File name: 020106ag.doc File type: application-msword Boston City Council Agenda Meeting of February 1, 2006 Boston City Council Agenda Meeting of February 1, 2006 ORDER OF BUSINESS FOR MATTERS PRESENTED TO THE CITY CLERK PRIOR TO 12:00 P.M. ON TUESDAY JANUARY 31, 2006, FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE CITY COUNCIL AT A REGULAR MEETING ON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2006 AT 11:30 A.M. REPORTS OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND OTHERS: 0190 - Communication was received from the City Clerk of the filing by the Boston Redevelopment Authority of the First Report and Decision Amendment to the Trinity Mattapan Heights II Chapter 121A Project. 0191 - Communication was received from the Auditing Department regarding fiscal 2005 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. 0192 - Notice was received from the Mayor of his absence from the City on January 25, 2006 until January 28, 2006. 0193 - Notice was received from the Mayor of the re-appointment of Lisa Signori as Collector Treasurer, for a term expiring on the first Monday in January 2010. 0194 - Notice was received from Epsilon buttociates Inc. re: Public Notice of Waterways License Application No. W06-1521 The Park at 241 Atlantic Avenue Boston, Mbuttachusetts. 0195 - Communication was received from Michael F. Flaherty, City Council President, designating Councilor Robert Consalvo, as a trustee of the City of Bostons Neighborhood Housing Trust. MOTIONS, ORDERS AND RESOLUTIONS: Councilor Consalvo offered the following: 0196 - Order to amend the 2006 City Council rules. Councilor Tobin offered the following: 0197 - Order for a hearing to discuss different visitor permit parking programs and the possibility of implementing such a policy in Boston. Councilors Yancey and Turner offered the following: 0198 - Order for a hearing to determine what steps are being taken to identify the causes of and potential remedies for reducing automobile accidents in the City. Councilors Yancey and Turner offered the following: 0199 - Order for a hearing re: the location of cab stands in the city. 0200 - Order for a hearing to investigate safety standards of the floor sanding and refinishing trade in the city. 0201 - Order for hearing re: African American Homeless Veterans. 0202 - Ordinance re: School Bus Safety- Seat Belts. 0203 - Ordinance re: School Bus Safety-Bus Monitors. 0204 - Order for a hearing to determine the feasibility of installing permanent or temporary speed bumps on certain public and private streets. Councilor Yancey offered the following: 0205 - Ordinance requiring police officers to wear bullet-proof vests. Councilors Yancey, Turner and Murphy offered the following: 0206 - Order for a hearing re: the lack of coverage of the affairs of the City Council on Comcast and the possibilities for expanding this coverage or these broadcasts. 0207 - Order for a hearing regarding the Implementation of Community Policing. 0208 - Order to investigate curbs, ramps and sidewalks in Boston. 0209 - Ordinance calling for Mandatory Use of Global Positioning System Technology on all Emergency Vehicles employed by the City of Boston. 0210 - Order for a hearing to discuss the housing crisis in the city. 0211 - Order for a hearing to examine the status of the Insbreastutional Expansion Board created by CBC 10-5. Councilors Yancey, Turner and Murphy offered the following: Family Values 664That is one of the problems one faces when buttimilating and being absorbed by a more established immoral society. For Example your Northern European she... 0212 - Order for a loan of $95,000,000.00 for the planning, designing, acquiring land for, constructing and originally equipping structures and facilities and for remodeling, reconstructing, or making major alterations, additions, and major repairs to existing facilities including original equipment and landscaping, including the planting of shade trees, paving and other site improvements incidental or directly related to such remodeling, reconstruction or repair for the purposes of the school Department, (High School in Mattapan). 0213 - Order for a hearing regarding Section 8 rent subsidy cuts. 0214 - Order for a hearing to investigate social services available to victims of community violence. 0215 - Order requesting certain information under Section 17F re: a list of all sworn personnel who have received disciplinary actions from January 1, 2000 to January 31, 2006, in the Police Department. 0216 - Order requesting certain information under Section 17F re: a list of all sworn personnel between January 1, 2000 and January 31, 2006, who have been sent to training internally or externally by the Boston Police Department. 0217 - Order requesting certain information under Section 17F re: a list of Sergeants, Lieutenants, and Captains, who have received a Detective Rating between January 1, 2000 and January 31, 2006 by name, rank, race, gender and date of rating. 0218 - Order requesting certain information under Section 17F re: a list of Police Officers, Sergeants, Lieutenants, and Captains, who have been promoted to Detective or received a Detective Rating between January 1, 2000 and January 31, 2006 by name, rank, unit, race, gender and date of rating. 0219 - Order requesting certain information under Section 17F re: Police Department break down of Civilian Supervisors and the number of positions they have held between January 1, 2000 and January 31, 2006: name, the department-unit in their control, race, gender, and the date of buttignment-appointment. Councilor Yancey offered the following: 0220 - Order requesting certain information under Section 17F re: number of recruit clbuttes from January 1, 2000 to January 31, 2006. 0221 - Order requesting certain information under Section 17F re: Police Department break down recruit clbuttes from January 1, 2000 to January 31, 2006 by race, age, and gender. 0222 - Order requesting certain information under Section 17F re: a list of civilians who have received disciplinary actions from Internal Affairs, from January 1, 2000 to January 31, 2006, in the Police Department. 0223 - Order requesting certain information under Section 17F re: Police Department strength reports for civilians as of January 1, 2000 to January 31, 2006, by name, rank, race, gender and date of hire. 0224 - Order requesting certain information under Section 17F re: Police Department strength reports for sworn personnel as of January 1, 2000 to January 31, 2006, by name, rank, race, gender and date of hire. Councilors Feeney and Tobin offered the following: 0225 - Order for a hearing to review some of the truancy programs used by other cities. Councilor Arroyo offered the following: 0226 - Order for a hearing to discuss the District Improvement Financing legislations potential impact on the City of Boston, and the Citys plans to utilize this new mechanism for future development. 0227 - Order for a hearing to discuss Public Transportation and Regional Connections plans. Councilors Arroyo, Turner and Yancey offered the following: 0228 - Order approving a pebreastion for a special law re: a Planning Department for the City. Councilors Turner, Arroyo and Yoon offered the following: 0229 - Order for a hearing re: the buttessment of the Development of School Parent-Site Councils. 0230 - Order for a hearing re: the buttessment of the Implementation of the Family and Community Outreach Coordinator Program. 0231 - Order for a hearing on a detailed buttessment of the performance of English Language Learners by language group since the ending of bilingual education. 0232 - Order for a hearing re: the restoration of MWBE Program. CONSENT AGENDA Councilor Tobin offered the following: 0233 - Resolution congratulating The Employees of Santana Towing. Councilor Feeney offered the following: 0234 - Resolution congratulating Ms Joyce A. Murphy. 0235 - Resolution congratulating The Dien Dong Foundation. 0236 - Resolution congratulating The Vietnamese-American Community Center. 0237 - Resolution congratulating Ms. Anne Nee. Councilor Scapicchio offered the following: 0238 - Resolution recognizing Vanda Zirpolo. Councilor Yoon offered the following: 0239 - Resolution recognizing Lunar New Year. 0240 - Resolution recognized 4 people of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent buttociation of New England for dedicated service to the citys crime watch program. Councilor Tobin offered the following: 0241 - Resolution congratulating Clifford Ryan.
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