Good evening.

Today is July 6, 2026.

It is 6 30 p.m.

And I call this meeting of the 30 second Board of Representatives to order.

I will be delivering tonight's invocation.

I call uh Deputy Majority Leader Dan Sanford to take the chair as I do so.

Okay, let's all take a deep breath and share this moment together.

As we convene tonight, we unite in the knowledge that we've committed ourselves to each other and this great city as volunteers to bring about peace, harmony, and bettering the daily lives of our fellow Stanford neighbors.

That we debate with passion and resolve with grace the issues that come before us on behalf of our constituents and all those who love this city.

Public service is often thankless work, but always remember and be confident that the work we do here is noble.

I invite you to pray with me that we cherish the camaraderie and balance in our deliberations, disagree with grace and celebrate with joy.

That we love and respect each one of us as a committed public servant, neighbor, and friend, that we strive to live up to the responsibility this body is charged with upholding.

That we empathize with those in need, offering an open mind and heart, that we stand with those who suffer, carrying them on our shoulders as we would welcome their support if standing in their shoes.

That we join with those who celebrate, raising our collective voices in celebration of the joys we all share.

A prayer for good government reads God of goodness, we give thanks for the gift of life, the world's beauty, and the earth's richness that sustains us.

God bestow clarity and strength on the work of this elected body of officials.

Let wisdom shine brightly in these halls and be a beacon of hope for all.

And with love, I ask that we say together with one voice, amen.

Clerk Johnson, will you please call the roll?

Absolutely.

Good to see you all.

Hope you stayed cool last week and dry this week.

Uh Representative Adams.

Present.

You uh Representative Beckham.

President, Mr.

Clark.

Representative Blank.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Bouchard.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Boudreaux.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Bradford.

Present.

Representative Camparelli.

Present.

Representative De La Cruz.

Present Mr.

Clerk.

President, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Dorsey.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Field.

Representative Finkel.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Thank you.

Representative Gardner.

President Mr.

Clark.

Representative Gilbride.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Goldberg is excused.

Representative Graham.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Thank you, Representative Gross.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Hill.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Hughes.

Representative Hyatt.

President, Mr.

Clerk.

I myself am here, of course.

Representative LePine.

Present Mr.

Clerk.

Parliamentary McEwen.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Joe Delita Morrison.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Pavia.

All right.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Pollock.

Representative Price.

President, Mr.

Clerk.

Thank you.

Representative Sulas.

President Mr.

Clerk.

Deputy Majority Leader Stanford.

Present, Mr.

Clerk.

President Shaw is en route.

Representative Shore.

Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Stone.

President Mr.

Clerk.

Thank you.

Representative Sylvester.

President, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Walston.

President, Mr.

Clark.

Representative Weathers.

Not seen her.

Representative Weinberg.

President.

Representative Weirs.

President, Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Yeager.

President Mr.

Clerk.

Representative Zachary.

President, Mr.

Cork.

All right, let me just go back and check one.

Representative Field.

Did we have you on the line?

Nope.

All right.

And with that, I believe we have 34 present.

And thereby a quorum.

Thank you, Clerk Johnson.

I declare a quorum.

Under Board Rule 5A3, the next order business is to elect the chairperson to preside over the meeting.

I'll open the floor for nominations.

Representative Gilbride.

Second.

Second.

Eric Morrison is seconded and nominated nominated and seconded.

Are there any other nominations?

Any other nominations?

Any other nominations?

Floor is closed for nominations.

All those in favor of Eric Morrison chairing this meeting, please say aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions.

Thank you.

Eric will be chairing the meeting.

Okay.

Our first item of business is the mayor's state of the city address.

Good evening, everyone.

Can you hear me okay?

Great.

Well, thank you.

Good evening, Representative Morrison and all members of the Board of Representatives and all members of the public listening in tonight.

I am honored to present to you my 2026 state of the city address.

For tonight's agenda, I'll start with an overview of my vision and priorities for the city.

We'll touch on the FY2627 budget.

I'll share some highlights of the progress we're making on my core priorities, including economic prosperity, infrastructure, responsive government, and public safety.

And then we'll touch on state and federal funding and then conclude.

Starting with my vision and priorities for the city of Stanford, my vision continues to be to build a more inclusive, vibrant, affordable, and innovative city where everyone can thrive.

And my top three priorities within that vision include advancing economic prosperity, investing in our infrastructure, and making our government more responsive to residents to enhance quality of life.

Stanford is now the second largest city after Bridgeport, and our population has grown to 140,000 residents.

We continue to attract many new businesses every year, which has resulted in our commercial vacancy rate decreasing from 28% down to 23%.

Our apartment occupancy rate remains high at 94%.

Stanford is also the 15th most diverse city for our size in the country, and this is a major source of pride for our city and one of our greatest strengths and assets.

We're ranked one of the safest cities in New England, and that is not by accident.

That is thanks to the hard work and dedication of all of our first responders, including our police, fire, EMS, and 911 call center personnel.

Stanford also has the second highest grand list in the state.

It has grown to 27 billion, and we have one of the lowest mill rates of any city in Connecticut.

Stanford is also the only big city with the triple A bond rating, which was just reaffirmed by Fitch and SP, signaling our strong fiscal health.

And Stanford continues to have a robust ecosystem of small businesses, nonprofits, arts and cultural institutions, a nationally ranked hospital in Stanford Health, a growing UConn Stanford campus, in fact, one of the fastest growing campuses in the state, and we now have over 3,000 students enrolled there, and of course, an excellent K-12 school system in Stanford public schools with dedicated teachers and over 16,000 school students.

And I do want to take a moment here to thank our outgoing superintendent, Dr.

Timmy Lucero, for her 13 years of dedication to our school district.

And I want to welcome our incoming superintendent, uh Dr.

Adrian Talley, and we're thrilled to have him on board and look forward to working with him in the years ahead to support our schools.

The adopted FY2627 budget came out to $726 million.

Approximately half of that goes to the Board of Education, half of that goes towards the city.

And this budget accomplished two key outcomes.

First, it made strategic investments in critical public infrastructure, including schools, roads, sidewalks, pedestrian safety, public safety, parks and sustainability, as well as senior housing.

And additionally, it was a fiscally responsible budget.

It stayed within our safe debt limit and included responsible funding for our long-term pension obligations, which combined are 87% funded.

I'll point out that this is above the state average of about 85% funded.

And we're in much better position than other cities, some of which are within the 40% range.

However, we still have work to do.

My goal is to get those to be 100% funded.

I will note here as well that this year's budget was a more challenging year due to rising fixed costs, including contractual obligations, higher pension and OPEB obligations, increasing health care premiums.

Our premiums were about a 12% increase this year, as well as insurance costs, which put pressure on city finances.

