City Council - Regular Meeting

all right now call this meeting to order today is Thursday October 22nd this is a meeting of these Somerville City Council my name is Lance Davis presiding I use he him pronouns please note that video and audio recording of this meeting is being recorded and may be shown live on local local access government channels and the city of Somerville website and will be available for future review the clerk please call the roll

All right, thank you. Councillor Strezza reached out, said she had a conflict, she was unable to change and regrets not being able to attend. And Councillor Scott is dealing with an emergent issue and hopes to be here as soon as possible. We all hope he will be as well. 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. Are there any councillors wishing

Thank you, Mr. President. Through you this evening, I'd like to recognize Patricia A. Gavin Sullivan, a devoted wife of the late Daniel Sullivan Jr., passed away surrounded by the love of her family on October 4th, 2026. Patricia was the daughter of the late Alice Malone Gavin and Michael Gavin. devoted mother to Michael J. Sullivan of Everett, Daniel F. Sullivan and wife Tammy Sullivan of North Carolina, and John L. Sullivan and his late wife Kathleen Sullivan of Somerville, Colleen Madden and her husband Sean of Methuen, and the late Edward T. Sullivan. Mother-in-law to Deb Foti and Ann Sull

Thank you. Councillor McLaughlin would like to sign on. Any others? Seeing none, would everyone in the chamber please rise however you are able for a moment of silence. Thank you. Madam Clark, next item, please.

I see no discussion. That item is approved. And we have a request to take several items out of order this evening. These are requests of the administration, so if there's no objection, we will waive the rules to take items in the following order, 7.12, 7.8, then 8.2, then 7.1, which is an executive session. We will have outside counsel here for that. Then 7.7 is an item related to executive session, and then 7.19. Okay, so seeing no objection, Madam Clerk, would you please read item 712?

All right, do we have Director Nutter here for this one? Please just introduce yourself for the record and go right ahead. Hold on, Director, let me fix your mic here. Try again.

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Any questions, Councilor Bob? Thank you, Mr. President. Look at the badge that Director Noda has. I've never seen. He's doing a good job. I know. I think we should approve this. This is pretty straightforward. Thank you.

Any further discussion? All right. Seeing none, Councilor Bob moves to approve. And we don't need a roll call that way, I think, right now. All right. Then that item is approved. Thank you. All right, next item out of order is 7.8.

Attorney Serigoo, please introduce yourself for the record and go right ahead.

All right, any discussion, any questions? And the hope is to approve this this evening, correct? Yes, Council President. All right, I'm seeing, Councilor Whitton?

Aye. Thank you, Mr. President. In the interests of clarity about any item that we are not going to send to committee for more deliberation, I'd love to just hear a tiny bit more about the timeliness of this item. Why is it important to do this tonight?

Thank you, Mr. President. I am satisfied to approve this item.

All right, very good. Then see no further comment. Council Wheeler moves to approve. Any discussion? I think we don't need to recall one on this one either, correct? All right, very good. That item is approved. Thank you. Next out of order item is 8.2.

Councilor Link? Thank you, Mr. President, through you. So first of all, thank you for this presentation. I think that this dashboard's going to be great. I think that it's fantastic that we're publishing more data, we're making it open and accessible. I am excited to see that. I'm curious, like, so, you know, I started, and I literally just went into one tab, so I have not done thorough research, but, like, I was looking at public health, for example, and I noticed that... like for rats and air pollution, it's resident concern about rats, resident concern about air pollution, but not like ther

Before we go to the next questions, I neglected to note, I didn't want to interrupt the presentation. At the top of the presentation, Councilor Scott, presumably straight from the x-ray machine, bravely joined us, so let the record so reflect. Councilor Klingin.

No, Mr. President, thank you. I just wanted to say thank you for the presentation and just make note that it's good to see Somerstadt sort of being refocused back to what it was originally intended for with this administration. And then just further to say that this must have been a lot of pressure for you since the woman who wrote the book on Somerstadt is in the room right now, our former colleague, Stephanie Hirsch. who I think created Somerset. But yeah, thank you for this, and I look forward to hearing more.

