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From YouTube: City of Groton Mayor & Council - 1/16/18
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City of Groton, CT municipal meeting - Mayor & Council: January 16, 2018.
B
Receive
the
citizens
petitions
31
in
the
audience
that
wants
to
speak
okay,
great
and
we'll
skip
for
response
approval.
The
minutes
I
need
a
motion
to
approve
January,
2nd
2018
special
Committee
of
the
Whole
meeting
minutes
so
moves
second,
the
motion
in
a
second
any
discussion,
hang
on
all
in
favor,
say
aye.
Those
extensions
motion
carries.
You
have
I,
need
a
motion
for
the
Jan,
worse
negative
18,
mayor
and
council
meeting
minutes
so.
A
C
This
Friday
is
Friday
night
out
for
middle
schoolers.
All
you
have
to
do
is
bring
your
student
ID
and
there's
a
three
dollar
entrance
fee
this
year.
It
is
from
6:30
to
8:30
it's
a
ton
of
fun.
If
you
guys
want
to
come,
that's
always
fun
and
I
encourage
all
middle
schoolers
to
show
up
and
it's
a
town-wide
event.
D
I
attended,
Martin,
Luther,
King,
Day
Memorial
at
Saint
John's
right
here
in
Groton,
City
and
I.
Just
want
to
say
was.
It
was
a
very
good
program.
We
had
a
lot
of
great
speakers,
those
that
attend
the
church
as
well
as
I
want
to
say
dr.
Kimberly,
clear
young
from
the
Coast
Guard
Academy.
She
had
some
very
inspiring
words.
It
was
an
overall
great
program.
B
A
E
A
A
B
B
F
A
E
B
Instead
of
going
through
my
my
schedule,
there's
a
couple
things
that
I
want
to
talk
about
budget
we
are
in
the
budget
season.
I
have
received
the
least
of
our
budget
in
the
highway
department
budget.
If
you
look
at
what,
if
your
schedule
on
that
your
seats,
rather
is
the
budget
schedule
from
the
article
sixth
annual
budget
budget
preparation,
says,
department,
heads
of
the
police
department
and
highway
department
says
submit
their
proposed
budgets
to
the
mayor.
B
No
later
than
the
first
week
in
January
of
each
year,
the
mayor
shall
finalize
these
budgets
and,
within
two
weeks,
are
receiving
the
same,
submit
them
to
the
council
for
review
and
approval.
The
mayor
chef
submits
a
request
for
reimbursement
to
the
matter
of
the
telegram.
So
next
week
you
will
receive
the
budgets
as
a
cow
and
then
on
the
first
week
and
February
will
be
voting
those
budgets
and
then
I
will
be
submitting
them
to
the
to
the
town
manager.
On
a
note,
we
have
some
challenges.
B
B
The
other
thing
that
I
want
to
talk
about
that
goes
hand
in
hand
with
this
is
we've
talked
about
sewer
usage
fees
and
the
WPC
a
I.
Don't
know
the
water
pollution
control
afford.
I,
don't
know
if
I,
better
clear
that
one
of
the
things
that
I
am
looking
to
do
is
to
pull
the
WPC
a
from
out
of
them
and
budget
and
putting
it
into
the
utility
along
with
electric
and
water,
where
it
will
be
managed,
and
then
it
will
be
run
by
user
fees.
So
there
are
some
things
that
we
need
to
do.
B
The
utility
is
working
on
lines
of
account
in
order
to
set
up
the
accounting
properly
we're
also
looking
at
customer
service
and
billing.
So
we
can
make
sure
that
we
could
build
properly
and
one
of
the
things
we'll
be
discussing
next
week
is:
we
will
be
discussing
this
rollout
and
the
move
and
why
we
need
to
move
it.
The
effects
of
the
move,
but
I
wanted
to
start
by
talking
about
it
now
just
to
start
publicizing
and
start
marketing
it.
B
If
you
will
so
that
the
the
public
can
see
where
we're
going,
because,
basically
right
now,
your
taxes
are
paying
for
your
sewers.
So
let's
say
you're
a
family
of
four
and
you
have
a
$200,000
house
and
you
pay
X
amount
of
taxes.
