CITY OF WORCESTER
CITY CLERK DEPARTMENT
JOURNAL
OF THE CITY COUNCIL
– MAY 20, 2003
7:00 P.M.
Convened: 7:07 P.M.
Adjourned: 10:00 P.M.
1. INVOCATION – Major Mark Himes
Quinsigamond Salvation Army
2. PLEDGE
OF ALLEGIANCE/STAR SPANGLED BANNER
3. ROLL CALL – All present except Councillors Abraham, Irish
and Patton. Councillor Patton arrived
at 7:09 P.M., Councillor Abraham at 7:27 P.M. and Councillor Irish at 7:28 P.M.
4. ITEMS
OF CITIZEN INTEREST
4a. ITEMS
OF DEPARTMENTAL OR EMPLOYEE INTEREST
5
REFERRED TO PLANNING BOARD
5. Attorney Robert E. Longden, on behalf of Grafton Partners, LLC request to amend the Official Map by removing therefrom a private street, Keese St. (Attachments)
6
& 7 REFERRED TO PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
6. Mike Konan request to extend an 8 inch sanitary sewer for a
distance of 300 feet and an 8 inch water main for a distance of 315 feet along
Niles St., southerly from the intersection of Sunderland Rd. and Niles St. All work to be done at owners’ expense &
under prior agreement. (Attachments)
7. Luz Lopez, Assistant Manager of Whittier Terrace Assoc.
request sidewalk repair in front of 63, 65, 67 & 69 Chatham St. (Attachments)
8
& 9 REFERRED TO TRAFFIC & PARKING COMMITTEE
8. Dorothy & Timothy Conner request handicap parking sign at
2 Lodi St. (Attachments)
9. Vilma Rodriguez request removal of handicap parking in front
of 93 Sterling St. (Attachments)
10. MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC CO. for cable and conduit system on
MARION AVENUE. (Attachments)
11 REFERRED TO RULES & REGULATIONS COMMITTEE
11. Michael Galvin request creation of a City web page to track citizen
petitions by original date in Council, date in Committee, date of public
testimony and date of final disposition vote by Council. (Attachments)
ORDERS
11a. Request Administration to consider sending a more customer
friendly letter relative to decisions of the Zoning Board of Appeals. Motion-Perotto @ #6B CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11b. Request Administration to review home businesses and develop a
process for special permitting or some kind of yearly compliance or a process
that automatically kicks in without a complaint being required to review
a situation that gets out of hand. Motion-Lukes @ #6B CM – Adopted
(Attachments)
11c. Request Land Use Committee to consider requiring enclosures on dumpsters
or that dumpsters not be placed within sight of vehicular traffic. Motion-Irish @ #6B CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11d. Request Administration to provide a detailed report on how to
attain the original request regarding
an overlay area in the Quinsigamond Village neighborhood. Motion-Clancy @ #6B CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11e. Request Administration to consider some type of funding to try and
keep the Worcester County Convention and Visitors Bureau going relative
to marketing the Convention Center.
Motion-Perotto @ #8C CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11f. Request Administration to recommend where the $150,000.00 will
come from for marketing.
Motion-Lukes @ #8C CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11g. Request Administration to look and see whether any Block Grant
money would be eligible for sustaining any part of the Worcester County
Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Motion-Clancy @ #8C CM – Adopted
(Attachments)
11h. Request City Manager to provide a clarification of the 72 hour rule
applying to stationary items that have no motor associated to them and is it
possible to ban those particular items from City streets. Motion-Clancy @ #15A CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11i. Request City Manager to send a letter to Senators and Congressmen
indicating that the COPS Program is of the highest priority to the City
of Worcester. Motion-Murray @ #17B
CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11j. Request City Manager, the Executive Office of Neighborhood
Services and the Director of Planning to look at and provide clarification of
the timeline as relates to the Shrewsbury St. area and College Hill
neighborhood planning initiatives. Motion-Murray
@ #17F CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11k. Request Administration to re-evaluate and accelerate the process
for the Shrewsbury St. area planning initiative. Motion-Murray @ #17F CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11L. Request Administration to provide a report as to the rationale for
combining the South Worcester and College Hill planning initiatives and why
this was done without notification to the City Council. Motion-Clancy @ #17F CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11m. Request Administration to provide a report on the policy as to how
the City will move forward with the planning initiatives in every
neighborhood. Motion-Perotto @ #17F
CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11n. Request Administration to provide copies of notices sent relative to combining the South
Worcester and College Hill neighborhood planning initiatives, when notices were
sent and to whom and what the notices look like now as far as what its
called. Motion-Clancy @ #17F
CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11o. Request Administration to provide City Council with a schedule of
the Neighborhood Cabinet meetings and topics discussed at each meeting. Motion-Lukes @ #17F CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11p. Request City Manager to contact Representative Leary and Senator
Chandler and request their assistance with the City’s funding for HIV/AIDS
testing. Motion-Murray @ #20A CM –
Adopted (Attachments)
11q. Request City Manager to provide a report evaluating all agencies
relative to HIV/AIDS funding.
