[Nicole Morell]: 22-354 委员会关于 2022 年 6 月 15 日星期三下午 6:00 举行的整个会议的通知 秘书先生，请打电话。
[Adam Hurtubise]: 熊副总裁。 礼物。 卡拉维耶洛参赞。 礼物。 柯林斯议员。
[Kit Collins]: 礼物。
[Adam Hurtubise]: 参赞先生。 礼物。 我在 Zoom 上看到斯卡佩利议员。 礼物。 曾参赞. 礼物。 莫雷尔总统。
[Nicole Morell]: 出席 7 人，缺席 0 人，会议宣布开幕。 梅德福市议会全体委员会将于 2022 年 6 月 15 日星期三下午 6:00 召开会议。 这次会议的目的是讨论该市2023财年预算，文件22-354。 市议会将讨论以下部门的预算提案：评估员、下士、卫生和民防、历史委员会、停车控制以及财政和收藏。 市议会邀请市长 Brianna Limbaugh-Kern、办公厅主任 Nina Nazarian、首席财务官 Bob Dickinson 以及梅德福公立学校的相关部门负责人和管理人员参加。 如需更多信息、帮助和住宿，请联系市职员：781-393-2425。 此致，董事会主席 Nicole Morell。 所以今晚我们面前有一系列预算，我们将从顾问的预算开始。 我们有前高级顾问埃伦·波尔多（Ellen Bordeaux），她目前是代理或代理顾问，我们正在寻找她的替代者。 您能否给我们介绍一下我们面前的预算的一些要点？
[Ellen Brideau]: 谈谈预算评估。 在分析这些项目时，您会发现我们能够进行小幅减少。 让我们从团队开始吧。 您看到的增长主要体现在人员方面。 包括增加旅行津贴。 该部门共有三名现场员工，他们使用自己的私家车进行现场检查。 他们每天都会出去参观房产。 所以每人150美元。 每月，而且还在增加。 几年前就应该增加，当然随着汽油成本的提高，今天也需要增加。 其余项目基于当前协商的工资。 目前我们部门有两个职位空缺，都是我之前担任首席法律顾问时的职位 助理顾问的职位也空缺。 我知道市长办公室正在努力更换这些职位。 继续讨论常规开支，我将只介绍重点内容。 减少专业法律和评估预算。 我们的上诉监事会还有待审理的案件，但自新冠疫情以来，上诉监事会的进展仍然非常缓慢。 我们有一些存档案例需要评估工作方面的帮助。 我需要在那里保留资金，以防我们无法与他们达成协议。 所以这个部门专门聘请了一名律师。 自从我在该部门工作以来，我们就一直受益于监督委员会非常强大的上诉律师。 我希望随着新顾问的到来，这种情况能够继续下去。 我们减少专业服务。 该项目用作评估支持。 所以我们不是在孤岛里工作。 我们希望我们的价值观得到该行业其他专业人士的审查。 我们委托愿景评估和政府解决方案来做到这一点。 我们还聘用具有所谓 504 条评论的员工。 所以504个评分就是对你的评分， 具有极高货币价值的个人财产、MSTAR、国家电网、宾客和选民。 我们使用专门服务的那些。 我怀疑新的审稿人会想要解决你的审稿问题，这些对于部门来说是重要的项目，所以你应该继续下去。 其余项目，即会议费用，略有减少，但 IT 订单必须增加。 该部门使用了一些简化流程的工具，使团队能够更高效地工作。 一、主要是写处理。 因此，该部门每月从登记处收到 500 多个财产所有权。 我们使用一种新的软件程序，该程序利用人工智能将契约与一块土地相匹配，而不是花费很长时间。 因此，我们减少了写处理。 使用这项新技术，从近三周的过程缩短到几天。 我们在该部门使用的另一件对纳税人有利的事情是，我们需要每年提交所有企业账户的收入和支出数据。 我们聘请了一家收集这些数据的公司。 并通过远程处理。 然后，纳税人将登录，创建自己的唯一用户 ID，并以这种方式提交他们的收入和支出数据。 这是保密的。 他们对此感觉好多了。 它还让我们能够捕捉更多。 简而言之，预算已经减少，我愿意回答任何问题，因为我说得太多了。 所以谢谢你。
[Nicole Morell]: 谢谢艾伦。 熊总统。
[Zac Bears]: 你好埃琳娜。 感谢您来到这里。 我想我真的有， 一些预算问题勾起我的记忆。 一是任何个人财产的重估频率，即我们根据法律、按年度权利对所有财产进行重估的频率，这是通过正确的统计方法来完成的。
[Ellen Brideau]: 目前，法律要求每 10 年检查一次房地产。 访问很重要，不仅仅是进行所谓的周期性检查，而且当我们出去进行销售验证、建筑许可活动以及对一些减排请求进行一般审查时，我们会在那时访问该房产。 看看梅德福，我们上一次举办大型全市活动、同时吸引所有人参加还是在 2014 年。 我们已经到达所有属性了吗？ 我们没有那样做。 但我认为一些高级董事会成员会记得，就在新冠疫情爆发之前， 我再次使用技术实现了它，在名为 Pushpin 的产品中使用了 NearMap，并且我绝对从中获得了投资回报。 所以我们意识到，尤其是在新冠疫情期间，人们仍然不希望我们呆在家里。 我不在乎你在哪里，也不在乎你在这个国家的哪个部分。 我们仍然参观房屋，但我们也使用 NearMap，它是这些计算机应用程序之一，而且我们仍然使用那些立交桥。 我认为 NearMap 每年会这样做四次，这就是他们迄今为止所做的。 那么，我们是否每年都亲自到访每处房产？ 不，但我们正在分析和更改尽可能多的数据以保持最新状态。
[Zac Bears]: 谢谢。 你知道，你之前已经告诉过我这一点，我只需要明年再告诉你一次。
[Ellen Brideau]: 好吧，不是明年。 打电话给我。
[Zac Bears]: 我可以要求你遵守这一点。 嗯，但是，嗯，我只是因为这是一件具体的事情才问。 所以，正如你所注意到的， 人们可能不希望有人在这种情况下立即进入他们的家。 但只是一个问题，比如，假设你有一座房子，你知道，没有在地图上注明，你知道，显然没有真正的扩建或任何需要建筑许可的东西。 但假设他们可能进行了内部装修。 你知道，我开始喜欢中央空调或类似的东西，那些会显着增加房子价值的东西。 捕捉它的唯一方法是参观房产并请顾问前来。
[Ellen Brideau]: 对了，而且这些主机在收集的同时，还得有license。 出色地。 如果他们未经授权就这样做，他们的保险就会面临风险。 因此，您在进行室内装修时需要获得许可证。
[Unidentified]: 好的。
[Ellen Brideau]: 我还想说，空调和中央空调不会让一个人的身价增加十倍，它只是给一个人带来提升。 然后我们抓住了他们。 大多数时候，人们会翻新然后出售房屋。 是的，他们正准备出售，我们也会通过MLS或者其他方式看到。 我很抱歉，但就是这样。
[Zac Bears]: 出色的。 不，是的，这很有用。 这是我的最后一个问题。 您知道，我们已经进行了多种类型的转换，实际上，我还有两个问题。 抱歉，我刚刚想到了另一个。 你知道，假设有人买了一栋房子，翻新它，你知道，就像一栋单户或两户住宅，把它变成两套公寓，类似的东西。 您的办公室在评估方面需要多长时间才能实现这一目标？
[Ellen Brideau]: 那么，如果业主今天下午2点买了房子。今天我把它变成了公寓。 是的，这不会影响 2024 财年之前的评估。 嗯，法律要求我们在纳税年度开始之前的 1 月 1 日这样做，所以这就是房子当时的样子。 是的，这样他就不会被抓住。 这就是成长。 当然有很多。 我想我们已经完成了 80 多套新公寓的改造，刚刚达到了第 23 号税单，我，朱迪，一直在努力工作。
[Zac Bears]: 出色的。 因此，就比如，当我查看土地价值数据库时，就像，你知道，如果它是单户住宅，甚至是大型建筑，你知道，比如商业公寓楼， 土地的价值和建筑物的价值本质上至少是一种过度概括。 但当我看公寓时，它给了我一个数字。 这个数字意味着什么？ 相当于土地和建筑物的划分吗？
[Ellen Brideau]: 我们再次评估什么是公寓。 公寓属于该土地上的所有单位。 然后是一个单位 您会发现，因此，公寓中的土地没有单独的价值，土地的价值在于公寓本身以及拥有该空间的好处。 它不是分开的。 同样，我们每年都会重新评估市场价值，我们会重新评估它。我仍然会与其他公寓进行评估，我不会将公寓与两个家庭或一个家庭进行比较。 反之亦然。 那么 梅德福 一套公寓多少钱？无论是带花园的公寓式联排别墅还是公寓改建单元，这些都是不同的价值观，我们将它们结合在一起来实现这一目标。
[Zac Bears]: 好的。
[Ellen Brideau]: 但它是一个公寓，你永远不会看到土地的价值。
[Zac Bears]: 好的。 但基本上，
[Ellen Brideau]: 它在包装内。
[Zac Bears]: 好的，太好了。 谢谢。 这些都是我的问题。 您在演讲中回答了我有关预算的所有问题。 谢谢。
[Nicole Morell]: 谢谢。 那很好。 卡拉维耶洛参赞。
[Richard Caraviello]: 谢谢主席女士。 艾伦，你们的部门名单上有四个人。 所以你说有两个空缺。 哪两个是空的？
[Ellen Brideau]: 职务为首席辅导员、助理辅导员。
[Richard Caraviello]: 所以你体贴，你体贴什么？
[Ellen Brideau]: 今天我算是一名兼职临时工。 我不包括在这里。 我想……首席顾问是谁？ 我目前是首席测试员，但现在每周只工作10-20个小时。 这就是原因。 因此，该职位空缺，我们希望尽快填补。
[Richard Caraviello]: 那么你现在的工资是多少？ 你在那里得到这个工资吗？
[Ellen Brideau]: 我收到的每小时费率基于该年度金额。 所以他们根据除以的结果付给我一份兼职工资，所以如果你除以 52，你就除以了。
[Richard Caraviello]: 所以你不是按小时工资工作的。 因此，空缺的两个职位是首席顾问和副顾问。
[Ellen Brideau]: 这是正确的。
[Richard Caraviello]: 这个办公室里有人能够胜任这些职位吗？
[Ellen Brideau]: 不幸的是，目前还没有。
[Richard Caraviello]: 当您获得报酬时，梅德福市也会支付报酬吗？
[Ellen Brideau]: 是的，我收到了一张来自梅德福市的支票。 再说一遍，我是按小时付费的，所以我不会领薪水。
[Adam Knight]: 好吧，谢谢。
[Ellen Brideau]: 不客气。
[Adam Knight]: 这是否意味着你希望我们让你留在这里过夜？
