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it as our citation how you doing welcome back let me say hello to council president before he put on his glasses put us on his glasses super [Music] serious all right we're going to have to approve it today then so um next time just put it as a as a citation even though we do here but we have it's I know but I mean for a citation is like let's add another item to the agenda as a citation which say resolution so I know but let's do another item so we can have on the table matter another item for sitations because the resolution we're going to have to decare an emergency send that suspend the rules you don't have to because you have the item already there this I'm saying like you put that on there specifically to kind of fill that Gap got it I think you cover it I really do Jennifer Rees um just I'm going to it's okay this is this is for Monday have okay I just going I actually just thank god um maybe there is other people that wanted to speak Selen Selena so yeah someone want good evening good evening anybody from the public like to speak and minutes we have the list here anybody from the public would like to speak go [Music] she thank you what is wrong with this the is I dated it for June 20th and after we bring to the printer tomorrow for the um that's when you want to put on a plaque is going to be approved today right it's come it came from the from committee yeah resolution came up from committee it's all done it's all signed and tomorrow we'll bring it to the um thing to have it printed yeah and they'll have it back by the 18th or the 20th whatever it's supposed to be would you look that you this wrong thing [Music] let's go good evening and welcome to the regular meeting of the Len city council today is Tuesday June 4th 2024 uh pursuing to chapter 20 of the act of of 2022 this meeting will be hybrid allowing participation allowing participation both in person and at the city council chambers as well as remotely the zoom link was provided to anybody would like that U that requested also you can watch this meeting uh through the two following Outlet laen city council Facebook page and laen city council YouTube page roll call please Madan cler councelor Levy pres councilor lant president Council Lon president Council Del Rosario president Council Santiago present councilor marmel present Council Rees present Council vice president Infante present council president Rodriguez present please join me for a moment of silence please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of alleg to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all there no minutes bro at this time at this time there is no minute to be approved and we're going to have we're going to pursue with public participation the rules are as follow we're going to have you're going to have 2 and a half minutes to speak at the 2minute Mark you're going to get a ring indicating that you still have 30 seconds please refer to the council as a whole not as an individual counselors the first person that we have on the list for public participation today is H Mali name and address for the record please Mal 53 Chester Street good evening honorable members we are grateful to this honorable city council and honorable mayor Brian deeno for offering contract for our Pat trolman officers and Superior officers Lawrence Police with the impactable leadership by honorable Chief Bonia doing excellent job to protect our citizen Lawrence Police one of the best police department in the nation we support Lawrence Police Union and Superior officers Union thank you for excellent job Lawrence is a beautiful city because of our hardworking DPW employees we demand the best compensation for our DPW employees and Leadership Lawrence Inspection Department thank you for excellent job we support our Inspection Department employee union we must hire more inspector we the citizen welcome the new leader of the Lawrence Public School honorable ra graa we support your leadership Lawrence teachers you are number one we are proud to support Lawrence teachers union please bring food and donation for our homeless population every Wednesday night to the Bley garage Lawrence always strong Lawrence always unite we demand the best contract for our brave firefighters with 3% Cola raise and Hazard pay we pray for the safety of all police officers in dangering their life Lawrence Police thank you for making Lawrence a safe City with lenan stand United in support of Lawrence Police Union and thank you next the next person is councelor Rich Russell good evening Council his name is Richard Russell reside 34 cross street first I want to thank the budget and finance committee for having the patients to wait through 180 pages of uh Financial fertilizer and weed out the important questions to be asked uh a tip of my baseball cap to you I must warn you of my impending comments at the public hearing on the FY 2025 budget second a a butt in the boot a boot in the butt to the denzin of the third floor for interfering with the selection process for the Lawrence Public School Superintendent I hope the city office to pay desie back the money that they wasted in vetting uh individuals for this important job just think how much money desie could have saved if they realized how effective a third floor hisy fit was third good it's good to see several playgrounds the dunan and the Cronin have been rejuvenated but I have to ask a question what happened to R Park we had neighborhood meetings down there in cold windy weather only to find out the wind blew the plans to the back of the stove continuing on it would be nice if the powers it would be would limit the use of City Hall parking lot by city employees on Tuesday late afternoons and Tuesday early evenings on the days of City Council meetings to allow the citizens of Lawrence wishing to attend Council meetings space to pck in back in the day when Dan Rivera was mayor mayor there was a Prohibition against city hall employees from using the lot last is there any way the city could notify the public in a more timely manner about the ongoing Street Paving program just hanging cardboard signs with a two-e time frame of no parking somehow doesn't fit what my definition of proper notification is always thank you uh for the chance to address you with various concerns about the city uh PS does the alma search process affect police Chiefs and will hisy Fitz be allowed in this search process thank you thank you now uh public hearing is uh public participation is now closed these names are going to be submitted for the record pursuing uh pursuing to the to the agenda before we continue with the agenda I would like to recognize that uh the the presence or the visit of U our own state senator P payano he's here with with us today as well as the state representative Paulino thank you for the visit now we're going to uh pursue with u taking out of the table matters uh item 17019 which is the resolution recognizing the L academic achievement it was uh put together back in 2019 by councelor Bayan councelor llant item 170 councilors can I get a motion to remove out of the table matter there is a prop there is a motion on the table proper second um discussion no discussion uh all those in favor please say I I any objection the eyes have it Council thank you council president appreciate the courtesy and the time um what I would like to do now uh we have a few folks we want to bring up uh you did already mention that we have the senator Pano here and representative Paulino um if they're willing I would like for them to be here as well for the first one and for the second one um and then I just want to invite uh the first person is Nikki oh nikk can you come up please I pronounce the name always messing up nam I it right excellent thank you I got to tell you this is we've been doing this for some time and it's a real treat to um to really highlight individuals such as Nikki uh who have really risen to the very top of a of Academia in our city um as you know we have um the Abit Lawrence Academy and and I'm not sure how the proper way the the regular high school that would be the proper designation LHS and I Nikki here was the very top graduate at the Abbot Abbot Academy and she um frankly H it out of the ballpark at graduation ceremonies when she gave the Valic dictorian address so as we have done for some time and I'm going to take this one on I'll tell you why because uh Nikki actually lives in my district um and it and it makes me extra special IED when you can represent someone of the kind of background and um of competencies that you bring so besides being the valoran at the abot Lawrence academy uh you were very involved in Upward Bound math and science programs and I can always mention that how you pronounce Nobles and Greeno Greeno school and she also got a seven week long uh physiological chemistry summer course at UMass Boston an amazing woman young woman hardworking ambitious she's a community leader she excelled in many in many Advanced uh honors Advanced placements early college classes at Marram college for example uh she has a strong interest in pharmaceutical Sciences uh you've gone you've done a ton of stem courses as well through your high school years and apparently your Early College Years uh and you know something uh you've been very involved in other extracurricular activities as being a member of the Lawrence Asian Student Association the lasa Lassa um and you're also helping with other cultural events and fundraisers at your school you are going to be studying uh farmacy uh at Northeastern University and can you tell me what your GPA is 4.6 62 62 right wow so with that I'm going to give this two things I'm going to give this to you and I also want can you please acknowledge your parents who are here today and could they stand up I just want to acknowledge them thank youc so that's for you and I also want to give this to you this is a City of Lawrence Pin I'm going to give it to you I'm not going to pin it aren't you um and I hope that you will wear this with pride um at school or wherever you find it's appropriate but it has the Three Rivers it's got the shaen the marac and the spigot River on there so I hope you will wear that guide you're you're you are so welcome and I'm glad to be a part of this we have Senator Paulino here as well you have the floor sir ni rep so you uh you you switched you switched Chambers um did I say representative uh uh no no no the senator Paulino so oh so I look like Senator okay that's fine well uh it is always a pleasure being here uh in in uh with the council um in in these Chambers uh and also for an an incredible occasion so I'm going to say a few words uh here to present this to you Nikki but uh these are words uh for all of the the individuals that are going to be uh receiving uh an acknowledgement and I want to thank my colleague uh uh representative uh Francisco Paulino um uh my strong friend here uh who's here to say a few words as well so I think one of the things that makes special is that all of your elected officials whether you're a city counselor where you're you're working for the state mayor school committee uh member they deeply believe in the uh in our youth uh in the uh idea that all of you have uh talents that sometimes are undiscovered and that you have incredible and amazing potential uh today I was uh at the state house today I heard that there were several people getting Awards getting scholarships and uh and that they were from Lawrence so I went and showed up and I see the room and there's maybe like around 15 people and I asked if the folks from Lawrence can step out and turned out that five of them were from Lawrence they were uh your classmates and I thought that that was uh wonderful uh and it just showed how incredible are are youth are right now uh and uh and their leadership uh I think that you are have all made us proud you guys will continue making us proud all I'll say is that as you are achieving your dreams and you are obtaining the success that you're looking for uh in your version of your American dream that you never forget the community that raised you and that you find a way to give back whether you're living in Alaska uh or or Paris uh I think there's always an opportunity to help support uh your your city and I know that you Nikki and everyone else will be able to do that so uh thank you very much and congratulations [Applause] well um counselor when you got conf when you got confused and you call uh you call me Senator and you call pel Paulino I didn't get angry because beside he being one of my best friends he's a ro model for me and I want to be like him when I grew up so for me it's an honor to be confused with him because I love him as a brother and I want to be like him one day so saying that I'm an immigrant just like your parents and when I walk every every street from this city I see Talent just like you and when I visit any school I see kids with the same ability to learn and succeed just like you have succeeded and if they have the opportunity and that you have they will do as well as you do just remember that just like pabel have been a mother for me you are the home mother for many kids in your neighborhood just remember that that for somebody on your neighborhood somebody in your school you are a role model and this city will look forward for you and your parents are so proud of you you cannot even imagine thank you for making us for making the city Lords proud [Applause] you say a few words go ahead um first I want to thank the city council and the city hall for having me here um it's an honor to be up here I also want to take some time to thank my principal Miss CIT for all the support she's given me throughout high school I'm very proud to be a part of this community and I'm excited for what the future holds go right front over there and sh everybody can be like do that all right I could could I ask a council marmal to to join us for for this next one angel angel is Angel Sal Noble Sal Noble here angel no okay we're going to hold on to this one um just in case are they here oh okay we're gonna I thought they were I thought he was here but I'm not so thank you very much council president I appreciate that and then when when we do have an opportunity to honor uh Angel Sal Noble we will at at a later time so thank you so no proceed with the councelor Infante first and then uh we we take the picture we take the reses and pictures uh councel Infante you may proceed uh yes go ahead okay that's fine good evening counselors for this recognition I'm also going to rein reinvite councelor marmel to join me up here in the podium I first want to start off by thanking Lauren High Headmaster um Victor kabaj for his help in in um uh providing additional information on this student this student athlete I came across him and I'm going to I'm going to call him up in a minute but I learned about him through Instagram there was a a a small gra um social media graphic going around um acknowledging his Sports achievement he averaged 2.6 26.7 points and 11.2 rebounds which earned him the marac Valley Conference Allstar Honors that was plastered both I saw it both on my personal Instagram and my city council Instagram and I just needed to to learn more about about this student um so at this point I would like to introduce to the city council the amazing student athlete OB Sebastian Lu [Applause] Luciano how are you this is your counselor councelor Vivian marmel nice to meet you um and to prepare for the before I read the resolution to prepare for this resolution I would also like to thank um representative Paulino and senator Pano who also helped um with this recognition and and they their offices got got started on their for their own um uh reconition but Obie is a superstar not only on the basketball court but also academically and you're and this is these are some of the achievements that Obie has has accomplished Obie is a salvatorian of Lawrence High School's prestigious Abbott Lawrence Academy as a talented athlete Obie could have chosen a last rigorous of academic program but he excelled with a challenging course load consisting of all honors programs advanced placement in dual enrollment courses at marac College he has taken advantage of academic opportunities to advance in the stem field and in doing so discovered his love for computer science through his AP classes and whereas Obie skillfully balanced his education with his commitment to Athletics and volunteerism throughout his High School career Obi has been part of the V of the varsity basketball team and dedicated countless hours to daily practices and games in this year he was named captain of that team Obie has volunteered with the Middle School youth basketball program running basketball clinics refering and scorekeeping games allowing him to share his passion for basketball and serve as a much needed role model role model for younger students while also tutoring his peers in both Math and Science addition Al this young man will be attending Yale University in the fall which is an [Applause] amazing so we members of the city council officially recognize Obie Sebastian Luciano for his amazing achievement both academically and a athletically yeah I'll I'll let the his counselor give him the with here you go I'll just say a few words on behalf of myself and our Madame chair um as former athletes ourselves and now uh serving as uh City counselors um I think the best part of being City counselors and the joy that we find in doing the public service that we do is because of you guys um if you continue to demonstrate the work ethic and the dedication that you have done uh throughout your school years into your adulthood life disguise the limit and you will continue to succeed so I'm so honored uh to be part of this journey with you thank thank you at this point I will turn over the mic to Senator Pano uh uh thank you uh so so Obie I'm not going to say much because I said a a lot before uh but I I'll I'll I'll say again we're extremely proud of you uh and to both of you and and to to your peers uh within my office there's always opportunities uh uh to intern um we're always looking for great individuals like like yourselves to come on board so know that our office is open to all of you for that or for uh uh to help with other opportunities we're all here to help support you so even though you are leaving Lawrence High School you have not left Lawrence um I I I I want to thank you uh for for doing that and and know that on behalf of myself and your the entire State delegation we're very proud of the efforts that you guys have done and we hope to uh work together to help continue