Town Council - Regular Meeting

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I will call the April 7th, 2026 North Providence Town Council meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance and remain standing for a moment of silence. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Okay. Okay. Item number one, acceptance of meeting minutes. Discussion and possible action and vote with regard to the acceptance of meeting minutes from the meeting of March 3rd, 2026. So, I have a motion to accept the minutes. Motion's been made by Councilman Pollock. Second, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor? I.

All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number two, fiscal year budget 2026 2027. Mayor Lombati to present the budget for fiscal year 2026 to 2027 for acceptance by the town council. I'll read Mayor Lombat's annual budget letter into the record. Dated April 7th, 2026. The Honorable Dino Oello, Town Council President, 2000 Smith Street, North Providence, Rhode Island 02911. Dear council members, in accordance with section 5-2-2 of the North Providence Charter, I am submitting the proposed budget for fiscal year commencing July 1, 2026. This budget reflects a statemandated statistical re re-evaluation. While it is difficult to project the exact impact on individual tax play payers, preliminary data indicates that property values in the town have increased by approximately 29%. Due to sound fiscal management, our administration and the town council have adopted budgets with no tax increase increases for the 10 of the last 12 years. However, the town currently faces a significant revenue loss due to the bankruptcy of Prospect Charter Care, the owner of Our Lady of Fatima Hospital. A nonprofit entity is set to acquire the hospital's assets and its tax exempt status will result in a loss of over $3 million in real estate and tangible tax revenue this fiscal year. Furthermore, following the voter approved $125 million bond in 2024, the town has completed construction of two new elementary schools and a school administration building. North Providence is now the only community in Rhode Island with all new elementary schools. Consequential consequentially,

this budget must incorporate $8.5 million in depth service for these infrastructure improvements. To address the loss hospital revenue and these debt service payments, the proposed budget includes a tax increase of $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed value. Please note that the assessed values and tax rate for residential and commercial real estate reflect the statemandated re-evaluation conducted last year. My administration remains committed to providing highquality services while prioritizing improvements to our agent infrastructure. It will aggressively pursue grant opportunities to offset municipal expenditures. This budget allocates $800,000 for road resurfacing, building on the more than 40 streets repaved over the last two years. Additionally, our public safety departments continue to excel. The fire department maintains one of the highest rate ISO ratings in the state, reducing insurance costs for residents, while the police departments maintains its accreditation. As mayor, I assure our residents that we will continue to operate fiscally responsible. This proposed budget raises only the minimum revenue necessary to maintain essential operations and address our specific financial obligations. I look forward to working with the council to adopt a fiscally sound budget that meets the needs of our taxpayers. Very truly yours, Charles A. Lombardi, mayor. Okay, mayor. Just so the public knows, Then

we schedule the first budget hearing April 27. Sign my phone. I have that. He might be late.

All right. So, I'm going to put it here. If not, we'll have to take this. Hey, just for public information, April 27th, 2026 at 5:00 PM here in the council chambers will be the public hearing where myself and superintendent Joe Goho will present the town budget and the school department budget to the taxpayers and public. May 1st, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. is the first council work session. May 26, 2026 is the final budget hearing and June 2nd, 2026 is we're aiming to adopt the budget. In the meantime, Councilman Martone, who is our finance chairman, will conduct meeting finance meetings throughout the month where we'll have department heads in where they can go over their budgets. Any questions? I have a motion to accept the 202627 budget.

So moved. Motion's been made by Councilman Mala, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. Okay. Due to time constraints, I am going to go to item number 20, land purchase for Naughty Pac. Kenneth Ki request discussion and possible vote regarding the land purchase from the town of Lincoln for Naughty Pac. Can you just state your name for the record, please?

Uh good evening. Uh Kenneth Ki uh nine carriageway lease farms. Um also, uh I was a former chairman and involved with the land trust with the town for over 20 years. Um and I you know when I started at the land trust I was you know Marilyn body was actually I recall him coming before the council before he was even a candidate for mayor and was you know opposing any development at camp at that time and um you know I was 100% in support of what he did and I applaud everything that he has done there over the past 20 years. I mean I use that park every day. Um, it's a great amenity to the town. It's wonderful that we're able to use portion of the Lincoln property for the trails and the foot paths and just generally open space. Um, the goal of the land trust is to preserve open space in the town. So, it's hard for me to be in front of the council tonight a little bit in opposition of what Maryland body is proposing to town of Lincoln. Um, I had read in the uh Battle of the Breeze a couple weeks ago that the mayor presented a proposal to the town of Lincoln to purchase approximately 7 acres of Lincoln's property um adjacent to our town line um uh that is currently owned obviously by Lincoln and u to expand some parking for the um some of the events that go on at MI Um while I I I understand I I've witnessed the events and the issues of the parking out there when you you know they have some of the public events which are great. Um but at the same time I I really can't support losing any more open space. I mean North

Providence is got the least amount of open space per capita of any of the towns in Rhode Island. That was one of the big you know um advertisements that we as a land trust always presented and we were trying to preserve as much and you know while I was president of the land trust you know we acquired we had the first acquisition ever by the land trust of some open space property and we've maintained that and uh since then we've made you know two other um acquisitions which you know doesn't sound like a lot when you're dealing with some of the other rural land trusts across the state but for us being the urban environment that we are, it's a big deal. And, you know, I I find it very compelling to not support, you know, acquisition of any green space, um, especially up in the camp area and to cut down trees and to lose that. You know, once you take it down, we never get it back. And um I think you know we can find alternatives um out there to uh you know either meet the capacity or just maintain what we have right now. Um you know it's uh you know it's a nice area like I said and I and I on a little different topic I I had hoped that we would have more access um up to that area in the back. Um there's a gate there that's locked and the only way to get up there is to walk the driveway. And I talked to the mayor and he was very responsive um about putting some speed bumps in there because at night, you know, when things at dusk if there's cars going up or coming down, they go faster than they should. And I'm not worried about myself to be honest with you. I'm worried about kids coming down on a skateboard or a scooter or something like that. It's only going to take one incident like that that's going to have us go back and revisit this access. Um, it'd be nice to

be able to access the parking area in the back so that, you know, get back there safely and then use the trails as they were, you know, designed to use. So, really, I'm just asking the council at this time just to um kind of be a watchdog. Um and you know I'll ask I I had a discussion with the mayor about it as well and um you know we agreed to disagree a little bit on it. Um but uh you know I would just ask the council at this time just to more or less be a watchdog and you know if there's uh does something does come across your desk um about the acquisition if there's you know you want to get a group together we can certainly do that and um you know talk about it before it happens.

Does anybody have any questions for Mr. Mayor Mayor, did you want to speak?

