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Mayor Julia Gattafrata hosted a community listening session for District 2 at Hosta Hoche (Hostaheche) building to provide city updates and gather resident input. The session covered the city's financial health, infrastructure investments, public safety staffing, park improvements, and housing development. Alder Bill Jetzer and Alder Gabriela Gerhart (also Council President) joined the mayor. Fire Inspection Chief Mark Malukas and Parks Manager Eric Schreiner gave brief presentations. The meeting lasted approximately two hours.
Hello everyone. Hello. I am Julia Gattafrata, the mayor of the city of Fitchbore. We are here to in District 2 to provide an update of the city initiative project, and also for you to have the opportunity to ask questions to us. So this is we call community listening session. The agenda for today is we want to do the first spend less than an hour on the uh on talking about the city update. Then you have the two elders that represent the district, Alder Bill Jetzer and Alder Gabriela Herhart. And the both of them they are in the finance committee meeting for a couple of years. So this is a good team. So you can ask any question about budget or municipal finance because I think they they know a little bit. And also I am an accountant, so I know a little bit about this. Also, we are gonna have we I invited the fire department. Um with us today is the fire inspection chief Mark Malukas. I hope I say it correctly. He's gonna provide an update for the fire department and staffing and some challenging, and also I invited the parks department manager, Eric Strainer, who is gonna provide an update on what we're trying to do at McKeefarn Park with the new uh kid crossing replacement for the playground. Uh and then the next hour is gonna be open question and discussion, comment, everything that you want to ask us. Um we are here to to answer your question. If we don't know some of the questions, we're gonna tell you we don't know. We're gonna check with some of the staff and then uh respond to you. So um this is the elected official for the 26-27 Common Council meeting. Uh practically we man the 2625-26 Common Council, we have only one addition, it was Jake Leper. Uh Jake is this guy here who represents the district four. He was elected in November 24 by the council because it was an open seat and then re-elected by the community and his district in 2020 in April of 2026. As I mentioned, Gabriela is the president of the council. So what does it mean the president of the council? She's in charge of another meeting that we have every month, the call committee of the whole. She's in charge of putting the agenda, facilitating that meeting, and if something happened to me, she's gonna be your acting mayor. Or when I am outside the country, that it has happened, uh, she has been the acting mayor. Okay. So this is the Aldermanic map uh for the city. Um so what where we are discussing now is this section. Who's has that? Oh, okay. So we are talking about district two that is the purple. The city is uh is around 36,000 people, so each district represents around 9,000 people. Okay. So district two also, we are in the Madison School District, most of it. Um is the one of the districts that is fully developed, so there is not too much growth, we don't have too much land to grow. The only way to grow is up. And you can see in the fish catcher corridor. So this is me, and this is all the things that I do, but the other thing I want to mention if you want to know more about me and what I do and some comments. I established this year for 2020, oh 2026 is 27. Okay, sorry.