[Kit Collins]: Vá em frente, mesmo que por um segundo.
[Zac Bears]: Sim.
[Marie Izzo]: Ah, sim, não, eu ainda não sabia que não tinha visto todo mundo para contar isso. Sim, estou fazendo isso. Sim, o grande plano do prefeito era que todos dividissem uma mesa. Bem, todos deveríamos esperar por um. Todos nós compartilhamos uma mesa. Cada duas pessoas compartilham uma mesa. Que?
[Kit Collins]: Não, isso estaria morto agora.
[Marie Izzo]: Sim, bem, é isso Esse é o plano do prefeito.
[Kit Collins]: Tudo bem, pronto. Desculpe, fechei algo que preciso. Bem. Haverá uma reunião do Comitê de Planejamento e Licenciamento da Câmara Municipal de Medford em 16 de dezembro de 2025. Este encontro acontecerá às 18h. nas Câmaras da Câmara Municipal, 2º andar, Prefeitura de Medford, 85 George B. Hassett Drive, Medford MA e via Zoom. Senhor secretário, por favor faça a chamada.
[Marie Izzo]: Vereador Callahan. O vereador Callahan está ausente. Conselheiro Leming. Conselheiro Scarpelli. O vereador Scarpelli está ausente. Presidente Ursos. Presente. Vice-presidente Collins.
[Kit Collins]: Present. Three present, two absent. The meeting is called to order. Thank you all for being here. People were clamoring for one final planning and permitting committee meeting before we closed out this term, so I had to oblige. The action and discussion item, thank you for laughing, Simon. The action discussion item for tonight's meeting is paper 22-321, a condominium conversion ordinance. This is something that we have not talked about in a little while. It's been on the council's radar for a couple of terms now. This was brought up in the context, initially this was brought up as an idea before the council in the context of one of the mass displacement events in Medford in recent years when a couple dozen tenants were evicted, no fault, from the Bradley Road rental building. In 2022, this is brought up as one possible strategy that Medford could look into as a strategy that many municipalities have pursued as a way of protecting the stock of rental units within a city. There are many strategies that have to work together to preserve affordable housing and to preserve rental housing stock within a municipality. This is one that actually many of our neighbors here in Massachusetts have used and have adapted and have adapted to fit their unique needs. And so in 2022, we had a couple of initial meetings on this idea. We gathered and looked at together some initial research, compared what some of our neighbors do and don't do through their condo conversion ordinances. and put together a framework from which we would make a draft ordinance in those couple preliminary meetings which were in March and September of 2023. Like I said, we looked at kind of a survey of some other municipalities, condo conversion ordinances, compared and contrasted them, and also got some initial reactions and questions on the board from our planning development sustainability department and our building commissioner. So what we have today, and this is in the agenda packet, is a preliminary kind of version one draft of a condo conversion ordinance, which I wrote. The text did not just come out of my head. This came from several, this was adapted from several of the different condo conversion ordinances that are currently on the books in many of our, in some of our neighboring communities, who we looked at, who we looked to as examples at the September 2023 meeting and discussed and it kind of comes out of our conversation from about a year and a half ago about what of these neighboring communities ordinances make sense and seems like it's interesting and seems like it's something that'd be worth looking into here in Medford and which of these things seem like they're less tailored for a community like ours. So I'm happy to run through that draft tonight, but just quickly since it has been a while since we've looked at this, I just want to quickly recenter us on kind of the principles of this ordinance and the why of doing it at all. Why do a condo conversion ordinance? This is, like I said, it's just one strategy, but it's a way of making sure that the city has more control and has a seat at the table when the conversion of rental units to condominiums happens in a city. And we know that in Medford, that's already been happening quite a lot, especially in Hillside and South Medford. A condo conversion provides a really fantastic profit opportunity for for-profit developers and for house flippers. And we've seen this, but especially if corporations and for-profit flippers that aren't rooted here in Medford, that kind of have no business in Medford except for extracting property from these conversions. If they're going to profit from housing in our community, we should make sure that that transaction gives something back to our community as well, to individual tenants who are displaced. and to the public at large and the ordinance provides a structure for doing that. In addition it's important to keep in mind as we're thinking through the levers in this ordinance that the conversion of rentals into condos has an impact on our chances of local racial and class diversity because not everybody can afford to buy a home. It's