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MUNICIPAL COUNCIL AGENDA CHESTER R. MARTIN MUNICIPAL COUNCIL CHAMBERS 15 SUMMER STREET, TAUNTON, MA 02780 City Clerk's Office JUNE 21, 2022 - 7:00 PM NoticeJ Time: . P.io;- ·-71Jrn :::! INVOCATION ROLL CALL RECORDS Date: ~ OPPORTUNITY FOR INPUT BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC • Comments will be received for the record • Please state your name and address • Please limit comments to 3 minutes or less • Supplemental written comments may also be provided • Comments should be respectful and courteous HEARING - NONE COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE MAYOR • Community Update • COVID-19 Update APPOINTMENTS - NONE COMMUNICATIONS FROM CITY OFFICERS Pg. I Com. from Chairman, Taunton Planning Board- Notifying of a Public Hearing and Meeting Pg. 2 Com. from Chairman, Taunton Planning Board - Notifying of a Public Hearing and Meeting Pg. 3 Com. from Safety Officer, Taunton Police Department - Submitting a response (SEE SEPARATE PACKET) Pg. 4 Com. from Commissioner, Parks, Cemeteries & Public Grounds - Revolving Account COMMUNICATIONS FROM CITIZENS Pg. 5 Com. from Barbara Monteiro, Secretary, Holy Ghost Society, 545 Middleboro Ave., Taunton- Extending an Invitation Pg. 6-7 Com. from Philip Smith, CEO, Freshly Baked - Submitting Gross Revenue Report PETITIONS Claim Claim submitted by Ashleigh Hicks, 55 Brandy Lane, Taunton, MA 02780 seeking reimbursement for damages to her automobile from hitting potholes on Myles Standish Blvd. near the U.S. Postal Office. (Already referred to the Law Department and the DPW). Marijuana Application - RENEWALS Application submitted by Bracts & Pistils, LLC for the RENEWAL of their Marijuana Delivery License located at 144 West Britannia Street, Taunton. Application submitted by HTC Trinity, LLC for the RENEWAL of their Marijuana Retail License located at 354 Winthrop Street, Taunton. Application submitted by Freshly Baked Company for the RENEWAL of their Marijuana Manufacturer and Microbusiness with Delivery Endorsement located at 144 West Britannia St., Taunton. Application submitted by Commonwealth Alternative Care for the RENEWAL of their Marijuana Cultivation, Retailer and Products Manufacturer located at 30 Mozzone Boulevard, Taunton. COMMITTEE REPORTS UNFINISHED BUSINESS - NONE ORDERS, ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS - NONE NEW BUSINESS - NONE  TAUNTON PLANNING BOARD 141 Oak St. - Office Address I. 15 Summer St. - Mailing Address Taunton, Massachusetts 02780 Phone 508-821-1051Fax508 821-1043 Denise J Paiva, ,)ecretary QJ29:iY_ili£llta u11t oll:Llla.· go y June 13, 2022 Honorable Shaunna L. O'Connell, Mayor Members of the Municipal Council 15 Summer St. Taunton, Ma. 02780 C/O Rose Marie Blackwell, City Clerk RE: Site Plan Review Modification - 44 Dean St. & Map 55, Lots 756, 757 and 758 Dear Mayor O'Connell and Members of the Municipal Council: The Taunton Planning is in receipt of a Site Plan Review modification for property 44 Dean St. & Map 55, Lots 756, 757 and 758 for the construction of 23 residential condominiums and 1,423 sq. ft. of Office Use. Modifications are shift in mailboxes northerly outside the riverfront area, shift 9 parking spaces northerly outside the riverfront area, shift 4 parking spaces to an area north of the historic building, plant the riverfront area with shrubs that increase the habitat value. The end result is the same number of parking spaces as previously approved with less impervious pavement and improvement landscaping. Submitted by Innovative Investments Corp. The DIRB will review this petition will be on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 8:30 AM in the Taunton Planning Board Office, 141 Oak St., and then the Planning Board will review this on Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 15 Summer