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Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building Chair Beauregard called the regular meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Members present: Clr. Finocchiaro, Clr. Simard, Clr. DiZoglio, Clr. Saffie, Clr. Zeigler and Chair Beauregard. Councilor Saba joined via Zoom Councilor McCarty and Councilor Faretra will join the meeting later in the evening. Acceptance of the Agenda MOTION BY: Councilor Zeigler, seconded by Councilor Saffie to accept the agenda. In response to Councilor Finocchiaro’s question regarding order of agenda items, Chair Beauregard explained that Councilor Saba has several items on the agenda that he has sponsored or cosponsored. Since he is joining us via Zoom every vote while he is here with us remotely would need to be through a roll call. The thought was we could dispense with the items that would require the roll call. When he eventually logs off, then Council could proceed with voice votes on regular items except for wage and salary classification items so that Council could speed things up a little bit. It is simply a reordering for convenience. Councilor Finocchiaro said because Council is going to be taking the three contracts, separately and as a whole, it didn’t make sense for her to ask the question on the first one. She asked the Solicitor how the Council would be doing that procedurally. Solicitor Rossetti explained Council would procedurally act on these items just as they would if this items appeared on the regular course of the agenda. Councilor Finocchiaro asked if it would be one vote. Chair Beauregard said it would be three separate votes. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 7 yes, 2 absent (Clr. Faretra, Clr. McCarty) Pledge of Allegiance/Invocation Everyone stood for the Pledge of Allegiance, the Invocation, and remained standing for a Moment of Silence in remembrance of the 911 victims of the attacks which included several individuals with Methuen ties, and a Moment of Silence for Barbara Stella Proclamations/Correspondence Pat Antoon of Community Development Department officially retired earlier this week. She worked for the city for three decades. There is going to be an event to honor Pat on September 21st and also to honor John Bonanno who is retiring as well. The Mayor is going to present a citation and perhaps Council could do something to recognize them both. Mayor Perry announced there is a joint luncheon for Pat Antoon and John Bonanno long time city employees. The City Council is invited to join them on the 21st. Consideration of Appointments – Jodi Lamirande – Board of Health MOTION BY: Councilor DiZoglio, seconded by Councilor Zeigler to approve. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 7 yes, 2 absent David DiZazzo – Conservation Commission MOTION BY: Councilor DiZoglio, seconded by Councilor Zeigler to approve. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 7 yes, 2 absent Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building Leah Santone – Conservation Commission MOTION BY: Councilor Saffie, seconded by Councilor Zeigler to approve. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 7 yes, 2 absent Michelle Leger – Cultural Council MOTION BY: Councilor Saffie, seconded by Councilor Zeigler to approve. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 7 yes, 2 absent Sandy Almonte, Disability Commission (City Designee) MOTION BY: Councilor Saffie, seconded by the Vice Chair to approve. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 7 yes, 2 absent Anne Gachohu – Disability Commission (replaces Rose Choquette who resigned) MOTION BY: Councilor DiZoglio, seconded by Councilor Zeigler to approve. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 7 yes, 2 absent Updated List of Council Committee 2022 Members MOTION BY: Councilor Simard, seconded by Councilor Zeigler to approve. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 7 yes, 2 abs. Presentations/Projects/Department Updates - None Public Participation Sergeant James Moore, President of the Methuen Superior Officers Association, said he has been with the association for 28 years and is starting his tenth year as a supervisor. He thanked Mayor Perry, CAFO Maggie Duprey, Chief McNamara, Solicitor Rossetti, Assistant Solicitor Peter McQuillan and Human Resource Director Lisa Crowley along with their own executive board getting us to today. It has been a long process. It’s an important date for the Methuen Police department, the Superior Officers’ Association and the City of Methuen as a whole. Back in January when our new leadership team took over, we were a mire in public distrust and our association and in our membership. They wrote a letter to the City Council and in it they wrote “our primary goal as the union body is to move forward working to reestablish the productive relationship our group had previously long enjoyed with the City of Methuen and its citizens. But the past nine months they have begun this process by working hard to re-engage with the community they have started to rebuild the trust between the city and the members of the Methuen Police Superior Officers’ Association. It brings us to today. They have worked collaboratively with the city to build a collective bargaining agreement that we can all be part of. This project was a complete rebuilding and restructuring of our labor agreement. They have listened to the City Council, the Mayor, and most importantly the citizens of Methuen who they serve and interact with on a daily basis. They took all of the issues that have been raised seriously and worked hard to address each and every one of them in this current contract proposal. They have overcome enormous obstacles to get to this point. They spent a good part of the last nine months trying to get this right. The proposal was agreed to with the city’s negotiating team and overwhelming supported by our membership when they brought it back. Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building They believe that the contract proposal here tonight addresses all of the needs and all of the problems. Three highlights on the contract: first, it gives full payback to the City of Methuen for the 2018 Memorandum of Understanding pay and all of the city’s arbitration costs. This makes the city whole financially. Two, it eliminates the stacking language and untethers from a patrol officers’ contract. Three, this contract is incentivized by rank and by years of service. The new charts that are set up by rank and years of service save the city additional money over the life of a contract and going forward. He recently heard a phrase he thinks applies here. “Don’t let the past poison your future”. This phrase applies to this proposal. He asked Council to join with them in finally turning the page on this Chapter for our city by supporting this proposed CBA. We’ve proven that together we can work on problems and solve them and together come up with solutions that everybody can agree on. If this proposal is approved on the first read tonight, it helps them to continue to build on a relationship of mutual trust that they’ve all been trying to get to. He thanked everyone for their time and continued support as they continue to move forward with this. C-23-21 Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City and the MPSOA (Methuen Police Superior Officer’s Association: FY18-20 Memorandum of Agreement between the City of Methuen and the Methuen Police Superior Officer’s Association MOTION BY: Councilor Saffie, seconded by Councilor Saba to approve. Councilor Simard recused himself and left the room because part of the contract could possibly involve a Lawrence police officer working a detail. Councilor Saba commented this is a very monumental night for the City of Methuen. It closes a very dark chapter in our city’s history that began with the creation of one of the most egregiously written contracts every concocted Looking back on the 2018/2019 years, no one could have ever drempt that we would have this outcome tonight. While standing up for the taxpayers, we as a Council, took criticism from some who attacked them personally through the years, accusing Councilors of being reckless, that they’d bankrupt the city if they didn’t accept the MOU, and so much more that everyone is aware of. Council was also told that they would most likely never be able to claw back the money that went out for that MOU or the legal cost that the city incurred. Council never had to attempt to do that. Council heard the words just now of Sergeant Moore who is the President of that union. The union voluntarily came to the city, they said tear up, throw away any old contracts. We are willing to start from scratch. Let’s write a new contract. No need for redlining, no need for editing and making confusing changes. Let’s just write a new contract. They also voluntarily, at the very start of this, said and once we negotiate this contract, we want to pay back the MOU and the legal cost the city incurred from the arbitration. What we have tonight is a very clean, clear, without all the stacking that lead to all of this, it’s all gone now. Tonight, Council is voting on this contract. It’s incredibly fair to both sides. The city recovered the money spent on the MOU and the arbitration and both sides end up with a very fair deal and it took the work of a lot of people to get us here tonight: the Mayor, the Solicitor, the Assistant Solicitor, the CAFO, and without mentioning any names because everyone on the Council had input in getting us to this point. The individual group efforts of the City Council who made the difficult decision to reject not one, but two MOUs have stayed laser focused on getting us to this point. We also had the new Police Chief and the new union leadership who Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building came together with the city to come up with this very fair contract. He pointed out that Attorney John Foskette of Valerio, Dominello, the work that he provided which saved the city millions of dollars and also the community who came and spoke and stood up and fought and encouraged Council to stay the course. Tonight, our police department is back on track better than ever and making positive news again for this city. This contract, in summary, is better than anyone could have hoped for. It is a great contract for the city. Many of us were ready in saying we were not going to give into anything, but the best for the city and that has been presented to Council tonight. He is looking forward to making this vote tonight and moving the city forward. Councilor DiZoglio stated there are a lot of people that need to be commended for this. First the Superiors that are here tonight, he thanked the Board. The