The Fall River Community Preservation Committee convened on Monday, February 13, 2023, at 6:03 PM. The committee unanimously approved the minutes from its January 30th meeting. During the funding hearing, Chris Perino, Assistant Planner, presented a request for $110,000 for the North Burial Ground Gate Masonry Peer Restoration, a project to fix vehicular and pedestrian pillars and ironwork, following a previously funded Gatehouse restoration. Perino was asked to provide a letter of support from the Historical Commission and clarify the status of $57,000 in previously allocated funds for the project. Two projects from the Fall River School Department—a $60,000 request for railing restoration on the Admin Building's west side patio and a $260,000 request for window replacements—were tabled unanimously due to the absence of a school department representative. Paul Ferlin, Administrator of Community Utilities, and Michael Bossier, Reservation Forester, presented two requests: $82,500 for a study of the North Watuppa Pond Seawalls, emphasizing its critical role in water supply protection and historical preservation, and $141,329 for the Watuppa Farm Bio Reserve Discovery Center Acquisition. The latter is part of a larger $415,658 project, leveraging significant state and ARPA funds, to acquire a 9.2-acre property for an environmental education center. Under new business, the committee discussed project extensions for several ongoing initiatives, including the Kennedy Overlook and the Lafayette Durfee House. Committee member Richard Calderon proposed setting a regular monthly meeting schedule for better planning, suggested involving more board members in CPC promotional videos, and highlighted the need to update the city's website with current agendas and meeting minutes. The meeting concluded with a unanimous vote to adjourn.
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uh welcome to the forward Community preservation committee meeting at uh city council hearing room one government center Fall River Mass the meeting of accessible vigils through uh cable TV channel 18. uh former government television Facebook live streaming um today is Monday February 13 2023 603 um pursuant to the open meeting laws any person may make an audio or video recording of these public meetings or
0:33may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are there for advise that such recordings or Transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and deemed knowledge and permissible we'll start with roll call we'll start with uh Zoom Caroline you want to lead us off uh
1:01Joanne just say your name sorry Joanne Bentley Kristen Cantera Oliveira Alexander Silva City Council appointee uh John Brandt conservation Richard Calderon Mancini historic commission yeah and we also have tonight Sandy Dennis is our Administrative Assistant from the FRG TV side we have Craig we are missing uh Vic Ferreira tonight and we're missing a member from planning department um any citizen input
1:40we have no citizen input uh can I have a motion for approval of the minutes from January 30th I'll make a motion to approve the minutes of January 30th I'll second Motion in a second uh we'll start with Caroline roll call vote yeah Joanne I think maybe maybe I was Kristen Cantara oliverius John Brandt yes Alexander Silva yes oh thank you Richard Calderon Yes Rick Mancini yes okay uh tonight is our funding hearing
2:23most of you guys out there have been here before so what we'll do is we'll call you this mainly for like some of our new members here uh we'll call the applicant up and they'll tell us about their project so tonight we're going to be asking questions um that are on the application the application should have everything that we request but this is a good time to ask questions uh about the bids what's
2:49going to be if when we get the grading part one two and three or if you don't want to fund it at all how it would fall in your spectrum of voting then this is a good time to put something in like when we get ready for our Grant application what uh say it's a roof start writing down what you want to put in the applications that we're going to
3:13pay for covered under the grant so just some things you can look at take notes um first on the list is the north burial ground uh gate masonry uh peer restoration they're looking for 93. uh Chris you want to come up
3:43good evening good evening speak your name and I'm Chris Perino I'm assistant planner presenting on behalf of the north burial ground gate and masonry repair project proposal in the application our CPA funding request is actually a hundred and ten thousand this is a continuation of the project that was funded through this committee originally to fix the Gatehouse itself this would be to fix the vehicular and
4:12pedestrian the pillars and ironwork I'm not sure this is my first time presenting in front of this board so I'm not sure if you want me to go through all of this information or if you have specific questions um just give a brief overlay of uh the the Gatehouse now is finished that's right so just in the public just go over in the application packet at the very end you'll see pictures of what the
4:39Gatehouse looked like before uh CPC funded the restoration what it looked like afterwards um so we hired uh civitec to oversee the project and they brought on a masonry and Restoration company on the city's behalf to do the work so the building was completely cleaned and repointed to the specifications of historic restoration they redid the window sashes put in new glass for the windows
5:11took out one of those columns there the small Brownstone columns so that way they could cast a new one to replace one that was missing replace the gutters and downspouts as well as made some slate repairs to the roof so all in all the building I think came out very well part of that original project was to start working on the vehicular pillars and pedestrian gate pillars but the funding was not sufficient to cover
5:44those costs that were originally anticipated when they started looking at them the iron work was in a significantly worse condition and originally thought so we're before you to ask for additional funding to finish off this project so that way we'll have the Gatehouse and the gates fixed on North Main Street yeah the Gatehouse turned off really nice they did a nice job I mean it looks
6:14like it built back then you know yes uh are they using that for anything right now we're not using it for anything the inside hasn't been updated it has certainly improved the aesthetic of the cemetery yeah we've seen a decrease in vandalism since we've done that work yeah so it's been very helpful this project will only help further that because we'll actually have Gates that we can shut and control access so
6:42we're hopeful that we can secure funding for it okay um I don't have any questions uh Caroline do you have any questions you'd like to ask I do not at this time okay uh we'll just work our way down the board if we have any uh questions um so it it is falling under the category of historic preservation so did you get a letter of support from the historical Commission because that's one
7:15of the requirements anything under historic preservation is supposed to have a letter of support for them because I don't see it in the packet I just don't know if we have everything I think there was one for the original application we have one from the board of Park Commissioners and a letter from the architect but I don't think we have one for the updated application
7:45we can always add them yeah it was on the last one so it was nice the gate so I was booking so was it the the original project I thought didn't have the gate I thought it was just for the house so this is a separate this is a separate project so it wouldn't be the same wording it's a different it is all together I mean I understand it's a continuation of the cemetery but it's a
8:15different project I think the first one was finished just fear I didn't opposed me the method of the historic commission and you would have time to call and get on the agenda so I would recommend that you call Jason or something you know I'll do that tomorrow morning sure in case anybody looks um Alex um uh yeah I was just wondering so I'm actually really glad to hear that that the past project for the Gatehouse has
8:48led to a decrease in vandalism I think that's really good for everyone to hear that uh things of rehab projects do have a benefit to the community just kind of visually I was wondering uh if there were any plans or anything for the rest of the perimeter offense I know in some locations it might not quite be secure and a lot of the reasoning cited with this project has been to secure the
9:10cemetery in the entrance so I was just wondering if there are any plans for the rest of the fence or anything like that so most of the fences intact there is a section of it that was damaged by a Fallen Tree recently on the Brightman Street side of the cemetery and the staff is looking at fixing that internally putting back it's a chain link fence right now we don't have any formal plans to do anything
9:33that would be probably more historically appropriate there have been um so that would be the main point that would need to be fixed but we are looking at that we need to clean out the uh the holes that were already there for the chain link fence so put it back up because yeah that cemetery is on the national cemeteries list so funding for it would be as you walk through there
10:00and you just see the gravestones that are knocked over but they're so old and you're just the history just comes back and it seems like we should take a little better care of our past history and right so um myself and another member of our staff went to uh a training held at Forest Hills uh to do Monument restoration um so we we've done that training we've read the preservation guidelines that
10:26DCR put out for for historic uh historic municipally run cemeteries so we have been working internally to do some of the minor repairs that we can handle in-house and with the funding we have available typically headstones are personal property of you know the families that purchased the grave so it doesn't qualify as a Perpetual care expense so we do have to look for other funding mechanisms to do that type of