St., City Hall, Taunton, Ma. Sincerely, ~i~CU( t1d TAUNTON PLANNING BOARD  TAUNTON PLANNING BOARD ~1 141 Oak St. - Office Address 15 Summer St. - Mailing Address Taunton, Massachusetts 02780 Phone 508-821-1051 Fax 508 821-1043 Denise J Paiva, Secretary dpaiva@taunton-ma.gov June 14, 2022 Honorable Shaunna L. 0' Connell, Mayor Members of the Municipal Council 15 Summer St. Taunton, Ma. 02780 CIO Rose Marie Blackwell, City Clerk RE: Site Plan Review Modification - 772-784 County St. Dear Mayor O'Connell and Members of the Municipal Council: The Taunton Planning is in receipt of a for Site Plan Review Modification for property at 772 & 784 County Street for the construction of a 10, 700 square foot building in the Highway Business District, consisting of 5,500 sq. ft. ofretail space and 5,200 sq. ft. restaurant space, submitted by Shoreline Holdings. LLC Modification is to allow for one curb cut instead of two curb cuts to comply with MassDOT requirements and 6 additional parking spaces. The DIRB will review this petition will be on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 8:40 AM in the Taunton Planning Board Office, 141 Oak St., and then the Planning Board will review this on Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 15 Summer St., City Hall, Taunton, Ma. Sincerely, ~ CU:;_,vaqC!7pt) Anthony Abreau, Chairman TAUNTON PLANNING BOARD AA/djp  The City of Taunton Police Department SAFETY OFFICE 23 Summer Street CHIEF SAFETY OFFICER Taunton, Massachusetts 02780 EDWARD J. WALSH ARSENIO CHAVES Telephone: (508)821-1471, Ext. 3014 Facsiinile: (508) 828-9315 wvvw.achaves@tauntonpd.com Honorable Shaunna O'Connell, Mayor and Municipal Council City Hall 15 Summer St Taunton MA, 02780 06/16/2022 At the May 17th, 2022 City Council Meeting Councilor Pottier made a motion to refer to the Safety Officer the issue of speeding in the area of Worcester Street between Hodges Street and Rt 140. I placed the Radar unit on the pole in front of 57 Worcester Street from 61712022 to 6/15/2022. The radar unit counted 11,337 vehicles. The average speed was 30 MPH. Worcester Street is rural residential area. The speed limit on that roadway is 3 0 MPH not posted. The radar unit indicated that the enforceable violations on Worcester Street are 2%. The fastest speed recorded during this time period was 60 MPH. With the information from the radar unit, Worcester Street does not appear to have a large issue with speeding at this time. The radar report will be submitted with this letter. Respectfully Submitted Arsenio Chaves  CITY OF TAUNTON Lf, MASSACHUSETTS PARKS, CEMETERIES & PUBLIC GROUNDS AJ Marshall 170 Harris Street Commissioner Taunton, MA 02780 (508) 821-1415 FAX (508) 821-1065 E-mail: AMarshall@taunton- ma.gov June 15, 2022 Mayor Shaunna 0' Connell and Members of the Municipal Council 15 Summer Street Taunton, MA 02780 Dear Mayor O'Connell and Council Members, In order to comply with Revolving Account procedures established under 53EYz, the Parks, Cemeteries and Public Grounds Department requests the following: 1. Approval of the Municipal Council to transfer any account balance in the current FY 21/22 Revolving Account to the FY 22/23 Revolving Account. 2. Request a dollar limit not to exceed $550,000.00 from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 to include: Summer Program $450,000.00 Winter Program $ 25,000.00 Spring Program $ 25,000.00 Fall Pro gram $ 25,000.00 Special Events - Trips $ 25,000.00 TOTAL $550,000.00 Sincerely, ~ 111~ Marshall omm1ss10ner cc: Ian Fortes, City Auditor  s HOLY GHOST SOCIETY OF EAST TAUNTON 545 Middleboro Avenue East Taunton, MA 02718 June 4, 20.1~ Dear Friend(s ): You are cordially invited to attend our Annual Holy Ghost Feast celebrating our 88th Anniversary, which will take place on Friday, July 8, Saturday July 9 and Sunday, July 10, 2022 at our grounds located at 