Town Council Work Session - September

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A. Call to Order
B. Pledge of Allegiance
C. Municipal Affordable Housing Fund
C.1. Walker Lofts LP - Walker Lofts, 40 Walker Street, AP 2, Lot 84
C.1.a. Public Hearing
C.1.b. Discussion and/or action
D. Request for an Executive Session
D.1. Request to adjourn into Executive Session pursuant to RIGL 42-46-5(a)(2) discussion on all collective bargaining agreements with LIUNA Local 1033
D.2. ​Entertain a motion ​to seal the minutes from Executive Session pursuant to RIGL 42-46-7(c)
D.3. Vote on matters from Executive Session
E. Joint Meeting with Lincoln Water Commission
F. Review of Agenda
F.1. Agenda of September 15, 2026
G. Public Comment
H. Adjourn

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[0:02] Thank you, I'm going to call to port the town council, work session meeting, September 14, at several 4 p.m., the properties rise to the pledge.
[0:16] Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
[0:20] Thanks to the Republic for which the stands, onation, on regard into this vote of liberty and justice for all.
[0:33] The first item is the Municipal Affordable Housing Fund, our court received communication today that they are not available to come today.
[0:51] So I'll let you take the motion to defer this to the October work session.
[1:33] Councilmember Rousseau, yes, and the chair of O'Jes.
[1:53] I'll now wait to take the motion to seal the minutes from executive session, pursue it to a graduate general law.
[1:59] 42-46-7-C.
[2:02] I'm a motion to councilperson.
[2:04] I am sorry, but Councilmember O'Neill, discussion.
[2:06] I wrote a roll call, Councilmember Nose, Councilperson.
[2:09] Councilor Riesa, Councilmember Rousseau.
[2:11] Yes, I'm Chair of O'Jes.
[2:14] And I'm entertained in motion for the matters in executive session.
[2:19] I'll make a motion to ratify the contracts.
[2:25] We'll show ratify the contract from Councilman.
[2:29] Second.
[2:29] Second by Council.
[2:30] Is there any discussion?
[2:32] Once again on a rope form.
[2:34] Councilman, only Councilman for sure.
[2:35] Council, is that?
[2:36] Yes.
[2:37] Councilman.
[2:38] Yes.
[2:38] Okay.
[2:43] Okay,
[2:46] then you could make it.
[2:55] As we heard from the chair of the water commission, they did not post their meeting.
[3:02] Tonight's meeting with them, so we're going to have to reschedule by.
[3:06] As we look at rescheduleing it, our regularly scheduled council meeting for October is on the 13th.
[3:16] And that is the day after Columbus Day.
[3:21] It is not the third Tuesday of the month of the 20th.
[3:25] So it's the 20th.
[3:29] Very good.
[3:31] All right.
[3:32] So shall
[3:38] we move the municipal affordable housing fund, public hearing,
[3:46] to the October work session on the 19th?
[3:51] Yes, okay, and what is your pleasure in regards to the joint meeting with the Lincoln Water Commission?
[4:02] As we see, we see 23 questions from us and we want to leave time for back and forth.
[4:12] We want to do that on the same night, but we want to schedule that on a different day.
[4:18] I
[4:20] mean it was on tonight, the same night, so
[4:26] move to the late team.
[4:31] That would take some time.
[4:33] Okay, I'll let, yeah, I'll let 10 notes.
[4:43] Okay,
[4:46] that brings us to
[4:52] review of the agenda for tomorrow night.
[4:58] We have an application for a special event from Bally's Twin River for Boxing.
[5:05] We have a class F, for the 250th Pike Gallard Lincoln Senior Center.
[5:12] The Chase Fong concert series are October 24, it's St. Basil, Church, Scholarship of
[5:20] One night on October 3. We have an application for an MFA for Dolby's Corphing.
[5:32] We have all the
[5:33] usual items under the consent agenda.
[5:40] We have appointments, tenant board of affairs, district
[5:44] two in District 5, Zoning Board of Review, Conservation Commission, Tenant Board of Affairs, District
[5:54] 1, District 3, and District 4, and an appointment parks and recognition.
[6:04] On its subcommittee,
[6:05] we'll be giving this report tomorrow night.
[6:11] Preacher subcommittee will be meeting tomorrow night
[6:13] giving us a report.
[6:20] We have anything for capital improvement.
[6:24] Yeah, a little bit. Okay.
[6:30] We have resolution for introduction,
[6:32] with relative committee and an audience for introduction,
[6:38] with relative committee.
[6:41] Any questions on tomorrow's agenda?
[6:49] Okay, here we are.
[6:51] That brings us to public color.
[6:54] We would like to address the council.