10:53work but we are addressing those issues we are I'm in the process of putting in an application to DCR for some tree planting and we would Target North burial ground to remove some of the dead and decaying trees and have them replaced to further enhance the look of that Cemetery at this point so this would finish off the the Gatehouse the the front gate so the entrance to the uh burial grounds would be
11:22finished correct okay all right Richard yeah I just have just a quick question so you're requesting a hundred and ten thousand from the CPC and then other funds fifty seven thousand what's the 57 000. so it's my understanding that there has already been an award from this committee to do some cross work I'm not sure if we can is it leftover funds from past projects I mean yeah because we really can't uh transfer it
11:52unless it's part of the gate house connected I mean if it's separate from not connecting you know what I'm saying right again my understanding of when I picked this up from another department and trying to gather as much information as I could my understanding is that the one of the projects that was in front of this board was for the gate house and some of the gate work not just the gate
12:18house when they went to do that gate work there were significantly more problems with the gate than them was originally anticipated so one of the structures was struck by a vehicle and we knew that had to be completely rebuilt the other one that's actually closer to the Gatehouse itself wasn't but the uh the condition of that pillar requires us to take it down to the ground um and and reassemble it
12:49and then redo the Iron Work of the hinges and the actual Gates itself so the 57 000 is from another approved CPC project correct okay so 57.
13:08if you were maybe reaching out to Sandy you could find out exactly where that your marker funds are from if it's from a pass Grant from us we may need to do a vote actually to make it eligible for this increased scope um wasn't that one of the very first my first year was one of them I thought the gate was included that's good no no I mean North Barrel ground
13:39was one of the original I thought years and years ago oh Grove was the first one I thought North burial ground was actually on there before I was even on here do you have that you should have that documentation Chris and if it's over two years we have uh it wasn't always we can look I mean it has a North Bureau Brown exterior repairs to Gatehouse but there could be more to that we can
14:09look that up again just before deliberations yeah so if if it's not in there you would want to add another 57 to your total yeah if it's not there yes okay because we just can't like transfer yeah I'll check with Sandy but like I said the information I was given was that the original project was the gate and part of the the Gatehouse and part of the gate yeah it might I'm just
14:43looking here this is what we get from uh I think the original award was for the gate house and then the if you're looking at the cemetery for Main Street the left-hand pillar was hit by a vehicle and it was always the intention to repair that that pillar and then reattach the gates yeah so we brought the gates over the cemetery they try to you know rough it in on the
15:09existing pillar to the right nearest the Gatehouse and at that point it was made we were made aware that the the hinge work in the pillar itself was not going to be sufficient to put the gates back on they wanted to repair them and then if they were doing that taking those hinges out take the pillar all the way down Mark the stones you know which where they were in in the sequence what side was
15:35facing out and then rebuild it completely so that way it's it's done the right way the first time I think it was included but I mean that was an fy16 project so I'm not quite sure off the top of my head if I have a question on on project discriminate it has I'm I just want to see if it's talking about the same thing and saying funding for the restoration of the existing iron vehicular Gates was
16:00received as part of the CPA FY 22 award is that what the 50s or is this a different award there well this they didn't start the project I kept getting put behind put behind and then uh Chris uh got the project rolling so it took it's easy five years to get this project going so it's easy to figure out and if if it's old enough the funds might have already lapsed back into the account so
16:30it would be back into the available pool of money so if you change the grant amount it was yeah so we'll just double check that to make sure yeah it's just it's a technicality of where like putting it on the thing so yeah so I think it is but like I say it's a since your project seven years now so yeah we'll make sure alrighty uh where did you were you all set Richard
16:59yeah no I mean I think to sum it up and my colleagues would correct me wrong if you can just get us that if you can provide the boy that information I think he'll be helpful before deliberation so that way to Mr Silver's point you know I think we have to take a vote on it to add the additional 57 000 and sure collapse yeah yeah whatever Direction but at least
17:21they'll be the back of it absolutely thank you so much thank you nope nope all the uh questions have been answered and now it's in the balls in your court get that data from you guys thanks Chris thank you thank you Chris okay so just forward that from the historic commission to Sandy and show pass it on to us okay thank you next uh uh forward uh School ad building uh railing on Patio West Side of
17:55building main entrance restoration uh they're looking for sixty thousand located on Rock Street is anyone here from the uh school department I think we have a school school committee meeting tonight um invite them to the next meeting after the or before the private projects yeah we can do that uh I mean I don't know if we have more questions but yeah I'm not sure if the board has any questions on
18:36it so uh what we'll do is we'll uh can I have a motion to table this to the uh what's the next one February 25th I'll make a motion to table it to the next uh CPC meeting so that they have a chance to be here okay uh why don't we take uh two at one time in the morning because they're next they pull over uh window replacements for 260 000 that's located
19:01on Rock Street two so can I have a motion to take these two uh projects and uh put them on the agenda for February to uh table both of these projects which are the um for the Fall River Public Schools the window replacement project the side side patio railing and Main front entrance project to our next scheduled meeting after this one in February to give them a chance to attend
19:32well second nick uh roll call vote it'll start with Caroline yes yes uh Kristen yes Alex Silva yes job right yes I'm gonna take Calderon Yes Rick Mancini yes okay now that brings us to uh the Northwood Tupper Pond sea walls uh they're looking for 82 500. uh Mr Ferlin lunch
20:22thank you very much to just make sure you introduce yourselves for the public Paul Ferlin the administrator of community utilities city of Fall River Michael Bossier reservation Forester and project manager of City Fall River excellent thank you very much for hearing us tonight uh the first project that we have in front of you is for the north what's up upon sea walls as some of you may know there are
20:53historic sea walls that bought in the north for top of pond they do not only a very nice job framing some of the areas of the north potapod they also act to help protect the Northwoods up upon drinking water supply from erosion and uh wave damage that may affect the shawl line uh some of these uh walls over the years have uh have uh seen better days what we'd really like to do is do a full
21:25evaluation of all the walls around the pond identify all the areas where the walls are located and then be able to uh come up with a plan to hopefully restore the walls as time comes on and funding becomes available so that's the uh that's the proposal that's uh that's provided in front of you I'll turn it over to Mike for a little bit more history and yeah so um as
21:52um as you look at the walls you realize they're made out of native granite and they sort of architecturally connect to some of the other architecture related to the 1873 pump house and um and some and the standpipe uh you know quarried native Granite um The Olmsted uh fairclo olmsted's um firm I did have a look at them in the 1890s and some of the photographs that were provided actually came from their the
22:24historic place in uh near Boston and um so they are you know I won't duplicate what Paul said um you know they they have artistic uh you know genuine artistic value but more importantly they're protecting the water supply they protect the shoreline from erosion and um after uh over a hundred years uh they're being undermined by you know the wave action and wind action and we want to really
22:56take a really solid look at them to be able to understand what's going to be required to fortify them in in speaking to um some uh you know engineers and others in this field this is a really good time to find funding to do some of this work but you got to start with an understanding of what what needs to be done and so that's that's the importance of this study
23:21um I I have letter it came in kind of late but I have a letter of support from the board of a historical commission I if you don't mind I could sure bring It Forward
23:39Sandy so some of the areas where you can see those where you can see these walls uh if you're not familiar with them uh the causeway at the very North uh area of the pond that crosses the pond and brings you into the reservation uh into login so it was originally a New Boston Road that led out to interlagen Island uh Peninsula down by the 1873 Waterworks complex so all around the front side of
24:11that building next to our old original Water Treatment Plant also on the Narrows quad way so on the side of 195.