My goal over the next several years is to continue to do everything we can to mitigate and alleviate these rising fixed costs, as well as continue to deliver excellent services for our residents.

So now diving into our policy priorities, starting with economic prosperity, our economic development office has three core goals.

One, supporting small businesses, two, recruiting and retaining businesses to the city, and three, job training and workforce development.

With respect to small businesses, we are proud to have over 2,000 small businesses in Stanford.

They are the heart of our economy and they create two-thirds of all new jobs in our city.

And one of the things we know is that access to capital continues to be a struggle.

So we continue to host small business resource events and provide access to capital resources for small businesses.

Over 100 businesses have attended these events, and we aim to continue to do these in the years ahead.

With respect to business recruitment, we recently launched Stanford as a Unicorn Marketing Campaign at the Stanford Transportation Center and in New York City.

And the goal of this campaign is to really highlight that Stanford is a unicorn city.

We really have the best of everything.

And our goal is to continue to promote this campaign and attract businesses to start up in Stanford.

And then third, with respect to workforce development.

Last year we launched a new Stanford Tech Hub, which has trained hundreds of residents in high-demand tech fields, including software development, cybersecurity, data analytics, AI, and digital media.

We know that nine out of 10 jobs over the next decade will require technology skills.

And so we want to make sure that we're preparing our residents for these good paying job opportunities.

And I want to take a moment here to thank Charter Communications.

They provided a $5 million contribution to support this endeavor.

And as a result of that, all of the training and certificates are free for members of the public.

In addition to the tech hub, we continue to support and enhance our mayor's youth employment program and our Domus Youth Service Corps, which connects students to paid internship and paid beautification projects across the city.

Here is a visual of that, it's not make believe it's Stanford Unicorn campaign.

As you can see, it is at the train station as well as in the New York City subway stations, and it has catchy phrases, which you can see on the picture to the far right, which says things like more affordable office space, but steps from the beach and hiking trails, and has a catchy unicorn in hiking boots.

So really this is designed to show people what a great place Stanford is, how we have everything from world-class parks, beaches, and marinas to hiking trails, but also more affordable office space than New York City as we work to compete with neighboring states and attract businesses to Stanford.

And this is a visual of the Stanford Tech Hub.

This picture here shows a three-week program graduating class of residents who participated in the three-week training program.

There's also one-week boot camps as well as six-month more in-depth training programs, depending on what residents are interested in.

And again, this was a great partnership between our economic development office, the Stanford Partnership, DI, which is a nonprofit that conducts the training, and then the support from Charter Communications, which provided that $5 million investment.

For more details on this program, please help us spread the word.

You can visit Stanford.org, or you can email admin support at my dye.org.

And the great thing about this training is after you complete your certificate program, we help connect you with a good paying job opportunity in the region.

And to date, over 276 residents that have participated in the program have been connected with a job opportunity.

So in addition to workforce development and supporting business growth in our city, part of economic prosperity ensures that making sure everyone has an affordable place to live in our city and that everybody can afford access to live in Stanford.

So since signing the Affordable Housing Executive Order in 2023, our goal was to create or renovate a thousand affordable units.

To date, more than 700 units have been completed or are in the pipeline for completion.

And I want to highlight several key initiatives underway and policy changes that we've made to support this goal.

We've increased the below market rate program, housing requirements from 10% to 14% in certain districts.

So that enables more on-site affordable housing to be built in our city.

We've also worked to convert city-owned property to affordable housing, including the most recent approval of the sale of 41 Main Street, the former MITIS property, which will be turned into 55 units of affordable housing.

And I want to take a moment to thank the Board of Representatives for your collaboration and approval of this sale.

In addition to that, we support deeply affordable housing through our city capital budget.

Over the past five years, we've submitted funding directly in our capital budget to help make the cost of housing more affordable in our city.

And that funding goes towards supporting our nonprofit housing partners on projects that they're building.

Two examples I wanted to highlight include the renovation of Stanford Manor, which is a 215-unit complex for seniors and individuals with disabilities, which is in the process of being renovated and upgraded.

And then the second example I wanted to highlight is the Charter Oak Communities property at Oak Park on the east side, which is a redevelopment replacing mid-century World War II era housing with 61 new affordable residential units across eight buildings.

And this was actually funded through a combination of support from our city's capital budget over several years, as well as state funding and some funding from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund that came from Fian Lu dollars.

And then lastly, we're continuing to work to make the pathway to homeownership more affordable in Stanford.

We know that homeownership is so out of reach for so many residents, and property values have skyrocketed in recent years and especially post-pandemic.

And so we have to do a better job of creating more pathways to affordable homeownership for residents.

One example of a project that was recently completed in partnership with the Housing Development Fund is the Washington Crossing property, which you can see on the screen in the bottom right here.

This is located at 287 Washington Boulevard and is a 22-unit condo, owner-occupied home, affordable condo unit for residents to enjoy, which is close to the train station and in a great location in our city.

And we want to do more projects like this so more residents have the opportunity to own their own condo or home in our city.

And then lastly, economic prosperity means making sure that everyone can afford to have health care in our city.

And we know that with recent legislation that passed at the federal level, that approximately 4,000 residents in Stanford are going to be at risk of losing their Husky, which is their Medicaid health insurance, and specifically Husky D.

So we wanted to be proactive and get ahead of these federal changes to make sure that we're doing everything we can to help residents navigate these changes and keep as many enrolled as possible.

So in March, we launched a new Husky state covered task force, which is a community partnership.

It is co-chaired by my office and Stanford Health, as well as two dozen nonprofits and uh members of the Board of Reps as well.

Thank you, uh President Ramiashah, who is a member of this as well.

And really, we've been meeting monthly and also have uh four different subgroups engaged in community engagement, fundraising, and communication, so that we can get the word out to residents who are at risk of losing their coverage, and to make sure we keep as many residents enrolled as possible.

So the next bucket of priorities I wanted to highlight was infrastructure.

And our five core infrastructure priorities include investing in our schools, roads and pedestrian safety, parks, sustainability, and investing in our train station.

So starting with schools, uh on June 2nd, we were excited to break ground on the new West Hill High School project.

Thank you to so many of you on the board of reps who joined us for that ceremony, as well as members of the Board of Finance and Board of Education and other state and local officials who were there to celebrate this groundbreaking, as well as students from West Hill and future uh West Hill students joined us as well, which was really exciting.

This is the largest and most sustainable school project in Connecticut's history, and it's designed to accommodate 2,458 students, scheduled to be completed in 2029, and will feature nearly 100 classrooms, including general education, science, special education, and specialized learning spaces designed to support the school's many career pathway programs, as well as the brand new indoor pool.

I will note here again that the project cost is over 425 million dollars.

And previously, we had a 20% reimbursement rate from the state for our school construction costs.

