Town Council - Regular Meeting

tonight and I'm going to say a few words about one of our colleagues who is uh leaving us. So I just want to take a a moment to acknowledge our newly elected state senator Stephano Famaged. Thank you all. That was for you, Brad. I want to wish him all the best as he takes part in his final meeting with the North Providence Town Council. Stephano has been more than just one of my closest political colleagues. He's become one of my closest friends, someone consider someone I consider like a younger brother. Um while his departure is undoubtedly a loss for this council, it's a tremendous gain for the town of North Providence and the entire state of Rhode Island. In my eyes, no one could ever replace Senate President Dominic Rogerio, but if anyone can, this guy right here comes pretty close. Uh so you know many elected officials uh they always say they'll never forget where they came from and they usually do but I can assure you Stephano he knows where he came from and he means it when he says it. His dedication to this community is s is sincere and he has a great passion for this town and I think we'll deeply miss him. So, on behalf of myself and my colleagues on the North Province Town Council, I want to thank him for his service uh to this town. Wish him continued success in the Rhode Island Senate. We're proud of him and we know he'll make us even prouder in the years to come. So, thank you to Stephano.

Thank you. All right, now for the fun stuff. Acceptance of meeting minutes. Discussion and possible action vote with regard to the acceptance of meeting minutes for the meetings of July June 3rd, July 7th, and July 14th. I have a motion to accept. So move. Motion's been made by Councilman Pollock. Is there a second? Second by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? The eyes have it.

Item number two, purchases of town properties. Maryland body request discussion and possible vote on the purchasing of the following properties owned by the town of North Providence. A plat 5, lot 683 through 694 at 1119 Douglas Avenue request from Maill LLC to purchase for the purpose of accommodating 13 units as confirmed by the planning board. and B clat 4 lots 632 633 and 634 request from Steven Maurici to purchase mayor Mr. Chairman, both of these parcels of property, and I know that um you received a copy of both plans, will not um incur any additional services for those parcels. The first down at uh down behind the Geneva Mills there, there's property there that we've owned for quite some time that's not buildable. We have the opportunity to get some revenue from this gentleman which will also allow him to build more units in the building the structure that's there. So I think it's the right thing to do after speaking with a few of you. I had Mr. Andulo appraise the property. This is the uh his appraisal. So I'm just going to suggest that uh we consider uh selling the property again because it's just a situation of some buildable and we can derive some revenue. That's it. You all have

any questions? one of the principles of the properties here. There may be two fellas that may want to if you have any questions speak uh as to what the plans are there. Okay. Can the gentleman who uh from me come up? Just state your names for the record, please. Good evening, uh council president. I'm attorney Jake Deiko. I'm on I'm here on behalf of the LLC. This is one of the principles here and we're available to answer any questions you may have. All right. Just state your name for the record, please. That Thank you. Does anybody have any questions? These are going to be 13 uh condos. Yes, sir.

They're going to be built on here. Correct. Yes. Not not 13 buildings with more than one. I wish. Well, we don't but ju just for clarification because got a lot of stuff not clarified. And this is adjacent to the property that's already Yeah. So I know when the mayor says not buildable, obviously it's not buildable to us, but it's buildable to you. Okay. Just again, just clarification, make it simple.

Okay. Yes, that's good. Okay. Any other questions? So, are these going to be onebedroom condos, two-bedroom condos? They're going to be onebedroom compose. Square footage would be what? Uh an average that would be around between 6 and 800 ft.

Again, these will be rented, not sold, right? Is this the same parcel land where there was an unfortunate situation last year? Sorry. Is this the same parcel of land where they had that unfortunate uh situation back there last year? that I'm not sure but it okay

uh mayor just one question looking through the uh the paperwork it said uh at one point the I'm losing it now here it is per tax assessor the subject lots are assessed to the estates of Edith uh Filamina Gloria and Tony Leah Iello and the town of North Province. So does the town own uh have full title to all these lots? Okay. [Music]

Okay. Thank you. And right right now from the pictures that I see, there was a an encampment there and something else that was behind the building. That was just making sure that was the same situation.

Yeah. Mayor, quick question if I may. Um, did the town foreclose the tax title on the on the four lots? Does the town have tax title or did they foreclose the tax title on the four? But we haven't foreclosed it yet. Think so. Based on what I was told. Okay. I'll double check that. Yeah, I think we can do a we can do a we can get order title and yeah, find out for certain. Just want to prior to approving the sale. I just want to make sure that what we're conveying full title. Absolutely.