24:18they can also be seen there foreign just to let the committee know that uh working with the water department the state level they consider our our water department down here one of the best Partners working with because their applications are always kind of on point so they always do present a good project uh this has been before us before we're not you know not big on plans and studies because they end up on a Shelf
24:54but we do sometimes look at them as now say we fund this study uh the next step for you would be to seek funding this would help you get money from the federal government in the state yeah so so essentially a project like this you know we can put our best uh estimate forward if we were trying to seek funds to do the construction but that that you know and you've seen this
25:21with other projects where projects have to come back and ask for additional funding or there's leftover funding this would be able to give us more of a target of exactly where we where we want to what we need for funding it'll give us a sense of different agencies that we could reach out to for that type of funding we're familiar with a lot of them but there may be something uh you
25:43know Olmstead has been brought up many times if there is a direct relation with these walls uh Olmsted could be a resource to be able to reach out to um so I think that's one thing that would uh that that this study would help us do and I definitely agree with to your thought process of studies that just get done and sit on a shelf you know again this is a drinking water
26:08supply so this is kind of a two-pronged approach uh it will help with the historical value but then restoration of these will also help with protection of our water supply so it's not going to be a study that just sits on the Shelf um you know there's multiple other places that we will reach out for the funding for construction probably be a lot of small little projects you know as
26:30funding becomes available but this is kind of the first step for us to be able to move forward to see how that could be broken up I know with the quicker shanrail Trail uh this if we didn't do the study they wouldn't been able to get Federal money correct so it was a good study for us because we got the money to do the equipment fan rail trail which is about to get
26:51finished so yep sometimes it does end up being good what do you what kind of estimate do you think the project would cost for restoration of all the walls I haven't even put uh put a put a number on that um yeah and I don't have a number either but I you know one of the one of the aspects of getting the study done it really is to prioritize this there's five different this you know there's
27:19several discrete wall sections some are in better condition than those and part of that relates to where it is on the pond relative to you know the predominant winds and you know how the waves work so um prioritizing kind of triaging you know how it how it um how it should unroll and then you as you know I mean we really try to leverage funds we we you know we because
27:46a lot of these projects are costly um but certainly once triaged and once um we've got a sense for you know what what a construction project will look like and where it will be you know there may be elements that our own staff can sort of work on especially some of this is very complex and specialized but maybe getting access to these sites for example might be something that we can contribute as a
28:09kind of a cost share kind service so um but without any place to start we we would be foolish to just start willy-nilly we want to do it in an orderly fashion I know you guys are very active at getting extra grant money so I mean being that this is uh there's Opera money available does that factor in seeing that this is potable water supply for the city along with the historic wall
28:39but they're in conjunction with one another would upper money apply here and you know uh from my standpoint of I believe Opera money would because it would be protection of the drinking water supply uh all srf fundable projects um in relation to either drinking water sewer or storm water are eligible so I feel it if a construction project was able to come forward out of this it would be eligible
29:07is there any way that you could maybe I don't know verify that there would be some monies put aside for that so that we know we go out with this study that there's money out there already allocated yeah if uh if this commission would like uh you know I don't know what the time frame uh would be to get approval for uh some set-aside funds through the Opera I would have to
29:33be a proposal that we would have to make to the Opera committee uh and then they would have to essentially take a uh take a vote to see whether they wanted to move forward um but you know what we're more than willing to do that I just don't know what the timeline would be with uh you know approval this or would that not be a good idea to do and to get some solid
29:54money backing a prior to starting any work you do want to get the commitment so if you were to get the commitment now that would greatly enhance this committee to this commission to go out and get you the funding for the study that'd be great but then we'd also have the is that there is a commitment made by the city to fund the project or a good portion of the project yeah
30:19definitely I would put uh we'll put together a proposal and submit it to the Opera committee so I got a couple questions so uh so to Mr messini's um we've seen in regards to the Apple funds obviously I mean I know there's a there's a Opera committee and I know in a lot of cities Opera funds are being used in the water department because of a lot of cities the pumping stations
30:47you know the water treatment plants they're all out of date and they need you know uh replacement bad um and I'm and I do understand there is a process to get commitment to have these funds available it's it's something that you know to your point it there's a time frame but I I I do agree with my colleague I'm not sure what the committee how how long it would take you know to kind of put
31:15that on the right I know this restricted and is unrestricted I know certain things can be shifted because that happens in the municipal side um you know but I I mean I I'm definitely for the project but I would definitely would love to see that a commitment from on the city with the Opera funds you know for this type of project I know you you don't know what the cost is going to be until we go
31:38through this study so you have we have to go through the study and nobody to figure out okay is this going to be 200 000 or is it going to be 1.2 or is it going to be two point nobody knows we don't know you know and with inflation doesn't help out even it's even worse yeah you know uh but I'm in agreement with Mr Mr messini um as far as soon if
32:00if your gentleman can put something in place and um see if they can take a vote on it that that would be very very helpful yeah no definitely you know with the alpha fund that the city has been generous to the water department we gotta do a main replacement in other projects right this is one of the projects uh I'll put together a proposal for them and see whether the
32:21there are two parts of funding there is a Bristol County off of funds the city has right in the city's Opera funds right so uh we'll definitely put it into both of them and see uh see whether we can get some funding through the office right because this will tackle the two-phase approach to you to your point we will we'll we'll committee will pay the the study and then the Opera whether
32:44it's even if it's not the Full Construction of all of them at least we'll be able to get something right sure do you know off the top of your head how much money you've got from Oppa for the water department uh so the uh water department we are slated I would have to say right now between water and stool we're probably in the 20 million dollar range yeah very generous
33:09very generous but it costs a lot I respect the first game out and the city got 69 million dollars and um I had enough projects lined up to spend the stuff in day one so you know right to to your point I I know I mean it's it sounds like a lot of money but and it it's a lot of money to fix it it's an example these pumping stations I
33:30mean I don't need to appreciate it but you you know they it's not cheap so that's I'm sure you can eat up the whole yes
33:46um so this is the third time I think that you guys have presented this project to the committee uh I was just wondering if in your own words you could tell us maybe how necessary you think this this in like an urgency so I'll just I'll offer my two cents I'm out there every day obviously you know working on the reservoir uh working at the reservation on Forest lands but and you know some of the storms
