[Bears]: In a meeting, Medford City Council, August 13th, 2024 is called to order. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll.
[Adam Hurtubise]: Councilor Callahan. Present. Vice President Collins. Present. Councilor Lazzaro. Present. Councilor Leming.
[Leming]: Present.
[Adam Hurtubise]: Councilor Scarpelli. Present. Councilor Tseng. Present.
[Bears]: Present. Seven present, none absent. Please rise to salute the flag. Announcements, accolades, remembrances, and reports and records. Records. The records of the meeting of July 23rd, 2024 were passed to Councilor Callahan. Councilor Callahan, how did you find those records?
[Callahan]: Find them in order. And I move to approve.
[Bears]: On the motion of Councilor Callahan to approve, seconded by? Second. Seconded by Vice President Collins. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll.
[Adam Hurtubise]: Councilor Callahan. Yes. Vice President Collins? Yes. Councilor Lazzaro? Yes. Councilor Leming?
[Clerk]: Yes.
[Adam Hurtubise]: Councilor Scarpelli? Yes. Councilor Tseng? President Bears??
[Bears]: Yes. Yes, I move the amendment. Negative, the motion passes. Reports of committees, 24-033 offered by Vice President Collins, Planning and Permanent Committee, July 24th, 2024, report to follow. Vice President Collins.
[Collins]: Thank you, President Bears. This latest meeting of the Planning and Permanent Committee was once again held with the City Council's zoning consultant. This was kind of a fun and unusual meeting. They arranged for us a mapping workshop where their GIS specialists printed out a whole range of zoning-related maps showing different characteristics of the city from a zoning perspective. everything from lot frontage to average income in different neighborhoods. We spread them all out in tapers in City Hall. We had a lot of department heads, members of the public joined us. It was really interesting. And that discussion and the takeaways and questions that came out of it are going to inform our further committee meetings with the zoning consultant, beginning with the next one, which is tomorrow at 7 p.m. to review the findings and questions from that committee and start going over some of our corridor strategies as well as global strategies for the zoning overhaul throughout the city. So I move for approval.
[Bears]: On the motion of Vice President Collins to approve the committee report, seconded by Councilor Callahan. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll.
[Adam Hurtubise]: Councilor Callahan? Yes. Vice President Collins? Yes. Councilor Lazzaro? Yes. Councilor Levee?
[Clerk]: Yes.
[Adam Hurtubise]: Councilor Scarpelli? Yes. Yes. Councilor Tseng? Yes. President Fares?
[Bears]: Yes. Seven in the affirmative and none in the negative. The motion passes. Hearings. Petition for a special permit for hours for Panda Express. Legal notice. Medford City Clerk's Office. Notice of a public hearing. The Medford City Council will hold a public hearing in the Howard F. Alden Chambers on the second floor of Medford City Hall, 85 George B. Hassett Drive, Medford MA, and via Zoom on Tuesday, August 13th, 2024 at 7 p.m. A link to be posted no later than Friday, August 9th, 2024. On a petition for a special permit for hours filed by Panda Express, 491 Riverside Avenue, Medford MA 02155, the petitioner is seeking to extend the hours of operation of the restaurant in the commercial 1C1 zoning district at 491 Riverside Avenue, parcel ID Q-15-11. The petition seeks a special permit for hours, Monday to Sunday, 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. Petition and plan may be viewed in the office of the City Clerk. Room 103, Medford City Hall, Medford M.A. Call 781-393-2425 for any accommodations, aides. The City of Medford is an EEO-AA-504 employer. By order of the City Council, signed, Adam L. Herneby, City Clerk. Where this is a hearing, we will first go to the petitioner, and then I will go to councilors for questions, and then we will open the public hearing. Is petitioner for Panda Express available? Someone representing Panda Express to discuss their petition for a special permit. You can raise your hand and come to the podium in the chamber or raise your hand on Zoom. Seeing none, is there a motion? On the motion of Councilor Scarpelli to table, give me one moment. The clerk has advised that we open the hearing and continue the hearing to a date certain if that's acceptable. I'm going to open the public hearing. Is there a motion to continue the public hearing to the date certain of, I believe our next meeting is September 10th. On the motion of Councilor Scarpelli to continue the public hearing to the September 10th regular meeting. Seconded by? Seconded by Councilor Tseng. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll.
[Adam Hurtubise]: Councilor Calderon? Yes. Vice President Collins? Yes. Councilor Lazzaro? Yes. Councilor Leming?
[Clerk]: Yes.