very important to have homes for the I think over 45% of Medford that does rent at this time. Anyway, this is a way to make sure that the public gets something back when what is often a mechanism of gentrification takes place. So with this ordinance, it's up to us to, you know, kind of pull the different levers to make this do what we want it to do in my mind and based on the conversations that we've had about this so far in council. The outcomes that we intend to get out of this ordinance are to target for-profit developers, while protecting homeowners and while protecting the retirement incomes of seniors in our community, to increase tenant protections, to increase the city's ability to connect displaced tenants with new comparable affordable housing, to make sure that relocation payments, compensation to displaced tenants aligns with the true cost of moving within our community, and to increase the incentives and the assistance to owners or condo developers to help with finding new housing for their tenants. And so as we go through the ordinance, I think the key questions for us to be considering and, you know, happy to add to this list are how do we make sure that we're targeting for-profit developers and flippers as opposed to owner-occupants? How what does that relate to a certain type or size of building that we should make sure to target or be sure to exempt? And what are the key enforcement related issues that we should make sure to get feedback from city staff on? So with that, if there are no pressing comments or questions from my fellow Councilors at this time, I'd happily run us quickly through the draft of the ordinance and then we can go forward. Proceed? I'll share my screen. All right, I'm going to try to go through this pretty quickly because it is quite long. This draft, including the comments, is on the city council's public portal for if anybody watching would like to follow along or read it in greater detail that I'm going to go into. So like I said, prior to the writing of this draft, the council reviewed several condo conversion ordinances from other communities in Massachusetts. This included Somerville, Boston, New Bedford, Lexington, and Marlborough. Based on my notes from our conversations in 2023, it seemed like our most instructive examples, the things that were closely aligned with the mechanisms that we might want to pursue. And most comparable and useful for us here in Medford would be Somerville's ordinance and Marlborough's ordinance. And there are some sections that are kind of adapted from those other communities as well. Boston tends to be pretty unique. It interacts pretty uniquely with state law in a lot of cases, but still really interesting to look at. So we start, I'm just going to run through this quickly. We start with the statement of purpose, which is kind of what I spoke to in terms of the housing context for this project in general. It's followed by a definitions section. These definitions align with the other ordinance, the other condo conversion ordinances that are held by our neighbors. Then we get to section three, condominium conversion requirements. Actually, let me just switch my navigation here. This is where we get into the meat of the ordinance this is speaking to. Okay, so we've gotten to the point where a condo conversion, a developer or an owner wants that to happen. Now what? So this is, This is where we start to get into that flowchart of what a developer might want to do with their property and what the city is saying must happen to increase fairness for tenants and the community in that case. Provisions for vacant units or owner-occupied units. These are treated a little bit differently. In this case, we don't have a tenant unrelated to the owner that might be displaced by the conversion. occupied units, this sets forth, sorry I'm losing my place here. So largely this is about how much notice is an owner required to give to a tenant when they intend to take a rental unit and convert it into a condominium. This was one major point of comparison among the other ordinances. Most of the other communities that we looked at give protected tenants a five year notice period and an either one or three year notice period for all other tenants. If you are a protected tenant, so for example, if you have a disability, if you are a senior, if you are low income, your notice period is five years. All other tenants, three years of notice. That's how long the owner has to give you a warning when they're about to take that rental off the market because they're going to perform a conversion. Renting units during a conversion, this is, this section is speaking to tenants' rights while they are kind of going through a current lease when an owner is preparing for conversion. And it speaks to essentially protecting tenants from the conditions of their lease changing while they're still in that same current lease. The intent of this is to prevent owners from doing things that would essentially try to force their tenants out early by, say, increasing the rent drastically or increasing demands on the tenant during their current lease so that they could make the conversion earlier. So this prevents that from happening. It