Yeah, I did have a conversation with Mr. Ki. The reason why, and by the way, this is preliminary talks with Lincoln. We don't know if they would agree. We don't know if they would agree to allow us to use the property in a multi-year uh agreement so to say. Problem we have there is that we don't have parking. When I say that when you come up to the building uh there on the right green area so most of the festivals or anything that we have at that uh facility are in that area. when we don't have a festival or something going on, we use that for some parking and the camp and the kids continue to enjoy it. My thought was in talking with Lincoln is not to knock down trees, so to say, and just make it a a big parking lot. We do need maybe 30, 40 spaces. I had a couple of drawings where you know maybe the way we have the parking coming up to that area maybe four spaces and leave the greenery and maybe another four spaces so that is just not wide open for parking. The problem we have is that when we have um festivity at at the building, um we're short on the parking. And if everyone doesn't know, the Lincoln line when you come out of the front of that building, the Lincoln line is approximately 15 feet, 20 ft from the building, not far.

all of that circular area when you go there that that's ashvault that is all belongs to the town of Lincoln. So it was just a thought to go there and we would be coming back to you to um you know give you the information. They want to come up and take a look. They've made no commitments and I really don't know where it's going, but I thought it was the right thing to at least have a conversation with them and that I thought it could benefit uh the use of uh that facility. Um and I respect uh what Mr. Ki's uh um feelings are, but again, if it stays just the way it is, that's okay. But I just want to let you know that we're having some issues there with the parking and the use of the property. Um not that was the only reason to to not to just say, "Hey, look, this is what we're doing. We are not interested what anyone thinks." But I think we all do agree that um um I think before we came here, a number of us, there were there was going to be 48 condos there and we weren't going to enjoy the open space and the recreation uh that uh we have there at this point in time. So that being said, uh whatever the agreement is and but they do want to come up and take a look, take a walk through and their concern was the same as Mr. Kantis and Mayan that wouldn't be just become a gigantic Asheville parking lot. Um be more uh you know in in the in conjunction with what it looks like now. But again, we're locked in. when you come up there, the big green area to the right, we can't do two or three things at the same time there because we

just don't have the parking slash and and be able to enjoy the um uh the festivities that are going on. The other thing is, you know, it's difficult for people to have to walk from down the bottom where the Stonehouse is up to enjoy anything that's going on there. So, we thought if we could get those additional spaces up there, at least people could drive up, be easy for them to uh enjoy whatever uh may be going on at that uh uh property at that time. But the only thing I can say u um when when and if we do get the call from the town of Lincoln, um keep you informed. But it's just preliminary uh uh talking at this point in time. there's been no decisions and I don't know they might tell us hey look we don't want to hear it they were very very impressed with the what we've done there though they did say that publicly um they've attended a couple of functions there I don't know weddings or something very very and thankful by the way because keep in mind that could have been a serious cut through from our town to Angel Road and we do have an agreement I mean our uh public safety vehicles have a to the gate down the back there. But I think anyone that frequents that area knows we don't make a practice of of of using it. That's all I got to say.

Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? Come on. Just come up to the mic. State your name, please. Hi, good evening. Uh my name is Stacy Silver. I'm not here for this, but um I have a suggestion. What happened to the shuttle bus that the um our elders were using? Wouldn't that be a great thing to employ something like that instead of buying more land and putting in parking?

That's a good idea. That would do. I mean, we have plenty of parking at um the high school and there's Birwood nearby and um why not people park there and and take a shuttle bus when we have these festivals? That's a suggestion. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Mr. Ki, thank you for the testimony. Um obviously there has been no purchase brought before us. It's just been, you know, the article and the breeze and some minor discussions. So, when it does come up, we'll we'll continue this conversation. Thank you.

Just so you know, too, that there are some restrictions on the the property in Lincoln. They'll find out what all those restrictions are, but there are certainly um open space and recreation. Yeah, thank you. Okay, stay right there, Ken. Ken, stay right there. Okay. Item number 21, bridge on Brook Farm Road. Can Kenneth Ki request discussion and possible vote regarding the bridge on Brook Farm Road. Is there anyone else in the audience that's here to discuss this matter? The bridge on Brook Farm Road. Okay. Thank you. Go ahead.

Sure. Thank you again. Kenneth Kiy Carriage Way live farm and I appreciate you moving up the time on this and tell you why, but first pitch is at 7:30. Um, so the uh the bridge at Brook Farm Road, as you know, it's um it was there was an issue, a safety issue with it. It was identified a little over a year ago. And um I believe that the mayor went out there with the DPW and they uh came up with what appears to be a reasonable band-aid, I'll call it temporary solution. Um and uh you know we were under the impression that you know it was somewhat of an emergency and that's why that you know the what happened out there happened with respect to these large metal plates being placed over the road and then the orange and white jersey barriers there. It's you know you you definitely notice it when you come into the plat. Um there's also it's it's almost like a big metal speed bump at this point. When you hit it and you come over it, I definitely uh you know, you got to go slow over it. Um it's definitely a speed um control measure as well, but um the fact of the matter is it's always explained to me that it was temporary. Um, so it's now been over a year and you know I' I've asked and come back with a comment about a grant and we're waiting for a grant and that it should be you know it'll be addressed that way and um you know six months pass I ask again I get the same answer. Um, so I'm concerned. I'm concerned that it's going to turn into something similar to, and I'm sure everybody says it, Greystone. You know, that Greystone bridge. Finally, something's happening there. I guess they're tearing it down. I don't think

that's obviously a solution here because that's our only really one of our two um points for the plat. There's over 200 residents in that in our subdivision. And um it's an important point. That's probably the main access point to the entire subdivision. and it's a gateway to Lease Farm. Um, you know, one of the, uh, older subdivisions in the town. A lot of very nice houses in there. Um, we pay a lot of in taxes and from what it sounds like we're going to be paying even more coming up uh, next year. Um, so it's important that um, I think uh, that we get sometime of a time frame on when this is actually going to be a permanent fix. And um I would like to make a recommendation to the council that you establish uh a committee to monitor the progress and I would like to uh volunteer my services to be part of that committee as a member of the general public to uh assist in monitoring it and making sure that what when we do replace it, you know, it's something that is not only um structurally sound but also has an aesthetic appeal because I I think it would be a great amenity to the entrance of Lee's farm to come up with something that looks really nice. So, you know, really here tonight just to put that toward the council to um put it on our radar screen and again uh make a recommendation that you establish a committee to monitor it. And quite frankly, I I'm not certain if there's a grant already that's been filed for or if we're waiting for a grant. I'm sure mail and body may want to have something to say about that because I I'm not sure what the answer is on that. There's already a grant that's been targeted or we're waiting for some something to show up.

Okay. Councilman Pollock, I'd like to uh make a motion that we send correspondence to the grant writer asking her to give us an update what and if is the a grant and what the status is and also is a grant for this for for that pertaining to that we get a status on that and also to uh get correspondence from Bernie Salvatore regarding the condition of that location also. Okay. A motion has been made. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Fiola. Any other questions? All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. Ma'am, would you like to speak?

Oh, okay. Yeah, I guess I said it all. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Thanks, J. Mayor.

Good luck. as the chairman, members of the council, and all residents in that area, and as a former resident of that area, I can only tell you this is safe as to the way it is. It's safe. Uh there were some plans that were changed and now they're taking a look at building a bridge, bringing it there and setting it in place as opposed to building it there so that it doesn't take up uh too take up too much time for it to be replaced. But um you can send a communication to Sher and she'll uh bring you up to date as to where we are with the with the fund. And I can only tell you this, it's in progress. And um what happened was when the first uh the first numbers we got only because of what's going on, they doubled. And so we had to seek a few more dollars. But um I can I hate to do this, but I can almost guarantee you that within the next four to six months, you'll see a new bridge there. Any other questions? All right. I'm also going to entertain a motion to send this to the ordinance committee because if there is to be a committee created to monitor this, that has to be done through ordinance. So, I'll entertain that motion as well.

