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The authority voted to approve the financial reports for the period ending Jan. 31, 2025, and to accept vouchers and management reports. The board also approved the FYE 02/19/26 budget book.

On contracts and procurement, the board approved an elevator design contract, multiple on-call vendor contracts for maintenance trades, an inspections contract for Section 8 housing quality standards, a compactor purchase, and a UPCS inspection contract. The board approved awarding Stark Architects to design Elevator Number 2 at Shaw Bishop Eads Apartments under HUD O 95189. The authority approved one-year on-call service contracts for painting, carpentry, plumbing, electrical, door and glass fabrication, HVAC, asphalt and concrete repairs, flooring removal/installation and related trades, with per-vendor not-to-exceed amounts (standard trades not to exceed $75,000; asphalt/concrete and floor removal/installation not to exceed $125,000).

The portable (Section 8) inspections contract was awarded to PHI Inspections for a three-year contract with two separate one-year options to renew at the authority's discretion, in an amount not to exceed $273,000 over the contract term. The authority awarded a contract for a compactor at Frank B. Olivera Apartments to Maguire Equipment Inc. in an amount not to exceed $27,737. The authority also awarded a UPCS/UPG inspection contract to US Inspection Group for $21,143.20 (the other bidder, Midwest Inspection, submitted a higher price of $23,989.40).

The board approved proposed memoranda of agreement with AFSCME Council 93, Local 1990 for Unit B and Unit C covering dates shown in the meeting packet. Board members described those as renewals of existing agreements.

A motion to move into executive session carried under Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 30A, Section 21(a)(2), to conduct a strategy session in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel and collective bargaining or contract negotiations with nonunion personnel. The board subsequently voted to adjourn the meeting from executive session.

Most votes were recorded by voice and carried with board assent; the meeting record shows unanimous approval on the listed items and the motion to enter executive session.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","3.10.2025 Housing Authority","oneSentenceSummary","The Fall River Housing Authority approved routine financial reports, awarded multiple maintenance and inspection contracts, approved its budget book and memoranda of agreement with AFSCME, and voted to enter executive session under MGL Chapter 30A §21(a)(2).","taxTitle","Fall River City, Bristol County, Massachusetts","taxId",4215,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6288380,"Resident describes stabbing, calls for better security and maintenance at Cartel Heights",442,83000,525000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2540872-8456a12cf9f4164cdbeb80c7efde6d56&start=83&end=525","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2540872-8456a12cf9f4164cdbeb80c7efde6d56/thumbnail_83000.jpg","/articles/6288380/Fall-River-City/Bristol-County/Massachusetts/Resident-describes-stabbing-calls-for-better-security-and-maintenance-at-Cartel-Heights","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6288380-3bd0dc30ea47871459e1be4af47bf710/orig.mp4?Expires=1773677066&Signature=oE-rRdrwYtvBxPz5m-YZwNih9IWnXWYh~7z3jg-abgVJhu9dUolm5hoVq16LDlaL~cYMAaxjdHWQGTO~d7rLaDgHC4Fsyd-v1HlmA2e3s4tBF4hLFlqhFvK3LMxkbCwRofHERRVKN4s5kOjoAXX1obq3YH4dDB-jMohjKfwYZrLrCPS5tzOUEWLnKhcvSwimU~XhmExLS8RlioffHFyHM4ThO5gj5o0P4KwbEH2GxfEg1V0ryP912SsJ6tQoN9g6NqkLrpJnzJcLnh4y1ryG3S7JHj3WoZNiAKH3YYfRYvJwJk~f~HwCZF-PYExDEcqbWJlgSBEIODOBPHzikhyBDg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Robert Thallow, a resident of Cartel Heights, told the Fall River Housing Authority at its public meeting that he and other residents helped a man who arrived at the building after being stabbed and shot.

\"It didn't happen at Cartel. He ran up from — everybody must know the shakers,\" Thallow said, identifying the nearby home where the injured man had come from. He credited Clarissa Borges, who is training as a nurse, and another resident, Scott, a former trauma nurse, for helping stabilize the man until emergency responders arrived: \"If it wasn't for them too, we'd be having a different con discussion now because he wouldn't have made it.\"

Thallow said the person arrested in the case had been asked to leave the building the week before after loitering near the elevator. He told the authority the Cartel/Cattell property has been a recurring source of trouble and that residents have been struggling to keep unauthorized people off the site, especially on weekends.

The resident pressed officials for better access controls and a clearer maintenance chain of command for seniors. \"There's I don't get a chain of command because you can't expect an 80 year old woman to go down to the basement and knock on a maintenance man's door,\" Thallow said. He also reported problems with the building intercom: when residents answer, \"they cannot hear them,\" he said, and added that the intercom difficulty may be one way unauthorized people gain entrance.

Thallow raised outstanding maintenance items he said affect mobility and safety, including approved tub cut modifications that he said remain unfinished for specific residents: \"I know there's still a couple that really need them. Like, for instance, Laurie, who's here today, she's waiting, and mister Price, them are the 2 that are waiting that have been approved that I know of.\"

Housing authority staff and a board member agreed to attend a tenant meeting on Wednesday at 4 p.m. to review work-order procedures, tub-cut status and security protocol for the building. The authority also invited facility staff to the meeting to explain work-order and access procedures.

Thallow closed by urging residents and officials to continue resident-led events that foster social connection and vigilance; he said Sunday dinners and card games helped build that community oversight but that recent violence had disrupted those activities.

The concerns raised in public comment prompted the authority to schedule a follow-up tenant meeting and to send facility staff to address work-order and intercom issues, according to remarks during the meeting.","At a Fall River Housing Authority meeting, resident Robert Thallow described responding to a weekend stabbing near Cartel Heights and urged improvements to security, intercoms and maintenance processes for elderly tenants.","actionData","errors"]

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Fall River Housing Authority approves contracts, budget book and union MOAs; moves into executive session

Resident describes stabbing, calls for better security and maintenance at Cartel Heights