So we will just let it to Jessica.

Right now, six weeks ago.

No, they don't have to review.

Oh, they don't have to read it.

We're gonna get some new in the new year with the council.

So is it six point three?

Was it for six months?

Yeah.

Yes, hello, my name is Shane Burgo.

And today is Tuesday, November twenty-fifth.

She's right up front.

I'm ready, guys.

Count me down.

Let's do three two one just to be dramatic.

All right.

It is six oh four PM on Tuesday, November twenty-fifth, and we are opening up our special committee on environmental affairs.

Note this meeting is being live streamed and recorded.

City Council and committee meetings can be viewed on the City of New Bedford's homepage under quick links.

I am the chair of this committee, Shane Burgo, and I'm joined in the chamber by my colleagues in government, Councillor at Large and Second Vice President, Linda M.

Morad, Ward 3 Counselor Sean Oliver, Ward 5 Counselor, Joseph Lopes, Counselor at Large, Brian Gomes, and Ward 6 Counselor Ryan Pereira.

I'll ask the clerk if there are any letters to be read into the record.

There are I have a total of three to read to you this evening.

And this one is from Councillor Giester.

I'm writing to inform you.

Regretfully, I've been able to attend the special committee on environmental affairs meeting on Tuesday, November 25th, 2025, due to Family Matter.

Please read this letter into the record to make my colleagues and the public aware of the reason for my absence.

This letter is from Councillor Choquette.

I'm waiting to inform you that regretfully I will be unable to attend the special committee on environmental affairs meeting on Tuesday, November 25th, 2025, due to a previous business commitment.

Please read this letter into the record to make my colleagues in the public aware of the reason for my absence.

And this letter is from Councillor Carney.

I'm writing to inform you that regretfully I will be late for tonight's committee meeting due to attending a meeting prior to the start of this meeting.

Please read this letter into the record to make my colleagues and those in attendance and the public aware of the reason for my tidiness.

Motion receive and place on file.

Motion place on file made by Councillor Gomez seconded by Councillor Oliver.

Anyone on the question?

Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

All right.

Any opposed, the ayes have it.

I'll ask the clerk to read item one and one A.

Item one and one A is a communication.

Mayor Mitchell to the City Council submitting a resolution adopting the 2025 City of New Bedford multi-hazard mitigation plan.

1A is the resolution.

One in one A are now before you.

Motion receive and place on file.

The communication resolution made by Councilor Loebs, seconded by Council Pereira.

Anyone on the question seeing none?

All those in favor say aye.

Any opposed, the ayes have it.

You'll also find on your desk the copy of the presentation that uh director Paul or whomever will present to us.

If I can have a motion to receive and place on file from the floor made by Councilor Lopes, seconded by Council Oliver.

Mr.

Chair, can we get an updated version?

An updated version?

Is there an updated version?

I think that was oh, because it was from oh okay.

Never mind.

Yeah, uh there is a note here.

Obviously, this uh presentation was originally for our meeting that was scheduled on November 10th.

Um that meeting, as you all are aware, was uh rescheduled to tonight due to the lack of quorum.

I'm glad that you all could join us tonight for this meeting.

Um so if you want to make that note on your own copy, that's fine.

So again, the the motion was made to receive and place on file this communication.

Uh no one else on the question.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, the ayes aye.

Uh is it director Paul, will you be leading the presentation or all three?

All right.

Well, if you want to come to the podium and whoever wants to begin.

All right, good evening.

Um, what's before you tonight is the I would say uh what four-year process almost?

Well, actually, it seems like four for us, but this is the update of our 2016 hazard multi-hazard mitigation plan.

Um, it's a five-year plan.

So it expired right during COVID.

Obviously, we're a little busy during COVID, so then right when COVID's uh ended, we jumped right into it and updating this.

Um a plan that the city submits to MEMA and FEMA.

Um, it's a required plan that will help us get funding per se to deal with the has a um multi-hazard um projects that we uh we uh identified in this um plan.

Um you it was a team effort.