[Ellen Brideau]: 不。 我很欣赏这一点。 我当然只是想确保该部门能够履行其职责，因为如果没有它，而且我将始终做出我的评估，钱就从我们开始。 我可以将此账单文件交给朱迪，但如果我不这样做，我们将无法支付城市预算。
[Adam Knight]: 嗯，有几件事。 首先，艾伦，当你到达梅德福市时，你有很大的困难要填补。 艾德·奥尼尔是一位出色的顾问，为我们做了出色的工作。 而你却没有迈出一步就已经把鞋子装满了。 你介入并完美地融入了正在发生的事情。 合规性始终是我们非常关心的事情。 我们从来没有遇到过任何问题。 它正好处于重新评估周期的中间。 您可以从 Eddie 留下的地方继续，进行一些改进，优化办公室，适应一些技术变革，真正使我们的办公室进入 21 世纪。 我们肯定会非常怀念他。 我一直很高兴与您一起工作，并祝您一切顺利。
[Nicole Morell]: 谢谢。 您对评估师的预算还有其他疑问吗？ 观众有什么问题吗？ 没有看到任何内容，非常感谢您抽出时间，艾伦。 不客气。 享受你的夜晚。 谢谢。 按照呈现给我们的顺序，我们有以下内容。 如果我们想包括民防和卫生委员会的话，我们有民防，它与卫生部门合作。
[Richard Caraviello]: 欢呼吧，下一个是谁？
[Nicole Morell]: 好的，我们将从健康、民防和动物控制开始。 一起做这一切，马里昂。 太好了，谢谢。 因此，如果您想回顾我们面前的预算、任何亮点、任何您想提及的内容，我们将继续讨论问题。 好的，非常感谢。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 晚安。 今年动物健康和控制委员会的预算没有太多变化。 我们看到兼职工人的数量略有增加。 这是我们的兼职恢复教练职位。 这是因为之前 今年没有 CAF 担任此职位。 随着CAF的安置，CAF带来的工资价值略有增加。 病假激励措施已被取消。 检察官告诉我，由于没有计划退休，这笔钱可以提取。 我们的专业服务项目减少了。 这是行项目。 我们将其用于害虫防治、复印机、顾问、警察服务。 所以今年减少了5000美元。 我们希望将来能够用一些额外的 APA 资金来代替这笔资金，用于一些啮齿动物工作。 这是个好消息。 因此，医疗保健专业人员的工资略有下降，这种细微的变化，基本上是因为我们今年有一位新的医疗保健专业人员加入我们，她进步了，而不是她要取代的人比她高了一步。 这些都是今年预算中发生的真正变化。
[Nicole Morell]: 谢谢玛丽安。 好的。
[Adam Knight]: 感谢您的光临。 专业服务项目减少 5,000 美元。 这将产生的影响是减少蚊子。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 因此，目前还没有治愈蚊子的方法。 是的，狗舍账单包括蚊帐和犬类服务。 因此，蚊子的数量实际上是3.5万只，今年略有增加，达到2.6万只。 但专业服务才是我们真正使用害虫防治的地方。
[Adam Knight]: 就像在建筑工地或公园里设置陷阱一样吗？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 公园和公共场所、下水道诱饵等等。
[Adam Knight]: 您认为是否有办法（或许通过许可程序）我们可以收回部分被削减的资金？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 是的，啮齿动物法也应该有助于解决这个问题。 我认为我们需要对此更加深思熟虑，并可能为我们可以再投资的筹集资金创建一个循环账户。
[Unidentified]: 太棒了，谢谢。
[Nicole Morell]: 我们有议员柯林斯、副总统贝尔斯、议员卡拉维耶洛和议员塞特。
[Kit Collins]: 谢谢你，安娜。 谢谢奥康纳主任来到这里。 我是，有几个问题。 首先，您所在部门是否还有其他人接受补助金但没有出现在这些预算表中，无论是来自 ARPA 的一次性收入还是其他补助金？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 哦，是的，是的。 有，我们有， 我们卫生部门有很多补助金，目前我们预计明年的补助金约为 900,000 美元。
[Nina Nazarian]: 你说大约90万？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 是的，这些奖学金涵盖的不同项目是非常具体的项目，对吗？ 因此，您只能做补助金允许的事情。 所以这是一项非常具体的工作，但他们中的大多数人在这些职位上都有一名协调员。 今年，APA 还资助了我们的全职社区社会工作者。 目前是办公室全职行政助理和兼职数据分析师。
[Kit Collins]: 谢谢。 这是非常有意义的。 我知道他们利用从赠款和 ARPA 获得的能力和人员做了很多事情。 这可能是一个太宽泛的问题，但我知道有几个我所知道的项目，例如市政脆弱性、由赠款资助的社区链接项目。 这就是为什么它的续集悬而未决。 还有其他人吗？我很好奇，抱歉，这有点偏离我们面前的页面，但我很好奇您的部门中是否还有其他类型的大型项目，这些项目也处于类似的变化中，因为它们是由赠款而不是运营预算资助的。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 所以，是的，粮食安全立场、授予拨款的群众动议将于 6 月 30 日结束。 先生，是的，脆弱性补助金我们有市政流动性补助金，该补助金也将于 6 月 30 日结束，我们申请了，但直到秋天我们才会收到回复，所以有三个月的差距。 这就是社区链接的用武之地。但我们将能够继续使用 ARPA 资金为他们提供资金。 未来我们将能够与社区保持联系。
[Kit Collins]: 啊，抱歉，我没有听到最后一部分。 您是否正在尝试获得 ARPA 资金？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 我们希望从 7 月 1 日开始，社区链接将来能够得到 ARPA 的资助。 是的，这是一项正在进行的工作。
[Nicole Morell]: 太好了，谢谢。 熊总统。
[Zac Bears]: 谢谢主席女士。 你好玛丽亚·安娜。 我希望我知道仍然有疫苗接种诊所和数字需要监测，但我希望您和您的团队在过去几个月比前两年得到更多的休息。 在大流行之前，用很少的资源做了很多事情，然后发生了大流行。 我真的只是想认可你们的团队所做的大量工作。 并适应这种情况，并尽力保持人们的健康和安全，我认为我们都可以。 柯林斯议员提出了有关赠款资金以及额外工作人员和社区联系的问题。 我想我想说的是，是否有任何长期计划来实现这一目标？ 我什至不会说这是一个长期计划，但基本上长期的想法是，为了在 ARPA 资金耗尽后维持它们，您提到的职位和社区联络员以及 ARPA 资助的其他一切，您是否必须寻找替代拨款，或者是否有计划，是否承诺将这些内容纳入运营预算？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 目前，我们还没有承诺将它们纳入运营预算，我们当然会考虑拨款，并且我们当然希望这些职位能够继续下去以获得资金，所以我们希望能够做到这一点。
[Zac Bears]: 是的。 这不是针对您的，这只是我们几个月来一直在问的问题。 你知道，我知道其中一些已经摆在我们面前，有一些，我们基本上已经等待了六个月，等待对某些事情的文件的法律意见，但如果你能透露一些情况，你知道，当你提到的事情如社区债券时，你知道市长是否将其发送给我们以供我们批准作为拨款，或者他只是批准它并说可以通过 ARPA 提供资金而无需去议会？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 我认为这是市长的签名，因为很明显他确实有资格。 好的。
[Zac Bears]: 是的，这很有帮助，因为我们一直在问，你知道，有一些 ARPA 基金在我们之前得到了我们的批准，也有一些 ARPA 基金在我们之前没有得到我们的批准，这开始变得有点令人困惑，你知道，我对你刚才列出的一切有什么感觉，我在那里，我认为这正是我们所需要的。 由于我们仍在回应，我们似乎即将为六个月至五岁的儿童接种疫苗，这对您的实践来说将是全新的事情。 所以我认为你不知道这些资源并不是迫切需要的。 这只是 当有些事情摆在我们面前而另一些则没有时，我开始有点困惑，那么决定什么能到达我们、什么不能到达我们的规则是什么。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 是的，我不清楚限制是什么，据我所知，公共卫生资金主要是由APA资助的，公共卫生服务也是。
[Zac Bears]: 我想如果这是你的工作，你就会有四份额外的工作，而不是三份。 我唯一想提的另一件事是 你说专业服务正在下降，但也许一些害虫和啮齿动物防治工作也可以通过 ARPA 来完成。 真的会像替换 5,000 一样，甚至可能通过多做一点来增加吗？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 我们看到了增长。 我们正在考虑，现在我们面前有三份不同的合同，我们正在努力决定什么是最好的前进方向，但资金会明显更高。
[Zac Bears]: 是的，那太好了。 因为我，你知道，如果我听说了这件事，我知道你也听说了。 所以，你知道，格陵兰岛范围内肯定有很多人，但他们到处都说老鼠比以前更多，所以他们只是想要我。 是的，很高兴听到这个消息。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 是的，我们想确保您非常喜欢这个。 诱饵和灭鼠剂的资金很大，计划也很棒，但这实际上更多的是共同努力，而不仅仅是中毒和触电或他们现在所做的任何事情，但我们确实需要企业和居民的合作，以真正维持和帮助解决这种情况。
[Zac Bears]: 新的道路管制条例对此有何贡献？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 是的，这是一场实地教育活动。
[Zac Bears]: 最后一件事是总体上的动物控制。 帕特·霍根 (Pat Hogan) 是唯一一个仍担任 ACO 的人吗？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 帕特是我们的 ACO。 Sophie Antoine 是我们的医疗保健专业人员，也获得了执行 ACO 工作的认证。 所以她是帕特不在时的替补。
