[Bill Giglio]: I want to thank George also for putting this on. This is very deeply saddening. I met Ryan when my, when our oldest boy started kindergarten and our youngest boys went to kindergarten together and they played sports. everything and I knew them throughout the years and they're just a great film. And I loved, like everybody else, I liked seeing Brian down at the, um, the cemetery, the Memorial Day and the Patriots days and everything like that. And just running into him every now and then that, uh, like I seen Stacey the other day and I'm told I was very glad I could at least say hi to him one last time, but it's very, this is very heartbreaking. So thank you George for putting this on and thank you for everybody else.
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah. Uh, bill Giglio, uh, winter street method.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio on Winthrop Street. Would you agree that within the budget, I mean, we're saying that the school budget isn't very shortfall, very dire need, we're in very bad shape. Would you agree that every penny, every dime, every nickel will help that, will help the budget?
[Bill Giglio]: No, it's not the whole question.
[Bill Giglio]: I mean, okay. I would imagine you would agree that every, every, every nickel. Okay. So, uh, you guys passed, um, a 146% raise for the school committee that no, it ended up being a little bit less than that in stretched out. Okay. And, um, What was I going to say? You threw me off here.
[Bill Giglio]: Did the financial task force during this whole thing, I mean, we've been hearing that the budget has been bad for a very, very long time. Did the financial task force step back and say, hey, listen guys, this probably isn't a good time right now because this money comes out of the school budget, which it does, correct? It comes out of the school budget. Those raises came out of the school budget. It was an enormous raise and Did anyone from the financial task force say now is probably not the best time to be giving school committee members raises?
[Bill Giglio]: Absolutely.
[Bill Giglio]: 25 years of what? 25 years.
[Bill Giglio]: Right.
[Bill Giglio]: You still have four new members that are on that board.
[Bill Giglio]: Oh, I'm sorry. To that point, and I appreciate Anthony saying that, but I've listened to a lot of these meetings, and I honestly, I don't think I've ever felt like the public hasn't had that chance to speak. I've always spoke when one wanted to, and you guys have always let me, so I just wanted to let you know that. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: No, I just want to thank each and every one of you guys for taking the time to do this. You guys really did a great job. Thank you. Everyone's been asking for the chatter review. I'm just disappointed on the community. you know, not getting involved as much as we've been hearing people wanting change. And I know Eunice alone has been doing everything to promote as much as she could with this and everybody else. But it's just disappointing that the community didn't get a little more involved. But in any event, I probably listened to about 80% of the meetings and I really appreciate what you guys did. Thank you very much.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. Thanks, George, for putting this on. My question is, or my only fear or concern is, I think the way George, when I read this, was based for the seniors to get the information. If we open this up to everybody and this place floods, then you have a bunch of seniors. Then we have another meeting that could go on until, however long people start fighting, you hit the gavel call for a 15 minute recess. And then they're not getting the answers that they want. Is there a way to separate? Like I was very much in favor of just having the seniors. I would, you know, if they come up here and it's six, seven o'clock at night and they're not getting their questions answered and then the lines out the door and then the height of that, I mean, we've all seen what can happen in these chambers. with people bickering and fighting, and then that goes on for long, and now they don't get their answers that they're looking for.
[Bill Giglio]: Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. So at the last meeting, talking, first of all, I'm in favor of the audit, but at the last meeting, while we're talking about finance and transparency, at the last meeting, I think it was around 12 o'clock, you guys had voted to give all non-union employee raises, is that correct?
[Bill Giglio]: Right, for the first reading. Do you guys fall under that category, the city council?
[Bill Giglio]: Okay, so you're voting for, you're essentially, I just want the people to know, so you're voting for your own raise. you're probably gonna pass it. I mean, it's the first reading. The mayor excluded herself. She did not exclude herself. She didn't?
[Bill Giglio]: I don't know one person that didn't take it as if she was excluding herself.
[Bill Giglio]: OK, so will you guys be excluding yourself from getting a raise and then asking the city for an override?