also prevents evictions before the notice period, as specified earlier in this section, would be up. Tenant right to purchase was another stipulation that we saw in many other condominium conversion ordinances. This puts forward that when a owner wants to convert a unit that is currently occupied by a tenant, before they put it on the market, they must extend to the tenant like first right of refusal. Before they put it out to the general public, they have to offer it first to the tenant. on equal or comparable terms to that which they would be offering it on the free market. Most of the other examples that we looked at gave that first right of refusal period as 120 days to average tenants and 180 days refusal period in the case of protected tenants. We also have a section in here and this is interesting, something that I think the council should talk about further at some point is if a tenant should pass on this opportunity to purchase the unit once it is converted, that first, that's actually a second right of refusal would then go to the city of Medford or its designee which might include our affordable housing trust to maintain the property as affordable housing in perpetuity. And then it would be up to the city or its designee to waive that right to purchase and then it could go on to the market. I do want to note and make really clear. that this does not obligate any owner to sell the unit for less than it would be offering in good faith to third parties on the market. It's more about the sequence here, giving the tenant the first right to say no thank you, and after that, giving the municipality or its designee the right to say no thank you before it goes on the market. There are exceptions to the first right of refusal. including if they intend to transfer the condo to a close relative instead of offering it on the market. That would be an instance where first right of refusal to the tenant or to the city would be exempted. The intent of the ordinance is not to prevent people from converting units and then selling or giving it to a family member. going down to the next section underneath requirements if a condo conversion is going to take place. The other major piece of, or I would say one of the main pillars of the ordinance, of course, is increasing tenants' rights in the event of a condo conversion of a unit where they're living and also making sure that they are fairly compensated for the disruptions to their life as a result of that conversion. One of the ways that cities can do that is by making sure that tenants are financially compensated when they're displaced by a conversion. And so all of the condo conversion ordinances that we looked at from those other municipalities included some level of relocation payment. This is a way of making the tenant whole because they're being forced to move because of the conversion, whereas they otherwise wouldn't have had to. So in terms of the actual payment, the financial compensation, we looked at a bunch of different numbers from these other communities. The relocation benefit of $10,000 per unit for protected tenants and $6,000 per unit for all other tenants aligns us with the city of Somerville and how they are structuring their relocation payments. They're much higher in Boston. That makes sense. The cost of living is much higher in most parts of Boston. Boston's relocation payments are more like $15,000 for protected tenants and $10,000 for all other tenants. New Bedford and Marlboros are far lower. But again, I think that one of our north stars here is trying to make sure that it does what it's intended to do, and that's to make tenants whole based on the actual cost of moving and finding comparable housing after displacement. There's also an annual adjustment mechanism in here to make sure that we don't codify one relocation payment that in 10 or 20 years is vastly out of step with how much it actually does cost to move and resettle. So this draft includes language that is similar to what's found in other ordinances, that it shall be adjusted annually by an amount equal to the increase in the CPI for the preceding calendar year, just to make sure that this increases with inflation. Another way that this ordinance seeks to assist tenants with that displacement caused by the conversion is with actual housing and relocation assistance by the owner. The owner under this is entitled to assist the tenant with finding housing within the city of Medford that is comparable, that is not far more expensive or radically different that would essentially satisfy the needs that the current unit was satisfying for them. There's an interesting exemption in here essentially for owners who have gone above and beyond in terms of affordability. keeping their rent levels in line with MHA Section 8 payment standards, or limiting rent increases to no more than 5% per year. They are kind of given deference during this housing relocation assistance process, knowing that the rest of the housing market has been escalating far more rapidly than they allowed their unit to escalate, and this takes that into account. Essentially, we want to set homeowners up for, or owners and sellers up for success, not for failure. And