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9.9.2026 Commission on Disability
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Okay, this is the meeting of the Fall River Commission on Disability for Wednesday, September 9th, 2026.
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Pursuant to the Open Meeting Law, any person may make any audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium.
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Attendees are therefore advised that such meetings or transmissions are being made, whether perceived or unperceived, by those present and are deemed, uh, acknowledgeable— acknowledged.
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Okay, um, roll call.
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Chairman Dennis Paulselli.
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Uh, here.
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Vice Chairman Debbie Pacheco.
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Here.
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Commissioner Lisa Silva?
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Here.
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Commissioner Dan Robillard?
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Here.
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Commissioner Katie Driscoll?
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Here.
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And Commissioner Ann O'Neill Souza is absent today.
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Okay.
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Yes, could I make a motion to move all the voting items to the top of the agenda And thereby taking the agenda out of order, beginning, beginning with the, uh, first voting item as the Diamond funding request.
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Okay, do I hear a second to that motion?
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Debbie Pacheco, second.
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Okay, um, roll call vote.
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Chairman Dennis Paulselli.
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Yes.
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Vice Chairman Debbie Pacheco?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Lisa Silva?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Dan Robillard?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Katie Driscoll?
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Yes.
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Okay, motion passes.
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I would like to turn the meeting over to Mr. Brian Bentley, who's superintendent and director of Diamond Regional Vocational High School in Fall River.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee— uh, commission, rather— on disability.
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Uh, my request is to, uh, we— it's— I am requesting, rather, for the assistance in the purchase of one evacuation chair known as the brand name of Stryker.
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Uh, and this would help support our students with mobility limitations.
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Currently, Diamond Regional And with the help of this Commission, 3 other chairs were purchased and were placed in the— what I'm now calling the old Diamond, which as we speak right now is being dismantled.
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It kind of breaks my heart in a way.
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However, with our brand new building and the expansion that we have here, meaning it's a much larger building, we have more areas to cover and a higher number of floors.
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The old building had 2 floors, so the evacuation chairs were used to help transport anyone needing help from the 2nd floor down to the 1st floor and out of the building.
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This floor, in essence, is a 4-story building with one— so the need for just one more chair because of the numerous staircases, we can cover 3, one would give us the ability to cover a 4th stairway in the event of an emergency evacuation in order to help any person faculty member, visit to the building, could be a student with mobility issues, any one of those, to evacuate the building safely.
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And that's what my request is for.
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In pricing them out, they run approximately $3,000, and that's an approximation.
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There are some that are less expensive, there are some much more expensive, but I, I've seen when I've done my research that the median price is just about $3,000.
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So my request is for— if the advice— if we can get assistance with purchasing that, um, I would certainly appreciate it on behalf of the faculty, staff, and students of Diamond Regional.
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Okay, I need a motion on the floor to begin discussion.
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Motion, uh, motion to adopt the request with questions.
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Okay, do I hear a second to that?
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A second, Commissioner Kiedrzysko.
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Okay, okay, um, we're open for questions.
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Yeah, do you have a way to get to the— It's Lisa, I have a question.
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No.
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Okay, okay, okay.
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I'm hearing— find out about your walker and your commode.
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You know what, tomorrow the chair would like to recommend that there's a background sounding that's very disturbing.
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Can we, can we mute that?
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All right, that's probably me because I just unmuted myself.
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I have another coworker in the office.
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Okay, go ahead, Lisa.
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Oh, it wasn't me.
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Can you hear me?
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What?
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This is Brian Bentley.
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Wait, hang on.
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Who?
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I'm confused now.
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Who wanted the— I think Lisa was the one that had questions, right?
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Yeah, I just wanted to clarify something.
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Okay, go ahead, Lisa.
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I'm sorry.
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So, because I'm trying to pay entire attention to this.
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So is this evacuation chair for a particular student?
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It is not.
