April 2023 General Meeting

Agenda:

Meeting starts - 7:00 pm

• Pledge of Allegiance- 1 minute 
• Roll call- 2 minutes
• Approval of minutes – (2022 Minutes: Approve previously discussed and updated minutes: March 2022, May 2022, November 2022. 2022 Minutes: Discuss and approve September 2022, October 2022, December 2022 minutes. 2023 Minutes: Discuss and approve January 2023 and March 2023 minutes.

Chairman: 10 minutes

• Meeting Overview: Timekeeper
• Correspondence/Meetings: 1. Constitution Inn / Helm on Third – meeting with St. Francis House & Planning Office for Urban Affairs (affiliate of Archdiocese of Boston) to discuss April 13, 2023 meeting. 2. MA Highway Department– summer closing of Sumner tunnel; invitation to CNC general meeting

Presentations: 50 minutes

Allotted time includes Q&A.

• Cycle Boat – 15 minutes
• Charlestown Rehearsal Studios Tenants Association, 50 Terminal St.  – 15 minutes (Discussion of status of rehearsal spaces, positive economic impact of tenants on Charlestown businesses.)
• Street light standardization: Nora Moynihan Blake- 10 minutes
• Ali Baba, 99a Cambridge St. - 5 minutes: 1. Application for extension of operating hours from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. for dry, take-away restaurant. Abutters meeting on April 5, 2023. Notice attached. 2. Owner’s representative (introduce business) to council. 3. ONS representative Sean Breen will describe city approval process.
• Resolution of train cars in Sullivan Square: Sean Breen-  2 minutes

Open Floor: 10 minutes

• Chair may recognize community members and, time permitting, other attendees who wish to raise matters of importance to the Charlestown neighborhood.

Committee Reports: 25 minutes

• Basic Services – Tim McKenna: 1. Report from March 27, 2023 meeting 2. Recommendation regarding Urban Wild liquor license application (5 minutes)
• Food Security (subcommittee) – Aileen Gorman (5 minutes)
• Development – Nancy Johnsen: Plan: Charlestown: 1. Update on timeline and hybrid scenarios from March 30, 2023 public meeting. 2. In-person committee meeting with presentation by BPDA on April 26, 2023 with Q&A with committee and community - Nancy Johnsen 3. BPDA Survey (5 minutes)
• Public Safety – Eileen Ward: Public Safety Meetings (2 minutes)
• Small Business- Sean Boyle: Meeting with Councilor Coletta about preserving commercial space for local small businesses. (5 minutes) 

Old Business (2 minutes)

• Precinct 7 – solicit and appoint representative. Nancy Johnsen (2 minutes)

New Business (5 minutes)

• Media & Outreach: Nancy Johnsen (1 minute)
• General Meeting Invitations: Arthur Jemison, others? -  Tom Cunha (3 minutes)
• Love your Block, Charlestown, April 22, 2023 : Tim McKenna (1 minute)

Meeting Adjourns: 9:00 p.m.