545 Middleboro Avenue, East Taunton. We would be honored if you would take part in our procession on Sunday, July 10, 2022. We will be leaving our grounds at 9:30 a.m. to proceed to the Holy Family Church for the l4:f0 a.m. Mass for our crowning ceremony. Following our return to our grounds we will be serving FREE SOUPAS to all in attendance. Will you please respond and indicate whether or not you will be taking' part in our procession on July 10th. Please call the Holy Ghost Society at 508-824-9108 and leave a message. We look forward to seeing you at our Feast this year in celebration of our 88th Anniversary. Respectfully yours, HOLY GHOST SOCIETY, INC. By~~ Barbara Monteiro, Secretary June 15, 2022 Mayor Shaunna O'Connell Members of the Municipal Council City Hall 15 Summer St. Taunton, MA 02780 Dear Mayor O'Connell and Members of the Municipal Council, Enclosed please find a check for $54,841.10, which represents the amount owed by Freshly Baked Company to the City of Taunton for our host community payment for the calendar year 2021. Attached you will also find the gross revenue report supporting the calculation of this payment amount. In addition, there was only one on-site incident at Freshly Baked Company in 2021 that resulted in a public safety response. This was a motion sensor alarm activation that turned out to be a false alarm . Our security vendor, American Alarm, determined that the motion sensor was defective and promptly replaced it. Please let me know if you have any questions or require additional information. Thank you for your continued support of Freshly Baked Company. Very truly yours, Philip Smith Chief Executive Officer Freshly Baked Company  50 Washington Street Westborough, MA 01581 1 508.366.9100 aafcpa.com Independent Accountants' Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures To the Shareholders of Freshly Baked Company We have performed the procedures enumerated below, which were agreed to by the management of Freshly Baked Company (the Company) on the calculation of the Host Fee due to the City of Taunton, Massachusetts by the Company for the period from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021. The Company has agreed to and acknowledged that the procedures performed are appropriate to meet the intended purpose of providing mathematical accuracy of the Host Fee based on gross sales between January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021. This report may not be suitable for any other purpose. The procedures performed may not address all the items of interest to a user of this report and may not meet the needs of all users of this report and, as such, users are responsible for determining whether the procedures performed are appropriate for their purposes. The procedures and associated findings are as follows: 1. We agreed gross sales from the profit and loss statement to the general ledger detail for the period January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021. a. We obtained the profit and loss statement and the general ledger for the period January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 from the Company and compared the gross sales from the profit and loss statement to the general ledger provided. Total gross sales from both sets of documents were $1,828,036. 79. No exceptions were found as a result of this comparison. 