[6:55] You may do so at this time. We ask that you please keep it to five minutes.
[7:10] Good evening. My name is Pat Ford.
[7:11] I'm a producer today's conversation. I'm here in my country.
[7:15] As you check his director of literature, I'm usually...
[7:18] ...what ten Apple Street can probably grow down.
[7:22] We are a nonprofit organization.
[7:23] Nice to see you down. We paint those salaries.
[7:26] We've sent no government money whatsoever.
[7:29] Our priority...
[7:30] I'll give you some of the water project. We'll do a little bit of water input, often by the ballot. To almost you can, to the location, to food countries, countries around Central and Northern Rhode, and now in the stretching into the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this past summer, we took over the New Soccer, along with other organizations, New Soccer, summer camp, summer meals in the park program, and executed anywhere from 50 to 90 miles a day for five weeks, over a freshman year, 100,
[7:59] Well, about 1,500 years.
[8:02] The point is, we're not your plight government,
[8:04] we're here simply replace you.
[8:06] And we're already doing a great job.
[8:08] So when it comes to the homeless,
[8:09] this Iowa Water Hands Up experience.
[8:11] We routinely, as part of our journeys, visit homeless economists
[8:15] because the state of Iran, despite spending literally
[8:18] a gazillion dollars on homeless, provides them
[8:20] with no work, at any level or at any cost.
[8:23] That end of itself is a stunt.
[8:25] But what it does do is give you the opportunity to go hands on,
[8:28] often two to three times a week, the holistic campus around the level of, I am aware of the
[8:33] challenges facing communities that find themselves in the holistic campus.
[8:38] But consider this sort of a friendly first strike on the legislation that's being, I guess,
[8:44] initially introduced to the town council tomorrow, and ultimately said to the Arctic today,
[8:50] we will be fighting this politely to them now, it's a long ahead in many directions.
[8:57] Number one, when you break up homeless academies, people inevitably die, why did they die?
[9:03] Number one, the insert body system or synthetic community goes away, people are often stranded alone.
[9:10] Watch the overdose rates by you, as a result of that.
[9:14] They are unable to contact, literally their social workers or any of that have, on often lose all contact with communications,
[9:21] which involves medicine, which involves benefits, which involves all of the issues that come
[9:25] with the living outside. So it's a terrible process and it leads to nothing of chaos. So while
[9:35] the initial feeling for many people broke up that almost cannon, ultimately you will increase
[9:41] the number of first responder calls, you will increase the death rate and you will actually
[9:46] end up crossing the city more. So the question I've gotten is not a report, but I'm going to
[9:55] But ultimately, I'm not aware of who actually offered this bill.
[10:00] That's why I'm going to address it to the entire council.
[10:02] Who decided to do this?
[10:04] And why?
[10:05] Is there an overwhelming issue with homelessness?
[10:08] And Lincoln?
[10:09] More importantly, if there is a problem,
[10:11] what is the town of Lincoln doing through the dressing?
[10:14] Now, I spent a great deal of time in New York.
[10:16] I brought that three days a week.
[10:17] I'm great up in New York.
[10:19] And we spent a lot of our time addressing the homeless issues in New York.
[10:23] Again, hands on.
[10:24] We are not a think tank, we're not a discussion group, we're not a philosophy group.
[10:28] We are there to alleviate shock.
[10:30] Especially if you go fairly with your job, but again, consider you getting a little funding.
[10:36] Is the time of the weekend providing any shelter of much whatever problems this time?
[10:46] Hold on, come here, we can't.
[10:48] Actually, let me just tell you what that question.
[10:51] I'm going to read from Rhode Island General Law.
[10:53] Nothing was in this chapter, this is the opening session.
[10:55] Shall we give it any public body of the members?
[10:57] They're from a spawning economy initiated by member of the public trying to properly do this spoken for them.
[11:02] Even if the subject matter of citizen comments or discussions, or not for the list of coaches,
[11:06] the wide-trish matters shall be for an international public as well.
[11:09] So, while I can ask, and you choose not to answer the question, you can, in fact, into a question mark.
[11:16] And that's really the time, solicitor, I'm sure you're familiar with the citation.
[11:20] Okay, so, you can answer, you don't choose not to.
[11:24] It's a solicitor's advice is that I can't, the solicitor's advice is that we allow you to make public comment.
[11:31] The council takes it under his advisement in general, we recommend that they don't respond.
[11:35] Why would you recommend that they've arranged this?
[11:37] I can go and watch that, I can go and watch that.
[11:39] Correct, I can probably say that they're shept's change of labour and sheet service you have in College of contraption.
[11:47] I will show you a little bit of terrorist, I don't know what to do.
[11:49] I have quite frankly I was at the water room.