Motion-Haller @ #20A CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11r. Request City Manager to report as to the bottom line in the State
budget for the last five years relative to HIV/AIDS funding, to what extent
cuts were made this year and how many municipalities avoid the budget process
and go to legislation. Motion-Lukes
@ #20A CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11s. That the City Council contact federal and state legislative bodies
relative to assistance in the form of grants to help the City pay for rehab
mandates from the State for the City’s water and sewer lines. Motion-Perotto @ #23A CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11t. Request Commissioner of Public Works to provide a projection of what
the water and sewer rates might be over the next 5-10 years based on
federal laws and state mandates.
Motion-Petty @ #23A CM – Adopted (Attachments)
11u. Request Director of Economic Development and the Chamber of Commerce
report as to how the City markets to businesses the fact that the City’s water
and sewer rates are much more competitive than other communities. Motion-Murray @ #23A CM – Adopted
(Attachments)
11v. Request Administration to provide a plan to be more aggressive in
moving the Route 146 project forward.
Motion-Clancy @ #13CC – Adopted
(Attachments)
11w. Request City Manager to request the federal state delegation to
review the status of the Route 146 project and whether the state is in
violation of the agreement that the additional monies being used for the big
dig would not jeopardize projects throughout the state. Motion-Murray @ #13CC – Adopted (Attachments)
11x. Request Administration to organize a Route 146 summit. Motion-Palmieri @ #13CC – Adopted (Attachments)
11y. Request City Manager report as to the status of development on
Circuit Ave. as to results of the Zoning Board of Appeals hearing and
where it stands in front of the Planning Board. Abraham, Irish, Petty – Suspension of
Rules – Adopted (Attachments)
11z. Request Administration to provide the status of the resurfacing of
Ferdinand St. Further, request report
include update on funding for the roundabout in Columbus Park area. Abraham, Petty, Perotto – Suspension
of Rules – Adopted (Attachments)
11aa. Request City Manager to provide more Police presence downtown on
Friday and Saturday evenings for the purpose of public safety. Perotto – Suspension of Rules – Adopted (Attachments)
11bb. Request City Manager to report on housing project on Brooks St. adjacent
to Swartz Little League. Patton –
Suspension of Rules – Adopted (Attachments)
11cc. Request Administration to report as to who is responsible for the
stone wall on Belmont St.
Palmieri – Suspension of Rules – Adopted (Attachments)
11dd. Request City Manager to provide a report as to whether the PIP
Shelter enforced a policy with regard to those individuals who were arrested
that gave 701 Main St. as their address as to whether in fact, those
individuals were PIP clients and were those individuals banned from further use
of the PIP Shelter and if so, for how long. Haller – Suspension of Rules – Adopted (Attachments)
11ee. Request Administration report as to when the housing project on
Brooks St. was filed with the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Planning
Board and how the project is zoned in the City. Petty – Suspension of Rules
– Adopted (Attachments)
11ff. Request Administration to provide an update on a report requested
at the January 7, 2003 City Council meeting pertaining to whether a lien is
placed on property where Community Development Block Grant money is used to
demolish buildings. Murray –
Suspension of Rules – Adopted (Attachments)
RESOLUTION
11gg. That the City Council of the City of Worcester hereby endorses the request
for continued funding of the Worcester Department of Public Health HIV/AIDS
counseling and testing programs.
