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7.1.2026 Park Board
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Good evening, and welcome to the regular meeting of the Board of Park Commissioners.
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This is Wednesday, July 1st, and it's approximately 6 o'clock, I believe.
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5:37.
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Oh, 5:30.
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I'm sorry, 5:37.
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Okay, the Open Meeting Law language to be read.
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Pursuant 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 unperceived, by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible.
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Okay.
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Roll call of commissioners.
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Nick Sicilio.
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Victor Farias.
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John Silvia.
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And Helen Rigo will be coming here soon.
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Okay, so do I have an acceptance of the June meeting minutes?
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Making a motion to accept the June meeting minutes.
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And I second it.
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Okay.
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All in favor?
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Aye.
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Sorry, this is the first one here, so sorry.
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Okay, no citizens input, I gather.
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So new business, we have a request from Rachel Goldsby for use of the Kennedy Park for the farmers market.
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Dates are as follows: July 11th through November 28th, from 7:00 AM to noon every Saturday.
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Any questions?
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Okay, no questions.
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Do I have a motion?
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Make a motion to accept that.
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Seconded.
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Okay, all in favor?
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Aye.
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Okay, the next issue is we are revisiting the approval of a partnership between the City of Fall River and the Fall River Pickle League.
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They're asking, in addition to food truck vendors, if business vendors can be there selling wares.
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Can they— can we accommodate them?
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Any questions?
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That was at the last park board, that event got approved.
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Now they want to have just— well, the food trucks were approved.
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They want to add like somebody selling like pickleball stuff there, whatever that is at Kennedy, right at the bottom.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay, anything— are they bringing like trucks of stuff?
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Like, no, just like a— there's not much room to set up vendor tables.
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I think it's just this— they have a 3-day event and it's in addition to food trucks.
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They forgot to ask for somebody selling like pickleball-themed, you know, t-shirts, paddles, things of that nature.
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They're gonna set up outside, right?
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The trucks will be on the street side against the sidewalk curb.
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We— I told him there's no room.
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I don't want them inside the park on the grass.
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Yeah.
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And then the vendors will be on the grass?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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I don't have a problem with it.
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Any other questions?
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Okay, can I get a motion?
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Yeah, I'll make a motion to accept vendors.
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I'll second that motion.
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Okay.
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All in favor?
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Aye.
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Aye.
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Okay, next we have a request from Thomas Martell of 99 Morse Street to remove a tree in front of his house, which has dropped limbs last week and has been an issue for a while.
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The supervisor of the tree department, Chris Martin, and the director of parks have confirmed the tree condition warrants a removal.
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Dead tree.
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Dead tree.
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Yeah.
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Okay, make a motion to remove the tree.
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Okay.
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And I'll second.
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Okay.
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All in favor?
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Aye.
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Are they replacing it with something else?
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Sorry about that.
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I could talk to Chris.
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He's got trees in the yard.
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I was just wondering if the homeowner wants it.
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Yeah, sometimes they don't want it.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, I'll talk to him about it.
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All right.
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That's— is that going to be the condition?
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Of removing it?
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Well, usually if they replace one, it's usually because it's no good.
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And then they replace it with another one.
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But they're not going to replace it.
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Maybe there's, maybe there's a different way.
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Because if the people aren't going to take care of it and water it, it's going to die the first year.
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So maybe there would be a way if they didn't, can we plant the trees somewhere?
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Well, technically, it's still city property.
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Okay, Chris has got a tree, I'll put a tree there.
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They don't really have a say.
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Yeah, but is it, is it, is it because it's dead?
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Or is it they're removing it because it's dead?
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Like half, half that tree, the limbs fell off.
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It's got green on this side, but half the tree split in half and fell.
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That's the reason why it's going to come down.
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Because the next side, if that side falls, it'll be on the property.
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And then there's a liability.
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Yeah, I just— the only thing I would say, Darren, is if they don't want to water it, it's going to die.
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I know I'm watering 2 trees on this park on Durfee Street that people wanted and nobody's watering.
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How long has it been there?
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It was there last year, but the tree planting committee, the Fall River Street tree planting committee, paid to plant them there.
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Okay, I'm the one doing it.
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So the ones with Davies now that are planting, they have the water bags?