[Bill Giglio]: Okay. Well, just let me just let everybody know that they're getting a raise and then they're asking us for an override. So, and then they're voting yes for their own race. So that's it.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, my name is Bill Giglio, I work for Street Method. I wanna thank Councilor Lazzaro for putting this on, and she does make a couple of very good points. And I think what most people are concerned about is not the actual treatment, it's the actual location as to where it is. Like the last caller said, it's a dispensary for profit, which kind of baffles my mind because we just got money for the opioid crisis and methadone is an opioid. But I'm for treatment. I'm all for treatment. I raised a little girl now because of someone with addiction. You know, she lost her mother and we took her in. And I'm sure there's no one in the world that would want this for people than probably that little girl to be with her mother. Um, you know, we love her and she, you know, we wouldn't have it any other way, but I would say, you know, a child wants to be with their parent more than, you know, more than an aunt or an uncle. But, uh, and I know from, you know, I know from past experience that, you know, methadone, um, it doesn't always work either. Like the last caller said, it's just, it's just another, it's just another drug to try to, to, to appeal you from another drug that both opioids and the, and, uh, you know, I know I'm rambling because it's very late and I just left there, but I, I do like the fact that we want to help people, and I definitely want to be part of trying to help people. I think it's just the location. And I don't think we've heard anybody, or at least I haven't heard anybody say or read that, you know, talking about people calling them junkies and not in my neighborhood and stuff like that. I think it is just the location and the proper way to dispense this type of medication. That's all.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. Can we get just a quick comment? Can we stop calling this a fee? What it really is is the tax or basically staling from homeowners. That's pretty much all it is. It's not a fee. You know, we're not getting anything from it. You know, we have to give. So it's actually staling from a homeowner, to be honest with you. But it's not a fee. It's either you can either call it a tax or a high fee. That's all.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. So, you may tell you nine year old also that it is illegal for the Columbia students that are breaking into buildings, taking over buildings, smashing glasses with him, that's illegal. So I do want to say I 100% support the police being there. I'm happy they're there. I hope they're there in full force. We see what's going on around these campuses, the violence, the, you know, everything that's going on. So I want to thank the police for for for being there. And we've also seen this in Boston as well. And I hope anyone that goes outside the lines of protest and is arrested, I hope they're fully prosecuted, which they usually they usually just let go. But in any event, I really hope that the police is there in full force and I appreciate our police force. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio, Winterspeed. I just have three very quick things. I didn't get my hand raised quick enough on the first resolution about the pet therapy. That's really, really, really good thing. It's worked for me in the past. And I've known it to work for a lot of people. And that's a really great thing. So I appreciate you putting that through. Second, Winter Street was freshly repaved about, I don't know, a year or so ago, and parts of it, especially where I live down by the high school, are already being dug up, and it's being patched, and now it obviously already looks horrible. Does anybody happen to know what's going on? I know you might not know what's going on, but does anybody happen to know why it's being dug up already?
[Bill Giglio]: Okay, that's great. Thank you very much. And also getting back I know on the first thing on the on the body cams from earlier. It was a very good meeting. I just want to say, Chief Buckley put on a great presentation very thorough. Unfortunately, at the end he got he got bombarded. with a bunch of nonsense. And I just, I honestly think it was unnecessary. And I would honestly love to see that subcommittee. I mean, he was visibly upset. He was called a lot of unnecessary things. And I think maybe like an apology, maybe a written apology or some sort of formal apology to Chief Buckley would really be in line, in my personal opinion. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Well, if they did speak to him after that, I'd like to say I appreciate that, because it was a little, you know, my opinion, a lot of it was uncalled for, and if they spoke to him after, I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you very much.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. I'm very confused about like the, the actual, where is the disconnect? I mean, we have one side and by the way, thank you for doing this, but we have one side that is very adamant that it's very toxic and hazardous. And then you have the MBTA who's saying it's not, there's no type, or is there any type of an emergency, anybody that can come down and test that? Because if it was like any type of, you know, anything else, wouldn't it be like an emergency instead of us just requesting something and waiting on that? Is there something that can be done quicker or sooner?
[Bill Giglio]: Right. I mean, responses are nice, but that doesn't protect the health and no pun intended. So as far as the city tracks are covered, as far as us trying to fix this. So nothing ever comes back from the city.
[Bill Giglio]: Right, but you did, I mean, it's obviously brought to their attention anyways.
[Bill Giglio]: All right, that's great, then thank you guys for doing this.
[Bill Giglio]: OK, I'm sorry. I always get confused when I start scrambling around. So I'm just trying to think outside the box. And this could be completely dumb or completely not even capable. do other cities by any chance like you know you have your basic school committee and then within those school committees you know you have your uh subcommittee uh meetings and one chairs it and you might have another two that are on there correct yes that's normally how it goes but is there any city like that does let's just say one one person chairs it and then and then from the city, you get volunteers. Sort of how the city does now with, let's just say, the veterans or how they have people volunteer. And then that way, a few people maybe do a lot of the work and report back to whoever the committee, the head person is to that subcommittee. And then would that help lessen the load? Or is that something that would not even be able to be done? Do you know what I'm saying?
[Bill Giglio]: And with that, maybe even bring in more potential candidates in the long run if they say, you know, I might sort of like this if they just sort of get getting their feet wet and that might get somebody to even run for the position.
[Bill Giglio]: So but I was just wondering if it like, you know, lessens the load, because like some of them are on maybe two or three committees. You know what I mean? Whether they share one or if they're just on it. But maybe if if each one just shares one and you know, if you had if you had a couple of volunteers, you know, obviously they'd have to be volunteers. And then they just you know, they just sort of just report to whoever the chair is of that subcommittee. I'm just I'm just thinking if that can be done at all.
[Bill Giglio]: No, that's all I had to add. I was just very curious of it, not even really suggesting it, just throwing it out there. That's all. Okay. Thank you, Bill. Thank you. Yep.