this next section is kind of an extension of saying during the notice period when tenants are continuing to live at the unit during that notice period, the rental unit, the rental agreement is extended and it has to be comparable to the rental agreement that was signed prior to the beginning of the notice period. Again, not giving owners the ability to do any sort of bait and switch scheme to try to force tenants out early to speed up the conversion process. Subsection 8 goes over the administration and the regulation of conversions. Permits will be required for conversions and a sitting board within the city of Medford will do that process, administer those permits and make the necessary documentations. One second. I'm going to come back to permitting in a minute. Just to continue with the rest of the tenant rights and protections under this ordinance, it speaks to renovations to units during the notice period, again, protecting tenants from or super noisy or inconveniences due to renovations that the owner may be making to prepare for the conversion. Tenants still have to be able to enjoy a safe, quiet and peaceful home like anybody else. And the tenant does have the right to vacate their unit early before their lease period would expire, the notice period would expire should they choose to once the notice period has been given. So, excuse me. The next section sets up a condominium and cooperative review board in the city of Medford that will be the administrator of this ordinance and oversee the permitting process. And this is, I think, another interesting section for the city council and staff to review together. It was interesting looking at other ordinances, breakdown of who should sit on this board. My recommendation, based on that research in this draft, is for it to have seven full members and one alternate, which matches with a lot of our comparable communities. Staggered terms of three years each, and that the review board should include two homeowners. Nope, sorry, actually my total number I didn't update. Two homeowners, two tenants, at least one person that would fall into that protected class that might be a homeowner or a tenant, an elderly, disabled, or lower moderate income person. A representative from the CDB, a representative from the Affordable Housing Trust or Medford Housing Authority, and an alternate who may be either a homeowner or a tenant. And I think that actually does add up to seven people. If I can count and talk at the same time. This provides for an appointment process and an annual stipend, which is similar to that of the CDB. And it enumerates the board's duties and powers largely to enforce this ordinance. to create and make available the conversion permit applications to issue them to owners who want to do a conversion and who are compliant with the prerequisites found in this ordinance, to hear complaints from people who are alleging that this ordinance has been violated, to assist in a public awareness program about this ordinance, to establish fees for the issuing of permits, review the documentation of everything associated with this ordinance and condo conversions in Medford and to kind of keep a running list of those numbers, analyze the number of conversions in the city where they're taking place for the edification of the city and the city council. And then finally, the board retains the power to not issue a permit to any owner who has taken any action to circumvent mass general law chapter. 527, which also deals with condo conversions or of this ordinance, including but not limited to unreasonable rent increases, reduction or elimination of services, termination of any tenancy without cause or the imposition of new conditions of the tenancy. Essentially, if a owner of a rental unit is being a really bad landlord, if they're doing shady things to try to vacate tenants in ways that are illegal, the board then has the discretion to not issue a conversion. if a pattern of that behavior is documented. And I just want to, speaking of powers and discretion granted to the board, this is a little bit earlier in section three. But just while we're on that topic, broadly owners in order to retain a conversion permit are required to comply with Chapter, Master and Rule of Chapter 527 of the Acts of 1983. And, sorry for pausing, I'm looking for something specific. Right, my apologies. In subsection seven. The board is permitted to make the conversion permit subject to reasonable conditions for the protection of tenants and the public interest of the city of Medford, including but not limited to these following factors. And this part is really important because this is the section of the ordinance that essentially says what is that kind of What's the word I'm looking for? How is the city allowed to make that decision of whether to issue a conversion permit or not? And different cities handle this differently and handle discretion of this differently. Some other cities that we looked at have a hard cap, like for example, in Marlborough. And per their ordinance, no more than 25% of units in a building per year may be converted from rental to conversion in other cities. Whether conversion permits are approved or not depends on