uh building up and lifting up our city would you like to say a few words first and foremost I want to thank everybody for giving me the opportunity to be here especially my school and um my principles you know without this without them pushing me in being here I don't think I'd be at this position in this position where I'm at right now and yeah I just want to say thank you and I I hope I can continue to make the city proud and years to come thank you councelors on the uh to give it to you on a personal level I wanted to say a few words to Obi and his family uh U OB his parents OB OB his father father and his uncles uh the three of them has been uh three Barbers for over 20 years in Broadway Street so they I have I cut my hair with um um Obie's Uncle for over 20 over 10 years and on Broadway and I feel very proud at the result of uh of the family of barbers from Broadway Street for this entire time so oh we thank you for everything you have done thank you thank you thank you councelors can I get a motion to table this item uh and right after a motion to resist so second there is a motion to table properly second discuss no discussion on the table matters all those in fav please say I I motion to resist second there is a motion to resist uh properly second all those in fav please say I there I have it e e e e e e e e e e e e okay we good sign councilor can I get a motion to get a resist second there's a motion on the table properly second all those in favor please say I there I have it we continue with the agenda council president Council Lon motion to take item 288 d24 out of order racing rights from June 10 to 16 and Festival June 15 and 16 uh of this year at the Campion common what's the item number 288 the very bottom all right we have item 288 uh 24 which is a new business for that we're going to pull it of committed require I mean um we need to we require to six votes to uh declare as an emergency uh to add it to the agenda councelor can I get a motion to declare this item as an emergency for the benefit of the community there is a motion on the table properly second discussion discussion discussion thank you council president I I I don't have a lot of detail here because this is there background information on what the request is do we get this today uh as far as I know the date that approaching the uh today's date and they're not going to have enough time to go to through committee thank you but often times even even when we do with these things they people often times bring applications and background information do we have anything there's nothing that I have with me that I can see maybe I'm missing something do we have anything that describes what they're looking to do said man span has been I mean I understand that the request has been uh has been um asked the application but man P has over 50 years and and Lawrence uh that U is being wor away of everybody of what they do thank you but uh is the application available is there an application is there anything we're about to take something as an emergency is there anything that we have uh okay we're not we're not engaging into any discussion I'm just asking if if we have anything so the answer is no we don't have anything that's important if we're going to take a vote on this um if we don't have anything no it's no council plan sorry council president miss the answer is no there's nothing okay it's hard for me to ask questions if I don't have anything to ask questions about and I don't think we should start precedence with having something as an emergency because if it's an emergency we should have some background information okay and any other discussion I see no one that is thr I call the questions all those in favor please say I I I any NOS no roll call please Council Reyes yes Council marmel yes Council Santiago yes Council Del Rosario abstain Council Lon yes Council lant no councilor Levy yes Council INF fonte yes council president Rodriguez I vote Yes now this item is part of the agenda councilors what is the desire the that the event is going to take place uh between June 15 to June uh June 16 as well as um as well as June 10 uh to June 16 so starting on June 10 all the way to June 16 that's going the when the event is going to take uh place at the uh company place as requested councelors uh at this time since uh we are we are we might discuss this we either send it to committee but before we send it to committee I would like to um we we will not have time to send it to committee so we're going to need to uh suspend the rules to um uh so we can we not we don't have to send it to committee for that we're going to need how many votes six we also need six both so can I get a motion to suspend the rules uh to um not to send it to committee for that we're going to need six both councelors so there is a motion to suspend the rules and uh and uh and be able to discuss it at this level properly second discussion discussion council plan all right so let me get this St so it's an emergency we're now suspending the rules uh so that we don't send it down the council president said I think the board was 50 years that they've been doing that over 50 years over 50 years that this has been happening but yet tonight we're doing an emergency we're suspending the rules just so I'm clear do we know where this uh where they are looking to what is it that they're looking for the use of the campon common is what I have on the title but that's all I have is there a carnival is it something else there's a lot of confusion I can someone there's no confusion here okay please correct we we can clarify a few things for you just for you no no council president I think it's for the people that I represent excuse me you're going to you're going to get your answers give me a minute okay obviously you you want to make a show out of it but you won't get that not president I think it's UNC no problem um let's open it up U let's open the floor to or actually as a matter of fact I won't be able to give you an answer because we are not able to discuss this until we actually U have the item at this point and uh and be able to discuss at counselors there is any discussion to suspend the rules to actually be able to discuss it at this level any discussion any other any other discussion about this all right I Hear No so at this point I call the questions all in FA please say I hi um any else no R Council Levy yes Council l plant no council Lan yes Council Del Rosario abstain Council Santiago yes councelor marmel yes councelor Reyes yes coun vice president in fante yes council president Rodriguez yes so now councilors we have this item at this level we are in the process of discussing this for either approve it or not approve this item we can do many things at this point but at the uh but as uh previously asked uh we would like uh a motion to be able to uh look for the approval of I 28824 which is the manone span and fundraising right from June June 10 to June 16 and the festival uh that is going to take place on June 15 and June 16 of 2024 located at the company on Commons uh Gary Lopez the president of the Manis spana she is here with us and uh and we are looking uh for a motion to approve this item so we can discuss it discussion there is a motion there is a motion on the table uh can I hear a second second properly second discussion Council Infante Council vice president Infante thank you through you council president I would like to hear if we have a representative from the police department um pertaining to this event if if all the permits for this event has been pulled um I I I would like to know more information as well and what is the status on the city side of things name and address for the record please name and address for the record uh Lieutenant Joseph cillo 90 low Street Lawrence Mass so can you give us an an update as of uh the the potential discussion with that uh with the sanis spana about that uh the continuation of a 50 50y year tradition event that is happening in Lawrence uh about that uh the discussion with the police department and that uh and the security of the event absolutely so over the last several months uh we've been working with the committee from saman spanner to uh develop a plan for this this annual event uh the event was scheduled to be held at uh one Canal Street due to complications it was moved to pemon park and that was the last location that I knew that this event was going to be held uh to this date there is no permits uh pulled or put through citizen serve so there's no lical license in there's no permit for either pemon park or for the North Common at this time understood thank you through you counc president Council infant Council of Vice President infant thank you um I am a big thank you um Lieutenant for the information I am big with processes um if we expect all organizations to pull permits to apply through citizen serve all of that um I don't believe in making an exception especially when when events like this have been happening year over year and um organizations know what what what is expected of them and that is the only comment that I'm going to make on this item tonight well we'll take vice president Infante now uh there is there is a lot of opinion when it comes to uh this this permit uh and at this point I would like to open the opportunities for the presing off man ispana that is here to be able to uh give us some clarity about uh the application and uh What uh the organization have done when it comes to uh this potential uh change from place to place and uh and eventually ended up at the uh at the companion parik so give us some insights please may man address for the record ji Lopez 98 Cambridge Street Lawrence m843 and you are the president of the Hispanic week Marin De Jesus 18 chest master in Lawrence and I am the vice president of just give us some insights about the about the event what happened like um Chief um Sero said that we've been on conversation with um upper you know with the city with including the mayor of Florence to see where we can H this Festival of the last few months we've been in conversation I believe since January so it's been several meetings that we had to attend and there were several locations that were offered to us but because you guys know the magnitude of this Festival the amount of people that brings into the city it's to find a location that is going to accommodate and all the other all the other um vendors and and all of that that we have to accommodate for this um Festival it's nearly impossible to find a place here and our tradition has been to be held at the common Park and so we we as an organization all we want to do is bring our culture and bring this Festival to keep it going for generations to come so um the locations that were offered to us one on Canal Street did not work out because other um things that were going on in that Park then um we went into the um on North Canal Street where you guys know there's like a bton park where there like the river so one of my concerns you know it's like there's a river there it attracts children there's going to be you know the carnival is going to be so for that was my reservation well our reservation as a as a organization they we worked with the police department and the fire department they worked out you know safety plan but at the same time I understand that they were working with us but it still for for us it's not it wasn't good enough because any kids when we run this Festival a lot of children you know they just get lost and all of that and we there's a river right there so that's a major concern um and all we're asking is to help our festival for our community at the common Park and I understand that because we had been in conversation so it's taking a long time I did submit it for the permits um yesterday as we last night as we you know um we're running late I'm running late we don't I don't even have uh vendors but our we bring this here to you guys to have it considered for us to be allowed to have our festival at the um camp on Park as we as a tradition so um there is a there is a a potential answer of of what happened through uh for the application and uh and the conversation that you guys uh the organization have with uh the police department and the different department throughout the city um I have been a witness of of potential convers of some conversations with the mayor the mayor's office and and and the and and what might happen uh if we don't hold this this event uh and the tradition of that U of of U people's culture in this city and um any other any other addon to the the conversation that you may have when it comes to um um the application the application was submitted yesterday as citizen CER it's always been uh it's just a matter of time for everybody all the Departments to go and approve it because that's going to be their next step and then we can do which is the vendor uh permits which is the only other thing that is on our hand even our insurance binder is already done what the insurance the insurance binder is already insurance for the for the festival Insurance B it's already done yes they need to submit it that do you do do you submit it with the application she didn't submit it no did you do you submit it to the to the clerk office not yet okay they need it any other uh counselors that would like to ask questions councelor de rosar and and I mean council byce president also asked what is the position of the administration and Mr span is here so why don't we listen to what is the position of the administration at this time all right councel um advisor spanner the for the record please yes Octavian spanner to honor Common Street senior advisor to the mayor uh uh council president uh City councelor good evening the situation that that I think that needs to be clarified to you as well as to the public is the following when the administration first came uh came on board uh we did an assessment of all the parks including uh the champion Park and the assessment was that it didn't look the way it looks right now uh one of the reason is neglect that's one second of all was uh infestation of bugs that happens on a regular basis and that's part of Maintenance and the other issue was the fact that it was used uh by heavy equipment so you have uh trucks coming in and out uh the argument was that yes whenever there's a festival uh the trucks uh the the owners of the company would pay for the repairs and so forth but that's not how you maintain a park so the mayor uh indicated and I also had a conversation with s isana and voiced the concern that the administration had that first of all there's nothing against s Hispana but uh initially the idea was if s ispana and the carnival should be together on the premise and uh obviously if there's any damages to the park regardless of being a tradition but you know we have taxpayers money that goes into the maintenance of of the property um there were a few options yes last year because there was activities that took place but as you know even the previous administration uh that uh invested some of the city tax uh taxpayers dollars to repair as you can see on the right side of the park there's a series of of uh trees that have been uh planted and this current Administration injected more dollars in into the maintenance so then the argument just to clarify from that that uh the previous administration probably approved the trees but the trees were planted under this Administration yes yes it was it's part of it's part of the park it's part of also the green initiative uh the city council uh the previous city council or this body uh voted for a zero carbon emission by 2035 uh there was a I believe a unanimous vote at that time for those that already been here or those that are present know that and that's the reason why uh basically this ad ad Administration is executing whatever it promised the community that we will fix the parks we will make sure that we have lighting the May uh is passionate about about uh the upkeep of the parks including uh the the the common Park and um basically what we're doing together with the the different departments and the Department of Public Works is just executing the program now that doesn't have absolutely nothing to do with the festival Sam Hispana what the administration is concerned with this the the park could be used like any other Park I just came from can uh the City of Canton they have their Festival they they're organizing the events uh and the city uh welcomes all the activities including s sanana mind you that the current mayor uh mayor Brian deay served as the chairperson and president of laiman ispana and has injected also in the last two years money into the festival uh and that came before you for the approval uh so um but the mayor is concerned and is still concerned that the heavy equipments would be placed on the on uh the carnival would be placed on the park uh like any other festival elsewhere the uh Festival can continue on on the premise but the carnival is is what we are concerned with all right and to clarify council president because I don't think I don't know if the counselors are aware we were looking at different options last year we went across the street here at the parking spot next to the court uh the pton park as mentioned was also evaluated I didn't participate in all the meetings but initially I did and then uh recently was the conversation with uh the Oxford uh site which was where the co um site was uh was there were certain discussions there was not sufficient space uh so um that was not an option and that's the reason why certain delays with L all right counselors we have an opportunity to either approve this item uh not approve the item or uh do what the the council desire at this point we have a motion I'm going to open the floor to you thank you just clarifying where we are uh after the uh the mayor's opinion about the about the item we have a couple of options councelors that we can do at this time we have a motion uh to approve and uh we continue with the discussion councelor lean thank you very much I I do believe this motion is out of order and I'll explain why the city the city council in May the city council met in May and we had an emergency vote to allow an organization to use the camping own common on the same dates as now this application is for and as we've always done in the past if you're the first to come and ask for the use of a park you get it you cannot get kicked off after the city council has already approved and just I have my colleague here looking and I'm going to let them let you know what day it was it's document number 22124 the committee meeting was May 7th 2024 it was set up as an