Providence Committee on Finance-Wednesday, May 29, 2024-5:30 PM

Good evening. My name is Melanie. I'm the new chair of the committee on finance. I'm going to order a regular meeting Wednesday, May 29 at 05:31PM. Madam clerk, would be so kind as to follow-up?

Chairwoman Anthony? Present. Vice Chairman Taylor, who's absent? Councilor Anne Boyle? Here.

Councilwoman Graves, who's absent? Councilor Sanchez? We have three present, and two absent, we have one. Thank you so much. And I would like to thank, we have Michael here from the solicitor's office.

Thank you for joining us. Gina Thank you for joining us. And, of course,. So thank you so much. So noted.

And then we got another... A lot of distinguished guests that are gonna be speaking with us, and thank you all for coming. With that, I would like to take out the order. First of all, I'd like to deal with our appointments. So I'd like to take number eight Patty Gilbert, automatic nuclear motion.

Second. Motion made by councilor. Second, councilor Sanchez. All in favor, five. All opposed.

Madam clerk, please release number eight. Communication from his honor, the mayor, dated 04/12/2024, informing the honorable members of the city council that pursuant to section three zero two b and 11 o three of the Providence Home Rule Charter of 1980 as amended in public law chapter 45 to 50, section one through 31, passed in 1987, He is this day appointing the lead of 616 Charles Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02904 as a member of a human relations committee for a term to expire on 01/31/3025 and respectfully commits the same for your approval. Mister Atkin Polarin replaces mister Murray, who has resigned. Mister Atkins,. Please come up to the table.

And, Morgan, if you don't mind standing, we'll start your way.

This side. Can I

You're gonna be sitting right over here? Please write your right hand. Please down to the. Please have a seat. We appreciate you joining us this evening.

We're very excited to talk to you about being appointed to the human relations. If you would be so kind as to give us just a little bit about your background and also why it is that you would like to serve on this dimension. K.

My name is Amir. As I stated earlier, I'm a province from South Providence. My parents immigrated by way of Nigeria. My whole life, I've been in Providence. I've been fortunate enough to be able to travel around and see different areas of the world.

My father, Morris, was a man of the community. He's still doing community work to this day and retired days. Since I was a kid, I've been following in his footsteps as far as being a civil engineer and invested community working with the youth. For me, this is a chance to continue

that work in a different aspect and a different role. I feel like as an adult now in your day to day

life, you tend to get absorbed, whether it be in mortgage, in work. There's just a lot. This right there is one of those focuses where it's like, this is a chance to give back. This is a chance to listen to the things that are going... Essentially, like, bringing it back home.

So for me, it's bringing everything full centered.

This is the community that shaped me, and I'm trying to make those same opportunities to those who are in that...

In the same community.

Wonderful. Thank you. Questions from our committee members? Yes, please. Thank you so much for your willingness to serve and for all you do.

My goodness. Like, what a resume. Can you say specifically why the HRC as opposed to any of the other boards and commissions was was of interest?

So this was one of

the first boards that represented to me, and I noticed there's not a large Muslim presence as far as representation. So it's in Rhode Island, and I know there's a lot of community. So for me, it was it was an easier fit that I felt like... If I dated back to my high school days, my senior thesis was the misconceptions of the Islamic religion. Mhmm.

So I felt like for me, I could do the best service of showing the examples of what I feel like is the modern day Muslim or modern day Islamic religion, and then just give them a voice as far as what's going on in the community. I'm sure we're all aware. Everything that's happening now through social media is kinda hard to not. So just shining a light on that, I think this community gave me that best opportunity to fill that role. But I feel like other people can fill those other roles that were available in other groups.

Thank you so much. You're welcome. Well, I can see from your leadership roles and your activities that you are... Have had, you know, a lot of leadership roles, but also you've been involved in so many different organizations. So I think that we will bring a voice that's not

present to the convention. So Motion to approve.

Second.

A motion's made by counselor Sanchez, seconded by counselor Vanderbilt. All in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed.

So we will be recommending your to the council, and the council will go on that. And thank you so much for your willingness to serve.

Thank you very much. Take care. Okay.

So thank you very much. We have counselor Gonzalez. We we counselor Harris joining us. So thank you so much for for coming. We've done a bit in...

We're taking our out of order first. We just had an applicant for the. So now we are going to take. We are not gonna take item number nine out of order. Thank you.

May I have a motion? Second.

Second.

K. Motion made by councilor Ritterbaas, seconded by councilor Sanchez. All in favor? Aye. All opposed.

We are not going to have a clerk read this. Apparently, the candidate, Mr. Myrick, is not present this evening, so I am going to ask for a motion to continue. Motion to continue. Second.

Motion to continue made by Councilor Randle. A lot of instructions made by councilor Sanchez. All in favor? Aye. All opposed.

Good day. Now we will resume with you for a normal order. So, madam, please believe item number one. Resolution authorizing approval of the following contract award of an encumbrance by the board of contract and supply in accordance with section 21... Six b four of the code of ordinances, NRG Business Marketing LLC, $450,000, Department of Public Property.

Okay. Who do we have to present on this matter this evening?

Well, that is here. We have very productive this Do you want everyone to call in at once so

that we can further do them at the time of their

I think we might because we have so many people here. I think we'll take it item by item. It was just what we just

Item by... Okay. So the box is here.

Thank

you both for coming. And this is... It says Department of Public Property. Does that

What's the matter before you, madam chair, is made by the division of sustainability. So before you

Okay. Alright. Please proceed.

So it... And I... This is

a matter that required for a contract approval. It was a change to an existing agreement to the city

of province and more or

less a multi... A nonprofit service group that the city engaged with. We've got a lead us to get announced that energy supply and distribution, because of the areas of the city's energy management, they can explain the matter further with respect to why it's a chain global matter across energy for the house, like, maybe for the second of this evening. So if you'd