Agenda:

Item 1: Minutes of December 13, 2023 meeting

Item 2: 1-2-24 JOURDAIN — that there be and is hereby appropriated by transfer in the fiscal year 2024, TWENTY THOUSAND SEVENTY EIGHT AND 00/100 Dollars ($20,078) as follows:
FROM:
16101-51111 LIBRARY ASSISTANT (NIGHT) $20,078
TOTAL: $20,078
TO:
16101-51102 REFERENCE LIBRARY ASSISTANCE $20,078
TOTAL: $20,078

Item 3: 12-19-23 JOURDAIN — that there be and is hereby appropriated by transfer in the fiscal year 2024, NINE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT DOLLARS AND 13/100 Dollars ($9,768.13) as follows:
FROM:
11752-53010 OPED-CONTRACT SERVICES $9,768.13
TOTAL: $9,768.13
TO:
11751-51500 VACATION BUYBACK $4,770.36
11751-51510 SICK LEAVE BUYBACK 4,997.77
TOTAL: $9,768.13

Item 4: 12-19-23 MCGIVERIN — that in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 44 Sec. 53A, the City Council hereby accepts the provisions of the “COMMUNITY PLANNING GRANT PROGRAM, $90,000, NO MATCH ” grant and authorizes the establishment of a Fund or other method appropriate for the accounting of the receipts and expenditures of all resources associated with the administration of said grant.

Item 5: 1-2-24 JOURDAIN — that there be and is hereby appropriated by transfer in the fiscal year 2024, THIRTY THOUSAND AND 00/100 Dollars ($30,000) as follows:
FROM:
14101-51101 ENGINEER/ASST DPW SUPERINTENDANT $15,000
14101-51105 SR CIVIL ENGINEER 15,000
TOTAL: $30,000
TO:
14102-53010 PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES $30,000
TOTAL: $30,000

Item 6: 12-19-23 MCGIVERIN — that there be and is hereby appropriated by transfer in the fiscal year 2024, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND AND 00/100 Dollars ($300,000) as follows:
FROM:
8810-10400 CITY STABILIZATION $300,000
TOTAL: $300,000
TO:
19412-57630 CLAIMS & DAMAGES $300,000
TOTAL: $300,000

Item 7: 8-1-23 (copy) JOURDAIN — Ordered, That Cook and Company be invited to a future finance subcommittee meeting to review their recent health insurance analysis for the city.

Item 8: 12-15-20 MURPHY, SULLIVAN — Ordered that the police and fire chiefs appear before the finance committee to document how much of the police overtime total of $266,682 expended through the end of October was to cover for vacations, sick time, injured on duty status, and grant related detail. The same information is requested for the fire department and the expenditure of $157,305 through October. In both cases, how many persons per shift being absent leads to use of overtime? The goal of this order is to determine if we are at our most cost effective staffing levels without jeopardizing public safety.
*Tabled 12-28-20

Item 9: (copy) 9-7-21 BARTLEY, LEAHY, MCGIVERIN, SULLIVAN, TALLMAN — The Law Department provide City Council with an updated legal opinion regarding the city’s supervisors association and include within it, at a minimum, the following: whether the association is a union: if it is a union, when was this designation approved and by what authority; under what general law is it affiliated; and please specify the department heads who serve at the Mayor’s pleasure. Further, please provide the specific department heads included within the association. Please provide any past legal opinions and relevant exhibits.

Item 10: 3-1-22 (copy) JOURDAIN, PUELLO — The Mayor’s office please provide the City Council with a list of all current host community agreements from marijuana companies in our city. Please also provide us a list of how much revenue we are generating annually from each of these agreements.

Item 11: 3-2-21 MURPHY — Ordered, that as the city considers purchasing any replacement vehicles it reach out to the state to see if the city could be eligible for significant rebates off the purchase price of electric vehicles. The MOR-EV program offers rebates to private as well as public entities for purchasing electric vehicles now including trucks.
In addition, that the city look into the Massachusetts Green Communities grant program which provides funding to assist with the installation of EV charging infrastructure.
*Tabled 5-10-21, 6-7-21