The Fall River Redevelopment Authority held a special meeting on Wednesday, November 30th, at 8:30 A.M. The meeting, conducted remotely, began with a roll call of members Joe Marshall, Johnny Erickson, Don Medeiros, and Ken Keane, along with participants Sarah Page, John Coughlin, and Ken Phiola. The authority addressed two main items: a request for a heated tent for a MassDOT groundbreaking ceremony and a real estate transaction at Innovation Way. The first item involved a discussion and vote to provide a heated tent for the MassDOT Route 79 project groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for December 21st at 9:30 A.M. at City Pier. Sarah Page explained that while MassDOT would host, a heated tent was necessary due to the winter season, and the Redevelopment Authority was better equipped to provide one that could be secured without staking. A quote for a 20x30 tent, not to exceed $1500, was presented. The motion to approve the tent rental was made by Johnny Erickson, seconded by John Coughlin, and passed unanimously. The second item on the agenda was a motion to enter executive session to discuss a real estate transaction concerning the sale of property at Innovation Way to BMD. The purpose of the executive session was to discuss an extension of the closing date from December 1st to January 31st and to authorize the chair to sign an amendment to the Land Disposition Agreement (LDA). The board determined that an open session would have a detrimental effect on discussions with the purchaser. A motion to enter executive session and not return was made by Johnny Erickson, seconded by Don Medeiros, and passed unanimously.
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okay um I'm on a call to order the uh this special meeting of the Fall River Redevelopment Authority Wednesday November 30th 8 30 A.M um pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of the public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are there for um advised that such recording or transmission are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those
0:33present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible um this is a a remote meeting with uh all members expecting to attend we're still waiting for Luis uh Luis uh but I'd like to take a roll call for those who are here uh starting with me Joe Marshall Erickson here president Don Medeiros here and Keane here all right all right and and also participating if you could acknowledge your presence uh Sarah page
1:11here uh John Coughlin here and Ken phiola administrative consultant okay good all right uh as we have on our agenda the first item is discussion and potential vote to provide uh a tent for the Mass DOT groundbreaking ceremony on December 21st at City Pier Sarah before we do that you want to explain for the listeners as the and the rest of the board what that is the DLT groundbreaking and why it's going to exist
1:47yes so we had been uh so massdot very um headphones on Happily is getting ready to break ground on the Route 79 project right and uh we had been asked uh earlier in the fall if we could host the groundbreaking on CD pier and at that time it was still fall and probably uh a heated tent wouldn't have been required uh I had talked with massdot about a tent and they said that they had
2:26something they could bring but tents can't be staked on uh CD pairs so they weren't really prepared to do a tent with water barrels um holding it down and so we really I think it's really great for us to be able to have an event like that on CDP here it's a great location for them because you look at Route 79 and they can bring their dirt pile and which
2:57they're going to do that was one of the requirements and um so I think it's a wonderful opportunity for us and for the media and that uh we really would need a heated tent massdot wasn't really um planning on that in a position to do that so we've gotten a quote from the tent company that we used for the dedication and we've gotten them down to about 1400 uh dollars and so we're proposing that
3:37we vote on um a rental not to exceed 1500. okay so you have an actual quote for that yes okay good um any discussion or a motion to well to make a motion did somebody say something yeah I just got a question Sarah that includes the uh we got one heater or two heaters good it includes just one but it's gonna be a small tent it's nothing like the one that we had for the dedication we're
4:10looking at one that's 20 by 30 although for a little more we could go to 20 by 40 if we decide um the number of people have expanded Mass DOT thought it would be 30 I think it's probably more like 50 and this size 10 should accommodate that okay good Sarah do you know what time it's at yeah it's 9 30. okay so I move we approve the uh tent uh
4:39payment of uh not to exceed I yeah okay um is there a second to that motion that was John yeah second who's out John okay yes uh all in favor with a roll call vote uh signified by saying aye Joe Marshall aye Johnny Erickson aye Joan Medeiros I yeah okay okay that's unanimous so moved um next uh next item or last item is uh to discuss uh go into uh uh entertain a motion to go into
5:26executive session to discuss uh real estate transaction going on at Innovation Way um and um vote to approve an extension of the closing date for the sale of Innovation Way property to bmd from December 1st to January 31st and to authorize the chair myself to sign an amendment to the LDA uh with that in mind let's go into executive session uh not to return if there's a motion to go
6:00into executive session and not return go you need to make the finding that an open session would have a detrimental effect on that's correct so yeah and that is the the purpose of going into executive session is that um going into that if we didn't go into executive session uh the finding could uh could have a detrimental effect to uh discussions with the uh with the purchaser so that's the reason we're
6:30going into executive session and not returning and I'll entertain a motion that says that and move we move into executive session second by Joan yes okay uh all in favor signify by saying hi Joe Marshall aye lyrics and I John Madera side and Kenai it was kind of like okay so move thank you