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*COMMITTEE ON CITY PROPERTY* - July 12, 2022 MEETING AT 7:00 PM, *City Hall, 133 William Street, New Bedford, MA City Council Chambers - Room 214* *AGENDA*


	1. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Gomes, Giesta, Council President Lopes and Councillor Morad, requesting that the Committee on City Property, meet with the members of the Cemetery Board for the purpose of discussing the rules and regulations governing Cemetery plots and clarifying what can and cannot be placed on those plots at City Cemeteries; and further that the Board discuss updating those rules and regulations on how family and friends care for their love ones plots. (Pictures Enclosed and to be Referred to the Committee on City Property.) (Ref’d 04/22/2021) (6/23/2021 – Motion made that the Cemetery Board return to the committee with their changes as it relates to the rules and regulations on what can and cannot be placed at a headstone throughout the cemetery in the next 30 days) (09/08/2021 – new cemetery brochure with updated rules & regs obtained from Cemetery Dept.; forwarded to all Councillors by hard-copy and email.)
	INVITEES: Jonathan Carvalho, Vice-Chair, Cemetery Board; Jamie Ponte, DPI Commissioner
	2. COMMUNICATION, Councillor Gomes, submitting a communication from Judy Pacheco Young, New Bedford, MA 02745, regarding the severe damage done to her husband’s headstone at Rural Cemetery. (Copy all Councillors 07/19/2021; To be Referred to the Committee on City Property.) (Ref’d 08/19/2021)
	INVITEES: Jonathan Carvalho, Vice-Chair, Cemetery Board; Judy Pacheco Young; Jamie Ponte, DPI Commissioner


Chair Suggests ‘Waive Reading’, ‘No Further Action’ and ‘Report Out to the Full City Council’


	3. 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. (To be Referred to the Committee on City Property.) (Ref’d 02/25/2021) (03/23/2021 – tabled)

	4. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillor Gomes, on behalf of Bonnie Waite, 112 Peckham Road, Acushnet, requesting that Kathleen Street be changed to SPOONER FARM LANE, the Spooner Family-owned land for decades along Kathleen Street; and this name change would give recognition to a family that contributed so much to this area for decades. (To be Referred to the Planning Board, the Committee on City Property and the Traffic Commission.) (Ref’d 02/10/2022) (03/08/2022 – Planning Board has continued this matter to their April meeting) 4a. COMMUNICATION, Jennifer Carloni, Director, City Planning, to Councillor Maria E. Giesta, Chairperson, Committee on City Property, advising that the Planning Board held a meeting on Wednesday, March 09, 2022, to review and make a recommendation to the City Council for its consideration regarding the petition from Bonnie Waite to change the name of Kathleen Street to Spooner Farm Lane; the Planning Board recommends that the petition be withdrawn from the City Council and refiled with the Planning Board. (Ref’d 03/18/2022)

	5. COMMUNICATION, Councillor Pereira submitting a copy of letter to the Park Board of Commissioners regarding the proposed pay-to-park system at the Marine Park on Pope’s Island. (Ref’d 03/24/2022)

	6. COMMUNICATION, Councillors Baptiste and Pereira, submitting a copy of a letter sent to Members of the Board of Park Commissioners regarding the parking plan at Marine Park and Noah’s Place Playground. (To be Referred to the Committee on City Property.) (Ref’d 04/12/2022)

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