amount of transparency that has come from that group of officers. This is the series finale of this trilogy tonight. Council being able to vote on the first time on this and actually closing this chapter, is a pivotal moment when, again, repeating what Councilor Saba said was going to bankrupt the City of Methuen regardless of if it passed or if we lost the lawsuit. This is good governing right here. This is good negotiations and this is again, a good point in the right direction that this administration, this Council has done on getting the right people in the right job, less lawsuits, less problems and we are in a great spot. This is the true city now, with this behind us. And he has to say, with the governing board here and the Mayor’s office and Maggie and to our Chief who stepped into this, who applied for the job knowing what he had to get into. This is a proud moment for a lot of us. Again, from other Councilors that have been here for almost six years that had to go through this fight from the beginning. He commended everyone for keeping their posture on this and pushing the fight and being a part of it and not letting bad governing win. Methuen has a bright future ahead after this. Councilor Zeigler said this is a very important moment in the city’s history. It started back in 2018 when Council was faced with a fiscally irresponsible contract. Since then, we’ve seen several agreements come before this Council that Council was highly encouraged to accept. But they would not have been fair, and they would not have been fiscally responsible for this city and it was rejected. Council stood together in ensuring that we would have something that the city could be proud of. Thankfully, this year with the change in leadership in the Superior Officers’ union and with the steadfastness of the Mayor’s administration and the Chief, we have that before us. As Councilors said, we have a fair contract before us. We are now in a position where we are taking a big step forward in the right direction towards a strong partnership ensuring that we are continuing to be mindful of the tax dollars of the citizens of this city. She is encouraged by what is before Council tonight. Council has several agreements before them that they will be discussing. She is largely in favor because of the diligent process that was taken and the fact that Council has something before them that makes sense. Council has something before them that is a good thing for the city. She is grateful to all the parties who were involved in ensuring we could get to this point. She is looking forward to continuing to make stronger decisions for the city. Councilor Saffie stated she is very grateful to the Superiors’ union, the Mayor, CAFO, and Chief for listening to all of the Council’s complaints, the community stepping up and getting the job done. She knows this really isn’t said enough but she is extremely proud and Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building thankful of our police department, the Superiors’ Union, and our Chief. She looks forward to moving forward. This was a great job. Councilor Finocchiaro said she shares the sentiments of her colleagues. There has been a long, long road over the course of years. Council has been given MOUs through multiple sets of leaders, legal teams, different Councils and asked to make those decisions time and time again. It is truly a testament to the residents who were laser focused on Council sorting this out in a meaningful way. Councilors have been focused in their own way in trying to make sure that they come to the same goal with the least harsh impact on the department as a whole. Here we are. It’s been a few years since the worry and stress behind it. Councilor Zeigler and she fought really hard not wanting half of the police department to be laid off. That was something they fought for during all these discussions. That is something through all of this that she is most proud of that even though Councilors had a very different opinion on how to go about this, they were all able to work together, challenge each other and come to good resolutions. It is important to note that there is a significant financial impact with these contracts. Council has total numbers from our CAFO that has the total costs through all of these years, the total and this includes everything, premium pay through ARPA, all of those different things. That is approximately 1.4 million dollars. As far as the content, Council will get in that discussion during the later items. On this first one, she said the Superior officers really dug quite far into making sure that they are rectifying the issues of the past financially and without us having to go to further court, etc. She is grateful. Many of the Councilors anticipated that this would potentially continue on for several more years and more taxpayer dollars spent on those legal fees. She is relieved. It is a big step forward for working together as a community, with the department, and also with trying to make sure that the residents understand this change, this shift that is happening in the department. That is really important. There are different parts of all of these under three different items that Council can discuss further. She is proud of Methuen. It has been a long road. It is important that Council take this step and not move backwards. Chair Beauregard stated this is