City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, would councillors please take their seats. I'm going to call this meeting to order.

All right, folks. Calling this meeting to order. Quiet down, please. It is Thursday, September 24th. My name is Lance Davis, presiding. I use he, him pronouns. This is a meeting of the City Council. Please note that video and audio of this meeting is being recorded and may be shown live on local access government channels and on the City of Somerville website and will be available for future review. Would the clerk please call the roll?

All right, thank you. Councillor Scott is chaperoning a kid's field trip for the, I don't know if it's the weekend or the week or whatever, but so he passed along his regrets. I'm sure he's having either more fun or a lot less fun than we are. Hopefully more. All right. Pursuant to our Rule 32, let it be known that the City Council salutes the flag of the United States of America and let us recall our oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the Commonwealth to the best of our abilities and understanding. We begin our meetings with a moment of silence. Is there anyone wishing to say a f

For those, I'm not sure why this one is just showing up now, but this was the meeting that was called by the mayor to discuss the body one camera policy effectively. Any discussion? All right, seeing none, that item is approved.

So, Councilor Ewen Camp would like to take item 4.5 out of order. Sorry, Madam Clerk, I was looking for the approval of the minutes from our last meeting. I guess that one didn't get... Two minutes behind, all right. See, it's only taken me 11 years to pick up on that fact. Very good then. So I've seen no objection then. Item 4.5, which Madam Clerk just read into the record. Counselor, are you on campus? I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Yes, 2.1. All right. Let me take a breath. Here we go. Item 2.1, which was the next item, which is in order. Counselor Strezzo, please go ahead. This is a citation.

3:58 – 6:24•KSKristen Strezo

Well, Summerville Community Corporation recently had the executive director, Gonzalo Puglio, resign and move on. And I think we definitely had to issue a citation and honor him because he took SEC through a very difficult time. difficult time. He became the executive director just as the pandemic started with SEC. And when SEC was in a really scary time, financial time, aside from what was going on around us with the pandemic, but also there was a lot of debt with Somerville Community Corporation that the nonprofit had to get out of. And was also a new counselor at that time and as we were bot

Thank you. Oh, okay. Would you like to sponsor him to say a few words? All right. Seeing no objection then. Do we have... Okay, you should be able to unmute yourself and speak if you'd like to, sir.

Thank you very much. Any discussion? All right, seeing none, that item is approved. Next item, Madam Clerk.

I'm going to call this meeting to order. Is there anyone here to speak on the item? Jackie Duffy.

Okay. Anyone else here to speak on the item? Anyone online, please use the raise hand function.

All right, there being no one else here to speak on the item, I'll declare the public hearing to be closed. Is there any discussion? All right, seeing none, that item is approved. All right, now we will get to some out-of-order items. So the first, as I already spoiled for you, will be item 4.5. And then at the request of the administration, unless there's any objection, we'll have the rules to take up item 7.3, and then items 7.6 and 7.14 together, and then 7.17. So Madam Clerk, if there's no objection, we'll take up item 4.4. Madam Clerk, would you please read that?

13:33 – 16:46•WMWilfred N. Mbah

Thank you, Mr. President, for this opportunity. And I just want to uplift the fact that Logba Runzen was a devoted member of the Tibetan community whose life was shaped by courage, sacrifice, and an enduring commitment to preserving Tibetan identity, culture, and history. He was born Lobsang Padang in eastern Tibet. He fled his homeland at 18. and eventually found refuge in the United States in 26. He devoted himself to Tibetan advocacy and community building, participating in demonstration, hunger strikes, advocacy events, and a 13-day walk from New York City to Washington DC. Yet those who k

Gatsu Kampen would like to sponsor the speaker, seeing no objection. Please step forward.

Seeing none, thank you very much. Councilman Link would like to sign on, I think the whole council would like to sign on to that one, absolutely. All right, thank you. Next item, so to the next out of order item, seeing no objection, that's 7.3.

