AI-generated transcript of Medford City Council Committee Of The Whole 05-24-22

[Nicole Morell]: 22-354, Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 is called to order. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll.

[Adam Hurtubise]: Vice President Bears.

[Nicole Morell]: Present.

[Adam Hurtubise]: Councilor Caraviello. Present. Councilor Collins.

[Nicole Morell]: Present.

[Adam Hurtubise]: Councilor Knight. I don't see Councilor Knight. Councilor Scarpelli. Present. Councilor Tseng. Present. President Morell.

[Nicole Morell]: As a six present one absent the meeting is called to order, there will be a meeting of the Medford City Council to the whole on Tuesday, May 24 2022 at 545pm. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss and compile proposals and ideas from the city council for the FY 23 budget to 2-354. For further information, aids and accommodations, contact the city clerk at 781-393-2425. Sincerely yours, Nicole Morel, council president. So as we discussed last week, the intention of this meeting is to allow the council to share ideas as far as what we would like to see as part of this year's, the fiscal year 23 budget. There had been hopes in past years of having pre-budget meetings with the administration. Unfortunately, that hasn't come to pass. So the intent of this meeting is to at least gather ideas from the council, see if we can come to some agreement or a number of ideas that we endorse and then send the paper to the administration, hopefully for consideration as they finalize the budget. So we do have a few papers that some councilors submitted in advance as far as ideas, and we can also just go around and hear what councilors wanna include. Anyone would like to start? Vice President Bears.

[Zac Bears]: Thank you, Madam President. I'm glad that we're holding this meeting. I think it is good for this council to initiate the budget process. In a sense, before we receive a budget that's already been baked in. And I think that's, that's one of the goals here. I know that we come up every year with our list of Council priorities, some of them are budgetary some of them are legislative some of them are a combination of the two. And I think you know, to some extent, some of this discussion may be an extension of those previous discussions. in what I brought forward today here was to try to find from the discussions that we've had a few consensus items that all of us agree on with the intent of really saying to the administration very directly that this, you know, all seven of us want these things and they have to be in the budget. In a short summary, and I'll go through it in more specifics or happy to answer questions from my fellow Councilors. It's the funding for our phase two of zoning, which we still have not received, which I think we all really would like to get going on as we now have many plans coming to fruition that will need to have significant zoning work to make them actionable. One of them is a code enforcement officer, which I know we've all spoken extensively about. Councilor Caraviello had a resolution recently about it, I believe. First to last, so all the years. just how much in this community comes down to code enforcement and how many the quality of life issues that residents want to be addressed really comes down to making sure that the codes are enforced. So that's in here as well. We created an elections department, but that department still does not have a, we have the elections coordinator, Gail, obviously in the position that she's been in for several months now. But there has not been a posting for the director of elections position. It has not been put out there. It's a department head now I mean it's managing a full department managing full election so that needs to be addressed in this budget. And then of course, we have here. bringing an assistant city solicitor back to the city and making sure that we have our legal counsel in house. I think we've all seen the impact of the current arrangement on our law department, on the ability of this council to do its work. And quite frankly, on some less than collaborative legal work and opinions that have come to us relatively recently that I find, a little concerning to say the least. So those were the intentions here of what I put forward. More specifically, you can see that I did pull line items and tried to account for the budget impact of these requests. They're based on the fiscal 22 budget. I'm sure that there may be proposed adjustments to line items, you know, perhaps changes in salaries, with new contracts or with potential raises for non-union employees who are in the CAF system. So, you know, I'm not married to any specific number necessarily, but I wanted to try to come to a reasonable accounting of these different ideas. So, you know, you can see that the 50,000 for zoning, that's pretty clear, that's a $50,000 budget impact. Code enforcement I looked at the B 5.5 pay scale and step one was around 84,000 so that's about the budget impact of that. elections department I looked at comparable positions across the area and there's kind of a range from around $85,000 to $118,000 for people who run elections departments and neighboring communities. So I I looked at calf 16 which runs from about 87 to $97,000 as what I would recommend for that position. um and then a total budget impact there of about 70 to 80 thousand dollars and then in the legal department looked at the fiscal year 20 and 21 budgets where there was an assistant city solicitor uh budgeted for um and I you know put that back into the budget and I reduced the contract legal services line item which is currently paying outside council from eighty one thousand six hundred to twenty five thousand dollars So bringing back an assistant city solicitor would only cost $2,000. And I think that's more than reasonable. I think all of these are more than reasonable requests, but my goal with these proposals, and I also recognize that President Morell, you have many similar proposals, is that we could all vote for them and really send a message to the mayor that these have to be in the budget. I think At this point, we know where our leverage lies, and this is one of the biggest places where it lies. So that would be my proposal. That's what I brought forward today, and I look forward to hearing from my fellow Councilors about their proposals. Thank you.

