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A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Cookson, 14
Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron, Alderman Siegel,
Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman McGuinness,
Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty, Alderman O’Brien,
Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
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save about 40% of the electric bill devoted to street lighting. That bill is $830,000 so it will help the city
realize a savings of over $300,000 a year. At one point there was a proposal that we do a sole source
project at a cost of $2.1 million and as a result of the decision to go out to bid with this we reduced the
price by $600,000 so that’s good news.
A regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja led in the
Pledge to the Flag.
President McCarthy
Before | ask the Clerk to take the roll, Alderman Dowd is participating by telephone and under the
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Street Parkway we will get that equal amount of paving on these repurposed projects. We will come out even
and if this works out, we in a way are better off because had this not occurred the Millyard parcels that we
acquired, NIMCO and the like, we would have had to sell those and give the money to the federal government.
Alderman McCarthy
| assume that this means that we own the police training facility.
Mayor Donchess
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Alderman McCarthy
The bond plus the federal government reimbursements will cover the cost of the Broad Street Parkway project
plus whatever amount in paving; $1.7 million it sounds like.
Alderman Moriarty
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Mr. Fredette
From bonds.
Alderman McCarthy
So we did let some of the bonds up front to get enough cash in the account to do that.
Mr. Fredette
Mr. Fredette’s response was inaudible.
Alderman Moriarty
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Alderman Moriarty
Going back a step, in general how is the Broad Street Parkway working and | will rephrase by saying that
roughly $30 million is city and $30 million is federal. Is there some account somewhere that the federal money
goes into that this is all being spent out of? The total is like $80 million or something, right?
Mr. Vancor
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Mr. Vancor
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the Congressional Delegation and they have been very helpful. They contacted federal highway and
discussed the problem which we believe has certainly been of assistance.
Mr. John Vancor, Project Manager, Broad Street Parkway
A special joint meeting of the Board of Aldermen and Board of Public Works was held Tuesday, May 31, 2016,
at 6:30 p.m. in the City Hall Auditorium.
President Brian S. McCarthy presided; Legislative Manager Susan Lovering recorded.
Prayer was offered by Legislative Manager Susan Lovering; Alderman Ken Siegel led in the Pledge to the
Flag.
The roll call was taken with 12 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Schoneman, Alderman
Clemons and Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja.were recorded absent.