There was multiple departments, DPI, environmental stewardship, emergency management, police fire, EMS, and community outreach.

Um, and I'll turn it over to Craig, our consultant, uh, who can give you uh an overview of the whole plan.

Good evening, thank you for having us tonight.

Um so the as Brian mentioned, this was a two-year plan.

Uh I stop you for a second.

I I I don't want I don't want to seem rude, but uh, can I just get your name?

Because I don't think I've ever met you two.

My name is Craig Pereira.

Okay, thank you.

I'm a senior planner with the horsey wiggle.

I'm sorry.

That's okay.

Because I gotta write it down.

So all right.

So tonight's agenda just why should the city adopt the plan, what's in the plan, and what went into the uh development of the preparation for this update.

Next slide, please.

So why should uh uh New Bedford adopt the updated multi-hazard mitigation plan?

And first I want to also just state that this went from a when we started this project, it went from a natural hazard mitigation plan to a multi-hazard mitigation plan looking at not just natural hazards but also um human cause and technological hazards, and it also was a project that was uh happening in tandem with the update of the comprehensive emergency management plan.

So, right now both of your documents are consistent, which is a huge bonus to the city.

Um so why should you adopt uh the disaster mitigation act of 2000 requires that communities have uh um approved hazard mitigation plan in place in order to be eligible for federal funding?

Um there's consistency across municipal documents.

So, as I mentioned, the SEMP is now in in alignment with this hazard mitigation plan, and you're also in the process of updating your master plan, and we met with the uh community development department as well during this process to make sure we carried their actions over that are applicable to the actions of this plan to make sure that there was consistency across that document as well.

Um, and then it just supports the mission statement.

This is just the mission statement that we developed for um for this hazard mitigation plan update.

Um just speaks to proactively identifying, assessing and mitigating risks, all the different types of hazards, um, community safety, resilience, equitable access, equitable uh uh conditions, um managing resources effectively, and um protecting and restoring natural assets, sustainable economy uh for both current and future challenges.

So, as Brian mentioned, uh hazard mitigation plan has a five-year planning horizon.

So once this plan is adopted and the city receives the letter from FEMA that the plan is now in place, the city has five years uh moving forward that this plan is now in compliance and active.

Next slide, please.

So again, why should you adopt uh what it really comes down to is funding.

So I put the first one up there, building resilient infrastructure communities program, which is also known as BRIC.

That program funding program was the primary funding mechanism for a lot of hazard mitigation actions that you'll find in this plan and for other communities.

Uh due to the uh current administration uh dissolving that program, it is no longer available, but we are listing based on MIMA and FEMA's recommendations.

We are listing hazard mitigation grant assistance programs, so that if the administration does turn over and there are uh it does come back, BRIC does come back, the city will still be eligible to apply for those funding mechanisms.

This other list, just these are all from the mitigation strategy that is located in your plan.

So these are the the different types of funding mechanisms and grant programs that the city should also be considering, not just BRIC, although BRIC was one of the primary ones, but these are all also valid um uh grant programs that the city could apply for.

Next slide, please.

So what's in the updated plan?

So we did the updated the community profile.

Uh we as I mentioned, we looked at natural hazards.

We also looked at the climate change impacts on those natural hazards.

There's um human cause, technological.

Uh one of the major significant um efforts was to update the GIS data set, so critical facilities and vulnerable populations.

Uh that was a significant overhaul for the GIS data, which is now up and running and current.

Uh we have a capability assessment, which is a mandatory section that we have to show what the requirement what the capabilities of the city are to implement and to mitigate all these actions that were identified.

We have the mitigation strategy, and those are broken out similarly to your existing plan by department or office.

And those are also high we're scored high, medium, and low actions.

And there's a section on plan implementation and maintenance, and then one of another requirement is that we document the planning process that uh that this uh group took over.

Next slide, please.

So we had a number of different uh teams or committees.

We had a the core team, which were um the the three folks that are here with me tonight.

Um we were the day-to-day working group.