Make that. Do I have a motion to approve this pending state? I mean, I'm fine either way. Okay. Approving the tax title. Approving. I guess the motion would be is there a motion to approve the sale subject, I guess, to a title search indicating that the town owns full title to the properties. Okay. Okay. Motion to approve subject to the town um owning full title of the properties listed above. So move. Motion been made by Councilman Famaged, seconded by Councilman Pollock. Is there any other questions? There being none. All those in favor? I.

All those opposed? You guys have it. Good luck with everything. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And number three, request of recent issues the mayor would like to address via ordinance. May body request discussion, possible vote on the most recent issues that he would like addressed via ordinance as follows. A, issues with cars parking on front lawn and suggested max driveway pavement areas and front yards. B. time frame limits for storage containers and dumpsters and registration of the same with a fee structure for violations and C registration for donate donation containers along with a fee structure d updating business trade name certificates. Mayor,

Mr. President, I would ask that you refer this these issues to the ordinance committee and so that the inspection will be part of the discussion and uh we may need an or a new ordinance or two, but I think also some strengthening of a couple of our ordinances so that when our inspectors go out, they have the goods to site problems in people's neighborhoods. And that's what we're facing right now. So, if you could just uh pass that on. Appreciate. Okay. Uh does anybody have any questions for the mayor on this one? We do have a motion to send

all four items to the ordinance committee. Motion's been made by Councilman Dorenzo, seconded by Councilman Famaged. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? The eyes have it. Mr. Mr. Chairman, if I may, um, the second part of that number 2B, we we didn't address that. Let's see. Containers and dumpsters. No, no, no, no. Number two, purchase of town properties. Oh, yeah. You're right. Okay. I'm sorry. I

My fault. Uh, B, Plat 4, lot 632, 633, and 634. Request from Steven Maurici to to purchase. So, Mr. Chairman, part of that propertyy's uh in the city of Providence, and I could tell you that there's no way that you could build on that property. Mr. Maurici has agreed to that, but it abuts his property and would like to purchase it. Um, I also had Mr. Andulo appraised the property and he thought that this was a more than fair amount to um sell that property to Mr. Maurici. Uh, Mr. Maurici I think is here. Yeah. Sorry. So if there there are any questions and we've been talking about this with Mr. Maurici for maybe a couple of years now. So I can guarantee you that it's basically unbuildable and it was another portion of some property between the town and Providence that uh has been on the tax roles a number of times.

Okay. There's any uh come up with the mic. Just state your name for the record, please.

Steven Maurici. Okay. Does anybody have any questions? Okay. You all have the information in front of you. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Motion's been made by Councilman Famaged. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Bala. All those in favor? I. All those opposed, the eyes have it. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item number three, Rhode Island Hazard Mitigation Plan 2024 update. Mayor Lombardi requests discussion and possible vote to pass a resolution concerning the plan update. Mayor.

Okay, you all have the resolution in front of you. Is there any questions? Just this is the same resolution that we passed 5 years ago. We just had to renew it. And honestly, this is a two-year process that we're on the end of. Once this gets accepted, we already have approximately $2 million of grants ready to go. Just being held up. I just need official approval. Okay. Any questions? Do I have a motion to approve the resolution? So moved. Second. Motion been made by Councilman Bakala, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor? I. All those opposed, the eyes have it. Thank you, Chief.

Thanks, Chief. All right, but I got to go to Okay. Item number 24, Beckside Road. Councilman Laort request discussion and possible vote on flooding issues on Beckside Road. I know Councilman Bakala will be handling that. We have residents here. Councilman, do you want?

Uh, well, Mr. Laoro obviously could not be here. So, being in District One, uh, we have Mr. Salvatore here. We have Dave, the mayor, and everything. And hopefully we can come out of here tonight with a resolution and a plan to to get something done. So, as far as that, I mean, I can open the floor to to I know where we're standing. Uh, Bernie, I don't know if you want to. Yep. Okay. Yeah, just have a seat, please. I know we talked about some solutions. I think what we've talked about is probably the best if we can obtain that.

Yeah. So, there's two options that Bernie can talk to the microphone. Yes.

To go. Yeah. You want Sure, sir.