2. We recalculated the amount of Host Fee due to the City of Taunton, Massachusetts in accordance with the Company's Host Community Agreement for the Siting of a Registered Microbusiness Processing Facility in the City of Taunton dated January 31, 2019. a. We obtained the Host Agreement referenced above and applied the definitions and formula set forth in Section 1, Subsection (a) to recalculate the Host Fee required payment. The Host Fee was recalculated based upon the following formula : $1,828,036.79 x 3% = $54,841.10. No exceptions were found as a result of this recalculation. We are engaged by the Company to perform this agreed-upon procedures engagement and conducted our engagement in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. We were not engaged to and did not conduct an examination or review engagement, the objective of which would be the expression of an opinion or conclusion, respectively, on the calculation of the Host Fee due to the City of Taunton, Massachusetts. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion or conclusion. Had we performed additional procedures, other matters might have come to our attention that would have been reported to you. We are required to be independent of the Company and to meet our other ethical responsibilities, in accordance with the relevant ethical requirements related to our agreed-upon procedures engagement. This report is intended solely for the information and use of the Company and the City of Taunton, Massachusetts and is not intended to be, and should not be, used by anyone other than those specified parties. ~f-fl-y, I~. Westborough, Massachusetts June 10, 2022  \ ........ ,_, c::> ........ _, \ )P '-- c:: -··· .,·•~· r·: Pi ,_ C"' :z: ., o \n :.r. _, ,;-.:~ er --,,; rT1 :_ r..- --1 ::t~ ,; < -< )> '=> rn () ::J: ..,.,o >"' -11 I !"'1 Q .::- ... > JUNE 21, 2022 ?" C.f\ ,.. ~ ~ i= HONORABLE SHAUNNA L. O'CONNELL, MAYOR COUNCIL PRESIDENT PHILLIPE. DUARTE AND MEMBERS OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEE MEETINGS HAVE BEEN SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2022 AT 5:30 P.M. AT TAUNTON CITY HALL, 15 SUMMER STREET, TAUNTON, MA, 02780 IN THE CHESTER R. MARTIN MUNICIPAL COUNCIL CHAMBERS 5:30 P.M. THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND SALARIES 1. MEET TO REVIEW THE WEEKLY VOUCHERS & PAYROLLS FOR CITY DEPARTMENTS 2. MEET TO REVIEW REQUESTS FOR FUNDING/TRANSFERS 3. MEET TO REVIEW REVOLVING ACCOUNT LIMITS A. HUMAN SERVICES B. BOARD OF HEALTH - ASBESTOS PERMITIING PROGRAM FLU CLINIC/NURSING SUPPLIES CONSULTING & ENGINEERING SERVICES HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM PLEASE NOTE: A "MEETING" OF THE ENTIRE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, AS SAID TERM JS DEFINED IN MASS. GEN. L. C. 30A, §18 MAY OCCUR CONCURRENTLY WITH THIS COMMITTEE MEETING THE COMMITTEE ON THE FIRE DEPARTMENT 1. MEET WITH THE FIRE CHIEF FOR A RECAP ON THE EFFORTS ON THE FIRE ON SPRING LANE 2. MEET WITH THE FIRE CHIEF TO DISCUSS THE DEPARTMENT BUDGET 3. MEET WITH THE FIRE CHIEF TO DISCUSS OVERALL HIRING PLEASE NOTE: A "MEETING" OF THE ENTIRE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, AS SAID TERM JS DEFINED IN MASS. GEN. L. C. 30A, §18 MAY OCCUR CONCURRENTLY WITH THIS COMMITTEE MEETING  THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY 1. MEET TO DISCUSS THE RFP FOR PRINCE HENRY DRIVE PARCEL 29-14 PLEASE NOTE: A "MEETING" OF THE ENTIRE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, AS SAID TERM IS DEFINED IN MASS. GEN. L. C. 30A, §18 MAY OCCUR CONCURRENTLY WITH THIS COMMITTEE MEETING THE COMMITTEE ON ORDINANCES AND ENROLLED BILLS 1. MEET TO DISCUSS ORDINANCE FOR YIELD AND BLIND DRIVEWAY SIGNS AT HIGHLAND AND SMITH STREET PLEASE NOTE: A "MEETING" OF THE ENTIRE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, AS SAID TERM IS DEFINED IN MASS. GEN. L. C. 30A, §18 MAY OCCUR CONCURRENTLY WITH THIS COMMITTEE MEETING THE COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL AS A WHOLE 1. MEET WITH THE TAUNTON MUNICIPAL NETWORK FOR A PRESENTATION ON HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION PLEASE NOTE: A "MEETING" OF THE ENTIRE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, AS SAID TERM IS DEFINED IN MASS. GEN. L. C. 30A, §18 MAY OCCUR CONCURRENTLY WITH THIS COMMITTEE MEETING Colleen M. Ellis Clerk of Council Committees