34:16we've had recently especially the wind storm that drive that drive the um the wave action um it's it's almost at this point there's a there's a sort of an incremental um not even incremental exponential I think is the word I mean to say uh you know the stones are visibly being dislodged from the walls in certain places and I mean the good news is the stones aren't going anywhere they they're not falling
34:46you know they fall gravity just sends them at the base um but it's going to be very tricky uh to put them back and and the more that happens the more that's happening so um I think I I I don't foresee I think we're getting to a critical point you know from just daily observation some areas are really at a critical point some areas are not impacted and that's
35:09why it's going to be useful to do the study I think there's there's almost a mile of linear wall scattered over four or five different locations and some areas are not on our problems and some areas have some one of the things the study is going to yield is more architectural information every now and then I see a new thing I didn't see before there's some steps cut in some areas from some past use and different
35:31um sort of one thing about the the the architectural style that was done they're not just like Square you know building blocks like Legos I mean there's some there's some Nuance to the archaeologists to the uh to the archaeological um whether it be kind of capping or the way that they might have uh um you know ended the walls and I think it'd be really nice to use this opportunity to
35:56document all that because I think it's important you know some of these buildings some of the buildings that they match on the historical register and it would be nice to have the whole thing cataloged understood so we can care for them properly okay and my last question uh would be barring like arpa funds which is a good idea uh how would the department fund a study like this uh
36:18without or if you have to affecting the rate payers like is there any way for the Department to do this study in a way that doesn't affect the rate payers of the city or is it something that would no show all of our funds uh our whole entire budget is fully supported by rate payers in both Water and Sewer uh we do not get any funding from taxation or any other uh
36:41any other means from the city so I hope we're either grants or or rates is it the Enterprise one yeah no Yep this is under the waterfronto Chris um I just I I hadn't even thought about until Mr lavasia said um the Olmstead foundation and the possibility of that because I'm I'm pretty sure that there is at least one section that was designed by the Olmstead firm that's like one
37:15because I I have a picture of it somewhere and I'm almost positive that like at least one little section was designed it was almost like a little Park area where the wall is yeah I don't know if I put that picture on the cover of this application there was something that looks like what you're describing and and it looks better in color I'm afraid I keep a bunch of black and white coffees
37:41um it kind of looked like a postcard that might have been from the 1920s um yeah there was one area and I have a picture of it it's on my my computer at home um and I'm pretty certain that it was and almost that design so if if that's the case then I would well so it said get some it's hard to know because Brookline is where the with the Olmsted Park is Homestead
38:09historical site and um you know so there are records that um some photographs that were taken by them but but I have yet to see sort of a plan or a recognition in their archives that said we did you know we we designed this I mean you know North Park South Park all those other places that have been you know that are that are well known in the city
38:33um all I know is that they in in the 1890s 96 or so they Charles Elliott and olmsted's son I think visited they physically came out there's correspondence between the city and the firm maybe five five or six letters went back and forth some just they they had some discussion about um you know potentially sort of doing that Park Treatment out on the reservation that never happened and I
38:56never saw any uh any allusion to any other work they were doing but I did but I do see that they took photographs of the wall so I'll see I'm gonna look through my stuff and see because I thought there was more to it than just that so I'm gonna look and see if I can find it out yeah ever found it yeah join any questions yep I just have a
39:21couple of questions so the The Firm are you gonna go out for bid just for a selection of a firm yeah so we'll do it our RFQ RFP process to uh RFQ process in this case for impairment and then is your expectation that the company will end up documenting everything it's telling you areas that need repair in suggest how to repair it or just tell you what's wrong you know overall that would
39:53be part of the estimate they would have to you know assume a necessary pay for for a typical section so I would imagine that we would get high level you know hey this area needs to be taken apart and totally repo back together this area could be repointed this area needs to have XYZ reset and redone you know not going into a full plan design and uh specifications of of you know
40:23reconstruction but at least given a overview of treatments to the different areas so would you uh go out for further uh clarification on how to repair certain areas yeah so we would to be able to go out for a Full Construction bid package we would have to you know as I said I don't think we'll be taking and doing all the walls in one you know Lodge construction bid we would probably break it up into
40:54smaller sections depending on the area or the treatment um because different firms construction firms may be uh able to do some stuff but not other stuff so then we'd have to come up with smaller bid packages to go out so this will give you like a 30 000 foot view of here's the whole area he has documentation here's what's wrong here's what's yeah but then you'll go out from more engineering yep
41:23so I think to someone else must have fallen so basically this will be a feasibility study in the visibility study he'll give you a blueprint that's exactly um what's going on and what needs to happen and then the city at that same point in time can break it out of phases depending upon how much the construction is depending upon the type of construction then they'll be different bid packages because they'll be in a
41:49face approach right yeah that's my overall plan okay I just think um if you would there were two phrases in here that that um kind of address that one is that they're going to prepare a scope of work for for further investigation and recommended repairs but the second one which is which which kind of struck me prepare a preliminary order of magnitude opinion of probable construction costs
42:15for the scope of the work so that while that doesn't that doesn't nail cost um I I you know the engineering approach of order of magnitude I think that's that's what I'm I'm personally interested in sorting out there are some things that like I was I was mentioning um in terms of prioritizing is this prioritizing like what things are urgently needed before like more loss happens um and and being able to do that with
42:48comprehensively you know I the areas I can see aren't all the areas that there are I have there are areas I can't see so you know I'm so I'm kind of assuming they'll what they what they don't do by you know on the ground maybe they do with drone or maybe they do from a watercraft but there's a there's a um there's a level of thoroughness that we can't do and we don't have the expertise
43:10or necessarily the means I have another question too um so with the feasibility study um yeah they're not they're going to oversee the projects so let's say if the city does let's say a full face approach um are they going to oversee kind of all the construction projects or with the city at that point in time probably higher um after the study the men you know Engineers to kind of do
43:42up all the plans after the study and the drawings and specifications and then they that's the point in time then you guys can then go on the construction part of it because I know usually my understanding is this there's a visibility study and then kind of once everything is laid out then it's like okay this is what needs to happen um I mean I don't think at that same point in time there will be any