Um we also had a local hazard mitigation committee, and it was typically representatives from all the municipal departments, so we had about 32, 34 folks on that committee.

Um we also had representation from the equity partnerships, which was a separate committee as well.

So we had I think five individuals representing the social equity committee on our local hazard mitigation team.

The equity part, the technical committee, um, those were municipal officials and topic experts that we met with at uh the beginning of the uh the onset of this project so that we could develop our risk assessment.

Those are the folks that are intimately involved in the day-to-day business of the of the city.

We had an equity partnership as well, um, constant you know, made up of uh social service agencies throughout the city.

Um they also participated on the local hazard mitigation committee, and then the consultant team was led by Kim Lundgren associates and then Horsley Wit and groups where I work.

So we had core team meetings from January 30th, 2023 to December of 2024.

Uh I think we met on a bi-weekly bi-weekly basis.

Uh we had a project web page that's still up and running, hosted on the city's dashboard.

Um, and all of our outreach materials and uh guides, fact sheets were translated um into um Spanish and Portuguese.

Thanks.

Um, local hazard mitigation committee meetings were required to have four.

We had five because the last meeting, number four, is where we take a look at all of the mitigation actions for consideration to be included in the plan.

And it took us that last meeting is an opportunity where we have to go through and we have to do an abbreviated cost-benefit analysis.

We have to look at the costs and the benefits for each of the mitigation actions.

That took a considerable amount of time.

It's a lengthy process, so we had two meetings for that.

We had the technical committee meeting early on because they were the ones who we worked with in order to develop the hazard index and to rank the hazards, and then we had two public workshops, uh, one in April of uh uh 2024, and then the second one was um like a half day community event that uh we worked with uh emergency management on.

Um it was kind of like a family festival kind of thing, so that we could generate people, foot traffic to come to our meeting to learn about the hazard mitigation plan, but to also learn about all the other benefits that and community resources that are available to those folks.

We had um we had our equity partnership, and then we also made a concerted effort to expand or extend our community outreach and engagement.

So we had uh specific meetings, individual meetings in each ward.

We also hosted listening posts at the libraries and some of the schools as well to get information into the plan throughout the process.

Um department community stakeholders.

So, in addition to the folks who are on our on our various committees, we also held a number of interviews with uh these folks here.

Um these folks were not necessarily participating on the day-to-day uh activities and efforts with the hazard mitigation plan, but we wanted their input and their feedback into the plan's development as well.

So we also had an online community survey, which was open for uh 10 months, and we had 213 responses over that 10 month period.

Some of that information uh we already knew, but some of the information was new to us, and we incorporated that information into the hazard profiles as well as the mitigation strategy.

These are just some of the responses that folks provided.

And that's that's the presentation.

Um everybody had an opportunity to review the draft plan before it went to MEMA.

So it went to the committees, it went to city council, it went to the mayor's office, it went to all departments, boards, and commissions.

Uh once that process was done, we updated the plan based on comments and feedback we received.

Adjacent communities were also notified of the um the availability of the draft plan.

Then the plan went to MIMA.

MIMA had a couple of required revisions that we had to make, and then it came back.

Uh once we sent that back to MEMA, they forwarded it to FEMA.

Um we got the letter, I think maybe two and a half months ago from FEMA saying that the plan was approved pending adoption.

So the city has one year from that date to formally adopt the plan and make it active and in compliance.

And if the plan doesn't get adopted within that one year from that initial date, then the process has to start all over again as far as data collection research and outreach and engagement.

So I did want to mention that the folks at resilience and environmental stewardship, uh, department of public infrastructure, um, as well as emergency management.

We met all the time.

We had thousands of emails, we had thousands of communications, and I want to just say that I really appreciate the three people who are standing here with me today who made this process come to fruition.

Any questions?

Yes, um, I just before we get to that, I just want to acknowledge our colleague uh counselor at large and first vice president AomiCarney has joined us.

McCarney has joined us.

Um and with that, the chair recognizes Councilor Lopes on his first.

Thank you.