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Yeah.
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Chris has that 500-gallon water machine.
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They go out, I think, every, like, every, like, biweekly, and they fill up the bags throughout the city.
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Okay.
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On the new plantings.
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Oh, that's good if they do that, if it's part of them.
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I don't know if that— I don't— if it's the— maybe the tree planting committee wasn't part of that program.
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City?
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Yeah, they— well, it's not a tree, you know, we, we paid for the trees, so it's not a city tree.
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Okay.
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But even in the past when we, we'd plant trees in front of people's sidewalks they had to be responsible to water them because the city couldn't do it.
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No, but if the city's doing it now, they have, they have the, they have the capacity to do it now.
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They have the tank and everything.
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If they want to do it, then hey, that's fine.
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I agree.
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Okay.
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We had a motion.
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It was— yep.
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All right.
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So it was seconded.
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So yeah, all in favor?
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Yeah, we already had it.
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Okay.
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We were having conversations.
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Okay, cool.
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All right.
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So the next request is For a tree that's really— that's located in front of 139 Montgomery Street.
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Chris Martin and the Director of Parks have also looked at that tree and it warrants removal.
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Same condition.
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It just gets to half of it's dead.
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It's either got termites in it or something.
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I'll second that motion.
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Okay.
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All in favor?
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Aye.
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Okay, next agenda item, a request by Chad Trail representing Victory Church for a basketball tournament on 8/15 from 9 AM to 5 PM.
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They will provide pre-made food, pizza, and have music.
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They will clean the court when finished.
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I always get confused on this.
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What is the deal with pre-made food?
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So pre-made, they can, they can serve pre-made food.
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They can't cook.
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Okay.
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On the spot.
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They can't cook in the park.
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Only people that can cook in the park are food trucks.
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Okay.
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That's it.
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Unless we— so at Corky Rowe, um, he had an event with grills, but it had to get approved by the fire department, and the fire department approved that event.
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So as long as he gets that approval, which is rare, they don't— we don't want anything, any cooking in parks.
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Yeah, no, it looks good.
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Like I said, just in case it's outdoors, a rain day, possibly.
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So he may have to— he's only got one day.
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So it's Saturday, which is fine.
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But if it rains, then they're gonna have to reschedule and come before the board again to get a new date.
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Okay.
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Make the motion to accept.
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I'll second that motion.
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All in favor?
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Aye.
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Okay, next item, revisit the approval of the use of Lafayette Park for the skateboard celebration.
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They're asking in addition to food truck vendors, if business vendors selling wares can be accommodated.
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So I gather, Darren, that's the same thing they want to— So yeah, it was this, those 2 things were on the last agenda.
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So what happened was— so what happened is they're in the same boat as the pickleball.
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They didn't ask for that specific thing.
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It's approximately 5:46.
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And Commissioner Helen Rigo is here.
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So I'm sorry.
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Helen, we're on— sorry.
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That's okay.
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We're on item agenda.
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Yep.
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Sorry.
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Is that there?
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Here we go.
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Right there.
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Okay, so were there any other questions?
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No.
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So it's the same as the earlier one, right?
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Correct.
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Just— yeah, they just missed that to ask that.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Do I have a motion?
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Make a motion.
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Okay, Mr. Ferris made the motion and I will second it.
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Seconded by Nick.
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All in favor?
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Aye.
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And I'm sorry, Helen, what was— were you okay with that?
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I don't know, which one was that?
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We're on number F. Now let me read that again.
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F?
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Yes, F. Revisit the approval of the use of Lafayette Park for the skateboard.
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So it's almost done.
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Yeah, they are asking in addition to the food truck vendors, if business vendors selling Whereas can be accommodated.
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Yeah.
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And Darren had said it's going to be, you know, yeah, it was just so long.
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So yeah, you're in favor of that?
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Last one.
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It's a request, and I'm going to probably butcher the first name.
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Aizino Vass for the use of Kennedy Park Pavilion for a wedding ceremony on Saturday, July 11th, from noon until 7.
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Food is going to be precooked and brought.
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And they are also going to be putting a porta-john there for bathroom use.
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I think so.
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We never had that before.
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Yeah, they want to do what they're going to pay the fee.
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I charge them the fee.