44:04drawings because it's it's a study correct yeah there won't be any you know specifications for particularly yeah we will need to further you know again come up with those smaller contracts say all right we we know that we want to do this area first it's it's the worst area we want to put together a contract of uh you know x amount of dollars because that's the funding that we're looking at
44:29being able to get or however it works uh and then we'll go out for specific plans and specifications in relation to that contract so the RFQ process uh will probably have the availability to use the whoever does the uh you know the original plan or potentially we could go up RFQ for a new uh firm uh but they they would come in they would do full plans and specifications for that one particular project uh they would
44:58typically on our project to assist us through the bidding process to procure a contractor and then we have another either the affirm or somebody uh overseeing the construction during the project Caroline do you have any questions uh I I do not oh no further questions we'll move on to the next one no I'm just the only thing that's good to me as you were speaking is that the critical nature of the wall
45:30at this point is Mike so elegantly described so if we have a difficult winter say two or three really ice-bound Winters that criticalness could become a major concern it could then dislodge all these loose Stones you're talking about so it I guess looking at this assessment you're probably going to have to act rather quickly and that's something that always troubles me sitting with doing
46:01these projects as small bits and pieces is maybe a detriment to the overall project it could greatly enhance the cost you know and with the study I guess I'm leading back because our purpose tonight is with the study but we would we grant funding for the study you do the study the study is 2023.
46:26the walls not repaired or certain sections they're not repaired for three four five years that study is obsolete you know so it almost at the stage it Mike just described it it needs to be resolved quickly yeah I wouldn't say that a study would be obsolete again you know it's tough we need to figure out uh order of magnitude at this point are we talking two hundred thousand dollars are we talking two
46:56million dollars you know and that's something that um you know this type of wall construction isn't by Forte you know I can be pretty good with pump stations or water mains giving estimates on on that type of work this is a little bit outside of my wheelhouse a little bit outside of Mike's wheelhouse to be able to uh come up with those types of uh those types of estimates you know again and that's one
47:22thing that this study will help us do is hit those areas that are at the Tipping Point where you know we know that we have to address this area first in this area first it might be an opposite ends of the pond but those are the two worst areas that we need to get you know whatever funding grant funding we get we need to get into those first you know
47:42that's one of the reasons that we really really want to do this so okay alrighty maybe for the point I'm fine thank you can I just say one thing so I know we keep we keep calling this a study and I suppose technically it's a study medicine's assessment right I think we need to like realize that sometimes you have a study where somebody wants to find out you know what
48:08the feasibility is of you know how many people this might affect or this and then you have an existing conditions report or study which is you're actually studying the existing conditions for a purpose to act on like there's there's different kinds of studies and I think that we really should focus on the fact that even though it's technically it's a study it's in existing conditions report
48:31so you're actually analyzing what you already have and you're documenting what's already there so that you can act okay so it's it's a study but it's it's a lot more than just a regular study yeah it's just the terminology and Municipal world is feasibility study but and to your point it it does you know it can outline all kinds of different things but it will be recorded that's the reason for it to study
48:58um my take on it I think these gentlemen are raising the right flag now they're saying we do we need to do this study to figure out kind of where we at I mean we're Defcon five or a one right you know and then you know the second component to it is how much does it cost you know so like I say it has been before a few years but this year we don't have
49:24a lot of applications so it does look like it's something that might be needed so we'll take a look at it and it might be a year where I mean it does need to be something needs to be done so yeah no it you know you mentioned yeah we have put it in for a number of years because we feel that it again we feel that it's something
49:46that needs to be done as well so we can fold all right we'll move on to the next one is the onorandak Farm Bio Reserve Discovery Center uh acquisition uh projects 415 658 from Blossom Road but you you have already got some funds for this one because you're looking for 141 from us correct 141 329 so you already got 267 so that's that's good right so we qualified for a state land grant um and why
50:26I know we've presented the project before maybe we should just talk to the beginning um so um this is a when the when the buyer Reserve was created 20 years ago it was envisioned there would be a Environmental Education Discovery Center and the purpose of that is because after 100 Years of prohibiting use in the what type of reservation we had a community with several Generations never really
50:53exposed to the what's upper reservation exposed to the uh to the forest land and all those values out there what type of reservation is now open to the public has been for 20 years and what we need is a way is a place where people can come land understand you you get information on what what is the resource how can the resource be used there's a lot of recreational opportunities the resource is also part
51:22of our green infrastructure which which protects our water supply and purifies it um there's a lot of uh very interesting history out there there's tremendous wildlife habitat out there so this will be a center that whether school children adults can go and sort of get oriented and learn a lot more about it hopefully we'll be better equipped to enjoy it and we'll be we'll have a mind to help
51:50protect it so we've identified a property and um we we brought the big map and I also have some video of the property from shot from a drone by Diamond so I'd be happy to at the right times just give you a little glimpse of it you know it doesn't it doesn't substitute for a field visit but it's a it's an interesting view of it yeah so this is a overview map of the
52:14property uh this is Blossom Road down over here all over the Westport line right down in this area so this whole entire property here uh the front has a house and an existing bond what we're asking for the uh CPC funding for is uh to be able to use as a match for the uh Seven Acres of the of the rail of the property there's a total of 9.2 Acres or
52:46so if there are votes of the whole entire property uh we'd be asking for CPC to match to purchase this back cap we do have multiple funding sources our original ask when we put together the uh what we put together the proposal to CPC was more than what we're currently asking for we have have we do have a number of different funding sources that is involved with this project
53:12so we have uh the land grant which is uh part of that uh seven acres in the back uh we'll be purchasing that we have uh arpa funds that will be going towards the purchase through the Bristol County and we also have a uh State earmark in the amount of 150 000 that came through from the economic development Bill uh amrock through the state uh in our state legislators were great with assisting Us
53:50in getting that earmark for the actual construction we also have Opera funds that we're planning on using for renovation and repurposing of the uh of the structures that are on the site great so so obviously who see the video yeah so I've got three different clips um this first one and again I'll think um um Paul Bodine and um and the student whose name is escaping me but from Diamond they shot they shot a video two
54:23years ago we this project of course was was not ready for prime time but we presented it a couple years ago they shot a great video who knows what happened to that video I'm gonna interrupt my apologies can the public see that too oh I I think we don't have a camera going oh okay well I think he's picking it up right through the laptop oh it's being recorded thank you great