emergency it was passed unanimously by this Council so we already have an application that we've already approved I don't see how we now go ahead and allow the common the campon common to be used for something else when this body has already made known that so I think this particular most motion is out of order because we already granted a per all right uh just to clarify from you you can definitely challenge the uh the motion I'm challenging you right now council president I'm saying you got to motion but I mean before we continue with that let me clarify something to you um last weekend in your District at the O Corner Park we in your District the main Park in your District the OK Corner Park we have two events that we both approve we approve on that so I went to both councelor District a uh she also went over I find uh also councelor uh Luzon was there and uh we enjoyed the Sala festival and also the other event uh uh from the church that was that was there so it could definitely this this could be definitely an opportunity for the church to actually recuit members uh of the community to be part of their church so the discussion around the church event was held and uh and they are aware that this is Manis spana was also looking for permit on the same promises so they looking to have the word of God on that day and that's not um that's not that's not a uh an impos it does not they're not prohibited from doing what they were requesting to do by having allowing another event at this end time so president may may I ask you a question are you suggesting that while s Hispana is going on that there be a church group at the very same time praising God and doing what church groups do while the carnival is happening at the same time is thatting I want to make sure I'm clear no no no what you what you profiling on a church that they do that's what you pretending them to do you canot are you expressing your opinion councelor because if you are I'm responding to you you have a conversation with me councel La plant you ask me a question if you're if you're clear of what I'm saying and I'm asking I'm telling you what I actually saying what I'm saying based on your opinion what the churches do is what you think they do and not necessarily they do what you think they do because you're not member of that church as a matter of fact they is a conversation about what is going on on the with that church and and and they are aware that s Manis spana was going to is asking for permit on the same promises I'm not sure that's completely accurate council president because I don't think as we heard already this evening council president they were looking at other locations and I believe as recently as early or last week they were looking at pepperton Park as the location and this was Prior this I've got I have the floor since you brought this up I wasn't going to go down this road but but I believe that the timing is such where where they are we did not really know even tonight we weren't exactly sure where they were going to have it I like to bring before I open the floor to anybody including you I need to I need to uh tell you something they church is aware that there is another permit that is another permit that is been requested okay and what is that mean council president so they are aware that another that another permit has been requested so that's fantastic so you cannot say that they not they are not we are so the point here is who did we issue the permit to the church the answer is yes we issue the permit the answer it's a simple question question excuse mean you cannot talk over the others you ask me a question I said yes so so the so theyve they've asked for it we've issued the permit and what I'm suggesting is that it doesn't make a difference what I think about the church it has nothing to do with that everything the council president just interrupted me again what what the situation here is is that we've issued a permit that has happened and now we're looking to issue another permit for the same location since when do we do that okay council plan you're challenging the you're challenging the motion councilors uh I will are you making that as a form of a motion I don't I'm not really sure what the motion is counselor except to say that I don't think this that you're challenge you're challenging the motion can you provide for me some parliamentary guidance on how I can challenge you are the one challenging the motion you need to provide those guidance if you want to challenge it you're the council president you are a parliamentarian so I need to are you challenging the motion in the meantime if you're not recogniz if you're not challenging the motion we continue with a motion so I'm not sure what it means by challenging the motion but I do think that the motion is incorrect why because we already have a permit there so whatever you want to call it I don't know what you want to call it I'm calling I'm calling the motion in order all right uh councelor uh councel Rees can you offer more clarification about the event we have with the church because maybe they decide to change the day or or what is the time to verify what is thank you C Rees uh the church have have sent information uh through uh different sources that they're going to be changing the date to another date while sanis Pana is been using the park uh and that information could be confirmed through the uh Recreation Department the uh the director of recreation department is here with us and uh and we we can listen to that part also but obviously um theor Can clarify this point for us please thank you good evening city council Adie Gonzalez 6 Hillside Avenue and Lawrence so like we're discussing right now so you guys did approve the church event at the common that's a fact it's on paper the church did get asked today if they were willing to move their event and the conversation was had they gave us a replied and they said they they were going to think about it and then they came back and they said yes but originally they didn't want to change their event and if I go back to the okano I know you guys mentioned there was two events at the at the okano this past weekend the reason why the church was allowed to use the okano was cuz they were going to use the basketball court Sala only wanted to use the vol Law Court in the tennis court and that's the reason why we allowed them to do it in the first place and we knew since it was under construction there was going to be a division and the agreement was that they weren't going to play music or interfere with the city event that was run by the city and that's the reason why we gave the okay to do so but at first we were going to move them and the city reached out to the church and said we can do it together if we have a set of rules and that's what happened when it comes to the permit like I said the church um I know you mentioned uh council president about having it together the only what what I was saying is that there is an opport I mean as as a as any type of organization they might have an opportunity in a different way of how we probably think they probably going to have it it is an opportunity for them to have also the word of God being given to people while they were on the festival so that's not something out of the Ord AR and not suggesting that they be together but I know the answer of changing the date I wasn't going to provide it because they didn't have all the details right no the only reason why I wouldn't say it would have worked is because they actually wanted to use the stage and that's the main reason why a lot of us like using the common especially the church events they have the accessibility of having the stage it's the only stage that we have in one of our parks in the city so that's why it's one of the most well sto parks in the sense of like oh we have a stage we can preach up there we can have our music and that's why I wouldn't you know coin sign with San spana but that's the only reason why I think they want to change the DAT now cuz they're not be able to utilize the stage the way that they want to use it all right do they agreed to change the space they agreed the and also to change the date right but all right it has to still come to council it needs to be approved by you guys change your date thank you uh there is some clarity on the Church portion of it any other councelor that wishes to speak so council president I'm just concerned council do you have no you have no floor at this point and I need to ask the other counselors if they have an opinion thank you so much uh counselors any other any other questions around this this specific item all right we go into the second round of questioning Council llan you have the floor thank you so besides the fact that we haven't clarified that we've already given a permit that we will have to probably resend which we can't do this evening why it's not on the city council agenda so we can't resend a permit that we've already issued that's number one number two if we somehow do some Hocus Pocus and say that's not really important we're still going to let s hpan go even though we have another permit over there council president there are things that we should be concerned about with with respect to the the application form which none of us have seen none of us have seen it apparently today or maybe yesterday I forgotten now the timing but something was submitted to citizens serve on an event is important I want this thing to be honest with you I've been doing I've been taking a vote on San hpan now for 19 years um and this will this will be my 19th and many times I have supported San Hispana and what they're trying to do but I've been very clear about the use of the common for the campon common with the carnival rights which I'm going to go perhaps later if we decide to go down that route but there were things that we should have in the application package and you know we we is there an adity clause on there Certificate of Insurance uh these are things that have before uh do we have a license are they going to be serving alcohol on the common uh if they are serving like do alcohol do they have a license from the licensing board I believe the licensing board is meeting tomorrow night so is that not happening is it on the is on a licens board agenda I don't know um there's an application for the license for public entertainment on a on on a common I we have none of these things and of course we have none of the sign offs um that we traditionally have asked um and so I just and uh it just what I would like to do is this if this is this is important to all of us let's do it right let's let's make a motion this evening to table this council president there a motion to table I'm can I finish my thought on this moot I'm not yet but what we should do is do that and then council president I would encourage you to order a special meeting in 2 days so they can bring us all the paperwork that is required so we actually are doing things the right way and then we can also deal with the previous permit that we've already issued and deal with that the right way if we come back in two days or whatever the Public public meeting requirements are we can take care of this at that particular Point all right counselors any other uh questions on regard on the second round about this item that we have to approve this permit all right at this point I hear no other questions or comments or like to make a motion to table there is a motion to table properly second no discussion on the table matters all those in favor please say I roll call please this is on the motion to table councilor motion to table uh on this one Council Reyes Council mam no council Santiago no council Rosario yes Council Lon no council plant yes Council Levy yes Council infon obain Council Rodriguez I vote no what's the count um four votes in favor of tabling so that is not a majority so motion to table is not it didn't go through so at this point councelors any other question concern of this council president i' like to make another Mo council president even though I I I'm um I don't really want to do this but because I don't want to put somebody else who who's properly received the permit out of the way can I ask you can I ask you a question M I have the floor can I finish my comment let me let me just ask you a question before you continue why would you do that if I ask you a question you're talking through the city council president right I'm always talking to the city council president so can I ask you a question yes council president you have permission to askas me a question um how many time you vote Yes on the affirmative for sanp for the record you know something council president I can't tell you how many but you can look it up I mean according to the council according to the president here of sanish B you say never that's not true council president and she needs to show that if she and by the way she never made that comment all right you made the comment council president by way of asking that question so let me get back to the previous point which is this council president what we should do is this and I'm afraid I don't even really want to do this because somebody already properly has a per but if you're going to go down this road what we should do is this we should allow s Hispana to have the common and use that place for the activities but not for the carnival rides and they should find a different location for the carnival rides and that's my um that's a motion that I hope might might carry because and I just want to make sure that is the administration supportive of That So the councel councelor councel plan are you making a motion I'm withdrawing that motion still here all right uh I am making that motion then so there is a motion on the table uh to only use the park between um June 15 and June 16 um can I hear a second second properly second discussion on the matter discussion Council of Vice President Infante thank you um uh counselor my my colleague to ask a question to the administration whether or not they are in favor um I believe that the uh the administration reached out about this situation so we know where the administration stands with with this situation so to act like we don't know where the administration stands is crazy but that's all that that's there always a little a little something of that well based on my uh based on my conversation with the mayor the mayor uh specified to me that if we approve this item as presented he won't be to it and I he will support it once it's been approved by the council uh that's the the conversation that I have with the mayor yesterday uh Mr spaner was part of it and uh he can testify about on that as actually the man spanner president was there as well so if the council decide to approve this item as presented for this year and later on subsequentially look for a solution of what Z Manis Manana might look like uh in the future uh that's something that they they are not going to be and willing to support as the as the council decides president Council leevy thank you council president through you but also in conversation that I have with the mayor and uh the president president know because I was in front of him he said that uh this is the last time that he also is going to fix the park while he that he will know spend more money or the taxpayer so that we spend a lot of money last year we spend a lot of money this year when we cannot keep spending more money or the tax payer fixing the part this is a no he up of today thank you thank you no problem thankk you C so at this point uh councelors we have a motion that I haven't can hear there was a second by who C there was a second by by Council Le the motion is to approve s SP F the the onlay motion is to approve the festival as is uh from June 10 to June 16 later down the road um later on the road council plan make a motion to table that failed now Council La plant made a motion to approve only the festival portion of which is between June 15 and June 16 that motion has been is in order and that motion is also been second by Council Levy now we are in the process of discussing that portion of June 15 to June 16 only and uh and the floor is open for councelors to discuss council president Council L okay uh another thing is like no car no trucks can be inside the par on the the RASS all right uh that is a that's a friendly Amendment to C the plan a motion I accept it all right the motion is as stay as follow there is a motion to use only the park portion of it with no trucks allow between June 15 and June 16 no Carnival allow on there uh no right so that's something that uh sanis span do you have an opinion on that we all your respect and as we have been battling this for the past 46 years as Mr uh lean has a point the point here is that we were miscommunicated there was a issue between the mayor's office the organization and you guys as you said in the conversations that we had yesterday with the mayor Mr span was on the conversation as well as my vice president he said that that it was you guys the ones that decide whether to use the park or not to use the rights on the other hand we are only 11 days away from this issue because of right now this is a problem like Stephanie said is that can we find another location we probably could from the 17 on but not today because there's any other there's no spaces in Lawrence that we could use for this Festival none to clarify to clarify Council vice president inant thank you I did not state whether or not we were looking for um it was something else it something got you I understand so councelors at this point I'm entertaining a motion to uh to use the park for between June 15 to June 16 only uh with no trucks allow on the park um another any other councelor that wishes to speak on this so I'm going to the second round councel plan this will be fast cuz I know you want to take the vote on it we've already spent $2.1 million on Renovations at the campaign new common over the last 10 years I don't have a piece of paper in front of me that talks about how much of a bond they're going to be putting forward I have no idea how much insurance and not only that the friendly amendment is is a is a good Amendment but if we're going to have something on the common you need to we've got trees that we put an investment toward right now we need to demarcate where the carnival rides are going to be so that the money that we put is not money that we're flushing down the toilet and that it's money that's going to withstand because why why bought getting monies for the parks in all over the city if we're just going to go ahead and do something like this so I think it's