the vacancy rate of units community wide, which I do think is a very interesting way to handle it. To essentially let the housing market and the vacancy rate be a guide on how many units are allowed to be taken out of the rental market. These are things for the city council to consider as we move forward. I did not include those hard caps in this draft. I don't know that that would be my recommendation. But some of the other factors and pieces of context from some of our neighbors I thought were useful. For example, when deciding whether to approve a permit or not, to consider the hardships imposed on the tenants residing in the accommodations proposed to be converted. The aggravation of the shortage of rental housing accommodations in the city. particularly for lower income people. What reasonable arrangements may have been made or will be made to alleviate the hardship on the tenants that might be affected by the conversion, and an intent by the owner to offer a reasonable percentage of the new conversions to sell to the Medford Housing Authority, Affordable Housing Trust, or another entity that will serve a similar function. So a lot of the same principles are at play here, but this leaves a little bit more discretion in the hands of the board to interpret hardship, to interpret the market, and to approve or deny permits based on those important pieces of context. So I will jump down again to, I think we're at section five now. Permitting process, this is the, lays out the steps that an owner with an intent to convert might go through. I'm not going to go through this in great detail. This provides details for if you want a permit to convert, here's how you do it. Here's the steps that you would take. The granting process, which would include, again, some administrative steps and some hearings before the board. And then if a permit were to expire before it is approved, steps that the owner must take to get a new one and restart the process. Effective date, I propose that the ordinance would take effect six months after passage. Give the city time to prepare, create the board, empower the board, and start that administrative process. Standard severability clause, annual reporting. The review board should submit to the city council building department and office of planning development and sustainability an annual report kind of summarizing what we have learned about conversions, their rate, where they're happening in the city because of this ordinance and penalties for violation. This was also adapted from other communities with condo conversion ordinances putting forth or actually this one was pulled directly from mass general law I believe. that any property owner who violates or knowingly permits a violation will be punished with a fine of not less than $1,000. With the final disclaimer that a violation of this ordinance by an owner will not affect or negatively impact its sale to a purchaser who is not involved in the violation and had no knowledge of it. I'm going to pause there. for a second, so I can pull up my other notes document. Are there any initial reactions, questions, or sections that we should go back to? All right, I'll go to Councilor Leming and then Councilor Bears. Oh, wait. I went to you first, go ahead.
[Zac Bears]: Ok, serei rápido. Sim. Pegue os comentários que você identificou como pontos de decisão e coloque-os como uma espécie de documento de ponto de decisão na linha de frente para nos guiar no futuro. Isso seria incrível. Obrigado. E então minha única outra pergunta é: quem da equipe municipal ou dos conselhos e comissões você acha que deveríamos contatar para ter uma reunião com eles sobre isso?
[Kit Collins]: Certamente o PDS, o Diretor Hunt e eu acreditamos que o Planner Evans estiveram em nossas reuniões sobre isso no passado. Eles foram muito úteis. Eu acho que eles definitivamente deveriam ser incluídos. Comissário da Construção, sem dúvida. E o antigo Comissário Forty foi de grande ajuda há alguns anos, quando ainda fazia parte do pessoal. Além disso, penso que seria muito útil ter o Interveio o presidente do CDB, bem como um representante do Affordable Housing Trust. Esses seriam os meus quatro ou cinco primeiros e eu ficaria muito feliz em identificar o que considero serem os principais pontos de decisão e colocá-los num memorando como sugestões para discussão no próximo conselho.
[Zac Bears]: Ótimo, obrigado.
[Kit Collins]: Obrigado. Avançar.
[Matt Leming]: Duas coisas que eu tinha em mente ao passar por isso. A primeira é que entendo que houve uma um projeto de lei e eu realmente não o segui, eu realmente não acompanhei sua situação nos últimos dois anos com relação ao direito de preferência do inquilino na Câmara do Estado. Então, minha primeira pergunta é: como esse componente interage com a legislação estadual? E a segunda coisa que tenho em mente é: Você tem alguma ideia, a partir de suas pesquisas em outras comunidades, de quão ocupado o conselho de revisão de condomínios tende a ser? Apenas uma ordem de grandeza, quantas inscrições eles recebem por ano. Então, se criássemos um conselho dedicado a isso, seriam as pessoas listadas na seção quatro e elas se reuniriam uma vez por ano? Ou seria um trabalho mensal?
