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Staff said the authority currently has about $1.7 million available for infrastructure work on Pleasant Street and is developing strategies for how to use those funds. Staff also said they have presented a brochure and a multi‑year budget to state officials and requested $4 million from a bond appropriation included in a state bill; staff said state officials asked for a specific multi‑year spending plan before committing the funds.

Sarah Page, executive director, described recent outreach: authority members and the governor's office had urged the review office to reconsider the standard review process. Page said the office is now “suggesting using that process for urban renewal plans” via a special‑review procedure that could avoid some steps of the full review. Page said a meeting with the agency is scheduled Monday to learn whether the new special‑review approach would apply to the authority’s plan and, if so, what steps would follow.

If the agency adopts the special‑review procedure, Page said it could materially shorten or alter environmental review for the authority and other urban renewal plans in the state. If the agency does not change its approach, staff said they will proceed with the next phase of Pleasant Street work using grant funds; the authority has until about 2030 to spend the $1.7 million, staff said.

The authority also confirmed a storefront-improvement approach: the board previously agreed to match a storefront improvement with a $10,000 grant intended to pair with $50,000 in state tax credits; staff said the state tax credits are applied to encourage occupancy and are not restricted by strict usage strings.

Next steps: staff will report after the scheduled meeting with the state review office and continue planning options for how to deploy the $1.7 million.

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Chair John Erickson and staff said the contractor had received the anodes and completed knuckle welds ‘‘just underneath the concrete at the top of the piles.’’ Sarah Page, executive director, noted crews had to clear concrete overspill from gaps and fill wider gaps prior to welding. She said heat had delayed coating application: “when they're opening up the Denso 5 25 that goes over those knuckle welds, the coating is literally hardening up in, like, minutes,” and crews plan to return to coating work when temperatures moderate.

Page said diving work and anode installation were expected to begin the following week and that crews had been adapting to tidal windows. She also described use of a device to stabilize the work platform while crews work from a skiff. Board members were not presented with a motion; the update was informational.

Next steps: staff will monitor Kavanaugh's progress and report back when the diving/anode phase is underway and when full coating can be completed.

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The action matters because staff said timely bidding would produce cost estimates the authority can use while the city awaits possible Seaport grant funding; members repeatedly flagged uncertainty about the state grant schedule and about whether grant rules or seasonal constraints would limit when work can occur.

Karen Martin, project manager, told the authority “the bid package will be on the street July 14 with a pre bid meeting at the site July 23, and bids are gonna be due July 31.” She said the invasive work was budgeted at $60,000 and will be paid from Seaport-related grant funds already awarded to the authority.

Board members debated two paths: expedite award so work can begin this year, or delay to wait for the next Seaport grant round. Martin and Sarah Page, executive director, told the authority the Seaport program has moved its grant window to “fall 2025” and that the authority’s previously awarded fiscal‑year 2024 Seaport (C4) grant had been amended so some design funds can be used for construction now. Page said the authority could bid now and decline to award if board members were not comfortable with the prices that come in.

Members also questioned consultant cost estimates. Board discussion referenced a consultant labeled “Beta” whose budgeted contingency (15%) some members said was high; members compared Beta’s figures to an earlier GEI estimate. Sarah Page summarized that until bids are received ‘‘you don’t really know’’ which line items will come in high or low.

The board voted to let staff advertise the larger project for bids and to allow the chair to execute a contract for the invasive-species construction if the low responsible bid is at or below $75,000. The motion to authorize staff to bid the revetment and return with numbers passed by recorded voice votes.

Discussion only: members noted seasonal constraints tied to the winter flounder breeding season (January 15–May 31) and said that even with turbidity curtains the state may not permit in‑season work. Members also noted that if the project exceeds planned amounts, additional approvals or grant matches would be required.

Next steps: staff will finalize the bid package, solicit bids under the advertised schedule, and return to the authority with bid results for formal award or further direction. If bids are received by late July, the authority expects to have price information in time for the August meeting.

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Authority staff said the TDI program declined to extend the fellow who had supported North Main work, and that the authority and partners are forming a committee including the chamber, Bank5, the Police Athletic League and other local groups to identify how to continue activities. Staff said ideas include securing part‑time staffing (for example, 10 hours per week) or relying on a volunteer committee to coordinate events.

Board and staff described a separate private effort to illuminate historic buildings visible from the Braga Bridge. Staff said community members have raised roughly $5,000 to pilot a “lighting the way” program, with the first building proposed for uplighting being the Peoples Inc. bank building; other early targets include a tile mural on a former Herald News building and the Congregational Church steeple.

Events and activation: Viva Fall River is leading a Thursday-night market from 4 to 8 p.m. through September on the Purchase Street patio, featuring vendors, music and food trucks. Staff also said a larger block party, “Party on Purchase,” is scheduled for July 17 with street closures and family activities.

Staff said small microgrants (about $1,500) from MassDevelopment-related funds will support planters and beautification work, and staff expect to contribute to planting in public planters near City Hall.

Next steps: the new committee and partners will propose a governance/financing approach to the authority to sustain neighborhood activation and events if TDI funding is not renewed.

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