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WEST WARWICK TOWN COUNCIL
Regular Town Council Meeting
Town Council Chambers
November 16, 2021
6:00 P.M.
(Immediately following the Sewer Commission Meeting)
MINUTES
*Please Note: Any matter listed on this agenda may be acted upon by the Town Council*
A. This meeting was called to order at 6:00 p.m. 
B. Prayer led by Council
C. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
D. Roll Call taken by Deputy Town Clerk
Present:
Councilman J. Messier
Councilman J. Licciardi
Councilman M. Bourget
Council Vice President M. Williamson
Council President D. Gosselin
E. Quorum on Record Declared by Deputy Town Clerk
F. Resolutions
01 Resolution Declaring November 27, 2021, as Small Business Saturday
Motion made by Councilman Bourget, Seconded by Council Messier and approved by a voice vote.
02 Resolution Establishing a Recreation Committee as an Advisory Committee for the West Warwick Town Council
Mark Knott, Town Manager stated he had minor additions to add to the resolution and can work with the Deputy and Town Clerk to make changes if the Town Council Agrees to the changes. The first change would be at the second Whereas to add Parks and Recreation Department. The second change would be to remove the word Council. Section 4 there was discussion regarding three- year term or have staggered terms. Section 5 after the word quorum add a sentence regarding the committees will have to write their own by-laws. And removing the word council and leaving it as town.
Councilman Licciardi stated that the Civic Center should have their own board and be separate from Parks and Recreation.
Motion to table to the next council meeting made by Council Vice President Williamson, seconded by Councilman Messier, and approved by a voice vote.
G. Consent Agenda
01 Approval of the minutes of the November 2, 2021, Regular Town Council Meeting
02 Approval of the minutes of the November 2, 2021, Executive Session
03 Cancellation of taxes as requested by the Tax Assessor
Motion made by Council Vice President Williamson, seconded Councilman Messier for approval of Consent Agenda Item 01, 02 & 03.
All Ayes
H. Business Licenses
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES SHOWS & EXHIBITIONS LICENSE
01 American Legion Post 2 dba April 12, 1924- 2 Legion Way
02 Bills Place – 707 Main Street
03 Cowesett Inn Inc. dba Cowesett Inn – 226 Cowesett Avenue
04 Kmj Inc. dba The Hour Bar – 1193 B Main Street
05 Tom Arruda dba JJ’s Café – 289 Cowesett Avenue
06 L.A. Cafe, Inc. dba LA Café - 245 Washington Street
07 Millonzies Bar & Grill – 11 Curson Street
08 Phenix Sportsmen’s Club – 715 Main Street
09 Portuguese Holy Ghost Society - 11 Ventura Street
10 Portuguese American Sports Club – 12 Bridge Street
11 Portuguese Instructional Club dba P.I.C.- 918 Main Street
12 721 Quaker Lane dba Condesa Mexican Restaurant – 721 Quaker Lane
13 293 PVD LLC dba Boomerangs Roadhouse – 293 Providence Street
DANCE/LIVE BAND LICENSE RENEWALS
01 American Legion Post 2 Dba April 15, 1924 - 2 Legion Way
02 Club Frontenac – 1143 Main Street
03 Kmj Inc. dba The Hour Bar – 1193 B Main Street
04 LA Café Inc. dba LA Café – 245 Washington Street
05 Phenix Sportsmen’s Club – 715 Main Street
06 Portuguese Holy Ghost Society – 11 Ventura Street
07 Portuguese Instructional Club Dba P.I.C – 918 Main Street
08 Portuguese Sports Club– 12 Bridge Street
24 HOUR VICUTALLING HOUSE LICENSE RENEWALS
01 Arthur’s Social Catering Inc. dba AJ’s Restaurant Inc. – 1365 Main Street
