The Fall River Redevelopment Authority convened its January 26, 2022, meeting. The board approved the open session meeting minutes from December 14th and December 22nd, 2021. They also unanimously approved the warrant, which included three additions: a bill for John Coughlin's office for $4,551.50, a $5 increase for the South Coast Chamber bringing it to $65, and a $2,500 bill for the Churchy appraisal of solar voltaics, totaling $506,539.21. Discussions included updates on the City Pier, where new contemporary benches and bicycle hitches, matching the light poles in dark gray, were selected without additional cost. Large aluminum silver water meter enclosures were also chosen. Sarah Page reported on a MassDOT request for a temporary right-of-way for the Route 79 development, which is expected to be completed by 2026. The board expressed concerns about understanding the complex plans and potential costs for Beta to interpret them. Other updates included the ongoing land disposition agreement for the Bank Street Armory, the formation of a committee for the Pleasant Street Urban Renewal and Revitalization Plan with its first meeting scheduled for February 10th, and the engagement of Ann Burke as a consultant for district management in the TDI District on South Main Street. The meeting concluded with a unanimous vote to enter executive session to discuss minutes, an open meeting law complaint by Colin Dyas, and two real estate transactions, without returning to open session.
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okay we're going to call to order the january 26 2022 meeting of the fall river redevelopment authority person to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recording or transmission are are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are
0:24deemed acknowledged and permissible uh we're going to take a roll call john erickson here joan medeiros here lewis gonzalez here dan keane here okay also joining our sarah page our director john coughlin council and kenny fiola our consultant uh first thing on the agenda is approval of our open session meeting minutes from december 14th 2021 and december 22nd 2021. do i hear a motion to approve those minutes
0:59motion to approve minutes from december 14th and december 22nd 2021.
1:05i second that second by lewis you don't need a roll call right no no uh next thing on our list is approval of the warrant we've got the 18 disbursements i believe you all have copies of them and you have it yeah uh so uh although what ann would not have are these uh three editions so um because paul was out all last week um i didn't see um the bill from john kaeperlin's office
1:46which is 4551.50 there's a change in the south coast chamber it said 60 dollars and it's actually 65 and then the churchy appraisal of the solar voltaics the photovoltaic system came in and so his 2500 uh bill is on here which makes the total 506 539-21 so i need a motion to approve the warrant motion to approve the warrant as updated and presented second second one second by lewis okay um beautiful um
2:49john erickson yes joan medeiros yes louis yes and keane yes next item is the city pier we've been talking about the benches and the bicycle block hitches and the water meter enclosures and the mass d.o.t right away uh sarah you said you you were there today just a month for a minor item with uh beta oh i was out yeah i was out today on the pier because beta had to measure between the boardwalk
3:35and the concrete walkway because there's a gap and they need to uh design a little ramp that joins them and so they sent someone out i had to unlock the gate so that she could go measuring so i had a lovely morning walk out on our beautiful pier so let me go over this benches and bicycle hitches so we had a very traditional bench spect in our original uh contract documents and johnny ann and
4:16i had always talked about trying to get a bench that looked more contemporary and really matched with the railing and the um light poles so we found a really nice bench that is going to replace the one that was originally specked the beautiful thing is that they don't think it will cost anymore and they're going to match the color of the bench with the light pole color and the bicycle hitches will also match so we'll
4:56have that kind of gray dark gray on the benches and the light poles and we think we have a really good aesthetic match and we're really happy about it so i was afraid it was going to cost more and i was going to have to ask you if we could pay more and then found out that it he thinks it's just a wash which is great and we still don't have the total
5:29water meter enclosure cost and what difference that will be but we've decided on big aluminum silver like enclosures which i questioned but johnny and um nick and vader both felt that and i agreed with them once they pointed us out that they'll just match all the silver stainless on our um uh you know pedestrian railings and that that probably is a really good solution so we're going to have these big silver
6:10things and uh you know none of us like how how uh water meter enclosures look but that's just how it is sorry i just realized i don't need my mask on in here um okay so then mass dot has asked us for a right of way for the development of route 79 and i am sending it to beta for them to look at exactly what the plan is and how it affects us
6:48we assume we have to agree to it it's just a temporary right-of-way during their construction but i think there probably are some long-term implications of how their pedestrian walkway intersects with the drive the new driveway that we're putting in but i'm finding the plans very difficult to understand they're in code the right-of-way woman walked me through some of the code and uh you know we'll have beta help us
7:23understand it and then i think can john and i and johnny you may want to be in on it we'll just make sure that we think it all makes sense and don't want to negotiate it and i can bring it back to the next board meeting so is it a drawing or something yeah there's three plans she originally sent me plans for a different part of route 79 and so i was totally confused and
7:54then she sent me uh plans that show our property boundaries but they're um you know and it looks like they're doing work on the property that we own along duval street that's uh next to the pier going north toward point gloria so work is being done along there and then along the part of the pier that we're working on but um what exactly that work is is confusing and i asked her to give us a narrative
8:30and she said no we don't give you a narrative you just have to look at the plan and so i said you're really not going to give us a narrative for the document we're signing she said oh no and the plans are um you know like r d stands for removing discard how would i know that you know and i said wait she kept saying it says remove and discard can't you see that and
8:59i said you mean well it says r d she said yeah we're moving to scart so do we know what the purpose is of this right-of-way these are all these are all temporary construction easements along the outer bounds of the highway for the bike and walk it's for the bike path and the um the walking areas i think i think owners up and down everybody's getting these everything everybody's getting it's while during