Other comments, questions, discussion? All right, seeing none, thank you, and thank you to everyone else who, as you said, on whose shoulders you're standing, and who helped out with this. So that will be placed on file. Before we go to our next out-of-order item, we're going to disappear for executive session here for a little bit, and I don't like to leave people waiting in the room. I see a bunch of people in the room, which I love. Are there anyone here for any specific items that aren't the, well, I suspect not. So if you're here to see a specific item, could you let us know, and we'll be

Thank you so much, Mr. President. And I also want to thank my colleagues, Councilor Link and Councilor Mba for collaborating on this resolution, and thank the many residents and advocacy leaders, including those in the room who are working on this, and certainly helped me get a better understanding of this issue. And I also want to really appreciate Director Raish for generously sharing his time to answer our questions and dive into the complexities of this issue and problem. Second, I wanted to explain what we're talking about here because combined sewer overflows is not a household term yet.

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Councillor Bhat. Thank you, Mr. President. I will probably also pass. Don't mean to put Councillor Ling on the spot, but I think, you know, just want to thank you for your leadership on this. I know we went back and forth, but this is like the first time, you know, that I actually see almost every organization that was involved, it's all in alignment. You know, we have the Charles Mystic River Watershed leaders over there, the Alleywhite Brook folks over there. The only one that is missing is the Charles River Watershed, but I think Emily is also supporting, so Christine, Mike, and, you know,

Councillor Link. Thank you, Mr. President. First of all, I want to say thank you to my colleagues for working so hard on this, and especially Councilor Hart, who I attended so many meetings with, but she attended even more beyond what I did. So there was an intense amount of work trying to get this right. So much has been said already, and so much has been said well. I don't feel like I really need to pile on. What I will say, you know, My timeline, I can't remember when the first time I heard about CSOs were. I think it might have been when I went to the Museum of Science with my kids, and th

Thank you, Mr. President. There is so much that I agree with in this resolution. This is indeed a regional issue for the reasons this resolution's text eloquently explains. It is vital that we take into account the predictions of climate change models. What I can't currently agree with, with the understandings that I have today, is this resolution's call for higher levels of control than the current plan provides to a level of virtual elimination of combined sewer overflows. I want to acknowledge how much larger this system is and how much larger these systemic questions are than the little th

Further discussion? Council Member Goffin?

Resolution with a split vote, I love it. I think there's two things that are true here, is this work needs to get done and it's going to be very expensive and not everyone can afford it. I feel like the city has led the way on infrastructure, on managing sewage, on managing our sewers, doing work that is 100 years overdue. And year after year we have voted for rate increases to pay for this and we were told just a couple years ago Once we reach this rate We're gonna flatten out we're not gonna have to do it and then the very next year told that we're gonna basically be voting for 100% increase

Director Raish, would you be willing to address the question if you can? Councilor McLaughlin, would you repeat the question for Director Raish, please? Could you rephrase the question?

Through the chair, Director Raish, what are you here for today?

So Director Raish has been giving us great presentations for at least my time here. And I know the amount of work he's done and the city's done on this I've expressed consistently my desire to see a regional solution to Address on the financing which isn't to say that the work doesn't have to be done.

So I support the resolution Other discussion I'd say none council will you raise some questions about the the language in the in the resolution? We certainly have the option to send this to a committee to try and sort some of those out and see if there's any changes that would be agreeable, or we could take a vote. I'm happy to entertain a motion to...

I would be happy with either of those. Sorry? I would be happy with either of those suggestions.

Well, I'll leave it to you. If you want to make a motion to send to committee, that would be in order. If not, I'll recognize Council Hart for a motion, too, I assume.

I would defer to the resolution sponsors on their preference of those two.

Councilors Hart and Baugh, Link, any preference as to whether you want to kick this one around the committee, sort out the discrepancies, or take a vote tonight? At the will of the council.

I would move to approve. I don't know if Council Hart or Councilor Baugh have a different opinion. Sam.

Council Hart moves for approval. I move for a roll call vote. Roll call vote. All right, very well. Madam Clerk, please call the roll on the item for approval of item 4.12.