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The 3, the current 3 chairs that we have are placed on the floors so that anyone needing assistance who has mobility issues and needs assistance evacuating the building can be placed in this particular chair and can be, in a sense, carried down the stairs in a safe manner, thus getting them out of the building safely.
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No, it's not for any one person.
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Any person in our building who appears to have a mobility issue that would need assistance going downstairs quickly.
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Okay, and it's because there's an additional floor added to the school.
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Yes, we have, we have in essence 4 flights of stairs in our building, 4 stories.
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And the concept behind having the 4 chairs would be that we can cover 3 of the stairways with no problem, but there is a 4th stairway, and this would give the ability to have one for every stairway, just in case it is needed.
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I can tell the Commission that, thank God, we have not been required to use this at any time in my history of being at Diamond.
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Are there any other questions?
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We'll wait for a little while for that.
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And so you have 3, and those are new chairs as well, or those are old ones from the school?
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They're not new.
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They are approximately, I want to say about Ooh, maybe 7 years old.
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If Commissioner Pacheco is on, she may have a better handle on when they were purchased.
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And they were made part of our other building, but they're about 7 years old, but they're very functional in like-new condition.
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And, you know, thank goodness we have not had to put them into service, whether it's been a fire emergency or any other kind of an evacuation emergency.
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Thank God.
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I need to remind everybody that Ms. Pacheco cannot— Mrs. Pacheco cannot participate in either the discussions or the vote, and she was notified about that last night because she's employed by Diamond and it would be a conflict of interest.
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Agreed.
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So I believe that it was about 2018 or '17 that we had purchased, because we also purchased some from Durfee as well.
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So we purchased all 3 of those chairs.
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Yeah, yeah, several years ago.
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Yep.
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Okay, I was not around.
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I did not know anything about it.
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Yeah, I know.
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And I can say the same thing.
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Back in that time period between 2014 and 2022, I was in retirement at that time.
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And when I left in '14, uh, we're not there.
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When I returned, they were there, and I became aware of the history of them.
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Coming in through the Disability Commission.
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And they— again, you are correct.
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To my best knowledge, they were about 2017, in that era, when they were purchased for Diamond.
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Anyone else for questions?
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Well, Lisa, are you all set?
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Yeah, I have no further questions.
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Thank you.
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Oh, okay.
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Uh, so, uh, this commission, um, this commission bought the, the chairs that are presently, uh, in the former Diamond and are going to be moving over.
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And, uh, you think, uh, one more chair, uh, would, uh, would secure we, uh Uh, protect the building, students, faculty, staff, and anybody else in the building.
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You are correct, Commissioner Robillard.
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We've increased our enrollment now and our staff members.
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Uh, the 3 chairs that we did that were purchased by the commission and utilized at Diamond, they served the, the building well, and they were placed in predominant spots that were readily accessible.
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Uh, this one additional chair will also be placed in a predominant spot, and it would be accessible to anyone needing it.
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It does require the assistance of another person or persons to get the chair out of its holder and then to put the person in the chair and bring them safely down the stairs to evacuate.
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I'm familiar with these chairs because I used them when I was a student at Jersey High School.
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So I, I'm very familiar with their operation, uh, and they are, uh, they are very good, sturdy, safe, uh, uh, stairs for evacuation purposes.
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Um, was there any thought, Mr. Bentley, and I'm just curious, uh, was there any thought about, uh, um, seeking any funding sources at any time from any of the other Diamond communities, either Westport, Somerset, or Swansea?
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No, we didn't reach out to that because I was referred back to the City of Fall River's Commission on Disability because of the origination of the 3 chairs that we have.
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And I know that your commission is very active in protecting the interests of those who are disabled or have disability or mobility issues.
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So I went to the one that I believe is the heart and soul of the city of Fall River and also the heart and soul of who provided us with the original equipment.
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And that's why I did go there.
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I did not go back to any of the other communities.
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Okay, I'm sorry, Mr. Pacelli, am I able to just add in one piece to this?
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Of course.
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Yep, go ahead.