[Zac Bears]: 是的，好的。 由于多种原因，我们仍然无法安排它。 我相信你知道，在过去的六个月里，我们举行了很多会议。 但我们打算尝试召开一次会议，显然可能会邀请帕特参加，然后我不知道卫生部门的其他人可能想参加。 只是回顾一下，我们听说过这件事，也听说过居民遇到过流浪狗之类的事情，这只是一个例子。 我们知道，实际开展动物控制工作的能力是可以接受的，这可能是一个很好的表达方式。你知道帕特里克做了很多事情。因此，我们想谈谈是否有办法，显然，理想情况下我们可以增加预算并希望带来更多资源，但是整个城市是否有其他合作或伙伴关系可以帮助，至少也许， 拉响警报，让他知道哪里可能会发生这样的新情况，你知道，例如，布鲁克斯的财产，我们已经有了一些，所以我只是想让你知道，这是我们正在调查的事情。 我也和他谈过这件事。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 但我认为这个位置的另一件事是我们很难意识到它不是一个 24 小时 7 的位置，对吗？ 所以他不是 不是周末或晚上，所以比较困难。
[Zac Bears]: 您是否知道其他城市的员工允许他们 24/7 工作更长时间？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 我不相信。 我的意思是，在很多城市，它在警察局之外，他们可能在警察局内得到支持，能够 24/7 做出响应，但我不确定。 好的。
[Zac Bears]: 这些都是我的问题。 谢谢。
[Nicole Morell]: 卡拉维耶洛参赞。
[Richard Caraviello]: 谢谢主席女士。 米里亚姆，你和所有员工一起工作吗？ 是的。 我看到有 3,400 美元的小零钱。 是有人要付钱还是我们应该引进工资较低的人？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 疗养院的34446，这是因为今年新开的疗养院莎拉，所以她只是一级，不像应该玩的人。
[Richard Caraviello]: 我们必须对所有餐厅进行所有检查，我们正在努力做到这一点。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 是的，是的，我们参加的奖学金实际上是一部分，是地区性的奖学金。 神秘谷公共卫生联盟、马尔登、梅尔罗斯、韦克菲尔德、斯通和温彻斯特。 我们从他们那里得到了 10,000 美元的资助，聘请一家咨询公司来完成我们所说的三级工作，即他们的餐厅。
[Richard Caraviello]: 所以我们有一个私人公司出来进行检查。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 我们现在有一家私人公司为我们进行检查并帮助我们赶上。
[Richard Caraviello]: 我认为这个板上每个人都在问的大问题之一是鼠标。 老鼠问题我们在哪里？ 您似乎几乎在社区中无处不在。 它在社区里随处可见。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 我们正在做什么...所以我们正在研究与三个不同公司的三份不同合同，并试图确定它是否是一个组合...这是在这里吗？ 不，那将是推进 APA 资金。 出色地。 这就是为什么我们寻求大量 APA 资金来帮助支持这些努力。
[Richard Caraviello]: 出色地。 随着...的到来 生物和生物科学深入社区。 这将把你的部门置于何处？ 您的部门对此有何意见？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 是的，事实上，本周二我们有一位顾问将与卫生委员会会面，讨论我们需要在卫生委员会的哪些方面制定生物安全法规，即许可和监督流程。 对于这些新实验室。 通过新的分区，他们允许一级和二级实验室，但我们不允许在梅德福市建立三级或四级实验室。 但即使是一两个人也需要有许可和监督程序。 因此，我们有一位该领域的专家顾问来教育卫生委员会成员这意味着什么，法规应该做什么，以及他们的角色和责任是什么。 这将在周二进行讨论，然后我们将举行公开听证会。 后。
[Richard Caraviello]: 他们是否必须在某个时候接受再培训？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 并不是说大多数人都不会想到在这些实验室中找到的某些语言、某些术语以及实际材料。 这就是教育的意义所在，也是我们在一级和二级实验室中真正需要担心的事情（如果有的话）。
[Richard Caraviello]: 您确定他们还会为您准备多少间浴室？ 让您的办公室更加舒适。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 我不知道。
[Richard Caraviello]: 还有哪些城市与我们的规模相似？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 规模相似，人员也可能相似，三四个人。 他们可能有，你知道，一个额外的浴室，你知道，现在所有正在使用的浴室都有，特别是在每年的这个时候，这真的很困难，因为我们有 露营地和游泳池以及其他离开、检查和许可的要求。 住房投诉、投票投诉、垃圾投诉以及其他一切投诉也是如此。 非常紧，非常困难。 因此，我之前谈到的共享服务特许权还将聘请我们所谓的共享检查员来帮助减轻社区的一些负担。 当然，这是一项由五个社区分担的税。 所以不会花很长时间，但可能至少还需要一天的时间来帮助我们解决这个问题。
[Justin Tseng]: 谢谢。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 谢谢曾参赞。
[Justin Tseng]: 谢谢。 嗯，再次感谢您所做的所有工作，感谢您在我联系您时如此及时的回复，您的回复总是如此详细和周到，我想，您知道，将其记录下来。 我的一些问题已经得到了我的议员同事的回答，特别是那些与拨款资助职位和啮齿动物控制有关的问题。 但为了清楚起见，您在社区联系人中表示，在三个月期间他们将获得资金。 他们会得到 ARPA 的资助吗？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 因此，我们预计在 ARPA 资助结束时，它们将获得 ARPA 的资助。 我想我现在不确定结束日期。
[Justin Tseng]: 如果补贴不起作用。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 好的。 如果资助案例有效，我们将获得额外的链接作为资助的一部分。
[Justin Tseng]: 哦，太好了。 很高兴知道。 政府是否保证这些 ARPA 资金将用于社区联络？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 现在所有程序都由市政厅决定，我相信她已经签署了所有这些程序，以便我们可以从 7 月 1 日开始向前推进。
[Justin Tseng]: 谢谢。 所以，嗯，我想是的。 有些人在市政府网站上联系我，了解有关新冠肺炎的信息。 只是我知道每个人都很忙，我想知道他们是否有合适的工作人员来帮助他们编译所有这些信息，将其上传到城市网站并保持最新。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 是的，我们会尽力而为。 事实上，该网站是通过通信咨询创建的。 因此，我们每周都会告诉他们统计数据，然后他们就会得到这些数据。 无论是病例数还是疫苗接种数，他们都会将其上传到网站。
[Justin Tseng]: 谢谢。 我记得去年莫雷尔议员问了一些有关多语言热线的问题。 如果这种情况持续下去，您能给我们提供一份状态报告吗？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 是的，这肯定会继续下去。 它正在被使用，在新冠疫情期间，它的使用明显没有那么频繁，但我们确实收到了很多支持或转介请求，以从社区社会工作者那里获取信息，无论是关于住房问题还是食品问题。 每次我们宣布设立疫苗诊所时，我们都会接到电话帮助人们登记。 7 号社区在接听这些电话方面确实很有帮助，我使用不同的语言并回复这些语音消息。
[Justin Tseng]: 我相信。 去年，莫雷尔总统也提出过这样的问题。
[Nicole Morell]: 我通常没有更多问题，所以问几个问题。
[Justin Tseng]: 我认为莫雷尔总统也询问了心理健康问题，当时您说您看到病例有所增加。 今年我们是否看到了一些稳定或仍然看到了一些上涨空间？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 我们本周刚刚收到了社区精神科护理调查，这基本上是我们的调查结果 瓶来自于在小学和高中进行的青少年行为研究。 所以现在我们正在审查这些数据。 初步看起来似乎很有希望，尤其是在物质使用方面。 但我们还有行为健康委员会，它将 向他们发送年度报告，希望在明年年底，即七月底之前，但现在我们有两个小组委员会实际上正在研究统计数据，去年，今年 2020 年是很难比较的一年。 因此，我们正在研究该城市的编程可用性以及这些数字实际上告诉我们的数据发生的情况，因此我们希望在整个夏天开展这方面的工作。
[Justin Tseng]: 我们目前有什么资源？ 我知道你提到了社会工作者，ARPA 资助的社会工作者，所以我们有这个。 我们是否有更多专门针对心理健康的资源？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 我们有一位兼职康复教练，他与患有药物滥用障碍的人一起工作，并在社区、公园里挨家挨户敲门，跟踪我们可能遇到的任何吸毒过量情况。 警方现在有社区社工，我想他们也会聘请一名年轻的社工。 这确实是令人鼓舞的好消息。 我们的工作非常密切，我们的社会工作者和他们的工作也非常密切。
[Justin Tseng]: 这是我的最后一个问题。 您是否知道其他社区在心理健康方面正在做什么，我认为尤其是针对年轻人，但也了解一般心理健康？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 我们是目前真正针对年轻人的几项地区赠款的一部分。 我们正在进行一项巨大的评估。 佩妮是这一行动的带头人。 在区域层面，我们正在看到正在发生的事情。 同样，一旦评估完成，我们就会有一个很好的想法。 然后学校实施了推荐计划，这很棒。 如果人们需要服务，可以致电，并且向所有梅德福学生及其家人开放。
