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From YouTube: November 23, 2013, City Council Meeting
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November 23, 2013, City Council Meeting
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Yeah,
so
I
guess
what
scenario
would
be
passive
solution
like
ken
get
the
grant
in
then
we
can
have
pokemon
rather
than
committing
meaning
because
really
going
past
the
community
stage,
but
still
have
a
public
hearing
on
it.
So
you
can
answer
any
questions.
If,
however,
you
want
to
do
it,
I
just
to
give
you
something.
The
urgency
is
is
that
we
have
that
hard
deadline
that
we
have
to
get
the
grant
and
committee.
We
missed
the
deadline.
That's
basically.
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What
I've
been
supporting
getting
the
grant
in,
but
I
guess
my
suggestion
would
be
that
you
had
to
be
a
public
hearing.
The
decision
is
to
have
with
the
full
council-
that's
fine
or
or
the
finance
committee-
that's
fine,
but
then
then
it
get
voted
to
question
whether
to
pursue
the
grant
be
voted
on
by
the
council
after
the
hearing,
so
that
people
could
vote
absolutely.
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Have
to
train,
I
want
a
transparent
process,
but
I
just
need
you
to
know
that
we
have
a
deadline
that
we
have
to
meet.
So,
however,
this
party
wants
to
do
it.
They
have
no
problem
with
it,
but
it
looks
like
they're
putting
the
car
before
the
horse
because
we
aren't,
together
only
because
of
the
deadline.
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You,
council
president,
I
started
to
make
a
brief
statement.
I
wanted
to
thank
councilman
santa
maria
and
our
of
our
trade
writer
mike
valarson
when
they
approached
me
about
this.
A
few
weeks
ago,
we
had
had
in
the
budget
a
planned
item
the
bond
for
the
new
locker
rooms
at
branson
east
at
the
transit
stadium.
I
thought
this
is
a
great
way
to
approach
the
project,
to
save
some
money
on
the
city
side
and
go
for
the
grant
so
kudos
to
councilman
santa
maria
and
our
american
velocity.
Hopefully
we
can
get
to
the
hearing
process.
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Yeah,
I
just
wanted
to
say
from
the
administration
standpoint
I
met
with
mr
pelosi
and
mr
lebatore.
On
november
6th
we
had
the
discussion
about
the
potential
of
bond
through
dem.
At
that
time,
I
thought
it
was
a
good
idea
that
we
were
pursuing
mr
pelosi,
obviously
to
the
forefront
to
do
that.
He's
done
a
great
job
in
getting
us
to
the
point
of
an
application.
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I
think
this
is
a
great
idea
and
it
seems
like
it
would
bring
great
things
to
that
area.
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I
guess
I
have
some
concerns
because
the
traffic
backs
up
at
the
moment,
so
it
was
just.
I
haven't,
read
through
the
whole
the
whole
package
here,
but
I
I
just
don't
know
whether
that
is
something
that
needs
to
be
addressed.
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Your
question,
a
lot
of
the
grant
application
goes.
There
has
to
be
justification
in
the
state
coverage
of
the
recreation
plan,
also
a
local
comprehensive
plan
and
from
those
elements
it
was
addressed
and
actually
requested
a
great
application
park.
Avenue
is
one
of
the
three
most
highly
traveled
streets
in
the
city
and
it's
inciting
the
comprehensive
plan
to
look
at
it
as
a.
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Years
ago,
with
the
official
church
in
francis
stadium,
the
council
and
I
was
on
the
council
that
time
got
a
lot
of
opposition.
We
hired
the
greenland
midsole
opposition.
Also,
the
actual
the
artificial
church
we
put
down
was
a
boom,
the
city
of
cranston,
and
we
saved
an
awful
lot
of
money
by
not
flexing
grass
watering,
grass
and.
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The
first
item
is
a
resolution
authorizing
two
tax
abatements
for
properties
that
were
questioned
last
month
and
the
finance
committee
didn't
receive
information
about
both
those
properties
and
unanimously
voted
to
recommend
approval
of
those
tax
payments,
as
recommended
by
the
assessor.
So
I
need
a
motion.
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Collective
bargaining
agreement
with
the
council,
94
local
2044
school
secretaries,
their
motion
questions
approved
for
a
second
second
another
discussion,
constant
disciples.
This
was
approved
by
the
finance
committee
with
the
recommendation
of
both
the
school
committee
and
the
secretarial
union.
The
contract
is
the
rep.
The
contract
is
both
the
union
and
the
school
committee
have
agreed
to
abide
by
an
arbitrator's
award
in,
and
the
arbitrators
award
sets
up
the
provisions
of
the
contract.
This
is
not
like.
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These
concessions
are
estimated
to
cost
221
000.,
I'm
221
dollars
a
year
forgot,
the
biggest
one,
which
is
the
full
employees,
will
have
five
holidays
and
five
regular
work
days
with
no
pay
and
school
year.
Employees
will
have
four
regular
workdays
with
no
pay
and
four
fewer
holidays,
so
when
that's
factored
in,
you
get
to
the
arbitrator
estimated
at
221
thousand
dollars.
So
I
would
recommend
gratifying
this
contract.
With
this
pretty.
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Are
receiving
raises
somehow
where
they
found
money
in
other
areas
of
the
budget
but,
as
I
said
in
the
community,
they're
manipulating
spreadsheet
anyway,
but
bottom
line
is
they're
getting
cut
right
and
the
administration's
getting
racist.
So
I
do
again
find
blatantly
unfair,
but
I
would
vote
for
the
contractor.
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I
I
sent
you
an
email
indicating
that
there
were
some
america
with
a
beautiful
tree
grants
available,
suggesting
that
we
meet
with
john
campanini
from
the
rhode
island
tree
council
to
talk
about
the
setback,
tree
planting
and
the
possibility
of
getting
those
grants,
and
they
haven't
heard
anything
and
would
like
to
get
that
meeting
set
up.
As
I
mentioned
in
the
email.
The
first
week
of
december
is:
is
that.
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It's
two
things:
it's
to
talk
about:
how
to
set
up
a
setback
tree
planting
program.
John,
has
some
suggestions
based
on
other
communities
and
recommendations,
but
one
of
them
would
involve
the
city
agreed
to
buy
a
certain
number
of
trees.
Now
when
the
price
is
low,
and
the
second
issue
is
that
these
grants
will
be
coming
out
and
we
need
to
if
we
want
to
take
advantage
of
them,
we
need
to
hop
on
it
and
having
a
setback
tree
planting
program
defined
according
to
john,
who
is
the
rest
of
the
people.
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President
director,
I
I
just
want
to
kind
of
make
something
put
it
out
of
the
record
here.
This
grand
thing
isn't
a
dnr,
it's
a
cheap
thing
for
taxpayers.
So
if
there's
any
department
that
might
need
software
upgrades
or
anything,
I
know
director
cody's
done
really
good
job
as
far
as
looking
at
grant
grants
for
the
city,
but
this
is
just
an
extra
person
that
we
have
he's
more
than
willing
to
help
any
department
head.
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I
think
the
majority
felt
that
the
11
and
a
quarter
percent
pay
increase
proposed
in
the
three-year
agreement
was
excessive.
There's
a
lot
of
concern
about
the
introduction
of
steps
for
the
officers
for
the
first
time,
and
it
was
my
estimate
that
by
the
end
of
the
contract,
if
the
contract
was
passed,
the
cost
of
policing
would
be
up
by
a
million
dollars
a
year.
So
I
just
want
to
report
to
the
full
council
and
also
to
the
public
that
that
did
happen
in
the
last
finance
committee.