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I think the only other thing I want to add to Mr. Bentley's piece is that 75% of our students are Fall River residents.
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Am I correct, Mr. Bentley, in that assumption of our enrollment?
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Yep, you are correct.
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Actually 76.5%.
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Okay, I have a— I have another question just to add to this.
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Wait, who— who can I find out who's speaking?
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This is Lisa.
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I'm sorry.
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Okay, no, no, did you ask— did you ask the first question?
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Because I— did you ask the question before?
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I just want to make sure.
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It sounded like a Diamond staff member or something, and I'm just trying to make sure that The questions are being asked by commissioners.
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So— nope, it was Lisa.
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I was— I just had another question.
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All right, go ahead.
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Ask as many questions as you want.
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I'm sorry.
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To Mr. Bentley, but probably to the rest of the members on the committee, because I wasn't here at the time of the purchasing of those chairs.
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But I know we've had a lot of requests for purchases of things, assistance and stuff like that.
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And at times we go back to, well, Well, you know, this isn't going to benefit solely a Fall River resident, and this is why we have this money, is to benefit Fall River residents.
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So I'm just concerned and want some clarification on, like, how can we okay something that we're not ensuring is just solely benefiting a Fall River resident?
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Because this has been up for debate before with other individuals that have come Mr. Bentley, what is the percentage of Fall River residents that go to Diamond Regional Vocational High School?
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Deb just said 75%.
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All right.
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Yeah, 76.5%.
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I just want to know for voting purposes, like, how that all works.
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That's all.
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Can you say a little bit more about your question?
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I just want clarification since this has been a topic before during voting.
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What kind of clarification are you looking for in terms of voting for requests that aren't solely benefiting Fall River residents?
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So you feel that 75% of the residents of Diamond that are residents of Fall River is not benefiting the residents of the city of Fall River?
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Is that what you're saying?
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No, not at all.
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Tell me what you're saying.
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I'm just saying it's— we're not guaranteeing that 100% of the money that we're giving for— like, it's not a request for the use of a student who resides in Fall River.
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So we know that it's going— like, I just want clarification on distributing money like that, I guess.
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Like, if I could help her out for a minute, Mr. Chairman, we, we've been— thank you.
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Uh, we've been told with other proposals that we couldn't do it because it wasn't exclusively benefiting solely for River residents.
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So my understanding is that pertained to private property matters.
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That's what we could do.
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We couldn't do private property matters.
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This is a public facility of which 75% of the residents are from the city of Fall River.
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Mr. Chairman, you are— you are correct.
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Again, it's 75%.
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We are a reasonably— we are school with— and we consider all— because we are a Fall River-based school located in the city of Fall River, we consider all the students of Diamond to receive all the benefits no matter what region or where they're from.
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So we do not regard that if you're a Westport student you cannot play this or do that, or a Somerset student.
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We regard it all that once you're here You are all considered part of the regional school system, and you benefit by whatever equipment, activities, benefits that come with being a member of the regional school district.
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Yeah, that's understandable.
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I understand that.
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Yeah, I understand that too as well.
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That wasn't my question at all.
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I'm sorry if I didn't say that clearly.
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It was more for— Danny, one at a time.
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Dan, one at a time.
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Lisa, what were you— what were you trying to say?
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No, that wasn't my question at all.
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And I understand that everybody gets use of everything in the school activities, equipment, everything and so forth.
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My question was just more for the commission members, um, because I wasn't there at the time of purchasing the chairs for Diamond, and I understand that there's multiple districts that send students to the school.
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It was more of a, can we give a full amount knowing that it's not going particularly to a Fall River resident?
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I guess that's more of what my question was.
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Go ahead, Dan.
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No, uh, that, that was only— that, that was my, uh, my point of clarification at all as well.
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I don't have a particular recollection about that stipulation, uh, when we were told.
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I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm just saying I don't recall, uh the time that there were an alleged private funding request, because I think we've only had one private funding request under the policy.