So, move. Motion has been made by was that Councilman Dorenzo. Uh, is there a second? Lorenzo second. Seconded by Council Laorio. All those in favor? All those opposed, the eyes have it. Thank you. While we're on uh bridges, item number 19, Greystone Bridge, Kyle Fernandez would like to address the town council regarding the need for a modest pedestrian and bicycle only bridge is come up to the microphone, please, and state your name.

Hi, my name is Kyle Fernandez. Thank you. Um, so I'm here tonight as a resident and also as a father. My baby is still very young. Um, I might be biased, but she is the cutest baby anyone's ever seen. Um, and I want to be able to walk her to the, uh, Cricket Field Park, um, which is, uh, was past the Greystone Bridge, um, which I think many of us know about. Um, so I understand that the bridge was closed for safety reasons. Um, uh, well, I think that was arguable. Um, and I understand that a, uh, ve uh, a vehicular bridge, uh, may be expensive. So, we don't we don't I'm not asking for a vehicle bridge. I'm asking for a modest um, pedestrian bridge uh, and bicycle bridge only. Um, I understand that um there was talk of uh emergency vehicles going across the bridge and that would increase the price. It's not what I'm asking. Um and uh just a safe durable walkway that accounts for flooding and weather. Um so at different points over the past few years uh I think residents have been uh heard conflicting messages about whether a pedestrian bridge was being considered and I think it's been shot down a couple of times even. Um today we are left with nothing and there is no uh clear uh public plan it seems. Um I've had emails with um uh write up and um tonight I'm asking the council to take two specific actions. So, first to send a formal letter to RHO and requesting a written response that includes uh the current plan for this crossing, which I think there is no current plan from what I've heard from them. A cost estimate for a pedestrian and bicycle only bridge and a

timeline for next steps. second request um that RHO either attend a public meeting in North Providence or provide a written statement that can be read into the public record. Um so, thank you for your time and for advocating for a safe pedestrian connection for families in our community. And that's all just to uh get you up to speed. Obviously, as you know, we've had many, many, many hearings on this bridge. Um there was a estimate of a bridge that two-way traffic could go through that came in about $24 million. Um we had sent several letters to DOT asking for justification for that number, asking them to attend public hearings and we've been giving nothing. Um they actually sent us a pretty I don't want to say nasty letter last time in response to not justifying the cost of the bridge and saying that no one will come to any of our hearings. So we've tried I will tell you that um

could I comment on that please?

Now let me just finish there. You know I there is a new director so maybe we'll get a better response this time. So go ahead. Thank you. Um so, um and maybe of course, uh you know more about this. Um uh last I heard um basically they said there's no way um they can give us a uh bridge that vehicles can go across back and forth. um that is going to cost a reasonable price and they couldn't give us uh as you said a um for for why it would be so you know costly. Um, and then it it seemed like basically what they heard um from maybe uh towns people or that it was basically we were saying look if you're not going to give us a bridge that we can drive across um we want that or nothing and um what I'm asking is um for a pedestrianon one um specific and how much that would cost either as a uh band-aid. And I know we don't like band-aids. Um uh but um you know, and and I'm obviously hyperfocused on my own personal situation and being able to walk across and I understand that people really want that vehicle bridge. Um you know, but it sounds like that might not happen right now. And so instead of having nothing, we could at least maybe get a bridge we can walk across and ride bicycles across. Um, so

I I appreciate that and we will certainly try and get some answers for you. It's just it's very frustrating, you know, sitting in our seats as well. Even, you know, especially the two councilmen that represent that area, they've fought hard to get that bridge back up and the communication's just been so poor. It's it's very very disappointing from the state. Um, you know, it's just lack of planning, lack of cost, like like justifying the cost. So, you know, just just for your information, the communication has been very very poor, but we will certainly uh continue to try.

And if there's anything I can do to help with communication, anyone I can go knock on their door, I have no problem stirring things up and knocking on, you know, people that are high up stores and being like, "Hey, this is an issue where um not getting any feedback." And in fact, you guys seem like um you're being kind of rude about it and I don't think you you know uh are intending for that. I I think you know we we need to good have good communication around this. Um so I really appreciate everything you all do. This is not a complaint to you. Um you know I I know that you've been working really hard on this. Um and I'm just here to give my uh two cents on it. So really appreciate um all of what you do.

Anybody have any questions? that pot anymore. We're going to lose the handle. So, you know, thank you. Is there any questions? So, I'd like to entertain a motion to send a letter to uh Department of Transportation, a formal letter with the current plan and a and a timeline for this bridge. Motion's been made by Councilman Laortio, seconded by Councilman Bala. Any questions? All those in favor? I. All those opposed? You guys have it? We'll get back to you when we hear back. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Item number three, zone change amendment. Town council to consider the approval of an application from Smith Realy LLC to amend article 2 section 2 03 use table of the zoning ordinance of the town of North Providence to classify doggy daycare as permitted use in the CP, CV, and CG districts only. This application was advertised in the Providence Journal on February 6th, 13th, and 20th, 2026 for a hearing on this date. This item was continued from the March 3rd, 2026 meeting. Proposed ordinance. Actually, do I have a motion to continue item number three? So moves. No move. Motion been made by Councilman Bala, seconded by Council Laorio. All those in favor?

All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number four, proposed ordinance. Notice was given of a public hearing on this day whereby the town council would consider passage of the following proposed ordinance. Item number four, ordinance 26-002Z, an ordinance amending the town of North Providence zoning ordinance, article 2, section 203, use table. This item is con in connection with the previous zone change item. Do I have a motion to continue item number four? Motion's been made by Councilman Pollock, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor?

All those opposed, the eyes have it. Item number five, class BV full liquor license transfer. Notice was given of a public hearing to be held on this date in the Providence Journal on March 13th and 20th, 2026 for a transfer of a class BV liquor license from Elite Lounge and Beastro LLC 1759 Middle Spring Avenue, North Providence, Rhode Island 02904 to One of One Lounge and Bar LLC 1759 ML Spring Avenue, North Providence, Rhode Island 02904. Is there anybody here from one of one lounge and elite beastro? Come to the mic, please, and state your name for the record. Yeah.