[Nicole Morell]: Thank you, Vice President Harris. Anyone else like to speak on what they'd like to see in the budget? Councilor Scarpelli.

[George Scarpelli]: Thank you, Madam President, I appreciate this format, and I appreciate my fellow colleagues that put forth such a detailed proposal. My philosophy is that really having this, my thought process is really having this discussion, really talking about it, and I think that, as we did in the past, is sitting and arranging what we we need and what we want as a, as a group. I think that council bears is correct. I think we need to go to the mayor with a fortified front that the seven of us are going to look at certain scenarios with, you know, a no budget mentality that we really need. We, we're not naive to know that we're not shockingly in a budget crunch. That's what I've talked to neighboring communities I've, I've talked to state delegates I've talked to, you know, I've talked to our mayor, and for some concerns that we see the long hanging fruit something that I know that the city's looking into right now is making sure that the increasing the fees for our lifeguards to stay competitive Because just last night if you watch the news, the DCR is raising their lifeguard fee per hour to $25 to $26 an hour. they're looking to take hundreds of lifeguards. So what that means is a young boy or girl from Medford is sitting back, that's got their lifeguard certification, that's coming to work for $17 an hour, is thinking, what? I could go to work at Foss Park and make $26 an hour. And what happens is, I don't know if we remember the first year in Mayor Burke's campaign, The biggest issues and concerns that that administration felt they spent more time per day, dealing with issues because of pool issues in pond issues, and it took away so much, so many more important things that the city business had to attack so we're looking at, you know, something small but I think it's, you know, meeting with the recreation director, maybe 30,000 more in a line that would increase their hourly rate, at least not to 25, but something competitive. So it's not that drastic. I think that to me is an immediate need that is really going to pay dividends and answer the concerning safety question. at the pond in the pool. I think that that's that to me is to no brainer, I think that we need to, you know, they're, they're the legal representation, and appreciate council bears with the detailed numbers, but I think that is a must I think we, you know, as we debated that. the beginning of this term, we talked about how important that is. And what was it? Maybe a month later, we started, we saw the ramifications with having legal counsel being represented that couldn't represent us because they were in a neighboring community. So I think having the assistant city solicitor is something that I will stand with my colleagues with. And, you know, zoning, that's something that, you see the positive impact right away. And I think that continuing with the zoning plan that we had in place, I think that funding is important. Again, low hanging fruit, you know, for what it's worth, it's not a lot of money. And again, there are positions that I'm curious about that I'm a little nervous about that haven't been filled and knowing where that line item is gone, the facilities manager. From what I hear this concerns at the library, maybe Councilor Caraviello can talk about that more later but they don't have anybody qualified to run the library facility, and that's something when we started. We talked about the money that we were invested to library, having somebody that's going to be able to do that. And if we haven't filled that, that's a concern. I'm gonna say it again, one of my priorities is really increasing the numbers of DPW. I think that's, we talk about the roads and the sidewalks every day, and the infrastructure problems we have is one of the most important ones, but I really think that we should look into investing in a sidewalk and hot top crew. and adding three more staff for the fact that again we're putting a million dollars in 200 under 250 sidewalk replacements once those are done if we don't have a crew that's continuing that work that we don't have to bond out a million dollars they're only going to start growing again because it's they're just they're deplorable so I think that we really need to have a comprehensive plan in looking at increasing DPW. So again, not a lot, um, but I'm only, I'm only sharing what over the last year has been pushed and called. Uh, you know, there's other things that, that, you know, we hear every day. Um, you know, education, that's something that the school committee has to deal with right now. I know the mayor is going to give them their number and, but for this side, I think that, you know, I just mentioned just a few things and it's not a lot, but I think we'll pay huge dividends. I'm not, and I don't think council bears when he went through his presentation, it wasn't a lot. These are just simple things that are expected in most communities that we're really lacking here. So, and I'd like to hear from the rest of the team, but I think that these are things that I would support with my fellow colleagues and sitting at budget time, knowing that we need these, a handful of requests that need to be filled. So thank you.