important as councilors determine how they're going to vote on this on this particular amendment that they understand a little bit of the history as to how we got here and how the park has was looking really good when this money was being spent and now you'll notice the deterioration along the bricks along the curbing as well as the oil stains Etc along and many of the paths of that it's not meant for carnival rides well um yes to response to your going to give an opinion council president just to response to your question um the park yes it was a question and regard to the funding because you didn't have the answer on the funding so just to have a question when it comes to the funding there is also a lot of taxpayers and laen that would that'll enjoy the ride and uh and we have the we have the opportunity and the decision to make at this this body whether or not we're going to allow the just the first of all the rights all the rights as we have two motions that one is the online motion uh which allow that uh the motion to go from June 10 to June 16 which allow the rights to go on the park I wouldn't like to have my kids to go to another city to use the right that's an opinion Council presid yes thank you so much uh councel councelor Rosario thank you very much uh through you councilor president I I understand I mean I've been in the city for 30 years and the use of the rise was also to help Samana uh with money to pay whatever they need to pay but in the past two years with the ARA money 62,000 was paid to the police through us through the arpa money and and now 37,000 is going from the arpa money against to help San ispana can San ispana how much money do they actually need to run and how much money is the is the is the carnival is going to give them back in those days when they getting no help I'm assuming that yeah kids will have fun and also Sana was going to be help by that but now the money is actually helping them out and and and if there's anything how much money is is the carnival is going to give you um I mean that you need besides these 37,000 that's mostly go into details of the police um we got to meet up somewhere in between I was I'm always in favor with some money B I never against it but if it if it comes to money um the ARA money is helping you guys a little bit more than what it used to be none other person or none other Administration provide this amount of money maybe because we didn't have the funds back in those days and now we have it but now again last year $62,000 went into the details 37,000 now going into it now going into the compan park the detail is going to be $62 $70,000 so it we got to we got to go into that also I mean you have a gentleman back there with the hands closed maybe I I this is the way I speak right maybe saying where the money is going to come out but I mean how responsible is s for the damages how much money are you getting back I mean it's all that when the city is actually or the APPA money not just the city the APPA money is helping you out with money I mean can we meet at the middle again and say you know what we're not going to put this yet let's find a place for the machines to be used in the same city and have the festival the way it is get the vendors inside I mean I see the Italian festivals they don't use the machines I see all the festivals they don't use the machines inside the park I mean and I love again I love and I'm always voted in favor but can we meet this year can we meet halfway because it's too late to find out where the machines are going to go can we tell the machine M we're not going to use you we're going to use this 30,000 and use the vendor's money cuz that it's it's not also we charging for the vendors to come into the park it's it's it's again it's my personal opinion I mean now you're getting held from the OPA money back in those day you didn't get you didn't get no single penny from anybody maybe again because we didn't have the funds I mean it's anywhere that we can not just not I'm not saying eliminate the rides but put it somewhere else that is not the park and have the festival at the park with the vendors and the food and the orchestra and whatever entertainment that there is all right UHC president let's let me allow the the president off to respond Rosario the festival is more than $150,000 for the organization so from the rights we get about 43,000 our Pony was only last year for over 60,000 yest the mayor pay for all the police but it wasn't only for Hispanic Wick it was for all the organization and we understand that this year he agree he agreed to do 50% of whatever the cost is and um to answer your questions uh where the money goes everything goes into the community because minus 6,50 we still 90,000 sh no you ask for for a question I'm just giving you the answer no no no no I said that we can what now we getting help now you guys getting help you never get help from anywhere why don't we find a common ground and said let's have the festival listen because we again at the end of the day nobody is disagree and we're having somebody Span in the park the only issue is the machines okay so then at the other days and J can um back me up on that we we were not getting not even one cent from the rids because everything was going to the police now they the police has double the price all right uh we got we got an answer on that on the police we have just to clarify a few things on there uh the the police was paid as councilor Rosario say last year by by the administration 6 over $62,000 this year the administration agreed to pay not only to Hispanic week but to every organization to pay half of the funds when it comes to the police department uh to to the details and as well as that um of that uh things have changed also the detail the details uh have changed before a lot of u a lot of the police deta was going um also being helped by the community policing uh not not by the community police by the auxiliary police uh that that does not longer exist and that's why prices increase a lot um we have council president we have another uh asking for an opinion on this side there is any anybody on this side that would like to speak Council vice president thank you you have a question let let me no will be quick she she haven't speak you she haven't speak but you just recognized me um council president through you I would like to hear from Lieutenant cillo um the safety if if there is a safety plan when it comes to sanana the biggest headache I have as a district e counselor is the chaos that that um uh groups in the industrial park and last year I actually had to show up at 2 something in the morning to that area due to the all the calls that I I received from my constituents waiting for police Personnel um to arrive in the industrial park so safety aside from where the monyon is going to be the one of the major components that we're missing in this conversation is safety protocols so if there's anything that you can um provide that would be great so again over over the two-day period uh the Lawrence Police Department would need to have to come up with 132 offices to work saman spor in the parade so again uh obviously that's a big strain on the Lawrence Police Department but we will come up with a comprehensive plan to address those issues we've also tapped into Partnerships with the Massachusetts State Police as well as uh the sheriff's department they will be providing extra patrols saturation patrols and patrols throughout the city to address some of these issues uh again uh the lawence police department will come up with a comprehensive plan to address any safety issue wherever the event is held thank you I don't think that's an issue all right thank you so much uh Council Mamu um through your council president um so for the culture and because of the fact that it's been a 50e TR wa wait wait 50-year tradition is why I have voted you mind using the other mic this okay I'm going to make it quick does the organ no no no just use the other mic does the organization have uh a strategic plan in place considering the issues and concerns that you're already facing with uh the damages and and the concerns that have been mentioned today do you guys already have a plan in place for in the future in terms of where you plan on hosting this uh this festival and if so what is the plan M president councelor Vivian um Maru it's just um what I said before we are working with the mayor and trying to look at for a new location for next year because obviously we are looking into either next year it's going to be a new location or we can we already spoke with um Mr Flynn he's is's here too Mr John Flynn uh and trying to do something more strategic like even if we are going to do separate events or what it is what is going to work for the organization and for him as he also said he's been coming to Lawrence for over 38 years and none of that had happened before I mean we understand that we want to preserve the Park and we are up to that too for our community Mr fling is here so do you is Mr fling do you mind taking the mic very quick good evening I'm John Flynn the vice president of deanan Flynn doing business as Fiesta Shows out of CBR New Hampshire Mr Flynn uh in the past just for the um Clarity of this Council in the past the uh Fiesta show have um have donate uh funds for that uh for the purpose of renewing the park U is that something that uh the organization have asked you to do or there some some conversations around that just for the clarity of it we in the past have donated a percentage uh excuse me let me clarify that and go back even a few more years in the past on the common there were two events that always happened there was the first uh uh just specifically a uh fundraising Carnival and then with saman hasana there was the carnival and all the music and the entertainment the first Festival was Run for the city for the parks and Rex Department that money went to the parks and Rex Department uh change happened I believe it was nine years ago where the wreck department because of the increased cost of saman hasana stopped doing that event for the benefit of the city and the funds went to saman hpan to help contribute toward its costs police cost fire um and that's the way it's been for I believe it's the past nine years nine or 10 years but uh funds that are raised from the uh first Carnival would uh go to help pay and delay some of the costs and then obviously the funds from the saman hpan were turned over to the committee for police C cost um and a variety of other costs that they they uh incur so this year any conversations around that around at least a percentage of the of the funds it will be the same percentage as it's been in the past which was 20% okay all right and along with that there was obviously the uh $10 million insurance policy that was made out to the city and San hpon for protection and along with a bond and I forget what the amount was might have been 5,000 I'm I'm not sure what it was but for any repairs that had to be done to the park all right thank you so much councilors we have two we have two motions one that which is the underly Motions that is to approve the park uh for the use of sanis spana and the r from June 10 to June 16 and um and and also to use the festival uh to use the park for the festival purpose from June 16 June 15 to June 16 subsequently there was a motion uh on the table uh made made by Council of plan which is to to uh for sisana only to use the companion Park during the during that uh during the June 15 date and also June 16 date without the use of the equipments um at this point if it is any other questions I would like uh to request a roll call for for that uh underline motion for the motion for that secondary motion which is the use of the park from June 15 to June 16 president I I have a question to Mr please okay uh Mr have you been um looking on the place that the theater was before because I saw that all of the equipment for the ride where over there not too long ago and I don't know see that is a a place that can be used and for the festival and also for the ride at the same time we also used as spoke with the owners they wouldn't allow the beers the alcohol because it's a private property even even though he has insurance we have insurance and he said no I mean the owners said no and also for that space still we go back to being too small once we combine the festival and the carnival all right thank you so much at this time counselors at this time counselors we we call for we will call we'll call the question for the r call for the motion that was made by Council Lola plant and second by the council Levy for the use of the park and uh without the equipment from uh June 15 to June 16 with the amendment also no with the amendment of no equipment no I mean no rights no equipment no no no cars or no the thr in cars the grass no cars yes that's going to be completely impossible because even does the man SP have vehicles that need getting no councilors the motion the motion was made as is no vehicles on the on the on the companion Park so at this point I call the questions all those in favor please say I roll call please councilor ly yes Council yes councilor Luzon no Council Del Rosario yes councilor Santiago no council marmel no council Ares no council vice president infon obained council president Rodriguez I vote no uh what's the count uh three in favor five no Nos and one exstension all right I this time I call the question for the underline motion all those in favor please say I president I have a question any know I have a question for Mr any question from Mr please okay can you okay what is r please what is the motion the motion was the underly motion councelors the approve of the Campion Park from the June 10 to June 16 and the co the call was the motion was called all say that was okay Ro please Council Reyes yes councelor marmel abstain councilor Santiago yes Council Del Rosario abstain Council Lon yes Council llant no council Levy obstain councelor Infante abstain Council Rodriguez I vote Yes what's the count four in favor for abstentions and a no the motion fails councilors what is the motion president council president Council Council lant I need a motion to get out of this item we already had it you failed like a fifth what more do you need that was the final result the motion to approve it what failed that another motion it fell for lack of effect so I'm asking you to go to the next item council president councelor what is what is the motion has spoken not there's no motion so we proceed with the uh with the uh with the other with the other item going on top of the agenda uh public hearings Madame shair for that Madame shair please read the noers for item 14124 the Declaration of hunger at larns Municipal April as an School uh as an school this is ordinance 2 2 13240 um document number one 41-24 notice is hereby given that the Lawrence city council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday June 4th 2024 at 7 p.m. in the city council chambers 200 Common Street Lawrence Mass pursuing to chapter two of the acts of 2023 and in accordance with the recently revised city council rule 2 this meeting will be hybrid allowing participation both in person and remotely to accommodate any participant with health considerations that prevent them from participating in person access codes for REM participation are available from the city clerk e. Bernal cityof lawrence.com or 978 620 3230 meeting is also available on Facebook and YouTube the purpose of the hearing is to gather testimony information and public input concerning the proposed amendment to the revised ordinances of the City of Lawrence to be further amended by adding the following paragraph to section 2132 of the Lawrence Municipal Code Lawrence Vocational School new paragraph is 21321 140 The Hanger purchased by the City of Lawrence at the Lawrence municipal airport is to be used by The Vocational Technical High School and is therefore declared to be a school persons wishing to be heard shall be afforded the opportunity all right the public hearing is the public hearing is now open uh anybody from the public that wishes to speak name address for the record please thank you council president attorney Mike Morris Jr I represent greater Lawrence technical school just want to bring to the city uh council's attention that uh the city council did vote to approve an amendment to The District agreement to allow uh the city to enter into a subas for the greater Lawrence technical school to operate the hanger as a school um as did uh the city of methu and at town meeting the town of North Andover and at town meeting the town of Andover however under the special acts that created uh the district um we do need it declared as a school building this would be the last vote that would need to be taken uh that would enable the district to begin to commence and run this Innovative program uh it's one of only two in the state it will provide uh opportunities to the uh student students of Lawrence and the Youth of Lawrence that quite frankly are are pretty Innovative creative and would not be able to no other communities really have them quite frankly so I'm hopeful that the city council will approve uh what is in front of you thank you thank you for your opinion anybody else that wishes to speak on the item 11424 the public hearing is now open you have the opportunity to speak I hear no anybody else from the public that wish to speak now so the public hearing is now closed councelors what's the motion motion to approve all right there is a motion to approve properly second discussion Council vice president infan thank you I just want to make a note that the ordinance uh should reflect the actual name of the school not Vocational Technical High School so it could be specific um also it says here Lawrence Vocational School the school's name is G Lawrence technical Regional Vocational High School I think the actual official attorney yeah can you clarify that for me please it's been a while the actual legal name of the school is the greater Lawrence Regional Vocational Technical High School District thank you all right um so that that should be reflected in our ordinance counc Rosario uh uh do you mind adding the adding the the real name to your motion sure a friendly amendment by councilor vice president Infante anybody else that wishes to speak I Hear n before we continue councilors I would like to recognize the leadership of councelor uh now counselor um now councelor marmo before councelor uh School Committee Member Mar maral that actually uh recognize and Lead this uh this discussion uh throughout the school um so we can uh have this program