[Bill Giglio]: No, if you guys are signing off, I just want to say thank you. This was actually a very great meeting. Very informative. Thank you. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, this is Bill Giglio on Monmouth Street. I am also in support with Scott Cass. He does a wonderful job around the city. We just heard three people, George Scarpelli, the last caller Harry, and Mr. Cass talk about the dangers of the lithium batteries. Has any one of you looked into that on the council here and what have you found about the dangers of getting rid of a lithium battery?
[Bill Giglio]: Yes. So you haven't even looked into probably one of the major aspects of doing this, but you're ready to implement them and get rid of one aspect, but you have another aspect where you're going to be hurting the environment severely because they have, you know, because of the dangers of getting rid of these and the dangers of like the last caller said about starting fires. So we have, you guys have not looked into that at all?
[Bill Giglio]: And what did you find?
[Bill Giglio]: No, no, no, that's not what I asked. I asked, what did you, what did you, what information did you find about getting rid of lithium batteries? Of the dangers of getting rid of lithium batteries? That's my, that's my direct question.
[Bill Giglio]: And then, and then what do they do? Like what, what do they do?
[Bill Giglio]: And what, what dangers have you found with the lithium batteries?
[Bill Giglio]: No, I'm glad it's funny to you. Okay.
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah, no, no, no comments. I just want to, as always, thank you guys again for your hard work.
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah, I'm unmuted, thank you. I just had a quick question. If we talk any type of term limits for anybody, I thought I heard last week that there's a certain amount of years you have to work before you get a pension. What's that amount of years? I would imagine we have, if you set a term limit, you have to hit at least those amount of years. I don't know what the amount of years is. Does anyone know?
[Bill Giglio]: All right. All right, so in order to do term limits, you would at least have to hit, like Maury said, the 12 year mark anyways.
[Bill Giglio]: No, that's what I was just sort of thinking that because I know, I would imagine it wouldn't fly if you put term limits in and it was made under the 10 years.
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah, he's not being, yeah, he's there. It was me that was not on mute, I'm sorry. No, I don't have anything to say tonight. I'm just sort of taking this all in. A lot of great points, you know, what the school committee has brought up tonight. So I really appreciate everything tonight.
[Bill Giglio]: No, absolutely. That's what makes the stuff work when there's not, much city participation in the city, it seems like, so. Absolutely, I will.
[Bill Giglio]: Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Paul, and I apologize, my phone was across the room. I was listening, I didn't get over to it in time. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah. Has anyone looked into like any cities that do do ward representation? Does it actually bring out more voters? But I would almost think it does. And I would almost think that's a good thing where our voter turnout is very low, but maybe ward representation might bring out voters, you know, even though they're just voting for someone in their ward, but then now they can also vote for, you know, for school committees and mayors and stuff, which might actually up up the tally of who actually comes, actually who is, you know, cause as we know, we're very low percentage in voting, but it may actually bring out voters. I don't know what Malden's percentages on voting is compared to ours. And to Eunice's point, I think she makes a great point. Like, and I know, like you just said, it's off topic, but just to throw my two cents in, Malden with their ward representation, they make 18,000 each. So I would love to see it go a little lower, but again, I don't know who's, who makes that decision or who doesn't, but that would be my recommendation as well. So thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Okay. Yeah. Okay, so I just have one question, and this is maybe out of you guys' jurisdiction. If you guys, let's just say we went with more representatives, whether it's ward or at large, who decides to pay for them? Do they make their own pay?
[Bill Giglio]: I don't know. That's a long time.
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah, no, I just curious, because I know like Malden, representative only gets like 14,000, I think ours gets 30,000. And if we add more, is it going to be at that 30,000 level? Or? Oh, you know, that's my question.
[Bill Giglio]: You know, because that's, you know, if each ward is getting like, I know, like, I've checked in mall and their ward representatives in there at large, they all get the same, which is I think, Yeah, I mean, it's either like 14 or 17 or something like that. Yeah, it's very like, it's almost, it's almost half what we get. So I was just curious if we're adding more, are we going to that, to that level?
[Bill Giglio]: All right. Thank you very much. And thank you guys again for all you're doing. Thanks, Bill.
[Bill Giglio]: Okay. Can you hear me now? Yes, we do. I know. I just want to say thank you once again to you guys. I try to listen every week, every meeting. You guys are doing a wonderful job. I, myself, like, like Mari and you, Ron, I'm definitely in favor of ward representation. I grew up with ward representation of Vermont and I think it works. Some people don't, I happen to think it does in many different ways. So that's just my opinion. My question is, do you guys, and I think you might've said this earlier, is there an average so far of how many people are actually taking the poll yet?
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah, no, I know I see it. I see it posted a lot. I was just curious if people are actually taking it. All right, well, thank you guys again. I really appreciate all the work you guys are doing. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks, Bill.
