula grant from the executive office of Elder Affairs we have director Valdez with here with us tonight director good evening counselors good evening everyone um yes this is our yearly uh allotted amount from the state um this year the amount went to $15 we had a dollar increase um I'd like to thank our state delegation for pushing that through um so we this is we've gotten $ 22,707 the program administrator H any questions seeing none I'll entertain motion I I'll make a motion to send it to the full coun with a fa recommendation motion has been made properly second in discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I and the eyes have it and director the next one's yours item 54724 authorization to expend $155,000 from the title 3 Grant from the executive office of Elder Affairs and Elder Services of the marac valley director this is title three funding it comes to hban hban gets money through the federal government and then we apply for it we applied for $155,000 to have workshops with the police and fire to educate our seniors on how to um safety on uh self-defense on uh reporting and also on Fires thank you councelors any questions Council marmel um is this educating all seniors throughout the whole city of Lawrence or does it Target certain housing uh communities no all of them we we will we've actually done some in elderly housings and we do some at the center we did we got this grant last year and we did that with um community policing um and then at the end we had something where we brought everybody together everybody that had taken the like the little workshops that we do um and they ask questions and it it was actually really good so I apply for it again CU not you're not going to serve everybody all at once so is this multiple events throughout the year or is it like a onetime no it's like six six workshops and in the six workshops what would you say is the attendance like um the highest one we had was about 80 the lowest one was about 40 okay yeah yeah Council has any other questions council president um have this is the second time we get this rant yes okay and have you have you think about something more uh a little different than before that actually reach out a little more the seniors uh perhaps having a video going to channel 22 they look at it they they still watch the TV uh and then or have some type of uh uh social media campaign just for seniors that that Target a specific age perhaps 6 2 and up within the Sip code of 141 841 and 1843 or something like that and our SI codes I mean I don't know do you think that that might work yes I think that's a really good idea the first time we wrote it was really about um Elders getting comfortable with community policing and this time we're doing workshops um so the first one was really like coffee hours and people really getting to know community policing and kind of taking away that stigma that people are afraid to call Police Department or call police officers or report things so we really did a lot about you know see it you report it you know um be vigilant about around your surroundings and how you speak to police officers and they kind of taught them how to like you know pay attention to pay attention to sorry that's okay you guys are all set director welome um so all that stuff that we did the first time and then this time we thought we'd do focus groups where like they get educated like really educated and look at um how to really report things how to really um defend themselves um fire we really were focusing a lot more a little more on fire this year so that we could teach Elders how important it is to have apartment Insurance how important it is to not fall asleep maybe buy an alarm when you put something on the stove and put the the alarm to sound in 30 minutes so if you fall asleep you can hear the alarm and something doesn't burn so um we're looking at all of that and we're actually with um Delaney Captain Delaney we actually talked about giving away things that have to do with fire prevention but I like your idea of videos I definitely will look at that um I think there's other possibilities for other fundings to be able to do that kind of what we did with um the census where we made like a local commercial yes yeah and then we played something like that something that actually I mean you have a great great amount of seniors at the center yeah um I finally say the Center thank you I appreciate you very much yes so but I mean it is it is it is important kind of like you know look into a little bit because they look at the social media especially Facebook and stuff like that uh not necessarily other more upto-date uh platform but I mean no I like the idea I definitely I will definitely jot that down and work on that I like the idea thank you I appreciate it I'll make a motion motion has been made probably second discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I and the I have it thank you have a good night next item is item 54824 authorization to pay prior year invoices in the amount of $5,280 for um Capital Waste Services and and $150 is for roomle news um brought To Us by DPW director but we have our deputy director Miss uh the miss the Rosario director you have the good evening counselors thank you yes we have $ 15,218 with 88 cents that we need to pay um to waste Capital Waste Services this from this was for services that they did for us back in July of 2023 um for some reason we did not pay these invoices on time because there was some investigation that I had to do towards the services reason why they were taking our recycling um and getting it processed in a different facility due to the fact that um Republic Services um cut us down from the facility that we were bringing our recyclables to so we had to work on a new contract and um Capital waste Capital waste um services help us out by bringing um using their own account to Cella so we had to pay for for the services they did for us and I'm seeing here and also the invoice from HBO news um was for two uh ads for the EV the exavation permit to be published correct and that was for that was on both October 8th and October 22nd and also provided us uh the a print out of of that ad thank you C has any questions or comments make a motion to send it coun recommendation motion has been made properly seconded discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I and the eyes have it thank you so much deputy director next item is item 5 49-24 authorization to expend 1, 208,000 $942 with with 73 from the Massachusetts Municipal Public Safety Staffing Grant and we have director Shephard here from uh Lawrence Police Department so the Lawrence Police apply for the FY 25 um massachusett Municipal Public Safety Grant and we would approve in the amount of 1, 28,9 42 in 73 which is an increase of 20374 2.71 from last year um we mainly use this grant for um to pay for the new recruits at the Academy which is the uh uh uh the academy the equipment the uniform we as well we use some of the uh some of the funds to pay for their their salary and the salary for the new officers as well for overtime for the current Office of the Lawrence Police Department what consists of we also have other cost what generally um is covered for for other cost other costs will be the equipment such as radio the uniform to start the uh the the academy the uniform wants to graduate from the academy um as well for the tuition of the uh um of the recruits Council has any questions or comments council president it is this is a an State grant that we have get for a couple of years now right for about 11 years 11 12 years right that's what I thought and and the amount of new hires that these grants actually cover every year it's about what 10 or something um 8 to n 8 to n yeah the uh um um it is budget for uh it is budg an approve for a a recruits at this point all right no problem no more questions any other questions or comments I'll make a motion to ition I I make a motion to send it to the full council with if I recommendation motion has been made properly second in discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I and the eyes have it thank you director now we're going back to the first item which is item 5 44-24 authorization to pay prior year invoices in the amount of $1,231 with 43 from NRG and this is from our airport and we have the um the commissioner here the airport commissioner here to speak on this good evening uh Madam chair members of the budget and finance committee Bill Collins one plaque Court representing lence airport commission this item was a prior year invoice that was sent to the wrong address from NR the new energy consolidator and uh apparently it was sent to 200 carment Street so the mistake has been rectified that represents about 6 months of billing and we have to bill it now even though it was the last fiscal year looking to pay that bill okay thank you Council has any questions I'll make a motion to send it to the full councel a recation motion has been very properly second in discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I and the eyes have it thank you counselors thank you counselor anything can I have a motion to adjourn so motion has been made you have one do you have an item do you want to on table let me see let me see let me take the look real quick right 24 can have a motion to untable item 23421 tax collection and local receipts update for fiscal year 20124 what has been made there second uh second probably seconded although those in favor say I I and the eyes have it council president I would like to make a motion to send correspondence to the C to update the counil on all this body to on the uh on the important topic of tax collection and local receipt for the fiscal year for the current fiscal year uh that we are and I would like to make that as a form of promotion so SEC second second second discussion um Maria can you also add to that to that um uh requesting the C's presence so we can go over this in in person at the next budget and finance meeting thank you um any other comments all those in favor say I I and the eyes have it can I have a motion to retable item 2342 21 Mo made properly seconded all those in favor say I I and the eyes have it there's any other items that you guys would like to on table make a motion to motion to adjourn is there a second properly seconded all those in favor say I I the eyes have it thank you so much counselors e e