Thanks to the partnership with the Board of Ed, our superintendent and our state delegation, we were able to advocate for an increase of our reimbursement rate to 80%.

So the state will be picking up 80% of that tab so we could afford to complete the project while minimizing the tax burden on residents.

And to stay up to date with the progress we're making on West Hill, Roxbury, as well as improvements we're making to all of our schools in Stanford.

You can visit our Stanford Public School website at SPSbuilds.com.

That's SPSbuilds.com.

And you can click on uh whatever school you're interested in, and you can see the progress that is being made at every school.

We have everything from new roofs and HVACs being installed to safety improvements across the district.

Next, I wanted to give an update on the progress we're making at the Stanford Transportation Center.

As you remember, two years ago, we opened up the new parking garage, which has over 800 parking spots, as well as EV chargers and bike racks, as well as the enclosed pedestrian walkway that says welcome to Stanford to get to the train station.

The next step of improvements to the train station include an actual rebuild of the station itself.

This is one of the busiest stations on the Northeast Corridor after Grand Central Station, and it is in need of repair.

So we are working closely.

Our transportation team is working closely with State DOT, which owns the station, on the process of rebuilding it.

The RFP process was just completed in early 2026.

And we are very excited.

We're anticipating a finalist selection and announcement by fall of 2026 for both a rebuild of the station itself into a modern new station with amenities and a better commuter experience, as well as making it more accessible for people to walk and bike to the station.

And in addition to that, they'll be announcing the plan for a major transit-oriented development adjacent to the station, which will include affordable housing as well.

And here is a visual snapshot of some additional infrastructure projects that we have underway or are investing in in the year ahead, including the animal shelter, which is in the process of being rebuilt, as well as improvements to roads, sidewalks, street murals, investments in parks like Cummings Park and Jackie Robinson Park, as well as a new playground at Hague Avenue.

Next, I wanted to touch on the progress we're making on sustainability.

Since we signed the climate and sustainability executive order in 2023, we've made significant progress to promote energy efficiency, green infrastructure, and we've completed our city's first climate action plan.

So additional projects underway include we've completed our city's first greenhouse gas inventory and phase one of Stanford's climate action plan, which includes 90 actions that are underway to cut emissions, reduce waste, and advance environmental justice.

So several of those projects include installing new solar across the district.

We have six solar projects that are underway or that will be coming next year, including rooftop solar installation at Strawberry Hill School, rooftop solar to be installed at Westover School, Stanford High, and Rogers, as well as rooftop solar at Terry Connors and the vehicle maintenance building.

In addition to that, we're working to expand our electric vehicle infrastructure across the city.

We have six new EV chargers that have been installed and are open to the public at the Bell Street Garage.

20 EV chargers are at the government center garage and 38 new EV chargers at the train station garage.

And we've converted 3,000 out of 12,000 streetlights to high-efficiency LED lighting.

And I'll point out here that these measures to deploy solar and LED lighting is not just good for our environment, but it also helps us save on our energy costs as a city.

Additional climate and sustainability projects that we're working on include enhancing tree planting across the city.

This fall, excited to report that Stanford's first mini forests will be installed at Nemoyton Park next to Hart School as part of their playground renovation.

In addition, this month, we are issuing an RFP for a Stanford tree canopy assessment.

And we're launching a citywide GIS tree inventory to plant 400 new trees.

These measures are not only good for the environment, but will improve air quality and also as we all have experienced record hot days over the past week, will help provide cooling for residents in the years to come.

In addition to tree planting, we're continuing our progress on heat and coastal resiliency.

We've secured state funding for resiliency initiatives, including the Cooler Stanford Heat Resiliency Plan for the Westside, Waterside, and Down, the Toilsome Brook Flood Plan, and the Cummings Pond Flood and Resiliency Plan.

Additionally, I want to note that Stanford's comprehensive coastal resiliency plan will be presented to the public on July 22nd.

Encourage you to tune in and spread the word to residents who are interested in all of the coastal resiliency work and planning that is underway.

This is something that is critical that we think about as a city as a coastal city.

We know that sea levels are projected to rise by as much as two feet.

And so we want to make sure we're doing everything we can to build resiliency and mitigate flooding for residents and businesses.

We also achieved a silver certification with sustainable CT, recognizing Stanford's progress that we're making on sustainability, although we are aiming for gold next year.

And then lastly, we continue to work through our Stanford Parks Community Partnership to support sustainability initiatives across the city.

And we just completed the first round of microgrants to community organizations for green public space projects.

And round two awards have been distributed and projects are now underway across the city.

Here, I want to note the progress that we're making on Stanford's food scraps recycling program.

The goal of this program is to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills, and in doing so, reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, as well as our reduce our waste processing costs.

So as you can see here, we've made steady progress.

And through Q1 of 2026, more than 330,000 pounds of food scraps have been diverted from our city's waste stream.

So we've seen substantial growth in this program, and we won't we want to continue to grow it in the years ahead.

We're looking at opportunities to partner with our schools and get students engaged in this, as well as partner more with the private sector to get more businesses utilizing this program and composting.

If residents are interested in this, they can pick up a free compost bin and kit at our cashier's office at the government center Monday through Friday from 8 30 a.m.

to 4 p.m.

or at the Scale House Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

And then also with respect to sustainability, I wanted to highlight that one of our goals is to expand access to the harbor and uh beautiful Long Island Sound.

Uh so one thing we're excited about just launched is the new Sea Streak Ferry to City Field.

So this spring, a new Sea Streak ferry service uh started and was launched from the village, going directly to Met Stadium at City Field, offering residents a convenient way to get to the 24 Mets games uh across the season.

And I want to thank our Office of Economic Development for their partnership on this with the New York Mets, Sea Streak, the Port Authority, Deep, as well as our land use bureau and all the different partners that had to be involved in this.

There's been significant demand for this.

Um, I know the Mets are a little touch-and-go this year, but uh I heard they had a good win last night, and I think they're up again tonight.

Um, but in addition, if you're not a Mets fan, uh, we are looking at uh additional ways we can partner with Sea Streak to expand uh potentially recreational ferry access into Long Island Sound and other connection points across the city.

And then my last big priority is making our government more responsive to residents to enhance quality of life.

And I'll touch on some of the progress that we're making here first with respect to fix at Stanford.

We continue to work to enhance the Fix It Stanford dashboard.

Uh, also to work with our citizen service team, which to date has fielded over 2,000 calls from residents and received 9,700 fix it requests, uh 7,800 of which have been completed or addressed in the system.

And I want to thank the Board of Reps for your partnership in this as well and helping direct residents to fix it.

It really helps make sure that we're staying on top of constituent concerns and requests.

Um, and if anyone has feedback or ways that we could continue to enhance or improve the system, please let us know.

We look forward to continuing to work with you as we work to continue to enhance the fix it Stanford system.