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It's always been my understanding that all the money we take in has to exclusively benefit Fall River residents.
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That, that's my understanding of the funding.
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That's all.
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Yeah, that's always been a tricky part of the policy because I know when I chaired the Framingham Disability Commission, Keene Tech, um, the majority were residents of Framingham, but Keene Tech serves a number of communities surrounding Framingham, and I think New Bedford will be in the same position.
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If the New Bedford Commission on Disability had an issue, New Bedford Voc must serve a number of communities besides New Bedford, and I think they would have the same issue if somebody were to come before the New Bedford Commission with the same request.
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So I, I mean, I understand the trickiness of it.
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There's not much guidance in Chapter 48J about that at all, actually.
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I don't think there's any, and I'm not sure other than the Mass Office on Disability, I'm not sure who came up with that position that it could only be used exclusively for Fall River residents.
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I know we had a Uh, we had an opinion a while back from the legal department about another matter, but I'm not really sure.
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That was the private property matter.
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I, I'm not really sure who came up with that, uh, stipulation.
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Uh, I, I know MOD, uh, supports it.
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I'm not sure whether it was theirs.
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There's nothing in Chapter 40 Section 8J, uh, that speaks to, uh, uh, that.
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And there's nothing in Chapter 40, Section 22G, which gives, uh, this commission the, the control of all handicapped parking revenue.
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There's nothing in either one of those, uh, statutes of Mass General Law that says This money only has to be used exclusively for Fall River residents.
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Okay, are there any more questions?
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Again, I still don't have clarification.
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I'm sorry, is it okay?
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So we don't know.
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I, I don't know if I can vote without knowing if that's okay to do.
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Well, the other option you have is you can table the matter while we, while we speak to the Massachusetts Office on Disability and put it on the agenda for October.
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I don't even know if it was them that came up with that.
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They're the only one that ever weighed in on it.
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As far as I know.
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Who's the they, Dan?
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Uh, Mass Office on Disability.
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But I, I don't know if this— I don't know if that's a policy that they still have it.
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I don't even know if there's such a written policy.
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I know that's something they support.
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Would you like me to go to the Corporation Counsel to seek clarification on their opinion?
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You can if you want.
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Yeah, doesn't necessarily— I don't want to hear you can if you want.
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I want guidance.
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Okay, I would feel more comfortable.
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This is Lisa.
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Okay, Lisa, just because I wasn't here.
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I wasn't here.
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Yeah, I will go with you.
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So do I hear a motion to table?
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Motion to table.
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Okay, do I hear a second?
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I'll second that, Lisa.
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Okay, I have a roll call vote.
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Chairman Dennis Paulselli.
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Yes.
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Commissioner Lisa Silva?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Dan Robillard?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Katie Driscoll?
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I think she had a meeting to go to.
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She told me she would only be here for 10 minutes.
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Uh, do we want to call her once more?
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Commissioner Katie Driscoll.
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Okay, she's not— she's not present.
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So the motion is— what, what's the, uh, the vote?
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3 yes.
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The motion was to seek an opinion from Corporation Counsel.
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Okay, I was just looking for the vote total.
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So it's 3, 3 yes.
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Okay, I'm sorry, Commissioner, um, Chairperson Dennis Pacelli.
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Yes, Commissioner Debbie Pacheco.
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I need to have it on record that I am abstaining because I was not asked what my vote was.
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Oh, that's right.
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I needed to I need to have it noted on the minutes that I am abstaining.
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Okay, so 3 yes and 1 abstention.
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Thank you.
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Okay, so this will be on the October agenda.
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I will, um, I will reach out to our corporation counsel, um, and we can get in it.
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Hopefully we can get an answer to place this on the agenda for October.
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I don't think it would be necessary for the superintendent, Mr. Bentley, to be at the October meeting, um, because I think you've all heard the presentation and you all have copies of the letter.
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So I think in October this would just be to get the answer and then to take the final vote.
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Okay, this is Brian Bentley.
