May 7, 2024

To recommend that the Municipal Council deny the petition of ten Registered Voters to amend S17-16.0 Signs of the Zoning Ordinance, mor specifically, S17-16.9 Table of Permitted Signs & Dimensional Regulations (related to the regulation of "off-premises signs and the duration of the timing-interval of electronic message boards)

To authorize the payment of $73.22 for the following FY23 fiscal obligations that were not received in time to be processed in the normal FY23 business cycle: NAME OF VENDOR AMOUNT Lowe's $23.60 Lowe's $48.62

To transfer $15,000 from Account 11241000- 578300 (City Wide - Reserve Fund for Transfer) to Account 16101000-521020 (Library - Lights and Power) to pay the remaining library electricity expenses for FY24

To accept the City's Capital Improvements Program for FY2025-2029 and the following CIP Resolution: RESOLUTION OF THE ATTLEBORO MUNICIPAL COUNCIL Page 8 of 13 May 7, 2024 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM FISCAL YEARS 2025 - 2029 WHEREAS: The Home Rule Charter, approved by the people of Attleboro in November 1973, mandates the submission of a five-year capital improvement program at least six months prior to the final day of each fiscal year; and WHEREAS: The charter requires a yearly adoption by resolution of the Council of at least five-year capital improvements program for the city; and WHEREAS: The Charter necessitated a Public Hearing, which the Council held on March 19, 2024; and WHEREAS: The city's fiscal management plans to sustain a Capital Improvement line item in the Budget upon State certification of Free Cash; and WHEREAS: The city's Capital Improvements continue to face logarith

To accept the provisions of M.G.L. Ch.140, Sec. 139(c) along with additional provisions by amending Section 9-36.7 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Attleboro as follows: 9-36.7 License fees shall not be required for certified seeing-eye dogs, hearing dogs, dogs that are trained to assist the physically handicapped, or other service animals as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act or regulations promulgated thereunder, or governmental police dogs; nor shall license fees be required for dogs owned by persons aged seventy (70) years or older or disabled veterans, subject to a limit of two (2) dog licenses per person under this exemption

To transfer $21,735.00 from Account 11241000-578300 (Citywide - Reserve Fund for Transfer) to Account 11241000-584052 (Citywide- Air Conditioning Unit) to replace the mini-split air conditioning unit and condenser in the Shang Building, for the Registry of Motor Vehicles

To transfer $1,800.00 from Account 16501000-511000 (Park - Salary & Wages) to Account 16501000-530101 (Park - Professional Services) for "Geese Police" services at the Judith H. Robbins Park

To rescind $5,000 of the debt authorized on February 16, 2021 for the Wading River Pilot Study

To authorize the City to expend $37,572 of ARPA funds on costs associated with the purchase of a 6" trash pump, to be used as flood mitigation equipment

To transfer $14,496.32 from Account 11241000-578300 (City Wide - Reserve Fund for Transfer) to replenish funds used to have the entire drainage system, from the outfall pipe on Clayton Street to the inlet pipes on Thomlison, professionally viewed by underground cameras due to multiple flooding events

To appropriate $18,000.00 from Account 6100-359000 (Water Enterprise Fund - Retained Earnings) to fund Account 6100-563000 (Water Enterprise Fund - Intergovernmental State Match) to cover Attleboro's 60% of the required match for funds related to a joint MVP grant with the Town of Wrentham for the removal of the Crocker Pond Dam

To approve the following loan order: ORDERED: that Thirty-Five Million One Hundred Eighty-One Thousand Dollars ($35,181,000.00) is appropriated for the purpose of financing the construction and construction administration for the permanent PFAS facility to be located at the Wading River Plant, 250 Balcom Street, Mansfield, Massachusetts, including without limitation all costs thereof as defined in Section 1 of Chapter 29C of the General Laws; that to meet this appropriation, the Treasurer with the approval of the Mayor is authorized to borrow Thirty-Five Million One Hundred Eighty- One Thousand Dollars ($35,181,000.00) under section 8(4) of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, Chapter 29C of the General Laws, or any other enabling authority; that such bonds or notes shall be general obligations of the City unless the Treasurer with the approval of the Mayor determines that they should be issu

To approve a request from Massachusetts Electric Company d/b/a National Grid and Verizon New England, Inc to locate poles, wires, and fixtures along and across the following Public Way: Forest Street - Install one JO Pole on Forest Street

To approve a request from Massachusetts Electric Company d/b/a National Grid to locate poles, wires, and fixtures, including the necessary sustaining and protecting fixtures, along the following public way: Page 11 of 13 May 7, 2024 Forest Street - Install one SO Pole on Forest Street

To amend Section 15-1.3 of the Revised Ordinances by striking the words "seventy police patrolmen" and replacing them with "eighty-five police officers"

To approve the appointment of Spencer Lynds, 211 Pine Street, Apt. 6 to fill an expired term on the Conservation Commission

To approve expending of such funds and any future grant amendments regarding the receipt of the Community Planning Grant from the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) in the amount of $89,250.00 to be used to conduct a corridor redevelopment strategy of US Route 1/US Route 1A in Attleboro

To strike the following: To suspend the Committee of the Whole portion of Council meetings pending the conclusion of the Council's review of potential revisions to relevant provisions of its Rules of Procedure