an extremely reasonable contract. It corrects many of the injustices inflicted on the taxpayers in the past especially the absurd provisions in the 2017 contract and improper payout of the MOU of 2018. It corrects everything there. It is a huge step forward. He strongly believes that it will be seen as a corner stone of the legacy of Mayor Perry and his administration, the legacy of this Council, and all the residents that spoke out over the years. It is a testament to the new leadership of the Methuen Police Department and the Superior Officers’ Union. Job well done! Mayor Perry noted he appreciates all the kind comments and support Councilors have given and feedback with the contracts. Mayor Perry asked the E Board members to stand. Over the course of nine months there were many, many difficult discussions but at no time during the discussions did they ever feel disrespected by the Superior Officers’ Union. He gave his heartfelt commendation to the Superior Officers for working with administration to get this done. They really appreciate everything the superior officers do for the city. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 6 yes, 2 absent, 1 out of the room (Clr. Simard) Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building FY21 Memorandum of Agreement between the City of Methuen and the Methuen Police Superior Officer’s Association MOTION BY: Councilor DiZoglio, seconded by Councilor Zeigler. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 6 yes, 2 absent, 1 out of the room (Clr. Simard) FY22-24 Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City of Methuen and the Methuen Police Superior Officer’s Association MOTION BY: Councilor DiZoglio, seconded by Councilor Zeigler. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 6 yes, 2 absent, 1 out of the room (Clr. Simard) Letter of Intent Regarding Contractual Time Compensation between the City of Methuen and the Methuen Police Superior Officer’s Association MOTION BY: Councilor DiZoglio, seconded by Councilor Zeigler to approve. Councilor Finocchiaro said she hasn’t heard any context on this issue. Maybe some of the other Councilors have but she hasn’t. She asked the Mayor or the CAFO to explain the content. It is her understanding that a portion of the agreement was taken to the side and this was dealt with separately from the other agreements. She’s read it and thinks the contexts would be helpful. Mayor Perry explained one of the other things eliminated was longevity going forward which is a huge liability for the city in all contracts for the city except one and they will work on that next time. For the police contracts, they had a feature called “contractual time” where if an officer was doing something other than he or she was supposed to be doing. If an officer was sent to training, external to the city even, when they were getting paid to be working in the city patrolling the streets, whatever their regular duties were there was a feature built into past contracts called “contractual time”. The Superiors’ Union was very good in working with us because one of our hardfast negotiating was we don’t believe in the existence of “contractual time”. The Mayor said he has never seen it outside the City of Methuen and wanted to do away with it. The city had to be fair with the people who accrued some contractual time. Over the course of many discussions, they came to a negotiated position where this letter of intent crafts a way for certain officers who have collected some of that “contractual time” to use some of it before they retire and to not place such a liability on the city. Going forward, eliminates the ability for any officer to accrue “contractual time”. If you look at the CBA itself and the reason for the letter is if you go into the CBA, it says the city does not recognize “contractual time”. That is in essence what it is saying in the CBA. The side letter was to make a substantive agreement to allow people who had accrued time, in good faith with the city, on previous contracts and allow them to use that in such a way that it would not be the financial liability that we forecast for the city but at the same time forced off the accrual of “contractual time” going forward. That is the negotiating reason for the separate letter. Solicitor Rossetti added to the Mayor’s point of lessening the financial impact on the city that would otherwise be incurred if all officers in the union got 100% of the “contractual time” paid out in cash upon retirement. It is important to know that within Letter of Intent there is a limited window when in which a prorated amount can be paid out in “contractual time” and actually to that final point the agreement reverts back to the CBA provision that there is absolutely no recognition of contractual time. Those officers covered by the Letter of Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building Intent have to exercise their right under the Letter of Intent within the three fiscal years in that letter. CAFO Duprey explained there is discussion in that side letter about FY 23, 24, and 25. These officers are not going to receive those payments in each of those years. It is basically showing you that if they were to retire in one of those years, that’s what they would get in that year. All of these officers aren’t going to be receiving payouts in all of those three years. It is really just to say, “you