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I would be glad to be on the call in October.
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That way, if anyone has any further questions, I'd be glad to be present and answer them.
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Okay, I, I will definitely send you the agenda and the dial-in number, and these meetings are open to the public anyway, so that's not a problem.
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Thank you.
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Okay, all right, let's— we're going to go back to the agenda.
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We still have, um, So we have— the Vice Chair can now participate.
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And we're going to go back to the original agenda, and we're going to ask for public input.
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So is there any public input?
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Is there any public input?
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And last time, is there any public input?
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Okay, hearing none, I'm going to go on to approval of the minutes for the meeting of June 24th.
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Motion to adopt.
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Okay, do I hear a second?
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Okay, um, do I hear a motion to adopt?
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Wait, motion to adopt the minutes.
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I got thrown off my stride for a minute.
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I'm sorry.
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Um, so we're gonna— this is the motion.
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Dan, you made the motion to adopt the minutes for June 24th, correct?
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Yes, Mr. Chairman.
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Okay, good.
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All right, um, I need a second.
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Do I have a second?
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Commissioner O'Neill.
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Okay.
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Uh, any discussion?
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Roll call vote.
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Chairman Dennis Paucelli?
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Yes.
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Vice Chairwoman Debbie Pacheco?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Lisa Silva?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Dan Robillard?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Ann O'Neill Souza?
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Yes.
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Okay, motion adopted.
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Hello.
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Vice Chair Debbie Pacheco?
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Yes.
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Okay, all right, the chair is yours.
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We're electing the chair.
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Oh, okay, sorry, I'm taking over the meeting now.
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Yep.
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All right, do we have, um, a recommendation at this time?
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We're going to do election of offices, so now we're looking for a recommendation or nomination for, um, chair.
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Madam Vice Chair?
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Yes.
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I'd like to nominate Dennis Costelli as the chair of the, uh, Florida Disability Commission for the forthcoming year.
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Do we have any other nominations?
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I make that in the form of a motion.
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Okay.
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Do we have a second?
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I'll second that.
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And O'Neill Souza.
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Okay, uh, can I have roll call?
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Vice Chairwoman Debbie Pacheco?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Lisa Silva?
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I think Lisa had a work commitment to go to.
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I think— Lisa, are you there?
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Commissioner Lisa Silva?
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Commissioner Dan Robillard?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Ann O'Neill-Souza?
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Yes.
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Okay, are we all set?
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What was the results of the of the roll call.
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Motion passes, correct, Mandy?
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Yes.
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All right, excellent.
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Uh, congratulations, Mr. Pacelli.
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Thank you, and thank you to the rest of the commission as well.
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Um, next we're going to elect officers.
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Uh, motion is open for the election I'm sorry, guys.
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If you're hearing a noise, my text keeps going off.
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So I apologize.
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I don't know.
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It's Xfinity.
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Mr. Chairman.
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Yeah.
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I'd like to nominate.
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Mr. Chairman, I'd like to nominate Debbie Pacheco for vice chair of the Fall River Disability Commission for the forthcoming year.
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Okay, um, roll call vote.
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We need Sandy.
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Sorry, I was muted.
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Yep, sorry, my fault.
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Chairman Dennis Pauselli?
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Yes.
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Uh, Vice— I'm sorry, everyone keeps leaving.
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Uh, Commissioner Dan Robillard?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Anna O'Neill-Souza?
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Yes.
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The Vice Chair is on the call, I believe.
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Yeah, but it was a voting matter for her, so she can't vote.
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I'm here.
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Okay, I believe the motion was adopted.
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Congratulations, Vice Chair Debbie Pacheco.
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Thank you everyone.
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Thank everyone for their— what they've done as well.
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We continue to do the work that we can.
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Okay, um, can I hear a motion to— for the position of Secretary of the Commission?
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Mr. Chairman?
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Yep.
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I'd like to nominate Lisa Silva as the Commission Secretary for the forthcoming year.