Sure. Thank you. Thank you, uh, Bernie. Uh, David Do, uh, with DO Engineering Technologies at 2080 Mineral Spring Avenue in North Providence. And so, uh, I've looked at the um of, uh, tying in the um, eight buildings. I believe they're duplexes along Beck's side, four on one side, four on the other. And we looked at two options right now and one is obviously gravity. Um and that obviously in the long run is the uh most effective relative to maintenance. Bernie has all the equipment and and they're very used to maintaining a gravity line like that and uh we have that design out there. Um, I just updated because our our original estimates were um from like 424 uh the last time we were in front of the uh I think it was the public safety committee and uh so if we go with the gravity um I would fund so a funding amount of around 490,000 for that I would expect it to come lower in a in a competitive bid, but for the town's uh purposes, I would I would fund uh approximately 490,000. Now the second one uh design would be to do what we call a low pressure force man and that calls for uh a 3-in

um HDP pipe down down the uh uh the street only have to bury that at 4 feet. Um, and then each building can tie into that, but the building would need a grinder pump for each building. Um, very common system in Warick. Um, there are thousands of these in in the Warick area mainly because um, they're very safe for the environment. They don't leak and um, and that's a problem for the bay in that area. We don't really have that problem here. Um, but it's very effective and we're looking at uh a price of around if we were to fund that. If I you were looking to fund that, I would put that at about 386,000. That's my that's my number, my estimate number if I was looking to um uh if you were looking to fund that. Now, we did uh Bernie did solicit a um a price from a contractor, which is a great um idea to do it. This is back in December of 24, so about uh eight months ago, eight or nine months ago, and they came up with a price between 275 to 325,000. They their verbiage is a rough guesstimate on that based on unknowns.

And you could see on there there's some exclusion. And is that still going through the front and through the street or is that it could go down the street or it could go in the back in the form of an e? Is me. All right. And the only reason why we looked at the back in the form of an easement is because they wouldn't have to swing their plumbing around to make the hook up in the front because all their plumbing goes out the rear of the building. It's already there. I mean that that's where it's so bad. So for lack of a better term to not reinvent the wheel. Is it possible to fix what's there? You know to like you say get any because I know we don't want to go on people's property. So we're going to have to create an easement to fix that and go in there. But is that I just want to make sure we're not putting a band-aid on on something that needs stitches. That's all.

Correct. And it this could go either in the street or in the back of the property. In the back of the property there will be no utility conflicts. There's already a sewer established. You can develop the easement, get in, put the sewer. They can be without sewer probably maybe an hour or so. Once it's in, they can use existing sewer and then or it could be put in the roadway. It is a very shallow cut. That's the reason for the most economical numbers because you're not starting at 8 feet and then esavating to 10 ft of water. It's a very deep cut and the unknowns as far as boulders, ledge,

ledge and everything. Yeah. So that takes that out of the the foot. So that's the choice of the That's all more applicable to me. I don't know about anybody else, but I I do want to add that I do want to add if you go in the back, you have to do two you have to do two lines, right? Because you know um they face each other. The buildings face each other. So, you're talking both sides to be able to get all eight, you know.

Well, I'm thinking we have to do well, right? We have to do more. Um, as as far as the other side of the street, there have been no on the other side of the street that success moving. So, so we have a couple of solutions at least. Yeah. Okay. All right. At this point, um, I would say I would go with a pump in the middle of the roadway backside. That would be my choice. Y

one ser and they can uh purchase their merator pump and then turn their pl around. Okay. All right. Thank you.

Thank you for doing that. Uh any of the residents have questions?

So up to recently that's uh that was a true statement about the other side not having any issues. However, I did say send Steve Laoio some photos. Rotoroo's been out there on several occasions recently. I spoke with the homeowner directly across the street from us. They said that they've experienced issues uh with the sewage backing into their home. Um, I think they thought it was an isolated incident for them. I assure them it's not. Uh, because it's heading down the same way. They had no idea where this was going. Um, so they are up against exactly what we were up against some 20 plus years ago. Um, and how quickly theirs will go, will it last as long? I don't know. So, it's not a matter of wanting the sewer in the street. I think ultimately when you have to redo the sewer lines in the back of the homes on one side, you are definitely going to have to redo the sewer lines on the opposite side. Therefore, you're doubling the cost even though the cost initially for one side might be less to put it in the middle of the road road. This is not a want. It's the smartest financial decision because you're taking care of both sides.

