Name of Body: City Council
Agenda for the Meeting of: February 22, 2017
Meeting Begins: 7:00 P.M.
Location: City Hall Council Chambers
Agenda
A. Acceptance of Minutes
B. Communications from City Manager
Presentation from Ed Googins, Chief of Police, on the Body Camera Program
C. Reports from Boards and Committees
Arts and Historic Preservation
D. Petitions and Communications
E. Appointment Calendar
1. ORDER #86-14/15 – Conservation Commission, District Two (Smith), for an unexpired term which expires on 11/20/17. Postponed since 02/18/15. Passage requires majority vote.
2. ORDER #114-15/16 – Board of Assessment Review, District Two (Smith), for an unexpired term which expires on 03/16/19. Postponed since 03/21/16. Passage requires majority vote.
3. ORDER #37-16/17 – Conservation Commission, District Two (Smith), for an unexpired term which expires on 03/03/18. Postponed since 09/07/16. Passage requires majority vote.
4. ORDER #38-16/17 – Conservation Commission, District Three (Rose), for an unexpired term which expires on 03/03/19. Postponed since 09/07/16. Passage requires majority vote.
5. ORDER #48- 16/17 – Conservation Commission, District One (Morgan), for an unexpired term which expires on 11/20/17. Postponed since 09/19/16. Passage requires majority vote.
6. ORDER #110-16/17 – Board of Assessment Review, At-Large (Beecher), for a term which expires 12/31/19. Postponed since 1/4/17. Passage requires majority vote.
7. ORDER #112-16/17 – Board of Assessment Review, District Five (Fox), for a term which expires 12/31/19. Postponed since 1/4/17. Passage requires majority vote.
8. ORDER #113-16/17 – Energy & Recycling Committee, District Two (Smith), for a term which expires 05/05/18. Postponed since 1/4/17. Passage requires majority vote.
9. ORDER #122-16/17 – Conservation Commission, District Five (Fox), for an unexpired term which expires on November 20, 2019. Postponed since 2/6/17. Passage requires majority vote.
10. ORDER #123-16/17 – Conservation Commission, District At-Large (Henderson), for an unexpired term which expires on 11/20/19. Postponed since 2/6/17. Passage requires majority vote.
11. ORDER #131-16/17 – Conservation Commission, District One (Morgan), for an unexpired term which expires on 03/03/18. Passage requires majority vote.
12. ORDER #132-16/17 – Conservation Commission, District At-Large (Beecher), appointing Rick Foss-Lacey for a term which expires 3/3/20. Passage requires majority vote.
13. ORDER #133-16/17 – Board of Education, District Four, to fill a vacancy pursuant to Section 904 of the City Charter until Inauguration Day, December 4, 2017. Passage requires majority vote.
F. Consent Calendar
G. Citizen Discussion (First Part)
H. Public Hearings and Action
14. ORDINANCE #12-16/17 – Amending Chapter 27, “Zoning,” regarding Solar Energy Systems. Amended and passed first reading on February 6, 2017. ROLL CALL VOTE. Passage requires five (5) affirmative votes.
I. Action on Old and New Business
15. RESOLVE #10-16/17 – Adopting a Proclamation of the 2016 Police Officer of the Year. Passage requires majority vote.
16. ORDER #134-16/17 – Authorizing the Interim City Manager to execute a power purchase agreement, including a related license agreement, with ReVision SunFill, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of ReVision Energy, LLC, for the installation of a photovoltaic array at the City’s capped landfill located at 929 Highland Avenue. Passage requires majority vote.
17. ORDER #135-16/17 - Authorizing the Interim City Manager to sign a Municipal/State Partnership Agreement with the Maine Department of Transportation regarding preliminary engineering for New Southbound Access at Exit 4 on I-295, and appropriating $35,000 from Unassigned Fund Balance for the City’s share of project costs. Passage requires majority vote.
18. ORDER #136-16/17 – Accepting miscellaneous donations. Passage requires majority vote.
19. ORDER #137-16/17 – Amending the Non-union Personnel Policy. Passage requires majority vote.
20. ORDER #138-16/17 – Accepting a Bureau of Highway Safety Speed Enforcement and Equipment Grant in the amount of $12,902.39. Passage requires majority vote.
21. ORDER #139-16/17 – Accepting $3,650.00 under the State of Maine Asset Forfeiture Program to be used by the Police Department. Passage requires majority vote.
22. ORDER #140-16/17 – Authorizing the Interim City Manager to execute and deliver a Declaration of Environmental Covenant to the State of Maine, acting by and through its Department of Environmental Protection, regarding the property located at 111 Waterman Drive (Wastewater Treatment Plant addition). Passage requires majority vote.
23. ORDER #141-16/17 – Authorizing the Interim City Manager to sign an amendment to the agreement between the City of South Portland and the Portland Water District regarding billing, collection and customer service related to sewer user charges. Passage requires majority vote.
24. ORDER #142-16/17 – Authorizing the Interim City Manager to accept delivery of a Release Deed with the Portland Water District for a property easement at 39 Hall Street (Tax Map 52, Lot 79). Passage requires majority vote.
25. ORDER #143-16/17 – Authorizing the Interim City Manager to request proposals for design and planning for the Portland Street Pier, an economic feasibility study, and appropriating $75,000 to the Portland Street Pier Contractual Services – Engineering Account. Passage requires majority vote.
26. ORDINANCE #13-16/17 - Amending Chapter 2, "Administration and Legislation" amending the number of Conservation Commission members from 14 to 9. First reading. Passage requires majority vote.
J. Citizen Discussion (Second Part)
K. Councilor’s Round Robin
L. Executive Session
A motion may be made to go into Executive Session pursuant to 1 M.R.S.A. §405 (6)(D) regarding labor negotiations with the IAFF Local #1476 Public Safety Dispatchers
In the event the Council determines that it may not reach all agenda items by 11:00 P.M., it may postpone some items to a subsequent meeting. Postponement is not required, and the Council may take up agenda items after 11:00 P.M. Any items postponed to the next meeting will normally be scheduled ahead of subsequently scheduled agenda items.