So I went to the one at Hathaway School when October?

October of 23, I went and I saw, you know, Michelle and I had a great conversation.

And I guess the question after hearing this does the five-year window start at submittal or adoption?

Because that's two different things.

So the five year window will start once the city formally adopts the resolution and signs that I'll get a copy of that.

I submit that.

I insert that into the draft plan, I send that back to MEMA.

MEMA sends that to FEMA.

FEMA will send a copy, a letter to Michelle stating that the plan is now adopted in compliance and active for the next five years.

So it'll be from the data of that letter.

Okay.

And I I'm gonna be ignorant because I don't remember.

Does it build into it cyber attacks?

You know, that's water and so okay.

I wasn't sure.

I wasn't okay.

Yeah, that we when we met, it was initially supposed to be a natural hazard mitigation plan update, and we because we were doing the SEMP at the same time and they're interrelated, we decided to do the to factor in human cause as well as technological hazards.

Well, I saw the human cause.

That's what I was I just wanted to make sure.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you.

The chair recognizes Council Perr on his first.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

So uh one of the slides with the access to funding mechanisms, uh, not necessarily a funding mechanism, but does this uh plan begin the groundworks and maybe I think I've had this conversation with Michelle before, but to allow us to begin the process of joining the FEMA's community rating system?

Yes.

So we're actually just having a conversation about that because I know that Michelle um and Chance are in the process of looking into the CRS.

Um there are a number of points that the city can reap from this process.

There's a checklist.

So I had to encourage Michelle to go through that list and see what they can do based on the development of this plan.

But there are also a whole list of other things that the city can be doing.

Something things that are very easy, you can reach out to FEMA and you can download and print out some of their fact sheets, have them on display in your building inspector's office, you can get points for that.

So I suggested that the city go through that checklist and then do as much as you can before your first community assessment visit.

Yeah, a lot a lot of the constituents in my ward pay um flood have flood insurance, and if they're in certain districts, I'm I'm aware that they could reap some uh uh uh savings on their flood insurance if the city is part of the CRS.

So if this once the city gets enrolled, depending upon the number, you typically new new enrollees get get brought into the system at a number nine, which is a five percent discount on flood insurance policies, and the more that the city does on an annual basis and continues to have CRS and FIP program come back and review the the I want to say the higher, but it's uh and not the lower your number will go, the higher your discount will go.

So you start at a nine with a five percent, a one I think is a 45% discount on your flood insurance.

So if you do all those and keep checking things off the box, homeowners could look up to uh quite a substantial.

You have to keep on having NFIP and CIRS come back to the city to do the evaluation and to look at all your paperwork.

But yes.

Okay, very good.

Uh Michelle, I uh we've spoken about this.

It's very important that we get on this, so I'm glad to hear that this is one of the first steps.

All right.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Anyone else?

Chair recognize Councilor Morad on her first.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

You mentioned, excuse me, on your online community survey that you had 213 responses over a 10-month period.

Is that what you said?

And in your experience, is that typical high, low for a community like New Bedford?

For a for a large city, I would say it's pretty good.

Um to be perfectly honest, hazard mitigation planning is not boring.

Yeah.

Exciting, sexy stuff.

So I mean, I have other cities and towns that I work with that I have five responses.

So 213 was great.

And you mentioned there were some comments in the responses that you looked into further and maybe adapted into the plan.

Can you share a little bit about what those were?

Uh I I don't know what those are offhand, but they're actually in the plan.

They're in the one of the in Pendix C.

I'll take it.

So a lot of the a lot of the uh war meetings we were getting a lot of complaints or project uh notifications about flooding.

So we sat with DPI Sean, and a lot of the flooding, a lot of the wastewater management plan is into this as well.

Um another thing was power outages.

We when we did the when Greg did the uh interview with Eversource, we sat down with them to find out how can we make that infrastructure on Eversource's dime of course, make it a little more resilient when storms hit.

Um that's what came from the online community survey.

The online community survey, uh to me that was somebody sitting down at a computer.

