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City Council Agenda 2/6/13

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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

CITY COUNCIL

CITY OF NORTHAMPTON

MASSACHUSETTS

CITY COUNCIL MEETING
February 7, 2013
City Council Chambers
Wallace J. Puchalski Municipal Building
212 Main Street, Northampton

AGENDA

Public Comment - 7:00 P.M.

Regular Meeting - 7:05 P.M.

REGULAR MEETING AGENDA

  • ROLL CALL
  • APPROVAL of MINUTES of January 17, 2013
  • PROCLAMATIONS, RESOLUTIONS, AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

1. Announcement of 2013 Living Wage Adjustment

  • ONE-MINUTE ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • APPOINTMENTS, ELECTIONS AND PUBLIC HEARINGS
  • RECESS FOR FINANCE COMMITTEE
  • 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

  • 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)

  • PRESENTATION: Municipal Performance Management Program and NorthamptonStat – Mayor David

J. Narkewicz and Elham Sliman, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management

  • FINANCIAL ORDERS

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

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

3. Financial Order: FY2013 Budgetary Transfer of $20,000 (1st Reading)

  • ORDERS

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

  • ORDINANCES

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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
(1st Reading)

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

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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)

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

  • UPDATES FROM COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS
  • NEW BUSINESS – Reserved for topics that the Chair did not reasonably anticipate would be

discussed.

  • 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

  • ROLL CALL
  • FINANCIAL ORDERS

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

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

3. Financial Order: FY2013 Budgetary Transfer of $20,000

  • FINANCIAL UPDATES

1. Report from Susan Wright, Finance Director

  • NEW BUSINESS – Reserved for topics that the Chair did not reasonably anticipate would be

discussed.

  • ADJOURN

Contact:
Mary L. Midura
Executive Secretary
mmidura@northamptonma.gov
413-587-1210

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