54:48so um so the first shot you saw was the drone at street level um uh The Farmhouse at you know the the uh the curb view of The Farmhouse and the barn and then it kind of went down to uh along the fields um if I can grab another one the second shot the second one you will see is a shot of the agricultural land and this is not now you're at um you're on the
55:21Farm Lane which kind of uh goes from the front of the uh the front of the property down to the pond the this consists of it's seven acres of agricultural land and it's actually divided up very neatly into Seven Fields it includes a historic Cemetery oh and by the way while you're looking at that um this is the um I do have a letter of support from the new letter of support from the
55:52there's also a couple of support letters that came in late from our fire reserve partner and from Mass Audubon um expressed an interest in partnering with us to do educational programming so I apologize it's not he's late but they kind of came in late thank you sir thank you now in the agricultural land are you gonna keep it that way like say Bristol Aggie are they going to come and
56:20use it yeah so we kind of talked to a couple of different partners already um to see uh we've gotten some interest as we move further on the project we'll see how it fans out but some of them that we've talked to is diamond with a farm to table type program being able to use the site BCC uh the sustainability program Bristol Aggie is another one that that will be reaching out to to see
56:48whether the interest in partnering with us so the the grant it's a land grant and although we're buying land land actually stands for land acquisition and natural diversity so the the main thing is this is It's conservation land whether it remains Farm whether we uh you know uh uh you know whether it's productive Farm whether it's a Hayfield whether it's truck crops whether it's um or whether it just becomes habitat
57:20land um the idea is it's conservation land it's protecting the water supply um it happens to be really good Prime Farmland um we the state the state has does these soil overlays and you know that's that didn't hurt our application at all they really like that we got 70 and so what we've done is we've um we've we've um we've isolated the Farmland portion for this grant so that we could specifically
57:51maximize our you know leveraging power from the state and that's why we get so much from the state because they saw the value of that um of the of the Landis conservation land um the last the last um uh see what's going to happen with the cemetery so we had a private firm Public public archaeological lab um just did a study they did it for me and they submitted it to mass historical
58:28um what's good the idea is to just preserve it and it's in its state We're Not Gonna do anything with it other than perhaps maintain it I think that's that would be ideal they've identified 16 different burials there which was a surprise there's three with really nice readable headstones and there's 13 that have hidden footstones but they're primitive Stone they don't really have any
58:55because I know I'm on Blossom Road on the left before you get to Adirondack Farms there's like yeah so it's not that one can you see those can you see the stones yeah oh wow so they're really almost water views various and they're surrounded by a stone wall and the owners and you know the owners previous owners lived there for 40 years and they really took care of it and part of what
59:20is nice about this project and we looked at 15 different sites um but part of what's nice about this project is these owners had an Impulse to do education and they they had a Petting Farm there which is a really odd thing I went to it I took my nieces and nephew there when they were little it was a great place yeah and and so in a way
59:42um and I'm not going to go to the last video because it's similar to this the last video just shows more of the pond but but this just the unusual and fortunate uh happenstance that we could identify a property you know part of land conservation is just having the opportunity um you know if we would have gone 30 years ago they you know they raised a family here this wouldn't have been
1:00:07available but it is available it's the only privately owned parcel around the shoreline that actually has a view of the water and um what's really interesting is that uh the I just discovered this this week based on these drone shots this property actually aligns with the Waterworks building and with the stand Tower I don't quite have it here in this shot and you know most people won't be
1:00:35seeing it from a drone they'll be on the ground but it's just interesting that you can see the other side you can see um yeah anyway I don't have control over what I'm doing here but yeah so um so I don't know do you have yeah so just so the land doesn't go all the way it's depicted by the red line uh on that the uh land that abuts the pond directly is
1:01:04owned by the uh Power Company um that's something that we're working with them uh potentially to be able to uh uh getting you know gain that land added to this piece um some of the other partners that we've worked with on this product that you know naturally part of the biorreserve some of our partners out there Trustees of the reservation um they're always big supporters uh Mike's taking them for a couple of walks
1:01:31on this property already uh to acquaint them with the property um the BCC sustainability program uh Mass Autobahn uh Narragansett Bay Estuary program I don't know if the committee is aware though Appalachian Mountain Club has now partnered with the bio reserve and they're doing uh guided walking tours out there so there's a lot of good things that are coming up within the bio you know biorreserve and kind of
1:02:01need like uh like a home base somewhere for people to be able to go to get information you know this Center that uh we're looking at doing is also going to be a great place for Edge educational you know currently there's a group that comes out to Mike's office once a year that takes school children out there and they and they do a tour this will be a place where
1:02:24they'll be able to have uh you know educational rooms and different exhibits uh in the building and stuff like that so you know I think uh down the road I think this is really going to be a really nice spot you know you go to a lot of these other areas whether it be you know I just uh you know came through New Hampshire this weekend and uh you go by you know
1:02:49all the different uh National Forest places that are up there that have the visitor centers with the educational areas and stuff like that you know the bio Reserve being over 13 000 Acres which CPC has helped add uh land to that uh protected Forest land you know this is really something that uh a lot of people don't know that we have in our backyard you know but we really need to promote it more I think
1:03:18so I think this will help us do that yeah I think this would be a good Center to have all the information there Trails everything yeah yep you know because it is so we've uh partnered up on how many acres have we done so far I don't know in acreage we've we've probably just about a hundred and in five or six different projects yeah um and this is actually this is quite a good value because
1:03:47um again we're bringing 70 from the state uh so and I mean we're Frugal like you guys are we're trying to we're trying to find money outside the community to leverage These funds because we you know we we really value These funds this has really enabled us to do land conservation that we would never been able to do without CP with the CPA so um if this state grants that complement
1:04:10um or even you know other other funds that's you know we will always do that but this is where you're asking 100 141 thousand dollars for um for a property for a project that's over four hundred thousand so I think this is we appreciate it this is a good value it is and um we will be as we have with other uh CPA projects we will have a conservation restriction that will be
1:04:35recorded held by a third party uh conservation group that will have all the conservation values spelled out what why we're protecting it and then they will have the enforcement um duty every year in fact I just got a letter from the buses Bay Coalition that holds a couple of our restrictions that they go out there every year they do they do an on-site inspection they fill out a form they file it and so if
1:05:01anything was to be amiss um you know they would first of all notify us but they there's they also have legal authority to uh to take action and I can't imagine what that would be because I mean our mission is pretty much aligned with the conservation of these properties but that isn't always the case with other owners but it's it's the best a conservation restriction is is sort of the best conservation