Motion-Abraham @ #20A CM – Adopted roll call 11-0
12. COMMUNICATIONS
OF THE CITY MANAGER
THOMAS R. HOOVER
CITY MANAGER
CITY COUNCIL CALENDAR
FOR MAY 20, 2003
1. NON-CITY
COUNCIL CONFIRMATION:
A. Notification of the reappointment of
Stephen E. Petro to the Planning Board. (Attachments)
Placed on file
B. Notification of the reappointment of Lee
F. Bartlett to the Worcester Memorial Auditorium Board of Trustees. (Attachments)
Placed
on file
2. CITY
COUNCIL CONFIRMATION:
A. Notification of the reappointment of Carol
A. Arakelian to the Advisory Committee on the Status of Women. (Attachments)
Reappointment
confirmed on a roll call 11-0
3. AIRPORT:
4. ASSESSORS:
A. Communication relative to Legal Owner of
the Ball Field on Ararat Street. (Attachments)
Referred to Education & College/University Relations Committee
B. Communication relative to Abatements or
Incentives Given to Leasing of Vacant Storefronts. (Attachments)
Referred to Municipal Operations Committee
5. BUDGET
OFFICE:
A. Communication relative to FY’04 Municipal
Budget. (Attachments)
Referred
to Finance
6. CODE
ENFORCEMENT:
A. Request that City Council accept with gratitude
a donation of $500.00, towards the striping of the department’s parking lot,
from Paul Robbins, owner of the Kelley Square Flea Market. (Attachments)
Order
adopted with gratitude
B. Communication relative to Responses to
City Council/Land Land Use Committee Questions and Zoning Ordinance Revision
Efforts. (Attachments)
Referred
to Land Use Committee and the Planning Board
7. COMMUNICATIONS:
8. ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT:
A. Communication relative to Arts District
Update. (Attachments)
Placed
on file
B. Communication relative to Explanation of
how the HUD Section 108 Loans are used. (Attachments)
Referred
to Commerce & Development Committee
C. Communication relative to Worcester County
Convention and Visitors Bureau (WCCVB) Funding. (Attachments)
Placed on file
D. Communication relative to 108 Loan
Guarantee Balances. (Attachments)
Placed
on file
E. Communication relative to Union Station
Update. (Attachments)
Tabled under
privilege (Clancy)
F. Communication relative to Marketing the
New Hotel to Achieve Booking Levels. (Attachments)
Referred
to Commerce & Development Committee
G. Communication relative to Where Hotels
Subscribe regularly for travel options in Worcester, and Which Hotels are tied
into the National Reservation Systems. (Attachments)
Referred to Commerce & Development Committee
H.
SUPPLEMENTAL –
Communication relative to the selection of a proposed contractor for the
development and reconfiguration of the Greenwood St. Landfill. (Attachments)
Tabled under privilege
(Clancy)
I. SUPPLEMENTAL –
Communication relative to an Order authorizing the City to file a petition with
the Great and General Court for the current Legislative session allowing the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts to convey the Parcel Post building behind Union Station to the
City of Worcester.
Tabled under
privilege (Clancy)
9. ELDER
AFFAIRS:
A. Request that City Council accept with
gratitude, the offer of Worcester Shines. (Attachments)
10. ELECTION
COMMISSION:
11. EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT:
12. EMPLOYMENT
& TRAINING:
13. FIRE:
A. Communication relative to Computerization
Needs of the Fire Department. (Attachments)
Recommitted to the City Manager
B. Communication relative to Projected
Increase in the Number of Runs in the event the Central St. facility is closed.
(Attachments)
Referred to Public Safety Committee
C. Communication relative to Equipment
Purchased recently by and for the Worcester Fire Department. (Attachments)
Referred to Public Safety Committee
D. Communication relative to Grants Awarded
to the Fire Department. (Attachments)
Referred
to Public Safety Committee
E. Communication relative to Implementing
Light Rescue Vehicles. (Attachments)
Referred
to Public Safety Committee
14. HUMAN
RESOURCES:
A. Communication relative to Opportunities
Available for Laid-off Employees with or outside of the City of Worcester. (Attachments)
Placed
on file
B. Communication relative to Blood Pressure
Screening – American Heart Association. (Attachments)
Placed on file
15. LAW:
A. Communication relative to Regulations
Regarding Commercial Trucks Parking on Arterial Streets. (Attachments)
Referred to Traffic & Parking Committee
B.
Communication
relative to issues regarding Charter Communications. (Attachments)
16. LICENSE
COMMISSION:
17.
NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES:
A. Communication relative to Second Annual
Community Preparedness Conference. (Attachments)
Placed
on file
B. Request adoption of a resolution to file
and accept a Grant with the U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented
Policing Services (COPS) Universal Hiring Program. (Attachments)
Resolution adopted
C. Request adoption of a resolution to file
and accept a FY 03 Violence against Women Act Grant with the Massachusetts
Executive Office of Public Safety. (Attachments)
Resolution adopted
D. Communication relative to a grant award to
the City of Worcester in the amount of $45,000.00 from the Massachusetts
Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) for the All-Hazard Comprehensive Emergency
Planning Operation. (Attachments)
Placed on file
E. Request adoption of a resolution to file
and accept a Grant with the U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented
Policing Services (COPS) Homeland Security Overtime Program. (Attachments)
Resolution adopted
F. Communication relative to the proposed
work program and timelines for the Planning Department. (Attachments)
Referred to Land Use Committee
G. Communication relative to Year 29 CDBG
Funding Recommendations and suggested amendments requested by the Community
Development Committee. (Attachments)
Tabled
under privilege (Clancy)
18. PARKS,
RECREATION & CEMETERY:
A. SUPPLEMENTAL – Request
adoption of a resolution to accept a donation from the Air Force Junior ROTC at
Burncoat High School. (Attachments)
Resolution
adopted with gratitude
B. SUPPLEMENTAL – Request
adoption of a resolution to accept a donation from the Worcester Housing
Authority.
Resolution
adopted with gratitude
C. SUPPLEMENTAL – Communication
relative to Status Report on the Rogers Kennedy Memorial. (Attachments)
Tabled
under privilege (Clancy)
D. SUPPLEMENTAL – Communication
relative to Status – Research and Recommendations for the Privatization of Hope
Cemetery. (Attachments)
Tabled
under privilege (Clancy)
19. POLICE:
A. Communication relative to Increase Parking
Enforcement in the 200 Block of Park Avenue. (Attachments)
Placed on file
B. Communication relative to Increase Parking
Enforcement in the area of Kendrick Field. (Attachments)
Placed on file
C. Communication relative to Criminal
Complaints at the Worcester Common Outlets Parking Garage. (Attachments)
Placed on file
D. Communication relative to Number of
Vehicles Stolen from the Worcester Common Outlets Parking Garages. (Attachments)
Placed on file
E. Communication relative to Blockbuster
Video on West Boylston Street. (Attachments)
Referred to Traffic & Parking Committee
F. Request City Council accept with gratitude
a donation of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) from Sam’s Club Foundation. (Attachments)
Order adopted with gratitude
20. PUBLIC
HEALTH:
A. Communication relative
to HIV/AIDS Funding. (Attachments)
Referred to Health Committee
B. Communication relative to Number of Drug
Overdose Deaths in the City. (Attachments)
Referred
to Health Committee
21. PUBLIC
LIBRARY:
A. Request City Council adoption of a
resolution to accept two checks in the amounts of $4,400.00 each from The Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation for the Worcester Public Library. (Attachments)
Resolution
adopted with gratitude
22. PUBLIC
SCHOOLS:
A. Communication relative to Medicaid Revenue
Collection and Federal Audit Status. (Attachments)
Referred
to Municipal Operations Committee
23. PUBLIC
WORKS:
A. Communication relative to the FY2004 Water
and Sewer Rate Recommendation. (Attachments)
Referred to Public Works Committee
B. Request adoption of a Deed of Easement –
Alteration of Heard Street. (Attachments)
Order
adopted on a roll call 11-0
24.
PURCHASING:
25. TECHNICAL
SERVICES:
26. TREASURY:
27. VETERANS
SERVICES:
28. FINANCE:
A. Request the sum of Five Million, Seven Hundred and Thirty Thousand Dollars ($5,730,000.00) be accepted from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Twenty-Ninth Year Community Development Block Grant Program and appropriated when received to the following accounts in the amounts shown to provide financing for projects and progress as described:
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
GRANT – YEAR XXIX
ACCOUNT |