I see Labor Council Seregu approaching. Could you just introduce yourself for the record and go ahead?

Very good. Thank you. Any questions? Councillor Hart?

Thank you so much. I'm just curious, did you mention the number of the winter stipend? I'm curious.

Any further discussion? All right, seeing none, then that item is approved.

Next out of order items, if there's no objection, we'll take up 7.6 and 7.14 together, please, Madam Clerk.

All right, very good. Introduce yourself for the record and then go ahead.

Councilor Bob moves to approve. Any discussion on the motion? All right, CNN, take those two up together, right? All right, those two items are approved, thank you. And then our final out of order item will be 7.17.

All right, and we have Manager Hillman here for that one, I believe, Manager Hillman. Introduce yourself formally for the record, and then the floor is yours.

Thank you. With a reminder that my intent is to send a copy of this to Legislative Matters as we in several discussions about this this topic in in prior city council meetings it's our intent to have a public hearing I know that the the chair of legislative matters intends to to schedule that in committee that's that'll be available for everybody to watch and follow along that said certainly appropriate to ask questions tonight if folks have any any questions or discussion

Thank you, Mr. President, and through you. Thanks so much for this presentation. I really appreciate it. I very much appreciate the context of these different reports and the Council in 2020 and Justice Somerville and looking at this breakdown of sort of topic by topic, what these different sources and voices have said. I was really glad to see the point at the end about systemic policy review and practice analysis. I think what I hear the public asking for overall, not just for Summerville Police Department, but for all parts of the city government, is continued improvement. And an oversight

Thank you, Mr. President. Since this is becoming real now, I'll give my thoughts on it since I'm not on the Legislative Matters Committee. I'm glad to see, first of all, the administration is open to discussing it with the council how to move forward and laying out some options. Something I didn't see discussed or I saw a little bit that I would like to see come out of civilian review is the concept of restorative justice, having something that we're discussing about punishment, the ability to to fire someone or not, but lots of times I feel like some interactions with police and the public ca

it's you know an easier step obviously to a lot of what we've described tonight so I appreciate you raising it discussion all right seeing none thank you very much we look forward to continuing this conversation in committee so that item is placed on file with a copy to legislative matters and stay tuned for the scheduling of a public hearing for the discussion on that in that committee Madam Clerk, Councilor Strezla would like to waive the rules to take up item six. Councilor Strezla, you wanna do them both? Okay, so six B and six C. These are the legislative matters committee reports. I know

1:02:18 – 1:03:18•KSKristen Strezo

So here to present tonight is councilor as Vice chair of the legislative matters committee. I have two meeting minutes to present. The first is Tuesday, September 8th of 2026. And this meeting was held remotely. We had public hearings that were taken up including unbody worn cameras and The and a and we discussed the Davis Square Neighborhood Council submitting comments that in And then we had another public hearing on the proposed Ethical Procurement Ordinance. We had residents speaking for and against on that, and more Davis Square Neighborhood Council communication, which has been worked on

Mr. Scherzer, why don't we, If that's the report for that meeting, just those public hearings, do you want to move to have that one accepted as submitted?

1:03:26•KSKristen Strezo

Yes, I'd like to have this one moved to, yeah, I was going to take it collectively, but sure. No, no, let's do one at a time. Okay, absolutely.

In this case, there's any discussion between, so any discussion on that report? All right, seeing none, that is approved. Madam Clerk, would you read the next item?

1:03:46 – 1:06:40•KSKristen Strezo

back at it, and so this meeting was also virtual. We discussed the Davis Square neighborhood recognition. There was a lot of conversation about this, and I'm going to read the meeting minutes on this specific one, just to highlight. So, Councilor Scott, the chair, noted that the Union Square neighborhood council had raised concern regarding the language governing the formation and structure of the Davis Square Neighborhood Council bylaws. The Councilor Davis, who is the ward councilor, reviewed the attachment, discussed and talked in depth about the ordinance and allows for membership by indiv

Any discussion on the report? Mr. Vice Chair, would you take that? Council Davis thank you mr president and through you thank you to the good Vice chair for for that report I just I know there's some folks here this evening that have spent a lot of time working on the Davis Square neighborhood council process as well as from the union Square neighborhood council who also spent a lot of time working on that process and aiding so After the legislative matters meeting, I think everybody was involved. I've continued to receive some emails with concerns about the issues that were discussed. I'm not

All right, very good. That'll take us to 6C3. Yes. And that is also ready for enrollment and ordainment.