Good evening, council president, members of the council. My name is Nicholas Matlock um from the I'm an attorney from the I Liberal Law Firm and I represent the one of one lounge bar here with the ownership team uh Lent Walter and Masio or we call Mike. We're here tonight uh they're here tonight to answer your questions directly. U we want to start by acknowledging uh what this council already knows that 1759 Mineral Spring has been a recurring agenda item for this committee uh for more than two years. My my clients are not asking that you forget that history. Uh they're here because they believe and and I believe that the problems um are management problems. They're not location problems. And with new ownership, a different vision, and different standards, that changes the calculus for this location. These three men are first-time business owners. This is their personal investment, their life savings. They're putting it at risk along with their reputation because they have a vision to build a place where people can come together and and be safe. These are not investors writing checks from out of state. They're small business owners. They're the operators. They're going to be on the floor every single night. I'll allow them to share more of their vision with you directly. But what they're building is a sophisticated cocktail lounge targeting adult clientele, the afterwork crowd that are in for that are looking for good drinks, a real food menu, and live music in an environment that has very specific expectations for appropriate behavior. A well-run lounge like this is not a problem for a neighborhood. It's an asset to it. And on that point, my clients are committed to being part of this community. They're prepared to make themselves available to the neighboring residents and businesses with concerns about noise or disruption directly before those concerns ever have to come back to this chamber. That means providing contact information, responding to calls and emails, and

addressing problems immediately. If a neighbor has an issue at 11:00 p.m. on a Saturday, they should not be able to reach someone who can do something about it that night. This is the commitment my clients are making. We have for you a written letter and operations plan which details how they're going to solve some of the previous issues with this location. This plan uh studies the problems that happened before mostly between the 1:30 and 2:00 in the morning release crowd after uh evening or weekend location. My clients study these issues and they addressed them with a structured windown procedure, staggered staggered departure so you aren't just releasing the entire lounge into the streets at a single time and exterior security presence throughout closing. These occur from day one. This sets the tone that every patron will have a different environment coming to this lounge versus the previous one. This council has every reason to be cautious, but the license requests before you tonight come with new owners who are present, accountable, and invested, not only financially, but personally in making this work. If they fall short of their commitments, they know they have to answer this body. And what they're asking for tonight is a mo an opportunity to prove through conduct that the one of Lounge and Bar can be something of the truly special place in North Province. We respectfully request the approval of the BB liquor license, the victing license, and the two entertainment licenses. I'm happy to pass around these if uh if the council's in.

Sure. Couple things. Um since I've been council president for the last 11 years, I've made it a practice I've committed to a practice of never holding a previous license against a new license. So, we always look at each license with a different set of eyes. Thank you. Um and always are willing to give new ownership a chance.

This you are right. This location the last four owners have come before us from multiple violations and the last thing we want to do is you know it's it's a hassle for us. We we don't want to go there. Um you also have to take into consideration the location of the building. It's a very it's an old building. It's unique to Mineral Spring Avenue, whereas it is pushed up against a lot of residential and there's elderly people that live back there. And then on the side of the building, there's a big condo development. So, you know, especially the two gentlemen that represent that area, they hear the phone calls. Um, so, you know, I'm open. I'm I look forward to working with you guys. Um, like I said, we're not going to hold any of the sins of past owners against you, but you know, the last four owners there's been issues with. So, just just keep that in mind. And,

you know, I I also say be honest about what you're going to do there. You know, a lot of people come in and say, "We're going to be a cocktail bar, a restaurant, and then it turns into a nightclub when business isn't going well." And the last thing we want to do is mandate police details for you guys. We don't want to hurt you, you know. We want to see you succeed in this town. So, um I know Councilman Dorenzo had a question. I do.

Thank you for wanting to come to the town of Province. That was very articulate. Young man, uh here's a question that I have does not refer to you guys, but there is money owed to this town from that entity as it stands now. How is that how is the town going to be made whole on that money? You accept vote if you like.

So part of the asset purchase agreement here which should close this week uh assuming the successful uh license grant here type of thing is substantial money that should be used to pay for that. Um the existing tenants um I believe are in a dire financial strait at the point um and so this will be a march towards that becoming whole. I can't obviously commit their money, you know, type of thing to that, but I can provide to the council the attorney that's representing the seller in this deal. Uh, who should be able to support um any kind of renumerations that's needed in that. Okay. I believe you want you raised your hand. I believe you wanted to say something. No.

Okay. So for me, and I'll speak for me, I find it de very difficult to give a liquor license out when the town is not made whole up front and first how how do we how do we rectify that? What do we do? Um, so I think your point's well taken, okay, is that the town needs to to be brought whole. I think that there's a um there's an element here of of process where if the town makes the payment of that contingent upon the issue of the liquor license, we're able to bridge the gap between process and moving forward. Um and we can make that contingency as part of the purchase and sale agreement. Again, my my clients are coming forward with substantial money as part of this purchase, which should be adequate for satisfying what I understand the the debt to be. I don't want to speak with without having all the exact figures, but I understand that we're within the range of being able to satisfy that. There may be, you know, if we include that within the deal and include that within an escrow, there should be the opportunity to to to make that work. Uh, obviously, we'll have to get sellers attorneys involved. I I can't speak for any of them in that in that regard.

Thank you. I spoke to all three of you gentlemen were on the phone. I don't know who's who, but I know I spoke to all three of you. Everybody had questions and I kind of told them what they were, you know, coming in here for and what was what. And I explained that to you that, you know, there would be contingent on them paying that, clearing it up, whatever we could do to help you out. And again, I'm going to echo what he said and I said to you gentlemen on the phone.

What someone did before you, I cannot hold you accountable for it. You're going to be accountable for your own actions. And it was mostly the concern about the neighbors, the noise, you know, just and it was mostly the parking lot after that and everybody expanding out, the neighbors being, you know, with uh noise and everything like that. Long as it's contained inside and you're within the hours of operation, there was nothing to worry about. Your gentleman said you were up to date on the security as far as you were going to be there and and everything. And I think a lot of times we have absentee owners and they really don't care what happens after that. And then, you know, there could be fines and things. We we don't want to, the for lack of a better word, we don't want to police any of that. to let it you be successful. Let it be nice. Let everybody live in harmony and and we're all set. But there is going to be a probation period, you know, for this going forward. I believe it was six months on on everything. Well, we kind of put that in place for a lot of others.

So, but I did talk to these gentlemen. We kind of had a half hour conversation. I I want to make sure that you understand the statement that I made has nothing to do with you, right? I I hope you understand. Look forward to being business. Hopefully, it's great. I hope you guys do well and buy five more. But it has nothing to do with what you Okay. I'm not sure we got five licenses to give you here, but but it won't be here. But, you know, m make it successful. It makes it better for everybody else because, you know, that's the plan. We're pretty hands-on, too. So, why don't you speak a little to your experience?

Yes. Um, so my name is Lance Cherry. Um, these are my partners right there, Walter and Mike. Um, Walter's in law enforcement. Mike is a computer science. I'm a mechanical engineer by trade. Um so we all three are, you know, pretty professional and we're looking to do the business the right way and be transparent. And um we plan to attract the right crowd. Um the plan is to place the right dress code and certain dress code so we stay away from the rah and certain type of mess. So we plan to just be in business for a long term and and we put our hard earned capital into this. So, we plan to make this successful. Have you ever run a restaurant before? Um, I worked in restaurant before, but this was my first time.

How about you guys? I've managed visit before, but that's that will be our first location. Okay. Yeah, previously with that country. Thank you. Any other questions? as uh council. As far as entertainment, what do you what are you presuming to have there for entertainment? Um so we have MC's, comedians, and live instrument.