[Bill Giglio]: Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Okay, sorry about that. So I'm in favor of definitely ward representation. I've been in this city for 20 years. I come from a city that has ward representation over in Malden. And then coming here, it was like, it was like a shock. I mean, you don't, there's no, there's no person to go to. You have a question, you email into a pool of seven people and hope that somebody returns your, you know, answers your question or whatever you have. not in their part of the city. There's so many benefits to having ward representation. It brings it down a little smaller. The ward Councilor can do so many things in their little area. I know from Malden, every year there's some sort of a 4th of July in their little section, whoever is representing that. I'm not saying that, but they have their own little way of communicating with their ward. So I'm definitely in favor of ward representation. I know I can't speak as far as money. Council now gets like 30,000 or something in Malden. Each ward represents only it's a big jump. I think it's well worth looking into or definitely exploring ward representation. Thank you. Sorry.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio, Winter Street. I'm calling to voice my displeasure tonight about our about our city council vice president using our city hall chambers this Saturday on off hours to let his friend from New Jersey use the Medford city halls for his Boston book launch. This was a gross abuse of power, which should not be allowed. This is our tax dollars being misused. And as I stated, this is being billed as a Boston book launch and free to the public. I asked that this book launch event, That has nothing to do with Metro be canceled or be moved to a non city owned building. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Guglielmo. At first, months ago, I had my reservations about Mr. Wells, but I have to say this presentation that he put together was very thorough, very good. I'm very, very impressed. I'd like to thank him for that. That's very good. And I think we should all need to listen to everything that he has to say because he's bringing up some very valid points on things that really need to be addressed. And again, Mr. Wells, I'd like to thank you very much. You did an excellent job. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. About how many people would you say roughly have reached out to you guys about this?
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah, I have just two more very quick questions. So for the most part, how would you say they reach out to you guys? Would it be via email, text message? How do they normally reach out to you?
[Bill Giglio]: So for the most part, so this is all, So this is all public record then. So we could do a freedom of information acting and get some of these. Because I just find it very bizarre. You say all these people are reaching out to you, but yet there's only two residents on Zoom here. And me being one of them, I just, if this was such a pressing issue, you would think a little bit more people would be a little more involved or interested. So anyways, my second question to you is, in your ordinance, can you guys hear me okay? I apologize if you can't.
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah, so in the ordinance, is there anything about age as far as gender reassignments? If someone from out of state wants to take their 10 year old in here, you're gonna wanna protect that? Do you guys have up to an age where you cannot do gender reassignment?
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah, no, because I mean, we all know that Children's Hospital has been doing it to, you know, doing vasectomies and mastectomies or whatever to girls as young as 11 years old. Are you fine with that?
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah, I'm right on this. I'm right on with upstream as well, right across from Victory Park. Personally, I would prefer nights as well, just to get it all with them on the same boat. Does this include weekends by any chance?
[Bill Giglio]: So, so the, the 18th is actually a holiday or so 17th holiday.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi. Thank you. Yep. Yep. My name is Bill Giglio, uh, Wynton street. Um, I'm actually glad that you just read that last part off. Um, so I've been in attendance, uh, for all, I think you guys have had three or four meetings so far. Um, I did apply to be on this board, uh, this panel, but I wasn't chosen, but however, um, the panel that was picked, you guys are doing a great job and you're more than capable of this task. Um, would I like to say about at the tail end of the last meeting, the human's right commission chair, Shelley had called in and truly diminished the good work you guys are doing with some explicit racist remarks and unnecessary comments that were flat out uncalled for and unnecessary. The city's never going to move forward with anything, you know, with anything with this type of nonsense continues. I was kind of disappointed that either chair didn't stop, you know, didn't step in to stop it, but I do understand you guys might've been caught off guard. I definitely did reach out to a couple, several city officials who I definitely have heard back from and I do appreciate that. Again, I wanna thank you guys for all you're doing and the volunteer time that you're putting in to make Medford a great place to live. Thank you again.
[Bill Giglio]: Yep.
[Bill Giglio]: Number eight, you said there was a gentleman, Michael Welch. So I think it's important to, so is he being, is it voluntary or is he being paid? He's being paid. So it's also important that, as a taxpayer, that, how did you find Mr. Welch?
[Bill Giglio]: My only concern was because his name rang a bell because he was just, I'm sure you would know, he was involved in a civil rights lawsuit. last August through the school that I'm lost. So I was just curious how this all came together. Is that correct? Yeah. So I'm just curious because I just remember the equity process that company that some of the employees that were with them. I'm just curious how we, we came about choosing him as a taxpayer. And if he's going to be involved in our schools,
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, my name is Bill Giglio. I live on Winthrop street. I won't even take more than 30 seconds. I just wanted to let you guys know as a citizen, you know, as a citizen of Medford, we really appreciate the, Personally, I really appreciate that you guys are all taking the time to look at this because it's definitely very long overdue. And I think from some of the people that I know on the committee right there, we're definitely in good hands. So thank you guys very much.
[Bill Giglio]: Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. So my two boys are out of school now. And yesterday, my phone, when it was blowing up, all that I got was text messages saying, aren't you glad our kids are out of here? And unfortunately, for me, that's not the truth. I still have a seven-year-old, second grade. In seven short years, she's going to be up at that high school. A little girl who Ms. Braley here was very instrumental in, in her beginning years. When we talk about leadership, we talk about elected officials, we should talk about, you know, some of the things, you know, when an elected official goes on a Zoom meeting and says a pocket knife is really not a suspendable offense, and look what happened yesterday, somebody got stabbed. When that same elected official posts pictures
[Bill Giglio]: Okay, electric and electric.