1:05:28um Assurance in the land there's no better way to assure that a property you know where your money goes here will be in perpetuity does the board have uh who's the percentage of citizenry from Fall River that utilize the bio-reserve do you have a handle on that is it um is it 20 oh no I mean it's it's it's it's far less because it's we we're struggling I was talking to Christian
1:05:58about that before you know we're struggling for um people's attention and this is going to sound very strange but covid actually helped drive people out in in the bio Reserve especially in the beginning because you know social social distancing and you know isolating from others wide open space is what people were craving and ironically some of those parking lots were over full and so some
1:06:27of the West crowding was in the parking lot but once but you know we're almost to 16 000 Acres this point you could you could start in Fall River and walk all the way to Lakeville at this point on protected land you have to cross a few streets but um you're not going to see many houses and um you you can put so we did it we did a hike over the
1:06:47weekend we had 25 people on one particular hike but um and we're encountering people here and there mountain bikers Runners uh dog walkers but that's a lot of land you can you can lose a lot of people you know if it is 20 those 20 can go out there and um they they spread out people spread out and we just finished the 20 mile Loop which uh with the partners Appalachian Mountain club and um you
1:07:14know 20 miles out in the woods is remote this is a big area so what we need is more more volunteers like AMC and we need a nice and that's why I think this idea is going to really do the trick we need to place a sort of a Hospitality aspect a kind of an education aspect so that you know we ourselves in this city are sure that we always have a front seat on
1:07:41this bus when we do when we do these walks we get people from Cape from Providence from Boston we have we have a world-class resource and we just have to make sure it's it's it's you know we're exposing school kids and the school systems you know Mass Audubon has been good in the last couple of years actually um of working with the different School entities and and uh but there's so much more that can be
1:08:11done and um that's why this is this idea is going to really existence I think it's a great project I just saw that though too I think since coping we've probably I think it's probably driven more Fall River red incidents made them aware of the of the space out there but hopefully I think there's been more Fall River people out there since go over trying to get out of the city get it get
1:08:35away from you know the city and get out of this how do you get kids off of Game Boy into the woods yeah I grew up in Pennsylvania in the woods yeah you know we were always in them walking hiking you know even in uh AMC uh what they can help us do I mean they they fix Trails Bridges I mean you know they they keep the trail going you know and that's a
1:09:00nice plus there's something I would add about AMC too that it isn't always realized they have edu they have trained group leaders so I went on the one this weekend and um you know they have certain Trail set of protocols like you know no one's Left Behind they they'll do a hike with a sweet person so that we don't lose a person and they're teaching trailmanship and and um different things that can translate
1:09:28to let's say we get locals coming out there but then they want to go up to the White Mountains well we've we've we've marked our Trail and the AMC guides are actually um you know whether it's leave no trace or some of the other programs that they're affiliated with um our our residents will be exposed to these um you know good Trail say behaviors etiquette thank you Trail etiquette and
1:09:55they'll be prepared to go uh you know in other parts of the country that has that have trails I don't think they'll help out with tourism too yeah another milestone for the city I think it's great yeah they always put us on the map yeah after we did the 20-mile loop trail out there it was it was in the office one day and somebody called from Providence a group of ladies that wanted to go wondering
1:10:19where they could get the trail map and wanted to go hike the trail I was I was impressed yeah that's pretty cool does the sport have any other questions that's not a question I was just going to say that this is a great application I think it's a very potentially transformative project for the city um and I personally really appreciate you and all the work you do leveraging additional funds I think this is a
1:10:43perfect example we can use in the future of how to approach leveraging funds for these types of green applications and I just want to mention that even if the Farms aren't used as active agriculture I'm correct me if I'm wrong I believe like Meadow and grassland is still one of the few ecosystems not really with any protection so there is value in just kind of letting the field sit as is grasslands
1:11:08utilize it who sees fireflies anymore yes seriously you know um pollinators pollinator Gardens are really a big thing these days um they actually kept bees and they're still beehives there so yeah there's I think we're gonna we're gonna be seeking at some point Community input for different different ideas because um you know we never claim to know them all and we're always surprised at what's out there so
1:11:33yeah especially close proximity of Meadows to water you know you've got you've sort of trying and woods you know you're triangulating different habitats and a lot of and a lot of species you know cross habitats and so it's it's going to be an exciting project it's good and I do appreciate you answering all the other questions because you know people looking at it you know watching on TV you know they don't know
1:11:57what's going on you know they're like oh there's a study for you two thousand dollars gonna sit on a shelf you know when they hear how it's going to be put together why it needs to be done you know it makes our job easier too when if we do approve the project how you know no yeah without a doubt what's nice is it gets it gives people an opportunity to see that Fall River is
1:12:23not just buildings in a city that there's so much more to Fall River than the city and uh this is this is just a great way to to do that that's true yep one of the great facts that Mike taught me four rivers over 50 of protected Forest land or water by area but people don't even realize that no one knows that when you're down the center of Fall River is in the north
1:12:49what type of pond they say no it is money so we get some you get some edumacating to do yeah thank you excellent thank you thank you thank you so much presentation guys for the funding hearing round is done uh do we I the only new business uh I have we did send out uh a letter to everybody that needed extensions I think we had um I think we had a uh
1:13:35I think we had like seven or eight on the list so we sent them out uh a letter to uh Sunday that they want an extension uh some projects are now just getting people to do like brick work and they've been waiting for years so I said let's put an extension in you know I understand you know but you got to put that in for we know what's going on so
1:14:00we just get that list so we uh know which ones yeah I got it here somewhere
1:14:14uh I got it right here actually
1:14:40going to be on the bottom yeah and we have uh we're sending out uh the Kennedy Overlook which will be finished this this spring uh but we still need him to send us a letter the Vietnam South potapa I don't know if they started or not any anything's been done there that was only three thousand dollars we gave the one uh those Vietnam self-motopia I think it was for buying a parcel of land I have
1:15:14to look and see what that uh that was the water department actually uh preservation design guidelines that was 221 so to to the I mean FY 20. uh 77 Freedom Street historic pumping station these are all FY 20s I think the design design guidelines are almost done no they are done the check's been received and and the guidelines have been shipped to us so I should be a closed yeah some of us
1:15:44just sign it off too so yeah voice Lafayette Durfee house FY 21 so but it's going to be two years so Maritime Museum and uh 77 Freedom Street you have that thank you uh does anybody have any new business they want to put in yeah I do okay all right um so um one of the things for a new business so some of the topics I want to talk to the board about we can just
1:16:22put them out there and then kind of for the boy to kind of just put some thought into it and maybe we'll meet again just have a a full discussion um one of the things is um the board can kind of set a meeting when we set the meeting let's say I want to use March if we can set the mean let's say the board will meet we'll we'll hold the
