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The Methuen City Council will meet on Monday, November 17, 2008 at 7pm in the Great Hall of the Searles Building. The following is the City Council Agenda.
1. Call to Order 2. Acceptance of the Agenda 3. Invocation Pledge of Allegiance 4. Reading and Acceptance of Minutes of Previous Meetings: November 3, 2008 -regular meeting 5. Reading of Any Proclamation or Correspondence of a General Nature not Related to a Business Item 6. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION 7. PUBLIC SERVICE:Grants: None Licenses: Special Excavation – 9 Deana Road (water service) Contracts: None 8. OTHER OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS - None 9. OLD BUSINESS Resolutions: 1. TR-08-74 Resolution Increasing the Tax Collector’s Demand Fee from $5.00 to $25.00 Link to Proposed Resolution TR-08-74 2. TR-08-75 Resolution Authorizing the Creation of a Committee to Study Consolidation of certain Functions between the City and School department of the City of Methuen (Req. of Clr Leone) Link to Proposed Resolution TR-08-75 3. TR-08-76 Resolution Accepting and Laying Out of the Way Known as Acorn Lane (remove from the table). Link to Proposed Resolution TR-08-76 Ordinances 1.TO-08-08 An Ordinance Amending Wage and Salary Classification Plan- AFSCME schedule (remove from the table). Link to Proposed Ordinance TO-08-08 Consideration of Appointments: None 10. NEW BUSINESS Resolutions 1. TR-08-77 Resolution Authorizing a Transfer of Funds to the Unpaid Bills Account: Veterans Services (EPA REQUESTED) Whereas: Chapter 44, Section 64, authorizes a City to appropriate funds to pay unpaid bills of a previous Fiscal Year; and Whereas: The Veterans Agent has an unpaid invoice from the prior fiscal year in the amount of $365.06; and Whereas: The City is obligated to pay prior year bills and the City Auditor has indicated that funds are available in the Veterans Services Other Expenses, Veterans Warrant account; now Therefore Be It Ordered: By the City Council of the City of Methuen that the amount of Three Hundred Sixty Five Dollars and Six Cents ($365.06) be and hereby is transferred from the Veterans Services Other Expenses, Veterans Warrants account to the Unpaid Bills account; and Be It Further Ordered: That a certified copy of this order be forwarded to the City Auditor upon adoption. 2. TR-08-78 Resolution Authorizing a Transfer of Funds from Enterprise Fund Retained Earnings to North Lowell Street/ Presidential Lane Sewerage Improvements Capital Improvements. Whereas: The Chief Engineer has recommended to the Mayor that a transfer of funds be made from Enterprise Fund Retained Earnings in order to fund sewerage improvements for North Street/Presidential Lane; and Whereas: The Mayor concurs with this request, and the City Auditor has indicated that funds are available in the Retained Earnings account; Therefore Be It Ordered: By the City Council of the City of Methuen that the amount of Two Hundred Seventy Five Thousand Dollars ($275,000.00) be and hereby is transferred from Enterprise Fund Retained Earnings and deposited to the Enterprise Fund Capital Improvement account; North Lowell Street/Presidential Lane Sewerage Improvements; and Be It Further Ordered: That a certified copy of this order be forwarded to the City Auditor and Chief Engineer upon adoption 3. TR-08-79 Resolution Authorizing Acceptance of a federal Library Services and Technology Act ( LSTA) Grant, Nevins Memorial Library WHEREAS, the City of Methuen has been awarded a two-year federal LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) grant through the MBLC (MA Board of Library Commissioners) in the amount of $18,500.00; and WHEREAS, these funds will be used to introduce science and technology programming for school age children into public libraries through after-school, vacation, and summer programs. The Nevins Library staff will be developing a model program and writing a manual for other libraries to follow; and WHEREAS, the “locally appropriated” portion of the program will be funded through the Nevins Library budget; so THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Methuen that said Council accepts the Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Grant in the amount of $18,500.00 through the MBLC (MA Board of Library Commissioners) and authorizes the appropriation and expenditure thereof for the purposes here listed; and BE IT FURTHER ORDERED, that certified copies of this order be forwarded to both the City Auditor and the Director of the Nevins Memorial Library. 4. TR-08-80 Resolution Amending Traffic Rules and regulations – Park Avenue: WHEREAS: The Chief of Police of the City of Methuen has requested, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 85, Section2, of the Massachusetts General Laws (Ter. Ed) that the Traffic Rules and Regulations of the City of Methuen, adopted by the Selectmen under date of August 21, 1967, and subsequent amendments thereto, be further amended; now THEREFORE, BE IT ORDERED: By the City Council of the City of Methuen that the Traffic Rules and Regulations of the City of Methuen be further amended as follows: ARTICLE V, SECTION 1 HANDICAP PARKING ADD: Park Avenue: South-side of the street (even numbered side), beginning at a distance of 60 feet West of Glen Avenue for a distance of 22 feet. Note: This amendment will automatically expire at such time that Salvatore Binanti of 5-7 Glen Avenue, the requesting resident, no longer requires it. 5. TR-08-81 Resolution Authorizing Priority Development Site Designation – M.G.L. Chapter 43D – Lindbergh Avenue (EPA REQUESTED) WHEREAS, Chapter 43D of the General Laws a new legislative initiative, has been designed to expedite permitting of commercial and industrial developments in the municipalities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and WHEREAS: The City of Methuen wishes to avail itself of that authority as provided in the foregoing Chapter; and WHEREAS: Said adoption would be in furtherance of the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the City of Methuen; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED AS FOLLOWS, That the City Council of the City of Methuen accepts the provisions of Chapter 43D of the General Laws, as amended pursuant to Section 11 of Chapter 205 of the Acts of 2006, and authorizes the Mayor to submit an Application for Approval to the Interagency Permitting Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the purposes of designating Priority Development Site in conjunction with the filing of the Technical Assistance Grant Application. The Application is time sensitive and would necessitate immediately application to partake of available funds. Those parcels to be designated for the purposes of the foregoing are designated as follows: 33 Lindbergh Avenue, Map 512, Block 146, Lot 20 and Map 514, Block 146, Lot 21 Ordinances: None 11. ANY OTHER BUSINESS FOR THE GOOD AND WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY 12. REQUEST OF COUNCILORS ADJOURN PHILIP J. LAHEY, JR. COUNCIL CHAIRMAN
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