That wasn't the neighborhood or the ward meetings, right?

So my understanding is we didn't you we didn't when that information came back, it was all pretty much in line with flooding.

And and all it counselor, uh when we did this, the biggest thing was flooding.

And that's what we took a lot on.

Um a lot of the 213 people that put in online, we heard it in council of Gieste's ward, which I think was probably the one of better better attended ones, thanks to the uh was uh community.

Uh yeah, community economic development center.

Yeah, CEDC did brought a lot of people down there.

Uh the biggest thing was the flooding and the infrastructure to be resilient in the event of a storm.

Okay, so probably what, a hundred and forty-five projects, something like that, right?

It was it was quite lengthy, yeah.

So a lot of the microphones.

A lot of the comments that we received were also was information that we already knew because when we did our capability assessment, which is our internal review of all your plans, studies and reports that have happened since 2016, we factored all that information in and actually worked with Sean's uh group to make sure that all of those plans are now updated as well as far as what's been completed and what remains to be completed.

Okay.

And you also mentioned that you had quite a bit of department input as well, or that you went you spoke to all the departments.

The majority of department chairs um or representatives were served on a local hazard mitigation committee, and those that weren't are the ones that we went and interviewed with.

Okay, and was there any revelations out of those discussions other than flooding?

Um nothing significant.

There were some concerns about um facilities, I think, uh regarding generators.

Yes.

School department.

Yep.

So those have been addressed in the plan?

Anything that came up as a significant issue and that's something that we profiled in the hazard and the risk assessment has a mitigation action.

You're required.

If you mention something as problematic within the city, you're required to develop a hazard mitigation action for it.

And have they been the plans have been up to the case?

Yes.

That's one of the first things.

When we submit the draft plan to MEMA and FEMA, we have to also submit a document called the plan review tool, and that is like a cheat sheet for MIMA and FEMA to see all the required elements where they are in the plan.

Okay.

And then other than getting adoption, what's the next step?

I know you're going to send it to FEMA and MEMAR and all those other people, but what's the next step?

Implement your plan.

So and what are the plans to implement the plan?

Um the whole the whole point of of streamlining this, and we significantly change the outline of this because we want this to be a living document that is easily accessible.

So working with our committee, but working with the core team, we developed a new outline for that so that all municipal departments can access it and can go right to the mitigation strategy and start figuring out what you want to start working on as far as types of grants, the grant when the funding round happens and things like that, so that the city can get your ducks in a row and you're prepared when the funding announcement is released.

And who follows up?

That that's really what I'm trying to say.

I mean, it's great that we're adopting it, and it's great that you know we'll have the opportunity to apply because we have it in place.

But I mean, who's who's watching this going forward?

Who's making sure?

That would probably be the three people in front of you.

That would be Sean from DPI, environmental stewardship, and myself.

But do you have a plan, Brian?

So the plan is outlined mostly.

No, no, no, for you to continue going forward.

So we have plan maintenance basically.

That'll be plan implementation and plan maintenance is part of the hazard mitigation plan.

So we have to stay in that plan.

I think it's section six.

We have to stay in that plan the frequency and the timing of when the local hazard mitigation committee and the core team are going to get together and review the mitigation strategy and develop start to develop their report cards so that it's not five years down the road and someone's finally looking at the plan.

It's supposed to be looked at on an annual basis.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

I yield for now, Mr.

President.

Chair recognized Councillor Gomes on his first.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Chairman.

I I like to go to this slide.

Why shouldn't be effort adopted uh No, I think you had it up there.

Go back.

Right there.

Um access to funding.

Yes.

How would that all work?

So essentially the city would get a notice of funding opportunity or availability from the various different programs or seek out themselves.

And you would be uh required to, in order to implement a mitigation strategy, you're gonna have to do a full blown cost benefit analysis.

Um typically you have to achieve a 1.0 or higher in order to be considered competitive.

You would submit your application.

Um the benefit of a hazard mitigation plan, it doesn't actually accomplish anything but establishing a roadmap for future projects.