We've also made upgrades to our city website.

Um, one of the first things we did when we came in was to take a look at the website to make sure it's accessible for residents that might be visually impaired.

Um, and so we've made improvements there, and we also have made it accessible in over 100 languages because we have residents that speak over 70 languages in our city, and previously it was only available in English.

Um, so we'll work to continue to make website improvements to make it accessible.

In addition, we continue to make progress on our walk-in permitting center, which was established last year as a permanent walk-in permitting center on the seventh floor of the government center.

This has helped reduce the average permit wait time down from two years down to 90 days.

And I'll note for residents that due to strong demand, the walk-in permitting center uh hours and availability has been expanded to weekly.

It is now every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m.

to 1030 a.m.

Uh next, the Veterans Resource Center.

We opened this two years ago in response to concerns we heard from our veteran community that there wasn't a designated resource hub or place for veterans to go to get access to services.

So it is located on the second floor of Old Town Hall, and it's a place for veterans and their families to be connected to resources and services.

To date, the Vets Resource Center has helped over 300 veterans with everything from housing and health care support to mental health support to tax support.

The Vets Resource Center is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

And if any of you know of a veteran in need of service or help, please feel free to spread the word about this center.

And then lastly, we recently opened in March a new ADA and Disability Resource Center.

This is also located on the seventh floor of the government center.

And it is a space where residents with disabilities can come to access all the different resources, services, and support supports uh needed.

It is open on Mondays from 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

and on Wednesdays from one to 5 p.m.

Another way we're working to make our government more responsive to residents is to improve transportation and connectivity around the city.

In November of 2024, we launched StAM Forward, the city's first microtransit service.

We were awarded a state $2.5 million grant from State DOT to pilot this initiative, and it's been an enormous success.

Uh Stamp Forward has completed over 83,000 rides in FY 2026 and over 128,000 total rides since the program launch.

And it's really made a difference in the lives of residents and helped expand connectivity across the city.

Essentially, the way it works, it's an in-demand car service where you download the app or you can call them and get access to pick up at your door to get access to wherever you need to go in the city.

You do have to make sure you're in one of the designated zones as required by the state.

And we are looking to expand those zones in the future.

Um it's essentially like an Uber, but much cheaper.

An individual ride costs $1.75.

And for a senior 62 and older or for an ADA eligible rider, it costs 85 cents.

So to learn more about Stamp Forward, you can visit city.ride with Via.com forward slash Stanford, or you can call 203-204-9782.

Or if you're on your phone in the app store, you can download the app.

Next, I wanted to touch on public safety because this is another important measure to be responsive to residents and enhance quality of life across our city.

We've made a number of investments in public safety over the past several years, including technology and infrastructure enhancements, including blue light cameras, as well as coastline camera enhancements, as well as upgrading emergency communication center hardware and software upgrades.

And one example of that is we have integrated AI technology into 911 calls.

So for a population that speaks over 70 different languages, it's critical that in an emergency you can get access to emergency response in your language and that the person can understand you.

And previously, we had to rely on in-person interpreters.

However, now through this new AI technology, instant translation is available so that we can better serve residents who might speak a different language and respond to them more quickly.

In addition to that, we've made personnel investments.

We've civilianized our 911 emergency operations center for staffing efficiency.

And as a result of these investments, 95% of 911 calls are answered within 10 seconds or less.

We've also added additional police officers and firefighters, and we've opened the Stanford Regional Police Academy at the Stanford Police Department, which has not only helped with recruiting officers, but our own uh Stanford officers conduct the training and ensure that it is top-notch excellent training so that we have the best and most prepared police officers.

In addition to investing in personnel and technology, we're also investing in public safety equipment, including a new fire apparatus and a new police boat.

We're continuing to enhance cybersecurity through our secure cyber city initiative.

And we continue to work to improve emergency communications at our schools, including a monthly emergency uh text message communications test for our schools.

Another way we've worked to enhance public safety is by launching a new drone as a first responder program.

This launched in October 2025, and it's an innovative initiative developed in a collaboration between Stanford's 911 Emergency Communication Center, the Stanford Fire Department, and our Stanford Police Department.

And it marks a major step forward in leveraging cutting edge technology to improve emergency response and public safety in Stanford.

And really the goals of this program are to enhance response times.

Drones are deployed from strategically located sites in North and South Stanford, providing citywide coverage with a response time of under 90 seconds.

It provides real-time awareness.

So live video feeds from drone cameras are streamed directly to command staff and field personnel, and that helps improve coordination and decision making.

It also enhances safety.

Drones will help assess threats and monitor unfolding incidents and support safer responses for both first responders and the public.

And it enhances resource efficiency.

Early visual assessments allow emergency services to better determine the appropriate level of response for each incident.

And it's particularly helpful in rural areas like North Stanford, as well as the expansive coastline of Long Island Sound, where traditional emergency response times can be more challenging.

And one example of that is there were two kayakers that capsized in rough waters.

The drone was able to locate them within 90 seconds and pinpoint exactly where they were and enable the police and fire boats to locate them more quickly and save their lives and get to them more quickly.

So this has been a really innovative and important initiative for our city that has really helped bolster public safety citywide.

I do want to note that we have very strict policies in place with respect to these drones.

They do not film private areas without legal justification.

There's very strict legal rules around that, and all operations must follow strict privacy policies and standards.

And lastly, I'll touch on state and federal funding.

Because we know our budget is so reliant on local property taxes to fund all of our services and initiatives.

So the more we can secure state and federal funding, that can help relieve that burden as well.

So in partnership with Governor Lamont and Stanford state and federal delegations, the city has secured funding for the following projects over the past year, including 2 million for Charter of Communities to complete phase two of the Oak Park Development Project, 2 million for renovations to the basketball court and playground at Hatchfield Park.

1.2 million to install safety measures along Washington Boulevard, including ADA compliance sidewalks and a raised crosswalk.

1 million to replace aging culverts and to improve the city's stormwater management capacity.

1 million to support the design and construction of a new public safety complex, and 250,000 to rehabilitate the Glenbrook Community Center.

And I will note here that since the Trump administration took office, unfortunately, the federal funding landscape has been dramatically changed, and it's been uh much more challenging to secure as much funding.

However, we are still very actively working with our federal lobbyists and our federal delegation to pursue funding where we can.

We currently have several grant applications in the works.

Uh and we continue to work very closely with our state delegation to secure state funding and bonding as well.

So to conclude, the state of our city is strong, but our work is not finished.

As we continue to navigate rising costs, economic uncertainty, and evolving challenges, my administration remains focused on investing in the priorities that matter most to residents, making our city more affordable, investing in our schools, infrastructure, housing, and public safety.

That concludes my presentation.