[Nicole Morell]: Thank you, Councilor Caraviello. Councilor Caraviello and Councilor Collins.

[Richard Caraviello]: Thank you, Madam President. Thank you for doing this this evening. I didn't put anything down formally because as I look over everybody's list here, I mean, is there anything that isn't on here that hasn't been here in years past? So it's really, it's the same. We keep on asking the same things all over and over and over again. And it's not this mayor, but it's been the mayor before her, the mayor before that. And again, there's nothing really crazy on anyone's wishlist there, but again, it's, you know. For the people, for our newer Councilors, these are things we've been asking for. I've been here for my 11th year. There's nothing here that I haven't asked for. I've been asking for a second code enforcement officer on my very first budget. Three years later, they gave us a half a person, and then he got laid off. And we're still doing that. I mean, the same story every year. We need DPW guys. And the story is everybody knows what we need. There's nothing here that's earth shattering that should be shaking anybody up. But I'll just fill up on what Councilor Scott Pillay said about the library. We went out and we spent for the state of the art library. Well, we don't have anybody who knows how to operate the state of the art stuff. And the people that are in there now are gonna be out there on June 30th. So we're gonna be kind of on our own. And they're also complaining about, That's too big of a building not to be cleaned every day. That's not a three day a week. There's 15,000 people a week going through that place. You can't clean it every other day. It's too dirty. That needs its own... It's a two story building that has to be cleaned every single day and the grounds. Are we gonna do like we do with all our other buildings? We build them and then... just let them go away and don't spend anything. I mean, that's been our MO in the city for the past 30 years. We fix it, when the ashtray gets filled, we throw it out and buy a new car. And that's been the model of past groups. So again, I thank my fellow colleagues for putting on everything that's, everything here is glaring. There's nothing here that anybody asked for that's crazy. And again, we ask for the same things every year and every year we're back here doing the exact same thing we're doing now.

[Nicole Morell]: Thank you, Councilor Caraviello, Councilor Collins, and then Councilor Tseng.