Okay. Okay. And I do have photos of the uh uh Rotorooer truck in front of the homes. Paul Nua if you like to see them, but I did pass them to Steve Laoio. Unfortunately, he advised he wasn't going to be able to be here. Okay. So, does anybody have any questions on this? So, Councilman, are we referring this back to committee or are we making a decision tonight? Are we um Well, I was just I was thinking that myself. not to not to prolong it one one more step because we're on this but we're talking to them but if we could have one more meeting with everybody together even if it's not in a committee meeting if we meet the with the constituents and maybe Bernie and the mayor just to see what our best option is

okay that would be my suggestion is that what you're saying and I want you know I don't think they were aware of this you know they weren't they weren't apparently aware of this otherwise well that's what we're just saying now there was no problems on the other side of the street Now there is and if we're going to fix a problem, like I said, I don't want to put a band-aid on it and spend and waste money when we can fix it. Yeah.

Back up at any time. Yes. It could have been a backed up lateral. I have no data on it, but uh putting it in the middle of the road in a low pressure pump sewer is the most economical way to go at this point because you're developing one line, middle of the road, a shallow cut, and that is a little relief to the taxpayers if they're going to fund this. Okay. I I would prefer it to be in this type of setting. Uh because the last meeting we had, right,

did not go all that well. Um it was very unprofessional, I thought. Uh because we were asking questions, myself included. Probably the primary of the questions. You were there at the uh meeting. Uh I think we all agreed it was not very professionally handled. Bernie was upset, stormed out, didn't want to deal with it. So, I'd I'd rather it be something that we can actually uh take, you know, situation and try to I can assure you it it will it will be in this setting, but we may just have a meeting with us just to get everything in the particulars and then it's going to come across this council to be to be vetted and actually get voted on to for the final.

Okay. So, I'm going to make a motion to continue this matter to the next town council meeting. Um we have to have a meeting in the next couple weeks to announce the special election that's coming up. And so we'll uh we'll put that on this agenda. You won't have to wait a whole you we'll make sure you get notified. All right. And I can promise you I'll be with Mr. Laortio. I'll make that motion. Okay. Motion's been made by Councilman Bagghetti, second by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor. All those opposed, the eyes have it. Thank you. Item number 23, update on public safety building. Council me request discussion and possible vote on the sale of the public safety building.

Um council on my lap again. Um, mayor, I think he just wanted to know if there's any movement with uh with Douglas or anybody that's, you know, with it. Are we at a stalemate? Are we still waiting for for them or

Okay. I guess just push it till then and push it till next month. Okay. Okay. Hey, I'm going to make a motion to continue this to the September meeting. So moved. Motion been made by Councilman Famaged, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? The eyes have it. All right. Going back to back to the beginning. Item number five, zone change amendment. Town council to consider the approval of an application from Conley Law and Associates to amend article.

Was that five? by section 49E of the zoning ordinance of the town of North Providence. This application was advertised in the Providence Journal on July 11th, 18th, and 25th, 2025 for hearing on this date. This matter is going to be continued to the September meeting. Do I have a motion to continue? So move second. Motion been made by Councilman Bala, seconded by Councilman Pollock. All those in favor? I.

All those opposed, the eyes have it. Proposed ordinance. Notice was given of a public hearing on this day whereby the town council will consider passage of the following proposed ordinance. Six, ordinance ordinance 25- 0007Z, an ordinance amending the town of North Providence zoning ordinance article 4, section 409E. Do I have a motion to pass? Ordinance 25-007Z. Is there a motion to pass? So move. Motion's been made by Councilman Famaged. Is there a second? Second. Second by council mala. Any questions? There being none. All those in favor? I.

All those opposed? You eyes have it. Item number seven, ordinance 25-00008, an ordinance amending fee schedules for building construction, renovations, zoning, and planning fees to be charged by the building zoning and planning officials. Do have a motion to pass ordinance 25-008. So move second. Motion's been made by Councilman Bala, seconded by Councilman Pollock. Any questions? There being none. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? The eyes have it.

Okay. Okay. We have to resend or uh item back to ordinance item number six. Ordinance 25-007Z. An ordinance amending the town of North Providence zoning ordinance article 4 section 409E. I have a motion to resend that due to its relation to item number five that is being continued. So moved. Okay. A motion's been made by council McColler. Is there a second? Seconded by Councilman Fagetti. All those in favor. All those opposed? The eyes have it. We have a motion to continue. Item number six, ordinance 25-007Z. Second. Motion's been made by Councilman Bala, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor.