And I'll just close by saying we'd love to have you follow the city of Stanford and stay in touch with us through our social media pages.

You can also sign up for our Your City at work from the Mayor's Desk weekly newsletter, which you can find on our website at StanfordCT.gov.

Um, for any residents listening in as well that may have a constituent concern, you can call our Citizen Service Bureau.

The phone number is 203-977-4140.

Or you can also log an issue into fix it or email fixit at StanfordCT.gov.

Thank you.

And that concludes my presentation today.

Thank you, madam mayor.

I hope your travels are safe tonight.

Thank you so much.

Okay, this meeting stands in recess until 8 p.m.

Yep.

Hello, everyone.

Let's uh get this meeting started back again.

We're resuming from recess.

The time now is 8 p.m.

Thank you, Majority Leader Morsen, for cheering the meeting.

Okay.

So we will move on now to the moments of silence, followed by communications.

Club Johnson.

Thanks, everyone for uh getting back.

Uh tonight we have two uh two people we like to recognize in a moment's silence.

Uh Miss Wendy Span and then also Wendy, uh also known as Gigi Yvette Teal.

Uh, let us observe a moment of silence for those who've departed before us and let their memory be a blessing to those who love them.

All right.

Um, nothing too out of the ordinary on uh normal communications.

We've got the the steering committee as uh normal deadline is this Wednesday, July 8th at 5 p.m.

Uh, you can submit all your items with the normal email address.

Uh steering committee meeting itself will be next Monday, July 13th at 7 p.m.

The next full regular board meeting will be Monday, August 3rd at 7.30.

It's a very popular birthday month, so bear with me here.

Got uh quite a few.

I don't even know the number, but I'll read through them real quick.

Got representatives Beckham, Blank, Camporelli, De La Cruz, Didalo, Finkel, Shore, Stone, Jaeger, and last but certainly not least, our own president Rami Shaw.

So happy birthday to nearly a quorum of the board.

Uh and with that, I believe that is all I have.

So back to you.

Thank you so much.

All the special people are born in July.

Okay, moving on to the uh BOE liaison report, representative Le Pine.

Thank you, President Shaw, and happy birthday.

Um, I have some brief uh comments on the report.

Uh as the mayor noted, uh, Dr.

Adrian Talley is now officially the new uh SPS superintendent.

And so on behalf of the Board of Reps, I'd like to extend a formal welcome to him and wishing him luck in this vital new role.

The biggest focus uh of SPS right now uh from an administrative standpoint is they are still in their search for a new chief financial officer for the district.

It's ongoing and there's no further update at this time on that item.

Uh also, as was publicly reported last week.

Um, in the last update, we had talked about the change uh to the assistant superintendent role that there would be two.

Uh the uh person who was selected for the assistant superintendent for secondary, Matthew Leskowski.

Uh he resigned one week after accepting the position to take the job uh and left for the Greenwich School District.

And so the district will be hiring a replacement for that role.

And uh reports are they have a robust applicant pool.

Um there are also several administrative changes uh that were announced on July 1st.

You can find those updates on the SPS website and the schools they pertain to, and just uh I would encourage you all uh to just stay abreast of those for constituents in your district's uh impacted schools of administrative changes where AITE, Davenport, Tokquam, Turner River, and West Hill.

And uh President Shaw has been working with Dr.

Tally's office to schedule a time for the board of reps uh to meet with our new superintendent, and more will come on that uh of the when, where, and how that will be structured.

The next board of ed meeting is on June 28th at 7 p.m.

And uh that concludes my report.

July, sorry, got the month around July, you're right.

Now that concludes my report.

Thank you, Representative Lefine.

There are no honority resolutions this evening, so we will move on to the public participation uh participation session.

Uh public comment period.

As provided in the board rules, there is a period for public comment of 30 minutes unless extended by a vote of the board to no more than 50 minutes.

Speakers have signed up via email or by calling the board office and will have no more than three minutes to speak.

The time for each person to speak may be shortened to no less than one and a half minutes, depending upon the number of people who have signed up, or will be no more than two minutes if the public comment period has been extended.

I will be closely monitoring the time and will provide each speaker with a 30-second warning to ensure fairness and allow everyone an opportunity to be heard.

I ask that all speakers conclude their remarks promptly before their allocated time has expired.

The board rules provide that the president may keep good order and decorum in any manner authorized by Robert's rules of order, and for avoidance of doubt, may shorten or cancel the speaking time of any speaker during the public comment period, deemed in the president's sole discretion to be disruptive or unruly.

The following items previously had a public hearing.

LR32.016, ordinance to repeal the appointments commission.

LR32.017, ordinance to establish information reporting requirements from the mayor's office with respect to applicants and appointees of the city boards and commissions.

Okay, with that, we will move on to our speakers.

The first speaker is Mr.

Kieran Edmondson.

I believe you're remote.

Yes, good evening to all of you and a happy belated fourth of July.

It is Kieran Edmondson, a wallest sign neighborhood resident of the city of Stephen, Connecticut.

And I want to once again share my brief remarks to our members of this board about additional funding services for the step police of department as a behavioral health unit through the recovery network programs, so we can continue to improve with the police department's service system by coping helper for any citizen as the employer who are experiencing any kinds of behavioral issues as well as health and psychological issues to talk about perhaps sensitive behavioral health unit as one other groups of the police department that has the authority of managing detecting and investing getting many events of behavioral issues that is coming from any of this buddy from Stanford who might be at risk and development problems and risky behaviors, and that there are officers who were affiliated into that group.

I fully encourage you to support a proposed item F32.

Which grants an appropriation uh grants budget for the SPD's behavioral health unit by hiring a social worker who might be a partnership of police officers or other BHU provide a training to assist in any possible help as needed, maintain additional funding services more appropriately and carefully for good for good amounts and to be prepared for future problems across our community.

So perhaps uh thank you for your time again, and thanks for serving the effort from Kieran Matthew Edmondson.

Thank you, Mr.

Edmondson.

Our next speaker is Jonathan St.

Victor.

It's he's in person.

I don't see him here, Sheila.

See online.

He is not online.

Okay.

So we will move on.

Next one to Mr.

John Mays.

It's also supposed to be you.

No, there's also a Don May's and a Don John Mace.

I don't know who that is, but okay.

So our next speaker is Mr.

Papa.

Oh, yeah.

What do you think?

Works?

No.

Wonderful.

Okay, as uh I just I want you to read this.

The only thing I say at the end is uh as the saying goes, you may win a raise, but you're still in a reserve in a uh race.

Okay, this is uh in reflection about what the mayor says.

You're doing a beautiful job, but the question is we live in a throwaway society.

You know, I remember when I came in 1971, I used to build the the school and the tower over here and the railroad station.

Now all of a sudden we threw them away, build a new one.

So I think the question is we don't we build, we don't maintain.

