Hello, welcome to the February 11th, 2026 Licenses and Permits Committee.

Um, 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.

All right, Clerk Potier, can you call the role, please?

Absolutely, Councillor Davis.

Here.

Counselor Wheeler.

Here.

Chair Hart.

Here.

You have a quorum.

Wonderful.

All right.

So the first item on the agenda is approving the minutes from the committee meeting, licenses and permits committee meeting of January 21st, 2026.

Is there any discussion on that item?

Right.

Seeing none.

Let's let's go ahead and uh vote on that.

Absolutely.

Counselor Davis.

Yes.

Counselor Wheeler.

Yes.

Chair Hart.

Yes.

Those minutes are accepted.

Wonderful.

The second item.

Uh we're gonna we're gonna take the actually we're gonna take the third item out of order and do the grant of location first.

Um this is uh this is uh item that has been carried over from the previous meeting.

Ivers applying for a grant of location to install a total of 38 feet of conduit in Warwick Street from utility poll 357 over three to a point of pickup at 16 Warwick Street.

Madam Chair, I do see a hand raised from the applicant.

Fantastic.

Uh right, wonderful.

I would like to ask Jacqueline Duffy to speak.

You are unmuted on our end, Jackie.

Uh well done.

Hi, can you hear me now?

Yes.

Yes, we can.

Hi.

Um, I we have been in on contact with uh Matt Penny, and he said it works for him.

We're gonna straighten the poll in the new conduit across the street.

Well, he's good with everything that we decided to do with the um rises on the poll.

Okay, excellent.

And is Counselor Saeed here this evening.

I do see the counselor's hand raised.

Okay, excellent.

Counselor Sait, you are unmuted on our end of the hello everyone.

Uh thank you for having me.

Um thank you, uh Jackie.

I uh just um first want to make sure uh we share what exactly what was shared with uh Mr.

Penny in terms of how to uh approach this and making sure um yeah we do it like we're addressing his concerns and then the second thing is I know this is not really this is more for the city where uh there's another project um I think it's for uh to provide internet to the same property, not internet, like cable.

Uh if there is a way, this is again a request for the city to coordinate these two projects because this tree is gonna be dug up twice if there are no there's no coordination.

So again, this is more for request.

Um and um, yeah, I want to ask Jackie if this is something that um you normally do.

Well, has Comcast already applied for uh a grant allocation?

That's a good question.

Happy to check with uh through the chair with um with the city so that these two happen.