[Kit Collins]: Thank you, President Morell. I mainly just want to emphasize a few things that I've already heard, and I agree. I think that there's largely broad consensus in some of our key priorities. I appreciate the opportunity, you know, the prompt to jot down some priorities prior to this meeting. I wrote down many, many bullet points, but I think really just the first three or four are the real short-term priorities that I wanted to speak to, and the rest I wanted to enter into the record longer term priorities kind of to bolster the point that I think that we've been making repeatedly for weeks, if not for the entire term and before that as well, of the need to get to a place where we can more sustainably and more effectively fund more of the services and status quo that our constituents really need and deserve, such as accelerating the timeline for pavement and sidewalk repair through whatever means, increasing our DPW staff, et cetera, and many other projects besides that we already have articulated priorities on, whether it's things that are in the draft comprehensive plan, like getting to more net zero municipal buildings, expanding our biking infrastructure, all priorities that this administration has already articulated, and I have no idea what the short, middle, or long-term future is for funding those at all. So for those items lower down on the list, I just mainly wanted to surface them in this conversation to, again, note my increasing feeling of urgency for when are we going to get to a place where we know how we're going to fund those. But for the short term, I forgot to put one of my actually two key priorities for the upcoming fiscal year, that being zoning, I left on my list. I completely agree I think that that needs to be a hallmark of this term and I hope that funding for that phase two is provided. Secondly, restoring the assistant city solicitor position I think that's just integral to this body being able to do the work. that we are here to do, and that's being legislators. So those, those are the top two and then I also just wanted to flag briefly funding or continuing the funding for the municipal vulnerability preparedness program that grant is going to run out at the end of this fiscal year, I believe, I think that that program has been doing incredible work I think that that's one way that we can make good on our commitment to keep the focus priority really putting into action the work of reaching out to our underrepresented constituencies in Medford. So I think that we have to make sure that that program is continued and funded. And secondly, the Food Policy Council, which is something that's been proposed by the Food Security Task Force. It is possible that we'll see a state earmark for continuing that work, but if not, I think that we need to fund that on the municipal level. I've heard that it could cost as little as $10,000 to make sure that participants are equitably funded. And that is something that we need to do, again, to make sure that we have the data on how to craft strategy around taking care of the least among us. So I think that those are two very small asks in the context of a list of very reasonable asks. And I'm excited for the opportunity to, you know, go into these meetings with, you know, with Councilor Scarpelli said a united front in asking for those things that can really enable and shape our work over the next year and a half.

[Justin Tseng]: Madam President, I think what all these documents and what all of these statements show today is that we are a team. And I think we've, there, there are many, many, many shared priorities here between all of us from and we're you know we're looking at these issues from different backgrounds and from different perspectives and we're arriving at the same conclusions which is that There, there are a lot of priorities that the city has already enumerated that we have that we as a council have stated that is stated is our priority as well, that we want to see the city take seriously, and if if the city isn't funding, even simple projects, even simple things like staffing the library, like staffing code code enforcement or giving us an assistant city solicitor. we're not moving forward on what we've agreed, what we've all have agreed are our priorities. The proposals that I think have been laid out today, I think show that we're not really asking for a lot as a city council, we're asking for reasonable stuff. And even our more ambitious ideas, when you break down the budget for them, you know, can be very affordable and can be reasonable. And so I just wanted to start out by saying that going through. Thank you for Councilors bears bears Scarpelli car Caraviello and Collins for going over their priorities. I think you've covered a lot of the things on my list, such as this isn't city solicitors such as code enforcement BPW staffing. such as the community liaison positions as well. I believe, I'm Councilor Collins also had on her list the city website, which you know, we don't have to spend a bucket of money on to make our city website even marginally better. A lot of it is really just investing, investing simple resources into our city website to update outdated information. I was on the city website recently looking at COVID information. And there's super outdated stuff about, you know, how to how to tackle COVID and what types of masks to wear, and what where you can wear masks and where, where you can go maskless, all that stuff, you know, there are parts of the website that are updated and parts that aren't updated at all. Creating a Medford 101 hub as well, where new residents can learn about basic city services. A lot of this stuff we already have in print. A lot of this stuff we already have in different places on the website. It's really about just hiring someone to quickly go through and organize this information. These are really simple ideas. that might sound big and grand, but in execution can be much simpler. I think that my fellow Councilors have covered zoning, talked about zoning a lot. My fellow Councilors have also, in previous meetings, have also talked about bike parking, electrical vehicle charging stations, giving administrative support to our departments to allow them to adapt to reforms. investing in mental health. These are things that we really have all already agreed to as a city council and I think are reasonable asks going forward from the city administration. Thank you.

