CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
JULY 16, 2001
RECAPITULATIONS.
PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS & RECREATION, PLANNING, LEGAL. Res. re: Abandonment of Profile Street from corner of Cold Spring Avenue to Dixwell Street and that property be divided among adjacent property owners.
GOLF COURSE COMMISSION. Res. re: Golf Course Commission pursue the purchase of a defibrillator for the course.
FINANCE. Res. re: Tax collector is ordered to stop the practice of requiring prospective motor vehicle tax payments without the permission of the City Manager.
PENSION BOARD. Res. re: Pension Board is directed to develop for Council consideration a plan that will alleviate the present burden where certain retirees are exhausting their retirement benefits on medigap insurance payments.
FILED. Letter with 46 signatures to Councilor George McGoldrick regarding opposition to the proposed skateboard park.
ACCEPTED AND FILED. Letter to City Council from Board of Ethics re: Laura Gallo, Deputy Mayor concerning her serving on a committee to review the various problems with Edison Magnet School and their opinion that there would not be a conflict with the Meriden Code of Ethics should she serve on such committee.
LEGAL AND SAFETY & RISK. Beverly Hughes, 115 Kensington Avenue, Meriden; Erin Pascale, 150 Stevenson Road, South Meriden; Randy Motzer through Atty. George Romania; John Barefoot, Jr., 30 Barwill Drive, Meriden.
8A. ADOPTED AS AMENDED. Finance Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning Capital Improvement Plan and AMENDED to include $24,850 for 109 West Main Street Façade.
8B. ADOPTED. Finance Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning City Manager be authorized to engage the services of the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at UCONN to conduct a community survey and that an amount of $12,500 be made available from the Contingency Budget for this purpose.
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8C. ADOPTED. Finance Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning tentative agreement Public Health Nurses Wage Re-Opener.
8D. ADOPTED. Finance Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a letter to Mr. Kemp from Steve Robichaud requesting funding for Arts at the Crossroads Festival for $10,000 and that $5,000 be approved from the Contingency Fund with a caveat that the Meriden Arts Council provides to the City Manager last year’s and this year’s budget and that next year in-kind service and private dollars match the City’s appropriation.
8E. ADOPTED. Finance Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning an appropriation of $50,000 from Contingency Fund to pay for the removal of trees that are diseased or unsafe or creating a safety hazard in the City of Meriden.
8F. ADOPTED. Finance Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning an appropriation not to exceed $24,303.74 from Contingency Fund for Scottsdale Insurance.
8G. ADOPTED. Finance Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning an appropriation of $96,894 from Contingency Fund to pay Pepe & Hazard for legal services.
8H. ADOPTED. Finance Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning Public Utilities Commission be authorized to use $119,478 from Retained Earnings for the development of a Master Plan.
8I. ADOPTED AS AMENDED. Finance Committee Report recommending ADOPTION AS SUBMITTED of a resolution concerning bonds for “Yankee Gas Co. vs. City of Meriden; Connecticut Light & Power vs. City of Meriden and Yankee Gas Co. and Connecticut Light & Power vs. City of Meriden and AMENDED that the City Manager be authorized to cause a withdrawal of the matter currently pending in the Appellate Court of the State of Connecticut, provided Yankee Gas & CL&P agree to accept $14.9 million in full and final settlement of said matter.
9A. ADOPTED. Public Works and Parks & Recreation Committee Report recommending FILING of a letter from John Carabetta of 483 Liberty Street concerning sewer and water backing up into his home.
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9B. ADOPTED. Public Works and Parks & Recreation Committee Report recommending REAFFIRMATION OF THE DENIAL of a recommitted Public Works and Parks & Recreation Committee Report concerning denial of a resolution concerning staff to be directed to do an RFP re: Water & Sewer to Assist City in attaining economies in said material and labor structure and to be performance based only.
9C. ADOPTED. Public Works and Parks & Recreation Committee Report recommending REAFFIRMATION OF THE APPROVAL of a recommitted Public Works and Parks & Recreation Committee Report concerning a resolution regarding Public Utilities Commission authorized to use $119,478.00 in Retained Earnings for development of a Master Plan.
9D. ADOPTED. Public Works and Parks & Recreation Committee Report that an appropriation of $45,000 be made from Drainage Bond Account to do an Engineering & Survey Report and complete Phase I construction concerning Boylston Street/Maple Avenue/East Main Street Drainage.
9E. ADOPTED. Public Works and Parks & Recreation Committee Report recommending that the matter regarding Hill Street being designated as one way has been attended to including review of costs and have decided not to take action at this time.