All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number eight, outdoor license. Town council to consider the approval of an outdoor license for Horse D. Lav 1342 Douglas Avenue, North Providence. Can you just come up and state your name? Please.

Victoria Susain. Thank you. Okay, you all have the information in front of you. Is there any questions? I I had a question, Mr. President. Councilman that currently parking on that side of the building. Uh part of it. Yes. So you're going to be losing quite a few parking spaces. Yes. But I wasn't planning on taking up the whole like if you see the space um well in the picture it doesn't really show, but it's just a mockup. But um I wanted to actually do half of this. So half of the parking spot. You'd have to I don't have a picture of the actual parking space with me. Yeah. That's my only But there's about like um four parking spots on that side. I'm sorry.

There's about four parking spots on the side. Three to Yeah, around four actually.

So, you would end the outdoor dining at 9:00 and then 10:00 on Friday and Saturday. Okay. And there's not going to be any loud music or anything outside. You know that, right? No, I don't have any speakers or anything outside. Is this going to be seasonal or is it seasonal planning? Okay, so it's okay. Any other questions? Can do I have a motion to approve? Second.

Motion been made by Councilman Famagetti, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor. All those opposed, the eyes have it. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you very much. All right. Item number nine, class F1 liquor license. Town council to consider a vote for the approval of a class F1 license for Behind the Bars Mixology LLC for an event at Camp Mian on August 21st, 2025. Have a motion to approve? So move. Motion been made by Councilman Pollock. Is there a second? Second. Second by Councilman Bala. All those in favor? I.

All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number 10, class F1 liquor license. Town Council to consider a vote for the approval of a class F1 liquor license for Easy Bar LLC for events at Camp Me on September 26, 2025 and October 26, 2025. Do I have a motion to approve? So second. Okay. Motion's been made by Councilman Pollock, seconded by Councilman. All those in favor? I.

All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number 11, private investigator license. Town Council to consider the approval of a new private investigator license for Anthony Edward Mataresi, 10 Sherry Drive, North Providence. Can you just come up to the microphone, please? Just state your name for the record. Anthony Mesi. Thank you. Okay, you all have the information in front of you. Is there any questions for Mr. Mesi? I have none. Do I have a motion to approve? So move. Motion been made by Councilman Famagedi, seconded by Councilman Bala. All those in favor? I. All those opposed, the eyes have it. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Item number 12, JL and Bowery Investment LLC, DBA, Dana Sports Lounge, representatives of Dana's Lounge to appear for a three-month check-in on the opening of the business after a flood and the meeting of requirements to license.

Good evening, Mr. President, members of the council. Uh John Manny on behalf of JL Bowery Investments. Uh the status of the uh Danish lounges, they're getting closer to opening. Um there was a certification that was needed. Uh Amanda Thornley is going to be the person. She's got the certificate. She has to pay the state fee and they have to clear up the state taxes. We expect that'll be done by the next council meeting. So asking uh if it could be put over till that date and in the event that they get all their paperwork and everything is paid and shown to the town that it be done administratively in the event they get done quicker than expected. They're almost finished inside but it's been a chore.

Okay. Does anybody have any questions? Have a motion to continue this to the September meeting. So move second. Motion's been made by Council Bala, seconded by Councilman Pollock. All those in favor? I. All those opposed, the eyes have it. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. And congratulations, Senator. Thank you.

Item number 13, Elite Lounge and Beastro LLC DBA. Elite Lounge and Beastro Summons was delivered to Carlos Nasco Asdo. Registered agent for Elite Lounge and Beastro LLC DBA Elite Lounge and Beastro located at 1759 Middle Spring Avenue, North Providence, Rhode Island for a formal hearing and possible vote concerning the BV Liquor and Entertainment. licenses for this establishment. The failure to make payment the town of North Proidence will please details consistent with the required conditions of their license. This item was continued to this date. Just state your name for the record, please. Carlos Nasco. All right. So, they haven't been excuse me.

Did you work did you work something out with the police department? Yes, I did what Mario said. Yeah. I made a payment for July and August came in. I'm making a payment for August and I'm going to keep making payments moving forward. Okay. All right. Thank you. I mean, as long as you made that agreement, I'm going to remove this item from the agenda. Yes. Thank you. I made a payment for you. Keep up the good work. Good luck. Thank you for cooperation. Okay.

