27. REPORT, Committee on City Property, recommending that the City Council take “NO FURTHER ACTION” on the WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Giesta, Abreu, Council President Lopes, Councillors Lima, Carney and Coelho, requesting that City Solicitor Mikaela McDermott, DPI Commissioner Jamie Ponte, Director of Parks, Recreation and Beaches Mary Rapoza, and the Director of Purchasing Molly Gilfeather, be invited to a Committee on City Property meeting to discuss the possibility of the City selling the two pocket parks in the North End, the Nye Street Pocket Park and the Phillips Avenue Pocket Park, these parks were first created as an idea that the neighborhood would take advantage of the green space that these parks provided; unfortunately, these pocket parks have had the opposite effect, they are being used by drug dealers and users and for prostitution, the residents and business owners in the surrounding areas deserve better and should not have to live with the ongoing crime that is being perpetrated in these pocket parks; further requesting that the City please sell these pocket parks to interested buyers who will utilize their use for the betterment of the neighborhood, i.e., possible business or residential parking.

27a. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Giesta, Abreu, Council President Lopes, Councillors Lima and Carney,  requesting that City Solicitor Mikaela McDermott, DPI Commissioner Jamie Ponte, Director of Parks, Recreation and Beaches Mary Rapoza, and the Director of Purchasing Molly Gilfeather, be invited to a Committee on City Property meeting to discuss the possibility of the City selling the two pocket parks in the North End, the Nye Street Pocket Park and the Phillips Avenue Pocket Park, these parks were first created as an idea that the neighborhood would take advantage of the green space that these parks provided; unfortunately, these pocket parks have had the opposite effect, they are being used by drug dealers and users and for prostitution, the residents and business owners in the surrounding areas deserve better and should not have to live with the ongoing crime that is being perpetrated in these pocket parks; further requesting that the City please sell these pocket parks to interested buyers who will utilize their use for the betterment of the neighborhood, i.e., possible business or residential parking.  (Referred to the Committee on City Property – February 25, 2021.)