[Bill Giglio]: Please.
[Bill Giglio]: You can ask me to leave.
[Bill Giglio]: Leadership stops at the top, okay, and it doesn't go with messages like this.
[Bill Giglio]: Okay.
[Bill Giglio]: when that elected official on a school Zoom meeting says that bringing a pocket knife is not a suspendable offense. Look what happened yesterday. Is now a pocket knife a suspendable offense? Completely out of context statement.
[Bill Giglio]: Right. But when people, when kids hear that taking a pocket knife to school is not a suspendable offense, what do you think might happen when people say that out of context and repeat it and repeat it over again?
[Bill Giglio]: What's out of context? Watch the video you can see for yourself. Most likely you won't watch it though. And you won't respond like it was so that that's all I want to say leadership stats at the top and it doesn't start with thank you stuff like this.
[Bill Giglio]: How are you, sir? So I just want to know if anyone has ever, ever came down on during the spring and fall seasons during on a Saturday and Sunday when other cities are coming in to play games and right across from Victory Park where both sides are being utilized for parking. And if you're gonna put a bike lane there, you know the next spot that they're gonna go to are on the side streets. And then you're gonna get a whole nother bunch of complaints. Do you know what I'm saying? I don't know if anyone's has ever come down during, actually I think Alicia used to have kids that play soccer. So she might know. the amount of cars that need parking space. Right now there's no parking for Victory Park. There's very, there's very, very little parking for such a big park and for other cities that come into this, that come into the city to play games for people to park.
[Bill Giglio]: Yep. Right, right across the street from, uh, right from right across the street from Victory Park. On Winthrop Street, obviously. Now I know firsthand because I literally live here and I see the amount of cars that park here because of cities that are coming in to play soccer against Medford teams. And it's all day long, it's all day Saturday, it's all day Sunday. So there's gonna be no parking for the other cities to come in.
[Bill Giglio]: What did you get? How many times did you get and for how long? I'll invite you down here on different times and I'll show you differently for sure. You might not have been down here on the right day.
[Bill Giglio]: Okay. And? You only saw them parked across the street at Victory Park?
[Bill Giglio]: I'll tell you what I'll do. If you give me your email address, I'll take literally video pictures in every weekend when it's all backed up and I'll send them to you and I'll give you the exact dates.
[Bill Giglio]: You'll see, you can definitely see that when other cities are coming in here to play against Medford teams, or there's tournaments or whatever that, you know, that they're utilizing both sides because it's a big park and not very much parking.
[Bill Giglio]: Now, I don't know, again, and I don't know if you've been up at the high school on the weekends, but on Sundays, they have some church up there. And on Saturdays, I believe there's like a Japanese type classes that go on. And there's a lot of cars. There are a lot of cars up there. and they do swimming, they do a lot of, there's a lot of parking up there on weekends. I mean, I know, I live, I literally live right here, so I know.
[Bill Giglio]: And also, I just want to say one more thing. You have to also take into accountability, and again, I'll say it first hand, pulling out of these driveways, if you're going to make this tighter, it's hard enough pulling out on, or even backing out on to Winthrop Street. So if you're making it tighter, sometimes you're going over the other side, especially with the, I know Eversource won't always be here, but if you're making it tighter, it's not going to be good. I can tell you that there's going to be a lot of problems. And I'm definitely worried about someone getting hit by a bike coming down and somebody pulling out of a driveway. It's gonna happen. I mean, I won't say I told you so, but when it happens, I'll call up and say, I told you so. I'm not saying just for deficits, I'm not even on a normal day, Chief Buckley, there's getting out of these driveways onto Winter Street It's not the easiest turn, it's not the easiest way to get out depending on which way you're going.
[Bill Giglio]: I'm talking more of the bikes too. I'm talking to the people on the bikes are getting an hour. It's getting hotter. people pulling through their driveways to see. And if you're gonna, especially if you're gonna, I definitely wouldn't recommend the cones going up. That'll be, you know, that'll cause even more of a tie-up because, you know, you got buses that have to pull over for like, I'll tell you right now, for like my house, we got a special school bus that pulls up and, you know, they pull over and, you know, so.
[Bill Giglio]: So I don't want to listen to anything I have to say afterwards.
[Bill Giglio]: So, everything that the points that the tenants and Zachary as a saying as totally percent is a totally totally correct I mean the trauma, imagine the trauma and all that. going with the tenant when they're asked to pay more rent. Now imagine on top of that, having an override and they have to pay even more on top of that. So just, I need to think, people need to think about that. My second point is, why was I shut off on, why was I disabled on the chat on this? I can't figure out why. Every week I'm getting to say, when as soon as I write something, other people aren't being disabled. Is there a reason why I'm being disabled?
[Bill Giglio]: Then how is the things on the chat? There's chats going on.
[Bill Giglio]: Okay, I'll send you the screenshot tomorrow. It's most definitely.