[Nicole Morell]: 理事会还有其他问题吗？ 我还要再次感谢你，玛丽安。 我的意思是，你每年都值得特别感谢，但我希望很快你就不会因为你在部门所经历的事情而受到特别感谢。 这就是为什么我特别感谢你们在过去两年半里的辛勤工作。 我知道我们有民防。 其实我应该是个宝藏收藏家。 我知道你想离开这里。 因此，如果我们能停下来一会儿，我们就会回到民防领域。 谢谢你，我很感激。 我知道我的笔记中也有这个，而且我刚刚在笔记中看到了它。
[Judy Johnston]: 非常感谢。 我叫朱迪·约翰斯顿。 我是财务主管，我只是审查我的预算。 你能听到我吗？ 是的。 好的。 好的。 工资，我们正在降低工资。 我们有过，这是第一次。 一年半的时间，我们已经拥有了一支完整的团队。 所以我们坐下来，我们雇佣了三名新员工。 我们去年雇用了一名新的工资员工。 所以我们拥有所有的员工。 然后我们退休了，人们离开了。 这就是为什么我们要降低工资、延长寿命，因为现在新人的寿命不会那么长。 对于正常的开支来说， 我们正在努力保持一切不变。 我们必须转到 5301，这是税务标题。 我要求更多的资金，因为现在，就像去年一样，商会要求筹集更多的税收债券。 所以我们在十二月又去找了律师。 我们与他们合作提高了限额，这样他们就不会追究金额低于 5,000 美元的人。 所以我们提高了限额，他们也征收了税收保证金。 因此，我们为税收债券投入了更多资金。 因此，我们需要增加领土法院费用和我们必须支付的不同费用的金额。 这就是我增加此订单项的原因。 数据处理正在增加，因为我们有更多的人在线支付。 每人需缴纳 25 美分的费用。 在线支付和工资服务，该帐户涵盖了我们支付的许多不同的内容。 银行费用，我降低了，减少了。 运费增加，所以我不得不增加运费。 喷泉坏了，因为我们现在有办公室。 12月我们搬家了，我们都在那里，财务主管的收款办公室都在一侧，我们都在一起，所以我们不需要另一个饮水机。 在配额会议上，我们将减少一半。 去年保险费增加了，因为我们必须为办公室职员和市政府职员办公室办理保险保证金。 而且这笔钱并没有他们想象的那么多。 这就是我放弃它的原因。 仅此而已。 谢谢，朱迪。 新生和熊。
[Zac Bears]: 谢谢主席女士。 你好朱迪。 你好。 几个问题，三个问题。 首先，裁员的影响是什么？ 这会对办公室产生什么影响？
[Judy Johnston]: 我们一直有四名员工。 我不知道那五个员工职位在哪里。 我们一直有四名员工。 我们有两名出纳员，办公室里还有另外两名员工，还有一名单独的工资员工。
[Zac Bears]: 出色地。 你知道，我相信你一直听到这个，所以我很抱歉再次询问，但是是否有计划或时间表，以便可以在办公室亲自进行数字支付，例如信用卡之类的东西？
[Judy Johnston]: 在办公室？ 不，我不这么认为。
[Zac Bears]: 好的。 不。
[Judy Johnston]: 我们可以扫描支票，这样我们就可以让他们这样做。
[Zac Bears]: 抱歉，我的意思是，如果有人从窗户进来。
[Judy Johnston]: 支付折扣费用？ 不，不是真的。 我们不讨论它。 这涉及到费用。 因此，大多数支付此费用的人都会在网上进行。
[Zac Bears]: 出色地。 是的。 我只是问，因为我想，你知道，我现在要问的是，停车场就在那里，人们来买停车票，这与他们为什么会到宝藏收藏家那里寻求一些东西是不同的。 更大的，比如财产税什么的，你知道，就像他们要来付钱一样。 我们从亲自支付门票的人们那里得知，他们希望能够通过信用卡或数字支付等方式进行收费支付。
[Judy Johnston]: 嗯，您可以在线完成此操作。
[Zac Bears]: 好的。
[Judy Johnston]: 是的，但不是在办公室。
[Zac Bears]: 是的，围绕这件事存在一些紧张气氛。 所以，你知道，我只想指出，我认为这将是一项服务
[Judy Johnston]: Mas os cartões de crédito, se pagarem multas de estacionamento, estariam do outro lado de qualquer maneira. Não seria a mesma coisa, porque não teríamos arquivos nem nada para fazer isso.
[Zac Bears]: 我们所听到的只是那里没有人，我不知道，我不是每天都在那里，但基本上我们听到的是我们去那里支付停车罚单，他们说，我们不能在这里用信用卡这样做。
[Judy Johnston]: 这是一个单独的办公室。 你得去停车场问一下。 我无法回答任何有关停车的问题。
[Zac Bears]: 出色地。 然后在税收标题中， 我可能记得有点错误。 当董事会要求对此施加某种额外压力时，您能否补充一些背景信息？
[Judy Johnston]: 嗯，去年在议会预算听证会上，我被问到我们通过税收交易筹集了多少钱。 有一份报告显示，我们筹集的资金比前一年少得多。 但发生的事情是我们之前有律师，然后他们就被捕了。 2020年，我认为他们说不要筹集任何资金。 我们将收集我们的。
[Unidentified]: 是的。
[Judy Johnston]: 所以我们试图收费，我们寄信，但人们就是不付钱。 我们接到了一些人的电话，但仅此而已。 我每两个月寄一封信。 所以在十二月，我再次会见了律师，因为他们，呃，囤积了钱并且没有付款，因为只有当人付款时他们才能得到报酬， 他们欠我们的金额。 是的，当时他们欠了很多钱。 他们，你知道，嗯，近两年来，我们无法筹集到任何资金。 他们将如何支付我们费用？ 您会继续与我们合作吗？ 所以我们继续与他们合作。 我们说把限制从5人增加到2.5万人，这样他们就不会迫害任何人。 他们与人合作，非常友善。 他们与人合作，提供法律费用折扣。 自从我们十二月份回到他们身边以来，他们已经赚了很多钱。 所以我现在没有这个值，但是如果你想要的话我可以得到这个值。
[Zac Bears]: 那会有帮助的。 它主要是住宅还是商业？
[Judy Johnston]: 它主要是住宅。 我们拍卖了一处房产，但该市已经取消了赎回权。 事实上，我们有两个。 其中一幅于 12 月被拍卖。 另一个被退回了，那个人实际上卖掉了房产，把所有的钱都还给了我们。 所以，他们支付了律师费，所以我们在纳税时筹集了很多钱。
[Zac Bears]: 所以我会为您获取该报告，谢谢，该报告只会在法律费用方面有帮助。 你知道，假设某人有 26,000。 律师费是否会像他们欠了 31,000 或更多，好像他们欠了 50,000，还是这个数字会随着时间的推移而增加？
[Judy Johnston]: 不，时间已经过去了。 如果他们跟踪我们的税收和利息，然后加上他们的费用，这些费用是分开的，那就会是这样。 因此，当他们付款时，他们会询问我们欠多少钱，然后他们收取费用，然后该人必须在我们释放之前支付全额。
[Zac Bears]: 在分享信息时，如果可能的话，您能否分享一下您的某种费用表？
[Judy Johnston]: 我得问问他们。
[Zac Bears]: 是的，我确信你必须问他们，但看到这一点会很有帮助，因为，你知道，在试图帮助人们和试图让他们承担责任之间，这是一个持续的平衡。 并且只是拥有这些附加信息。
[Judy Johnston]: 是的，我会帮你拿的。
[Zac Bears]: 谢谢。
[Judy Johnston]: 不客气。
[Zac Bears]: 谢谢主席女士。
[Nicole Morell]: 关于掌柜收藏家还有其他问题吗？ 朱迪，我只有一个问题。 您提到了在线支付 25 美分的费用。
[Judy Johnston]: 这就像分割一样，就像市政厅支付一部分，然后这部分由……不，只是市政厅支付，如果有人在网上支付，则有25美分的费用，而市政厅支付，他们向我们收取25美分。 没关系，没关系。 我认为这是合理的。
[Nicole Morell]: 安全。 是的。 好的。 我们来看看公众有没有什么疑问。 董事会上没有看到任何讨论已经完成。 非常感谢。
[Judy Johnston]: 非常感谢。
[Nicole Morell]: 谢谢。 我们将把它归还给民防部门。 感谢您允许我们这样做。
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 其实没有，预算方面没什么好说的，去年的预算和今年的预算几乎没有什么变化。 不知道有没有人有疑问，但是对于那些在家看的，可能不知道民防是什么意思的人来说，你可以说这是一个老术语了， 它已经使用了一段时间了。 我认为人们现在会更多地考虑，我不知道，应急计划、应急准备，但这就是它的意义。
[Nicole Morell]: 谢谢。 熊总统？
[Zac Bears]: 谢谢主席女士。 我毫不怀疑，因为预算没有变化，但是是否有围绕大流行的任何支出，或者基本上是应急准备方面的支出？ 这次大流行是否属于紧急情况？我们是否能够因为我们有该部门或该特定部门为支持大流行的应急准备而采取的措施而获得任何帮助？
[MaryAnn O'Connor]: 就像我一样，就是那个应急准备包。
[Zac Bears]: 所以你，你是紧急情况。 我明白。 好吧，谢谢。
[Nicole Morell]: 关于这个费用还有其他问题吗？ 没有。 再见，玛丽安娜。 非常感谢。 好吧，所以我们，呃，我想我们可以先停车，因为我们的社区媒体朋友，我认为他们必须和我们在一起直到最后，对或好的，我的意思是，如果你没事，是的，我想你可以在完成后离开，或者好的，我们会带你。 trying to get people out if they're trying to get out. 我以为你必须在这里待一整晚。 So, since you can leave when you're done, we'll take you. Alright, we have the Peg Access Metro Community Media budget in front of us. Kevin Harrington, if you want to give us an overview.