uh with the opportunity for the kids that are Timeless and Limitless so thank you councelor Maro for your leadership on this councilors at this point I call the questions all Us in fav please say I I I the eyes have it um all right we going on top of the agenda uh communication from the mayor there's none uh committee reports budget and finance committee Madame Madame Madame Madame vice president Infante from the buet and finance committee right on 24324 thank you um budget and finance committee met last Wednesday and um we're going to start off with item 24324 mayor Brian a Deena's recommended budget for fiscal year 2025 uh brought To Us by our CAO and I make a motion to order public hearing for this item Thursday no not Thursday I won't be here yeah I won't be here the 19th the 20 or 21st so the meeting councelor for this special meeting um I'm calling a meeting for for June we need to get into the discussion counselor there's a motion been made second um seconded can we just uh yeah just I just clarifying the meeting that we're going to be calling the public hearing so for motion uh on the 24th and 25 there two meetings all right um discussion councilors I hear known um to order a public hearing for the specific day of the special meeting which is going to be taking place on the 2 on the 24th and the 25th uh councilors um all please say hi hi the eyes have it any Nots all right the special meeting for the budget will take place on the 24th and subsequently the 25th two meetings 24th 24th and the 25th at 7 p.m. all right we going uh we're going to it on 24424 Madame Madame Madame vice president inant item 22424 the trans in the amount of 33,6 48,3 51 with 96 from free cash to V to various reserves fund was sign up with a favorable recommendation and I make that as a formal motion all right there is a motion on the table can you hear a second properly second discussion a three $3 million of transfer to different accounts councilors any discussion uh by presing Fant do you mind calling the uh the C so can can explain that way can we have the C uh Mr aelo come to the podium Please Mr Kaa provide us an oversight of um of what what is this $33 million transfer sure good evening councilors uh the uh 33 million uh is comprised of uh seven or eight transfers uh we transferring proposing transferring from free cash to the OPB trust fund a million dollars that'll increase the balance in the trust fund Uh current balance in the opep trust fund is uh 1,619 we add a million that'll get us to 2,619 uh the next transfer proposing is 100,000 into the uh compensated absence Reserve fund uh presently that uh uh comp St absence Reserve fund has approximately 600,000 in it we're going to add 100 that'll bring us to 729 th000 we also are proposing $100,000 to the workers workers compensation claims Reserve fund and again that that uh Reserve has about $557,000 we're adding 100 that'll bring it to 657 uh and then inured on duty Reserve fund uh is 382 we're adding 400 to that to bring it up to 782 uh and then we're proposing uh $7 million U of free cash to go into the undesignated stabilization Reserve presently the balance in that account is 3,150 so that would get us 10,150 and an undesignated stabilization Reserve which uh just same as free cash uh and then our next uh item is 15 million to uh put into the stabilization reserve for Debt Service uh that's we currently we have a balance of 5 million so if we add 15 that'll get get us to 20 million and that 20 million is to pay for The Debt Service uh for the Oliver the Ley in the in the new police station uh so it won't have a detrimental impact to the general fund operating budget will be it's a planned use of free cash as we as I described to the counselors before we voted for those loan authorizations we would have to have a planned use of free cash or reserves to uh U to avoid uh impacting uh General government Services uh the next transfer is um stabilization reserve for litigation uh we have a balance of 566,000 I'm proposing adding 1.5 million and that'll get us uh a stabilization Reserve balance of 2 million which uh for a city our size is about where I'd like to see it in case we have any lawsuits we'll have a uh a way to pay for it without impacting the general fund operating budget uh the next transfer is uh is a transfer of uh 7,578 14596 which is the deficit in our covid-19 account uh during the pandemic the uh State allowed us to deficit spend to handle that pandemic uh and uh we uh we spent roughly $24 million on the pandemic and we received 16.4 million in uh from the state uh and federal government uh as reimbursement so that leaves us a deficit of 7.6 million we've we've applied all of our uh uh we've completed all of our applications to Fem over the last several years uh we just finished the uh the last one several months ago uh and so we've received all the money that we're going to receive from FEMA all the the 7 million in costs that are not covered um uh or will not be covered by FEMA because they don't feel it was related to the to the um pandemic the largest of those expenses uh was roughly um uh was roughly almost $7 million for the uh uh to help uh help with our residents go back to work and it subsidized their child care uh that is not deemed was not deemed eligible under FEMA regulations so that's that's primarily a m majority of our costs we did receive uh most of our cost for for police overtime fire overtime uh all the old PP that we bought uh the testing site the uh the U uh uh uh the uh uh site that uh gave everybody the the uh vaccination site uh expenses most of those expenses were all covered but we were left with with 7 million and uh do uh departmental uh Department of Revenue requires us to to get rid of that deficit this year so that's 7 million uh uh 578 and the last one is our annual uh snow and ice expenditure deficit uh we have a deficit in that account of 97,2 so that'll Wipe Out the uh deficit in that account which we're required to do every year so that's a brief explanation of the 33.6 million all right councelors any question on the transfer of this 33 thou 33,6 48 uh 3 uh 3516 what is the total balance of that the free cash today after this transfer oh hang on one second uh that is oops just had it just added here here it is uh the uh free cash B bance will be um after these proposed transfers I also have a couple of transfers pending in front of the council but that would be uh we our free cash will be down to 1.6 million uh but our our reserves will be uh our combined reserves will be uh roughly um 49 49 million which would be the the stabilization reserve onesing it stabilization reserve for Debt Service all the other various reserves that we still have councel any questions in regard to this transfer I Hear No so at this point I call the question Sol those in favor please say I I any NOS the I the I have it um Madame Madame vice president Infante item 24524 item 245 d24 Bond authorization for a loan order for a appropriation in the amount of 13 million $415,000 for various Water and Sewer infrastructure Rehabilitation um this requires a public hearing and I make that as a formal motion there is a motion to order a public hearing properly second any discussion I hear not at this point I call the questions pleas say hi the I have it Madame Vice presant 24624 item 24624 the transfer in the amount of 40,000 from free cash to special projects account for the glts airplane hanger hanger was sent up as a favorable recommendation and I make that a formal motion uh there is a motion on the table properly can I hear a second properly second discussion I hear none at this point I call the question please say I hi there I have it Madame vice president item 2 26224 item 2 62-24 the authorization of Grants assurances with Mass dot for weather cameras network connections that was sent up as a favorable recommendation and I make that as a formal motion uh just for the record Madame vice president I going to abstain uh to these two next two items uh due to a potential lack of conf lack of Interest conflict of interest thank you um can you please council president let uh councelor Vivan marmel that she needs to be here now uh am I ready yeah you can you can good evening uh counselors uh so the two items before you are Grant assurances and so I I come here from time to time when we are in receipt of a grant both federally or one from the state in this case that this is a a two State grant that came in one for our weather cameras weather cameras we are the first airport in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that has particip ated in the um so right now we have a live feed for Pilots to to assess what the conditions are live at Lawrence so you go to faea cameras.com and you could take a look at our airport in Lawrence and see what what the conditions are from two Vantage points that was $3,700 that was 100% uh pilot program paid by the by the mass thought Department of Transportation uh in order to uh facilitate that oper opportunity for us and so we were the test uh cycle there were some lessons learned in order how to implement it to other airports and so the guarantee for this assurance is that we were going to make sure that these cameras are going to remain live for 20 years make sure that we maintain and and live by the standards of the FAA the second um Grant assurance that we have are gate operators those are the mechanisms that open the security gates uh they live past the life expect expectancy and so with a grant from mot we were able to replace five of those uh six operators in order to address uh again making sure that we have the security concerns we also had there was an accident on Osa Street where a a private owned vehicle uh hit our fence um that was $177,000 worth of damage that driver only had $5,000 worth of insurance coverage the state uh also participated through a grant to be able to assist us on a 95% cost share to be able to replace uh that fence and we're scheduling it tomorrow we're just waiting for a North Andover uh police detail to be able to do that and part of why I am here today is because we need to have these guarantees in before the end of the fiscal year thank you counselors are there any questions or uh comments seeing none all those in favor say I hi any nose the eyes have it uh so so the next item for the budget and finance committee uh is item 2 seeing none all those in favor say I I and the eyes have it thank you so much thank you councelor I know the council president uh has abstained but I did have some answers yesterday during the budget process he did ask a couple of questions regarding where some of those projects um so I recommend for you to to to touch base with the council president uh off offline because we just approved it so I'm happy I'm happy to do so thank you counil appreciate it at this point we are going into uh the next or uh ordinance committee councelor leant yeah Council vice president uh I'd like to make a motion back to document 24524 a motion to reconsider I do have a conflict I just need to make a motion on that can I make a motion to reconsider document 24524 245 sorry where is this 245 that was Bond authorization for water we just voted on it for public hearing than there's motion to reconsider item 24524 the B authorization uh made by Council of plant there is a second by Council Levy uh discussion I hear none at this point I call the questions all those in favor for reconation please say I I I recuse myself from the upcoming vote on that all right uh Council plant have recused itself uh from the upcoming vote uh uh councelors there is a can I hear a motion to uh for uh item 24524 motion to order a public hearing there's a motion to order a public hearing properly second discussion I hear no so all Us in favor please say I I the I have it so we going back to the top of the agenda with the committee reports um uh the ordinance committee well before before he come back we have nothing from Personnel nothing from Public Safety nothing for committee uh Comm Committee of the hall and um and nothing from house uh the ordinance committee the ordinance committee uh Madame uh Mr Mr Vice Mr um Council Council of plant you have the ordinance committee item 37223 committee met on document 3 37223 oneway at sour toer Street the mo motion was made to send up to the full council with a recommendation to withdraw make that in the form of a motion second motion to withdraw properly second all those in favor say I hi there any not there I have it item 22524 uh 22524 resolution honoring de charity tangway for 20-year rededication of the ball field event we didn't have uh so the motion was sent up to send this up without a recommendation of pending some information so the motion is this committee report make that in the form of a motion there is a motion to accept the accept this item as a committee report properly second discussion there's none all and F please say I I the eyes have it um um councelors any update information or anything on this item any motions um ask the clerk is it in our P I didn't see it in the packet s you all signed tonight A a copy of the resolution so Council councelors um I'm going to we all signed a resolution this even I think it's a resolution um so I like to make a motion that we uh adopt a resolution uh to rededicate uh the corner at um where is Mount Veron Park in in honor of of um uh de charity tangway for 20-year rededication make that in form of a motion C infant you you were the proponent to this do you want to say a few words on this yes um thank you uh the reason for this uh so the park dedication um we we have a plaque on our concession stand for um for Miss uh I'm going to La Charity she was an influential person who I believe she was the M Veron softball and baseball league president for or her husband was the president so she volunteered a lot of time a lot of her personal time to the Mal and park and about 20 years ago the city council approved this this recognition for her she unfortunately passed away unexpectedly and um I and the aniversary of of her passing is is coming up um I do would like to invite and I will also send a calendar invite to your city emails uh the family the family is is the one we're only doing the resolution as the city council but the family is organizing a ceremony the family is also paying uh to redo she has uh one of the baseball fields dedicated to her uh the family's purchasing a new sign um to uh to hang at that field for this dedication so um so yeah it's it's going to be a great ceremony uh the event is on July 9th of of this year and like I mentioned I will send everyone a calendar invite uh if you're available to attend the ceremony all right thank you uh uh councelor vice president infan for your kind door about um a charity tangai and at this point I call the questions counil councilors please say I hi there have it all on 24924 that's ordance committee met on this item which is a soccer tournament on June 15 2024 at bgo Park on West Street uh the sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation and I make that in the form of a motion second Council planned this was for withdraw or this was for a favorable recommendation this is a favorable recommendation to grant them the opportunity to have a soccer tournament all right um mad CL at the ordinance committee level you had asked me to please confirm with the recreation department if each of the items had been cleared by Recreation and some of them had and some of them had not this one um they had a conflict for the park the um Recreation Department met with them and said you can either um pick a different day and stay in the same park or pick a different Park and stay on the same day they didn't want to do either and they said at this time they just going to withdraw and then figure you know in the future the petitioner has asked to withdraw the item because there's a conflict so I withdraw my motion and based on the clerk's U of follow through I'm going to make a motion that we withdraw this document to4 second prop second please say hi hi any he knows the I have it I uh 253 24 [Music] sure this is the same one so before I even start making this motion can we just did did you talk to Recreation before I make the motion can you just introduce it and then sure this is a motion the city council the ordinance committee sent this document which is a uh evangelization on June 15 July 27 and August 31st 2024 at r Park this was sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation pending uh approval with and then and the clerk just gave it a thumbs up so we apparently have gotten clearance on that so that's the motion second motion to approve properly second discussion I hear none so I call the question Sol please say I I uh the eyes have it it 25424 city coun ordinance committee met on 25424 a transi and vendor license the mang mango boy tacos we send this up to the full council with a favorable recommendation and that's the motion second there is a motion uh to to approve there's a motion to approve properly second all uh discussion please say hi hi have it 25724 uh this I'm going to ask for the clerk as soon as I make the motion uh 25724 activity di communia June 8 2024 Campa un common ordinance committee met and sent this up to the full Council to adopt issue a permit and make that in the form of a motion and that has gotten clearance from the recreation department second there's a motion on the table to approve activ communia June 8 at the companion common uh properly second discussion uh I hear no so all those in fav say I I the eyes have it um item 250 24 the ordinance committee met on 25824 this is to order a public hearing on the Hampshire Street a section to be designated as a police department parking um and the part of the motion will include the fact similar to a previous one done at the last meeting that the parment that the parking be allowed there until further parking is available similar to what we did the other day so this is order public hearing with that caveat that Amendment motion that's activar councelors uh this is coming up and and I guess that a waiver of the 30day will be uh effective for item 25724 can we go back to it on 25724 before we do 258 to wave the 30 days I'd like to make a motion that um to re 25724 that we send this up to full Council to issue to issue a permit and to wave to 30 days there is a motion on the table for item 25724 which is the wave to to to include that the 30 days waiver um properly second all say I I there I have itk you thank you I on 258 uh 25824 uh uh Mr shair from the uh ordinance committee so as I was saying so 25824 this is the total public hearing this is on Hampshire Street a