All right, very good, thank you. Thank you for that discussion. We do at this point need to get into our executive session because of several people's schedules, and so we're going to go ahead and go back to the original out of order plan, which calls for us to take, unless there's any objection, we'll waive the rules to take up item 7.1 first. I don't expect this will be a lengthy executive session as our executive sessions go in the grand scheme of things, so we hope to be back out here very quickly, and hope if you haven't heard what you're here for, you'll stick around And we will be right

I see our city attorney here. Could you please approach and advise the council if this is an appropriate item for executive session?

Thank you very much. All right, Madam Clerk, call the roll to enter into executive session.

All right, we will return to open session when the executive session concludes. All right, let's go folks. We got a lot of work to do here left. All right, gonna call this meeting back to order. Councilors, please take your seats. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll to come out of executive session and re-enter open session.

All right, no votes were taken in executive session other than the vote to leave executive session. So our next out of order item is item 7.7. If there's no objection, we'll waive the rules to take up 7.7. Next, Madam Clerk.

All right, let's do a roll call vote on this one. Yes.

All right, thank you. And our final out-of-order item is 7.19. If there's no objections, Madam Clerk, would you read that one into the record?

Thank you. All right. Thank you. Councilor Ewan Campin.

Council Lincoln and Clayton Thank You mr. president Actually a lot of what director said is kind of what I wanted to get at which is that you know, I'm really really happy to see that we're Trying to get ahead of the things that we need to maintain It does feel sometimes like we're just kind of reacting from one bad situation to the next bad situation and spending more money than we need to or should because we've ignored a problem for too long and I'm really really happy to see that that we're we're not ignoring these problems that we're we're cataloging them that we're figuring out how to pr

Thank you, Mr. President, through just two quick questions. So the 9 million for the sidewalk and road work, that's the whole entirety of all road work. It's like when you click on the digital book, when you click on it, it doesn't really break down like what are sort of like projects where we're, you know, resetting curves and stuff versus just street paving or just redoing sidewalk panels. Is there a further breakdown on that?

Okay, so that's just mainly through you. Mr President like the repaving schedule and the and some of the sidewalk panel What about like larger projects?

Okay, so just so people can go look at it if they're wondering where exactly the money's going. Last question, Mr. President, through you. I do agree and understand that the fleet maintenance is an important priority for the city, and I... And I don't know if you've done a cost analysis with, like, the old vehicles and sort of what maintaining them costs versus, like, you know, whatever. I don't know if we leased them or if we're buying them. But my question is, with the one point something million is, you know, based on our analysis, like, we felt it was important to put that money forward ve

Okay, again, just asking for the public who might be wondering why, you know, because we know that the fire stations, just like our school buildings, just like our city buildings, are all behind. No fault to anyone here, but good to see us catching up on those things. Thank you.

2:04:16 – 2:05:12•NSNaima Sait

Yeah, through you, Mr. President. First, I'd like to thank you for this. This is very helpful. Thank you for the transparency. It's the first ACUCN smile since I got on the council. So this is very helpful to see what we'll be doing this year, next year, and the next few years. I had a few questions, but before that, I really appreciate seeing schools. These buildings have been neglected for decades. Making sure we have a plan for that, this is a great first step. Of course, the cost here, now we can all see it, is very high. The first question here, because we're maintaining really old buildi

2:05:55 – 2:06:07•NSNaima Sait

And can you just, to the public, tell us the reasoning behind that, why gas powered when the goal is, I know this is more like an emergency, like you had to do something.

2:07:46 – 2:08:41•NSNaima Sait

Yeah, thank you, Director. You've shared this before in the School Building Facilities and Maintenance Committee, but this is helpful for the public, because we're asked this question a lot. This goes in opposition to our goals as a city, so thank you for... The power and space. Yeah, we need to get them ready. And the other question I had, so similar to my colleagues you know, looking at the street and sidewalk program that for FY 27 is almost 10 million. Um, which, you know, is really high. And I'm just wondering if, is it because we're outsourcing that a lot? Is that, is it part of it? You

2:10:11 – 2:10:57•NSNaima Sait

Okay, thank you. This is really great to hear because this is something that the body has been asking for for years, so I'm glad we are starting that, and we hope we'll do more of it. And the last question I had is about the fleet. You have discussed this a little bit, but... What I want to ask is, are we looking into electrifying some of the fleet? And looking at the priorities, we have the DPW roof. DPW roof, electrical panels go there, and wouldn't electrifying some of the fleet be all part of, you know, a great plan?

