Westfield City Hall
WESTFIELD – The City Council resumes its regular meeting schedule on Thursday with a light agenda, and only two communications from Mayor Brian P. Sullivan’s office.
The City Council normally meets the first and third Thursday of the month in Room 207 at City Hall.
The first request from the mayor is immediate consideration for acceptance of an airport grant of $64,355 from the MassDOT Aeronautics Division for vegetation management. Over the summer, the Council accepted a total of more than $7.3 million in grants for improvements at Westfield Barnes Airport.
City Clerk Karen M. Fanion is submitting the orders for polling locations for the 2019 elections, and for the Call of the City for the Preliminary Election on Sept. 24. The Preliminary Election will be for the mayoral race; the only race to have more than twice the number of candidates for the single seat. On the ballot will be Donald F. Humason, Jr., Michael McCabe, Kristen Mello and Andrew Mullen.
City Auditor Christopher Caputo will submit the FY19 yearend sweeping of accounts summary; and the Order of Appropriation, FY20 budget as amended at the Aug. 15 City Council meeting.
The Legislative & Ordinance committee will report on its vote to recommend the new Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) between the city and Westfield State University for a two-year PEG agreement at $40,000 per year. L&O chair William Onyski said the agreement will primarily pay for personnel to record City Council meetings. The prior agreement for $75,000 was reduced due to the transfer of city radio broadcasting to the new communications department at Westfield Technical Academy, according to Onyski.
L&O will also recommend a 5-year Host Community Agreement with Clean Technique, LLC, a cannabis extraction business located on Char Drive. Onyski said the company, which received a special permit from the Planning Board, is not subject to the retail cap on marijuana shops, because they will be selling business to business. Onyski said that according to Robert Pervere, one of the principals of Clean Technique, a provisional license from the state could be issued in three to seven months. Clean Technique plans to solely focus on producing pharmaceutical quality cannabis oil in its laboratory.
Also reporting out will be the Zoning, Planning and Development committee on items tabled at the end of the Aug. 15 five-hour budget review, and the Personnel Action Committee, with recommendations for new members for the Cultural Council.