9:25construction they're going to be right now right away the question is did they give you any compensation that was my next question no we haven't even gotten there because i think they may be offering compensation to others yeah and we'd have to look and make sure i mean there's the temporary construction easements and then sometimes they take permanent easements i assume these are temporary these are
9:43just temporary she said right but i really want some narrative in there that explains what it is we're agreeing to yeah i think if beta can give us a re just an overview of what it is that way we know we're agreeing to because those easements could be in place for years well i mean that construction project could be going on it should be done by 2026 okay yeah but i asked her to define what time
10:08period they would be working on our property and she just keeps saying well route 79 is going to be wonderful and i said oh no doubt i i totally agree it's just i need to understand this legal document so um so we just need to do some work to understand it and it was really a bit humorous so i assume that it isn't the whole period until 2026 but it's possible sometimes
10:40they do those when they lay out highways and stuff they do those easements and they just leave them in place until the project's completed right even if they're not using it they just have it there so because don't forget the shoulder of that has to then blend into our property they're going to be doing work right on the edge of the road so right some of this is just their workers have to step
10:58onto our land they have it really i mean sometimes they're sidewalks sometimes they're no big deal sometimes they're what sometimes they want to park equipment on your lane i mean we really need to know what they're asking for it looks as though there are going to be um bales to protect um against erosion and you know there are a variety of things that looks like they're putting on our land but i'm not
11:22sure any of them are problematic we just need to understand so they're going to get you drawings that they're going to get you drawing well we have drugs data is going to interpret them for us we need beta to help us understand them okay right what's the cost going to be for data that goes back to the compensation issue if we're going to have if we're going to incur costs to deal with this
11:46yeah i don't know what the i don't know what the i don't know what's being offered for compensation that may be a question you want to ask them yeah i think overlooking from beta is just an interpretation of plans to show exactly a quick review yeah quicker to show what's there but it could be 1200 it could be 1500 for that so it could be 500 i don't know depends how much you know
12:09the time they put the color in it and have three people look at it and sign off on it so that's it on city pure then um do you want to talk about the bank street armory sarah the latest on that so john and i are waiting for the attorney um to get back to us with um a new version of the land disposition agreement john had crafted one um brian tebow and his attorney reviewed
12:43it we had a call and they were going to incorporate their changes into it and send it back and i have not received it no i figured i should give him a call so that's that um we're putting together uh for our pleasant street urban renewal and revitalization plan we're putting together a committee the mayor picked a number of people we then added some other people and i'm still finishing
13:24trying to reach some people but a number of people have agreed to serve and i'm feeling really enthusiastic that we're getting you know people to join we have our first meeting set up for thursday the 10th of february it's going to be at the espirito santos school which is great it will be right in the flint neighborhood and we need to make it a public meeting but we don't need to record it
13:57so we're going to let people join through zoom and um have most of it in person but there are some committee members who want to join by zoom and we may or may not open it to the public on zoom we still are figuring that out and uh the main good news about the tvi district in south main street is that ann burke is now on board to be our consultant about how to put
14:37district management into place and i set up a meeting for her with the mayor ken i think mike dion is joining us caitlin and i to really talk about the concept of district management which we've talked with the mayor about a couple of times it's what viva fall river is doing some of right now and anne has worked with many cities around the state i know her from springfield she helped
15:15springfield and amherst create bids years ago they were some of the earlier ones and so no actually springfield was one of the old one of the more recent recent ones i guess but um she's just been working with lots of communities has lots of experience and and is going to help us really help the tdi group and people in the city really understand our options for how to really get that south main street district um
15:54to be a more vital clean friendly beautiful place and so that's the goal do you want to say anything about route 79 so i just got an email earlier today from a valerie um yeah and so she wants to be meeting with us to discuss um let's see here hold that real quick to discuss um you know the stacking lanes that we talked about and some other issues pertaining to the city
16:33so she's looking for times to meet with the mayor engineering redevelopment authority uh just to go over where we are with the project she's looking at wednesday uh february second through friday the fourth or the week of the 7th through the 11th so i'll coordinate those meetings and get everybody scheduled so we can start discussing these things in more detail oh that's good because we really wanted them to discuss
17:02the entrances and exits from the 19 acres and how people are going to enter and exit those parcels onto route 79 because it's really not clear yeah um sorry i did forget to mention um earlier that joe marshall our chairman could not be with us tonight so um good point anyone forget about it um so the chair makes a finding that an open session would have a detrimental effect on the negotiating position of
17:41the public body we need a vote to um approve the december 14 2021 executive session no we need a vote to go into executive you need to go into into i'm sorry need to vote to go into executive session yeah so we need a role we need a roll call vote on that and um we're going into executive session for approval of minutes to review an open meeting law complaint filed by colin dyas
18:13to discuss real estate transaction on innovation way and to discuss a real estate transaction at 45 anawan street so those are the one two three four items under executive session so the chair made the finding and now we need a roll call vote to go on for this purpose and i assume we're not returning to open session uh right now so the motion should be to not return to open pollution okay and
18:36so uh do i have a motion a motion to enter into executive session and not to return to openstack and not to return louis second okay thank you welcome john erickson yes joan medeiros yes luis gonzalez yes and keen yes okay