02 Cumberland Farms dba Cumberland Farms #1205 - 704 Main Street
03 Cumberland Farms dba Cumberland Farms #1127 - 295 Legris Avenue
04 Cumberland Farms dba Cumberland Farms #1104 - 278 Cowesett Avenue
05 Cumberland Farms dba Cumberland Farms # 1276 – 244 Washington Street
06 Debra Henderson dba Dunkin Donuts - 275 Cowesett Avenue
07 Speedway LLC dba Speedway #2819 – 346 Providence Street
08 West Warwick Donuts dba Dunkin Donuts – 88 West Warwick Avenue
09 Quaker Lane Gas, LLC - 425 Quaker Lane
10 Clyde Donuts, Inc. dba Dunkin Donuts - 960 Main Street
11 Phenix Square Restaurant – 9 Pleasant Street
12 Providence Street Shell – 6 Providence Street
13 Aarmans Inc dba Quality Fuel - 242 Cowesett Avenue
14 Go Puff dba GB Licenses LLC -1155 Main Street
VICTUALING HOUSE LICENSE RENEWALS
01 Zaheer LLC dba Sam’s Food Store - 119 East Main Street
02 Alex Pizza dba Ronzio Pizza - 1013 Main Street
03 New England Authentic Eats LLC dba D’Angelo – 1199 Main Street
04 Taste of China 168 Inc. dba Taste of China - 1745 Main Street Unit 12
05 Pardy Pizza, Inc. Dba Domino’s Pizza – 957 Main Street
06 Prince Food Mart Inc. dba Prince Food Mart – 51 West Warwick Avenue
07 Sweet November Inc. dba Messy’s Café – 919 Main Street, Unit 10 & 11
08 Matos Bakery Inc. dba JC Butcher Shop – 65 Brookside Ave.
09 Heong’s Market Inc. dba Roch’s Market - 1475 Main Street
10 Dal Enterprises Inc. dba Kentucky Fried Chicken – 305 Quaker Lane
11 Wise Guys Deli West Warwick – 289 Cowesett Ave., Unit 6
12 Wise Guys Creamery – 289 Cowesett Ave Unit 5
13 Rhode Island CVS Pharmacy LLC dba CVS Pharmacy # 2384 – 834 Providence Street
14 Rhode Island CVS Pharmacy LLC dba CVS Pharmacy # 397 – 1270 Main Street
15 Rhode Island CVS Pharmacy LLC dba CVS Pharmacy # 2323 – 1734 Main Street
16 Albert Castelli dba Del’s Lemonade - 306 Cowesett Avenue
17 Kaldip Corp. dba Breads N Stuff - 1669 Main Street
18 Emilio’s Bakery Inc. dba Emilio’s Bakery – 35 Quaker Lane
19 Shahid 3 LLC dba American Mart – 139 Legris Avenue
20 Better Val-U Supermarket’s, Inc. dba Jerrys Supermarket - 25 Providence Street
21 John Riggin/Golden Land Restaurant Inc. dba Diggy’s Ice Cream - 925 Main Street
22 Family Dollar Stores of R.I. LLC dba Family Dollar #23538 – 1745 Main Street
23 Family Dollar -989 Main Street
24 Famous Pizza-1738 Main Street
25 Pizza Nomad -291 Providence Street, Unit D
26 Jignesh N Patel dba Main St Gas Station – 888 Main Street
27 250 Cowesett Ave Inc. dba Riccottis Subs - 250 Cowesett Ave., Unit 6
28 Pizza Pros Inc. dba Domino’s Pizza - 1745 Main Street Unit 2
29 Michael Ferrucci dba Ferrucci’s New York System – 1246 Main Street
30 David Eccleston DeVine Foods Inc. dba D.E. Vine Foods Dba A Touch of Class – 1143 Main Street
31 Ray Polyclean Inc. dba Rays Polyclean - 1015 Main Street
32 Dolgen Rhode Island, LLC – Dollar General Store #18664-1029 Main Street
33 Robert Donahue Pizza Inc. dba Donahue’s Pizza – 1207 Main Street
34 Subway of West Warwick – 289 Cowesett Avenue
35 Guas, William J. dba Lil Rhody Ice Cream – 283 Quaker Lane
36 Azos Pizza - 250 Cowesett Avenue
37 Crave Nutrition Co. – 289 Cowesett Ave. Ste 5
38 Walgreen Eastern – 1 Cowesett Avenue
39 La Casita Warwick LLC dba La Casita - 53 Providence Street Unit 1
40 Dollar Tree Stores Inc. dba Dollar Tree #08552 – 272 Cowesett Avenue
41 Dollar Tree – 1125 Main Street
42 Victoria’s Sweets & Bakery, Inc – 1236 Main Street
43 Go Puff dba GB Licenses LLC - 1155 Main Street
44 RI Homemade Donuts Inc. – 265 Providence Street