And essentially what you want to do is you want to look at what some of your highest priorities are, start to figure out what grant mechanisms you're gonna be reaching out to and start developing your application now.

So start taking photos, start collecting damage assessments, things like that, newspaper articles, so that you can build your case because typically what happens is funding opportunity is released and cities and towns don't have the capacity to mobilize and to respond to that funding opportunity.

So the more you can advance before the opportunity is in front of you, the better off the city is.

Could I ask Michelle a question or Brian?

Whoever does the city plan to um go after this grants.

You know, I I'm seeing things like the port authority funding.

I'm seeing boat infrastructure grant program.

We know that we've got a problem downtown uh on the waterfront and removal and repair grant program.

Uh very significant to the city of New Bedford.

I don't know how much money is is in there, but uh something that we should be looking at because it it's I I feel it's desperately needed.

The City Council brought some of them issues to the forefront some time ago, and we were shut the door on, and now I'm seeing what I'm seeing, and it just again I do that complete spin and go, what the heck?

Yeah, no, we're definitely gonna look at the implementation plan and the priority actions and then identify what the funding source is that's most appropriate that'll give us the biggest bang for our buck as far as you know getting sufficient money to at least do a step in the right direction or the whole thing, and then work interdepartmentally to see who is the best you know, department to lead the effort and what support departments do they need to help make that happen.

So, yes, we will all be working together, and we will we will apply for every grant up there if we if we need to, and if it if it's applicable, we will absolutely do that.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Chair recognizes Councillor Oliver on his first.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh whoever can answer this one to kind of uh piggyback on uh the counselor from uh ward six um when it comes to that rating where we start at a nine.

Is there a plan in place within there to immediately start addressing that to lower that, or is that just something that we are talking about right now?

I would say typically most communities come in at a nine unless you're outstanding and doing everything that you could possibly be doing, and I don't know any communities that are doing that.

Um but essentially what happens is is it's a community assessment visit that they come out and they evaluate.

It takes a couple of weeks, they look at everything that you've done, they look at everything that you're still doing and what's on your immediate horizon, and then they give you that score.

Um essentially what happens is I think it's on an annual or a biannual basis.

You can actually have them come back and you can then update your checklist as far as what you're doing and what you've done, could be changes to your regulations or bylaws.

Again, it could be something as simple as a fact sheet available to builders or homeowners, potential homeowners.

Right.

Okay, so that wasn't gonna be my next question was like when can we get them to come back?

Because it sounds like this is gonna be submitted, we're gonna come in at a nine.

My question is just is there a plan in place to already start getting us ready for that, or is it we're gonna get an assessment, then they're gonna tell us what we can do.

I just want to make sure that we're proactive in that.

So this this plan won't get you enrolled in CRS.

It'll give you credit points towards your number of when you get enrolled into it.

Yep.

Um you can continually update as often as you want as as you make more improvements or you make changes to your zoning, your bylaws and things like that.

So it's not uh it's not a it's not like uh it's not an easy process, put it that way.

It's if you come in at a most come in at a nine, you're probably gonna be at a nine for a year or two.

Yep.

Um but then after that, the more like I said, the more that you can do and you can show, you can have them come back and then they'll do another evaluation of that.

And in your uh opinion of uh putting these plans in place and seeing um what other communities have done or are implementing.

Does the city of New Bedford truly have an opportunity to get down to a one, or are we gonna be somewhere let's be realistic?

Uh I don't want to, you know, we're gonna be from five percent of 40 something.

I personally don't know.

Realistically, we're probably only gonna achieve 25 percent.

I don't know any communities that are at one, to be perfectly honest with you, but I only work in New England, so um I you know ideally you could continue to to move towards that, but it's like I said, it's not it's not a simple process.

I just want to set a realistic expectation too.

So thank you.

That is all thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Chair recognizes Councillor Carney on her first.

Uh thank you, Count uh Mr.

Chair.

Um I don't know.

I sorry I got here late, so I'm not sure if anything went over this, but um how long does this take to once we adopt it to be finalized?

