A public hearing was held on September 7, 2022, to provide Fall River residents and interested parties an opportunity to express their views on the draft Section 108 loan guarantee application. This application constitutes a substantial amendment to the 2022-2023 Year Three Annual Action Plan. The announcement of the hearing and application availability was published in the Herald News on August 26, 2022, and citizens have until September 26, 2022, to submit comments. The draft application is scheduled for submission to the City Council around September 21st, with the Council set to consider a resolution on October 11th authorizing Mayor Paul E. Coogan to file the application with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development around October 19th. The project funding from the Section 108 loan guarantee will be used for the purchase of fire equipment for the Fall River Fire Department. Chief Roger St. Martins was the sole speaker, detailing the critical need for new apparatus. He explained that the department's reserve pumpers, from 1998 and 1997, are frequently in frontline service due to issues with primary engines, with both Engine 5 and Engine 9 currently down for maintenance or repair. The requested funds would purchase a new engine to replace Engine 9, moving the current five-year-old Engine 9 to reserve, and a new ladder truck to replace a 2010 model, which would then become a reserve apparatus. The public hearing concluded with no other speakers.
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good evening tonight's public hearing is being held to provide residents of fall river and all interested parties the opportunity to express their views on the draft section 108 loan guarantee application for submission to the u.s department of housing and urban development this application constitutes a substantial amendment to the 2022-2023 year three annual action plan announcement of the public hearing and
0:27application availability was published in the herald news on august 26 2022 the proposed substantial amendment was published on the city website and citizens were invited to submit comments copies of the section 108 loan guarantee application are available tonight at the sign in table also copies of the application are available for public review at the following locations the fall river
0:53community development agency at one government center on the sixth floor the office of the city clerk at government center and the fall river maine public library at 104 north main street residents have until september 26 2022 to submit comments all comments received during this review period and testimony statements letters and petitions submitted at tonight's hearing will be used in updating the section 108 loan
1:22guarantee application according to the submission timetable draft copies of the section 108 loan guarantee application and pertinent related informational materials will be submitted to the city council around around september 21st it is at its meeting on october 11th the city council will consider enactment of a resolution authorizing mayor paul e coogan to file the section 108 loan
1:48guarantee application with the u.s department of housing and urban development on or about october 19th the project funding will be used for the purchase of fire equipment for the fall river fire department the format of tonight's public hearing will be to allow participants the opportunity to express their views on the proposed section 180 substantial amendment prepared statements to that effect will be accepted
2:11persons willing to speak have been asked to sign a separate signing sheet and will be called to testify each speaker should state his or her name and address and if appropriate the organization or agency represented tonight we have only one speaker with us tonight who's already at the table he is the chief of the fall river fire department roger st martins good evening michael good evening thank you thank you for uh
2:37for letting me speak tonight i appreciate that so we're here tonight to discuss the purchase of an engine and a ladder for the florida fire department currently um our reserve apparatus are 1998 and 1997 pumpers when i say reserve they're actually in service probably 75 of the time whether it's a emergency call whether it's to do repairs or maintenance on the frontline apparatus they're
3:13currently right now both of the engines are in service right now one of um i believe engine five has uh an issue um it's an air conditioning issue but it's actually the the um the pump on it so it's part of the serpentine belt so the apparatus will not run without that and um engine 9 is um down for maintenance right now so both of our backup engines are currently frontline engines tonight the the ladder
3:44truck that we're requesting now is um to replace a 2010 ladder truck that's currently in service front line apparatus at the flint fire station again it's a 2010 ladder truck it uh it's still in good shape it's gonna it's gonna do a lot to um to work on our um our reserve fleet it's gonna it's gonna do well it's gonna help us out with that um also the um the new engine will replace engine nine
4:16and that will be moved back to reserve engineers currently five years old so it's a good it's a good uh piece of apparatus and it's it's part of the capital plan to increase the the responsiveness and the availability of our frontline engine companies and ladder companies thank you chief thanks for taking the time out tonight to come to the public hearing there are no other speakers on
4:41this matter so at this time um i'd like to close out the public hearing again chief thank you and uh thank you everyone have a good night excellent