45 Lat’s Variety LLC - 711 Providence Street
46 Lil Rhody Catering – 1670 Main Street
47 Quaker Lane Gas – 425 Quaker Lane
48 Fresh Homemade Donuts Inc. – 1745 Main Street Unit 16
POLICE CONSTABLE LICENSE RENEWALS
01 Nicole T. Knott – 28 Pine Orchard Rd., West Warwick, RI 02893
02 Bruce Howard Fitzgerald-138 Tanglewood Drive, West Warwick, RI 02893
03 Thomas P. Oates-6 Colonial Way, West Warwick, RI 02893
04 Donald L. Johnson -11 Ridley Lane, Hope Valley, RI 02832
05 Charles Davey – 1170 Main Street, West Warwick, RI 02893
06 A Joseph Houle III – 33 Blossom Dr., Pomfret Center, Ct 06259
07 Fred Gil – 728 East Avenue, Warwick, RI 02886
08 Jason A. Allard Jr. – 16 Gerald Ave., Coventry RI 02816
09 Matthew Manning - 34 Healey Brook Drive
10 Keith Medeiros – 110 Sunrise Ave
11 Albert Zinno – 26 Matteson Street
BALLOONS AND NOVELTIES LICENSE
01 Russell Lefort for event held on November 29, 2021, at the Arctic Gazebo
TAG DAY LICENSE
01 West Warwick Fire Fighters for event held on November 26th & 27th at the intersection of Coit Avenue and Cowesett Avenue, and the intersection of Providence Street and Tollgate Road
Councilman Messier recuses himself from all business licenses.
Motion made by Council Vice President Williamson, seconded by Councilman Bourget for approval of all business licenses.
All Ayes
I. Appointments and Resignations
01 Appointment of Derek Read to the Recreation Committee for term ending November 16,2024
02 Appointment of Paul Richards to the Recreation Committee for term ending November 16, 2024
03 Appointment of Christopher Messier to the Recreation Committee for term ending November 16,2024
04 Appointment of Michael Gauvin to the Recreation Committee for term ending November 16, 2024
05 Appointment of Vincent Marzullo to the Recreation Committee for term ending November 16,2024
Motion made by Council Vice President Williamson, seconded Councilman Bourget to table 01, 02, 03, 04, ad 05.
All Ayes
J. Ordinance Amendments
01 Second reading of Ordinance 2021-16 Amending the West Warwick Code of Ordinances Appendix C – Traffic Ordinances
Motion made by Council Vice President Williamson, seconded by Councilman Messier, and approved by a roll call vote:
Councilman Licciardi – yes
Councilman Messier - yes
Councilman Bourget – yes
Council Vice President Williamson – yes
Council President Gosselin - yes
K. New Business
01 October 2021 Monthly Finance Report
Kristen Benoit, Finance Director, reported the current year total $36,348,663.62 which is 54.55% of the budget for the current year taxes. Prior year tax collections total $246,353.76 which is equal to 16.42% of the budgeted amount. This line was adjusted by $362,699.66 for the 60day rule and accrued back to FY 2021.
Revenues are art 45.12% which is higher than expected 33.33%.
Expenditures are trending under budget at 27.54%. This is 5.80% below the expected 33.33%.
Civic Center has current operating expenditures of $126,413.22 and operating revenues of $268,993.30.
Auditors completed field work and on track for a timely release of the financial statements at the end of December.
Bank Balance as of 11/10/2021 is $25,143,144.17.
02 Resolution Authorizing Select Full and Part-Time Non-Union Employees of the Town of West Warwick to Receive a Salary Increase in FY2022 and Alteration of the Administrative Employee Personal Time Off Policy
Motion made by Council Vice President Williamson, seconded by Councilman Messier for approval 02 Personal Time off.