Okay. I I do agree with Councilman Dorenzo, and I think you should have your attorney look into the issue of the unpaid detail bill because that should be cleared up by before the close. Um, I don't want to put our lieutenant on the spot now and ask if there's a payment plan in place. This was brought to our attention throughout the last year and there was some payments made, then the payment stopped. So maybe, you know, you guys can all work that out. Um, so I think we'll be willing to approve the transfer pending that that one bill gets worked out, which which is owed to the town. I

I think that's completely fair. that motion. Yeah. Would someone like to make that motion? So, before we make a motion, um it's going to come to everyone that this is going to be subject to the license will not be transferred until the town is made whole. Am I correct? I want to make sure that that point is well taken because if in fact it doesn't happen that way, we may never get that money. So it has to be written that it's subject to that being taken care of first before any transfer is done. Right. So I'll make that motion to do that if

Okay. Actually, you know what? Before I take the motion, can you guys just have a seat? Is there anybody here from the neighborhood that would like to speak on this matter? Is there anyone here from the neighborhood? Nope. Okay, that's fine. You can come back up. Sorry about that.

Come back. I I had asked that question and and usually I I forgot to do it so I apologize. No. So motion's been made and the common practice um we always give these new licenses out on a six-month probation. So we'll do a six-month check-in from when you pick the license up. You'll come back 6 months later. If you have no complaints or no issues, you get a full, you know, liquor license. And the same goes for entertainment, fixing, all that. So, um, but this is contingent on that being paid. So, motion's been made. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by council collar. Is there any questions? All those in favor?

All those opposed? The eyes have it. Stay up here. Item number six, villing license town council to consider the approval of a victing license for one of one lounge and bar LLC, 1759 Mineral Spring Avenue, North Providence, Rhode Island. Do I have a motion to approve the victing license? So move. Motion's been made by Councilman Bala, seconded by Councilman Laorio. All those in favor.

All those opposed, the eyes have it. And item number seven, entertainment licenses. Town council to consider the approval of two entertainment licenses for one of one lounge and bar LLC 1759 spring, North Providence, Rhode Island. So, um I know Councilman Laorio asked the question, what kind of entertainment? Um, is there any more questions about entertainment at that location? Uh, I I I'm just concerned about volume obviously uh for the neighbors nearby. Uh, what what time would you be running your entertainment until? Um, so we plan to run that till 12:45.

12:45. Yes. Just keep in mind we we because I know you said a couple times 2 2 a.m. it's 1 a.m. in in North Providence. Yes. So we don't have a 2 a.m. license. Everybody's going to be out. Yeah. So yeah, 12:45 everything stops and make an exit plan strategy to get everybody out the building. Okay. Is there any other questions?

So and and there's a reasonable amount of time. We've run into this before where uh establishments have employees and patrons still in the building and still in the premises after that time. Uh and and and there again, anything that happens later in the night usually is pretty disruptive. Um so cutting it at 12:45, that window is really small to get people done and out. If there's a a band or or a DJ that has to pack up equipment, sometimes that, you know, takes a little more time.

So, of course, um depends on the crowd. If we have a, you know, if it's like a bigger event, definitely will, you know, start winding down at like 12:30, 12:15 to make sure, you know, it's the proper time to get everybody to exit out the building. So, it depends on how many people we have in there. So, I mean, he's I'm just saying for your benefit because we don't want something to go over and then you that that's a mark against you. You know, we want it to go smoothly for you. Want to see you succeed obviously. Yeah. So, for sure it depends on how many people we have inside. So, if we do have a bigger crowd, we're going to use our discretion to make sure, you know, we get everybody out.

I I don't know if I missed it or not, but what type of security are you going to have for that? Um we're going to have like um so pretty much um like professional security and then we have my partner that's a law enforcement as well from Boston and he's aware is fully trained so we will have extra staff and extra security. The biggest thing for you guys to know is the street that runs behind the place

right the a majority of the issues one to Councilman Laorio's point the volume. So the further you keep the entertainment to the front of the place, the better because it doesn't echo to the back. And then it was when patrons leave that bar, the bar going down that side street. And that's where a lot of problems would occur. So I'm just giving you the heads up, try and avoid that at all cost. That would save you. No, no, no, no, not that. Even people going down there to turn around with their cars. Yeah. Throwing things out the windows, throwing trash into the neighbors uh, you know, yards and even, you know, getting out of the car and doing other things because they don't want to stop somewhere else. So, the impact on that street is is is the biggest concern for us and our constituents.

You would save yourself a lot of headaches just by nipping that in the bud with that back street. You know, definitely aware of that for sure. Um, and like we said, we new to this town. We want to make sure we do things the right way and be transparent. So any concerns, anything going forward, you know, our phone numbers, email will be available. So we we want to be proactive.

Okay. Just jump on business. A few things on that. Uh what the president was saying when people leave that facility there there's a front door. the back door, if the music is still playing or the decibel is pretty high, that back door just approaches all the the residential properties, the front obviously to the commercial side. Uh that's one thing. And the other part is when they leave, once they leave that building, that property, it's really out of your hands. But if they're in the street making noise and they have problems, it's going to come back to us. We're going to have our law enforcement go there and and and again, so make sure you know that that these people should leave at a certain time and you know, you're not going to be able to patrol them outside the building, but hopefully they will, you know, uh act.

That's why we plan to attract, you know, certain professionals and certain people to come in by dress code and people with professionals that kind of come in and have a good time and leave. Mhm. And to do that, we're going to have, you know, like a certain dress code. So, you can't come in just looking anyhow and just stay away from that type of crowd. So, people have a good time and and go home and have their families and have responsibilities that are professionals. Excellent. Thank you. Best of luck. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve a entertainment license with a six-month probationary period? Motion been made by Councilman Pollock. Is there a second?

Second. Second by council fail. Any other questions? All those in favor as you mentioned earlier about the um staff being you know past certain time you know what would you consider you know as the right time for you have to be you have to you have to be out. We had we had an issue where there was a certain uh establishment in town that would clear people out on time, but their staff would stay all hours of the night and cause some problems. And it's like, you know, you're shooting yourself in the foot. Like, um, so we're trying to avoid that. I think, don't quote me, but the the law is the employees have to be out by 1:15.

1:15. Yeah. 1:30. 15 minutes after the establishment closes, they would they everybody has to vacate the premises. That's 12:30.

Yeah. So, that's why I wanted to I I I want you to have the heads up to maybe sacrifice 15 to 20 minutes on your closing end. Uh so that you keep yourself out of that spot and and uh I think everybody will be better for it. Uh if you close it quarter oven and people are quiet as mice, that's great. But usually at that time of night, it's tough to police that. Uh and you know, you not having the experience in that that type of a business. Uh I just want to forewarn you that does happen quite often.

We're just trying to give you guys everything we've dealt with from that location. Just so you know, you know. Yeah. If I, you know, and again, if I think of anything else, I'm sure I know you talked to Ronnie. We'll let you know. Thank you. Again, if one of you are going to be there at all times and you're the owner, at least you can kind of police your own without, you know, just knowing what's going on. So, okay. A motion's been made and second it. All those in favor? All those opposed, you guys have it. Good luck. Luck, guys. Good luck. Good luck. Thank you,

Maya. One thing, Mr. Chairman and listening, I think you guys hit it right on the head as far as that Rockwell Street because there all the calls came in uh traveling up and down. Just maybe a suggestion, we'll talk with the police that uh if they do close at 1, maybe at uh 12:30, someone could go out and make sure everyone leaves in an orderly orderly fashion, orderly manner, so to say. The other thing is just uh and through the uh clerk's office maybe that and you have a number of people here this evening just to make sure that everyone has an upto-date license business license. We're out on the street right now trying to make sure that all we have a number of businesses that do not have business licenses. So maybe you could help us and anyone that's here tonight is going to be a legitimate business to make sure that they get a an updated business license from the town. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. Item number eight, class F1 liquor license. Town council to consider a vote for the approval of a class F1 license for Behind the Bar Mixology LLC for events at Camp Mian on May 7th, 2026 and September 18th, 2026. Okay. You all have the information in front of you. Is there any questions? Just state your name, please. Yeah. My name is Jeremy Messenger. I'm the owner. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve the F1? So moved. Motion's been made by Councilman Lao, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? Eyes have it. Thank you.