9F. ADOPTED. Public Works and Parks & Recreation Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning City Manager be authorized to execute any documents for the city to acquire title to property formerly owned by Yankee Gas located between Meridian Street & Harbor Brook.
9G. ADOPTED. Public Works and Parks & Recreation Committee Report recommending DENIAL of a letter to Dawn Jakiela, City Engineer from Paul Kopek, Asst. City Engineer concerning Butternut Drive Drainage System.
9H. ADOPTED. Public Works and Parks & Recreation Committee Report recommending that an appropriation of $25,000 be made from Drainage Bond Account to fix a drainage complaint in the library parking lot.
10A. ADOPTED. Public Safety Committee Report recommending FILING of a letter to Mayor Marinan from Mr. & Mrs. Sal Carabetta re: Undesignated drop off Our
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Lady of Mt. Carmel School Bus #1 and this is FILED as Mr. Hutchinson, Transportation Manager of Board of Education has resolved this problem.
10B. ADOPTED AND REFERRED TO PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS & RECREATION. Public Safety Committee Report recommending REFERRAL TO PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS & RECREATION FOR THEIR CONSIDERATION & APPROVAL of a resolution concerning intersection of Windingbrook Lane and Baldwin Avenue.
10C. ADOPTED. Public Safety Committee Report recommending DENIAL of a street light installation on Pole #93486 Lockwood Street Extension due to vandalism in the area and this is denied as recommended by staff based upon Alternate Pole Lighting Policy but a street light be installed on Pole #87041.
11A. ADOPTED. Economic Development, Housing & Zoning Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning disposition of certain city owned property at 1133-1135 Hanover Street.
11B. ADOPTED. Economic Development, Housing & Zoning Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning disposition of city owned property (83 Greenwood Park).
11C. ADOPTED. Economic Development, Housing & Zoning Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a letter to Mayor Marinan from Gerry Roccapriore re: New façade at 109 West Main Street and that the appropriation of $25,000 be added to the 2001/2002 CIP Plan and that according to the City Manager, the $25,000 will not effect the City’s Bonding Cap.
11D. ADOPTED. Economic Development, Housing & Zoning Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning CD-22 Homebuyer Program be redesignated as the Homebuyer Acquisition Program and City Manager finalize the Administrative details for Program Operations and that any monies paid back to the City will be returned to the First Time Homebuyer Acquisition Program, not to the City’s General Fund.
11E. ADOPTED. Economic Development, Housing & Zoning Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning MERG performing an inventory of several Economic Development related projects and with acceptance and approval of the City Council of the resulting report, the plans and
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recommendations be implemented as the responsibility of the City through the office of the City Manager.
11F. ADOPTED. Economic Development, Housing & Zoning Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a resolution concerning establishment of the Meriden Manufacturing Assistance Agency for the sole purpose of undertaking and implementing the Municipal Development Project known as the South Colony Industrial Park Project.
11G. ADOPTED. Economic Development, Housing & Zoning Committee Report recommending ADOPTION of a petition for zone change from R-4 Residential to C-1A Commercial as recommended by the Planning Commission.
NO REPORT. Human Services.
NO REPORT. Committee of the Whole.
FILED. Police Department Monthly Report from May 2001.
FILED. School Building Committee Meeting Minutes of June 7, 2001.
FILED. Meriden Aviation Commission Meeting Minutes of May 14, 2001.
FILED. Meriden Quinnipiac River Linear Trail Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes of March 21, 2001.
MNO18. ADOPTED. Res. re: City Manager Kemp be authorized to sign agreement entitled “Agreement between State of Connecticut & City of Meriden for Development of an Engineering Study, Contract Plans, Specifications & Estimates for the Quinnipiac River Linear Trail Enhancement Project Utilizing Federal Funds Under the Enhancement Component of the Surface Transportation Program.
MNO19. FINANCE FOR PUBLIC HEARING. Res. re: Amendment to GPIB #49 – “Meriden Manufacturing Assistance Agency – Economic Development, including administrative, printing legal and financing costs related to $2,000,000”.
MNO20. FINANCE FOR PUBLIC HEARING. Res. re: Amendment to GPIB #48 – “Washington Middle School Engineering and Design - $8,000”.
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MNO21. FINANCE FOR PUBLIC HEARING. Res. re: Amendment to GPIB #51 – “Water Pollution Control - $3,568,000” thus increasing the total appropriation from $723,000 to $4,291,000”.
MNO22. FINANCE FOR PUBLIC HEARING. Res. re: “City of Meriden General Public Improvement Bonds No. 55 Series - $6,400,500”.
MNO23. ADOPTED. Res. re: A check that was credited to Line #001-0120-440 (City Manager’s Budget) be payable to Braith Kelley, Energy Consultant.
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