When
your
kids
go
to
school
and
your
taxes,
your
house
is
still
two
thousand
dollars,
you're
easier
to
sue
or
less,
but
you're
still
paying
the
same
amount.
B
So
this
way,
if
you
have
user
fees
and
one
of
the
things
that
it
does,
is
you
basically
determine
what
your
amount
is
going
to
be,
and
in
addition
to
that,
by
going
to
user
fees,
there
are
now
grants
that
we
can
go
after
that.
We
could
not
go
after
when
it's
under
the
municipality,
and
there
are
some
other
things
that
are
our
pluses
to
it.
One
of
the
challenges
is
going
to
be
for
people
who
have
been
non
taxable
entities.
B
B
We'll
give
you
a
full-blown
presentation
on
the
WPC,
a
the
reason
I'm
bringing
it
up
now
is
because
what
I
want
to
do
is
we
are
working
to
make
sure
that
we
move
the
WPC
a
to
user
to
user
fees
at
the
same
time
that
we
take
it
out
of
the
municipal
budget
for
taxes,
so
that
I'm
not
so
that
you're
not
paying
taxes
and
user
fees
at
the
same
time.
So
what
happens?
Is
your
taxes
should
go
down
and
the
user
fees
will
go
up
and
should
be
relatively
close?
B
They
will
be
funded
by
fees,
so
the
fees
are
set
up
so
that
they
have
running
capital,
so
they
can
make
take
care
of
infrastructure
and
things
like
that
and
that
the
city
is
looking
forward
and
taking
care
of
their
infrastructure.
That's
another
advantage
to
moving
the
WPC
a
out
of
the
municipality
into
the
end
of
the
utility.
So
that's
one
thing
I'm
going
to
talk.
B
Another
thing
I
want
to
talk
about
another
thing
I
want
to
talk
about
is
we
have
some
openings
and
boards
and
commissions
on
beaches
and
parks?
We
have
two
members
that
we're
aware
right
now.
There
is
one
application
on
file
that
is
being
committed.
That
is
being
considered
the
conservation
committee
we
need.
We
have
an
opening
for
one
regular
member
of
one
offer
a
member
for
the
Eastern
pointed
sword
district.
We
have
openings
for
two
alternate
members
for
Harbor
management.
B
We
have
an
opening
for
one
regular
member
and
one
alternate
member
planning
and
zoning
one
regular
member
and
one
alternate
member,
the
Economic
Development
Committee
Commission's
schemings.
We
have
an
opening
for
one
regular
member
one
author
and
member
and
the
Zoning
Board
of
Appeals.
They
have
openings
for
two
regular
members
and
one
alternative.
So
if
there's
anybody
out
in
the
audience
that
is
interested
in
getting
active
in
your
community
and
wants
to
have
a
say
in
the
way
your
city
is
run,
please
contact
us,
there's
applicate.
B
B
Additionally,
we
have
two
council
liaison
positions
that
are
open.
One
is
the
airport
advisory
and
one
is
for
the
board
of
ed.
So
any
of
you
are
interested
in
either
those
two
positions:
Airport
advisory
or
Board
of
Ed.
Please,
let
me
know
you
don't
have
to.
Let
me
know
that
I,
actually,
that's
the
board.
That's
the
Board
of
Ed,
Town,
Council,
RTM
city
council
liaison
committee,
is
what
that
what
that
is,
it's
a
total.
C
B
They
need
to
remove
the
ones
that
need
to
put
up
and
then
they'll
get
in
touch
with
the
residents
there,
so
that
the
residents
will
know
what
they
need
to
do
in
order
to
get
the
Brooklyn
parking
passes
so
that
they
do
not
get
tickets.
We
are
also
looking
at
other
areas
in
the
city
for
the
application
of
residential
parking
or
resident
parking.
B
Probably
residential
park
I
spoke
with
Susan
Adams
today,
who
is
a
government
liaison
with
electric
boat
and
I've
requested
her
to
set
up
a
meeting
so
that
John,
Burke,
Town
Manager
and
the
town
manager
and
I
can
talk
to
the
electric
boat
about
the
future
and
about
parking
potential
parking
problems
that
I
foresee
and
that
we
first
and
potential
solutions
for
doing
so.