All right, next is 6C4. This is the recognition of the Davis Square Neighborhood Council. Approval having been recommended that we'll take a roll call vote on that.

All right. Next is 6C6. This is a home rule petition to regulate anticoagulant rodenticides. Approval having been recommended. Roll call vote on that one.

All right, very good. And then finally, 6C8. This is amendment to Chapter 6. That requires, has been approved now and is appropriate for enrollment and ordainment.

All right, that settles all of them. Do you want to take a picture? We like to take pictures here if you want to. All right, so we'll take a brief recess for nature break and, well, pictures first and then nature break if you need it. All right, we ready to get back to work, folks?

Yes, please, Mr. President. I would like to take item 8.1 out of order.

Mr. Wheeler, I'd like to waive the rules to take item 8.1 out of order. Seeing no objection, Madam Clerk.

We'll have some big shoes to fill at the beginning of the calendar year. Everybody good with that? All right, that item is approved, thank you. Let's go back to the regular order of business then.

Thank you, Mr. President. So I'm familiar with this idea, thanks to the Several Alliance for Safe Streets. It has been implemented successfully in other cities, and the core idea is simple. Where there is varied use of a public resource, like parking curb space by longer and shorter vehicles, but we charge the same, we're being a little unfair. And if we can, we should try to adjust. We currently have a one-size-fits-all approach to residential parking permits, meaning parking, say, a 13-foot long, 2,500-pound Chevy Aveo costs the same as parking a 22-foot long, 8,000-pound Ford F450. People o

1:28:47 – 1:31:36•KSKristen Strezo

I know that this came from SAS, Somerville, part of the recommendations with SAS which has done incredible work and have a great relationship with members of SAS and I'm proud of the work they've done here in the city and the suggestions they offer and as I mentioned today to one of the members. I love talking with TAS because I always gain new insight that, and more ideas that I think about and as I go about our community. This, you okay? Okay. This specific, idea I have my concerns with and I have told SAS that and the implementation is concerning as it definitely can pummel some of our lowe

Thank you. Any further discussion? So this is a traffic and parking. So now that discussion, traffic and parking. All right, so that item is approved with a copy of traffic and parking. Councilor Ba, you'd like to waive the rules to take item 9.3 out of order? Okay, seeing no objection then. Madam Clerk, would you read 9.3, please?

My understanding is that the rain date has already been activated. There's no surprise to anyone. Any discussion? I'll just note, it sounds like a cool way to find some treasures all across the neighborhood. So I look forward to closing around.

1:32:28 – 1:32:41•KSKristen Strezo

Mr. President, does this mean that you are going to have your own part of yard sale? I missed that. Mr. President, does this mean that you will also be partaking in the yard sale?

That date is, I believe, also, is that Honk Weekend as well? It's not, okay. Don't get me on dates. If that's the case, then yeah, we'll see. I could clean out my basement. That's a really good idea, actually. Councilor Budd, did you want to speak on the item?

1:32:57•WMWilfred N. Mbah

No, Mr. President, I mean, through the honorable license and permit, I would like to move to approve this.

All right, seeing no discussion then, that ad is approved, and have fun, folks. Go find some treasures.

Quick point of order, Mr. President. Sorry, did I miss 3.1? Did that happen?