So I speak with the people at the planning and everything, but the same guy at the planning of years ago is still there now.

So I would say, well, we are failing miserably in this regard.

So you, as a representative, you have to step up to play to do exactly that because that's why you're here to represent the people.

Uh the devil is within the details.

It's not within these great things that you build, because we cannot be another New York City.

We are not New York City right here.

We are standing for Connecticut.

We have to focus on the details.

Otherwise, we're gonna fail miserably.

We can just keep on building it through more.

By the way, today I went to the upstairs, and I changed from democratic to republic because uh why I change because uh Kennedy is the first one to do 53 years I'm living in this country right here.

They say the soil is alive.

I'm talking to this democratic for for for since 2009.

Okay.

Seven, two thousand and seven, since they closed the Schoffield Town facility, which was a disaster, was a beautiful thing.

You close it.

Why?

Because of the city of Stanford contaminated with all the garbage over there.

The bad job that they did.

A customer mine, yeah.

I call it to remove the fallen tree.

I say, tell the tree to remove the the other branches and do it.

So today I have to go remove the other branch that they fall down the things because they don't kill anybody.

So you guys are here for one thing, one thing only to make sure we do an excellent job for the people of Sanford.

If you don't do that, you know, I don't want to run, but if I run a win.

And Peter and the bows, we change the company because I get involved because of the people getting in to do wasteful things, and we're gonna be out of business.

We can't compete with the rest of the world if we don't do an excellent job over here.

Thank you very much.

Anybody got it?

Thank you, Mr.

Papa.

Our next speaker is uh former representative Don Mace.

Good evening, esteemed representatives.

My name is Don Mays.

Um I'm a resident of North Stanford uh and the former district 19 representative.

Uh tonight I'd like to draw your attention to the poor service that North Stanford residents have been getting from the city's road maintenance department.

We believe that our part of the city is being neglected, and people are fed up with the poor conditions of our roads.

My neighbors don't feel safe walking, running, or cycling along the roads because the road surfaces in the shoulders or the right of way sections are not regularly maintained.

It's not good enough for the city to just patch an occasional pothole or repave only the worst roads in our area.

Proper road maintenance is much more than that.

It requires regularly cutting back the overgrowth that encroaches over the road surfaces, narrowing the lanes, and making it difficult to see around corners.

It's dangerous for drivers and pedestrians.

Proper road maintenance requires properly repairing broken curbs and that get ripped apart each winter by the snow plows.

It's now July, and our current curbs are still a mess.

The city needs to replace them and backfill with soil so they don't get broken time and time again.

It requires regular street sweeping to clear the loose gravel and storm debris that make make it dangerous for cyclists and clog storm drains and catch basins, resulting in flooding.

It requires cutting back tree branches that obscure obscure road signs and cutting down dead trees along the right-of-way sections.

And clearing the right-of-way sections of the debris that just gets piled up there after a storm, never to be removed.

It requires repainting the road lines and replacing worn damaged and crooked road signs that make our area look neglected.

It requires holding cable companies responsible for cleaning up their mess of coiled cables they leave on the ground.

It requires installing guardrails where there are steep drop-offs on the road shoulder.

So don't tell me that the fixing system is the solution.

There are far too many problems to relegate to fix it.

And many fixing complaints go unanswered.

These are systematic problems that need to be addressed proactively by the city.

You have 36%.

Regular monitoring of our road conditions and regular maintenance.

To no avail.

Nothing has changed.

I hope you can do better.

I'm requesting that the operations and public safety committee hold a joint review of our road maintenance operations and insist on operational and safety improvements.

Furthermore, I'm requesting the legislative body and then chapter 214 on the city ordinances, making it perfectly clear that the city owns the right of way and the road shoulders and should be held accountable for their maintaining it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Mace.

That concludes speakers that have signed up.

Is there anyone online that would wish to speak?

Okay, I'm not seeing any hands.

So that completes our public participation session.

And we will now move on to our standing committees.

Zero second.

All in favor of waiving student committee report, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions?

Okay, student committee report is waived.

And we will move on to uh appointments committee, I believe it's Coacher Shaw.

Thank you, President Sha, and uh happy birthday to you.

Uh the appointments committee met on uh Wednesday, June 24th, uh at 630 in the Democratic Caucus Room and by webinar.

Uh item number uh one, A32.045, environmental protection board, uh Laura Tessier has been uh postponed uh due to a family matter.

Uh so no action uh will be taken there.

Uh item number two, a thirty two dot 046, the environmental protection board, uh Lee Schemitz, uh reappointment uh to a term that expires uh December 2028 was approved by committee 700.

Item number three, a thirty-two.047, parking violation hearing officers.

Laurie Legarissa.

Uh this is also a reappointment to a term that expires uh December 2028.

And uh Ms.

uh Legrisse was approved uh 700.

Uh item number four, the parking violation hearing officer.

Uh Marnie Morantz.

Uh this is a new appointment to a term that expires in December 2028, uh, and was approved by committee seven zero zero.

Item number five, a thirty-two.049, parking violation hearing officer.

Uh Robert Willis, uh new appointment to a term that expires December 2028 was approved by committee seven zero zero.

Item number six, a thirty-two point zero five zero.

Fire commission, uh Maria Linares.

This is a reappointment to a term that expires December 2029.

And she was approved by committee 700.

Item number seven, fire commission, Linda Darling.

Uh, new appointment to a term that expires December 2029, approved by committee 700.

Item number eight, a thirty-two dot zero five two, the fire commission, Stephen Kenna, to a term that expires December 2029.

And that's a new appointment.

Approved by committee 700.

Item number nine, fire commission, John Dolski, uh, new uh appointment to a term that expires December 2029, uh, approved by committee 700.

Uh finally, item number 10, a 32.054, fire commission, Michael Hyman.

Uh, new appointment to a term that expires December 2029 and was approved by committee 700.

Uh I'd like to uh move items number two through 10.

Okay, there is a motion to move items two through 10 of the appointments committee.

Is there a second?

Okay, these are consent items.

Is anyone planning to take anything off consent or plan to vote no on any items here?

All right, seeing none, let's take this by voice vote.

All those in favor of approving items through to 10 of the appointments committee agenda, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions?

Representative Didlow abstains from items six through ten.

Six through ten.

Okay.

Noted.

Those abstentions.

Okay, with that, all the items pass unanimously.

Uh thank you, President Shaw.

That concludes my report.

Thank you, Coach Shore.

Moving on to fiscal committee, Coach Ed Morrison.

Thank you, Madam President.

Fiscal committee met on Monday, June 22nd at 7 p.m.

in the Democratic Caucus Room and by webinar.

Uh took up item number one, F32.089 for 324,646.