have a three-year window” and if you were to retire during that three year window, depending on the year, this is what it would look like. Councilor Finocchiaro noted, based on that table, the maximum financial impact would be $171,425.84. The CAFO said that is correct. Councilor Finocchiaro indicated she would put forth a motion to table based on the fact that the backup information wasn’t posted. If that doesn’t pass, she will be voting present because that violates our City Council rules. It needs to be posted 48 hours in advance and it wasn’t on the city’s website. Chair Beauregard said the CBA was on the website. If you click on the link it would take you to the Letter of Intent as well as the CBA. Councilor Finocchiaro said it is posted under the wrong item. If you go to the heading for this item, there is no document posted. The point of that rule Council made is so that if the residents are going to look at each item there would have been no document for them to look at for this particular item. This is what she has done in the past with every item that this has applied to. She will either vote no or present because this is something she believes Council should be doing. A lot times she catches ahead of time and it goes up, sometimes it doesn’t. She read this letter and thinks it makes sense. It makes sense to limit it to that $171,000 but that is an issue with the city side of things not the superior officers’ issue. That is with us posting it. MOTION BY: Councilor Finocchiaro to table. No second. Motion failed. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 5 yes, 1 present (Clr. Finocchiaro) 2 absent, 1 out of room (Clr. Simard) C-23-23 Valerio, Dominello & Hillman, LLC for Legal Services $5,000.00 Requested by Councilor Saba and Chair Beauregard MOTION BY: Councilor Saffie, seconded by Councilor Saba to approve. Councilor Simard returned to the room. Councilor Saba explained this is an annual contract to have them on retainer. If Council doesn’t need them, we don’t pay for this. It is a $5,000 contract. He and the Chair spoke with Attorney Foskette over the police contract to make sure that he didn’t see anything as well as with Sean Cronin, but this is something that Council needs in place to have an outside Counsel. This takes nothing away from our Solicitor or our assistant solicitor. It had been clear and helped us so many times in the past where Council has the ability, when necessary, to go to outside Counsel. Valerio, Dominello & Hillman is at the very top of the list for municipal law and the best as far as being respected in the cities and state. He hopes Council supports this. Council should always maintain a contract so Council has an option for outside legal counsel. Chair Beauregard said, along with our Solicitor, Attorney Foskette is a trusted and indispensable supplemental resource. He encouraged Council to vote in favor of this contract. Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 6 yes, 1 no, 2 absent (Clr. McCarty, Clr. Faretra) TR-22-70 A Resolution to Adopt Proposed Amendments to the City of Methuen Memorials and Dedications Policy (Requested by Councilors Saba, DiZoglio, McCarty) amended on August 1st MOTION BY: Councilor DiZoglio, seconded by Councilor Zeigler to approve as amended. Councilor Finocchiaro asked the Solicitor if he had a chance to review updated language and is all set. Solicitor Rossetti responded yes. UPON ROLL CALL VOTE: 7 yes, 2 absent (Clr. McCarty, Clr. Faretra) Councilor Saba said this is a very long agenda and while we are on Zoom it requires a roll call vote. He appreciates having some of these critical items at the beginning of the agenda. In order to get this meeting moving smoothly without required roll calls, he left the meeting at this point. Mayor’s Report Mayor Perry reported unemployment, through the end of July, remains at 4.5% in the city which is still higher than our traditional 3.3. It has not gone down significantly over the last three months. He thanked Chair Beauregard for posting the jobs regularly. There are many jobs still available on the city and the school sides. He urged residents to take a look and help us get that 4.5% down. Council has contracts before them on paving tonight. The city is trying to get as much done before the weather turns. Councilor Faretra asked for what was finished with the previous fiscal year’s allocation of Chapter 90 and what’s planned. The Mayor distributed information on what got completed and what didn’t. The city started last year and got a good amount of it done, places like Oakland Avenue, etc. and then the weather came in. We did some more in the Spring. We have another 1.9 million dollars and that’s given to us by the state for Chapter 90 for paving. The survey they did says to maintain the city needs to pave about 3.1 million a year. The city is only doing 1.9 million. At some point they are going to have to have a discussion about how we fund additional paving whether we do it through the Capital Improvement Plan or use Free Cash or maybe some of the ARPA to pave additional streets because many of the streets that residents call us on, the city is doing them in RSA order. That is road surface rating. Steve Gagnon is here if Council has any questions. The city follows that religiously. If the city was to do all the streets that require repaving, digging them up, repaving them, the city would go through