3.1 was the grant of location, right? Yes, we did already do that. We did that at the top. We had Jackie Duffy here. It was really exciting. all right so I will a few folks members the public here is anyone here waiting for another specific item that that that you want us to take out of order no okay I just want to make sure we don't keep you waiting longer than then you'd like to all right very well then let's go back to our regular order of business which will take us to item 4.2 I believe

Councilor Wheeler. Thank you, Mr. President. So a few months ago, a group of residents near Magoon Square fed up with the many rats in their neighborhood, asked city staff to walk their street with them. Public Health Director Colin Ziegler helped identify a serious problem with some commercial dumpsters that were nearby and were providing food for rats to eat on a daily basis. And following up on that, I learned that these dumpsters were not licensed. And this is something that's new to me, realizing that we have an ordinance that says all commercial dumpsters must be licensed and registered

Any other discussion? Council Hart would like to sign on. All right. Councilor Saeed would like to sign on. Do you want to send that to committee for discussion?

I think, where did we put rodents? Was that Sustainability and Infrastructure or Public Health and Public Safety? I can't remember. Anybody remember public health, public safety? That seems like a better place for it. All right, so that'll be approved with a copy to public health and public safety. Next item.

Thank you, Mr. President. So towing vehicles from public property is done by the police department and generally in rear cases. We don't have an established procedure by which other departments, particularly the parking department, can request that a vehicle be towed, even if they observe that that vehicle is parked in a location that poses a problem for public safety, such as a fire lane. This came up because some residents in Ward 3 reached out to Councilor Ewan Campin and also to me about a recurring problem on a very narrow street where vehicles have sometimes parked in the fire lane and i

Any discussion? All right. I see none. Do you want to send that one to committee, or just follow up?

Maybe it's not necessary to send that to committee, unless anybody...

So always an option to follow up with the administration, and then if there's something more concrete, we can send that item to committee, or if there's no movement, you can submit another item, and then you can put that to committee to sort of force the issue. But I think it was Council Member McLaughlin, if I remember as president, who reminded us that not everything has to go to committee, and we can always do follow-up ourselves. So in that spirit, very well, that will be approved. Next item.

1:38:54 – 1:40:31•WMWilfred N. Mbah

Thank you, Mr. President. This is something that I, this has been a while ago, about a month ago that I read. you know, in the globe about Boynton Yard. So I just completely forgot. I made a note on my desk and then kind of like saw the piece on the, like, this was like last week. And so this is something that, it was so interesting because the bankruptcy and financial distress surrounding the vacant lab building at 808 Windsor Place raised broader concerns about commercial tax base. You know, so the future property tax, revenue, fiscal stability. So I think the property was assessed, you know

Any, that's all okay? All right, so that item's approved with a copy to finance. Next item.

Here, I got the eject button, there you go.

1:40:51 – 1:42:03•WMWilfred N. Mbah

You're out of here. Councilor Bob. Oh my God, thank you, Mr. President. Just as it states, following my recent election as a Democratic nominee for the state representative of the 34th Minnesota District, I've submitted my irrevocable resignation as councilor at large for the city council, effective December 31st. I'm grateful for the opportunity to continue serving a great city to the end of the year and to carry that commitment forward in my new role as a state representative. And under the city charter, Marianne Wallace, the fifth highest vote getter, the Honorable Marianne Wallace, in the

Councilor Saeed, do you want to take up the next three together, related items?

1:42:09•NSNaima Sait

Yeah, Mr. President, if you can read item 4.7, 4.8, and 4.9 together. Very well.

1:42:41 – 1:45:26•NSNaima Sait

Yeah, through Mr. President. I would like to have all these sent to traffic and parking. I just want to say the conversation will happen there. I just want to say a few things about it. So the Kennedy, as we know, the Kennedy community, school community, they have an awesome design, new design on street now with bike lane. They've been there the second week of school and it's really great to see so many parents biking there, students. So the reason I put these items forward, there were some challenges the second full week of school. Well, the first full week, there were some challenges there.

Okay. Councilor Lake. Thank you, Mr. President. First of all, thanks for all these. These are great. I love everything that I see. I'm just curious, 4.8, the bike racks, is there a way to... without making it a big deal, have it also a copy sent to school buildings so there's a maintenance that the school committee could also.

