The Fall River Traffic Board convened on December 15, 2021. The meeting began with a roll call, noting Helen Rigo's absence, and the approval of the November meeting minutes, which passed unanimously. The board then addressed several handicap parking space requests. Applications for 1665 Bay Street, 442 Montauk Street, 85 Cash Street, and 319 Belmont Street were all unanimously approved. The application for 1325 Locust Street was tabled due to the applicant's absence. Board members clarified that approved handicap spots are not exclusive to the applicant but are available to any vehicle with a valid placard, and the installation process could take six to eight weeks. Under miscellaneous requests, the board discussed a stop sign previously approved in December 2020 for Kennedy and Quincy Street, which had not yet been installed. They also reviewed a request for a new stop sign at Osborne and Second Street, but after discussion, decided against it, noting that existing ordinances require drivers to stop at T-intersections and preferring to explore alternative warning signs. Finally, the board unanimously approved the 2022 calendar year dates for their meetings and received an update on the installation of 28 radar speed limit signs across the city, including locations on Eastern Avenue (set to 40 mph) and Bedford Street near 4th Street. The meeting was then unanimously adjourned.
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okay we're going to begin the december 15th meeting of the fall river traffic board before i begin the meeting i'm going to read the open meeting law we're soon 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 recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or
0:26unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible uh first thing uh madam secretary can you do roll call please helen rigo natalie mello tom paris here and sergeant dolan helen rigo is the only member that is absent today next on the agenda is citizen input is somebody here for citizen input not for something on the agenda okay there's nobody here for citizen input
1:02next on the agenda is the approval of the meeting minutes from last month's meeting i make a motion that we approve the minutes from the november traffic board meeting thinking now these seconds in anyone opposed madam secretary can you do more call please approval of the november traffic board natalie yes sergeant dolan yes and office survivors yes okay the meeting minutes are approved
1:36there are no curb cuts this month we're going to move right out to handicap spaces i figured the first one yes sir and the first is for 1665 bay street 1665 bay street map uh there's no wall street parking available i'm guessing do you want it on woodman street yes not on bay street no you have a side door there yeah all right she's uh a tenant in the house been there for two
2:12or three months no offshore talking available to her uh the handicap spot obviously doesn't have any effect on the neighbors there it's corner lot so i make a motion that we approve that request person to approve natalie seconds it anyone opposed to approving it our secretary can you call please natalie mello yes sergeant dolan yes yes okay that's a proof ma'am thank you now i'm going to tell you and
2:49everybody else is here for handicap spot we've got two pieces of information for you one is that once the handicap sign is there on very rare occasions you may have a neighbor that has a visitor that's handicapped if they see a sign there they can park in that spot uh the sign the uh the spot isn't like your spot it's available to somebody with a handicap placard so some people that live near
3:14restaurants and stores sometimes uh they'll call the police say somebody's in my spot it's rare especially on a residential area like that but you may have a car as long as they have a placard hanging from their mirror they're able to park in that spot okay okay and she's gonna explain the time frame too now so what happens is this is the first step coming in front of the traffic board having the
3:35application approved by the traffic board members the second step is we're going to go in front of your home do the measurements we then take those measurements and bring it down to city council it's heard at city council then it goes into ordinance committee so it could be anywhere between six to eight weeks due to us being in the winter months if it does snow it kind of holds us back a
3:58little bit but we try to get them up as soon as we can okay thank you okay you're all set man okay we can leave yes thank you guys have a good holidays next is for 442 montauk street right here over here um that driveway is not available to you no is it the landlord's driveway yes because there's no letter from the landlord in this request the only building actually the next door
4:34yeah usually the landlord supplies us with a letter saying that they don't allow the tenant department the right way
4:52actually i will make a motion that we approve this request for 442 month topping somebody like the second thing well second bit what was the faris seconds it anyone opposed to the handicapped space at 442 montauk i'm secretary can you will call please natalie mello yes sergeant dolan yes and tom yes okay sir your spot's been approved thank you so much you're welcome sir next application is for 1325 locust street
5:28one three two five locust okay the party's not present i make a motion that we table this application and then we can second that motion second natalie seconds anyone opposed to tabling uh clerk can you do roll call please admin yes sergeant dolan yes and officer tom yes okay 1325 locust tables next on the agenda is 85 cash street um there's a driveway there but the landlord does not allow tenants to park
6:12in the driveway the applicant has a valid they have a valid um permit i believe they have a driver's permit i'm checking out right now
6:55okay so all the paperwork is over all right no off-street parking available everything's in order i make a recommendation that we approve this request for 85 cash street on the commotion that we approve 85 cash street i don't care in a second that suck it down on safari seconds and anyone opposed to 85 cash i'm secretary clinton you will call please natalie mello yes sergeant dylan yes i'm opposite tom yes
7:26okay 85 cash street is approved you're all set sir thank you youtube i'm guessing you're a 319 belmont street sir uh same as all the other ones there's no wall street parking no not for nothing not for the tenants uh how long have you lived there sir four years four years okay all the paperwork's in order here too i uh make a motion that we approve 319 belmont street anyone cared a second man