PROGRAM |
AMOUNT |
|
14SSNS29 |
Neighborhood Serv. Sal. & Fr. |
$563,442.00 |
|
14SNOM29 |
Neighborhood Serv. OM |
86,491.00 |
|
14SSED29 |
Economic Develop. Sal. & Fr. |
219,177.00 |
|
14SEOM29 |
Economic Develop. OM |
49,143.00 |
|
14SSFD29 |
Finance Dept. Sal. & Fr. |
152,756.00 |
|
14SFOM29 |
Finance Dept. OM |
17,691.00 |
|
14SS—29 |
1% Federal Indirect Charge |
57,300.00 |
|
14S40329 |
Worcester Common Ground |
125,000.00 |
|
14S40829 |
YouthNet |
24,119.00 |
|
14S41129 |
Neighborhood Revitalization Fund |
550,000.00 |
|
14S41229 |
Centro Las Americas |
97,060.00 |
|
14S41329 |
Project Light |
33,884.00 |
|
14S41429 |
Operation Clean City |
45,000.00 |
|
14S41929 |
Henry Lee Willis Center |
148,808.00 |
|
14S42229 |
Centro Las Americas Bus. Assistance |
24,000.00 |
|
14S42329 |
Economic Develop. Assistance Program |
254,287.00 |
|
14S42529 |
Great Brook Valley Health Center |
29,618.00 |
|
14S42629 |
Parks Improvements |
350,000.00 |
|
14S43429 |
MLK, Jr. Bus. Empowerment Center |
40,000.00 |
|
14S43629 |
Central Mass. Housing Alliance |
69,000.00 |
|
14S43929 |
HMIS Match |
7,000.00 |
|
14S44029 |
Pleasant Street Network Center |
5,000.00 |
|
14S44429 |
Youth Center |
7,000.00 |
|
14S44529 |
South Worc. Neighborhood Housing |
41,500.00 |
|
14S44729 |
Quinsigamond Neighborhood Services |
57,603.00 |
|
14S44929 |
Mass. Vet. Inc. Economic Development |
29,000.00 |
|
14S45029 |
Building Renovations/Mass. Vets. |
50,000.00 |
|
14S45129 |
Family Health Center |
15,000.00 |
|
14S45329 |
Grime Watch |
34,163.00 |
|
14S42429 |
YMCA Park |
5,000.00 |
|
14S45529 |
Accion |
15,000.00 |
|
14S45629 |
Daybreak Rehab. |
4,000.00 |
|
14S45929 |
S.E. Asian Coalition of Central Mass. |
5,000.00 |
|
14S46329 |
Home Imp./Home Opportunity Center |
249,578.00 |
|
14S47229 |
Demolition |
116,600.00 |
|
14S47529 |
Pub. Safety–Matching (Serv.JAIBG, Grants) |
10,000.00 |
|
14S47629 |
South Worcester Neighborhood Center |
184,015.00 |
|
14S47729 |
Worc. Community Housing Resources |
198,000.00 |
|
14S47929 |
Friendly House |
171,230.00 |
|
14S48029 |
Lead Paint Program |
285,754.00 |
|
14S48229 |
Main South CDC |
138,000.00 |
|
14S48329 |
Worc. Comm. Housing Res. – Economic |
21,000.00 |
|
14S48429 |
Employment & Training |
40,000.00 |
|
14S48529 |
Code Enforcement |
628,282.00 |
|
14S48729 |
Center for Women & Enterprise |
21,000.00 |
|
14S48829 |
Green Island/Vernon Hill CDC |
104,000.00 |
|
14S49029 |
Main South CDC – Economic |
22,000.00 |
|
14S49129 |
Oak Hill CDC |
154,924.00 |
|
14S49229 |
Oak Hill CDC – Economic |
26,000.00 |
|
14S49329 |
East Side CDC |
109,250.00 |
|
14S49429 |
East Side CDC – Economic |
22,000.00 |
14S49529 |
Habitat for Humanity |
16,325.00 |
|
|
|
$5,730,000.00 |
Tabled
under privilege (Clancy)
B. SUPPLEMENTAL – Recommend
that Five Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ($5,700.00) be transferred from
Veterans Services Department’s Ordinary Maintenance Account #370-92000 and
appropriated to Veterans Services Department’s Personal Services, Account
#370-91000. These funds will supplement
the department’s FY03 budget. (Attachments)
Tabled
under privilege (Clancy)
C. SUPPLEMENTAL – Recommend
that Seventy Six Thousand Six Hundred Nineteen Dollars ($76,619.00) be
transferred from Health Insurance Fringe Benefits Account #663-96000 and
appropriated to Workers Compensation Fringe Benefits, Account #171-96000. These funds will supplement the department’s
FY03 budget. (Attachments)
Tabled
under privilege (Clancy)
D. SUPPLEMENTAL – Recommend
that Four Thousand Fourteen Dollars and Seventy Five Cents ($4,014.75)
currently available in Account #470-92000, Worcester Regional Airport Ordinary
Maintenance be appropriated and used for the purpose of making a diesel excise
tax payment to the State of Massachusetts extending back to December 1, 1999 for
the diesel fuel purchased and used by the Worcester Regional Airport.
Furthermore, I respectfully recommend that Thirty Two Thousand Three Hundred Three Dollars and Ninety Seven Cents ($32,303.97) available in the following accounts be transferred to accounts identified for this purpose of making a diesel excise tax payment to the State of Massachusetts extending back to December 1, 1999 for diesel fuel purchased and used as identified in report prepared by John P. Pranckevicius, Budget Director.