section to be designated by the police department for parking for their purposes and similar we amended it at the ordinance committee to include the caveat of uh until such time as there is further parking in that area a parking lot of some sort just like we did a couple weeks ago so the motion is to order a public hearing with that caveat that's the motion second there is a motion to order a public hearing on item 25824 properly second any discussion I hear none at this point I call the questions all in favor please say I I the ice haveit U Mr chair from the committee item to 624 ordinance committee met on this item is a health and wellness Fair July 18th uh at the camping common and the hours are adjusted uh from 10:00 a.m. until 2 p.m. on that day and this was sent up to the full Council uh to approve and make that in the form of a motion second all right there is a motion to approve properly second any discussion I Hear No so at this call the questions all in fav say I I there have it it on 26124 right on 26124 I gotcha uh 26124 resolution honoring the sario fames the recipients of the 2024 orur dangler history Award presented at the at the Lawrence History Center has been sent up to the full council with a favorable recommendation and we do have the the resolution here and I make that in the form of a motion there is a motion to uh to approve properly second any discussion all right all those in fav please say I hi I have it uh as we discussed no personal committee no Public Safety no Committee of the hall as well of housing committee going on top of that agenda all business counselors we have item 1324 which is the authorization to spend uh 27 $27,500 for the calling U for the calling Grant from that Comm wall of massachusett the lead Gonzalez the recreation of Department to modify the grant to 2,725 which I believe is the correct amount otherly do you have um otherly consales do you have anything on that but before that councilors um we need ation we need we need a motion to reconsider the vote to allow the modification amount to be granted so move so there is a motion to reconsider properly second any discussion I hear none at this point I call the questions all Us in favor please say I I uh any NOS the I have it councelors what's the motion motion to approve motion to approve for the total amount of 29725 properly second discussion I hear none uh do you want to add anything when it comes to this item anything else no I just wanted to add that the reason uh while we had to come back when we first applied for the grant it was for low income communities and that was the right amount of 27 um $500 but what happened was the state actually gave us more instead of the right amount so that's why we had to come back and do that we are going to now that I got approved we are going to go ahead and order the misters for the parks and they should be here in four to 6 weeks and then we'll start working on them and hopefully we have it by the end of the summer but no promises but that's what we're hoping for all right um all right say have it thank you um councilors we have item 3124 which is that the review and update miles travel policy for ordinance uh 24 2140 2 240 uh Octavian spner the senior adviser put this item together we voted on on on uh we voted last meeting I believe and that's for the purpose and the mayor V it so uh we need to motion to reconsider and um essentially was that uh was the the question is the mayor send us limited amount of information as of why they be it uh but the the intent around the discussion was to have limit on the hotel uh prices and uh and the recommendation from the cafo was taken uh the mayor be of this item uh under the impression of not having the cup for the hotel and uh and now we have the um we have the duty to um to maintain the b or over override the the mayor's buau councilors what the motion we need a motion to either overwrite the beer or or keep it as is for discussion purposes just for discussion purposes I'm going to offer an motion just so we can move on this I'll make a motion that we that we do not override the vetle for discussion purposes only cuz I don't know how I'm going to vote on yet all right the motion is not to overwrite The veto um to sustain The veto maybe that's to sustain The veto and uh and keep it uh and then I won't have discussion um okay there is a motion uh to sustain the the mayor's B properly second um discuss discuss discussion I'm a I'm I'm still a little unsure if we if we voted to to override The veto that means the entire thing is going to be moved out we're going to we're going to we're killing the entire the entire the entire thing no cuz we we we we look to adopt a travel and allowance and then that was and we had some amendments and then that went up and so he vetoed it and so if we don't sustain The veto I mean the entire package all the stuff we like the stuff we don't like all of that's going to go out I think no no okay no the way it is as far as I understand it uh is that we adopt a polic a trouble policy that TR policy have modifications from the council which include a limit on the hotel section if we overwrite the beetle if the mayor Beetle that with that specific uh limitations that the council put into it if if the if the the mayor beo it which means that uh now they looking forward not to have the limits we put into it if we override the LI the beo the the the vote and the policy will be as follow will be as they propose it including the limits on the hotels for a specific uh section based on the section 140 of the reimbursement as per the CFO stays on the last meeting so that's basically how it's going to be it's going to be as we uh propos to be uh with the limit of requested by the c i i i don't know if I don't know if I if I [Music] um I don't know if that's something I agree with um I'm looking at the veto language resubmit for reconsideration to the Lauren city council based on requirements at all city employees upon travel must submit copies of all receipts for reimbursement requests yes that's the veto message yes yes that's that's correct which means that if they uh any any employees that went over to a five-star hotel and they submit a copy of the receipt of a $33,000 per night we going to reimburse that $3,000 and the way that we approve it it was that we have limits on that uh based on section 140 I believe it was uh the section that he mentioned the go mentioned that he have limited amount of u reimbursement on the hotels section and that's why they beo it or the administration be it but so so here's my concern in in other forms of government you can line item veto things if if this was the federal government or the state government I'm not sure about the state government the federal government uh the president can go ahead and he can say I don't like this provision I don't like this provision I don't like this provision but most of the provisions are going back the Congress then looks at those three different Provisions that he vetos and they have override on those particular ones everything else stays I don't think that happens in state government although I'm not completely sure and I'm pretty sure we don't have that provision in local government we don't there's not a a line item provision saying I like I'm sending this back with this he's sending us back why he's vetoing it I think that if we were to make the changes as he's requested he wouldn't he would support it I think that's where it's going so that's where um that was the biggest difference between the two bills the bill they sent you have no limit on the on the hotels and and the bill we sent to him and he be have limit limitations if we override and overturn the ble and the way that is going to stay is that we're going to have limit on the hotels if we if we uh if we overturn The veto that's what's going to happen if we do not and then the entire uh bill is going to is going to is going to die and eventually they're going to propose something new but but I'm scare of is that uh essentially we're going to basically the previous policy is going to stay in place the previous policy we have we have in we have u in the City of Lawrence the one that they trying to modify to have not limitations on some aspect and we indicate limitations within the bill that we sent to the to the executive uh Branch so so essentially by overriding the vle we have the new policy including the limits on the hotel section that we impose councel Le but what also setting here is employee upon travel must submit copy of all the receipts that's is why the that'sa reement request so if I do not submit all my receipt okay so they are not going to give me the reim they are not saying over here regarding Hotel it's like we have to submit every single receipt that we expend on any travel that's the current policies any policies that we have for trouble include that you need to submit the receipts that's that's the the policy they currently have the new policy that we're trying to adopt any policy have that include the the only difference is that on here we impose limitations on the hotel rates and obviously what they saying on the writing on there is that regardless of that uh of that um of the rates if you as an employee uh proceed to submit receipts and then the city should reimburse you without the limitations Mr you sure um can we send this to the mayor back and ask for clarification no it's a beetle that we have to in the next meeting that we we need to take a vote to overide the V or not to overy the V if we don't take a vote tonight with a majority vote by six vote uh the the the the the the be stays we cannot go back and forth on the be situation thank you so um we clear on the B and and the the policy Council Maro um do um out of curiosity other cities and towns is there a limit when it comes to uh travel um and the submission of receipts uh as far as I know the state the state government have the policy uh for municipalities uh and cities and towns to adopt it uh and that's why they have it on and we uh the ca was very clear of what the policy was and that's why he recommended and when we spoke on limitations did we give a specific number as to what the limit was the policies is updated every year based on the cities and uh based on the cities based on that U the city that you visit and there is cities that I high theand like Washington other cities and towns that they are uh more um expensive and they have different limitations on those um even for that uh for the any any reimbursement on that including hotels including uh including other uh travel expenses so essentially it's around the around the the uh it's around the it's a it's it's a matter of just putting the limitations on on what the city can reimburse and what not three cons president CC L so when we met with a careful uh he mentioned the IRS that we've going to uh that's chapter 140 I believe it was right uh publication 463 uh uh publication 463 yeah so do do we got a copy of that or not that that impose that impose the limitations we we uh we do not get a copy he explained it on the budget and finance committee and subsequently the full C so other cities follow that uh publication publication 463 uh council president when it comes to limitations that a lot of cities and towns do we have the CLE here that he can clarify some items some things um do would would like to speak yes please okay sure the reason and thefo is is uh we after the vote we um staff had a conversation with with the um with the mayor and the issue that we have with the decision that the Council made is like you indicated that each States depending on where you travel the uh it it changes because hotels everything is now more expensive like the last travel it it's it was and you folks went there uh I think Council uh Le plant also thought it was it was very expensive but this is the difference to what we have requested all city employees request uh comes back with their receipts correct all of us that travel for whatever reason we come back and we be with the reimbursement we submit our our receipts if we don't submit our receipts it cannot be justified the difference is the perum which is Set uh which the the ca requested the city council the meals per DM to be standard like the IRS but on the on the reimbursement it's kind of difficult if there's a conference someone needs to stay further away from from the resort and in addition to that you have to pay a cap to you stay far away you have to pay a cap like in Washington DC uh let's say if it's New York uh even Florida these are are very expensive and the the amount of of um of travel that we have that we that that that is done throughout the city is very compared to some of other municipalities are not high the city of of Lawrence doesn't abuse let's say in the system what we wanted to do is update because update the the uh per DM and the travel expenses based on on how expensive things are going and $30 how many years did we have the $30 per day per DM I don't know how long but it's been 20 30 years for $30 a day yes uh uh Mr Mr spanner the discussion around was that perdan based on uh publication for 63 was on Washington DC about on the 80s uh and then and then uh but the the most the most questionable was the the limit on the hotel and a lot of people were asking about those limitations and that's why we adopt that uh the the that specific publication for uh 463 if I could just explain 463 the way it works is uh it'll have for Washington DC for example I think a hotel because I looked at it recently the hotel for Washington DC at this time of year was maybe 20 I don't know if it was 218 or 280 bucks something like that but it but it's a that so that's what what they would get so people who who spend $400 a night they've got to take the difference of 100 200 bucks out of their pocket to do City business I think that's the unfairness of of using a per DM there is a per a per DM you can use there there that is in the publication but for many many people that's the average so for many people they are they are Hotel Bill uh it might cost them to take a trip for the city yeah it is also a risk of allowing employees to stay on a hotel five star hotel with that that cost the city $3,000 and that was basically the concern that was brought up as well well I'm I'm not sure if anybody would say the $3,000 a night no but I mean that was the sample again the the the uh all the uh the way the hotels work prior to this uh amendment was whatever your hotel bills we would reimburse you if it was reasonable uh still had to be approved by the mayor so if somebody uh you know spent 3,000 a night I don't think we'd be reimbursing that that employee so but I mean there is any limitations even though that there's not established limitations on that on that uh peran on a hotel yeah there in that publication and now the publication is and we adopt it and then if we if we override the V the publication stays so and then if it's not the the the reimb the the process goes on a reimbursement basis with the receipt that could be need a receipt they wouldn't need a rece that could be anything right so so if they have a receipt for $400 a night we're only going to give them 200 because that's what the publication on the publication yes on the publication a night all right councilors we clear on that there is a motion not to override the ble I don't think that we need we need a motion to not to override the ble but I mean it that's the motion so I got I I just have I've got a question and I may withdraw this motion but the um I think I I just pulled up the charter and I was very curious as to what the charter said on the vetos and it's either it's all or nothing it doesn't say that you can just strip part of it no it can't so that's what I was saying so I just didn't understand so what we're saying is that if we sustain The veto it's back to where it was originally nothing else changed if we don't sustain The veto everything that we talked about at the last meeting kicks in and the mayor's office only has I think a concern with the with the hotel portion is that is that the only reason that was the whole thing that's the whole thing I I could just uh what the intention of our original Amendment to the ordinance was was to get rid of the 30 bucks a day uh which is what it said $30 a day for meals and incidental expenses um and we I use publication 463 because in there there's a high low method it has all the Across the Nation uh your meals will be uh meals reimbursement would be uh commensurate with what uh what community you were staying in so for Washington DC I think it's 79 bucks maybe 81 Bucks versus uh um uh Lawrence might be 59 bucks a day but at least it's better than 30 bucks a day and for meals we don't uh don't uh require uh receipts you just get 30 bucks a day so the uh so the intent was to amend that and while I was at it I know looked at the uh the the uh ordinance and it said you you don't get reimbursed for travel uh to and from your uh convention site to the to to your uh uh to your hotel so you know so again people are going to take a trip on City business and city employees and they're going to lose money I don't think they're going to want to take those trips and particularly when the many of them are required uh uh uh for for employment I know Community Development uh spends a lot of time at Community Development uh seminars because you know they have to stay up on what the latest thing the feds want you to do uh so if they were to lose uh 500 bucks or 600 bucks uh every time they take a trip they probably wouldn't go on that trip uh unless the city did something else so the intent was to try and make it a little more fair so at least they wouldn't lose money on their meals uh originally the line one of the ordinance says we will reimburse for Hotel and Convention fees so that's what it says on line one of that ordinance uh I think the the ordinance line uh three or or the third bullet in in my amendment was adding a put in publication 4 63 for meals and in incidental expenses and I'm not sure how the council actually uh uh changed the or what they wrote in but they wrote in that the use publication 463 to limit the hotels something I don't know what it exactly said that uh eliminate the first first bullet if the first bullet is still in there then I guess we could take the uh could reimburse our employees for the actual cost of the hotel bill but it conflicts with the third bullet it it conflict and the intent of that of the publication 463 was to adopt it because there was concerned about the limit or the limit on the hotel and that was the discussion around and that's how that uh the the use of the