[Adam Knight]: Thank you, Councilor say, Councilor Knight, Madam President, thank you very much and thank you to my colleagues for putting such time and effort into These budget proceedings I think this is going to prove to be a very productive session, should they start in a timely fashion. Ultimately, you know what we're going to be talking about is an operating budget right and government operates to deliver services and the operating budget is what we use to uses a foundation in the baseline to build upon. So when I look at that, I think about what it is that we've been talking about, what's important to the residents of this community. And looking at true operating budget, I think it's important that we remove the capital expenditures out of the operating budget. Year in, year out, we get a budget that has millions and millions of dollars worth of capital expenditures in an operating budget, right? So it doesn't really give us a true picture of what's going on in the community when it comes to personnel needs. And then at the end of the year, what we usually see is what? couple million dollars at the end of the year transfers from this account to that account and that account to this account. I think if we can take these capital expenditures out of the city budget and have them submitted to us as an outside section or a supplemental spending packet, that will be much more efficient, number one. And number two, I think it will give us an opportunity to really look at the personnel issues and the staffing issues that are plaguing the city. And when I say personnel issues plaguing the city, I think we've seen a nightmare of human resource issues over the past couple of years. We've had an inability to retain personnel, something I brought up several years ago is a minimum $15 minimum wage for all city and school department employees. And I think that that's something that's very attainable. I don't think that's something that's going to break the bank. So I think that should be a priority and a goal. That's something that I want to work on as we go through this budget and we look at what's going on, a lot of it comes down to contract negotiations. Number two, I'd like to see a minimum staffing level for our DPW. We look at a place in a fire we have been stepping levels for a place in a fire. I see no reason why dpw shouldn't be staffed at least 75% of me about police and fire they provide public service and public safety. Services to this community so ultimately I feel so I think the W is an underestimated underappreciated partner. in this community. And when you talk to everybody, what do they say? I need a new sidewalk, the stomps, the streets disrepair, right? So I think a minimum staffing level ordinance is something that we can look at. We can phase that in through the budget over a four or five year period so that the budget impact isn't huge and cuts don't have to be made other places. Also, have I ever talked about the fact that we need a lawyer for the council? Because I think that's very important. I'm not going to beat that horse to death And also, phase two zoning reform with attorney Bob Rossi, I think all of us behind this real share a desire for those two things and I think that those should be at least those two things is something we should all stick together on moving forward. And lastly, I'd like to see a citywide traffic study funded through this budget. And the reason I asked for that is because we see complete streets projects being done we see projects being done in neighboring communities that has an impact on the food for traffic here in the city of When the casino came in have a street, for example, became two lanes going straight down to route 16 to one lane in a in a left turn only land, which is created a backup all the way into Potaho Square and some of those so those are things that you know they're unintended consequences for improvements that we make. I don't think we think about so I think a citywide at the time for citywide traffic study that called for the past the call for it again. I think that's a great expenditure for us to kind of use the planning tool going forward when we start to take advantage of the complete street grants and other funds that become available to us to the state. It will put us in a position to be shovel. So those are really the big 6 that I'm going to focusing on that president that I thank you for the opportunity.

[Nicole Morell]: Thank you have tonight. I have a number of priorities, they've all pretty much been said, which I think is a good thing, because that shows we're aligned and we can get something together that we can deliver to the mayor, to the administration, and hopefully they hear us and they work on these things. Absolutely echoing the need for assistance to the solicitor. I think to Councilor Caraviello's point, we've been, a number of councilors, new and old, have been asking for the same things year after year. And we've also been asking for things that used to exist. and then they're gone. And we're asking for them to be back because they went away for really no good reason. And I think, you know, I voted in good faith, you know, hoping that KP law could bridge the gap as the mayor had said. And I think seeing an operation, it has just been reaffirmed over and over and over that we absolutely need that assistant city solicitor position for us to work effectively as a body and for the legal department to work effectively. There's just so much demands on that department and for it to be a one person department for a city of our size. It's unreal, honestly, at this point. I also would love to see additional staffing in DPW, ideally in forestry, if we can only choose, you know, one or two places. I think forestry is absolutely needed. We know we have the work coming as far as the stumps and just needing new trees. So I would love to see that agree with the zoning, getting that additional funding, which I think you know, recodification was always intended as step one. So these aren't new asks. These aren't out of the blue asks. These are things that have always been needed for us to, to serve the city in the best way as far as doing that work. And also I agree with the additional code enforcement inspector also, or if it's someone to do officially weights and measures, you know, both of those offices are really short staffed and something that we come up against time and time again. So, I support all those things that have come before. So I'm just see if councilors have any motions for Councilor Caraviello.