Item number is 14. 787 Restaurant and Lounge LLC. DBA 787 Restaurant and Lounge. Summons was delivered to Liz Vasquez, president and registered agent for 787 Restaurant and Lounge LLC. DBA 787 Restaurant and Lounge, located at 1270 Middle Spring Avenue, North Proidence, Rhode Island, for a formal hearing and possible vote concerning the BV Liquor and Entertainment Licenses for this establishment and the failure to make payment to the town of North Providence for police details consistent with the required conditions of their license. This item was continued to this date. Is anyone here from 787? Okay, I will make a move.

Kevin, a community police officer here. I'm sure back there. Yeah, sorry about that. We're going to make you sit in front from now on. Lieutenant, any update on uh Yes, they did make a uh $2,500 payment uh for the month. Um, and I was informed as of yesterday, there's no more details at that location from the colonel. No, there's no more details. No more details in an attempt, I guess, to help them make payments.

Okay. So, was that 2500 for services rendered before or now? That's towards the bill. They still have an outstanding balance of $59,917.39.

That was from the clerk today. And I'm going to assume no more details so we don't keep racking up a bill that we're not going to get paid for. That's correct. So So at this point, we got to Lieutenant, when was that payment made? 2500. uh believe on July 30th, $2,500. When was the previous payment prior to that? Do you know? It was sometime in June. She's been consistent. So, I just want to ask you that question. I know the last time we were here, they were missing payments, but she she said she paid and then we said we didn't have any payments. Was that rectified? She's been making payments and she was she was in the right. I'm just saying she wasn't she wasn't misleading. That was my error.

No, no, that's fine. I just understanding our system. I didn't realize that she comes into the police department, pays our clerk, it goes into our record system under the details which I don't oversee. So for this year, has she been making payments since January to to the best of my knowledge? So she I just want to make sure she wasn't. All right. Thank you. Yeah, but the payments that are being made are for services being rendered at that point in time, not any back money. Well, I don't know that I was going by the back balance. I was assuming that's no matter what she's paying, it's going off the back balance anyway, guys. All right. Let's I'm going to refer

I'm going to refer this to the finance committee. I don't like negotiating payment schedules in public. I don't even know sometimes why this comes before us. I I know it's a condition of their license, but in all due respect to the business owners, the police department, we really shouldn't be negotiating this out in a public forum. So, I'm going to refer this matter on 787 to the finance committee and then uh and that's in the form of a motion. So, move. Okay. Motion's been made by Councilman Bamagetti, second by Councilman Bakala. Any questions? All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. Thank you. Thank you.

Item number 15, six-month check. Town council to conduct a six-month check on evictionling license for soldi Portugal restaurant, 1525 Smith Street, North Providence. Okay. And you all have the information in front of you. Is there any questions? Hello. Hi. Everything's going well. Yes. Okay. Much better. What's that? Much better. Good. Good. All right. I'm going to remove this item from the agenda. Thank you for coming. Good luck with everything. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Item number. Nope. We're good. Did you have a question? No. No. Oh.

Item number 16, request to reconsider received from S. Alex Jackson from 360 venue to reconsider request for a full full BV license. Um, we spoke to Mr. Jackson. This item is going to be continued to the next town council meeting. So, I have a motion to continue. Second. Motion's been made by Councilman Famagghetti, second by Councilman Pollock. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number 17, ordinance introduction. Discussion and possible vote to introduce ordinance 25-009 regarding business licenses. We have a motion to introduce ordinance 25-00009. So move. Okay. Motion's been made by Councilman Famagetti. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor?

I.

All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number 18, planning board decision. Council President Oello request discussion and possible vote on a planning board decision. I place this matter on the agenda after hearing from constituents for the last year or so. And I know myself, Councilman Famagedi, and Councilman Pollock have heard from these constituents, and I believe, I think we're all in agreement, that they're in the right. A planning board decision was rendered to create a buffer zone with approv. The gentlemen that have brought this issue to me have the zoning or planning board decision on the record. And then there was a decision made, an administrative decision by either the planning director and the attorney for the planning and zoning board without the board's approval. Now, they may have thought this would not be an issue, but it's continued to linger before this council. This matter has nothing to do with this council. It was a planning board decision. These people should not have to deal with this. They're in the right. They have the decision on record. Too often now, this council is becoming a complaint hotline for things that are going wrong. Things like this should not happen. So, I'm going to make a motion to send a letter to our zoning and building official. I want an answer at the next month's meeting on how they're going to resolve this matter. It's not fair to these people. They're taxpayers in the town. It's not fair to the business. They're running a great business. We have no complaints on the business. A decision was made and then without our approval or our even

knowledge, an administrative decision was made to to change the buffer zone. And that's not fair. And everything falls on the lap of us. So, no more. I want a I want a resolution to this problem next month. It may not be the resolution we all want to hear, but there has to be some movement for these people because they should not have to deal with that. So, I don't know if you guys want to add anything. Um, did I cover everything?