So we're gonna send a copy of things to one committee. Yeah. So, and I think that given that's the folks who can actually do the thing that is asked for will be appearing in Traffick Park, and that seems like the best place for it. That said, certainly the school committee can take up any item they'd like on their own, and to the degree that there's, you know, related issues that are somewhat that we could put a separate item in for that conversation. But in the interest of getting these in front of the people who can make the thing happen, Traffick Park is the place for it. Sounds good to me.

1:46:31 – 1:46:58•NSNaima Sait

Just on that, Mr. President. Yeah, I would just add that. We already got a yes for that, which is great. Bike racks are happening. It's just going to take some time to order them, and we don't know exactly how many. And also mobility, they always show up to traffic and parking, so this is another, you know, it's like, it's, you know, we have a system, but thank you, Councilor Link.

Thank you, Mr. President, through you. So with regard to 4.10, the right turn on red signs, just a note that. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought that was one of the ones that was taken up.

I apologize. We have 4, 7, 8, and 9 before us right now. All right. On those three items, any further discussion? All right. Seeing none, those are approved with a copy of traffic and parking. Next item, Madam Clerk.

1:47:34 – 1:48:12•NSNaima Sait

Yeah, through you, Mr. President. So I feel very strongly about this intersection as I used to live right at this intersection and something I see all the time, especially during the baseball season when there are games, there's so many kids crossing that intersection to get to 7-Eleven to get a drink, you know, or something, a snack. So this is, yeah. This is something that I would like mobility staff to look into, because right now you can take a right, yeah, on red, and I think that needs to change.

Thank you, Mr. President. It's my understanding that a few years ago, shortly after the Cambridge City Council voted to ban right turns on red, the city of Somerville conducted an evaluation of many intersections and considering where would it make sense to have signs saying not to turn on red, and found that many were good candidates for that signage. And I think since then, a lot of those signs have been rolled out. I don't know if we've received an update since then on how that progress has been going, and I'd just be curious, as part of this visit from the Director of Mobility, to ask abou

Very well. Counselor Link would like to sign on. Any further discussion? Do you want that to go to committee then for that follow-up discussion?

1:49:12•NSNaima Sait

So I'd like to send that to traffic and parking.

All right, approved to copy traffic and parking. Next item.

Any further discussion? No, that item's approved to copy traffic and parking. Next item.

1:49:50 – 1:51:47•NSNaima Sait

Through you, Mr. President. So we had the conversation about the teen center in school building facilities and maintenance, and yeah, Yeah, so as we know, we don't have a building that's available for a teen center. And we got a confirmation from Director Rage, I think almost 100% sure that it's not going to happen in the next five years. Because, again, we're dealing with buildings. So I think... That's when I asked if staff are looking into Somerville High the next five years. We need something. Yeah, so I think I would like to send this to the finance committee because it has to do with sta

thank you mr. president through you I'd also like to thank my colleague from Ward 5 for bringing this I have so the the school the coming school impossibility that was you know one of my dreams that got shattered so I really think we do need to consider like any and all options that we might have in front of us especially considering the feasibility of financially of creating a new space right now doesn't seem to be in the realm of possibility but I think that there's still we then have to just buckle down to kind of figure it out as I said in the last one you know it's anything you know worth

1:53:02 – 1:54:09•NSNaima Sait

Mr. President, I would just add one more thing. I think also when I heard arguments that all students are already there in the building all day until 2.30. And as a former teacher will say, and you heard this especially from students during COVID, To a lot of our students, high school students, that building is everything to them. It is home, like literally home. That's where they get their food. That's their community. And really remote learning shall confirm that. They don't have internet at home. They rely on those spaces to do their homework, to be connected to the internet. And again, tha

