Good evening, everybody.

Welcome to the first ever uh sustainability and infrastructure committee meeting.

I say this is the first um meeting because uh this is the combining of uh the current president has made some changes to some committees, and one of those is to combine uh open space environment and energy and public utility public works.

So um this would be the first uh meeting of that committee.

So welcome all.

Uh before we get into any agenda items, I'm gonna read uh this blurb that allows us to do this meeting remotely.

So pursuant to chapter two of the acts of 2025.

This meeting of a city council committee will be conducted via remote participation.

We will post an audio recording, audio video recording, transcript, or other comprehensive record of these proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting on the City of Somerville website and local cable access government channels.

Uh I am the chair of this committee, Jesse Klingon, and we have tonight clerking um Delaney.

I'm sorry, Clerk uh my last name is too much.

Just yeah, no clearly or Clerk Delaney, but my last name um is Fisher Cassio.

That's right.

Yeah.

All right, Madam Clerk.

Uh, and then we'd also have a substitution this evening.

Uh Councilor Scott had a uh conflict.

So we have Counselor Link in place of him.

Madam Clerk, could you please call the role to establish quorum?

Yep, this is roll call.

Counselor Hart.

Here.

Chair Klingon.

Present.

And subbing in for Counselor Scott, Counselor Link.

Here.

All right.

With that, we do have all members present.

So we have quorum.

All right, great.

Um, and then just some housekeeping.

Um, if you could just read um so items one and two are approval of uh minutes of the both of the previous um committees.

Uh the one number one would be the approval of the minutes of the public utility public works committee meeting from October 15th, 2025.

And I'm gonna take that up at the same time.

Do we we can yeah, we'll vote on both of these at the same time.

And then number two, approval of the minutes of the open space environment energy committee meeting of December 3rd, 2025.

Um can you call a roll and approval of those minutes, please, Madam Clerk?

Yep, on approval of um the minutes, items number one and two.

Counselor Hart.

Yes.

Chair Klingon.

Yes.

Counselor Link.

Yes.

All right, that is all votes in the affirmative.

Okay.

So we have a light agenda.

Um, you know, I just don't like things to languish in the box too much.

Uh, but there are a number uh five items sent for discussion to this committee.

Um should be a fairly quick meeting.

I've been asked to take a few items out of order.

We have uh interim commissioner Weissman here, DPW Commissioner Weissman, uh, who's joining us to speak on these items.

There is a memo attached, and um, you know, uh which is pretty much it suffice to address these issues, but I thought, you know, in case if committee members have any questions, uh, you know, it's always good just to the public knows when we send these to committee.

And so, you know, for any of the members of the public who maybe live near the warming center, you know, that the board counselor, venue and camp and as well as the mayor have met with uh members of the committee over there and heard their concerns, and so they're taking you know these concerns very seriously.

So, counselor you and campen did put in um a few orders.

We're gonna take those up together um all at once, and we'll have uh the commissioner um interim commissioner Weisman here to speak on those.

Uh and also it looks like uh emergency management director Bill Fisher is here as well.

I'm assuming um on those, he's also uh been part of the team monitoring the warming center and making sure that everything is um going according to uh uh everybody's needs and and um and also making sure that we're not disrupting the neighborhood.

So I'll just read quickly items five, six, and seven from Councilor Ewan Camp and that the commissioner number five, uh two six zero one one eight, that the commissioner of public works install waste receptacles near the entrance of the warming center on Prescott Street.

Number six, which is item ID number two six-0119 by Councilor Ewan Camp and that the Commissioner of Public Works perform regular litter cleanups along Prescott Street near the warming center.