Good afternoon. State your name for the record, please. Daniel Montero, 145 Lexington Avenue. Thank you. And I just want you to all know that I know you all heard heard me calling out for you guys and you guys been there for me and I hope we can put this to rest because like you said it is a good it is a good business. They are running a good business. It's just that I feel like somebody made a backyard deal and they did it behind my back and they did it behind your back because we came here and they all said they were going to do what they did. So thank you. All right. I hope the next meeting at least he can be here to tell us why he why he did it. Yeah, I was going to ask that

because there was like plenty of times I came came to the office and he was like, "Oh, there's a $500 a month fine. Don't worry, he's going to do it." So, I stopped being a stopped being a nag. And then I'm coming down Lexington and I see the plastic bag just sitting on the fence when they're supposed to. It's supposed to it's supposed to look nice. They did a nice job. We both did a nice job with houses over there. We don't want to see that. And then at night when cars are idling, the fumes are coming through my bedroom window. If that that buffer zone was there, I have my own trees. I went and bought trees. I mean, I don't have as much money as everybody else, but I eventually put trees there. The only thing I want is just a buffer zone. But thank you guys.

Do I have a motion to go ahead, council? U make the motion and I'll I'll add to it, please. Okay. Do I have a motion to send that letter? I'll uh go over it with you this week, what to put in it, uh to our building official, and have this matter continue to the September meeting. Motion been made by council, seconded by Councilman Pollock. Go ahead. I would also like to add that uh that planning director be in attendance for that meeting. Okay. Okay. Yeah. A motion's been made and seconded. Any questions? All those in favor? I. All those opposed? The eyes have it.

Item number 19, traffic mirror. Councilman Laortier requests discussion and possible vote on traffic mirror on poll number two on Lawnacre Drive. Uh I'm going to take if we could uh council president 19 through 22 for because I don't see anybody here from any of the addresses. Ship them all over to ordinance because they're all stop signs are no clocking and if if we can do that if not we go one by one. But 19 through 22, I'd like to make a motion to send everything to ordinance. Is there anyone here for items 19 through 22? Oh, okay. One. What What number are you here for? Oh, okay.

That's Yeah, that's not mine. That's all right. That's I didn't see anybody, but I could be wrong. My glasses.

All right, I'll just read them into the record. Item number 19, traffic mirror. Councilman Leaportier request discussion possible vote on traffic mirror on poll number two on Lawnacre Drive. Item number 20, resident parking only. Council Laorier request discussion and possible vote on resident parking only for 21101 Middle Spring Avenue at the corner of Brown Avenue. Resident uh item number 21, resident parking only. Council Laoria request discussion and possible vote on resident parking only at 53 WCOT Lane. And item number 22, resident parking only. Councilman Laortio requests discussion and possible vote on resident pocket and only at three Heritage Circle. Do I have a motion to send items 19, 20, 21, and 22 to the ordinance committee?

Move. Motion been made by Councilman Bala, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number 25, Cleveland Street. Councilman Famagedi requests discussion and possible vote on parking on Cleveland Street. Councilman. Thank you, Mr. President. So, um, Lieutenant Ginden and I, um, were, uh, working with the constituent over there. Those streets in that area are pretty tight. Um, so the, uh, police department has worked on a solution to help with the, um, um, the the the traffic the parking issues over there. So, with that being said, I'd like to see if we can have a more permanent solution. I'd like to send this to the ordinance committee. Okay. A motion's been made by Councilman Famaged. Is there a second? Second.

Seconded by Councilman Bala. All those in favor I.