Additional appropriation grants, Stanford Police Department, funds from SAMHSA through recovery network of programs to cover salary and fringe costs for a police officer assigned to the behavioral health unit.

This past committee 800.

Item 2, F32.090 for 62,566, an additional appropriation grants, grant office, state funds for LGPQE, quality enhancement through Shine Early Learning to support contracted services, direct services, conferences and training and program supplies.

This passed committee 701.

And item three, F32.091, a review item, municipal tax services, motor vehicle registration, and tax collection program.

This item was recommitted to steering by the committee 800.

This time I'd like to move my consent agenda, considering it consisting of items one and two.

Okay, there's a motion to approve items one and two of the fiscal committee.

Is that a second?

Is anyone uh planning to take anything off consent or vote no?

Seeing none, let's take this by voice vote.

All those in favor of approving items one and two of the fiscal committee agenda, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions?

Okay, those two items pass unanimously.

And that concludes my report, Madam President.

Thank you, Co-Chair Morrison.

Moving on to legislative and rules committee, Chair McEwen.

Thank you, Madam President.

The legislative and rules committee met on Tuesday, June 23rd at 701 p.m.

and considered two items on its agenda.

LR 32.016, an ordinance for public hearing and final adoption to repeal the appointments commission per Article 17 of Chapter 6, including sections including section 6-121 through 66-124 of the code of ordinances.

And also uh LR32.017, an ordinance for public hearing and final adoption, amending the code of ordinances to establish information reporting requirements of the Office of the Mayor with respect to the applicants and appointees of the city's boards and commissions.

That item was amended and approved for public hearing.

Um and to circle back with respect to item one, LR32.016 for context.

Uh that item was postponed definitely so that per the committee's historic practice, it could be considered in the next month's meeting in conjunction with LR32.017.

Uh and at this time I would move LR32.017 for public hearing for approval for a public hearing.

Okay, so there's a motion and a second to uh approve item LR32 for public hearing.

Uh and we have a second.

And I believe there was uh no vote on this one in the committee.

Yes, okay.

Is it is there anyone still planning to vote no on this correct?

Okay, so we'll take this by voice which vital call.

Um I'm sorry, you would you like to discuss?

Sorry.

Uh yeah, go ahead.

Uh thank you.

Um I've spoken on uh in opposition to this uh ordinance uh before.

I will do so again.

Um the change to quarterly reporting uh that was approved by the committee and which I voted for uh is uh is an improvement.

It's better than monthly reporting, but I still consider the ordinance to be unnecessary and burdensome for uh the mayor's office.

But more significantly, uh I also believe that the required data in this ordinance on applications uh on the assumption that it'll be accurate.

I'm sure it will be, uh, that that uh data uh will encourage the board of reps and the public to focus on the wrong subject.

It will encourage uh the board to focus on the mayor's decisions not to nominate certain candidates.

Uh not on uh why we uh have a dearth of candidates from uh certain neighborhoods in the city and from certain demographic groups and from uh and from and from women.

Um why do I think that's what the will happen?

Uh that's it's because that's what most of the comments in support of the ordinance have focused on.

Instead, we should be focusing on what is causing the disparities in gender districts and ethnic groups on the city's volunteer boards and commissions.

A better course than this ordinance would be to request the application data from the mayor's office on a one-time basis.

So we see what it says.

I'm sure that the mayor's office would provide such data, and then we could analyze it to understand the root causes of the membership disparities.

If we do that, we'll actually be working on the underlying problem instead of just beating around the bush.

Uh, and with that I yield.

Thank you, representative Weinberg.

Chair McEwen.

Thank you, Madam President.

Um I'm still going to be voting in support of this ordinance.

Uh to clarify also for the body, this is a vote in favor of bringing it for a second public hearing, uh, but not to approve it.

Um comments as to its merits, personally, I don't think are in order in this particular debate.

Um that being said, uh, to respond to Representative Weinberg's comments.

I disagree that the data would lead this body to conclude or make any conclusions with respect to individual applicants or individual individual candidates or individual nominees, uh, because simply the data doesn't allow that to be possible.

The ordinance specifically prohibits the compilation of the data in any way that would meaningfully identify any individual.

It is aggregate anonymous data that wouldn't allow this body to draw conclusions with respect to individual nominees or individual applicants.

Uh matter of fact, this data would not even identify those persons.

So I don't see how that is a possibility.

Uh separately, uh Representative Weinberg mentioned that the majority of the comments or substantial amount of comments related to or substantial amount of comments in support of the ordinance was related to that aforementioned point.

Uh and that is in my recollection of the committee meetings.

A lot of the comment, especially considering that substance isn't in the ordinance.

The comments in that meeting, uh in the several meetings we've had largely relate to the need for establishing transparency where it is existing practice to collect the information already.

Um and plan for the future of Stanford.

Uh finally, with respect to requesting the application data on a one-time basis and whether or not that is more or less burdensome.

Uh, first of all, requesting the application data on a one-time basis wouldn't necessarily alleviate Representative Weinberg's concern about inappropriate conclusions.

Uh the applicant data would be the same in that case.

It would still be a one-time aggregate reporting requirement.

As to whether or not it'd be more burdensome or less burdensome, I would argue that it would be more burdensome to require with some infrequency at the whim of this body when to deliver that information rather than establishing a consistent process where the city can get into the habit of providing it on a predictable cadence and in a form that is within their control and also predictable.

Uh and those are my comments.

Thank you.

I yield.

Thank you, Chairman McHugh and Representative Blank.

Thank you, Chairman, for recognizing me.

Um I'd like to uh put my two bits in on this uh on LR 32.017.

The intent of this ordinance is to provide uh much needed uh point of order, Madam President.

Um, as parliamentarian McCunan said, um I recognize him as out of courtesy as chair to respond to Representative Weinberg, but the discussion should be germane to only the public hearing and whether or not it's approval.

We should keep any uh substantive discussion for the next regular board meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Is there anything you'd like to specifically highlight about the about it going to public hearing itself, Representative Blank?

Otherwise, we can have more discussion in the in the future months or in the committee meetings.

I will yield the floor.

Great, thank you.

Any other yes.

I'd like a reconsideration as we've always had conversations about the actual ordinance and not just the public hearing.

Is this something different because it's the same one?

I think the point is that there is still this is just to approve a public hearing.

There's an extensive amount of discussion that's being had.

So we're not talking as it is about the merits itself as Chair McEwen had mentioned.

So um I'm sorry, so Chairman Kew, I'm sorry, so not Chairman McEwen.

Um did uh your other role, sorry.

Sorry, thank you.

Parliamentarian McEwen, did he um give us an opinion on whether or not we were allowed to discuss this, or was that it was just your call?

I I'm just it's just my call.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay.

Seeing no other discussion.

Did you I'm sorry, what did you want to speak, Representative Campbell?