[Kevin Harrington]: 大家晚安。 所以，是的，如果你看一下预算，就会发现没有太多实质性的变化。 事实上，如果我们看经常性开支，特别是22财年的预算和23财年的拟议预算是相同的。 这些变化中，与 2022 财年相比，车站经理的人员数量有所减少，仅车站经理职位和生产协调员职位的员工人数略有增加。 然后，此外， 我想指出的唯一一件事是为了防止人们好奇，这是正常费用，我们的设备，其他项目，这是我们用来更换相机等的大项目。 现在仅列出 18,000 个，并且情况会发生变化。 然而，我们有几份处于生命周期不同阶段的采购订单。 所以我想我们会像 比我们的预算低 50 美元。 所以我们可以很好地度过它。 除此之外，你知道，这是非常有趣的一年。 我从十月份开始，你知道，我仍然对这个电台及其运作方式有很多了解，并且我愿意回答您的任何问题。 在我们开始之前，我要感谢我的制作协调员 Kat Darnell，自从我开始与我们社区的成员交谈和互动以来，她一直非常出色，还有 22 年级的 Shane Colbert，你们很多人都认识他，他经常出现在展位上。 这对于让我了解我们今天的情况以及让车站建立和运行也绝对有帮助。 那么这样一来， 交给我吧。
[Nicole Morell]: 卡拉维耶洛参赞。
[Kevin Harrington]: 关于链接访问帐户，我不知道你的意思。 电缆收集。
[Richard Caraviello]: 我不知道。 你不知道。 如果您能查明今年或去年筹集了多少资金并将其发送给我们。
[Kevin Harrington]: 绝对地。 因为我知道每年都会有人问这个问题。 所以我很清楚：你的意思是康卡斯特提供的钱？
[Richard Caraviello]: 是的，我们每年都会从他们那里收到资金。 是的。 就这样。 你确实还没有太多。
[Zac Bears]: 谢谢主席女士。 我在会议前与凯文进行了交谈。 人们问的一件事是，我们是否可以在 YouTube 上直播市议会会议和委员会会议，作为另一种选择。 凯文说他会调查此事，他认为这很有可能。 所以这可能很快就会发生。 只是几个问题。 主要之一 像影响全国范围内的连通性这样的事情只是切断电线，人们不再有电线。 你知道，我们确实做出了努力，让联邦政府和州政府考虑对流媒体订阅收取几美分的费用来访问本地访问。 这些努力你知道吗？ 只是因为我，我问这个只是因为我认为这很酷。 确保您知道并且您可以在上面写上我们的名字，您知道，如果有一封信说梅德福社区媒体可以在那里表示我们支持这种类型的倡导，我们相信随着媒体格局的变化，保留和维持本地访问非常重要。 所以这更多的是一种观察，看看你是否知道，是否正在采取行动。 如果没有，也许我可以，我们可以联系。 不是我，我必须自己做研究才能告诉你该和谁交谈，但是是的。 是的。
[Kevin Harrington]: 是的。 目前我还不知道这一点。 而且，据我了解，我认为我们和许多本地接入站的好处之一是，您可以通过我们已经付费的机顶盒访问我们的服务。 但是，是的，如果你有网络浏览器， 您甚至不必在梅德福市。 你可以去我们的网站，你可以访问所有的政府会议，访问所有的内容。 我同意，我们希望确保我们不会对以公共利益、公共访问的名义所做的事情进行监管。 一切皆有可能。 所以是的，我会密切关注这一点。 如果我听到类似的消息或收到任何类型的行动通知，我会及时通知大家。
[Zac Bears]: 出色的。 是的。 甚至，你知道，随时了解情况绝对是很棒的，但实际上只是密切关注，因为，你知道，我认为疫情可能会放缓一点，因为人们一直呆在家里，使用有线电视的次数可能比前几年更多。 事实证明，各地的统一费率基本上都在下降，因为人们正在转向 YouTube TV 或 Netflix 和 Hulu 之类的东西。 而不是有有线电视账单和。 联邦政府还没有恢复过来，这并不令我感到惊讶。 我想问的最后一件事是，人们是否正在制作任何新节目，例如电视节目，我们可以为很快进入日程而感到兴奋？
[Kevin Harrington]: 是的。 那是什么？ 是的，CBB 计划仍然强劲。 我昨天刚录了一集。 是的，我们有一些节目需要休息一下。 你好，游艇之眼。 我不确定你是不是这么说的。 对不起。 但我们正在进行一些工作。 我一直在与学校委员会成员麦克劳克林交谈，希望让他回来，但目前不确定该计划的名称是什么。 而是一个将学生、教育工作者和家长聚集在一起召开圆桌会议的教育计划。 他们制作了一集关于电子烟的节目，我观看了它以获得一个想法。 所以他正试图在秋天的某个时候把它拿回来。 我还与位于梅德福广场的 ICCM 的一位先生交谈，讨论从他的组织中招募人员作为成员，这些人可以 报道您自己正在发生的事件，也许还可以使用工作室空间。 所以，是的，我们肯定有一些潜在的线索正在开发中。
[Zac Bears]: I will just suggest one thing that I think would be a bonanza, which is a local politics talk show. If you can find anyone who'd want to host it, I don't know who would. Absolutely, you know? The door's open.
[Nicole Morell]: There's plenty of dealer power down there, I'm sure.
[Zac Bears]: Oh, hot ones for, yeah, that would be hot ones for local politics. I'm not gonna last long in that show. Yeah, but I'll throw it out there. Cause I just think it's that there's some great stuff in some other communities. You know, I love, I was interested in, I think the Lynn election results and they have like a live results show broadcasting live and they put the numbers up and it's just kind of a nice little instead of, least the last couple elections it's been like did Zack said that the put the post on Facebook for the election results it's a little more show a little more. Absolutely. And so you know I would love to see stuff like that obviously I. If I were to do it, people would say it's a biased program.
[Kevin Harrington]: So, and it probably would be so we're definitely to briefly piggyback on that we are definitely looking at opportunities whenever they present themselves to, you know, you know, bring things up a notch when we can with with the means that we have. We're speaking of upcoming programming way down the road. The Medford Malden Thanksgiving football game is going to be at Medford. So I wanted to use a phrase, I want to Cadillac it, I want to get as many student volunteers we get, get some students in the booth doing commentary, you know, not sure how much we'll be able to do that level. But yeah, try and take opportunities to be like, how can we kind of like, you know, bring this up a little bit, make it a little more special. whenever we can within our resources. So I appreciate the feedback. That's definitely something we wanna be open to. So if anyone watching out there wants to fill out the paperwork and come to the studio, sit in front of a table and talk about local politics, door's open. So.
[Nicole Morell]: Yeah, if you're watching right now, you're halfway there.
[Kevin Harrington]: Yeah, it's true.
[Zac Bears]: ESPN 15. All right, that's all I had.
[Adam Knight]: Thanks, Kevin.
[Nicole Morell]: Councilor Knight.
[Adam Knight]: Madam President, thank you very much. Kevin, thank you for being here. I just want to commend the work of Shane Colbert. The kid's unbelievable. He does a great job. He's an asset to the department. I mean, who would have thought that he was a high school senior up there every Tuesday night, you know, running the multimedia for us, as well as other meetings across the school district and out of the city. The kid's unbelievable. He's worth his weight in gold. And I just want to let you know what a great job he's doing as a supervisor.
[Kevin Harrington]: Absolutely. 100% agree. Thank you.
[Nicole Morell]: Any further questions on community media? Seeing none.
[Unidentified]: Thank you, everyone.
[Nicole Morell]: All right, we have parking and the historical commission. I'm not seeing Director Morrison on the call, Chief of Staff, Madam Chief of Staff. Will you be presenting on parking?
[Nina Nazarian]: Thank you. Let me contact our parking director. Hold on one moment, please.
[Nicole Morell]: Okay, we can also, we can take the historical commission, but then I also, I saw Ryan Hayward on, I know we got a letter, so if you want to just read the letter. He was on, he's no longer on.
[Zac Bears]: Well, maybe we could read the letter into the record at least.
[Nicole Morell]: Yeah, we're waiting. Nina's trying to track down Director Morrison for parking. So we're going to go. We'll go to the Historical Commission. Don't have anyone here from the Historical Commission at the time. We did get a letter from them that I can read into the record at this time.
[Zac Bears]: Summarize some of it was like lists of addresses. I don't know if we want to go that far.
[Nicole Morell]: I'll skip over that part.
[Zac Bears]: I don't think we need to get too involved with the Historical Commission.
[Nicole Morell]: Yeah, this email came in at 9.58 this morning. It came with I went to council, it should have gone to all of us, it came with a number of budget sheets. This is from Jennifer Keenan, the chair of the Medford Historical Commission. Regarding the Historical Commission FY23 increased budget request, dear Madam President, with regard to the proposed FY23 budget for the Medford Historical Commission, the requested increase is to provide matching funds for a survey and planning grant from the Massachusetts Historical Commission. The mayor is fully supportive of this annual funding and has requested an increase of $3,000 on our behalf. The city has accepted the survey and planning award and is committed to funding the project. The nominal increase reflects the rising cost of preservation work and every dollar goes to fairly compensate the consultant hired to undertake these valuable planning projects. You may not be aware, but the city of Medford is a certified local government for the communities with this designation and guarantees that a portion of state level funding for historic preservation will be passed along to applicants. This puts Medford in a small pool of competition, and we've consistently secured survey and planning grants since 2012. Awards from the Massachusetts Historical Commission total 125,000 to date. Survey and planning grant projects undertake research and documentation of the city's historic resources. Our dense landscape is a record of the past. It is changing every day, and it's important to capture a small amount of the best representative structures that reflect important moments in the cultural narrative. Moving neighborhood by neighborhood, the commission hires a paid consultant to select and record properties on state inventory forms. The process is overseen by the Massachusetts Historical Commission, and forms are made available online. These inventory forms are not just a window into the past, they're a valuable tool, they're used by the commission, by planning agencies, state agencies, and the general public. As a result of this work, we have added more than 1,000 inventory forms covering the neighborhoods of West Medford, Medford Square, East Medford, Wellington Hillside, South Medford, Winter Hill, and the Brickyard Slash Mystic Park. We have learned that there are less than 3000 historic structures sorry 3000 structures predating 1900s. These buildings are rare non renewable resource this documentation work allows us to not only understand their importance but to ensure their history is captured on paper in the hopes that may someday translate into additional recognition and protection. This year, the commission will hire a consultant to undertake work in Fulton Heights. The $35,000 S&P project requires $17,500 match. This is an increase of $1,500 from previous years. The grant is reimbursable. We are required to expend the amount before compensation to the Commonwealth. This doubles the amount required, thus reflecting the increase. The reason we cannot match these funds from our normal budget is that every year we spend 100% of our budget, which is allotted to demo, delay, administration, legal postings, and a handful of subscriptions to related organizations. We consistently spend our budget and do not expect a downturn in demand. Loss of funding would be detrimental to the ability to operate. We recommend you review our annual report for the prior year to see the full spread of activities. We hope this brief summary answers your questions. For additional information, if you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at historicalcommission at medford-ma.gov. Sincerely, Jennifer N. Keenan, Chair, Medford Historical Commission.
[Adam Knight]: Madam President.
[Nicole Morell]: Councilor Knight.
[Adam Knight]: At this time last year, we posed the question to the Medford Historical Commission, how many homes have been saved and restored?