Item number nine, class F liquor license. town council to consider a vote for the approval of a class F license license at or at your service bartending for events at Camp Mian on August 9th, 2026, September 26, 2026, and October 2nd, 2026. Just state your name for the record, please. Hi, Gina Collins. All right. Thank you. Any questions? I just have um the August 9th um I went online to try to cancel it. They moved um the date in place. So, if we can just scratch that one and keep this September 26th and October 2nd. Okay. All right. Any questions? Do a motion been to approve been made by Councilman Pollock. Is there a second?

Second. Seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. Thank you. Mayor Want to make sure that you that data is available. Somebody might have known because when I booked it online it's not there anymore. So I'm not quite sure.

Item number 10, class F1 liquor license. Town council to consider a vote for the approval of a class F1 license for Katherine Valoys for an event at Camp Mian on May 16th, 2026. State your name, please. Hi, my name is Wilari Merchant. Um, I used to talk when I came. I'm also uh the owner of crazy hour. I'm requesting a class a class F1 uh on the number 12 in the agenda. I I think it was a mistake they put the the number the name of the renter, but I'm I'm the vendor. Crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh, we're on number 10. Where do you get that?

So, Katherine Velo is the renter. I'm the vendor and I'm soliciting the the license the class F1. Okay. All right. So 10 and 12 need to be combined. Yes. Oh, so they're the same one? Same? Yes. Okay. But two different dates? Yes, two different dates. Okay. So, and your name is Wilar Merchan. Okay. All right. Do I have a motion to approve the class F1 for May 16th, 2026? So motion been made by Councilman Laoio, seconded by Councilman Martone. All those in favor.

All those opposed? You guys have it. And item number 12, Class F1 liquor license. Town council to consider a vote for the approval of a class F1 license for William Omari Machan Munos DBA crazy hour for an event at Camp Mian on August 28th, 2026. Is there any questions on the August 28th event? Motion to approve. Okay, a motion's been made by Councilman Pollock. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Fiola. All those in favor? All those opposed? You guys have it. Thank you. Sorry for the confusion.

Item number 11, class F1 liquor license. Town council to consider a vote for the approval of a class F1 license for Bev Voyage for an event at Camp Meion on May 29th, 2026. Is anyone here for Bev Voyage? Is there anyone here for Bev Voyage? and move it. So, okay, I'll entertain a motion to remove that from the agenda. So, motion been made and second it. Second. Item removed.

Item number 14, Peddler. Item number 13. Sorry, Peddler vendor. Town council to consider a vote for the approval of a peddler vendor license for Phantom Fireworks to be sold at 1920 Minr Avenue. Just state your name, please. Matthew Smith. Thanks, Matt. Hey, they're here every year. Never any issues. Have a motion to approve. So move. Motion's been made. Second it. All those in favor. All those opposed, the eyes have it. Thank you.

Thank you. Item number 14, Peddler vendor town council to consider a vote for the approval of a peddler vendor license for a mobile food truck for Team Got Barbecue 1800 Mending Road, Cumberland, Rhode Island. Just state your name for the record, please. My name's Michael Stout. Thank you. Your food is very good, by the way. I've had it several times. With the approval of this, we'll be at the Knights of Columbus four days a week from now on, starting next week. So Oh, okay. trailers going there and the little trailers available for events. So, North Providence is is is getting it on on my last try in this business. But this is our four our 13th year. Is that the one the one on Douglas that you're going to?

Yep. Yep. We're using the kitchens inside um as our commissary kitchen to run our catering business and then we're going to help them with their fundraising and we're going to do the trailer outside. So So you have a food truck? I have a I have two new trailers that'll be out as of Yeah, we we've been around since 2013 2014 and and uh so we're one of the oldest in Rhode Island actually. So, but we've uh we've been through co we've been through everything and we came back and I turned 70 a couple weeks ago and I'm going to do it again. Congratulations. What's the sandwich you make with the pole pork and the coleslaw on it? Uh pull pork and coleslaw could be just a southern uh southern Carolina pull pork sale.

Go for one of those right now. Well, okay. If this all goes right, all our inspections at the beginning of the week and we will I'll be down next Thursday hopefully. Is there any questions? Do I have a motion? Do I have a motion to approve? So second. Motion been made by Councilman Dorenzo, seconded by Councilman Martone. All those in favor. All those opposed? The eyes have it. Good luck. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Item number 15, peddler vendor license. Town council will consider a vote for the approval of a peddler vendor license for a mobile food truck for ABCD Brothers Kitchen LLC 51 Standish Avenue, Cranston, Rhode Island. Just state your name, please. Stia Flores. Thank you. Hello, Flores. Thank you. Where are you going to put this?

We are in Cranston. Where where are you putting it? North Providence. Oh, no. We have private events that customer request us. We are going to be working with Rory Food Trucks. So, okay. Yeah. So, they request that uh the uh license, the vendor license. Oh, where you going to be in September? Oh, over here if I get the license. Oh, so what? So, so they come for one license for all. Okay, I got it. They're required to get it in whatever city or town they're going to All right, I got you. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve? Motion has been made by Councilman Dorenzo. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Pollock. All those in favor? I. All those opposed, the eyes have it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Give me a call. I'll see you in September. Thank you.

Item number 16, peddler vendor license. Town council to consider a vote for the approval of a peddler vendor license for the mobile food truck for Meat Sweats Rhode Island Incorporated, 109 Break Hart Hill Road, West Greenidge, Rhode Island. Is anyone here from Meat Sweats? Is any Okay. Okay. Do I have a motion to continue this to the May meeting? May meeting. So moved. Motion's been made by Councilman Bller. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Council Porter. All those in favor? I.

All those opposed. The eyes have it. Item number 17, peddler vendor. Town council to consider a vote for the approval of a peddler vendor license for a mobile food truck for Antonitos. Thank you. 21 Lexington Avenue, Cranston, Rhode Island. Good evening, guys. How are you? Good. Thank you. My name is SA Reinos and I like them are going to be a part of the event of our voting food trucks events as well. Thank you. Anybody have any questions? Have a motion to approve? Okay. Motion's been made by Councilman Bala, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor. All those opposed? The eyes have it. Thank you. So that's I'm going to receive it through uh to the mail or email the

receive it through the mail. Um, you have to go on on the portal portal and then you pay for it and you can print it right out from the app. All right. Perfect. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Don't leave young lady. Can I give you this? Sure. Okay. Item number 18, location for transfer. S. Alex Jackson, DBA 360 venue to appear. Advise council as to whether or not he has found a new location to transfer his liquor license to. This item was continued from the March 3rd, 2026 meeting. I do not see Mr. Jackson here, so I would request that the clerk take the license back. So moved. Motion's been made by Councilman Mala, seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor.