publication for 63 was also adoped uh for the hotel limits that's how the council get into that I'm going to I'm going to withdraw my motion so there there's a motion the motion been withdraw second um no you don't have to second for not for the now there is a motion there is any other the motions councelors and we either take a motion to overy the buo or not to or just stay as is make a motion to all right so there is a motion um to override the mayor's beo it is in order uh can I hear a second second properly second um discussion Council Council la marmo was there any reason why could not have um and this is out of curios cuz if the issue was uh the limitations on Hotel fees but then I hear the caf's mentioning the portion of where the fees that are incurred from the hotel state to where the location of the convention or the seminar why why is that not two separate things that that could have been um discussed or or mention the the publication 463 was adopted for the limit of that of the hotel fees and the in Mills and incidental only those two portion Mills and incidental and hotel limits only right it does I did uh eliminate the provision that said you couldn't get uh uh travel to and from the airport but did not count I think that's what the original ordinance said so I took that out and I also put in that travel to and from your hotel to the convention is is allowable as long as you have receipts yes so on the ordinance it is allowed to on the local ordinance it is allow to the transportation from and in a conference and and what is what is the publication for 63 is limiting only or it's benefiting the the mson incidental that increases from $30 at the local ordinance to wherever you going uh based on the different rate on the different cities and also limit publication 463 also limit the the hotel portion of it so for those two reasons only that the publication will affect or benefit uh the hotel uh that is being affected uh and the meals that is being benefit from it that's the that's the intent president can I ask you then this question if you have a conference and let's say or even if it's a conference and because of weather you cannot travel back and you will stay there's a limit so this is what basically uh the council is I would't say this okay the way you're explaining it me the way that the council adopt it no I I know I know that means that what happens then I impos the question how would the employee be reimbursed if there's additional let's say you can't find a room because this is another thing you have uh we have our process they might be it might be during spring break for instance spring break the hotels are are booked uh and I know most of you that have traveled there certain times when you when you travel uh it's High season in certain places it may not be high season over in the East but let's say in in I mean the Northeast but it may be expensive in the south East we were lucky a good example would be recently I think Community Development Department I think three employees no two employees from uh uh Community Development and one employee from DPW traveled to Florida and they received uh a the city didn't pay for it but it was paid by the the organization they got a scholar uh what you call scholarship yeah yeah a scholarship and it was covered but assuming that there's an additional expense uh that is is booked um how would the employee be reimbursed so if you have a limit you go into the limit you go into the limit it's if we go into the limit and then you're saying that the taxpayer should pay up to $3,000 or more uh if it is if it is if it is an incident like that so you once you go into the limit uh to the extremes so basically you need to hold the other part of the question do you think that the city of lens that a poor city of lens should pay for a thousand of dollars hotel for a a a trouble expensive like it's it's like it's not let's not go to the Limit because the limit never defined a good policy I would I would respect respectfully differ with you council president on behalf of the mayor because it's different it's not what's happening in the industry well I'll tell you I'll tell you I'll tell you what how how we approach things the city council and how the mayor's office approach things we went to the same conference in Washington and you guys stayed for three days and we we didn't stay for any days we came back and forth the same day so that's how difference we see different things but that's that's different say that's how different council president then I need to correct you because we didn't go staff didn't go there to play games no we went there to do a job we we did and the result is evident no we did too that's all different that's why I don't like to I don't that's why I don't like to go to the limits yeah but if an employee goes for whatever circumstances the employee deserves to be reimbursed I haven't worked in any municipality and I work for various and I work in the private sector as well I haven't seen this well the publication 463 exist for a reason and that's the federal government yes but they not not not case in our case if you present a reimbursement and even the federal government it is justifi based on the rates that are given and it's necessary and Justified then it could be done essentially that's what happen when you when we when that when that is a when you try to adapt a policy or modify a current ordinance that it you you Tred to do something and then something else ended up happening we reviewed that ordinance and and figured it out of an issue there was Community input that should be some limitation on the hotels and now we impose the the the hotel limits on that the mayor B which is a a a a due process and it's go it's it's it's it's it's something that is within within the within in order for the mayor to be it the council now have the opportunity to override the ble and uh and and and and and maintain the policy as it was adopted if is if the boat goes successfully for that over to override the the beo of the mayor that you need six both and six both and um and it is important to recognize that the limitation of um uh of a publication 463 it's only on the hotels and on the uh and on the uh Ms uh that is increasing all right councilors at this point any other questions I just want to make a comment this for me this is plan this is a flawed vote there is no easy answer on this if you vote to override The veto that means we go back to what we were doing previous to what the reform package was that was sent by Mr ranello if we Su if we uh if we sustain a veto that's that's what happens we we go back if we override The veto I do have some concerns that Mr spanner has uh regarding the the housing for the hotels for example that that does resonate with me but either way whatever vote I take I'm not going to like the end results there's going to be something that I don't like about it so it's very it's very flawed all right the to if we overwrite the ble just to be clear the publication 463 take place on the meal and also on the U on the hotels limit everything uh will stay say the same as the previous ordinance uh if we do if we vote no on the ble or to over the V and then the ordinance that we used to have before with the limit of the $30 on the Mills will might will stay all right counselors at this point uh if it is any other question or concerns the qu the the question in front of us is to override the ble where which publication forces ret take place for that uh for those those two limits that I just expressed at this point uh if it is any other questions from the counselors um I'll call the questions uh and I'll call a roll call right after that all those in favor please say I obain uh Ro please councilor Rees Council Mamu abstain Council Santiago yes Council Del Rosario abstain Council Lon yes Council plant yes Council Levy St Council Infante abstain council president I vote Yes uh what's the count motion fils for lack of a fifth for in favor all right we need six vote motion fails so that uh the and the way that is going to stay is the $30 in the mill or whatever it is uh that he was before and the trouble expens is going to stay as before someone on the prevailing side there's no prevailing side there's no prevailing side so now the item um item that we have in front of us is item can council president we have somebody who's got a small family that got to take care of and I I just want to get them all under old where's my motion um can we take out of order document number uh 25624 a trans and vendor license they're here tonight 25624 which trans vend license uh maras hog dos we're going to need to have a motion to to discharge this out of committee and I make that motion second so we need to pull it from committee uh we need six vote for that it's been it's motion on the table properly second on discussion discussion councelor vice president infant thank you can you can the chair provide the reason of why we need to pull this out of committee uh the ordinance committee has been very good about making sure that everybody's paperwork is in uh before we adopt anything in this particular case the paperwork was incomplete uh and was not sufficient and so we asked the petitioner to go ahead and to get us more information which we um which I have here I was just given this um but we should uh but I have the the document which talks about the licensing fees Etc um on this and um date of exploration I can send this around I just got this but at least they have more information than they had previously and so that's why we're discharging it all right M vice president thank you so is there a reason why this cannot wait until the next ordinance meeting is there a time frame for this there were members of the ordinance committee who did not want to delay this uh and wanted to move this up more quickly and so um that's so the question be around is did you guys send it to to the full Council we did not send it to the full Council I'm going to uh we not send it to the full Council pending the documentation we did not send it to the full Council we didn't have it but the we motion we made a motion to table it at the ordinance committee but there were some counselors who believed that and I'm helping them I'm doing this for them essentially but there were some counselors who beli that we have the information why delay this and so now that we have the information they wanted to put it on under their old business a discharge great so the same thank you so the same counselors of this committee including the council chair I mean the the committee chair when I needed my colleague support to to move uh an item forward that we had all the information for my colleagues decided not to support me on it and now in this particular item was indeed missing information that the the committee has not yet reviewed and now this committee thinks that this is appropriate to take out of committee CC president uh Madame vice president what was the item that you referring to so um the the thriving Act and the council chair the the chair of the ordinance committee was the biggest proponent of not removing any items from the committee level I I'm just you know this Council picks and chooses when when they n this Council some people I'm you Mr this Council picks and chooses when it's appropriate to move things forward or not when particularly in fact this item was missing some things and now they deem appropriate to withdraw from committee level all right cons are you done all right uh Council Rosario thank you through you council president uh the lady was here with all the information and and the inspectional service did not provide us the information that she needed that she had prove on her hands that she paid it that she had everything but on our documents that that the inspection department missed to print the correct documents that's what the issue was I turned her back cuz it was a Tuesday I turned her back up to inspectional Services CU it was before 7 she actually got that information but I asked her to bring it printed to us cuz she had it in her hands um that was the only issue I mean it was it was late Tuesday when she went upstairs and um while we suggested was for her to bring back the information to us or inspectional service to reprint the whole information CU they misprinted it council president what we had they misprinted it and I mean it's it's she was here throughout throughout the whole process got you and the only thing was there was all the vendors here with all the information in there and we approved them she was the only vendor that somehow the inspectional service did not print the correct information so what you're saying is it was a a a city issue it I can I can say in the public record it was a city issue that did not print the correct information and we put him basically we put them in h until we got the right information not to make an assumption that she had it I mean she had it in her hands but we didn't have it in our package because they didn't print it correctly and that's what Rosario so next time just end it over pending some documentation and that way we can have it here and then uh we information get provided uh at the at this level councel Rees uh so my my colleagues cover what I want to say so in the past we can p it we can pull it off from the committee and moving forward uh she be present she bring the whole documentation he we have a lot of Challenger because we don't have interpreted from our committee so she cannot exad by herself what she want to express because she bring the whole documentation with her and I want to to clarify she be here she be present to the whole process and we need to moveing forward uh her proposal C Vice presing in thank you I'm hearing my colleagues and and I understand that there was a mistake uh at the city level and information was needed but the same again the same individuals the only thing that I was missing was a lack of cor I my committee had all the information had had everything but this and I'm I'm going to generalize it this Council decided to play politics no M vice president just remove those words out of the record please can you please remove those word I'm removing those those words out of the out of the record um all right any other counselors that wishes to speak to remove this out of uh pull it off on committee um counselors at this point I'll call the question so we can provide an opportunity to uh Mr Mara perz and um all those in favor to pull it off committee please say I no i r call please councelor Levy yes councelor llant yes councilor Lan no councelor Del Rosario yes councilor Santiago yes councilor marmel yes Council Selena Rees yes Council vice president fante no council president Rodriguez yes motion carries uh now we have item 25624 the trans bed the license for M hog docks Marta Perez Ramos is in front of us councilors what the motion motion to approve there is a motion to approve properly second discussion Council pres inant oh okay sorry I thought that you you asking almost all right um I just want to open up the floor for uh Malta Perez to explain to us a little bit more about her business and and what she does just name and address for the record Mar hog 49 High Street Martha just just tell us your experience around around this application how you feel um so you mean yeah in general [Music] okay and everything graas Perez Ramos councilors any other questions around this item all right at this point I call a question so please say I any knows the eyes have it thank you gra okay thank thank you so much okay all right councellors let's go on top of the agenda item 46824 which is council president where you are are we still in Old business uh yes we're going up to councelors we're going up to uh to the top of the agenda which is another B another B which is item 46824 which is the resolution amending the resigning and reimbursement requirement uh for the uh for the specific uh of the uh $400,000 going to the Federation the commerci uh the maor B this uh this item and uh for it to be overturned for the council to overturn the beo override the mayor's beo uh there is a v a need of six vote councelors what's the motion can I get a motion if it is a motion motion second there is a motion to override the beo properly second discussion what the overwriting of the vom means the overwriting of the vle means that if the council the with the the six vote on the positive uh on the with the six vat yes six vat uh that is a a a a ble override which is going to um um it's going to implement the resolution amending the the reimbursement requirement pass 10:00 there is a motion to pass then prop second please say I have it so if we were the we are going to with going to be able to uh to be award those those fund I take Grant so at this Point councelors any questions all right there is no questions at this point I call the questions there is a six box requirement for this all Us in fav please say I hi hi any no uh roll call please councelor Reyes yes councelor marmel yes councelor Santiago yes Council Del Rosario Council Alon councelor Mark leant no councilor Levy Council vice president Inon yes councilor Rodriguez yes motion car what the count 1 two 3 four five six that is the motion to override the mayor's vle carries uh uh the the the vle was override by this Council so um item 2 24224 the accept of a new stet layout for barers Street and the all abundant adjacent to the Lawrence Manchester Trail Corridor for the project uh coming up this is a Mot related yes this correct that is correct so for the uh for the potential conflict of interest I going to reach abstain to this boat and I'm unclear if I have a conflict out of due diligence I will be abstaining even though I don't think that's true but Mr McCarthy so good evening good evening councilors um the planning department is asking to remove this um document um from committee um we have a situation uh where two of the members of the sitting committee actually had to recuse himself due to involve with that so no further action could be taken on on approving this um this is the approval of the um rail trail uh easement plan that uh the easements that were that were uh approved by this um Council two weeks ago this is the plan that will be recorded along with those easements um and it's a requirement of the of the State uh so I'm asking that this be taken up uh to the full Council as an emergency thank you okay counselors we need we need the six votes to pull this out of committee U Madam chair can I mean Madam clerk can you do a roll call yes I'm sorry is there is can I please have a motion to pull this out of committee motion has been made by