2:11:33•NSNaima Sait

Thank you, and I look forward to learning more about that.

Councilor Wheeler. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm so excited to hear about that building of internal capacity for sidewalk and street work. And I'm hoping that means that we're going to be able to especially to address more miles per year of sidewalk. I know there's everyone knows there's far too many parts of sidewalk that are impassable for anyone with mobility issues or disabilities. I also just want to echo my colleague from Word3's appreciation of this risk and consequence framing. I really appreciate how this kind of shows your work. And this is something where, you know, instead of just

2:13:54 – 2:14:24•WMWilfred N. Mbah

Councillor Bach. Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, you know, Dr. Rage, for this presentation. I guess I'm curious, this morning, you know, Mr. Mayor, you mentioned the Kennedy School and the Healy, you know, as, but I was surprised to see like, why is it like low priority here? Like, I'm not sure why it wasn't, I mean, when we're discussing about like all this anticipated,

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Got you. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. President.

Further discussion? Back to Councilor Tate.

2:14:48 – 2:15:27•NSNaima Sait

Mr. President, I was just going to add, I forgot, the armory roof. I'm really glad to see in the priority pipeline the armory roof. I understand that this, you know, we're going to need to look into, like, funding. But, again, I really appreciate that this is being, this made it to the list. This is making sure, you know, like, seeing just like we have been listening I've been listening to artists. This is the space that the whole community is using, so making sure that roof is addressed. Yeah, so I'm really glad to see this.

Further discussion? All right, seeing none, thank you. That item is placed on file.

All right, it is 9.20. We have completed nine issues on an 11-page agenda. So I will take a page from former President White's book and remind counselors that when an item is read, you don't need to respond. You don't need to speak to it. You obviously are entitled to. If you want to speak to an item, raise your hand and let me know. If you don't, we'll assume that it's approved or placed on file or refer to committee as appropriate, and we'll move on to the next one. And when it comes to the committee reports, I also remind folks, they are video recorded. There are detailed reports of all the

Councillor McLaughlin. I feel very entitled today, Mr. President. And I feel like we're ahead of schedule, so I'm going to make a big speech.

Yes. So, Councilman Ewan Campin will address a lot of this in his committee report for the Land Use Committee, but this comes out of our discussion with ADUs and triple-deckers and condos. I made a very passionate... Case for the use of condos in the community, which allows homeowner opportunities for people like me who can't afford a full house, as are most people in the city, I would say, at this point. And one of the things that makes a condo different than a regular rental unit is our condo conversion ordinance, which is the strongest in the state, which is really the only way we can offer

Any discussion on that? Councilor Young-Kampen?

That's where we're going to go with this one. Councilor Link and Scott would like to sign on as well. Councilor Klingin? The whole council would like to sign on that one. All right, very good. We'll have a robust discussion on legislative matters. Madam Clerk, that will be referred to legislative matters. Next item.

I'll be quicker about this because we all know the situation with the local fires City of Boston recently had a similar fire And a city council has submitted a resolution similar to this to ensure that these businesses are being taken care of I know the city's doing a lot already I would just like to discuss it to make sure we're not missing anything and leaving people behind I'd like this to go to public health Okay, any other discussion?

So this ordinance is, I just want to be clear, it's not perfect. And I don't think it ever will be perfect, because I'm not sure that there is a perfect. But we need to figure out as a city what the baseline bare minimum right thing to do is. And we know for certain that AI hallucinations are real and that AI can produce desperate outcomes along lines of race, gender, color, and religion. So what this ordinance proposes is that we should not empower these shortcomings to harm our community. It asks that we ban AI from making decisions about things like eligibility for housing stability support

Anyway, I'll just wing it from here. It also requires an annual report telling us and the world what AI is being used by the city, and it requires also that any content that is made mostly by AI is labeled as such. To kind of wrap that up, if we don't want AI to decide if an artist gets a grant, if a community member goes to prison, or where our next library is built or where the next community center is built, then I think that we need something like this. And I'm very excited to see it go to committee and become a more perfect document than it currently is.

