THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2021 Page 17 PARKING | FROM Page 1 individual visitor passes for residents. While Jack Satter House residents in attendance at Monday night’s meeting were happy to hear that, there was a bit of confusion and disappointment during the debate to get to that point. The original motion proposed by Rotondo asked that the mayor request the Traffi c Commission to provide resident parking passes for the residents of Jack Satter House and that 10 home care provider parking passes be provided to the administration of Jack Satter House for their use. Rotondo also asked the mayor to request that the city’s state legislators investigate the feasibility of providing visitor passes for residents at Jack Satter House and other properties along Revere Beach Boulevard. “The people who are aff ected the most are the residents at the Satter House and the seniors along the boulevard,” said Rotondo. “Since the meters down at Revere Beach have taken up much of the parking down there, people throughout Revere Beach Boulevard are older, and need care. Sometimes that care provider can be a family member.” Rotondo, who has worked as a nurse for a home healthcare provider, said it can be extremely hard to get a pass as a healthcare provider to get parking. “With what we have currently in place from the DCR, if a nurse were to have to change Northeast Metro Tech receives $61K Skills Capital Grant By Christopher Roberson WAKEFIELD – Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School (Northeast Metro Tech) recently received a $61,000 Skills Capital Grant to “upgrade and modernize equipment in the health assisting and dental assisting programs.” The grant is part of this year’s $9.7 million eff ort from the Baker-Polito Administration to provide 47 institutions with funding to prepare students for careers in industries such as health care, manufacturing and information technology. In addition to this year’s grant, Northeast Metro Tech received $250,000 from the Skills Capital Grant Program last year and $106,320 in 2019. “The Skills Capital Grants have helped give thousands of young people opportunities in high-demand jobs and the grants have had a tremendous impact on students, schools and local businesses,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “These signifi cant investments made over the past six years in this program with our partners in the Legislature will help train students to adapt to the changing needs of our economy.” Since the program was launched in 2015, approximately 40,000 students have benefi tted from 387 grants totaling $102 million. During that time, 68 percent of the grants have gone to public high schools and vocational schools, 24 percent have gone to colleges and eight percent have gone to community organizations. To be eligible for a Skills Capital Grant, an institution must show “partnerships with local businesses as well as align curriculum and credentials with industry demand to maximize hiring opportunities.” “Massachusetts, like the rest of the country, will face workforce challenges in the next few years, but we are poised to handle them better because of programs like the Skills Capital Grants,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. “The grants enable schools, colleges and other educational institutions to revamp how students learn and gain crucial experience that serves them and employers well.” “Training a skilled workforce is critical to the Commonwealth’s economic recovery, and the Skills Capital Grants have been a vital component of our eff orts to strengthen the talent pipelines for key industries,” said Housing and Economic Development Secretary Michael Kennealy. “As we continue emerging from the economic damage infl icted by the pandemic, funding this program at this milestone level will signifi cantly increase access to employment opportunities in every region of Massachusetts and accelerate progress toward recovery.” Public Hearing Notice City of Revere, MA Proposed Loan Order $5,000,000 - Road Bonds Notice is hereby given that the Revere City Council will conduct a public hearing on Monday evening, September 27, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. in the City Councillor Joseph A. DelGrosso City Council Chamber, Revere City Hall, 281 Broadway, Revere, MA 02151 relative to the following proposed loan order: That $5,000,000 is appropriated to pay costs of constructing, reconstructing, paving, repaving and/or repairing roads, including the payment of all costs incidental and related thereto; that to meet this appropriation , the Treasurer, with the approval of the Mayor, is authorized to borrow said amount under and pursuant to Chapter 44, Section 7(I) of the General Laws, or pursuant to any other enabling authority, and to issue bonds or notes of the City therefor. That any premium received by the City upon the sale of any bonds or notes approved by this order, less any such premium applied to the payment of the costs of issuance of such bonds or notes, may be applied to the payment of costs approved by this order in accordance with Chapter 44, Section 20 of the General Laws, thereby reducing the amount authorized to be borrowed to pay such costs by a like amount. “Commonwealth”) to qualify under Chapter 44A of the General Laws any and all bonds of the City authorized to be borrowed pursuant to this loan order, and to provide such information and execute such connection therewith. City Hall, Revere, Massachusetts 02151, Monday through Thursday from 8:15 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and Friday 8:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M. Attest: Ashley E. Melnik City Clerk August 27, 2021 their schedule and go care for someone on Revere Beach, they would have to come to City Hall, fi le for an application, wait for that application, and that’s not how healthcare is run,” said Rotondo. “When someone is in need of care, when someone is in need of assistance … I should be able to just park and go into the building without hindrance.” During the public discussion on the motion, several residents of Jack Satter House spoke about the hardship of having care providers or family members fi nd parking spaces and worrying about being able to get one of the limited visitor parking passes available for residents. “I cannot tell you how emotional people are getting at the Jack Satter House,” said Satter House resident Jean Aronson. “They are getting angry, they are getting sick, they are getting discouraged, they are getting argumentative … My family came, the whole time they didn’t enjoy their visit; the whole time they were looking out the window to see if their car was going to be taken.” City Council President Anthony Zambuto caused a mini uproar in the Chambers when he ordered the motion to the Traffi c Commission, noting it was legally their jurisdiction to amend the parking ordinances. Several residents of Jack Satter House said that members of the Traffi c Commission had told them to bring the issue to the City Council and that they were frustrated that any resolution to the parking problems seemed to be going around in circles. That’s when Callahan and Ward 6 Councillor Richard Serino stated that taking Jack Satter House off the list of buildings in the city that are not allowed parking passes could help ease the situation. Serino made the motion to remove 420 Revere Beach Boulevard, the address of Jack Satter House, from that list in the parking ordinance, a move that will have to be voted on by the Traffi c Commission. Public Hearing Notice City of Revere, MA Proposed Loan Order $1,725,000 – Land Acquisition Bonds Notice is hereby given that the Revere City Council will conduct a public hearing on Monday evening, September 27, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. in the City Councillor Joseph A. DelGrosso City Council Chamber, Revere City Hall, 281 Broadway, Revere, MA 02151 relative to the following proposed loan order: That the City is hereby authorized to acquire by eminent domain the property located at 29 Thayer Avenue in Revere, Massachusetts, as more completely described in the deed from Thayer Avenue, LLC, dated July 31, 2012, recorded at the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Book 49938, Page 53, and to take any other action incidental and related thereto, for recreational and open space purposes; that $1,725,000 is appropriated to pay the costs of said land acquisition project, including the payment of all costs incidental and related thereto; that to meet this appropriation, the Treasurer, with the approval of the Mayor, is authorized to borrow said amount under and pursuant to Chapter 44, Section 7(1) of the General Laws, or pursuant to any other enabling authority, and to issue bonds or notes of the City therefor. That any premium received by the City upon the sale of any bonds or notes approved by this order, less any such premium applied to the payment or the costs of issuance of such bonds or notes, may be app lie d to the payment of costs approved by this order in accordance with Chapter 44, Section 20 of the General Laws, thereby reducing the amount authorized to be borrowed to pay such costs by a like amount. “Commonwealth”) to qualify under Chapter 44A of the General Laws any and all bonds of the City authorized to be borrowed pursuant to this loan order, and to provide such information and execute such connection therewith. City Hall, Revere, Massachusetts 02151, Monday through Thursday from 8:15 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and Friday 8:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M. Attest: Ashley E. Melnik City Clerk August 27, 2021
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