Council Maro seconded by councelor um uh Reyes discussion see non Clair can you call the role councilor Levy yes it's not that Council app has recused himself Council Luzan yes Council Del RAR yes Council Santiago yes Council marma yes Council Ares yes Council vice president fonte yes it's noted that the council president has recused himself and what is the the count s seven pass motion carry carries at this point councelors I'm looking for a motion for approve motion has been made by councelor De Rosario seced by councilor Levy discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I and the eyes have it thank you so much Mr councelors any table matters have 17122 171 171 director position okay all right councilors we have itan out of the table matters we have item 17122 which was request uh by to be removed out of the table matters can I get a motion to remove it out of the table matters does the adding of the planning director position on the Planning Development Department uh a public hearing was uh requested on 52 21st 2024 uh councelors there is a desire of motion to remove out of the table matters there's a motion properly second discussion all right I I'll l in fav please say I I the I have it councelors now we have the item in front of us um there is an underlay motion there was a um we had had a public hearing um there was a motion to approve um but then it was basically noted that the item um did not meet the format for an ordinance it was truly the format for a job description was like three pages long so the attorney had sent down the um more proper ordinance language as opposed to a job description language councelor give one second so we can uh go over this item again so this one right 171 that's um that's the all language yeah for [Music] resp the request was to have a more proper language for the publication as well as that U as well as the ordinance and the intent of the of the uh of the of the administration is to add the planning direct opposition under the planning and development uh Department uh any questions around these counselors while we still waiting for the information council president I I don't have a question on that but just to facilitate some of the stuff I know that we have the airport director here who I believe has a late file um just to get we have to table this item then come back only because we're waiting I can make mtion table this item all right there is a motion to table 17122 properly SEC properly there is a motion to table item 171 22 until they get everything already can I hear a second second properly second no discussion on the table matters U please say hi the I have it it um councilors we have we have also under the new business a few items uh that uh we're going to have to uh take it as an emergency so the first item that we have what was it what was the item for the for the a so there's two um one is for the Personnel director it's got this 90-day appointment um he's got a um authorization to transfer retain revenues that's not even on your agenda because it came in like at 6:45 and that's related to Mas oh I don't know all right councelors we have two items to be add to the agenda and be sent subsequentially to to committee this is item 19124 which is the add an item to the aort which is the authorization to transfer retain revenues uh of the amount for the amount of um um director do you have the amount specific amount ,80 yes uh $4,080 councelors for to add this item to the agenda we need to declare an Emer and and the purpose will be to be sent to a to the committee councilors can we get a motion to add this item to declare this item as an emergency to added to the agenda there is a motion of the table properly second discussion the item 29124 that's what's going to be the last one the very last one so it's going to be added to to the agenda any discussions on this I hear none so all those in favor please say I I any knows the I have it uh now this item has been added to the agenda and it will it will be U referred to the budget and finance committee we also have the item 289 24 which is the extend the 90 days appointment of the acting chief of police uh MX Bonia we need to um declare this is an emergency uh to be able to add it to the agenda councilors can I get a motion to declare this is an emergency there is a motion to declares an emergency properly second discussion I hear not I I I'll definitely appreciate these items all please say I I uh the I have it now councelors this item will be will be referred to the personal committee uh we also have item 290 uh 29024 which is the old uh gold and secondhand dealers license uh bti quas uh Jewelers LC 205 roadway street we need to declare this item to as an emergency to be add to the agenda councelors can I get a motion to add it to the agenda there is a motion to declar an emergency uh to add it to the agenda properly second discussion discussion I'm I'm just curious we've been and I don't have a problem with this is there a timing that we're missing is there license expiring is that what what's happening I just don't know why we're I believe that is a a time limit when it comes to the uh they open they're going to be opening up at the end of the month yeah and they are requiring uh for us to take to take a boat to be able for them to be able to start uh creating job and producing uh and producing work when it comes to that uh their business so you guys currently renting yeah so good evening um Jose Rosario 6 Island Street uh so basically the um the person owning the the actual jewelry store appli for all the permits and everything that he needed to open the store uh it wasn't until today actually when we went to meet with scan and offer some scanning to give him the clearance on the Corey and the license to to buy gold and whatnot when we came back to the city clerk to drop off the paperwork is when we were made aware that he actually needed to come before the before you folks um for a decision before opening when he had everything already pre-programmed and scheduled to open so at no given time from the beginning May 8th when he first Supply was he told that he needed to all right it is important to uh State the the following uh for this type of license when it comes to purchasing gold the those license for the uh need to come in front of in front of the uh of the city council this is one of the few uh items that uh related to that that come in front of us uh councilors any questions uh in regard to this item to be added to the agenda to declares an emergency no question I just want to remind the the applicant is probably going to go through tonight which is okay but but please be mindful with the council you know you didn't know this so you're learning but just be mindful do not in the future you're going to have renew your license at some point just make sure you're doing it far enough in advance so we don't have this I'm sure you will but as a reminder as as I mentioned we weren't aware that anything further than a business certificate and occupancy permit was necessary so counselors um we have an item in front of us to theare mering and be able to uh U discuss it at this level um all those in favor please say I I there I have it councilors now we have the the duty to send it to committee or perhaps I'll entertain a motion to uh to be able to discuss it at this level since that they're going to be able to open the business quicker or um I'll open the opportunity to the council to take a determination whether or not they want this to be sent committee or perhaps I I'll I'll we entertain a motion at this level right now motion to discuss at this level um motion to suspend the rules to be able to not to not to send it to committee and be able to discuss it all the paperworks are already uh on the package correct yes everything has been submitted all right councelors um there is a motion to suspend the rules to not to send it to committee it's been properly second discussion councilor president inant thank you through you council president the reason um I'm only one counselor but the reason I to to explain to you to you the reason why I am deciding I decided to make to place this motion because from your explanation what I'm understanding is that the mistake was on the city's side it wasn't on your side um and so a comment that was made to you earlier is is was not right because the mistake was on our side whomever helped you guys with the paperwork did not inform you as new business owners so um to fix that I feel the need that this body should um help out a little bit more and and discuss it at this level due to the mistake but app all right thank you councilor any questions or concerns about to pull not to send it to committee and suspend the rules I'll comment on that comment councel sure so I'm I'm not going to be voting in favor of it this evening I understand why some counselors are saying what they're saying this evening I I get it message has been sent and I I told it through the council president I understand um however I will just say that uh you're still going if we send this to committee there will be nothing that's going to to to to what's not allow you to get it started at the time you want to get it started because it will be sent to the committee we will have a chance to have it through this regular process and then we will go through it it so um I'm not that I don't want it I think at the end of the day I shall support it but I'm not going to be supporting it this motion to move it on without doing our our regular job like we're supposed to once we start unraveling this it just becomes easy just to do everything here and I don't think the council really wants frankly if we follow that to its logical conclusions through the council president I don't think that's what we want okay understand thank you all right uh Point well taken uh Council plant at the meantime this Council have the opportunity to suspend the ru if they desire motion to approve motion to suspend the rules properly second no wait we we haven't get the yet there's already we need we need to vote on the motion to suspend the rules press all those in favor pleas say I I any no no R call please Council Rees yes Council Mamu yes Council Santiago yes Council Del Rosario yes Council Luzon yes Council lant no council Levy yes Council vice president Infante yes councelor president Rodriguez about yes motion approve now we have a motion to approve can I hear a second second properly second uh discussion councel Ros oh oh sorry is the paperwork ready all set can you can you affirm that we do have all of his paperwork it is in excellent shape it's excellent shape you see I very difficult to hear that from her well I'm familiar with it because I'm in the zoning board I know how oh you're part of the zoning board thank you for your service thank you all right um counselors at this point we have a motion to approve prop second all please say I BR said no um Council Levy yes Council plant yes Council Lan yes Council Del Rosario yes Council of Santiago yes Council mam yes Council of Selena Rees yes Council um vice president fonte yes council president yes unanimous so now we're going back to a on um 170 17122 counselors motion or table 17122 uh motion to remove out of the table matters 17122 properly second any discussion I hear no so all those in favor to remove from table uh please say I I the I haveit Madame Madame Madame cleric we have a a a proper language here is this language for the purpose of the ordinance to approve or this language is for the purpose of a publication this item has already been published and open a public hearing so at this time the body could order a second public hearing if you so choose but what you have in front of you you could vote on tonight all right coun was the desire what's the what's the underlying motion we made motion is to approve so I'm I'm going to um I think whose Mo if that was my motion because I think it came out of ordinance I think give was one second it is so I am going to remove uh I am going to remove that my earlier motion and I'm going to substitute it with this new language so my motion is going to be this language so the motion is to approve with the new language that was provided by the City attorney propol second discussion so counselors for the uh for the experience uh education and an experience that is a requirement of a a ba a bachelor's degree uh bachelor degree that is required and master as always prefer and uh it is a substitution of the of the education as well with 10 plus years of experience um just for the record councilors what that uh what's the desire of the council motion to approve already it was the motion to approve U at this time I call the questions all Us in favor please say I I uh R call please um Council Levy yes Council plant yes Council L yes councel delario yes Council Santiago yes Council Mar yes Council yes Council vice president yes council president yes un all right motion carries it's unanimous now we going to u to new business so item uh 26424 the transfer a Fone of $530,000 from free cash to the fire department for over for the overtime account that's going to the budget and finance committee item 26524 which is a transfer of fund of $500,000 from free cash to special project account for the Char care scholarship program this is going to the budget and finance committee item 26624 with the which is the year end transfer between the department account that's going to The Bu and finance committee item 26724 which is the reauthorization of bevard cemetery revolving fund account that's going to the budet and finance committee item 26824 the reauthorization of counceling agent roling account this is for the amount of $50,000 this is going to the Bo and finance committee item 26924 the reauthorization to uh of the recreation un Park Sal supporting services revolving account for the amount of $100,000 this is going to the B finance committee it 27124 the reauthorization to Liberty program revolving account expenditure limit of 50,000 this is going to the buet and finance committee item 27224 the reauthorization to P assets en cable relocated funds revolving accounts appropriation of 377,000 this is going to the budget and finance committee 27324 the reauthorization of DPW recycling rearing fund account expenditure for $50 this is going to the B and finance committee item 27424 the recent uh the reimbursement uh requirement of uh triven lawen funding award uh L lown boxing this is going to the The Bu Finance committee the authorization to spend grun of 79,500 uh fiscal year 2024 and PN S Grant award e PS Rosa charper this is going to the B finance committee item 27624 the authorization to spend Grant of uh for the amount of 273,000 it on 27724 the creation of chare parking ordinance uh from 6: a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday to Friday this is going to the ordinance committee ID on 27824 the handicap parking on 3 uh 37 Prospect Street this is going to the ordinance committee ID 37924 no parking area on six berky Street this is going to the ordinance committee uh it 280 24 evangelization event evangelization event on July 27 2024 one from 1: to 9:00 p.m. at the compion common this is going to to the ordinance committee Idan 28124 uh birthday party July 20 2024 from 4: to 9: uh reendo playground this is going to the ordinance committee item 28224 um preaching services on August 10 20124 from 3: uh to 6:00 p.m. at the compon park uh the compon common uh this is going to the ordinance committee it 28324 activ communia June 8 this was adopted today uh Idan 28424 that or that or Day program on August 24 2024 from 1: p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the compon common uh this is going to the orance committee item 20 uh 28524 basketball tournament on June 29 um from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the O'Neal Park this is going to the ordinance committee item this a basketball tournament okay yeah 286 uh 24 the EV evangelist event on July 19 on July 20 2024 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the compon common this is going to the ordinance committee ID on 28724 salsa event on July 20 on August 10th uh this is going to the companion Park this is going to the ordinance committee and the rest of the items councilors we finish it up today any items that we have missed that we would like to discuss from the U from the table matters or any other matters council president um Council Rosario just just a request to the clerk can we somehow email the recreation department so we have the DAT for those activities that way we don't questions if they can email something for us so we can have it ready for the ordinance counc y we've already done that I'll get it to you and with that said motion to adjourn motion to adjourn committees committees committees no no motion to adjourn yet committees councelors budget and finance I mean um ordinance committee Tuesday June 11 7 o'cl budget and finance committee so we have uh we have two um we have a budget hearing on on the Monday June 10th at mon Monday at 6:00 p.m. and the regular budget and finance meeting will be uh Wednesday the 12th at 7 p.m. all right uh um um housing I don't see any items on housing right all right safety there is a safety requirement there is a requirement for Safety Committee um was that U was that the potential date for safety safety will do Wednesday at 600 p.m. Wednesday at 6 um uh and then we have a Personnel Personnel will do Monday at 6 p.m. I mean I'm sorry Monday at 700 p.m. um after the budget hearing and then we have ordin buet and finance uh housing nothing personnel and safety okay I think that will said right for now all right um um m madame sherff for safety uh do you mind uh sending request to the police department so we can have a few things for that day specifically around the specific items yes uh can I have a list uh uh prostitution child um um uh trafficking um and and a specific plan for the summer when it comes to uh drug dealings and operations and an update on the the trust act that is required every six month I make a motion to send correspondence to the provisional Chief um with the following four items that the council president mentioned um to have to to for for information on these four items and to have the appropriate um representatives there for discussion usually the chief of police whomever yeah but all right there is a motion on the table can I hear a second properly second uh any discussion all fa please say I I the eyes have it motion to adj Second properly second all in say I have it e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e 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