Remarks by Michelle M. Dionne
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“on real estate facilities and housing will convene. Clerk will call the roll.”
“Here, 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 being made, whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible. We have one individual who signed up for citizens input, which is number one. If you would like to come down to the table, state your name and address for the record.”
“Okay, well, I will say in response that I'll go on the record saying I had no idea that you were coming tonight or going to speak on this. Because ironically, it was one of the things I was going to bring up tonight. I have the information from the CDA, the book here, and we will be discussing this topic. So with that, thank you.”
“Number two on the agenda, minutes from March 12th, 2026. Motion to approve.”
“All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Number three is a resolution to convene with the administration, directors of the operations, to present a definitive action plan for the repair of the Pearl Street and Third Street parking garages, which was tabled on March 12th, 2026. Motion to lift from the table.”
“All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Passes, unanimous. Now, I know there's been things that have changed along the way since this resolution was written. However, anyone who has related to the parking garages, please come down at this time. State your names and addresses.”
“Thank you all for being here. I think first perhaps we'll discuss the Third Street garages because I know that they're in the process of being repaired. I guess we just want information as to where are you in the project, what's the projected end date, and any other pertinent information surrounding the repair of that garage.”
“Any councilors have questions before, like Councilor Kadeem?”
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“Oh, reality is reality, and we need to face reality.”
“So when we get to that point and they say the project's substantially complete, we want to get paid, we say no, you're not getting paid until it's complete because it's not where it should be and where we want it to be. Is that close?”
“i yelled i'm sorry okay um again conversations in my head yeah we have two other things we want to get to and we're very very limited so i guess um at this point what i'm going to say is we're not going to do you do our usual and wait six months for to be updated so we'll have a another meeting sooner than later to get answers and to discuss this further because i recommend mid-november think that's a good recommendation so yeah so i guess we can say that's a reasonable time frame a month from now that you should have more answers we should be closer to uh being able to answer all the…”
“All in favor? Aye. None opposed? I know some of you are gonna stay at the table because we are going to, number four is a resolution to convene to discuss all city-owned real estate. Under all tonight is going to be the Bank Street Armory and the administration building. So this was tabled on March 12th. Motion to lift from the table was made. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? No one opposed. If I could ask, we'll talk about the Bank Street Armory first. If I could ask the two to come down.”
“So I guess I'm going to, oh, so if you can identify yourselves, I'm sorry for the record.”
“Thank you. So I'm just going to preface this with a few months ago we met. We discussed a lot of issues. One was temporary heat for the building, which I'd love to know if anything has been discussed, looked at, if we've considered it, and where we are. Winter is coming. So that's going to be on the table tonight to discuss. But I'd like to know, first of all, where the historical commission is with this building, the grant, et cetera. Has the grant money been bought?”
“And what are we hoping to find out from this study? Because I know there's different types of studies, obviously. I know one was, you know, best use of the building could be involved in the study, etc. So exactly what, I guess we go to what is the scope of this particular funding?”
“Yeah, and at our last meeting, that subject came up, and we asked then that, please, get that done and get that vegetation off that building. So that would be, and that's something coming up tonight. What are we doing? When is it going to be done? I mean...”
“Yeah. So I guess what I'm going to say is, so at our last meeting, we requested, please get us the information we need. Tell us how much it's going to cost for temporary heating. Tell me which type of temporary heating you might be using. Get the vegetation done. And here we are a few months later, and it's the same conversation we had a few months ago. So I will say, this is going to get tabled. This is going to be put on the next agenda in one month. And in one month, we're going to want to know. It's fine to say you need funding. How much? What? And that's the point. We asked. And you were…”
“So I would accept a motion to table on this item at the moment.”
“Yeah, that's true. It's under the same category. Okay, now I do want to touch on the school administration building. um i did bring with me this actually dates back to 2021. um historic preservation applicant was ken pacheco from the school department the amount awarded was 220 000 the project description secure an existing condition survey repair the four chimneys from roof penetration to termination and begin the design and restoration of the 78 windows of this historic structure so this goes all the way back and if you look i didn't bring my glasses and this is the fine print so i'm going…”
“Okay, so how are we gonna get confirmation and get everybody on the same page? Because apparently that's a problem.”
“So what does $280,000 cover? Just the purchase of the windows? Does it have anything to do with installation?”
“Okay, well, third time today. We'll be back in a month.”
“and we get the proper extension so that the money stays in place.”
“Motion to table. Seconded. Everybody in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion to adjourn?”