JUNE 8, 2006
COUNCIL CHAMBERS
Convened: 5:07 P.M.
Adjourned: 6:30 P.M.
Present were: Chairperson Councilor Kathleen M. Toomey
Councilor Konstantina B. Lukes
Councilor Joffrey A. Smith
Also: Asst. City Manager/Economic & Neighborhood Services Julie A. Jacobson
Cmsr. of Health
& Human Services Jill C. Dagilis
Assistant City Clerk Susan M. Ledoux, clerk
1. Relative to partnership with Higher Education
- Worcester Public Schools College of Worcester Consortium 2000-2001.
#23A CM December 4, 2001
In Committee May 7, 2003 – Held
2. Relative to a letter from Fred Baus, CEO of the Colleges of Worcester Consortium, Inc., regarding campus expansion projects and taxable properties.
#29B CM April 23, 2002
In Committee
May 7, 2003 - Held
Recommend File
3. Relative to Advisory Committee to
Colleges.
#7C CM June 25, 2002
Recommend File
4. Relative to Statistics for Worcester
Residential Colleges and Universities by year.
#19C CM September 24, 2002
Recommend File
5. Relative
to data received from Police Forces regarding student arrests.
#20G CM December 3, 2002
In Committee May 7, 2003 - Held
Recommend File
6. Relative
to Worcester Colleges and Universities.
#18F CM December 17, 2002
In Committee May 7, 2003 – Held
Recommend File
7. Relative to Worcester Vocational High School
Project.
#6A CM April 29, 2003
Recommend File
8. Relative to Worcester Vocational High School Monthly Progress
Report.
#6B
CM July 1, 2003
Recommend File
9. Relative to Worcester Vocational High School – Progress Report.
#6D CM August 12, 2003
Recommend File
10. Relative to Worcester Vocational High
School – Progress Report.
#6A CM September 30, 2003
Recommend File
11. Relative to Worcester Vocational High School – Progress Report November 2003.
#6A CM November 18, 2003
Recommend File
12. Relative to Worcester Vocational High School – Progress Report December 2003.
#6A CM January 13, 2004
Recommend File
13. Relative to Worcester Vocational High School – Progress Report January 2004.
#6A CM February 10, 2004
Recommend File
14. Relative to Worcester Vocational High
School.
#6B CM February 24, 2004
Recommend File
15. Relative
to Worcester Vocational High School – Progress Report February/March 2004.
#6A
CM April 13, 2004
Recommend File
16. Relative
to Worcester Vocational High School – Progress Report
April/May 2004.
#6A
CM June 15, 2004
Recommend File
17. Relative to Worcester
Vocational High School – Progress Report June/July 2004.
#6B
CM August 17, 2004
Recommend File
18. Relative to Worcester
Vocational High School – Progress Report August/September 2004.
#6A
CM November 9, 2004
Recommend File
19. Relative to Worcester
Vocational High School – Progress Report
for the months of
February, March and April 2005.
#6B
CM May 31, 2005
Recommend File
20. Relative
to the progress report for the construction of the new Worcester Technical High
School.
#18A
CM January 31, 2006
Recommend Hold
Chairman’s Order – Request City Manager request Superintendent of the Worcester Public Schools provide City Council with a projected budget concerning heat and maintenance of the new Technical High School and compare this to heat and maintenance budget of the old Vocational High School.
21.
Relative to legal owner of the ball field on Ararat Street.
#4A
CM May 20, 2003
Recommend File
22. Relative to report on roof at Quinsigamond School.
#6B CM August 12, 2003
Recommend File
23. Relative to leaky roof at South High Community School.
#22A CM October 14, 2003
Recommend File
24. Relative to an analysis of the structural stability of the façade of the 1927 building at Nelson Place School.
#6A CM November 16, 2004
Recommend File
Chairman’s Order - Request City Manager request the Superintendent of Worcester Public Schools provide City Council with the future plans for Nelson Place School.
25. Relative to completing the architectural design of a new North High School and that groundbreaking will be scheduled for the first phase of this project in the spring of 2005.
#6B CM November 16, 2004
Recommend File
26. Relative to the North High School Status
Report.
#23I CM July 19, 2005
Recommend File
27. Relative to the status of design and budget
for construction of a new North High School.
#11C CM April 4, 2006
Recommend File
Chairman’s Order - Request City Manager request the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works & Parks provide City Council with an updated status report concerning the new North High School project.
28. Relative to Governor’s recommendation to
reform SBA Program.
#22A CM March 16, 2004
Recommend File
29. Relative to Library Café.
#21A CM June 17, 2003
Recommend File
30. Relative to Talking Book Library.
#21A CM August 12, 2003
Recommend File
31. Relative to Status of Boilers in Worcester Public School Buildings.
#22A CM January 4, 2005
Recommend File
Chairman’s Order - Request City Manager request the Superintendent of Worcester Public Schools provide City Council with an updated status report concerning the boilers and heating systems of the Worcester Public Schools and to include a five year plan of rehabilitation, renovation and potential replacement of the boilers and heating systems.
32. Relative to “Green Building” energy standards being used in the construction on the new North High School Project.
#11A CM April 25, 2006
Recommend Hold
33. Relative to various PILOT and State Aid Questions.
#4B CM November 9, 2004
Recommend File
34. Relative to a copy of the twelve-member board of the newly formed Worcester UniverCity Partnership.
#8B CM January 25, 2005
Recommend File
35. Relative to Governor Romney’s proposed budget for Fiscal 2007, including his recommendations for local aid for the City of Worcester.
#29B CM January 31, 2006
In Committee for Informational
Purposes Only
Speaker - School Committee Member and Vice President for Government
Community Affairs of Clark University Jack L. Foley, 6 Winter Hill Dr.
Recommend File
36. Relative to the expansion of the Fallon
Clinic Foundation to include several new community services programs.
#34E CM January 31, 2006
Recommend File
Chairman’s Order - Request
City Manager provide City Council with an updated status report concerning
Fallon Clinic Foundation several
community
service programs.
37. Relative to a response to a City Council request for information regarding the total operating budget for the colleges and universities located in the City of Worcester, the percentage of their operating budgets spent on goods and services that are spent in Worcester.
#55 CM March 28, 2006
Recommend Hold
38. Relative to the establishment and progress
to date of the Worcester UniverCity Partnership.
#8B CC March 7, 2006
Recommend Hold
OTHER COMMUNICATIONS
39. Fred Baus, Colleges of Worcester Consortium, Inc., transmitting copy of the Consortium’s latest economic impact study, Discover the Intellectual Capital of Central Massachusetts.
#70 CC March 12, 2002
In Committee May 7, 2003 – Held
Recommend File
40. Roberta
Schaefer, Ph.D., Executive Director Worcester Regional Research Bureau,
transmitting Benchmarking Public Education in Worcester: 2003 Report.
#28
CC July 1, 2003
Recommend File
41. Roberta Schaefer, Ph.D., Executive Director Worcester Regional
Research Bureau, transmitting Benchmarking Public Education in Worcester: 2004
Report
#61 CC November 9, 2004
Recommend File
42. Roberta Schaefer, Ph.D., Executive Director Worcester Regional
Research Bureau, transmitting Benchmarking Public Education in Worcester: 2006
Report
#
23 CC March 21, 2006
Recommend Hold
43. James DelSignore, City Auditor, transmitting listing of non-educational School Department equipment.
#19 CC September 10, 2002
Recommend File
44. James DelSignore, City Auditor, transmitting listing of School Dept. rolling equipment.
#13 CC January 14, 2003
In Committee May 7, 2003 – Held
Recommend File