[Bill Giglio]: I sorry no I was waiting for the thing to go up. So Bill Giglio went to freedom effort I just want to thank the police officers for putting this on. And I hope I'm not jinxing my any of this but is there a rain day just in case or is it is what it is.
[Bill Giglio]: Well, thank you guys. Thank you. Thanks to the police department for putting this on this is a, this is a sounds like a great event. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. I think pretty much what I just witnessed there is extortion. That's nothing less, nothing more. That's it. You guys should be embarrassed. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: I mean, I'm definitely not opposed to an override if it's used for specific reasons. I think, you know, Zach, I shouldn't say names, but people on this council have been pushing for an override since they've been trying to get elected two years ago, you know, since their first term. So this just happened to fall on their lap as a great opportunity to bring a presentation. And the presentation was actually pretty good. Uh, my, my question is though, if, if there is any type of an override, is there like, will, will, you know, the four councils up there that are always, uh, advocating for, you know, people's rent getting raised. I mean, that's what it's going to, will, will, will that all stop? Because when you start raising someone's taxes, especially a landlord, they're going to pass it on to the owners. And then we're going to hear that the cost of living and rent control and all that. So I'm just hoping, you know, if, if there is a, uh, an override that, you know, four members of the revolution will stop. you know, crying about the rent control, about rent, that's all.
[Bill Giglio]: Yep.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. I just want to note that with the, you know, throughout past meetings, we've always recognized, you know, ancient Flag Day, Pride Flag Day, this Flag Day, that Flag Day, but there was no mention of today being Flag Day right here in the United States, which is kind of saddening. But I just want to let, you know, remind you, June 14th, every single year is Flag Day here in America. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi. So, I share the same frustrations as the caller before. I don't know if you can see my screen, my profile screen, but it's a big block in the middle of the sidewalk. That's right at victory park. I've been looking at those curvings for literally three years now. Um, that was in the middle of a sidewalk last Saturday. That's an embarrassment. That's about 20 feet away from the playground. Kids drive their bike out of that playground, up and down that street. Um, I have, I literally have 12 screws in my spine and I, I went over there and moved I've been looking at this. I've been complaining. This has been going on for three years. I don't, I'm not even going to buy into any of your timelines. I'm not even going to think that that's going to happen because like I said, for the last three years, I've had Jersey barriers in front of my house. I've had this, I've had a dug up. I've hit potholes. I've hit that. I've been looking at these curvings and I, I have no faith. So I share the same frustrations as the last guy. But the biggest disgrace to me is this big, big piece of whatever that is granted or whatever curving. that was sitting in the middle of the sidewalk and it's a huge hazard.
[Bill Giglio]: Everybody shares the frustrations, but nothing's evident. Like, you know what? I mean, this is our city, right? I mean, we can't hold them to the fire, their feet to the fire, or no?
[Bill Giglio]: Oh, great, thank you. It's Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street, Medford. First, I'd like to say thank you to our Method Police Department. As we end the last day of the Police Appreciation Week, it's a little disappointing that the city doesn't really recognize this week as they do many others, and some even getting a full month of appreciation. So I would like to say thank you to the Metro Police Department. Second and through the chair, hopefully, I'd like to express my extreme frustration and disappointment in council members, Collins, Tseng, Zach Beas, and President Nicole Morell for their comments made about the Medford Police Department with members Kit Collins and Zach Beers demanding an apology for an incident that has not yet been investigated or concluded. Myself and many others feel that these types of actions from our elected officials are what continue to divide this city and make all citizens feel uneasy when it comes to the Medford Police Department. Although I know it probably won't happen, we kindly ask that you all rescind those comments made until there is a complete and final conclusion from that incident. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, it's Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. Hello, Council. I'm calling tonight in regards to the newly hired Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Director. I promise I will not use any names. It was reported by several local news sites that this individual was just recently let go by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where they held a very similar job they do here in Medford. According to these reports, allegedly the reason being was that they were fraudulently giving many people who work for the state vaccine exempt statuses during a major pandemic where vaccines are mandatory in order to work at the state and also here in Medford as an employee. To me this seems a little extremely dangerous and very irresponsible. So my question is, We have seen long time city employees let go, told to resign or suspended in order to mental health evaluations. And was also noted in the paper that there were several other amazing applicants. Why was this particular person hired? And is this a concern of any of you? Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Thank you very much.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio. So first of all, I'd like to say congratulations, Nicole, for the birth of your baby. Congratulations. So I like to, on some of these columns that I'm looking at right now, you have a warning, civil, criminal, and arrest. Under the civil, it seems to be pretty much equal, I would say. Civil, I would almost say, is like getting pulled over and a cop saying, you know, getting pulled over, pulling a red light, maybe him saying go or just getting a simple traffic stop ticket for blowing a red light. Now, under the criminal, where it does seem to shift a little bit. Now, if there's something criminal going on, let's just say like there's no, they don't have a license, they don't have insurance, they don't have this or that. wouldn't you want our police officers who we trust to do their job to, um, you know, to hand out a ticket, uh, you know, it may, it may bring up that percentage. Yeah. But maybe they are, maybe they don't have their license. Maybe they were texting and driving. Maybe they don't have, um, maybe they don't have, you know, insurance or whatever the case may be. What, what would make it a criminal offense, not a civil offense. And as far as the arrest side goes, I'm, I'm always happy if, someone is arrested that should be arrested. Now, I personally, I don't think they're just arresting someone just because they're Hispanic. I see that's the highest number. Whites, Asian-Americans and blacks are obviously low. You know, a criminal, a criminal application could be even, you know, just like an unlicensed. But if let's just say somebody is breaking the law, like I'm talking breaking the law, which is an arrestable offense. I would almost think we should be happy that they are being arrested and they're being taken away off the road, whether it be for drunk driving, whether it be for whatever, driving intoxicated, whether it's on marijuana or something, or even texting and driving, which they almost consider as drunk driving now, because it's causing a distraction. So I'm just curious. Now, if you do get a report from the chief, Is he allowed to even say what the arrests were? Do we just have to go by, oh my goodness, look at this, Hispanics, 20% being arrested. Will we be able to see why anyone was arrested? Because other than that, I see, like I said, on the civil side, everything seems to be about the same. Criminal is, like I said, a criminal could be a multitude of things, which I would say warrants a criminal. And an arrest is an arrest, and what the arrest is for, would that type of data be available? And is that what you're going for? You're going for, let's just say, let's put out there why they were being arrested, why someone was arrested.