1:16:47meetings every second week of the month the reason why I'm saying that is so it'll give so everybody that's coming before the uh the board to submit projects extensions or any type of information they know exactly when the deadline is so other required documentation is handed to us ahead of time you know versus kind of like the same day or the night before because just you know myself as well I'm sure everyone
1:17:18else we all work full time so yeah it takes a little bit longer to kind of review some of these documents right we do have the deadline which is January 16th this year so they can't give us anything after that I mean we get the full package then I mean they if they want to add something that they miss sometimes we'll take it in no right no no I mean right for the
1:17:40projects but I'm saying that's what kind of we're going through let's say like once the projects are approved um if the board is going to meet as an example we got a couple things handed not and I'm not saying that's the normal I'm just saying it's just I think if we set a a certain time when we meet every month it's just it's across the board for everyone it's something to think about it's not
1:17:59something that make a decision it's just something to think about we do that but during the funding rounds we kind of uh speed it up a little this way you kind of retain because if we were to meet on these five projects and then wait till March to meet on the other five projects you kind of lose a little of what we talked about tonight so when it comes time to voting you're all you're it's
1:18:20fresh in your mind oh right yeah so I mean I know also kind of the process we're going through right now I mean I know we have to meet regularly but I'm just saying it I guess just under regular day-to-day business you know as far as like once we're going through you know reviewing these projects deliberation and once it's approved I say they're going forward um you know because obviously to your
1:18:39point uh Mr chairman that yes it's fresh in our minds economy back to back I'm saying after this process so that way you know going forward when we do meet you know we all kind of know and we can all plan in our schedule saying okay this is when we meet so if I'm making plans I'm like all right it's the second week of the month of this Monday or Tuesday I think I think it's more
1:19:00helpful through the process right now we're going through absolutely not obviously we have to I mean more regularly because this is I'm going to say our busy season yeah if that makes any sense but I'm just saying going forward down the road this was I think this is helpful across the board not just for board members to kind of plan out their weeks vacation time or going away or something like that to everyone
1:19:20else so it's just a recommendation for folks to kind of think about and that it doesn't have to be the same I'm just throwing a suggestion out there as uh um you know uh it's something that that would be helpful I know the conservation we meet the first Monday every month right and most of the boards are set that way and I think ours might be one of the only ones it's not and then it
1:19:41usually is kind of like a okay can anybody meet on these particular dates we're gonna you know we need to have a meeting let's let's pick a date and then it goes back for them but he's it would make more sense what you're saying to like we have a set date and if for some reason we need to change it then okay we can change it but at least have like it
1:20:00gives us more consistency instead of oh well we need to have a meeting now let's decide what day is better or what this with that and
1:20:13I'm just kind of just as a new business just pointing it to discuss further um just to allow um all you know the board members that kind of think about what their thoughts are and seeing something if it's cumbersome if it's not then if it doesn't work it doesn't work it'll be up to the board you know um the the other thing too um that I I saw one of the new videos actually about
1:20:38a lot of Department which is very a very well put together video and I've seen other videos as well for um that other you know departments I've put together I was wondering and again I'm still kind of new to the board um Can the actual board members kind of be part of that video and you know kind of help promote the CPC as well I mean I think you're talking about the videos we
1:21:03actually are a part of it's a subcommittee that Caroline and I are on yeah I don't know what they are because that's finished project so uh yeah I mean like say uh you get on the the what's up bus say North Park the lights and you would be that would be your project you would be with Fred TV they would take you out there and you talk about it with people from the park oh right but
1:21:30with the one with right but I'm saying the one let's say with the the one the water department did it was just kind of more um putting out to the community kind of what this the CPC and kind of what we're all about it's just kind of it was an informative video you know that's that's what I'm saying can can the more board members kind of be a part of that just I
1:21:50mean I think it'll showcase not just you know what we do for you know private and public but also yeah we also have an opportunity to kind of showcase kind of what we do here as well because I think we have uh what five videos out I was in one because I was on I we have five videos it's just a recommendation again if we can discuss like we do red TVs I think makes them
1:22:14Sandy coordinates does a lot of coordinating with them she finds the most to do the interviews yeah it's just a new business just throwing it out so normally the person who does that project would be in that video right right no I right I understand that I'm just saying the one that I'm talking about is the four minute videos of promoting the CPC if we can also be a part of that as well
1:22:42yeah okay all right perfect okay I'm just hey that's why I said I'm new I'm trying to you know a little you know it seems it's been a year but you know there's there's a lot of information you know and I think as we go through is just a learning curve that's why we started those videos two years ago yeah it was the emphasis was to uh promote CPC for the publics to show them
1:23:13what we're doing and uh because you know you have those guide people out there that say oh well it's a waste of taxpayers money so when we do sit here and we spend the money I mean you know it's like is that the best way to spend it and I could say most our votes have been on the city Side have been good but the videos now will show you like uh the
1:23:37Vietnam memorial wall yeah yeah there's only two walls that are eighty percent one in Oklahoma one here in Fall River and then the main wall in DC so I mean that's a highlight that we were able to be a part of and it shows how CPC came in our part in it then the other funding they got so you know uh same with the Oak Grove how we you know
1:24:00Grove was like really bad shape yeah I came in and they restored the brick the everything and it shows the public you know what the money's being used on so yeah Lafayette Duffy Sofia Durfee yeah here um and the last thing um I wasn't I'm not sure who updates the city website I'm sure is the city that we have to submit the information like the agendas and the meeting minutes yeah
1:24:28yeah so you can be up to date some of the stuff goes back to our last potion was like in 2019. I think we're updated before 2019 are we Sandy yeah um so I looked at the agendas in the meeting minutes um it's where it says uh videos on on demand yeah okay
1:25:10that that I said on a regular basis and I do ask me regularly want to see something on that so let me know and send put agendas and minutes I put the podcast but the agendas for 2019-20 correct need to still get hold into them no right yeah because they're the ones that have control of it there's two people up there so it's like trying to and actually our website probably looks better than most websites
1:25:47in a city sites yeah it's always been a double check to make sure because you know we're not always looking in that one area so no yeah and that and that's all I have tonight already um for anyone else project update or are we gonna do that a different day we'll we could do that another day um I'm already gonna have a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion to adjourn second okay
1:26:23let's start roll call Caroline yes join Bentley yes and Tara Oliver yes John bright yes Richard Calderon Yes Rick Mancini yes okay meeting adjourned thank you thank you thank you