Awesome. Great. So I am, chairwoman of the specialty Annie Barbara Lindsay calling a regular safe February 27 meeting order at 05:33. Can you please call the roll? Chair Angela.
Present. Vice chair, sign said. Present. Councilwoman Angela. Present.
Councilman Ethanol is absent. Councilor Morayas is absent. We have three present and two absent. We have a floor. Awesome.
Thank you so much. We're gonna take this out of order so we can hear from doctor Ryan first. Can I have the motion to hear item two first?
So moved. Second. All in favor?
Madam Park, can you please read item two, mister Richard? An ordinance amending chapter 12, health and sanitation, article three, garbage, trash, and refuse, section twelve and forty six, definitions, section 12 through 57, littering, and section 12 through 80, violations and penalties of the Providence Code of Ordinances. Awesome. Councilwoman, thank you for joining us.
Thank you, madam chair, for the courtesy, And council colleagues, thank you for allowing me to go first. This ordinance is this change in ordinance is is rather straightforward. It's about litter, and it's intended obviously to reduce littering in our city, which is good for us all. Essentially, it does is moves the fee fine for littering from $50 to a $100. Worked with Miguel Young on this in the council policy office, and we felt that a 100 was more of a deterrent than the $50 fine.
Not that we collect a lot of dollars on on in in this arena, but, it just speaks to our desire to have this, reduced littering. Also, notably is creating a littering fine that never existed, relative to watershed areas. Obviously, littering in the watershed area is problematic on so many fronts, but it really does negatively in in impact our environmental locations. So that's the reason for a heftier fine. $2.50 is what we propose, and that is essentially all this does.
So bumping up the existing fine 50 to 100 and creating a littering in a watershed find. And it's significant, $250, but it is commensurate with the negative impact that it does have littering does have in our watershed areas.
Do you have any questions?
No. I'm just gonna say thank you so much for this clarification and this amendment and the particularly in my mind, in the adding of section g, seeing that I live near the. And, you know, we have a lot of trash Yep. Down there, and people just throw up
And, you know, I think that, you know, if we catch them, that this is gonna be significant, and we'll go a long way to stop that. So thank you. Hopefully so.
Yes. Just to confirm, who's, authorized to issue these fines? I
think it's both. I am not sure on that. I'll check, but I know that the police can. They can't. But, typically, environmental as well.
you know, just on top of your line, how many littering t k
two We don't have them all. We don't. We should have much. It's particularly problematic in the watershed areas. That's kind of the root of why I started looking at this.
And then we'll we realized that the the littering fee was only $50. We said, well, that seems and it's been that way for many, many, many, many years. So time to rethink that and and try it. And if it's not right, we'll change it again. But I think it's a step in the right direction addressing a littering problem that we have, particularly in our watershed areas.
I drive down past the waterway every day, and it amazes me how many people just throws cups and things out the window. It's, you know, it's it's it needs to stop, and I think expressing a significant sign will get people's attention.
Awesome. Well, I agree a 100%. And I live right along with in particular. So if we pass this tonight, it's gonna be then on our council agenda for Thursday next week. So if folks are comfortable, I would entertain a motion.
Move to approve. So moved.
Motion by councilor Anthony, second by the vice chair's name, sir. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you so much.
is. Thank you. Thank you, committee. I appreciate it. Thank you.
And, ma'am, I'm sorry. Thank you. You're welcome. So that we can just really focus on the presentation, I would love if we could take item three because that would take about thirty seconds. So moved.
Second. Motion second. All in favor? Aye. Great.
We we agree to the record, please. The following item will be continued indefinitely. The ordinance amending chapter 23, suites, guide offs, and public places of the Providence Court of ordinances to add article nine electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Awesome. So I will just mention so this was sponsored by councilman Gonsall.
He has since replaced it with a resolution reflecting the work that the office of state really is doing on EV adoption, and
so we this ordinance isn't longer in play. Motion to continue indefinitely.
Second. Motion and second. All in
Any opposed? Excellent. That is done. So now we'll move to item one. I will say we will take public comment after the presentation as well.
I didn't put a question in the agenda bar, so I'm glad that that's okay. Cool.
number one is the agenda? Presentation by PVD's three team. Presentation by Kathy's director. Awesome. So I'm really excited that we're gonna have a presentation about PVD three plan, and we're doing the the team for p PMPP, the province and planning for.
And Kathy and Morgan and Tomei, I think,
are gonna present. So if you guys want
to come on up, and Claire has your presentation on screen, and we all have copies. And the folks are here who have not only created their physical problems that are there if you
do better with physical problems. And don't feel awkward about it.
Totally just feel free to go on and go. Yeah.
Cool. So thank you all so much for letting us come and share a little bit about. Yeah.
Thank you. See you for you guys. I usually do
more with. I don't mind if you're
whole tired, but I'm really excited about the three plans. And they're gonna describe it. We'll have a lot of time for cancer and other trips either way, but excellent partners have been partnered with the city for a long time. So I'll.