[Nicole Morell]: Here, Mike, if you can make it long.
[Adam Knight]: At this time last year, we were having these budget hearings and the question was posed to our historical commission, how many homes have been saved and restored to the historical condition? And the answer was zero. And then I asked, how many homes have been saved and restored since the enactment of the ordinance? Well, no, I said in the last 15 years, I believe was the question I asked. And the answer was zero. Our ordinance doesn't work, Madam President. All right, all it does is create demolition delays to put people that are willing to invest in this community in a position of financial hardship. Look at 16 Foster Court, for example, we had a developer that was willing to invest millions and millions of dollars into this community. He went before the Historical Commission. He was held up for 18 months. They tried to make his parcel a single home historic district. The place was an absolute disrepair, rubble. It was a junk heap. I was afraid to go in it, and we went in it. Couldn't even fit up the stairs. It was a nightmare. That parcel went through the demolition delay process of 18 months, went through an exercise before the city council, which The committee pretty much said it was because he wouldn't cooperate and do what we told him to do. So this was the action that we took as retribution. That parcel remains undeveloped, Madam President. Why? Because he lost his funding. So when we look at an opportunity, just like we had last night when the gentleman came and said, going to be able to generate $3 million in permitting fees and $2.9 million in new growth property tax to this community by a change in zoning and a local development. We had a small residential developer in this community that was willing to invest millions of dollars to create housing. But because of the action of the Historical Commission, costing the opportunity, and it cost this community that investment. And this is not uncommon. This is not uncommon. Said a gentleman by the name of James Calvi up here, the developer in the city for 25 years, small scale development, residential homes, not a millionaire, not one of those people that build high rises, someone that comes in and rehab homes, makes them better, improves our community, improves our curb appeal. Multiple deals lost because of the demolition delay of 18 months. because of the process that's in place. It's no longer a commission that focuses on preserving the historical, cultural, and political significance of homes in this community. Because if it were, Mike McGlynn's house would be historically significant. The home where the mayor grew up in, a former state rep, the longest serving mayor in the city of Medford, the longest serving mayor in the history of Massachusetts, that has political significance. A home where his father performed, served as mayor of this community, state representative, city councilor. Multiple high-level positions in government related to historic preservation for the Secretary of State. That house isn't historic, but Pacelli's is. The only thing I ever see historic in Pacelli's is the curtains up in the second floor apartment. That's the oldest thing in the building. There's nothing historically significant about it. But because of these actions of these small boards and commissions that are acting as a design review board, acting as a design review board and not as a commission to preserve historic, political, and cultural significant structures in this community, we're at a loss. We're at a loss. And quite frankly, I think the board is out of control. I would move to slash their budget in half. You see people that live in this community that are business owners. One comes to mind, one comes to mind, but I don't even want to say their name because, God forbid, they know that they're complaining. The Historical Commission knows they're complaining, then they're going to be subject. They're going to be subject to the whim. to the whim. If they want to find something historically significant, they will. I heard a story about a building that was being worked on. Then they thought it was the long lost schoolhouse. So they stopped all construction on the property. Oh, that was a schoolhouse that was over by the Cape and moved in 1911. And it kind of looks like that. So stop everything and let us look at it. Give me a break. Come on. We're messing with people's lives, people's livelihood. We're messing with jobs that are getting created in this community. And we're messing with growth. We're also messing with improvements, embeddements. And now it's my understanding that the commission's involved in interior demolition, interior reconstruction, placement of windows, types of construction materials being used. It's getting ridiculous. People want to invest. People want to spend their good, hard-earned money in this community to make it better. Let them. Let them.
[Nicole Morell]: I just want to note for clarity, although it's always very confusing, historic districts are under the historic district commission. Just, I know you did one more side just for clarity.
[Richard Caraviello]: Thank you, Madam President Council night is 100% right. All we've done is torture people who want to appeal, change the curb appeal of our city, but it's a card a funeral home, West Medford. that we're going on three years now, sitting there doing nothing. You held the guy up for 18 months. Are you doing, you know, we talk about affordable housing, all sorts of stuff. All you did was hold the guy up. Now the cost of lumber and services are through the roof. You got a guy in Boston, you held him up to your committee for six months. Now you're telling him he's gonna wait another 18 months because the six months you held him up doesn't count toward the 18 months. Councilor Naire, this is a group that's out of control in the city. We haven't saved one home. This council, I think in 2015, told them to go out and identify properties, areas of the city that are historical. And to this day, seven years later, they have not done it. And they keep throwing it back onto this group. It's their responsibility to go out and identify the properties that they think are historical, not for us. And then when people come to them, you want to sit there, like I said, want to torture them for 18 months so they can't do anything. This is why when you talk to people, nobody wants to come to the city of Medford to work, because we torture people who want to come here and do good things. We torture them. And it's not fair to them. You get these small guys that do the small projects, you kill them. They can't afford to hold onto this property for two years and wait while this group tries to figure out what it wants to do. If you drive by all around the city, you see these signs, you made them buy these big giant signs to put up for demolition. Again, these are houses that are poor curb appeal. Mr. Lebowski said during our zoning thing, if it's going to improve your community, then let it go through. He lives in the town. He says, I live in a teardown city of Concord. There's more historical homes in Concord than probably anywhere in the country. And they seem to manage to figure it out, but not us. We want to torture people, and that's why people don't want to come here and do things in our city. And we'll continue to do that until this group figures out, you're not saving anything. Nothing has been saved yet.
[Nicole Morell]: Thank you, Councilor Caraviello. Any further discussion? President Bears.
[Zac Bears]: Thank you, Madam President. I would just add, that I'm certain that there are ways that we can improve the process for the historic commission. I wanna delineate that I have found the historic district commission's actions to be pretty arbitrary. I mean, the historical commission for better or worse has a process. I think there's a clear disagreement with the process and its impact on the community, but there is some consistency to it. If someone waits six months to get heard by the historical commission and then they put an 18 month demo delay, I think the six months should count towards the 18 months. I don't know. And I know that. So I'm just saying, I think there's room here to have a discussion and make some changes around that. The historic district commission, if you watch some of their meetings, I mean, I'm getting calls from residents who are just trying to put a minor change in their home and they're getting panicked because the historic district commission As you noted, has not gone out and done its, its work to seek find historic districts around the city that are potentially there and put them in there looking at these single single family has a single home historic districts. Now I do know there are some people who. Like there are homeowners who have actually asked for their own home to become a single home historic district. I don't necessarily have a problem with that, but I just think that, and quite frankly, a piece of this is the membership. It's just the historic district commission, as far as I know, has been the same people for years and years and years and years. I think that they could benefit from new members, different perspectives. Obviously the mayor is the appointing authority, but so basically my whole point is here, I have some, I think there's room here for all of us to have a discussion about different changes we could make. And personally, I would start with the Historic District Commission, which I think is just kind of making arbitrary determinations that aren't even grounded in a process. Separately, I think there may be some adjustments to historic commission process that could be made to make things a lot better, but I will say they do seem to be detail oriented, maybe too detail oriented for some, but it isn't just at least random and arbitrary.
[Adam Knight]: Not even that, I mean, if you look at the meetings and you watch the meetings, they clearly say, we wanna slow you down. That's our goal. If we slow your project down we win. They say that that's not the legislative intent. When you read the ordinance, the ordinance says they'll help the owner find a buyer that will restore it. They don't do that. They punish the person that owns it by saying, show me your designs, and maybe we'll approve you. Show me your designs, and maybe we'll approve you. So either way, they're driving up your cost. You're either going to have to go to an architect and redesign your plans 27 times. Now, mind you, they have no, absolutely zero authority over the design of your building, number one. Number two, they have zero authority over zoning. So I can go show them a castle. They take the zoning board, the zoning board's gonna go, no, we're not letting you do that. So God forbid you wanted to knock a place down and build a place that needed a variance. How long would that take? How long would that take? That's why we can't build. That's why we see nothing happening. But this board is, in my opinion, out of control, out of control. I don't see any need or any desire, or it's not warranted an increase. We've seen their budget grow over the past three years, but we have not seen any successes. And for the previous two decades before that, none either. Why are we continuing to invest good money after bad on a process that clearly doesn't work? to keep the historical people happy and quiet because they got their money. We're in a huge budget crisis right now. The things that they're preventing from happening are the things we need, jobs and growth.
[Nicole Morell]: Thank you, Councilor Knight and Councilor Caraviello.
[Richard Caraviello]: Thank you, Madam President. As we mentioned, people, garages now. Garages are falling down and they can't repair, but I'm gonna say it. In 11 years on this council, one of the votes I regret making was the vote to increase the demolition delay from one year to 18 months. If I had my way, I would take that vote back now. Again, let's say I've made some votes that I regret, and that's one of the votes that I regret making on this council was giving them the 18 months because all of a sudden it's caused headaches for everybody in the community.
[Nicole Morell]: I think that's prevail. And yeah, I would agree with racism bears assessment where I think, you know, again watching me as I feel like the historic district commission has is definitely perhaps may have lost the thread at this point. I do think, you know, I think we're hearing from some of the same people I think like many things. There is the good intention as far as the demo delay, but like many things, the people who want to get around it will, the people who want to play nice are the ones who end up getting hurt in the process, the people who might not have the coffers for it. So I do agree that I think there is some improvement to be made in that whole process. And it's, you know, part of it is an ordinance that can be changed.
[Adam Knight]: And if you look at the penalties, Madam President, for knocking down a parcel, a residential parcel without a permit, what is it? Two years, you can't get a permit. Well, you already got me at 18 months. I might as well knock it down without a permit and then just wait yelping out the six months. Because if I have to wait six months to get heard, and then you tell me I gotta wait 18, there's 24 right there. Well, I can just knock the house down, sell the land, and now we got a new person there. No harm, no foul. They didn't do anything wrong. I'm gonna buy a piece of land. I'm kind of surprised someone hasn't picked up on that.
[Zac Bears]: Ask something good of me. No, no, no, I mean, you picked up on it, but I mean, pick up on it. That sounds like a business. There's an arbitrage opportunity there.
[Nicole Morell]: You're in a council meeting.
[Adam Knight]: That's two we came up with tonight.