I
know:
we've
talked
topically
about
barking
before
we
are
continuing
to
do
that
for.
C
A
F
B
C
I
wanted
to
make
a
referral
to
the
beach
&
Park
committee.
The
youth
advisory
committee
used
to
be
in
existence
I'm
going
to
remember
when
it
started
and
it
stopped
stop.
Meeting.
Probably
a
year
ago,
I
was
on
that
committee
before
I
was
uncounseled,
and
it
really
is
a
committee
to
look
at
what
we
can.
What
services
we
should
have
for
middle
school
kids,
because
that
tends
to
be
the
area
where
a
lot
of
elementary
school
kids
have
a
lot
of
things
going
on.
C
E
E
B
I'm
very
absolutely
and
we'll
do
that
we'll
still
refer
it,
it's
a
beach
in
parks
and
then
we'll
see
what
we
can
do
to
get
this
up.
But
if
it's
as
if
the
sizes
are
manageable,
maybe
it's
time
for
us
to
take
a
look
at
that
and
look
at
maybe
the
direction
the
guidelines
purpose
of
it.
I
know
that
we're
trying
to
target
our
middle
school
kids
to
do.
C
Thank
you
of
resolution
in
ardèche,
18,
1
9.
Therefore
it
be
it
resolved
that
the
mayor
and
council
authorized
and
approved
the
city
of
Groton
to
enter
into
a
contract
with
East
Construction
LLC
412
Maple
Ave.
You
can
Uncasville
Connecticut
for
the
renovations
of
the
interior
portion
of
the
first
level
of
fire
headquarters.
140
Broad,
Street
Groton
Connecticut
in
the
amount
not
to
exceed
fifty
six
thousand
dollars
and
no
sense
to
be
paid
from
the
bond.
G
G
H
Which
was
still
under
the
next
lowest
bit,
though
fifty
thousand
four
forty-seven,
which
was
just
the
basement
so
the,
and
that
a
little
bit
was
East
construction
was
done,
work
or
the
city
in
that
action
for
the
firehouse,
but
she's
been
happy
with
that
they
performed
so
far.
So
that
was
the
recommendation
of
the
birthday
achieve
to
go
with
these
construction
alone.
H
H
Today,
right
now
is
60
mm
148.
That
we
know
is
good
money
as
far
as
their
we're
still
looking
as
I
mentioned
last
week,
there
was
some
confusion
when
this
was
originally
issued:
the
bodies
for
those
of
grant
portion
and
what
was
charged
each
one.
So
we're
going
to
review
that,
but
the
62,000
148
there
just
may
be
a
bigger.
H
G
G
H
B
One
of
the
things
to
the
council,
one
of
the
things
that
we
are
doing
is
we
have
little
snippets
of
money
here
and
there
again
a
thing.
We
are
corralling
that
money,
so
they
wait
so
that
I
first
and
then
you
next
understand
where
all
our
money
is
and
what
projects
they're
allocated
for
and
whether
or
not
there's
additional
money
that
is
unallocated,
I,
don't
mean
to
say
free
money
but
unallocated
money.
And
then
we
can
allocate
that
money
to
other
things.
And
then
one
of
the
areas
that
we're
looking
at
is
probably
in
February.
B
We
will
be
turning
over
the
other
ledger
building
to
the
town
and
there
is
bonding
associated
with
Colonel
ledger,
and
so
we
are
looking
I'm
having
the
department
heads
look
at
CIPS
so
that
we
can
obligate
the
funding
from
there.
But
that's
going
to
take
a
freeman's
meeting
and
before
I
have
that
Freeman's
meeting
I'll
make
sure
that
we
have
a
full
understanding
of
how
much
money.
That
is
what
the
projects
are,
a
full
detailed
description
of
the
projects.
B
B
Any
other
questions
or
comments
on
this
resolution:
okay,
hearing,
none
all
in
favor,
say
aye
those
stations
and
then
skidding.
The
motion
carries
and
ask
people
I
need
a
motion
to
amend
the
agenda
to
go
into
executive
session
pursuant
to
Connecticut
General
Statutes
1
206
alpha
to
discuss
personnel
and
that's
fire
department
hold
on
to
include
the
mayor
and
council.