All right. Very good. That is referred to legislative matters. Next slide.

Mr. President, I'm sorry. I did have some brief comments. Show me your hand when I look around. Try to be brief. Thank you. I want to acknowledge my co-sponsors. Councilor Link has shepherded this with a lot of feedback from a lot of folks, including city staff. Council link commented this week that this is at a point where we acknowledge it's not perfect but it is in good enough shape to open it to the close reads that we are eager to hear from members of the administration and members of the public the rest of the council and advocacy groups briefly the lines we're trying to draw here are tr

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Thank you, Mr. President. I just want to also give a shout out to Councillor Link for his leadership on this, and thank you to Councillor Wheeler. Again, it's just to underscore the fact that this is about ensuring that technology serves the public interest, protects civil rights and maintains human accountability. Because I personally believe that AI can help government deliver services more efficiently, but its use must be transparent, accountable, and consistent with civil rights and privacy protections. So residents should be able to know when it is being used materially to influence decis

That is referred to legislative matters. Next item.

That item is approved. I will note that Director Raish spoke to the school committee last week, so folks can take a look at that too. But if we can turn that into a report back to the council, that would be appreciated.

Yeah, could we send that to school buildings, facilities, and maintenance, please?

Okay, that'll be approved with a copy to school buildings, facilities, and maintenance. Next item.

All right, that item's approved with a copy of the school building facilities and maintenance. Next item.

Councillor Scott would like to sign on. Councillor Link? Councillor State would like to sign on as well. Go ahead, Councillor Link.

Thank you, Mr. President. I'll keep this one brief as well. First of all, I wanted to say thank you to Reverend Christopher Hope, who was the person who reached out to me and talked to me a lot about this particular piece of legislation. So this legislation kind of has the same perspective as the ordinance that has been proposed here tonight. And it goes a little bit farther because it can, because this is at the federal level. So what this does is in very, very brief, broad strokes, is it regulates consequential decisions, such as those that impact people's rights, civil liberties, livelihood

That item is approved. And I'm sorry I saw the whole Council to sign up to that.

Thank you, Mr. President. This is the last of the AI Trio. So this is a resolution just asking for a policy. Common sense policies to be included within the AI policy. One is that since we are a city full of artists and wonderful creative people, if we need creative work for our publicly shared materials, whether that's a flyer or a video, we should use those artists and not AI. And two, that the city should not use AI to replace workers. So no layoffs or closed positions specifically so that they can be filled by some sort of agent, AI agent. So, you know, I'm all for us as a city using AI, b

That item is approved. Councilor McLaughlin would like to sign on? Councilor Bob would like to sign on? Any discussion? All right. Take note, people in charge. Especially those who will be in charge next year. Next item.

Just briefly mister president... This is a document there's no specific timely reason I'm sharing it now... It's one that I got earlier this year from... This Boston office... In response to a public records request the reason I had requested it was because there were grants that were coming before the finance committee that referred to... Requirements in this document but we didn't have the document We were having to agree to terms that we didn't actually have in front of us. I was able to get this very easily and I'm sharing it with the public now so everyone can see what these agreements ar

Do you want to, we'll place that on file, do you want to send a copy to finance so that you can then mark that complete so it just shows up in another place if people are trying to find it?

that doesn't strike me as necessary. Not necessary.

It just sometimes makes it easier for folks, since it's a reference document. Your call. Sure.

If this is an idea that makes sense to you, Mr. President, let's do it.

Sometimes when I'm looking for things, I might look for this in finance, for example, and so if it was not ever through finance, I probably wouldn't find it, and so that just makes it a little easier for folks to use the search engine. So we can tweak it a little bit to make it more transparency. Let's do that. So place on file with a copy of finance, and then by all means, you can just mark it complete, or I guess it would be based on following committee or whatever the committee deems appropriate at the time. Thank you. Excuse me, that came out too early. Next item.

Before moving on to committee reports, I'd like to request that we can take item 10.1 out of order so that I can introduce it before committee reports and or I go to sleep.

