Board of Aldermen Page 20
March 8, 2016
encourage all of the Board of Aldermen to attend. It really puts a human face on the numbers and statistics
that we may be seeing and the need for the resources that we are custodians of.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
Several of you got e-mails or texts from me regarding use of the microphone last night, especially the use
of the public microphone; it was not well situated for many of the speakers to be caught. | think if you are
running a meeting to make sure it’s all captured appropriately.
Alderman Schoneman
| think the issue last night was that the people weren’t speaking into it.
Alderman Siegel
I'd like to thank Mr. Cote for coming up, hopefully that’s something we can take a look at. Regarding the
meeting last night | think part of the problem was that it was just general mayhem. There was a period of
time during public comment where it was just a lot of yelling when it should have been more orderly. It
wasn’t supposed to be an on-going debate about legislation that had already been voted on. | would like to
not have to go through that again as it wasn’t a pleasant experience.
Alderman Cookson
| wanted to make reference to R-16-014 which was regarding changing the purposed of up to $600,000 of
unexpended bond proceeds from the Broad Street School Elementary project. | want you to know and |
am seeking guidance on this particular topic; | received a call from a constituent in Ward 1 who was
concerned about the darkness of the intersection of Broad Street and Upstone. Surprisingly the
construction that took place to remove the wooded area to increase the parking has actually made the
intersection darker as you are travelling westbound towards Hollis. You don’t see your headlights reflect
on the brush or the trees so it’s very difficult to see. With that being said | don’t know what the solution is.
There is a pole that’s directly across the street but it doesn’t have cobra headlight on it. Do you request the
electric company to install a cobra? Do we do that through infrastructure or is there an opportunity with
some of the $600,000 that are pulling away from the school to actually look at that intersection to make a
lighted improvement so you can see the intersection at Upstone?
President McCarthy
It isn’t something we generally do out of the bond proceeds. It would be done through the Infrastructure
Committee via a communication asking them to install a light on that pole and why.
Alderman Cookson
If that light is not enough? That’s my concern.
President McCarthy
Then we would have to look at it some more. That might be a good place to try out some of the new
fixtures when we get around to it. Those lights are not tremendously expensive if | recall and it should be
paid for out of the streetlight account which should have enough money to cover it.