I'm not sure if what I'm gonna say is going to be allowed.

And I'm I'm just confused between what Representative Weinberg commented on, which was the merits of the ordinance.

Why was that allowed?

Um, and then not further discussion in support of it.

He asked for the he he was the only one that voted no, and he asked for a discussion, so I had allowed it.

And then after that, Chair McHugh and it clarified that you know we will be having more discussions when it is just right now at this point.

We are just going to public hearing.

Okay.

So then what I was gonna say is not gonna be appropriate.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I yield.

Okay, with that, we'll go to a roll call vote.

All right.

Uh Representative Adams, how would you like to vote?

Yes.

Uh Representative Beckham.

Yes.

Representative Blank.

Yes.

Uh Representative Bouchard.

Yes.

Uh Representative Boudreau.

Yes.

Representative Bradford.

Yes.

Representative Camparelli.

Yes.

Representative Dale Cruz.

Uh yes.

Thank you.

Uh Representative Didillo.

Yes.

Uh Representative Dorsey.

Yes.

Representative Field.

Yes.

Uh Representative Finkel.

Yes.

Uh Representative Gardner?

Yes.

Representative Gilbride.

No.

Uh Emile is not here.

Representative Graham.

Yes.

Representative Gross.

Yes.

Representative Hill.

Yes.

Representative Hughes.

Yes.

Representative Hayat?

Yes.

I myself am a yes.

Representative LePine.

Yes.

Parliamentary McEwen.

Yes.

Majority Leader Morrison.

Yes.

We've got Representative Pleechev.

Yes.

Is Pavy here?

Apologies.

Representative Pavia.

I'm a yes.

Thank you.

Representative Please.

Yes.

Representative Polk.

I believe she's not hearing us.

Representative Price.

Yes.

Representative Salis?

Yes.

Deputy Major Leader Sanford.

Yes.

President Shaw.

Yes.

Representative Shaw.

Yes.

President of Stone.

Yes.

Representative Sylvestri.

Yes.

Representative Austin.

Yes.

Thank you.

Representative Weather's not here.

Representative Weinberg?

No.

Representative Weirs.

Yes.

Representative Yeager?

Yes.

And Representative Zachary.

Yes.

All right.

Thank you, everyone.

I have 35 yes and two nays.

Does that mention count, Barbara?

Yep.

Perfect.

Thanks, everyone.

Okay.

With 35, yes, assent two knows that item passes.

So good.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

That concludes my report.

Thank you, Chair McEwen.

Moving on to personnel committee.

Chair Weinberg.

Thank you.

Uh uh, President Shaw.

Uh, the personnel committee met on Monday, June 15th at 7 p.m.

Uh, in the Democratic Caucus room and by webinar.

We had one item on the agenda, PRP32.009, approval of an employment contract for diversity, equity, and inclusion officer.

Uh Janine Freeman.

It was approved by the committee by a vote of 600.

And I move uh that to be considered on the consent agenda.

Second.

Okay, there's a motion and a second to move item P32.009.

It's a consent item.

Is there anyone planning to take it out of consent or vote no on this item?

Seeing none, let's take this by voice vote.

All those in favor of approving item P32.009, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Any abstentions?

Okay.

That item passed unanimously.

And uh that concludes my report.

Thank you so much, Chair Weinberg.

Moving on to land use urban redevelopment committee.

Co-Chair Hughes.

Thank you, President Shaw.

Uh the land use and urban redevelopment committee met on Wednesday, June 17th via webinar at 7 p.m.

Uh the item that uh we met on was item number one, LU32.009, ordinance for publication, an ordinance establishing a conservation commission.

Originally LR32.019.

This was submitted to us by representatives Camporelli, Weinberg, and Dela Cruz.

Uh the committee voted to uh postpone definitely five to three.

Um, and we will take up this item again uh during this month's uh meeting.

And that is my report.

Thank you, Chair, and happy birthday.

Thank you, Coach.

Thank you, Coach Hughes.

Uh moving on to operations, parks and recs committee, Chair Sanford.

Thank you, Madam President.

Operations, parks and rec committee uh met on Thursday, June 18th, 2026 at 7 p.m.

via webinar.

We had three items.

First one, OPR 32.012, a resolution and approval of public hearing establishing fees for eGayner Brennan Golf Course 2026.

Item two, OPR32.013, a resolution and approval of public hearing, approving fee schedule for Terry Connors Ice Rink and item number three, OPR 32.014 review item of Everstorce Underground Cable Moderniz Project.

At this time, I would like to move items one and two to be approved on the consent agenda.

Okay, there's a motion to approve items one and two of the operations parks and rix committee to the uh consent agenda.

Is that a second?

Second.

Is there anyone planning to take any of these two items off consent or vote?

No.

Seeing none, let's take this by voice vote.

All those in favor of approving items one and two of the operations parks and rects committee agenda, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Any abstentions.

Okay, those two items pass this unanimously.

And that concludes my report and happy birthday.

Thank you, Chair Sanford.

Moving on to public safety and health committee, Chair Bouchard.

Uh, thank you, Madam President.

The public safety and health committee held a meeting on Thursday, uh 25 June at 6.30 p.m.

Uh via Zoom.

Uh there were two items for review.

First item was PS32.008.

It was an overview of the regulations and the use of personal watercraft and enforcement of these regulations within the jurisdiction of Stanford, Connecticut.

We heard from Mr.

Kevin Murray, Director of Parks and Recreation, Sergeant Kevin Fitzgibbons of the Stanford Police Department, uh, and Mr.

Damian Ortoli from the Harbor Management Commission.

Uh a report was made on that.

Uh the second item was PS32.009.

It was an overview of the Stamford Park Police and the enforcement of quality of life issues in Stanford Parks, including eBYCU, excuse me, e-bike use, loud music, and loud cars.

Uh, we heard from Mr.

Peter Gould, Park Police Coordinator, uh, and Captain Chris Barker from the Stanford Police Department.

Uh, a report was also made there.

Uh, and that concludes my report.

Thank you, Chair Bouchard.

Uh, moving on to community development, housing education, social services, state and commerce chess committee, co-chair silvestre.

There was no meeting, so we have no report.

Thank you, Co-Chair Sylvestry.

Moving on to Transportation Committee, Chair Weirs.

Uh, thank you, President Shaw.

Uh, there was no meeting, so no report.

Happy birthday.

Thank you so much, Chair Weirs.

Oh, what a short meeting.

Um, moving on to the approval of minutes.

Um, is it a motion to approve the June 1, 2026 regular board meeting minutes?

So moved.

That is second.

Second.

All in favor.

Aye.

Okay.

The minutes are approved.

Finally, a motion to adjourn.

So moved.

Second.

Okay.

The meeting is adjourned at 8 30 8 p.m.

Have a good night, everyone.