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Call to Order
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Roll Call
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PUBLIC HEARING
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A. Public Hearing
and Potential Action Regarding the 2016 Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG) Activity Ranking
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NEW BUSINESS
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A. Discussion and
Potential Action Regarding the Patricia Sprague Forest Preserve Management
Plan. This is the plan to manage the piece of property that Charlestown bought at a price well above the actual assessed value. On the agenda for the closed door Executive Session meeting of the Council is another potential open space land acquisition.
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FISCAL MATTERS
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A. Discussion and
Potential Action Regarding the Adoption of the FY 2016-2017 Budget,
Including Any Warrant Questions and Revisions, to be Put Before the Voters
at the Financial Town Referendum on June 6, 2016 This should be a formality, given that the budget and Save the General Stanton Inn referendum have already been discussed at last week's Budget hearing. However, this will give the CCA Party another shot at going after the General Stanton proposal. We should also see who among the CCA Party Town Councilors votes against the referendum, not that they can stop it from going to the voters.
Maybe, in their closed Executive Session, the Council will consider tearing down the General Stanton Inn to make more open space if, as I hope, voters approve the town's purchase of the Inn at the June 6 Financial Referendum.
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PERSONS WISHING TO BE HEARD
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A. Jim Mageau –
Charlestown Memorial Day Parade Committee, Inc. and the May 29, 2016
Memorial Day Parade
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PUBLIC COMMENT for items not on the Agenda
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COUNCIL COMMENTS
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ADMINISTRATOR, SOLICITOR, COMMISSION REPORTS
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A. Administrator
Report Town Administrator Mark Stankiewicz doesn't actually post his report until later. That's because he works for the Town Council, not the people of the town.
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B. Commission Reports
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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A. Board and
Commission Vacancies
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ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS
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A. Discussion and
Potential Action Regarding a Resolution in Support of the Green Economy
Bond
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e.
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B. Discussion and
Potential Action Regarding a Resolution Designating the Second Full Week in
May as “Women’s Lung Health Week”
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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A. Discussion and
Potential Action on a Resolution to Reduce Solid Waste from Single-Use
Plastic Bags and Polystyrene Containers NOTE: this started out as a headline-grabbing plan to actually ban plastic packaging, which would have been a first in Rhode Island. I think our Town Councilors have learned media manipulation from state Rep. Blake "Flip" Filippi who is great at grabbing headlines, even though he actually achieves absolutely nothing. Blue smoke & mirrors. Anyway, George Tremblay nailed the Flipper media model on this issue.
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B. Discussion and
Potential Action on a Strategy to Enlist Merchants in Promoting the Sale of
Re-Usable Tote Bags to Transport Goods from the Store, Authorizing the Town
Administrator to Spend an Amount Not to Exceed $10,000 to Subsidize Costs
to the Participating Merchants
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CORRESPONDENCE
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A. Discussion and
Potential Action Regarding a Request from the Burrillville Land Trust for
Opposition to the Proposed Fracked Gas-Fired Power Plant in the Town of
Burrillville
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CONSENT AGENDA
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Motion to accept, approve and place on file the
following as the consent agenda: “CA” A - “CA” K All of these items are deemed non-controversial and will not be debated. The entire bloc of "Consent Agenda" items will be subject to a single yes or no vote.
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"CA" A. Town Council Minutes:
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1. April 6 (Agenda)
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2. April 11, 2016
(Regular)
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"CA" B. Reports:
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1. Building
Official - April 2016
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2. Police Chief -
April 2016 Red light camera tickets jumped to 125 in April with 299 for the first four months of 2016. Each ticket is for $85. Charlestown's no-fault contract with the Swedish-owned vendor Sensys prices the system at $17,400 a month. If every ticket issued in April gets paid - which is very unlikely, that will only generate $10,625. The 299 tickets issued so far this year, if 100% paid, would amount to $25,415 against a contract cost of $69,600. Fortunately, Charlestown IS NOT liable for the shortfall.
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3. Public Works
Director – April 2016
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4. Town Clerk -
April 2016 Amy seems to have discontinued listing the number of births and deaths in Charlestown, data that has shown a consistent drop in Charlestown's population as the number of deaths outnumber the number of deaths births.
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5. Treasurer's
Report - March 2016
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“CA” C. Approval of the Following Events at Ninigret
Park with a Recommendation from the Parks and Recreation Commission,
Subject to Review of Contracts by the Town Solicitor, Receipt of All
Applicable Paperwork and Insurance and that All Event Details Are
Satisfactorily Met by the Parks and Recreation Director:
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1. Event: Stedfast
Christian Academy - Field Day
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2. Event:
Charlestown Skim Bash
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"CA" D. Approval of the following events to
occur within the Town of Charlestown per RIGL §31-12-12(a):
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1. 2016 Race the
State
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"CA" E.
Resignation of Phyllis Penhallow from the Chariho RYSE Building Committee,
with Regret
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"CA" F.
Award of the Senior/Community Center Emergency Generator Bid to Commercial
Electric, Inc. for an Amount Not to Exceed $85,286.00, as Budgeted in Line
Item 46.000.5139, and Authorization of the Town Administrator and Town
Treasurer, Each, to Take Any and All Such Actions, and Execute and Deliver
Such Certificates, Receipts or Other Documents as May be Necessary to Carry
into Effect the Foregoing, or Any Action Relative Thereto
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G.
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"CA" G.
Award of the Professional Trades Services Bid to V & M Construction for
Carpentry at Seventy-Three Dollars and Twenty-Seven Cents Per Hour ($73.27)
and Painting at Sixty-Two Dollars and Six Cents ($62.06) Per Hour; to
Brookside Electric for Electrician at Sixty Dollars ($60.00) Per Hour; CAM
HVAC & Construction for HVAC Maintenance and Repair at Eighty Dollars
($80.00) Per Hour; and Stedman & Kazounis for Plumbing at Seventy Seven
Dollars and Fifty Cents ($77.50) Per Hour, as Budgeted in Line Item 01.630.6065,
and Authorization of the Town Administrator and Town Treasurer, Each, to
Take Any and All Such Actions, and Execute and Deliver Such Certificates,
Receipts or Other Documents as May be Necessary to Carry into Effect the
Foregoing, or Any Action Relative Thereto
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"CA" H.
Approval of the Submission of a Rhode Island Department of Environmental
Management Large Recreation Development Grant for a New Facility by the
Bicycle Pathway Ad Hoc Committee for the Ninigret Park Multiuse Pathway/ a
Recreational Linear Park Pathway
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"CA" I.
Approval of the Inclusion of Frosty Drew Observatory’s June Viewing of the
Milky Way in the Upcoming Pipeline
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"CA" J.
Approval of the Request of an Advisory from the Parks and Recreation
Commission to be Forwarded in Time for the June 13, 2016 Town Council
Meeting on Investing $37,970 to Add the ZipKrooz Handicapped Playground
Equipment to the Existing Playground Equipment in a Kid’s Place Playground
in Ninigret Park to be Paid for from the $1 M Bond
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"CA" K.
Approval of the Request of an Advisory from the Parks and Recreation Commission
to be Forwarded in Time for the June 13, 2016 Town Council Meeting on the
Award of the Ninigret Park Multi-Purpose Trail Bid to Cardi Corporation for
an Amount Not to Exceed $266,927
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ADJOURNMENT
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