[Richard Caraviello]: Everything we talked about here. So how do we pay for all this stuff that we asked for tonight? Well, one of the biggest ways is development. I mean, we've been over three years and we don't have a project in the pipeline. You know when, again, you know, not all, and I know we don't all love all the projects come along but but these are projects that take a property that pays $100,000 in property taxes. When a building goes up on it, they're not paying $2 million in property taxes. And you know, we're five miles out of Boston, Summerville is all wasted out and Cambridge is all spent out. So, where's the next. So now they're looking at Medford. And we're, you know, I don't know if we're not hungry enough or, but this is how you, this is how you raise money is, is through developments. We've got so many prime spots that I think we have to be much more aggressive in development. We need to streamline our process. I talk to people all the time and they say, doing business here is tough. It's so hard to do business in the United States. And I'm afraid that if we wait much longer, The wave will be gone. We'll miss the wave of the bio, the life science, and all the stuff that people want to bring here because, hey, I'm not going to wait around for these guys anymore. Again, that's how you raise money to fund all these projects. We can't keep going to the taxpayers all the time. They pay the brunt of the bill now. We have to figure out other ways to raise income, to pay for these things that we want. So just my opinion, ma'am.

[Nicole Morell]: Thank you, Councilor Caraviello. Vice President Bears.

[Zac Bears]: Thank you, Madam President. And I think to Councilor Caraviello's point, one of the things that this council can do to accelerate that process is, I mean, let's be honest. We may have, we have a Zoning Board of Appeals of five people, and I think four people actually agree with what you just said, but we still can't get anything done. And I think that one thing that we can do and one of the reasons that this zoning phase two is such a top priority is that we can actually make it easier to do business in Medford I just read about a district down in Falmouth they hadn't had a lot of development for a long time it's called the mixed use residential commercial. They're allowing by right for story development in their downtown. And you have a first floor retail three stories of residential and 25% affordable and they're already getting permits, you know processes coming in, because it's by right, and you don't have you know and I'm not necessarily saying that's the exact approach for menford but those are the kind of things we could look at in a in a zoning phase two process and bringing in more revenue. I mean, to be honest, some of these, some of you know, if we submitted everything we all just said. minimum staffing for dpw housing stability rebuild medford high you know all of that that's a lot of money and and i don't think that those aren't priorities and i submitted a kind of a smaller more focused list not to say i don't support all of those other things i think people know exactly what i support. But to say in this budget with the constraints that we're apparently under, can't we make some progress to get that work done. So my proposal would be that we try to send, we send up two things one. maybe a short list of five things that we all agree on and say, this needs to happen immediately in this budget. And then also submit all of the motions and proposals that this council has made as well. And I think that would show the unity of the council around these specific issues that we, you know, I think are basically saying this is happening this year. And because we all agree on it, you know, this body is a co-equal branch of government and we have our priorities. as well as making it clear what our longer term vision is and priorities are. My personal suggestion for that would be the assistant city solicitor, the phase two of zoning, the fully funding the elections department and director, because as Councilor Knight said, we've had a lot of HR and issues with turnover. I think seven department heads have left in the last 18 months. And I'll be direct that, you know, I'm hearing that that may be an issue in the elections department if that doesn't start to move along as well. So I would put that in. I would put the DPW staffing in and I would put the code enforcement. Those would be my proposals for the five that we would all say, this is the council supports these five and then also send up what Councilor Knight said, Councilor Scarpelli, Councilor Caraviello and the documents that we submitted. So that's my suggestion. I'll make it in the form of a motion after we hear what other people think.