All those opposed, the eyes had it. Are you here for the speed bump? I'm sorry. I would have Guys, just give me one second. I just want to get her. Interesting. Anyway, item number 24, speed bump. Councilman Martone request discussion and possible vote on speeding issues on Rosedale Street with possible vote on installation of speed bumps. Councilman, thank you.

Uh I had an opportunity to uh speak with the resident at the location. Um and as I think most of the council knows, this is a location that has been extremely dangerous. Um there have been accidents at that location, um uh pets hit at that location, uh close calls with people at that location. So um and certainly you can explain to the council everything um that's been going on, but what I know we have a process with regard to installing speed bumps. Um what I would like to do is I also believe that we have those poor those um temporary ones. Um, so I would uh like to entertain potentially asking do we not have them anymore?

I don't think we if we if we do, I would like to ask those get put in sooner rather than later. If we don't, um, you know, I I would ask our legal counsel if there's a way for us to just bypass the procedure and just take a vote as a council that there's a safety issue on that street and we want to put speed bumps in. But I think as it relates to the latter, I think we'd likely need to draft an ordinance and introduce an excuse. And so I think you take a vote and that's the council's prerogative to to introduce an ordinance. I'll draft one. Yeah. And and but I want I want to let the council hear from uh our resident application. Say your name for the record, please.

Good evening again. My name is Stacy Tanalia Silva. um resident of 21 Rosedale Street and um yeah, there's been an awful lot going on in that street. I've lived there for since 2000. Um I've coached in the town since my oldest son, who is now 28, was four, um both at uh the Wask Tucket area, which is a great place, and um for our recreation and travel teams. Um, I have a basketball net in front of my house and it's been there since my oldest son started playing. A lot of children from the area, their friends that they made. They all congregate there. And now I have some new neighbors that were not on my signature list the original time that I came and tried to get speed bumps. Um, and uh, I have some pictures of the street. I also have on the back um my information and the new owner of said house across the street and the uh father of the two the four and eightyear-old children of his um that are going to play and use my yard and my basketball net. And I am very very scared. I'm very scared. Um my neighbors up at the top of the street. Their children are 10 and 12 now who played with my 15year-old. Um I had to yank him out of the street. He almost got hit by a motorcyclist that decided to not let us disperse our basketball game and just weaved in and out. It just I can't The pictures will show how straight my street is. Um I have an elderly neighbor that's been there forever. Uh, Shirley Henry, she's 91 years old and God bless her. The weather is broken and she's already started her daily walks. I can't have any more death on that

street, guys. Like, seriously, my truck got smashed. Some kid from Central Falls flying down the street. And I have pictures to show that the butt end of my truck was literally a foot in the street. Um, I did forward a uh video. um to Councilman Pollock and it clearly states it's a video from my neighbor's home uh showing me backing out, breaks, breaks, breaks, him hitting me and then swerving. Um and there's pictures of him way down the street where he stopped. May I approach to pass these out? Yeah, Nick.

Yeah, sorry. We'll circulate. Council President, I did forward uh the video to Councilwoman Maton. Yeah. So I if I may, I I I I think I've made my position with regard to speed bumps relatively clear on the record and and um generally I think we got to be cautious about using them. Um because what I've experienced is um it it sometimes it just diverts the speeding traffic somewhere else.

Correct. That being said, I do think that there are certain streets that have posed such a risk and such a danger that it's worth it even if it's going to divert traffic. So, and and I know we have a process where we typically we try and get signatures uh from people on the street. My position is that this is such a safety issue that regardless of whether we have signatures or not, and I don't mean this to to sound bad, but I don't care whether we have the signatures or not, I think this is a situation that calls for installing these speed bumps there with the caveat that police and fire say it's okay just for for emergency vehicles. So, um yeah. So, so I would request that uh based on what we know about that street, what's transpired on that street, that uh and if it's if our legal council thinks the best way to do it is in the form of an ordinance that which probably makes sense, um that we get an ordinance introduced and we get an ordinance passed uh authorizing and and requiring the the putting of speed bumps on that road.

Okay. Is that form of a motion to create an motion's been made by Councilman Maton? are seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. Um, no, seriously, you know, our position sometimes is for every person that wants a speed bump, there's 10 on the street that don't, but I think you have quite the case on that street. Um, no, thank you. I mean, it it's also a cutthrough from uh Rhode Island College. I agree. Yeah. Um, and the kids learn that it's a cut through. Yep. And they'll fly and trying to leave that street onto Fruit Hill. Good luck. because they are coming down and they're flying down Fruit Hill and you're inching out and you're trying to not get hit by the people from Rhode Island cuz they're trying to make the same break, right? It's just it's ridiculous.

A motion's been made and second it. All those in favor? All those opposed? Yeah, I have it. Thank you. We'll get on that very Thank you. I'll be in touch. I'll fill you in. Thank you very much. Okay. Okay. Item number 22, Juvenile Hearing Board. North Province Police Department requests discussion and possible vote regarding a language change in the North Providence Charter regarding the Juvenile Herring Board. State your name for the record, please. Yes. Uh, good evening. It's Jason Berlingame, North Province Police Department.

Thank you. I did forward a letter to Madame Clerk and I just wondered do you did you have a copy of that or if not I can certainly read it into the record or answer any questions you might have regarding the change. I'll read it quick into the the record. Just uh Okay, very good.

The honorable town council, I'm writing to formally propose an amendment to the current language of the town charter regarding the juvenile herring board JHB. Specifically, I'm requesting the council consider a re revision to article 5, section 20- 249, which governs the referral process for juvenile offenders. Currently, section 20-249 includes restrictive language under section 4 regarding individuals who are charged with the offense of simple assault. Currently, they cannot be referred to the JHB. I propose that this language be removed entirely from the eligibility restrictions. The primary goal of this proposal is to expand the reach of the JHP services and provide a more robust rehabilitative path for local youth. By removing the specific barrier, we can offer several key benefits to to the community. One, parody with family court. The juvenile services division of the family court already provides diversionary opportunities for similar offenses. There is no reason our local board should not have the same latitude to handle these cases. to enhance local monitoring. As a town, we are in a unique position to monitor a juvenile's re rehabilitation more closely than the state court system. Keeping these cases local allows for better oversight, more frequent check-ins, and a tailored approach to specific needs of our community's youth. And third, opportunity for growth. Expanding JHB eligibility ensures the more juveniles receive the opportunity to take accountability for their actions through a restorative justice model rather than entering the formal court system prematurely. By making this change, we ensure that our juvenile hearing board remains as remains an effective flexible tool for correcting behavior and supporting the long-term success of our younger residents. I look forward to the opportunity to discuss this proposal further and provide any additional context or law enforcement perspective that may assist the council in its deliberations. Respectfully, Jason

Burlame, detective juvenile prosecution officer. Thank you. Anybody have any questions for Detective Berlingame on this councilman? A couple questions. One is um other juvenile hearing boards, do they handle simple assault generally? Yes, I know Coventry specifically. I had experience with that board when I was employed by Coventry Police and uh I believe other towns Spitfield Johnston also handles those type of offenses. And um is it that someone automatically is eligible or if the nature of the offense is to the degree that can you say no you you got to go to the court?