FROM DEPT NAME ACCT NUMBER
AMOUNT
Tech Services 680-91000
$12,000.00
Court Judgments 121-92000
$20,303.97
TOTAL $32,303.97
TO Fire 260-92000 $29,026.88
Parks 728-92000 $ 3,277.09
TOTAL $32,303.97
Tabled under privilege
(Clancy)
29.
MISCELLANEOUS:
13. Roberta Schaefer, Executive Director, Worcester Regional
Research Bureau transmitting: Worcester’s
Link to the MassPike: An Update on the
Route 146 Connector. (Attachments)
Referred to Public Works
Committee
14. RECESS
TO FINANCE & ORDINANCE: No
Action Taken
FINANCE
a)
#7
CC January 14, 2003
Communication of the City
Manager relative to Preliminary Budget Analysis for Fiscal 2004. (Attachments)
b) #5C CM
January 28, 2003
Communication of the City
Manager relative to framework for a Local and State Fiscal Recovery. (Attachments)
c) #27 CC February 4,
2003
Communication of the City
Manager relative to Governor’s State budget cuts to the City of Worcester. (Attachments)
d)
#26
CC February 4, 2003
James DelSignore, City
Auditor transmitting City of Worcester’s 2002 Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report. (Attachments)
e) #10 CC
February 11, 2003
James DelSignore, City
Auditor transmitting schedule of revenues for the first six months of Fiscal
2003 compared to the same period in Fiscal 2002 and indicates revenues to be
received for the entire year and revenues received for all of Fiscal 2002. (Attachments)
f) #4C CM
February 11, 2003
Communication of the City
Manager relative to using $11,000,000.00 of the unused tax levy. (Attachments)
g)
#4A
CM March 4, 2003
Communication of the City
Manager relative to the impact of $9,000,000 increase to the tax levy and the
lowest residential rate scenario. (Attachments)
h)
#5A
CM March 4, 2003
Communication of the City
Manager analyzing Governor Romney's FY04 budget. (Attachments)
i)
#5A
CM March 18, 2003
Communication of the City
Manager relative to decision solving the 2004 budget. (Attachments)
j)
#13CC March 18, 2003
James DelSignore, City
Auditor transmitting computation of the legal debt margin for the City of
Worcester as of February 28, 2003. (Attachments)
k)
#5B
CM April 15, 2003
Communication of the City
Manager relative to proposals prepared and issued by the Metropolitan Mayor’s
Coalition. (Attachments)
15. Communication of the City Manager relative to CIGNA – Letter –
Worcester Common Outlets. (Tabled December 17, 2002) (Attachments)
16. Motion Lukes as amended by Abraham – Request Administration to
contact CIGNA relative to the feasibility of linking up Front St. with
Washington Sq. and Shrewsbury St. and explore financial incentives that might
facilitate that. (Tabled December 17, 2002) (Attachments)
_____________________________________________________________
SCHEDULED MEETINGS OF THE
STANDING COMMITTEES
MAY 19, 2003 PUBLIC SERVICE & COUNCIL CHAMBER
4:30 P.M.
TRANSPORTATION
MAY 19, 2003 COMMERCE &
COUNCIL CHAMBER
6:00
P.M. DEVELOPMENT
MAY 20, 2003 MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS
COUNCIL CHAMBER
6:30 P.M.
Re:
Reorganization Plan of Boards & Commissions
6:00 P.M.
MAY 22, 2003 EDUCATION & COLLEGE/ NORTH HIGH
6:00 P.M. UNIVERSITY RELATIONS SCHOOL-AUDITORIUM
150 HARRINGTON WAY
MAY 28, 2003 HOUSING & COUNCIL CHAMBER
5:30 P.M.
NEIGHBORHOOD
REVITALIZATION
JUNE
4, 2003 TRAFFIC & PARKING
COUNCIL
CHAMBER
6:00 P.M.
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2003 – 4:00 P.M. TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003 – 4:00 P.M.
City
Clerk Purchasing
Employment
& Training Pensions
Election Contribution
License
Commission Non
Contributory
Veterans Other Pensions
Zoning
Board of Appeals Technical
Services
Neighborhood
Services Treasury
Elder
Affairs Debt
Services
Law Pension
Obligation
Building
Insurance Human
Resources
Economic
Development Police/Fire
– I.O.D.
Marketing Health
Insurance
City
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