[Bill Giglio]: Hello, can you hear me? I'm sorry, did you unmute me? I apologize. All right, so I have just a couple of quick questions for Councilor Tseng, Councilor Calling. So if you're saying, you know, in Medford, you want them to be, you know, you don't want deportation, how many have actually been deported that live here in Medford and not being deported for a criminal reason? Do we have that number?
[Bill Giglio]: They don't have to, but can they?
[Bill Giglio]: I understand.
[Bill Giglio]: Okay, that's fine. And then one of the paragraphs I'm reading, it says, whereas in early September, 2021, that they're being sent anyone crossing over the borders is being held and then sent back. But I believe wasn't that policy put in because we, that was in the midst of a major pandemic, which I, you know, I've heard for the, like literally the last two years from everybody on this council, we can't even do major things in Medford, but if people are pouring into the country without being tested or we don't know, and they're literally being put on planes and dropped off into, uh, states like New York and here in Massachusetts, is that not concerning to anybody?
[Bill Giglio]: Why?
[Bill Giglio]: Yeah, why does he want to end this?
[Bill Giglio]: What was the lie? I challenged the lie. I challenged the lie.
[Bill Giglio]: As always, thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: civil, I would almost say is like getting a simple traffic stop ticket for blowing a red light. It does seem to shift a little bit. Okay, on the motion of Councilor Bears to
[Bill Giglio]: Giglio, Winthrop Street. I also would like to thank Cheryl when I saw this on the agenda tonight, I wanted to come down. We've known Cheryl since my boys were in grade school, but now more importantly, since we took on the task of taking custody of a three-year-old who's very behind special needs since day one, since the M.E.E.T. program, preschool, kindergarten, now going into first grade, Cheryl has taken the ball with her Not only has she given her the assistance that we thought she needed, but she's given her extra. She's, she's really good. I know Mr. Falco says there's thousands of kids. I can speak for one. Um, and I, I couldn't say thank you any more to, uh, miss Mayako. Um, and again, if, if there's ever a question that she emailed us with and we didn't get back to her, she would call us on the phone just to make sure she got that answer, whatever information she needed. So personally, I'd like to thank miss Mayako as well. Thank you. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: 399 Main Street, Medford, Greenfield Pizza.
[Bill Giglio]: Hi, Bill Giglio, Wentworth Street. What everybody said there is very true. I mean, my question to the council is, what as a council can you do to put some sort of a restriction on major name changes like this being put on the ballot? Because we, I mean, we know that the whole process was a farce. So we think they believe their own BS, whatever they want to do. So my question is, in the future, if this same school committee does get reelected, hypothetically, they can now just go on to do the Brooks School and then so on and so forth. Is there anything that the city can do where these major name changes can get put on the ballot. So the city, the community has more of an input, has more of a say, sort of the same way Wakefield just did with their mascot. They put it on the ballot and it got voted down. Is there anything that the council or the city can do, or is it the school only, only the school community has the jurisdictions for the schools?
[Bill Giglio]: So- Right, but it's still, it's still went on the ballot, you know, and in this, I'm, this is not gonna stop. I mean, it's gonna just continue. And if the community didn't have and input on the last one, we won't on the next one either. It's just the way it is, but thank you guys anyway. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Bill Giglio, Winthrop Street. I just want to, what no one's really put out there, I mean everybody already said everything that they wanted to say about Gene Barry, and I echo everything that they say, but one thing that no one's bringing up is out of the over 1,000 people that submitted, we've heard the number of 423 of Gene Barry, but no one, the next, the lowest was Belinda Sutton from the community with only 86 submissions, I believe. So I think that actually speaks volumes of what people actually want.