Further discussion? All right, so this item is specific to the cost, so I think it's appropriate, and I saw the chair of finance nod his head, having to take that one up. Certainly, once that question is sort of resolved or fully discussed, then I would anticipate that perhaps a separate item to move forward, and as the good councilor at large noted, there would be potential other aspects, maybe a different committee would be appropriate for that. That sounds like the right place to have a talk about money. So seeing no further discussion, then that item is approved with a copy to finance. Nex

Mr. President, so I understand that trucks cutting through on residential streets, you know, has been causing problems throughout the city. And this resolution does not attempt to solve that problem citywide. But there's this one particular intersection that is a very tight turn where trucks get stuck and create dangerous situations. So

1:55:37 – 1:56:18•KSKristen Strezo

hoping to have a conversation about to rectify that and so I'd like to send to traffic and parking please did you want to speak on this or council Link oh thank you mr president no I'm hoping we can come to a solution on this I know it's a tricky little microcosm of of an area, but I'm hoping some kind of outside-of-the-box solution can come of it somewhere. I am not willing to give up on that we can't yet.

Okay, that item is approved with a copy of traffic and parking. Next item.

Thank you. This was something that I caught wind of where there's an unfortunate situation where a resident discovered that they would no longer be able to get into their driveway and they didn't have a city parking pass and there wasn't really a good solution for them. I think in the situation where the city is essentially telling them that their own private parking is no longer available to them. For good reasons. I mean, we need to fix our sidewalks. But we should also make sure that we're doing right by the resident and that they've got some sort of way to park without facing, you know, in

Any other discussion? All right. So you want to put that one committee?

Yeah, we're going to track from parking. All right.

I won't editorialize. I have views on that as well. All right. Madam Chair, you're going to have a full agenda at the next traffic and parking meeting. That item is approved with copy of traffic and parking. Next item.

Councilor Link. Yes in God's Backyard is meant to bring affordable housing into places that are, you know, that have churches on those oftentimes large inactive spaces. And throughout this legislation, throughout the Commonwealth, it would actually create quite a boon. And while I was originally skeptical that it would make much of a difference here in Somerville, I was given some numbers that were actually quite substantial. Actually, no, I'm not going to be able to find it in a second. I should have looked. So yeah, but it was potentially thousands of affordable housing units in Somerville.

Councilman, do you want to speak on this one?

1:58:46 – 1:59:32•WMWilfred N. Mbah

Sure. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councillor Link, for including me. Just to echo that at the time when communities are facing severe housing challenges and affordability, we need to use every tool in the toolbox to make sure that we are doing all we can to partner with our community institutions to create housing. So I look forward to taking this on Beacon Hill and advance these policies, you know, that make it easier to build homes and preserve affordability and ensure that, you know, our families can find a safe and stable home. Thank you.

If only we knew anyone who was going to be up there and might be able to do something about this. Council, you and Kevin.

Councilor Scherzer would like to sign on. Councilor Hart would like to sign on. Councilor Saeed. Councilor Wheeler. All right. That item is approved. Does that request a communication to delegation?

2:00:24 – 2:00:36•WMWilfred N. Mbah

Okay. Mr. President, can we request that a copy be sent to Councilor Ewen Campion's desk and Councilor Mbass' desk on Beacon Hill? It shall be done. Next item.

Councillor Link. Thank you, Mr. President. So this one, I came across it. It's happened here in Somerville at least once now. where perfectly healthy trees are required to be removed in order to maintain home insurance. You know, in Somerville, we don't have tons and tons of trees. We certainly, and a large number of them are on private property. So we certainly don't want to allow home insurers to just make these kind of decisions where it doesn't actually relate to safety. So I'm trying to get some support for that one.

Other discussion? Councilor Wheeler would like to sign on? All right. That item is approved. Next item.