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It's on a Saturday too.
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And they have insurance too, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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They have all the insurance.
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Darren, I was reading this.
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I just have a question.
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Is there— because usually there's kids there and stuff.
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Are they going to, you know, I mean, be able to tell kids not to be if they're having a ceremony there?
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Do you know how that's going to work?
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Well, when they come in and pay the permit fee, we just, we tell them, hey, if you're having an issue down there with them, you just call the PD because you have permission.
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The food is going to be precooked.
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Yeah, but they can't bring any, they can't bring any grills or anything.
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No, they already know.
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No, I said unless they're gonna get food trucks down there.
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Well, I, I got married down there and I, I didn't have no problem with the kids.
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So just got a question.
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What?
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I got married down there and I didn't have no problem with kids.
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No, I'm not talking about the kids, I'm talking about the food.
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Yeah, yeah, can't be.
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They can't warm it up on grills or anything like that.
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So if you look at the liability, the insurance liability, this is host liquor liability, so they're allowed to have liquor.
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No, just say that in the insurance— on the first insurance liability insurance, it says host liquor and it's got a check mark.
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So I'm assuming they're getting a liability for liquor.
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No, no, they can't.
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But you see, do you see the insurance right on the left-hand side on the first where it says certificate of liability insurance?
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It says host liquor and there's a check mark next to it.
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So that's something that you got to possibly talk to them about because I get it, it's a wedding, champagne, all that stuff.
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But it's, it's not all those food truck vendors.
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They got to be licensed.
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And they have to pay too, don't they?
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Well, they're not bringing food trucks down there.
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Except they may.
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They may.
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Well, if they do, yeah, right here.
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No, it's a G. Yeah.
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G, we're on G. I'm on G. Yeah.
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But I mean, I would gather that the, the form that they sent in said wedding ceremony, they would have to go to the licensing board to do that.
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And if they have liquor, you know what I mean, they're going to come down.
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I just, like I said, I just noticed that on the insurance form, it's checked.
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So that means that they took out a liquor liability.
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I didn't see that.
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Yeah.
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So that's something that's got to be talked to.
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I mean, yeah, you're gonna have to notify them.
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Because this wedding is happening in 10 days.
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Yeah, they can't, they can't.
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No, can't allow them to have— so if it gets approved, it'd have to be approved with a stipulation, stipulation that the liquor— unfortunately, I get it, it's a wedding, but the liquor can't happen.
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No, I think it would even supersede us because you have to have a license, right?
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I get that license.
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But like, because they pay for the insurance, I don't know if they know about getting the license for liquor.
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Yeah.
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So Yep, that's fine.
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You're right, they should be notified.
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But I just— I was looking over the insurance liability and never do, and I just saw that.
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I was like, whoa, liquor, post-liquor liability.
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Good catch.
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Okay, so if it gets— if, if we approve it, it would have to be proving, you know, a stipulation that no liquor is served.
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So you want to make a motion to that effect then?
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Yeah, I'll do it.
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So I'll make a motion to approve the ceremony with a stipulation that no liquor is to be served during the ceremony.
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That's right, you can't serve no liquor, right?
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So that's, that's what I'll make.
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And Darren, if you can follow up with that.
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No liquor.
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We'll follow up tomorrow.
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Okay, because it's like I said, it's 10 days away.
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So, okay, they do make apple cider in bottles.
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So, so that's my motion.
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Okay.
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Um, do I have a second?
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I'll have a second.
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Oh, okay, I'm sorry.
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All right, uh, Mrs. Rigo, Second to that, all in favor?
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Aye.
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Okay.
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And, you know, I'm just looking at this thing at the bottom.
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It says ceremony, reception, rehearsal, and breakfast.
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You know what I mean?
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But yeah, it's interesting how they have that on there.
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Didn't really state it in the bottom.
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But that's interesting.
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Okay.
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So, old business.
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Does anybody have any old business?
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Mrs. Regal, no business?
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Nope.
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Okay, cool.
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Okay, do I have a motion to adjourn?
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Make a motion to adjourn.
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Second.
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I think— do I have a second?
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Okay, second.
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Second.
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Commissioner Regal seconds.
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All in favor?
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Aye.
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Thank you.
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Have a good night.
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