[Nicole Morell]: So Councilor Knight, do you have a motion on the floor?
[Adam Knight]: At this point, we don't even have a budget on the floor. So I'm gonna wait till we get the full budget book and then I'm gonna reserve my recommendations for that.
[Nicole Morell]: Any further discussion on the historical commission? Seeing none, we will go back to Madam Chief of Staff. Do we have anyone from the parking department or will you be presenting that budget?
[Nina Nazarian]: Thank you, Madam President. Parking Director Morrison is on the call.
[Nicole Morell]: OK, great. Oh, there we go. Morrison, I see now. Director Morrison, would you like to just give us an overview of the budget that we're looking at? And then we can go around with questions. And I will ask you to unmute.
[Faye Morrison]: Hi.
[Nicole Morell]: Hello, we can hear you.
[Faye Morrison]: Can you hear me? Because I'm having a little trouble hearing you.
[Nicole Morell]: We can hear you.
[Faye Morrison]: Okay, great. I'm sorry, what was the question?
[Nicole Morell]: If you'd like to give us just an overview or highlights from the parking budget that we have before us, and then we will just have questions from the council and any members of the public.
[Faye Morrison]: Okay. So it's pretty basic. We based the budget pretty much on what we've spent to date and made some assumptions. I mean, the fees are pretty set. There's not much mystery here. So I'm happy to entertain any questions that you might have.
[Nicole Morell]: Thank you, Director Morrison. Do we have any questions from the council?
[Faye Morrison]: I'm sorry, I'm really having a hard time hearing.
[Nicole Morell]: We have a question from Vice President Bears. Thank you for the brief overview. Okay.
[Zac Bears]: Thank you, Madam President, and thank you, Director Morrison. I just have three questions. Sure. What was the, or, you know, do you have an estimate of the revenue that we will bring in in fiscal 2023 from the parking department?
[Faye Morrison]: No, there's no way I can give you an estimate on what revenue might be with less than a year of collection. Okay, because we've only been collecting like three months, that would be difficult. I mean, you could make some projections based on what we've collected so far, but I don't think that's a good way to do that type of thing, because you have no idea what will happen three or four months from now.
[Zac Bears]: Yep, I understand that makes sense to me. Do you. And again if you don't have this figure off the top of your head. If you could just share it with the city clerk later but could you just let us tell us potentially how much revenue we raised in, in the first quarter of this year.
[Faye Morrison]: Well, again, we weren't starting to raise any revenue until March.
[Zac Bears]: 好的。
[Faye Morrison]: So it wouldn't be a full first quarter of this year.
[Zac Bears]: Okay. All right, right. Well, then I will, I'll move on from that question. Okay.
[Faye Morrison]: I mean, I can tell you what we've raised so far. If you can hold on one second, I can get the clerk to grab that. Omar, Omar. Sure. Can you give me just a rough estimate of what we've raised so far? Okay, just give us a second he's going to bring up that screen for me and I can give you that I can give you that amount. Pretty quickly. I can answer your third question while we're waiting for that.
[Zac Bears]: Absolutely. Um, I noticed, just obviously the fiscal 2022 budget was, I think, was created before you were even here. We've made some changes since then. Just in terms of the staff changes, will the 13 positions included in this budget be sufficient for the department and how will that affect the customer service?
[Faye Morrison]: I think that right now we have, we can provide good customer service with the four clerks in the office. PCOs in the street and the three meter crew. Would I like to have more field staff? Obviously it would allow us to do a lot more, but I think that we're doing fine at this level. And I was comfortable with being asked to, you know, freeze on hiring for now. I think we're fine, but obviously we could always do a lot more if we had more people in the field.
[Zac Bears]: Great, thank you. And then just my last question is on training. I just noticed that there's not really a budget for training in here. Could you let us know a little bit about how you train your employees? And is there any additional resources that maybe are needed for that?
[Faye Morrison]: Well, the beauty of that is that the company I hired to do our command center, GTECNA, has done all of the training for the clerks and for the parking control specialists. So there are monies in there for training. It's just not a separate budget item. It's part of the package that we purchased.
[Zac Bears]: Great. Those are my questions.
[Faye Morrison]: And that is ongoing, everyone.
[Zac Bears]: Excuse me? Great.
[Faye Morrison]: Sorry, I was just saying that that was all my questions right and as a hold on one second I'm gonna have that figure for you and as technology as we have had to add some more technology to the system that has continued the training. So, the clerks do it probably more often than anyone else because they're the ones handling the command center. But as things come up and we add different systems that help the one that we originally started, work more smoothly, as we're trying to tailor residents in the city, that will cause more training. But that is something that we have enough people where two folks can be training while two folks are running the office. So we haven't had any issues with that so far.
[Zac Bears]: Great. Thank you. And if you can share that revenue number when whenever I sure will he's pulling it up now.
[Richard Caraviello]: Great, thank you.
[Nicole Morell]: Any other questions, Councilor Caraviello.
[Richard Caraviello]: Thank you, Madam President. Hey, you have the sixth largest budget in the city of Medford. Are we going to cover our budget this year with with with revenue.
[Faye Morrison]: I just I think I just answered that question I can't tell you what revenue we're going to take in in advance of actually doing.
[Richard Caraviello]: You've got a budget of $922,000. Do we plan on collecting at least $922,000 to cover budget? Because if not, we should have just kept Park Medford here. So you don't know if we're going to make budget?
[Faye Morrison]: We've only been collecting money since March, City Councilor. You're asking us to continue to the future. I cannot do that.
[Nicole Morell]: I do see Chief of Staff Nazarian has her hand up. Nina has her hand up.
[Nina Nazarian]: Thank you, Madam President. I was just going to see if we could refer to Finance Director Dickinson. I believe there have been projections on this to the degree that that may be helpful. Obviously, we are still going to be seeing and tracking revenue, but.
[Nicole Morell]: Director Dickinson, do you have any projections you can share? You can come to the mic. I know. Even if it's just no, you can come to the mic.
[Bob Dickinson]: I'm afraid I don't have firm projections on this. We expected to take in more than $900,000. not for this year, obviously, but for next year.
[Richard Caraviello]: We're not, you know, we're gonna make budget this year.
[Bob Dickinson]: Well, so we haven't spent all that budget this year. So I could get those numbers together. I actually was just trying to run it on my computer to figure out where we are. Revenues are, because of what's been going on in the finance department, revenues aren't up to date and posting so getting the actual numbers i'd have to go to the treasurer's. software program to. see what she's brought in for for parking revenue so far, and I would probably take to just started in March, I would take April and May and do protections, based on those two months on what we might be able to we don't know what we've collected in April. I do not know that right now. I would have to look and actually vet those numbers before I can make a firm projection on.
[Adam Knight]: Do we have the dollar amount of tickets that was issued? Say there was 650 tickets that were issued that totals $132,000. Some people pay them, some people don't, but then we'll at least have an idea of what the potential monthly revenue generation. is and then we can do the math and I had to multiply that by 12 and then assume that in the winter it's going to be worse and the summer might be a little bit better give a take and you know we'll have an idea what we're working with but for us to raise that much money I think in the next 15 months I think director Morrison is I have that figure for you now if you're ready you do have that number uh yep we're ready when you are yeah since March 160,000
[Faye Morrison]: That's in pay by phone fees, credit card fees for transactions, permits, that's for everything.
[Nicole Morell]: And that's revenue since March 1st?
[Faye Morrison]: Since March 1st. Between March 1st and March 9th, not all of the systems went on at the same time. We were having some problems with the merchant processor, but that's approximately about the time we started collecting from every source.
[Nicole Morell]: And that goes through the end of May or today.
[Faye Morrison]: No, that would go through the end of May, the end of May.
[Nicole Morell]: Okay, so for March 3 at the end of May 160,000.
[Richard Caraviello]: I'm not finished. Is there a reason why we're not accepting credit cards for these.
[Faye Morrison]: I don't know why you don't accept credit cards at City Hall. You don't know why your department's not collecting credit cards, not my department, sir, as I've explained before when I would have to have a credit card platform for this department to use it. In order for us to collect with a credit card, the city, i.e. the treasurer's office would have to set that platform up, not this office.
[Zac Bears]: We can't independently set up a financial office. Point of information.
[Nicole Morell]: Your bank would do it for you.
[Zac Bears]: Point of information. Director Morrison, we just heard from the treasurer Basically, fingers are getting pointed across the hall. Maybe if the chief of staff could speak to how we can get this system implemented.
[Richard Caraviello]: I get the treasurer not taking credit cards because they're big ticket items. These are $25 tickets, $50 tickets. Every city in this country.
[Zac Bears]: I just asked the treasurer this question, why don't we have the system? And she said, it's not my problem. And we just asked the parking director, and the parking director said it's not. that that that parking department can't do that so maybe the chief of staff could speak to that and people take credit guys and the guys madam chief of staff could you is there any insight you can provide related to that
[Nina Nazarian]: Thank you, President Morell and to Councilor Caraviello and Vice President Bears. I guess the best thing I can say is that we have heard comments and the importance of credit cards being brought in as a form of accepting payment. And it's something that we will be looking at over the course of the next year. I cannot say where that responsibility lies at this point in time. I don't know if, I, I don't know off the top of my head, which department would have to go through the procedures and where we would need to see some of all, they all take credit cards when you walk up to the window.
[Richard Caraviello]: They actually have a window. That's I love with the people so so we so we don't have to go down on our knees to listen to what's being said. That's, that's another problem. You've got a window there that nobody can hear anything, and it's not level with people, so people have to bend down to talk to the people on the other side of the glass there. That's not right for a lot of senior citizens in this community who go up there and they have a problem. I hear that all the time.
[Nicole Morell]: I understand your frustration. I think we're looking at issues that predate Director Morrison, particularly.
[Richard Caraviello]: No, that's not predated for Director Morrison. The window was put in while she was there.
[Faye Morrison]: President Morell, if I may. I was here, City Councilor, without my consultation.
[Nina Nazarian]: President Morell, if I may, that window was put in at the direction of the former Building Commissioner Moki, I believe and I understand that that window to be at the appropriate accessibility height.
[Richard Caraviello]: Okay. Thank you, that's it for the moment.