[Kit Collins]: Sim, essa é uma boa pergunta. Deixe-me tirar um segundo e retirar notas que contêm alguns dados sobre nossas conversões anteriores. Um segundo. Não estava no documento que pensei que estivesse. Bem, acho que é uma pergunta muito boa. Não posso falar sobre o quão ocupados todos os outros estão, Os conselhos de revisão de condomínios comunitários são, mas minha impressão é que isso deveria ser mais parecido com o modelo da CDB de ter uma reunião permanente todos os meses do que um tipo de acordo anual e isso não é porque eu acho que haverá, não é porque eu acho que haverá tantas licenças, mas mais na mesma linha que queremos ser capazes de trabalhar rapidamente com as licenças comerciais quando elas chegarem ao conselho. Nós não queremos ter vendedores ou proprietários que esperam muito por seu público. O ex-estagiário do PDS conduziu pesquisas sobre conversões de condomínios em Medford de 2018 a 2022 e irá Faça uma advertência muito importante que você disse na época: é difícil encontrar esses dados porque não os estamos rastreando. Então foi um pouco suave, não tão claro quanto gostaríamos. Mas o número de conversões de acordo com o nosso registo de escritura foi em torno de 24 para 2018, 30 no ano seguinte, 29 para 2020, 37 em 2021, 33 em 2022. Interpreto isso como significando que não se trata realmente de uma inundação. para o conselho de revisão e também não é uma quantia enorme para a cidade como um todo, pelo menos naquele momento. Embora, é claro, eu ache que pode haver muitas conversões que talvez tenham sido registradas de forma diferente ou talvez não, talvez elas nem apareçam nos dados. Mas imagino que se trate mais de uma carga de trabalho ao nível da CDB ou, pelo menos, da carga de trabalho ao nível da CDB de há dois anos.
[Matt Leming]: Você teve algum? Você sabe alguma coisa sobre a parte da lei estadual?
[Kit Collins]: Ah, certo, desculpe. E você estava falando sobre a lei estadual relativa ao direito de compra do inquilino?
[Matt Leming]: Sim. Sim. O direito de preferência. Só me lembro vagamente. Não li as Leis de 1983 a que você se refere, então não tenho certeza se elas estão detalhadas lá. Mas lembro-me que este foi um dos pontos de activismo na altura em que se discutia a Lei da Habitação Acessível, quando foi aprovada a capacidade das cidades de implementarem o direito de preferência dos inquilinos. Eu meio que perdi a noção de onde esse debate estava indo.
[Kit Collins]: Claro. Acho que o que estava realmente em questão a nível local era o direito de preferência da cidade, mas penso, Presidente Bears, se pudesse ter alguma coisa sobre isto.
[Zac Bears]: Sim, sim, o projeto de lei na Câmara dos Deputados referia-se aos inquilinos independentemente da sua conversão. As Leis de 1983 permitem isso especificamente para conversões de condomínios, então essa é a diferença. Bem. Sim. Sim.
[Kit Collins]: Acho importante notar que, em Somerville, o direito de preferência da cidade foi, na verdade, anulado. Isso ainda está neste rascunho porque eu sabia que ele seria alterado de qualquer maneira. E acho que a cidade deveria ter um primeiro ou segundo direito de recusa. Mas isso é algo que, se permanecer neste rascunho, tenho certeza que os procuradores da cidade nos dirão que provavelmente é considerado ilegal. Eu entendo. Outra coisa que irei salientar nesta discussão preliminar é outro ponto importante de discórdia e de comparação em alguns decretos de outras comunidades: se certos tipos de edifícios deveriam ser isentos. E tem muitas outras isenções nessa portaria para diversas coisas, você sabe, como falamos. A extensão da primeira modalidade de negação aos inquilinos é isenta para os proprietários que pretendem vender ou transferir para familiares. Em outras comunidades, os pequenos edifícios estão isentos. Por exemplo, ah, espere, me desculpe. Desculpe, tenho que começar essa frase novamente. Em algumas outras comunidades, os edifícios de 2 e 3 unidades