All Ayes
03 Resolution Authorizing the Payment of Covid Operational/Essential Worker Pay for Municipal Employees from American Rescue Plan Funds
Motion to move the resolution made by Council Vice President Williamson, seconded by Councilman Messier for discussion.
Town Manager stated essential worker pay or Covid essential worker pay that has been discuss when the pandemic first came out the first responder and the former Town Manager discuss to implement something like this. This would be broken up between two calendar years employees that have been during the first phase calendar 2020 and then employees that have been here in 2021. The proposed tier First Responders would receive $1250.00 that worked the most hours and are in higher risk and will received it twice once in calendar year of 2020 and 2021 prorated of date of hire. Second tier for Municipal Workers would receive $750.00 prorated date of services. Third tier that is a disturbed services that some staff worked from home and rotating shifts 79% of hours worked in that calendar year.
Motion passes all Ayes
04 Request from the West Warwick Veterans Council for contribution of $1,500
Motion to move by Council Vice President Williamson, seconded by Councilman Messier for approval of $1500.00
All Ayes
Motion made by Council Vice President Williamson to move Item 7 forward, seconded by Councilman Messier.
07 Announcement of Flag Raising Ceremony at Monument on Corner of Bridal Avenue and Legris Avenue on November 27, 2021, at 9:30 A.M.
Richard Schierschmidt Past President of the West Warwick Veterans Council is inviting the Council to the Flag Ceremony.
05 (Discussion/Action) Concerns Brought Forth by Constituents in Ward Three about Dumping of Fill at 113 Brookside Avenue
Councilman Messier stated there is no updated information on this matter. Town Manager stated that he has been speaking with the Building Official regarding ordinances and spoke with the property owner is willing to work with the town and wants to comply with any ordinances. Property owner Richard Banks stated he has a letter from DEM any there is no violations. Councilman Licciardi would like on the record that an accusation was made between Councilman Licciardi and his brother n law regarding 113 Brookside Ave. and it is not an open violation. Paul Petrozzi from a Valley Fuel stated he was not accusing anyone of anything he stated he found it troubling that a Councilman and a Zoning Board Member was discussing the matter.
06 Approval of Claim Submitted by Shawn Carron of 12 Nicole Drive in the Amount of $1,657.62
Council President Gosselin stated that Fred Gill, DPW Director spoke with Shawn and stated that this is not Town Property. No action
L. Upcoming Appointments
01 Sewer Use Board of Review - (1) Alternate member vacancy with a term to expire on 10/2024, and (1) vacancies with a term to expire 10/2023
02 Pension Committee - (2) vacancies with terms to expire on, 11/18/2024
03 Juvenile Hearing Board (3) vacancies with terms to expire 12/2021
04 Tree Warden
05 Recreation Committee – (1) Vacancy for School Committee Member
M. Public Forum
A. Palazzo, of 5 Robin – update on River Point Park. Town Manager stated he is reaching out to DEM to see what they have in their files that show what action was taken and also check our files to see if it matches.
Last Thursday was Veterans Day. In the Town of West Warwick, the Veterans Exemptions up to $1,000 on evaluation the law authorizes the Town of West Warwick up to $10, 000 in the evaluation. Have the Town Council to look at this matter? Also, look at the Senior Exempts.
A. Palazzo stated the late penalty 12% for late payment on taxes the Town Council should revisit this matter.
J. Read asked Councilman Bourget where he is in the volumes and Councilman reported he has finished the first one so far.
Council President stated the Phenix Tree Lighting is on Thanksgiving night and Arctic Tree lighting is the Monday after Thanksgiving at 5:00 p.m.
R. Palmery would like to place a dog park in West Warwick on the next Council agenda. Council President stated it should be place on the Parks and Recreation Meeting on December 13,.
Motion to adjourn made by Councilman Messier, seconded by Council Vice President Williamson, and approved by a voice vote.
N. Adjourn at 7:31 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
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Paula Iannitelli, Deputy Town Clerk