[Nicole Morell]: Vice President Bears.
[Zac Bears]: And I just want to say thank you, Chief of Staff for taking on that there will be, looking into the credit card processing over the next year, I just want to note that, you know, when one person says it's them and then the other person says it's them, I think that's a time to just step in and maybe say, we're going to decide at the top level, how we're going to implement this and then, and then implement it. And, you know, obviously I, I'm not. I don't work for the executive branch of the city government. So, but but that's just a It's hard to hear, we ask one department, they say it's the other department, we ask one department, they say it's the other department. So if you could just report to us as you work through this in the next year to let us know, and hopefully let us know as quickly as possible how it's gonna work out and who's going to be putting in the credit card processing. Thank you.
[Nina Nazarian]: Thank you, President Morell, if I just may. Absolutely, through you to Vice President Bears, My interest is to determine what best management practices are in other communities to determine which department it would fall under as the most appropriate department. That was the reason for my comment.
[Zac Bears]: Thank you, that makes perfect sense, thank you.
[Nicole Morell]: Yeah, and just my request is whatever department we decide that is, if we could provide them the support to get that done because we're really inhibiting our residents.
[Kit Collins]: Understood.
[Nicole Morell]: Councilor Collins.
[Kit Collins]: Thank you, President Morell. I just wanted to thank Director Morrison for being here at the, excuse me, for the overview. I think that obviously it's difficult to present a comprehensive overview when the department is so very fledgling. I know there's been a lot of hard work done in spinning up a whole new department from nothing. And of course, it's hard to make substantial projections because of that. Personally, I've been excited about the deprived. deprivatization of the parking department for a long time. I'm confident that, you know, over the longterm, we'll see some returns here. I also just wanted to note, I think that in all the hard work that's been going into just beginning this department from the ground level, I don't think that there's been really capacity or time yet to implement any of the recommended changes from the commission on parking policy and enforcement. And I'm also curious to see if when we're able to consider possibly implement some of those recommendations, if that could positively affect revenue for that department as well. So I just wanted to make those comments for the record. Thank you again, Director Morrison.
[Nicole Morell]: Thank you, Councilor Collins. Vice President Bears.
[Zac Bears]: Thank you, Madam President. I have a question for Director Dickinson. Just a quick question, Bob, if you don't mind. Was any parking revenue built into the local receipts number that we got in the presentation that had the revenue, the presentation from last Tuesday?
[Bob Dickinson]: There were, basically no.
[Nina Nazarian]: 好的。
[Bob Dickinson]: Um, there were some numbers that I was just selling the other Councilor that I need to review all of our, my assumptions on 2022 revenue when I'm looking, putting together the, what I expect the recap will look like in 2023 or this fall. Um, some of those numbers, I, I, I tried to come up with the biggest number that I could comfortably say that I could support. And none of those categories had parking in it. So I will obviously, when I re-vet those numbers, I will be looking at the parking revenues. I'll ask parking how many tickets have gone out, the dollar value of those tickets. Because obviously, if you start in March, people take a while, I know I take a while to pay my parking tickets. So the actual revenue that's coming yet, there's obviously going to be a lag.
[Kevin Harrington]: 是的。
[Bob Dickinson]: So that way we can get firmer numbers, I can get number up to date numbers from the treasurer on how much we've actually received, etc, etc, etc. And then come to a more knowledgeable number for you guys.
[Zac Bears]: Okay, yeah, that's helpful just to know that it's not, it's not baked into the numbers that we have right now. That doesn't mean there may be doesn't mean that the local receipts, since you said you've estimated a pretty high, those may be a little bit less so maybe we're not just all getting net net positive from all the parking revenue I understand that. And I just wanted to clarify just one other thing you said you noted. that the information is in the treasurer system, but it hasn't made to the finance system. And that's because we're using all these multiple systems that you mentioned to us the other day. Is that correct?
[Kevin Harrington]: Yes.
[Zac Bears]: All right. So I just want to, to be honest, My small piece of advice would be maybe every time that you come up here in the questions about that, just remind us that we're using several systems and they don't communicate with each other, because I think that helps us.
[Bob Dickinson]: Actually, just today, I went through exactly how cash receipts come from the software system that the treasury uses and get uploaded into the admin system and how that actually works. I won't bore you with it, but it's changing. We're not going to do it. There's got to be a better way to do that. So it's just needlessly redundant. It takes an awful lot of time. And that should be seamless.
[Zac Bears]: Great. OK, thank you. And I just give that advice because it'll always help the conversation for us to remember the situation.
[Bob Dickinson]: No, it will come up all by itself.
[Zac Bears]: Okay, good. Thank you. Well, not so good, but I'm glad that we'll be hearing about it. Thank you.
[Nicole Morell]: Chief of staff has her hand up, Madam Chief of staff.
[Nina Nazarian]: Thank you, President Morell. I just wanna mention that I think we should probably follow up and get back to the council on this question about revenue for the parking budget, because perhaps I misunderstood, but I was under the impression that we did build in some numbers. If we could get back to the city council on that, I just wanted to put that on your radar.
[Nicole Morell]: Thank you. Any further discussion on the parking budget? Seeing none. Thank you, Director Morrison. That concludes the budgets we have before us tonight. We did table veterans on Saturday because we have been meeting for four hours and the chair of the veteran subcommittee Wasn't there, do we wanna take that back up or save it for a future date? Councilor Caraviello?
[Zac Bears]: I would defer to Councilor Caraviello.
[Nicole Morell]: Do you wanna take, we tabled veterans on Saturday because it was at the end of the meeting and you, do you wanna do it now or do you wanna do? Chief of staff Nazarian, would it be you who's gonna speak on veterans?
[Nina Nazarian]: Yes, I'd be happy to President Morell.
[Nicole Morell]: Okay, we can take that. I'll give you I'll give folks a minute just to find it.
[Nina Nazarian]: Just going to close my window for a quick second. I don't know if you guys are getting any feedback, so just hold on one moment. I'm ready whenever the city council is present.
[Richard Caraviello]: Yes.
[Nicole Morell]: Yeah, I was giving folks a chance to pull it up. I realized, I don't think we ever got a hard copy we have in our email.
[Richard Caraviello]: I have a hard copy.
[Nicole Morell]: You have a hard copy? Okay, great. Does everyone else have everything they need?
[Richard Caraviello]: Great. I just have a few questions. Just a few questions on this.
[Nicole Morell]: Go ahead, Councilor Carvill.
[Richard Caraviello]: I'm neither I know you and I had met with a couple of people for the position. Have you decided on any one of those two for the position yet.
[Nina Nazarian]: President Morell, through you to Councilor Caraviglia, the mayor, yes, the mayor has appointed, and we're gonna be sending out an announcement very soon. We're excited to announce that Jeremy Johns has joined the city as the next veterans director. Delighted and very much appreciate your insight, Councilor Caraviglia, in particular, because there's- I'm sorry?
[Richard Caraviello]: Was that the second person we interviewed.
[Nina Nazarian]: Yes, correct.
[Richard Caraviello]: Yeah, he was he was abused, but he was a very good person and I'm happy that we hired him.
[Nina Nazarian]: Thank you for your support and in particular, thank you for your information during that. Yeah, as a matter of fact, he actually. We were happy to say that Jeremy was able to begin this past Monday, but because of Darlene White's quick information, we realized that there was a conference that would expedite and assist Jeremy in the process to be able to get the necessary certifications and access. So Jeremy's actually presently at a conference right now and has been since Monday and will be in the office first thing tomorrow. So his first day of work was Monday, but first day in the office will be Thursday.
[Richard Caraviello]: Excellent. He was a very good person. Did he agree to the amount in the budget, the salary?
[Nina Nazarian]: Yes. As a matter of fact, I believe we adjusted this budget accordingly, but I will triple check that.
[Richard Caraviello]: Thank you very much for hiring him. He was a good person.
[Nina Nazarian]: And thank you for your support in that process.
[Richard Caraviello]: And that's about it for me.
[Nicole Morell]: Any other questions on the veterans budget?
[Justin Tseng]: I'm also happy to hear that we have a veteran service director. My question is somewhat more specific. You might not know about it, Chief of Staff Nazarian, but a bunch of students at the CCSR, the Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility at the high school, talked to me about a project that they were working on with a former veteran service director, and they wanted to make sure that they, the city had agreed to work on them, but it was kind of put on hold. for a little bit, and they wanted to know that they would receive some funding in this budget next year for their plaque project, which to go into a little bit of description about is basically they wanted to have short biographical plaques for veterans who served at Medford and to put them around town squares named after veterans. I was wondering if you knew anything about if they would secure that funding, if that funding would still go through this year?
[Nina Nazarian]: President Morell, through you to Councilor Tseng, I don't have any information on that, but I would, if you're so willing, I would suggest that if you have a contact there, putting them in touch with Veterans Director Johns and then asking them to go through the process. And if there's something that the city administration needs to do, we'll be happy to look into it and work cooperatively the best obviously we can.
[Richard Caraviello]: Thank you, Councilor Tseng. He's during our interview, he did seem like he was going to be very community oriented person.
[Nicole Morell]: So I was I was happy with any further discussion from the council. Seeing none, this concludes the veterans budget includes the budgets before us tonight. I just want to note before we adjourn that the meeting for the budget meeting for tomorrow has been canceled, we will be taking schools on Tuesday to allow the council to review the school budget that was delivered to us today so that will be moving to Tuesday to allow time for that. The police budget and remaining any remaining budgets will be scheduled for Wednesday.
[Richard Caraviello]: Can I have a hard copy because my printer at home, it'll cost me $80 in toner.
[Nicole Morell]: Can we expect hard copies of the school budget?
[Nina Nazarian]: Yes, it's my understanding. Thank you, President Morell. It's my understanding that the school department will be printing them beginning tomorrow. I will check on when the ETA would be for when the budget books would arrive. And I think my understanding is there's a lot of documentation. So obviously none of you would want to print them on your home printers. No one should expect that.
[Nicole Morell]: Thank you. Further discussion, anything else? Do I have a motion to adjourn? I have a motion of Councilor Caraviello to adjourn. All those in favor? All those opposed? Meeting is adjourned.