All those oppo opposed. The eyes have it. Item number 26, Gillan BL Gillan Plat block party. Councilman Famagetti request discussion and possible vote on Gillan Platt block party at Randall Road. Councilman. So uh this is a uh annual block party or semianual we should say uh block party that uh we do in Gillan Plat. We do it on Randall Road. Unfortunately, the one of the past storms that we had caused a lot of damage over there. Uh the plan was to have this block party in September, but now it's looking like it might have to go to October. Uh that being said, I'd like to get the ball rolling anyway if uh we can uh take a Well, let's let's first uh I'll make a motion that uh uh to allow for a block party on Randall Road in North Providence in October. uh official date to be determined um subject to approval from the police department as well as the fire department. Um which I don't foresee any issues as we've done it here before. So that's in the form of a motion.

I'll second it. Okay. Motion been made by Councilman Fayetti, seconded by Councilman Pollock. Any questions? All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number 27, Friendship Street. Councilman Pollock request discussion possible vote on parking on Friendship Street between Middle Spring Avenue and Alexander Street. Councilman.

Yes, Mr. President. Uh, Councilman Femlety and myself were reached out to by constituents about 3 weeks ago regarding another issue and while there and actually Lieutenant Gindon was in attendance. They expressed some concerns about parking from Jackie's especially on busy nights. they're not able to park or have to be in front of their houses. So at speaking to them and Lieutenant Gindon, I'd like to send this ordinance requesting resident only parking from Mineral Spring on that side of the road down to Alexander Street actually both sides of the road because I think might be some other signs that people have put up on the other side of the road. So if you feel free to speak, just uh state your names and let us let us know what's going on a little over there. Councilman Pollock, fill me in on a little story.

Alexander Summons, thank you. Dion Dowy, thank you. Dennis Pulat, Holly Pulier, thank you. So, uh, Councilman, this is where they um where you exit the parking lot. They're actually across the street from Jackie's, but on busy nights, people are parking in front of their houses across Men Spring Avenue. across from the Jackie behind Jackie's across the parking lot. Okay. And to be clear, we are actually the house right behind Jackie's Galaxy's

on the other side. Our house is the end of their parking lot where everybody parks on that side of it. So, parking lot ends. Our house is right there. Is that the blue house? That house? They're the blue house right across the street at the other driveway entrance. And we're at the back entrance where the black fence is that car. So, we're abuting both driveways. Yeah, that gets really congested over there. That's upsetting. They can't get a car down there, but they said they can get a fire truck down there. And the kids are speeding up and down that street all day long. Okay. And Lieutenant, you you're okay with this uh solution.

I appreciate that because they shouldn't have to deal with that. That's not fair. I That's That's bad over there. We have children and animals on this road and elderly. And it's it gets crazy. Okay. It gets absolutely insane. All right. We're going to send this to the ordinance committee and get the ball rolling on this and uh try and get that expedited. Thank you for coming. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Okay. Motion's been made by Councilman Pollock. Is there a second? Second. Second by Councilman Dorenzo. Any questions? All those in favor? Those opposed? The eyes have it.

Item number 28, our Our Lady of Fatima Hospital. Discussion, possible vote on the sale of Our Lady of Fatima Hospital. Um We will continue this to the September meeting. We should have some more information on the potential sale that the attorney general is going to come out with. Do you have a motion to continue? So move second. Motion been made by council bala. Seconded by council fami. All those in favor. All those opposed eyes have it. Item number 29 resignation letter receive letter of resignation to be accepted with regret from Joseph Scorpio of the North Providence zoning board. Do I have a motion to accept?

So move. Motion been made by Councilman Dorenzo, seconded by Councilman Bala. All those in favor? I. All those opposed, the eyes have it. And number 30, claims submitted. Town council discussion of possible vote with regards to claims received for the following. Joshua Fernandez, 31 Pox Street, North Province, Rhode Island. Jamma Zampa, 58 Countryside Drive, North Proidence, Rhode Island. Damen Jackson, 52 Thelma Street, North Proidence, Rhode Island. And Carissa Adams, 13 Liy Lane, Providence, Rhode Island. Have a motion to send these claims committee. Motion been made by Councilman Bala. Second. Second. Seconded by Councilman Famagedi. All those in favor? I.

All those opposed? The eyes have it. And item number 31, finance committee report. Town council discussion and action with regard to the ordinance committee report should be finance committee report to be presented by Councilman Martone. I'd like to make a motion to continue the finance. Okay. Motion's been made by Councilman Dorenzo. Second. Seconded by Councilman Famagedi and a motion to adjurnn. So moved. So moved. Second. Motion.