COUNCILORS AT LARGE

William H. Dwight - President

Jesse M. Adams – Vice-President

WARD

1                Maureen T. Carney

2                Paul D. Spector

3                Owen Freeman-Daniels

4                Pamela C. Schwartz

5                David A. Murphy

6                Marianne L. LaBarge

7                Eugene A. Tacy

AGENDA

Public Comment - 7:00 P.M.

Regular Meeting - 7:05 P.M.

REGULAR MEETING AGENDA

q  ROLL CALL

q  APPROVAL of MINUTES of January 17, 2013

q  PROCLAMATIONS, RESOLUTIONS, AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

1. Announcement of 2013 Living Wage Adjustment

q  ONE-MINUTE ANNOUNCEMENTS

q  APPOINTMENTS, ELECTIONS AND PUBLIC HEARINGS

q  RECESS FOR FINANCE COMMITTEE

q  REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

1. Committee on Economic Development, Housing and Land Use Minutes of June 5, 2012 and October 2, 2012
2. Committee on Elections, Rules, Ordinances, Orders and Claims Minutes of November 19, 2012 and December 10, 2012

q  STREET ACCEPTANCE

1. Bradford Street
2. Bright Avenue
3. Church Street
4. Glendale Avenue
5. Warner Row
6. Edgewood Terrace
7. Baker Hill Road

(Refer to Planning Board and Board of Public Works)

q  PRESENTATION:  Municipal Performance Management Program and NorthamptonStat – Mayor David J. Narkewicz and Elham Sliman, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management
q  FINANCIAL ORDERS

1. Financial Order:  Authorization to Enter into Agreement with Verizon for Five Years (Request Two Readings)

1. Financial Order: Appropriation of $112,354 from FY2013 General Fund Undesignated Fund Balance (Free Cash) to Specific Accounts (Request Two Readings)

q  ORDERS

1. 1.     Order:  Accept Donation of Planting of Trees from Andrew Putnam, Rob Postel, and other Volunteers (2^nd Reading)

q  ORDINANCES

1. Ordinance: Amend §312-103-II No Parking Certain Times – Middle Street (1^st Reading)
   

1. Ordinance:  Amend §22-4 Committee on Economic Development, Housing and Land Use: Membership (1^st Reading)

1. Ordinance:  Amend §22-8 Finance Committee: Membership (1^st Reading)

1. Ordinance:  Amend §312-117 Schedule XVI: On Street and Off-Street Handicapped Parking Spaces – Henshaw Avenue(1^st Reading)

1. Ordinance:  Amend §312-103 Schedule II: No Parking Certain Times – Henshaw Avenue           (1^st Reading)

1. Ordinance:  Amend §350-10.5, 350-10.6, 350a et seq. Delete Planned Unit Development, Amend Open Space Residential Development to Incorporate Uses Previously Allowed as PUD                (1^st Reading)

1. Ordinance:  Amend §350-3.4 Rezone Densely Developed Residential Properties Between Barrett Street and Bridge Road from URB to URC to Reflect Current Uses (1^st Reading)

1. Ordinance: Amend §350-350a et seq. Increase Height Limits in Office/Industrial, General Industrial, and Central Business District by Five Feet (Refer to Planning Board, Committee on Economic Development, Housing and Land Use, and to Committee on Elections, Rules, Ordinances, Orders and Claims)

1. Ordinance: Amend §350-3.4 Rezone Parcels on Easthampton Road from BP and SR to GI to Help Fulfill the Business Park Vision (Refer to Planning Board, Committee on Economic Development, Housing and Land Use, and to Committee on Elections, Rules, Ordinances, Orders and Claims)

1. Ordinance: Amend §22-30 to 22-34 and §195-1 to 195-10 and §161-3, Merge Historic District Commission into the Historical Commission (Refer to Committee on Elections, Rules, Ordinances, Orders and Claims)

1. Ordinance: Amend §350-7.7 General Advertising Signs (Billboards) May Not Be Reconstructed to Contain Electronic Technology (Refer to Committee on Elections, Rules, Ordinances, Orders and Claims)

1. Ordinance: Amend §350-3.4 and attachment 1.1 Rezone Watershed Protection Throughout the City (Refer to Committee on Elections, Rules, Ordinances, Orders and Claims)

1. Ordinance: Amend §22-97 through §22-99 Committee on Disabilities (Refer to Committee on Elections, Rules, Ordinances, Orders and Claims)

q  UPDATES FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS

q  NEW BUSINESS – Reserved for topics that the Chair did not reasonably anticipate would be discussed.

q  ADJOURN

The next City Council meeting is February 21, 2013

        Northampton City Council

             Finance Committee

               February 7, 2013

Councilor David A. Murphy, Chairman         Council President William H. Dwight            Councilor Marianne L. LaBarge                    Councilor Eugene A. Tacy

q  ROLL CALL

q  FINANCIAL ORDERS

1. Financial Order:  Authorization to Enter into Agreement with Verizon for Five Years

1. Financial Order: Appropriation of $112,354 from FY2013 General Fund Undesignated Fund Balance (Free Cash) to Specific Accounts

q  FINANCIAL UPDATES

1. Report from Susan Wright, Finance Director

q  NEW BUSINESS – Reserved for topics that the Chair did not reasonably anticipate would be discussed.

q  ADJOURN

Contact:

Mary L. Midura

Executive Secretary

mmidura@northamptonma.gov