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Meeting Name: Open Space, Environment and Energy Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 2/20/2019 6:30 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Committee Room – 2nd Floor – City Hall
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204355 3204355OrderThat the Commissioner of Public Works and the city’s landscape architects maintain the 30-foot slide at the North Street Veterans Park, check the entire structure for safety, and inform the Ward 7 Alderman of the slide's warranty.Work completed  Action details Not available
205456 3205456ResolutionThat the Administration revisit the decision to abandon plans for curbside composting and move forward with a pilot program.Work completed  Action details Not available
205702 3205702ResolutionThat the Administration consider hiring licensed site professionals for oversight of acquired land and providing them with the authority to impose their recommendations on developers, to protect human health and the environment.Work completed  Action details Not available
205708 3205708ResolutionThat the Administration immediately pursue creation of a public athletic field and recreation complex atop the 36,000 square foot parking deck proposed for construction in the Union Square eminent domain parcel currently designated "D-2".Kept in committee  Action details Not available
205935 3205935ResolutionThat the Administration inform this Board of any opportunities to incentivize waste reduction, such as opt-in composting, PAYT, or charges to phone book distributors for disposal costs.Kept in committee  Action details Not available
206307 3206307ResolutionThat the Administration and the Director of Communications work with the Somerville Garden Club on their “Pod Patrol: Spread the word…not the weed” educational campaign to control the invasive Black Swallow-wort vine that is spreading rapidly and is harmful to songbirds, monarch butterflies and native plants.Work completed  Action details Not available
207150 3207150OrderThat the Director of SPCD work with the DPW Commissioner to institute a curbside composting program.Work completed  Action details Not available
206055 4206055OrderThat the City Solicitor draft an ordinance banning plastic straws.Kept in committee  Action details Not available