10.1. There being no objection, I will waive the rules to take item 10.1 out of order.

Thank you, Mr. President. This is one that, oh, I'll wait for him.

Councilor Scott, I'll remind you of our conversation. So we won't have any discussion on this one tonight since it was submitted after their original agenda. So this will be referred to land use with a copy of the planning board for scheduling a public hearing, at which point it will be duly noticed and everyone can find out about it then.

All right, so no introduction to the item tonight, Mr. President?

All right, and just so folks understand, the reason for that is that it wasn't published on the agenda on Tuesday, and so when that happens, we try not to discuss anything unless it was completely unforeseen and also timely. This wasn't unforeseen, but because it will be noticed for a committee, folks will have time to know that it's coming up at that point and tune in to hear all our brilliant discussion about it then. Next item, Madam Clerk.

The Finance Committee met on Tuesday, October 20th, 2026 via remote participation with the help of Clerk Delaney Fisher-Cassiol and four of our five members present due to a known scheduled conflict. We took up an eight-item agenda. We recommended appropriating $100,000 from the city's Racial and Social Justice Fund for the 2026 community grant cycle. This money is being used for 23 different small grants that represent a wide spectrum of ideas related to racial and social justice, many of them projects primarily driven by volunteer work, where our community receives real benefit from enabling

Okay, thank you. Councillor Wheeler moves to approve the report as submitted. On the report, Councillor Bond?

2:38:41 – 2:38:54•WMWilfred N. Mbah

Thank you, Mr. President. I just want to thank Councillor Wheeler for following up on the item. I was just curious, and it was really useful to see that there was something good that came out of it. I appreciate it, thank you.

Mayor, thank you for the questions from my colleague.

All right, so that report is approved, and that puts one item before us, I believe, for roll call vote. Madam Clerk?

Yes. all right before I move to the next item counselor Scott would like to reconsider the motion to to send the prior item to the out-of-order item to committee I will allow a Statement on your intent as long as it's not deliberation, we won't we won't have, there won't be any discussion on it afterwards, but I think that's appropriate. The reason we allowed this on the supplemental agenda is, is for the purpose of transparency. So the public can know about sooner rather than later. So I think a brief statement of your intent behind submitting the item would be fine if that's okay. So there'd

Thank you very much, Mr. President. just to make it again for the sake transparency I appreciate this I am proposing in this item a new transit oriented overlay which aims to increase the amount of housing that can be built and in particular provide more permanently affordable housing to some of the most expensive and transit accessible areas in the city This is something that has been, I will take all the criticisms and flaws that exist within this on myself, but it is something that has been worked on by a large group of community advocates for over a year now. The effect of this overlay wou

Thank you, Counselor. So that item 10.1 is referred to land use for the copy of the planning board. Now back to item 6B, please.

Any discussion on the committee reports? All right, seeing none, that is approved. So those four items are now before us. They'll be laid on the table pending the recommendation from the planning board. Next item, out of court.

To make up for my previous speech, I'll make this very short. We had a very efficient two-hour meeting on October 13th where we handled a great many ordinances. First on our agenda was a public hearing that was requested by the mayor on his civilian oversight presentation and a blistering display of community engagement. There were zero speakers. We did then have a discussion of the ordinances to establish a rental registry. The update from the administration being that they're going to work on that soon. The discussion of short-term rentals and our ordinance that whose enforcement has been mi

All right, very well. Counselor Scott, do you want to take up those two other items, 715 and 716, out of order now so that we can talk about them in context? All right, if seen no objection, we'll waive the rules to take up items 7.15 and 7.16 together. Madam Clerk, would you read those?

thank you mr. president just as a way of explanation as a reminder to everybody who may have forgotten about these these are policy reports that are submitted by the mayor they are basically at this point they are transparency documents the vote to actually authorize these that these technologies was already taken by this council I believe in the middle of our summer recess So this is part of the administration's continuing commitment to refine these documents in response to various counselors, like Counselor Hart and Ward 7, request to add further clarification. I would leave it to Counselor

Thank you, Councillor Scott. And just for the record, I'll note they did include all of the, reflect all of the discussions that I had as well up to that. And so I had no issue with them. Councillor Hart, did you want to speak to?

