City Council - 4.1.2025

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City Council Meeting - 4.1.2025

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Report of the Appointments Committee Meeting - April 1, 2025 (00:05:06)
Report of the Appointments Committee Meeting - April 1, 2025

Appointments Committee Oral Report Meeting of April 1, 2025 New Appointment: Fitchburg Historical Commission (Term to expire April 1, 2028) Brian Gallagher
Report of the Committee on Records - Through March 18, 2025 (00:06:02)
Report of the Committee on Records - Through March 18, 2025

Regular City Council meeting minutes of March 18, 2025
Communication: New Appointments (00:06:45)
Communication: New Appointments

V. COMMUNICATION Her Honor the Mayor 1. New-Appointment letter: Special Police Officers + Kerry C. Siomos + Timothy M. McDermott 2. New-Appointment letter: David De Jesus, as a Member of the Fitchburg Human Rights Commission, for a term to expire April 1, 2028.
Communication: Re-Appointment of City Clerk (00:08:19)
Communication: Re-Appointment of City Clerk

VI. COMMUNICATION Council President Anthony Zarrella 1. Re-Appointment letter: Joanna Bilotta-Simeone, as Fitchburg City Clerk, for a term to expire April 19, 2028
Annual Report: Fitchburg Redevelopment Authority for FY2024 and Audited Financials for FY2023 (00:08:35)
Annual Report: Fitchburg Redevelopment Authority for FY2024 and Audited Financials for FY2023

064-25. ANNUAL REPORT: Fitchburg Redevelopment Authority for Fiscal Year 2024 and The Audited Financials for Fiscal Year 2023.
Special Presentation: Digital Equity Plan (00:09:06)
Special Presentation: Digital Equity Plan

VIII. SPECIAL PRESENTATION Liz Murphy, Executive Director Community Development & Planning to present a Digital Equity Plan
Report of the Board of Health: March 6, 2025 - Greif Paper Odor Update (00:51:49)
Report of the Board of Health: March 6, 2025 - Greif Paper Odor Update

Board of Health Meeting of March 6, 2025 030-24. Andrew Couture on behalf of the residents of Oak Ridge Condominiums to investigate an offensive odor (Suspected from Greif Paper) (update)
Report of the Finance Committee Meeting: March 26, 2025 (00:56:58)
Report of the Finance Committee Meeting: March 26, 2025

Finance Committee Meeting of March 26, 2025 Oral Report + 061-25. ORDER THAT: the City of Fitchburg hereby approves the expenditure of Mosaic (Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership) grant funds from the Mass DPH Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS) in the approximate amount of FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($40,000) for the purpose of said grant, which is to address the opioid overdose crisis by providing medical supplies and connection to services. (Be Adopted) + 062-25. ORDER THAT: the City of Fitchburg hereby appropriate the sum of ONE HUNDRED TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TEN DOLLARS ($102,210) from RESERVE FOR OTHER MUNICIPAL PURPOSES - Capital Expenses to POLICE CAPITAL - Vehicle Replacement. (Be Adopted)
Report of the Legislative Affairs Committee Meeting - April 1, 2025 (00:58:00)
Report of the Legislative Affairs Committee Meeting - April 1, 2025

Legislative Affairs Committee Oral Report Meeting of April 1, 2025 + 020-25. AN ORDINANCE: to adopt the provisions of G.L. c.60, ?62A as amended by Section 89 through 91 of Chapter 140 of the Acts of 2024. + 027-25. AN ORDINANCE: the City Council of the City of Fitchburg that the ordering of the prior insertions in Ordinance 009-2024 is hereby corrected as follows: ++ 1. Section 5 is struck its entirety. ++ 2. Section 6 shall now insert a new Article X entitle ?Snow and Ice? at the end of Chapter 169 Vehicles and Traffic. ++ 3. A new Section 169-103 entitled ?Duty to remove snow or ice from motor vehicles? shall be inserted under Article X and read as follows in Section 6 of Ordinance 009-2024. + 031-25. The Planning Board is seeking to amend Special Permit Fees and review of updated Planning Board fee schedule as enclosed in the packet.
Order-Finance (01:01:48)
Order-Finance

X. ORDER - FINANCE 065-25. ORDER THAT: there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($150,000) from RESERVE FOR OTHER MUNICIPAL PURPOSES - Capital Expenses to SCHOOL BUILDING MAINTENANCE - Capital Improvement
Order-Other (01:02:04)
Order-Other

XI. ORDER - OTHER 066-25. ORDER THAT: the City Council does hereby approve and authorize the Mayor to execute a Conservation Restriction by and between Ralph S. Baker, 840 Ashby West Road, Fitchburg, MA 01420, Worcester County, being the sole owner of 24.8 acres, +/-, shown as Lot-1 on a plan of land titled Proposed Plan of Land for Ralph S. Baker Fitchburg, Massachusetts, dated September 10, 2021, by New England Engineering, 601 Shea St. Fitchburg, MA 01420, recorded at Worcester Northern District Registry of Deeds, Plan 531-6, on October 5, 2021, and the North County Land Trust, Inc., 325 Lindell Avenue, Leominster, MA as more fully set forth in the Conservation Restriction dated October 30, 2024 as included with this Order
Petitions (01:02:33)
Petitions

+ 067-25. Residents of Park St., to petition concerns that Midnight Auto Repair shop is taking over Park St. leaving the residents with 'No Parking'. (Public Safety) + 068-25. Fire Chief Suarez, to petition for an increase on the annual License fee for the Fire Alarm System monitoring from the current rate of $200.00 to $300.00. This increase will take effect January 1, 2026. We request these funds be deposited into an enterprise fund for equipment maintenance and future upgrades. This fee is charged annually through the City Clerk's Office for all Fire Alarm Systems that are monitored by the Fitchburg Fire Department Dispatch Center, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. (Finance Committee) + 069-25. Councilor Andrew J. Couture, on behalf of Paul Gagne and other residents, to change the status of Central Ave. Ext. from a paper road to an actual road. (Public Works)
Resolution: 070-25 - To Support Bill S.41 and H.91 'Streaming Bill' Media Programming (01:03:28)
Resolution: 070-25 - To Support Bill S.41 and H.91 'Streaming Bill' Media Programming

070-25: President Zarrella, on behalf of FATV to adopt resolution in support of bill S.41 and H.91 ?Streaming Bill? Media Programming as per enclosed in the resolution.

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