As soon as I get the signed resolution, I will insert it into the draft plan PDF.

I will send it to Mima, and MIMA will forward that to FEMA, and within a couple of days, Michelle should be getting a letter from FEMA stating that the hazard mitigation plan is now in place and compliant.

Okay, so once that is those grants that um and all those funding opportunities will be available to us, correct?

Yeah, well, it depends on it depends.

Some of them are rolling grant applications, some of them come out on an annual basis, some come out twice a year.

So whenever those open up is whenever we can apply for them.

Some of them or I think most of those specifically state that you have to have an updated and active uh ha has a meant hazard mitigation plan to apply for the grant, and you've got a point to where in the hazard mitigation plan the item that you're applying for is so that they can see that it truly is something that has come through and been vetted through that planning process.

So I will also add like the city of Fall River was very beneficial once they passed that, but that was under the Biden administration.

Uh currently, like Craig was saying, the current administration is not very uh forgiving.

Uh not they don't give out as many grants as they used to.

So like City of Fall River, 7 million, $8 million, they write it with something like that.

Sandy and Hospital, they had a huge flooding issue over there.

They got that money after a disaster declaration, and they were we move forward under the Trump administration.

I don't I just sat down in a big grants meeting with Mima and uh the my yearly EMPG grant, have three months to turn around.

It's almost impossible.

And they're doing that on on purpose.

So you don't have enough time to correct get all your paperwork together to submit.

Like BRIC we were trying to submit for the um on Cove Road and all with that uh where we do the wastewater, we're trying to get a generator, but the deadlines were too too tight for us to turn around with our project uh description plans and everything.

So some some of these grants are they make them very hard to get.

But we're gonna try our best.

Right.

So we can't there's so there's I mean there's a lot of issues that I can see up there that we that we've been dealing with for years within the city, such as the flooding up with Park and the dam.

So you've got that dam, the state dam, uh the mass um what is it, dam and seawall.

So that funding since, but we should have a lot of paperwork on that dam already because we've been talking about it for years.

So that's something that if that comes up, we can jump on quickly because we've got pictures, we've got all that infrastructure that we've been looking at, working on and trying to get money to fix that.

So that would be something appropriate for this particular grant, correct?

All of these grant opportunities and programs, you're you're eligible, the city is eligible to apply.

They already exist.

Yeah.

Um what the mitigation strategy has the mitigation action and any sub-elements that are associated with that, and then it has a standardized bulleted list: responsible party, supporting party, grant mechanisms, funding opportunities, cost estimates, conceptual cost estimates, time frame, and things like that.

Those are all requirements of MIMA.

So each of the actions already states what the action is intended to serve, and then what grant programs the city should consider for funding for those.

So it's already laid out, and it just speaks back to I think a gentleman over here who was asking about the projects, getting your ducks in a row now in advance of a funding opportunity announcement so that when it does come around, like Brian mentioned, there's not enough turnaround time or not enough capacity to apply for the grant.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Mr.

President.

Both.

Either one.

Anyone else on their second?

Since everyone's already had their a first.

All right.

Seeing none.

Um the appropriate action would be to refer out.

Refer to the full city council for adoption of the resolution.

Second.

Motion made by Council Pereira, seconded by Councillor Gomes.

Anyone on the question?

Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, the ayes have it.

Mr.

Chairman, roll call.

Well, it's already passed.

Mr.

Chairman.

Yes.

I I make a motion to waive the reading.

Take no further action or report out to the full city council items number two and three on the agenda.

Motion made by Council Pereira to waive the reading of items two and three and report out to the full city council for no further action.

Seconded by Councilor Gomes.

Anyone on the question?

Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

The ayes have it.

Motion to adjourn.

Motion to adjourn made by Council Pereira.

Seconded by Second.

Councillor Carney.

Anyone on the question?

Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

The ayes have it.

We are adjourned at 6 41 p.m.

Thank you.

Um, Director Paul, just so you know it will appear on the decision.