CITY COUNCIL MEETING

MUNICIPAL COMPLEX, COUNCIL CHAMBERS PORTSMOUTH, NH

DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2001 TIME: 7:00PM

6:00PM – ANTICIPATED "NON-MEETING" WITH COUNSEL – RSA 91-A:2I (b)

AGENDA

  1. CALL TO ORDER

  2. ROLL CALL

  3. INVOCATION

  4. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

PRESENTATIONS TO:

    1. Assistant Mayor Noele Clews

    2. Councilor William V. Wagner

    3. Retired Fire Chief Ricky A. Plummer

V. VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE REPORTS

    1. Update on Issue of Wetlands Buffer Zone at Pease Tradeport – Eileen Foley and Peter Loughlin, Pease Development Authority Board of Directors

2. Joint Building Committee Report – William Wagner, City Councilor, and Kent LaPage, School Board Chairman Re: Team Design, Joint Building Committee Architect, will provide an update on plans for renovations to Portsmouth High School and New Franklin School

VI. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES – NOVEMBER 19, 2001

  1. PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION

  2. PUBLIC HEARINGS

    1. TO RECEIVE PUBLIC INPUT ON THE FINAL REPORT OF THE MAYOR’S BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE ON ARTS AND CULTURE

B. ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 8, ARTICLE I, SECTION 8.130 – SCOPE, SIGNS INCLUDED BY AMENDING 8.130 C – REMOVAL REQUIRED

IX. APPROVAL OF GRANTS/DONATIONS

    1. U.S. Department of Justice funding under the COPS MORE01 Program Grant to be used for the purchase of computer equipment

    2. Acceptance of Donation from the Levine family Charitable Trust for the Seacoast Emergency Response Team

    3. Acceptance of Donation from Hoyle, Tanner & Associates for the Portsmouth Police Honor Guard

X. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES

A. Second reading of Ordinance amending Chapter 8, Article I, Section 8.130 – Scope, Signs Included by amending 8.130 C – Removal Required
  1. PRESENTATION AND CONSIDERATION OF WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS AND PETITIONS

    2. A. Letter from Mark Rooney, Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Torch Relay, requesting permission to bring the Olympic Flame into the City on Friday, December 28, 2001

    B. Letter from Robert and Nackey Scagliotti requesting permanent use of a portion of a paper street right-of-way for Livermore Street

    C. Letter from Alanson Sturgis requesting that vehicles with prisoner of War or Purple Heart plates park free at meters

  2. REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS FROM CITY OFFICIALS

A. CITY MANAGER

Items which require Action under other sections of the Agenda

    1. Public Hearing/Second Reading of Proposed Ordinance Amendment:

      2. 1.1 Pubic Hearing – Final Report of the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Arts and Culture (Action on this matter should take place under Section XII C.1. of the Agenda)

      1.2 Public Hearing/Second Reading Re: Ordinance amending Chapter 8, Article I, Section 8.130 – Scope Signs Included by amending 8.130 C – Removal Required (Action on this matter should take place under Section X of the Agenda)

    2. Request for Approval of Grants/Donations

2.1 U.S. Department of Justice funding under the COPS MORE01 Program Grant to be used for the purchase of computer equipment (Action on this matter should take place under Section IX of the Agenda)

2.2 Acceptance of Donation from the Levine family Charitable Trust for the Seacoast Emergency Response Team (Action on this matter should take place under Section IX of the Agenda)

 

      1. Acceptance of Donation from Hoyle, Tanner & Associates for the Portsmouth Police Honor Guard (Action on this matter should take place under Section IX of the Agenda)

3. Donation to the Coalition Legal Fund (Action on this item should take place under XII B.1. of the Agenda)

City Manager’s Items Which Require Action
    1. Meter Enforcement – 2001 Christmas Season

2. Request to Approve Names of Private Streets in Hillcrest Estates Mobile Home Park

Informational Items
    1. Work Session with the Fire Commission
    2. Proposed Calendar for City Council Meetings in 2002
    3. Legislative Delegation Meeting

    4. Citizens Advisory Committee Public Hearings

    5. Joint Budget Committee Meeting

B. MAYOR SIRRELL
    1. Donation to the Coalition Legal Fund
    2. *Reports

C. COUNCILOR GRASSO

1. Action on Final Report of the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Arts and Culture
  1. MISCELLANEOUS/UNFINISHED BUSINESS

  2. ADJOURNMENT

* INDICATES VERBAL REPORT

INFORMATIONAL ITEMS

1. Planning Board minutes of the September 20, 2001 meeting

2. Thank you letter to the City Council from Peggy McCounell regarding our 2001 official city maps

3. Letter from Jerry Reese, AT&T Broadband regarding 2002 rate adjustments

4. Letter of appreciation to Faye Goldberg for serving on the Planning Board

 

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