I can just mention a couple of the changes that I remember one was changing some of the language just from citizens to civilians throughout and a couple of places Putting in a requirement of issuing reports based on You know data coming back to the council and civilian oversight body putting in there that civilian oversight body would be able to propose changes to the policies, things like that.

Very good. Any further discussion? Council Scott moves for approval of those two items. Seeing no discussion on the motion, those items are approved. Next item, Madam Clerk.

Thank you. So we had a meeting yesterday evening with two grants of location on the agenda. One we approved very quickly and one we had a lengthy discussion about because at the last meeting a abutter had come forward in the public hearing asking for consideration of combining work. And just to close the loop on that, I was able to connect with additional information today and find out there, unfortunately, we are not able, there's no possible way of accommodating the residence request. So recommend both of those to be approved.

All right, Councilor Hart moves to approve the report as submitted. Any discussion? All right, seeing none, that is approved. Next item.

2:58:01 – 2:59:06•NSNaima Sait

Through you Mr. President, traffic and parking, we had a public hearing regarding construction parking permits and the impact of current enforcement policy on neighborhood residents. We heard from the abutters and the residents on those streets. And what we requested from the administration is that we have staff from ISD, from SPD, from engineering and parking. So everyone is there. Everyone is hearing the same version of what's happening. And it was helpful to hear suggestions from the residents. And there was no discussion. In the committee, it was just a public hearing, so we are going to h

All right, thank you. Any discussion on the reports? All right, seeing none, that report is accepted as submitted. Councilwoman Camping moves to waive the readings of items 7.2 through 7.5 and refer them to land use. See no objection. Next. With a copy, yes, of course. With a copy of the planning board for each of those items. Next item.

Thank you, Mr. President. I believe this was an item that the administration had expressed an interest in having approved tonight, and I'm seeing IG-8. No? Not 7.6? Okay. Sorry, that was a point of confusion. In that case, I move to waive the readings of items 7.6, 7.9 through 7.12, and 7.14, and refer these to the Finance Committee.

All right so in addition to the item that has been read we'll wave the readings to seven nine ten eleven thirteen and no not thirteen nine ten eleven twelve and fourteen we already approved twelve so nine oh sorry thank you fourteen and that's it right Okay, so those we were the result, we start over. Wave the readings of those items and refer them to finance. And then that brings us to item 713.

Yes, and Mr. President, oh sorry, I suppose this has to be read. Yeah, let's read that one in, please. Pardon my interruption.

Mr. President, I move to approve this item now because of its relatively small size, its usefulness for our senior population, and its evocative patriotic number.

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

3:01:21•WMWilfred N. Mbah

President, I move to wave 7.17 to 7.18 and refer to confirmation of appointment of personnel matters.

All right, seeing no objection, those items are referred to confirmation of appointments of personnel matters. Next item.

Several people have asked me in conversations recently why it is that the meeting before Thanksgiving always takes so long, and I'm reminded this is one of the reasons. But it's important, and we'll talk about it then. So that item is approved.

It is still not too cool for block parties. Go to your block parties, have a block party. If you don't have a block party, contact the clerk's office and find out how to have a block party because they're awesome. In the year of the neighbor, go hang out with your neighbors on your street. Hopefully with only other neighbors and no motor vehicles. All right, that item is placed on file. Next item.

Yes, I move to waive the readings of 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, and approve.

All right, Council Hart moves to weigh the readings of those items and approve, seeing no... Mr. President, I just wanted to comment on the 10.3 MAMAS free store event on November 14th. That's an amazing event. We should all spread the word.

All right. So those items, we'll weigh the readings of those items. Take note of Council Wheeler's endorsement, and those items are approved. Council Hart?

And also waive the reading of 9.3 and send to licenses and permits, please.

That item is referred to licenses and permits.

You want to read that one? Committee, council, union, campus, you're placed on file. Next item.

That item is placed on file. Any further items? All right. Seeing no further business before the council, Councilor Scott, old one-leg JT, moves to adjourn. And we are adjourned. Thank you, everyone.