[Bears]: Yes, 70 from another negative that public hearings continue to the September 10th regular meeting. 24-457, request for amendment to previously approved grant of location, National Grid, to the City Council of Medford, Massachusetts, to whom it may concern. Please, enclosed, find a petition of National Grid covering the installation of underground facilities. This GOL grant of location application was previously approved, and this is a grant of location amendment request. If you have any questions, please contact Moses Okorokoro at nationalgrid.com. Please notify National Grid of the hearing date and time. To the City Council, respectfully, represents the Massachusetts Electric Company, DBA, National Grid of North Andover, Massachusetts. It desires to construct a line of underground electric conduits, including the necessary sustaining and protecting fixtures under and across the public way or ways here and after named. Wherefore, appraised after due notice and hearing as provided by law, it be granted permission to excavate the public highways and to run and maintain underground electric conduits together with such sustaining and protecting fixtures as it may find necessary for the transmission of electricity. Said underground conduits to be located substantially in accordance with the plan filed herewith marked Main Street, Medford, Massachusetts, the following streets and highways referred to WR number 30658427, Main Street, beginning at approximately 15 feet southwest of the center line of the intersection of Main Street and South Street, and continuing approximately 760 feet in the south direction, National Grid is petitioning to install 5-inch ducts between 101 Main Street and 151 Main Street, approximately 370 feet of 4 to 5-inch ducts from existing manhole MH186 to MH187, and approximately 390 feet of 2 to 5-inch ducts from existing manhole MH187 to MH188, mentored ma this link to approve previously approved grant location location approximately as shown on plan attached do we have a representative from national grid to speak to this petition please come to the podium in the chambers or raise your hands on zoom It seems like a no-show night. City Engineer Wattel, do you have anything you wanna add here? Just here. This technically isn't a table, this isn't a hearing, it's just under hearing. So your initial motion to table. The motion to table, Councilor Scarpelli, seconded by Councilor Tseng. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll.
[Adam Hurtubise]: Councilor Keohane. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
[Bears]: 24-456, petition for a common victor's license, shop and go. Business, Liza Trading Inc, DBA, shop and go, 374 Salem Street, Medford. Petitioner, owner, Nazia Rashid, 11 Palmer Street, Medford. On file, business certificate 2024, number 134, petition received. Letter of compliance received, state tax ID received, workers' compensation received, treasurer-collector received, building department received, fire department received, police department received, and health department received. Do we have a representative of Shop and Go? If you could come to the podium, please, and share a little bit about your business, and we'll go to the Councilor Scarpelli as the Chair of the Licensing, Permitting, and Signs. We're gonna have to, there's a button on there. There you go.
[Scarpelli]: Yes, just we change the ownership, everything is same.
[Bears]: Great, Councilor Scarpelli. Any other questions by members of the council on this common victor's license application? Seeing none, on the motion of Councilor Scarpelli to approve, seconded by. Seconded by Councilor Tseng? President Bears?. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. Yes. Are you Mr. Rashid?
[Maria]: She's my wife.
[Bears]: Oh, okay. What's your name?
[Maria]: Maria.
[Bears]: Great.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you.
[Bears]: When you're ready.
[Adam Hurtubise]: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
[Clerk]: Yes.
[Adam Hurtubise]: If I remember the negative, the motion passes. Thank you very much. Mr. President.
[Bears]: Madam Vice President.
[Collins]: I would motion to suspend the rules to take papers 24-455, 24-453, and 24-454 out of order. On the motion, I have Vice President Collins to take papers 24-455, 24-453, and 24-454 from the table. Seconded by? Second.
[Bears]: Seconded by Councilor Tseng. Mr. Clark, please call the roll.
[Adam Hurtubise]: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
[Bears]: 7 in the affirmative, then the negative, the motion passes. 24-455 Executive Session, Various Litigations and Claims. To the Honorable President and Members of the Medford City Council, Medford City Hall, Medford, Massachusetts, 02155, Dear President, Members of the City Council, I respectfully request and recommend your Honorable Body enter Executive Session pursuant to General Law, Chapter 30A, Section 21, subsection A3, to discuss strategy with respect to litigation concerning Samari Montes versus City of Medford, MCAT docket number 22BEM02938. I also recommend that the council's agenda state in the executive session notice that votes may be taken. Attorney John O'Connor will be present to provide the council with guidance on this matter. I further respect the request and recommend your honor body enter executive session pursuant to general law chapter 30A, section 21A3 to discuss strategy with respect to litigation concerning Teenagers Local 25 and the city of Medford MUP-22-9555. I also recommend the council agenda state the executive session notice that votes may be taken. Attorney Jarrett Collins will be present to provide the council with guidance on this matter. Thank you for your kind attention. Sincerely, Rehan Alago-Kern, Mayor. Is there a motion to enter executive session pursuant to Chapter 30A, Section 21A.3?