[Nicole Morell]: Councilor Knight.

[Adam Knight]: You know, I think that the value of new growth is really going underestimated in this community. And I think it's important that we understand that if we don't see around 1.25% new growth annually, we can't even stay even with inflation. So we're not going to get anything. So like Councilor Caraviello said, you know, we need to think of ways that we can also generate revenue that's not on the back of the taxpayer, right? And we've seen a move away from the public-private partnerships that we've seen in the previous administrations. And I think that that's something that we need to also take a look at. And that's really a function of the administration. That's not a function of the council. We can't mandate public-private partnerships, but I think we can highlight and accentuate how important they are and how beneficial they are to this community. You know, when we had Leslie come in and do the basketball code over at the high school and create a public partnership through that venue, it's been great. The public private partnerships that we've seen down at home out with the Boston glory have been great. And we need to capitalize on those and continue to invest in those. And I think that that's another area that we can work on what we can, you know, bring some success to this community without doing it on the back of the taxpayer.

[Nicole Morell]: Any further discussion.

[Zac Bears]: I would make a motion that the city council submit as a joint set of budget recommendations the following and Mr. Clark you let me know if I'm speaking too fast.

[Nicole Morell]: You're muted.

[Adam Hurtubise]: I'm gonna start. I'm gonna start transcribing as you go hang on a second.

[Zac Bears]: First one would be funding and assistant city solicitor in the law department. The second would be $50,000 for the city council to engage a zoning consultant. Third one would be a full funding for the new elections department, including the department head position at cap 16. Fourth would be one additional code enforcement officer.

[Adam Hurtubise]: Yep.

[Zac Bears]: And five would be increase the headcount of DPW staff. Got it. And that's the motion.

[Adam Hurtubise]: Is there a second on that motion?

[Nicole Morell]: Councilor Knight has seconded. Be assured.

[Adam Hurtubise]: Okay.

[Zac Bears]: And then I would make a further motion that we submit to the city administration, the mayor, the chief of staff and the director of finance. the committee report containing the recommendations of all of the councillors who spoke tonight, as well as the documents submitted by councillors.

[Nicole Morell]: Let me know when you have it, Mr. Clerk. Do I have a second for that motion?

[Adam Hurtubise]: Hang on a second, please. you want submitted to the mayor, the chief of staff, and the finance director, the committee report, the suggestions submitted by councilors, and what was the third thing?

[Zac Bears]: It was just the committee report, but making sure that it contains all of this, you know, what councilors spoke to tonight, as well as the pre-submitted documents and proposals.

[Adam Hurtubise]: Okay. How about if I say it as the third thing, the priorities listed by the councilors tonight? sure okay and is there a second on that one councillor knight seconded okay do you want me to do roll calls on these vote on these are you going to do additional motions

[Nicole Morell]: All right, so yeah, so on the motion, the first motion by Vice President Bears is to report out the five recommendations of the council, seconded by Councilor Knight. All those in favor? All those opposed? Motion passes. And the second motion by Vice President Bears, seconded by Councilor Knight to send the committee report with the additional priorities of the councilors to the administration. All those in favor? All those opposed? Motion passes. Is there any further discussion or anyone on Zoom who would like to speak? Don't see anyone who would like to speak on Zoom. Any further discussion in the chambers? Yes, unless anyone would like to meet again, feel like.

[Kit Collins]: So we will give the vote on that.

[Nicole Morell]: I'll take responsibility. On the motion of Councilor Knight to cancel tomorrow night's meeting in light of what we accomplished tonight. Seconded by Councilor Scarpelli. All those in favor?

[Zac Bears]: Aye.

[Nicole Morell]: All those opposed? Motion passes. Tomorrow night's meeting is canceled. On the motion of Councilor Knight to adjourn. Seconded by Councilor Scarpelli. All those in favor?

[Zac Bears]: Aye.

[Nicole Morell]: All those opposed? Motion passes. The meeting is adjourned. See you at seven.