Yes. The uh right now that would be it's a weward offense. So, anything committed by a juvenile that would be a misdemeanor as an adult is considered a wayward offense. Only Wayward offenses are are eligible for the hearing board. And that's that's across the state. As far as other exclus exclusionary um things that could happen, second time offenders or this is a voluntary um enrollment in the you know, the process. If you want to fight your case and you feel that you're innocent, you want to have your day in court, they have that opportunity. But we'd be able to afford the same right that someone for a similar offense instead of sending them prematurely to juvenile services at family court, we could handle it here in town. And honestly, the majority of our charges are uh you know, assault related either disorderly conduct or simple assault depending on the uh the nature of the charges. So it open up the board to a whole another um you know realm of uh respondents that we could we could help. Any other questions? Um, B, should I send this to the committee for to amend the language or

send the public safety? Anyone like Yeah, I think you could do that. Okay, I'll make that motion. Okay. Motion's been made by Councilman Pollock to send this matter to the public safety committee. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Laorio. We'll uh take a look at amending this language in the committee and then thank you. Thanks to have this and then thank you for your time. We will should we continue the matter to the yes main meeting. Yeah. With a continuation to the May meeting. So that's we'll be in touch. We'll try to get a motion's been made and second it. All those in favor. All those opposed the eyes have it. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Item number 23 president proemp. Council President Odiello requests discussion and possible vote on appointing a president promp to replace Stephan Famaged who resigned from the town council to take his seat as state senator in district 4. Is there a motion to appoint a president promp? I'd like to make a motion. Councilman Laorio to nominate Councilman Mala. Okay. A motion's been made by Councilman Laoro. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Mone. Any questions? All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number 25, parking on May Street. Councilman Pollock requests discussion and possible vote on parking situation on May Street. Councilman.

Yeah, Mr. President. Uh myself, Councilman Fiola, and Lieutenant Ginden got some complaints about uh parking on May Street. There's a a very large uh commercial building at the corner with a lot of small businesses inside it and people cannot park in front of their homes at all. Uh, so I'd like to make a motion to send this to the ordinance committee. Uh, we're going to be seeking resident Holy parking. Okay. A motion has been made by Councilman Pollock. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Fiola. Mayor,

just to bring you up to date, uh, Chuck and entire council, we, um, we're looking at that building right now, the use of it, the number of businesses that are in there, the square footage. So, uh, you're probably going to see some, um, action over there pretty soon, but and that's what's causing that, by the way, just to let you know on it.

Okay, motion's been made and second. All those in favor? All those opposed, the eyes have it. Item number 26, Our Lady of Fatima Hospital. Discussion and possible vote on the sale of Our Lady of Fatima Hospital. Okay. Obviously, we know um about the sale. Charles, did you have

Yeah. So, if I could matter. So one of the we filed a request for relievision taxes that will be due for tax course of the next 17 but I think it relates to this discussion item. Basically, we've made progress with with our petition for relief for some of the taxes or pilot taxes that were owed on the property. And at the next meeting, we should schedule a motion to approve the execution of theou that's in your packet as 26 so that we can get that filed with um with the attorneys and that's on record. Does anybody have any questions for Charles on this? So I'm So right now I'm just continuing this to

so I would conclude to the next meeting and add for purposes of that agenda a motion to approve the settlement that's in your packet today as uh item 26. Okay. Okay, I'm going to make a motion to continue this to the May meeting with with the um with a motion to approve the settlement as is. Motion's been made by Councilman Mone. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Bala. All those in favor. All those opposed, the eyes have it.

Mr. chairman and the other we're having a conversation with the the powers to be there that um I and I know the mayor of province agrees asked for uh a representation on this new board is they told us there's uh we have community leaders and physicians on the board. So when I uh called and asked, so can you give me a list of the community leaders that are on the board, forget about it. So kind of been a little strong with them that we need someone most likely from the council here to be sitting on that charter care board just to make sure that everything that goes on there that the community is made well aware of it. So, we're discussing that right now with that fellow Mingle. Mingle is his name. So, um he's been a little lax in getting back to us, but we're staying on top of it just to let you know so that the communities will be well uh aware of what the happenings of at that facility. Thank you. Okay. Item number 27, joint pole locations. discussion and possible vote with regard to the approval by the town council of a petition from Naragant Electric and Verizon New England incorporated for work on a joint pole location on Brookside Drive and Coleman Street. Do I have a motion to approve?

So moved. Motion has been made by Councilman McCall. Is there a second? Second. Second by Council Laoro. All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number 28, tax agendas. Town council discussion and action and possible vote with regard to the list of tax addendas received from the tax assessor in the amount of $10,1412 for real estate and $482.99 for motor vehicles. Do I have a motion to approve? Have a motion to approve? Move. Motion been made by Councilman Marton. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Fola. All those in favor?

All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number 29, tax abatements under $1,000. Town council discussion and action and possible vote with the approval of the list of tax abatements under $1,000 received from the tax assessor in the amount of8 $87.90 for real estate and $416.77 for motor vehicles. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Motion's been made by Councilman Baler. Is there a second? Seconded by Councilman Dorenzo. All those in favor. All those opposed, the eyes have it. Item number 30, public services committee report. Town council discussion and action with regard to the public services committee report to presented by Councilman Leaportio. Councilman

President. Uh yeah, I submitted the report uh request that you uh council approved as written. Submitted. Okay. A motion has been made by Councilman Laorio. Is there a second? Second. Second by Councilman Fiola. All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. Item number 31. Wow. President, can we just can I make a motion just to accept all the claims that submitted? I have to read them. 15 of them. I'll read them quickly and for the record. All right. Not coming out of pothole season, are we? Item number 31, claims submitted. Town council discussion and possible regard to the claims received from the following. Attorney Rob Lavine for Robin Gleason, 26 Wesian Avenue, Carventry, Rhode Island.

Jao Domingos, 3 Greenville Avenue, North Proidence, Rhode Island. Andrew Blanco, 6 Miner Street, North Providence, Rhode Island. Robin Zotti Bradley, 4B Nipmunk Trail, North Providence, Rhode Island. Progressive for Judy Desenna, one Talba Street, 7 North Providence, Rhode Island. Travelers Insurance for Robin Gleason, 26 Wesley and A, Coventry, Rhode Island. Tyler Bickford, one Damian Court, North Providence, Rhode Island. A Mayor Eljah, 196 Fruit Hill Avenue, North Proidence, Rhode Island. Kenneth Sinnelli Jr. 125 Friendship Street, North Providence, Rhode Island. Ken Ki, 9 Carriage Way, North Proidence, Rhode Island. Jennifer Cisneros, 368 Fruit Hill Avenue, North Proidence, Rhode Island. John Azerian, 105 Smithfield Road, North Proidence, Rhode Island. Matthew Wabola, 109 Manchester Farm Road, North Proidence, Rhode Island. Raymond Hood Jr., A. Christopher Drive, Lincoln, Rhode Island. And Douglas Apartments LLC, 650 Douglas Avenue, building 4, North Proidence, Rhode Island. Do I have a motion to send these to the claims committee?

So moved. Motion's been made by Councilman McColl, seconded by Councilman Pollock. All those in favor? All those opposed? The eyes have it. And do I have a motion to adjurnn? So move. Second. meeting Journal. Run.