8:20natalie mello yes special dolan yes yes okay that's approved sir you're all set thank you very much you're welcome have a nice holiday stay safe as well okay that covers the handicap spaces for everyone here in the audience um next on miscellaneous requests i'm just bringing up a past uh motion that was passed and uh fell through the pranks the cracks uh the request for a stop sign at
8:59kennedy and quincy street was heard and approved but that was during our uh zoo meetings i believe yeah december of 2020 um do we need to reapprove it or just mention it we just need to mention it because there's um the new member that's what allison said from the state books office so now when i bring down this packet the stop sign will go down so that it can be approved and then hopefully in a couple
9:26of i'd say about four four weeks um the stop sign should go out and just because of the ordinance so we get past that in december right so we had it hard i i didn't see it so i never put into it yeah but i don't understand how that no parking went up though don't ask me i must have you know i must have done the gopro not the stop sign
9:49uh just for the record though uh december of 2020 we approved having a stop sign for the uh east and west traffic on canopy street at quincy street so that they would have to stop at quincy street it was passed and also we had um uh passed the uh request for no parking on the west side of uh quincy street between candy and hermit street so now they'll go back into orbits next
10:24i don't have the letter though about the request for a stop sign for eastbound drivers and osborne at second no there's no letter that it was a phone call it was a phone call and i've gotten before because when you go up osborne and you get the second um there's none there there should be a stop sign there that's my opinion and i think it calls for one because second street is your is your
10:52main thorough way would you like to offer something put on that officer ferris i mean honestly it's not a big deal it's uh when you come to a t intersection uh you're inherently responsible to make sure the intersection is clear before you proceed it's you can go left or right there so is it going to hurt anything no the complaint was that he did stop and then when he went to make the right
11:18turn the car was coming up pretty fast that it hit him in the back of you know he says i did stop i looked both ways and then when i made that turn the way the city ordinance is though if you approach that intersection that the gentleman on the driver on um eastbound on osborne street it's as good as having a stop sign if you are approaching that intersection a t intersection
11:43up to the the main thoroughfare being second street the driver on osborne street has to stop and make sure it's safe to go correct i mean we did put no parking hitter corner last year on the other side because cars were apart yeah so we did do that so but i just don't want us to stop putting stop signs at every t intersection because they are not necessary there's an ordinance that
12:03says you have to stop is there something else that we can put up it's about the kind of thing what i'm saying is i if we have a spare stop sign and we can do it right that's right like you said then before you know everybody's going to be putting stops yeah i mean the motorists have to stop is there right when when when the state did north main
12:21um they put a stop sign in every single i mean and you're right i mean it is in ordinance that when you come to a team especially if it's the the street that is the side street right you have to because even without a stop sign you don't stop you're going to get sighted you're the one that's going to get sideways you have to stop so i remember seeing signs that have the
12:44cross or warnings that's just that's right yeah that's just telling me it's right so that way you'll know whose fault it is or an accident happens that it put in this knife you know what i'm saying just the thought um so yeah i mean i can look at something if you have spare stop signs i just don't want us to be in the habit of starting to put stop signs at everything oh because they'll be interesting
13:06correct when there's an ordinance that already covers the fact they have to stop very good so i don't know does that have to even be a motion for me to put the stop sign and to go into ordinance yes because it has to um go into ordinance so that if someone gets pulled over that didn't stop the stop sign they can't argue the fact i don't wanna i don't then let me look for
13:30something else like natalie said let me look for something that i can put there yeah or just i mean there's so many one that there's a building in front of them okay okay uh the next item on the agenda is the 2022 calendar year dates for the traffic board meetings we've got it in our packets i make a motion that we approve these dates for 2022 i mean if something comes up
14:05down the road we're all flexible enough that we can change them if need be the other thing that this is important so now that once traffic board has approved it we send it down to city clerk's office and they log in all the dates for this room so that way we have first bids to this room with all these dates on it because that's what other uh committees do as well so that's why
14:26it's important very well so i make a motion that we approve the uh 2022 traffic board commission meeting base anyone can second that natalie seconds it anyone opposed to it clerk can you do roll call please natalie mello yes sergeant dolan yes and opposite tom ferris yes okay that's approved we have no handicap spaces to be rescinded for this month are there any other items that we need to discuss anything going
15:08on we talked about that those signs are being installed right now i just saw one went up today on eastern avenue i don't know i didn't drive on northeastern avenue but they're going up right now all those radar speed limit signs what's the speed limit that they're going to use there on northeastern avenue uh 40.
15:34there's one on bedford street too yeah near 4th street that just went up that must have gone up today or yesterday no it was up last week already really i swear it was next i believe you guys didn't see it uh those feeding words really yeah there were about 28 of them going up or altogether they will be 28.
15:54only because somebody asked me the other day so that's why i'm bringing it up okay did i make a motion that we adjourned this meeting anyone cared a second though second anyone opposed to adjournment of this meeting madam clerk can you do roll paul please natalie mello yes charging dolan yes yes okay this meeting is adjourned