estão, na verdade, isentos de toda a portaria porque é mais óbvio, nem é preciso dizer, que é mais comum os proprietários ocupantes converterem edifícios de 2 ou 3 unidades nos quais poderiam viver perto ou nos quais poderiam viver. Não creio necessariamente que seja um ponto de partida apropriado para Medford. Estamos vendo muito dinheiro não local comprando duplexes e unidades de três famílias. Penso que há muitas outras formas de adaptar as disposições do decreto para serem justas para os proprietários-ocupantes, sem isentar completamente os edifícios mais pequenos do decreto e das suas protecções aos inquilinos. Além disso, isso é algo que eu adoraria incluir no memorando para o futuro conselho deliberar, dependendo de quão criativos queremos ser. Outras comunidades abordaram esta questão de formas interessantes. Por exemplo, em Malden, as conversões de edifícios de duas e três unidades são evitadas, a menos que a taxa de vacância exceda uma determinada percentagem. E essa é outra forma de aumentar a complicação das regulamentações e torná-las mais sensíveis à aparência real do mercado imobiliário naquele ano específico. Mas, por enquanto, este projeto não isenta nenhum edifício apenas devido ao seu tamanho ou número de unidades. E penso que é apropriado que continue assim, especialmente porque temos visto tantos edifícios mais pequenos, de duas e três unidades, convertidos e remodelados, especialmente nos bairros de que falámos anteriormente. Qualquer um, vá em frente. Excelente.
[Zac Bears]: Eu proporia que mantivéssemos o documento na comissão até o memorando do vice-presidente Collins e convidássemos nosso Diretor de Planejamento, Desenvolvimento e Sustentabilidade, funcionários e o Comissário de Construção para uma futura reunião nesta comissão sobre este projeto de decreto.
[Kit Collins]: Excelente. Na moção do Vereador Bears, apoiada pelo Vereador Leming. Sr. Secretário, quando estiver pronto.
[Marie Izzo]: Conselheiro Leming. Sim. Presidente Ursos. Sim. Vice-presidente Collins. Sim. Conselheiro Kelly. O vereador Kelly está ausente. Conselheiro Scarpelli. O vereador Scarpelli está ausente.
[Kit Collins]: Excelente. Obrigado. Três a favor, dois ausentes. O movimento passa. Há algum comentário final, pergunta ou moção dos meus colegas vereadores?
[Zac Bears]: Eu já estou nisso. Aí está. Eu só queria que a cadeira me reconhecesse. Obrigado. O Presidente Collins não só pela sua liderança neste decreto, mas também pela sua liderança astuta deste comité ao longo dos últimos dois anos. Todos sentiremos falta da sua presença como presidente desta comissão, especialmente aqueles de nós que terão de servir na comissão a seguir. Por isso estamos muito gratos. Eu falarei por mim mesmo. Estou muito grato pela sua liderança e tudo o que você trouxe para este conselho e para este comitê como seu presidente neste mandato.
[Kit Collins]: Obrigado.
[Matt Leming]: Eu gostaria que você pudesse ficar. Eu gostaria que você ficasse aqui. É uma grande perda que você não lidere este comitê. Quero dizer, você conquistou muito durante seu tempo na Câmara Municipal de Medford. Você serviu muito bem a cidade e sei que abordaremos isso no futuro. na reunião ordinária, mas muito obrigado. Muito obrigado pelo seu serviço. Tem sido um trabalho muito difícil, tanto nas reuniões, nos bastidores e apenas na sua própria vida, guiar-nos em tudo o que aconteceu no último mandato neste comitê. Aprendi muito com você e sou grato por conhecê-lo. Sim, obrigado, muito obrigado e faço uma moção para encerrar a reunião.
[Kit Collins]: Muito obrigado. Muito bem, sobre a moção para encerrar. Espere, podemos fazer a chamada, certo? Quero dizer, não atender a chamada, o outro. Sim, já faz muito tempo que presidi esta comissão. Desculpe, Rich, como se eu tivesse tido um último incômodo com meus colegas. Todos a favor? Sim. Todos contra? O movimento passa. A sessão foi encerrada. Muito obrigado. Obrigado. Não, obrigado.