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The public hearing was called to order by Councilwoman Shirley Surgeon, joined by Councilwoman Kelly Billydew, on Monday, October 19, 2026 at 23:22 UTC. The hearing was broadcast live on HBATV.org, Comcast Channel 96, Frontier Channel 6032, HBA TV, Facebook, and YouTube. The agenda included two items, but only one was explicitly discussed: a resolution authorizing a 15-year tax fixing agreement with two five-year renewal options for the Edge 400 project at 338 New Park Avenue.
Councilwoman, you're muted if you're if you're speaking. Guess what? I was muted, so let me start over again. Good evening. I would like to thank everyone for being here this evening. Today is Monday, October 19th, and I would like to call tonight's public hearing to order. Um, Councilwoman uh Shirley Surgeon. I'll be chairing this public hearing tonight, and I'm being joined uh by councilwoman um sorry, majority leader, Kelly Billydew, who is also part of the public hearing. The public hearing is being broadcast live on HBATV.org, Comcast Channel 96, Frontier, Channel 6032, HBA TV, Facebook, and YouTube. The public hearing shall be conducted in accordance with the following procedure. Each person wishing to adjust the council or the committee therefore shall, upon recognizing or recognition by the presiding officer, give his or her name, address, and if he or she represents a group, shall in addition state for the record the name and address of said group or organization. Each speaker shall be limited to his or her um remarks to five minutes, and it is the duty of the public presiding officer to enforce this limitation in an equitable fashion. All remarks shall be addressed to the council as a body and not any member thereof. All remarks shall be limited to present to the present or proposed city of Hartford policies, budget, ordinance, or resolutions that are designated for such public hearing. During the public hearing, no member of the council may address the council as a member of the public. During the public hearing, there shall be no debate by the council. All the questions may be asked by the council of person making such presentation. It's a resolution for Mayor Arulampalam authorizing the city of Hartford to enter into a 15-year tax fixing agreement with two five with two five-year renewal options with the developers of for the edge 400 project located at 338 New Park Avenue. Is a tax fixing agreement? And since we have no one uh here at the committee public hearing who wants to speak, we will need to move on to items 2.2 on the agenda. Do we have anyone here in the meeting to speak against the item two point two? Do we have anyone here at the meeting to speak against items two point two? Seeing I'm hearing no one to those are the only two items we have on the agenda tonight. So again, I'm going to call this public hearing to close since then.