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And do I hear a second?
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Second the motion.
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Okay, thank you.
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Okay, um, roll call vote.
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Chairman Dennis Paulcelli?
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Yes.
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Vice Chairwoman Debbie Pacheco?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Dan Robillard?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Ann O'Neill-Souza?
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Yes.
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Okay, motion passes.
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Congratulations to Lisa.
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I don't think— I think she had a work commitment, so I don't think she's on the call right this minute, but we can double-check.
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Lisa, are you on the call?
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Okay.
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Next item is updates.
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I don't really have any ADA updates at this time except that Commissioner Dan Robillard and myself, and if Lisa's available, We're going to be meeting on Monday afternoon at 3:00 with Mike Dion concerning the sensory playground at Abbott Court.
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And he's going to update us along with the grant writer on that process on Monday afternoon.
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So we'll probably have something in the October meeting concerning that.
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So I don't have any— other ADA updates at this time.
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Next is policies.
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Vice Chair Debbie Pacheco.
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At this time, I do not have any updates.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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And under finance, you should have all received all the budget reports for June, July, and August.
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Thus far.
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So, and I can tell you that with scholarships, they're all out.
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We had a total out of 9— yeah, out of 9 scholarships, 7 were— will be going to institutions and 2 have decided not to forego— not to go at this time.
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7 scholarships were all given out for the, uh, this year to the institutions.
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Are there any questions on that?
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Briefly, Mr. Chairman, so one brief quick question.
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Yep.
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Thank you.
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On the 2 students that decided not to attend, had we already sent money to the institution No.
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Um, as a matter of fact, um, well, I don't know how much to go in.
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I don't want to— uh, let's just say that the institutions never heard from them.
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Okay, so there were— there was no money— there was no money sent to any institution, uh, on behalf of either of those students.
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Therefore, uh, that money never came from our account.
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Is that correct?
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Are you— and in the past, just to let you all know, that if that happens, um, institutions have always returned money back to the commission if, if there was a last-minute change or withdrawal or change of whatever.
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The money was always— I think it happened last year, not this past year, but it happened last year.
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Money was returned, and usually I've, I've seen that indicated in the budget reports.
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Very good.
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Thank you, Mr. Turner.
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Yep.
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Um, I think we are still working out some of the transition details, although, um, Commissioner, uh, Daniel might be able to help me out with this better, but I think we're still working out some of the details for the transition of the website.
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Yes, that's correct.
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I've been working in close contact with Rochelle Alves, who is the senior clerk for the Department of Health and Human Services, and Commissioner Ann O'Neill-Souza in her role as chief of staff has also been helpful in this regard.
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Uh, there's a few more details to be worked out.
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Uh, I expect by next month it should be complete, but you never know.
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I, I will, uh, provide updates to the chairman and to the rest of the body as soon as we have something concrete.
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Okay.
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Um, Thank you.
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No, thanks very, very much for that.
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Is there any old business?
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Okay, under new business, I am going to announce, and I do not think this needs to be voted on, but if I stand corrected, Dan Robillard has done such a great job.
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Between working out things for our scholarship banquet and even working on this issue, which is a little more difficult than I expected, but that's okay.
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Um, I would like to renew him as a treasurer of the commission treasurer for the coming year as well.
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So if, um, if Commissioner Dan Robillard is okay with that, I'd like to continue that.
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Perfectly fine, Mr. Chairman.
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Thank you for your confidence, and thank you to the rest of the members.
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Okay.
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Are there any other announcements to come before this commission from other commissioners?
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Okay.
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Hearing none, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.
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Second.
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Debbie Pacheco seconds.
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Okay.
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Roll call vote.
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Chairman Dennis Paulselli?
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Yes.
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Vice Chairwoman Debbie Pacheco?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Dan Robillard?
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Yes.
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Commissioner Ann O'Neill-Souza?
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Yes.
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Okay, we are adjourned.
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Okay, thank you everyone.
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Have a good night.
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