TOWN COUNCIL MEETING
Interviews:
AWARDS, PRESENTATIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. ROLL CALL
III. COUNCIL SITTING AS ALCOHOLIC LICENSING BOARD
All approvals for licenses
and permits are subject to the resolution of debts, taxes and appropriate
signatures as well as, when applicable, proof of insurance.
IV. CONSENT AGENDA
An item on the Consent Agenda need not be removed for simple clarification or correction of typographical errors. Approval of the Consent Agenda shall be equivalent to approval of each item as if it had been acted upon separately.
1) Adoption of Council minutes:
a)
b)
2) Bills and Payroll
3) Minutes from Boards, Commissions and Committees:
a) Affordable
Housing Committee (
b)
Planning Commission (
c)
Library Board of Trustees (
d)
Conservation Commission (
e)
Personnel Board (
f)
Harbor Management Committee (
4) Zoning Board of Review abutter notification
5)
Proclamations & Resolutions from other
a) Town
of
b) Town
of
c)
Town of
7) Letter from Caitlin Chaffee, URI Cooperative Extension, re: private well water protection workshop
8) Abatements/Addenda of Taxes
V. EXECUTIVE SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT
VI. COUNCIL, ADMINISTRATOR, SOLICITOR,
COMMISSION/COMMITTEE COMMENTS & REPORTS
1) Town Administrator Report as attached
The following items are action items for Council consideration:
2. Private well testing
4. Bid award re: GIS Mapping Program to Fuss & O’Neill Technologies, LLC in an amount not to exceed $21,850.00
2) Town Solicitor
a) Letter re: Amicus Brief
b)
Letter re: David & Jeanne Albrektson,
VII. PUBLIC HEARING
1) Proposed amendment to Section 26-20 of
the Code of Ordinance pertaining to open burning (continued from
a) proposed ordinance - revised
VIII. ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS
IX.
COMMMUNICATIONS AND PETITIONS
1) Letter from George Warner, Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Associate, re: Affordable Housing Committee letter
2) Email from Tina Dolen,
3) Letter from Patience Cary re: DEM variance application 9615-3136, Steve Perry, AMS Development of plat 1 lot 33
4) Copy of letter from BJ Whitehouse to Jessica Kappes re: Cingular Wireless
5) Letter from RIDEM re: 30% landfill closure design
6) Letter from Lori Gibson, RIDEM, re: deer
7) Letter from Attorney General Patrick Lynch re: LNG
8) Letter from Ellen Winsor re: DEM FY2006 project priority list
X. LICENSES & PERMITS
All approvals for licenses and permits are subject
to the resolution of debts, taxes and appropriate signatures as well as, when
applicable, proof of insurance.
1) Exhibition/Event Licenses:
a)
Rolling Agenda – Bikeway Committee dba: Bicycle
Awareness Day, to hold an event at the
b)
Friends of the Jamestown Animal Shelter dba: Day at the
Park to hold a fundraiser at the Fort Getty Pavilion on
i) Peddler License: Bada Bing dba: House of Pizza to sell hotdogs, hamburgers, beverages, etc. at the Day at the Park event. All proceeds to be donated to the Jamestown Animal Shelter. Request to waive $5.00 application fee; insurance covered under event & applicant’s Freddie Bing’s Hotdog Thing policy
XI. OPEN FORUM
1) Scheduled request to address
a) Representative Bruce Long re: legislative update
b) Ellen Winsor re: priority points project
2) Non-scheduled request to address
XII. APPOINTMENTS
AND RESIGNATIONS
1) Coastal Resource Management Council Representative
a)
One (1) vacancy exists as a
· Emmet Turley
XIII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
1)
Rate schedule for events held in
2) Beavertail Lighthouse Lease
a) Terms of lease (submitted by Town Solicitor Parks)
b) Potential new tenant
c) Lighthouse keeper application with point system (submitted by Town Planner)
3)
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facilities in
a)
Council actions to be taken in opposition to the siting
of LNG facilities (cont. from
4) Deer overpopulation re: possible actions to be taken by Council
XIV. NEW BUSINESS
1) Award bid for portable waterline and reel system to Kidde Fire Fighting, Inc. for an amount not to exceed $294, 914.12
2)
School Committee work session
3)
a) Update on progress of animal shelter
b) Volunteers “Friends of the Town”
c) Policy re: injured and sick animals
4) Award bid for GIS Parcel Mapping Project to Fuss & O’Neill Technologies, LLC in an amount not to exceed $21,850.00
XV. EXECUTIVE SESSION
XVI. ADJOURNMENT
Pursuant to RIGL § 42-46-6(c)
Notice of this meeting shall be posted on the Secretary of State’s website and
at the Town Hall and the Jamestown Philomenian Library.
In addition to the two
above-mentioned locations, notice also may be posted, from time to time, at the
following locations: Jamestown Police
Station;
ALL NOTE: This meeting location is accessible to the physically challenged. Hearing or speech impaired individuals requiring the services of an interpreter should call the Town Clerk at 401-423-7200 or facsimile at 401-423-7230 not less than 3 business days prior to the meeting.