Councilor Wheeler. Thank you, Mr. President. Through you. The Finance Committee met on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 via remote participation with all members present, and with the help of Clerk of Committees Delaney Fisher-Cassiol, we took up a 10-item agenda. We approved an appropriation of $350,000 from the City's Immigrant Legal Services Stabilization Fund for legal services for immigrants and asylum seekers seeking permanent residency. This was a specific budget ask for much of the City Council in the spring. Money was put aside in this purpose-specific stabilization fund, and now it will

Any discussion on the report? All right, seeing none, that puts two items before us for roll call votes. Is that correct, Madam Clerk? That is correct. All right, 6A8 is the first, I believe.

All right, very good. Next item is 6D, I believe.

Thank you. So the Licenses and Permits Committee met yesterday evening with all three members present. We had a short agenda with one public hearing for an application for new extended operating hours for license for Wings Over Somerville on Somerville Ave. This was for Friday and Saturday nights to stay open until 2 a.m. The committee unanimously recommended for this to be approved.

Any discussion? All right, seeing none, that item is approved. Next item.

That is referred to Legislative Matters.

Mr. President, I move to waive the readings and refer to the Finance Committee the following items. 7.2, 7.4, 7.5, 7.7, 7.8, 7.12, 7.13, and 7.15.

All right, so Council Wheeler moves to take up, together with the item that was just read, the rest of that list and waive the readings of the rest of that list and refer them to Finance. Any discussion? All right, very well. Those are referred to finance.

And then, Mr. President, I also move to take up 7.9, 7.10, and 7.11 together. I assume they need to be read.

So, Councilor Wheeler, I'd like to wave the rules to take up 7.9, 7.10, and 7.11 together. Seeing no objection, Madam Clerk, would you read those in?

Mr. President, I move to approve these items. $2,500 is not a small amount in anybody's personal budget. In the scheme of the city's budget, I think it's small enough that it justifies just approving this tonight.

Any discussion? All right, no seeing none. And those three items are approved. We don't need a roll call for any of those. Small little dollars, right? All right, very well. And the next item.

Yes, that was in my list earlier of the ones that were waived and referred to finance.

All right, seeing no discussion, that'll be referred to confirmation of appointments. Next item.

That item is placed on file with a copy to Housing Equity Community Development.

So many block parties getting rained out this weekend. It's very sad. However, There are rain dates. I know the clerk's office has worked hard to help folks move them to different weekends, and everyone else in the administration has worked hard to get those approvals through, so thank you for all that. Block parties are awesome. Go to your block parties. If you don't have a block party, call the clerk's office. Find out how you can sign up for a block party, because they're fun. All right, that item is placed on file.

That's all right. Thank you, I move to waive the readings of 9.1 and 9.2 and approve this evening.

All right, Councilor Hart, I'd like to waive the readings of 9.1 and 9.2, take those together, and moves for approval of both. Seeing no discussion, those items are approved.

Thank you, Mr. President. Through you, I BCC'd all of you on some communications between myself and Verizon. This is really about our senior population. Some people have gotten letters from Verizon that their they're retiring their copper service they first have to get approval from the FCC but that's probably a foregone conclusion but so there's still time but people are getting these notices and I believe they said there was this 500 residential pots as they call them which is pulled to to lie basically an old you know old landline and 400 commercial places so They gave a good response as a

All right. That item is placed on file. Next item.

This was submitted to me late for the last meeting and so I asked that it be that would we wait for the meeting for the just this agenda and then I neglect to put it on this agenda so because I am the presiding officer and I knew about it I was obligated to put it on the agenda so we're not going to talk about the item other than that timing and why it's here it'll be referred to school building facilities and maintenance with a reminder that because we're not taking the action it's referred so we'll have to send it back with some other action next item

I move to waive the readings of 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4, and approve.

Councilor Hart would like to suspend the rules to waive the reading of those three items, and while they look very fun and people should go to them, we don't have to have any further discussion on them, and they are all approved.

That item is approved, and I move to, Councilor Bob moves to waive the readings of items 10, 6, 7, and 8. There's no objection. We'll waive the readings of those items, and they will be placed on file. Is there any other items? All right. There being no further business before the council, Council McLaughlin moves to adjourn. We are adjourned. Thanks, folks. Good job.