[Bill Giglio]: Good evening, name and address of the record, please. Bill Giglio on Winthrop Street. So I am both saddened and upset that the high school, that at the high school, the POW MIA flag at the front entrance has been replaced with a rainbow flag. The POW MIA flag represents over the 87,000 soldiers who have still never made it home while protecting this great country. While the rainbow flag represents someone's sexuality they get to enjoy the freedoms that these same soldiers fought for. I wrote to the entire school committee, the mayor and the superintendent on this, and I only heard back from one of them. I do realize that you guys as a committee have no say on what flies on the flagpoles at the high school, but I'm just using this platform just to use my voice to whomever makes the decisions to please do the right thing and put back the POW MIA flag. One of the suggestions from the person I did hear back from was that another flagpole would be needed to correct the situation. Well, it's a good thing they were in luck because there was an empty flagpole sitting in the courtyard with zero flags flying from it. So I don't know if the committee can do anything about it, but I just find it totally disrespectful that on May 31st, we had a great celebration. June 1st, that POW flag came down and another flag was put up. And before anyone thinks anything about me, just because it's a rainbow flag, that's not the case. Like I said, there was an empty flagpole in the courtyard. There's zero flags flying from it. I really don't think the POW flag should ever come down. And this is probably the third year in a row that this, that the flag, the POW flag has been replaced by the rainbow flag. There's many other flags out there that would never be hung. You know, we just lost two officers over the weekend and a thin blue flag would never, the thin blue flag represents foreign officers. A thin blue flag would never be hung on any of those poles at the high school. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Good evening, name and address of the record. Giglio, Winthrop Street. Thank you, Councilor Marks and the rest of the council for bringing this up consistently. I really appreciate it. I'm right in the middle of this project. Since two years ago, when they had the Jersey barriers right in front of my house, I would have to do a three point turn just to get out of my driveway. At the time, my son just got his license coming down the street. Now he, unfortunately, because he was a new driver, he hit that Jersey barriers many times. that they're gone, they took the curbing, which I believe I've sent to a lot of you guys, threw it across the street, and it's just thrown there. It's not placed, it's thrown there every which way. Some go this way, some go this way. There's also a black and white cement bowl that was dug up previously, and it's just thrown there. It's been there for two years now, I wanna say. Now that the plates are there, that's all we hear all night is the clink, clink, clink. I have a five-year-old, major sensory issues, She wakes up all night long. Unfortunately, that's what I sleep. Okay. She doesn't. And that's, you know, her bedrooms in the front. It's already painted pink. She can't switch with my son. So I want to thank everyone here so much for staying on top of this. I really, really appreciate it. Thank you.
[Bill Giglio]: Hello?
[Bill Giglio]: Can you hear me? I'm sorry, okay.
[Bill Giglio]: Can you hear me okay? Hello?
[Bill Giglio]: You can hear me fine? Okay, my name's Bill Giglio. My statement is for Paul, and this is not to pick on Paul or anything. Paul, you're in your second term, but yet this has never been an issue with you in the past. Your platform or anyone else on the committee's platform has never ran on the name change being such a high priority. Since becoming a member just before the 2019 election of an extreme left progressive group called the Our Revolution, this seems to fall right in line with their ideology of changing history and the national narrative of cancel culture. So your resolution to change the name of the Columbus School seems a little sketchy, suspicious, and disingenuous. Plus we all know this opens up the floodgates for everything else to be renamed. That's just my first half. But my second half is actually a question. This was obviously a go. So like the other gentleman had said, what is going to be the cost for this? When can we expect the breakdown of who's going to be doing such work, such as the lawyers, contractors, state filing fees, and what they're going to be getting paid to do their work? If this is being funded by some sort of donations, when can we expect a list of who's donating? And should a group such as the Our Revolution be allowed to donate? Because I can tell you, a lot of us do not want this coming out of school money or tax funded money.
[Bill Giglio]: I'll ask at this point, why if, if the, if the date would have been July, how come there's none of that is even thought of or, or, you know, research. I mean, that's, that's a, that's a huge factor.
[Bill Giglio]: So if you're saying you don't have, if you're saying that there was plenty, there was ample time and there's still ample time, then why is Kathy Creeds then asking for more time?
[Bill Giglio]: Well, and again, you know, I'm not trying to hit below the belt, but you say that, you know, we vote for you and make the decision. But I mean, it was also a time, don't forget, where a lot of people in the city did not know Paul is a convicted felon. Now they know. Do we kick him off the board? He still has a chance.
[Bill Giglio]: Yes, we can sorry, um My, uh, comment is for, uh, the school committee, uh, member of Jake. I, uh, oh, I'm sorry. His name is Paul Roscoe. I believe his name was. Uh, so, but, um, when we're talking about the school committee tonight or no, I know, but he had, he had a few, he had a few good points, but my point with that is, um, should, should he, uh, he needs to be a little professional. I mean, he needs to make his bed, I think. His bed's unmade.
[Bill Giglio]: Excuse me, sir. Please keep it professional. I am. I'm just, I'm trying to look at the thing here and his bed is unmade.