the 1.9 million in probably three or four streets. They take a track that says “how do we maintain some of them?” There’s mill and fill on there. There’s other approaches for how we maintain as many roads as possible with the 1.9 million. He will be coming back to Council for additional suggestions on that. The Mayor said he also has the first draft of some of the ARPA projects. They put together a project timeline for Council. This is not locked in stone and does not have the DPW building on it yet. These are the water and sewer Projects. They sat with our consultants and talked about there’s so many water and sewer, how will they dovetail together? The city could not support huge water and sewer projects, including one for almost ten million dollars in the Arlington neighborhood. The city could not contain doing them all consecutively. What they have done with the consultants and kudos the Pat Bower and his team is to lay out a timeline of when we would start them and then planning and execution of each of them 48:00 Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building Reading and Acceptance of Minutes from Previous Meetings: May 2, 2022 regular meeting (remove from the table), June 14th, 2022 special meeting, June 22, 2022 special meeting, and January 19, 2022 regular meeting (continuation) 1. Public Service a. Grants: • None b. Licenses: • None c. Contracts: C-23-13 N. Granese & Sons, Inc., 59 Jefferson Avenue, Salem, MA 01970 for Emergency Water Transmission Repair – Woodland Street in the Amount of $82,979.56 C-23-14 Full Circle Technologies, Inc., 11 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 for Annual License for Permiteyes Permitting Software in the Amount of $29,815.00 C-23-15 Dennis K. Burke, Inc. 555 Constitution Drive, Taunton, MA 02780 for Vehicle Gasoline & Premium Diesel Fuel, Mass. State contract #ENE47 (Diesel) and ENE 48 (87 Octane) (July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024) Prices shall be based upon OPIS (Oil Price Information Service) daily low price for Boston C-23-16 Everett J. Prescott, Inc., 162 No. Main Street, Middleton, MA 01949 for Manhole & Catch Basis Frames & Covers & Gate Boxes in the Amount of $64,000.00 C-23-17 Brox Industries, Inc., 1471 Methuen Street, Dracut, MA 01844 for Cold Planing & Profiling of Bituminous Surfaces Amount: Cold Planing & Profiling (Load Contractors Trucks & Disposing outside Methuen) $46,400.00. (20,000/sy @ $2.32/sy) C-23-18 Woodard and Curran, Inc., 40 Shattuck Road, Suite 110, Andover, MA 01810 for Granit Street Transmission Main (16 Inch) for Granite Street Transmission Main (16 Inch) in the Amount of $69,275.00 C-23-19 All States Construction, Inc., 325 Amherst Road, P.O. Box 91, Sunderland, MA 01375 C-23-20 E J Paving Co., Inc., 101 Lindberg Ave., Methuen, MA 01844 for Bituminous Concrete Pavement, Handwork, Curb and Berm (Item 1) in the Amount of $1,079,517.00 C-23-22 Tasco Construction, Inc., 92 Stoneybrook Road, Belmont, MA 02478 for Manhole Casting Adjustment in the Amount of $272,500.00 2. Other Officers and Committee Reports 3. Unfinished Business Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building TR-22- 69 A Resolution Accepting a Gift of Land – John J. Sunderland, Jr. Parcel ID: 318-165A-53-Wicasset Street (remove from the table) TR-22-71 Resolution Authorizing Acceptance of $6,540 Massachusetts Vest-A-Dog Grant TR-22-72 Order Authorizing a Borrowing to Pay Costs for the Fiscal Year 2023 Capital Improvement Plan Ordinances: TO-22-18 An Ordinance to establish Solid Waste Program Revolving Fund TO-22-20 An Ordinance Amending the Wage & Salary Classification Plan, Middle Management, Assistant Purchasing Agent TO-22-21 An Ordinance Amending the Wage & Salary Classification Plan, Unaffiliated, Deputy Police Chief TO-22-22 An Ordinance Amending the Wage & Salary Classification Plan, Middle Management, System Administrator 4. New Business Resolutions: TR-22-72 Resolution Authorizing Acceptance of a Fiscal Year 2023 Commonwealth of Massachusetts State 911 Department Training grant $139,304 TR-22-73 A Resolution Amending Traffic Rules and Regulations – No Parking Signs – Gleason Street TR-22-74 A Resolution Amending Traffic Rules and Regulations – 3-way stop signs Russ Street @ Fairoaks Avenue TR-22-75 A Resolution Proclaiming Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in the City of Methuen TR-22-76 Resolution Authorizing Acceptance of a Fiscal Year 2023 Commonwealth of Massachusetts State 911 Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) Grant $16,217 TR-22-77 An Act Relative to the Reinstatement of Positions in a Departmental Unity According to Seniority for the City of Methuen TR-22-78 An Act Relative to the Maximum Age Requirement for Police Officers for the City of Methuen Ordinances: TO-22-23 An Ordinance Amending the Wage and Salary Classification position of Deputy Director of Public Works TO-22-24 An Ordinance Amending the Wage and Salary Classification Plan, Unaffiliated, to add the new position of Grant Administrator Methuen City Council – Regular Meeting Monday, September 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm Great Hall, Searles Building TO-22-25 Ordinance to Amend Section 8-11 of the Municipal Code of the City of Methuen to add fees for the disposal of Bulk Trash Items 5. Requests of Councilors 6. Any Other Business for the Good and Welfare of the Community 7. Adjourn