[11:53] just a few short weeks ago where people engage in back and forth,
[11:57] not even during global session, but throughout the media.
[12:01] So why would you leave on it?
[12:02] And this is an important question.
[12:03] Why would you advise that they not respond?
[12:05] Doesn't answer any questions directly, really,
[12:08] unlimited, or a lot of the, sometimes,
[12:11] that there's no words that can seriously
[12:13] theories just simply can answer any questions
[12:14] and doesn't that mean you?
[12:19] Generally with non-docated items that the council
[12:22] hasn't had an opportunity to prepare for it.
[12:24] the solicitors' advice is not for them not to engage in a back and forth with...
[12:29] Well, it's okay. I just want to go on research in the counter.
[12:32] I'm going to say that's foolish.
[12:34] And I'm not trying to be judgmental. I'm trying to be insulting.
[12:36] I'm attacking. I'm not impersonal either the policy.
[12:38] That's a short-sighted conclusion.
[12:40] What should be happening, particularly during all the coming,
[12:43] is that back and forth. I've got a world that I entered before and second? Sure.
[12:47] So you asked the question, I'm going to answer it. Sure.
[12:50] Last year, we had some very cold weather in Mandel.
[12:53] under the bridge at the white path my wife and I came across a couple living in a tent so we brought them
[12:58] soup when cold brought them loads, socks, different items, okay.
[13:04] I tried to get them to leave and go to, I had the rescue chief come with me and we tried to get
[13:10] them shelter they refused to leave. So yes I don't want you to think we're a part of this we have
[13:15] tried and we do in certain circumstances try to do certain things so I just wanted to at least put
[13:19] That's right. I would never choose any of them. I didn't have a course. I think I was going to
[13:24] count the president after the middle of that time. That was impressed. At the quality of not only
[13:29] the conversation of the council, but also from the professional members of the staff. I can tell you,
[13:33] I don't say that in many places. With regard to the issue of the camera, we're getting back to the
[13:38] main point. What traditions are the, is the child of Lincoln making in terms of self? We all understand
[13:43] that there are people who refuse to your soul. And I know that because I've been in that situation.
[13:49] And I don't doubt that the first responders in this community are top notch, but right now,
[13:56] I've tell you, you've had the same conversation with the city inside it, who has to provide
[14:00] sometimes it's safe to spend, sometimes they're only expensive.
[14:02] And I would tell you that the spiritual expense, the entire valley, is now at the home for everyone
[14:10] who's looking for a bed.
[14:12] And I will argue with you that if you're going to propose an ordinance like this, when you're
[14:15] essentially criminal like part of, like a lighter than that of a second, then you should be in a position where you're
[14:23] egg providing relief. They turn it down, they turn it down, but they leave in a place of mess and they don't
[14:28] put it up in itself. That's a separate issue. But I don't know if the talent of Lincoln is in a position to
[14:34] judge a place, a 250-dollar second at that time. On people who are simply having a place to go, you're
[14:41] I'm willing to do it and you're willing to sleep on public property.
[14:46] And that's outrageous.
[14:48] And by the way, I know it very falsely.
[14:51] You know, in both of the chat rooms in the conversations here.
[14:54] Well, just simplify.
[14:55] What happens?
[14:56] I asked, well, you will need not pay a civil fine.
[14:59] Deal.
[15:00] These privileges, you lose your driver's license, you lose your ability to review a whole period of that. It's called the pipeline to power.
[15:08] In the failure of this community that is living by the government, right, had the same conversation, you know, really hard tonight, to provide alternatives.
[15:19] I think it's really criminal. In your place, you unfair burden on the city, you want something, because that's what people end up going to.
[15:28] And whereas Cobra Land and Lincoln have a picture of us from here,
[15:33] we'll sort it then has to bear the grunt and they do it in a staunch of job and there's a whole range of non-profits beside mine that do whatever they can help us.
[15:41] It's one of those generous communities I've ever seen, like rather than one hut.
[15:47] But Lincoln does not also have to absorb them the spiritual aspect of it which you have in social services agencies.
[15:53] And the next downtown capacity for reach high and reach out because you've got this
[16:01] on-the-pressant location for social services.
[16:06] And that's not right.
[16:07] So my point is closing here.
[16:08] I'll have to upgrade to a land plan, as I say.
[16:11] Number one, you want it for all of those penalties.
[16:14] In place.
[16:15] I'm not sure if you can find this anything.
[16:18] No, no, no.
[16:19] I started looking just to watch and I just, I was wondering.
[16:22] I was laughing at you.
[16:25] So, let's go back to that.
[16:26] One, there's an inch early stage.
[16:31] I understand it's an early stage.
[16:32] That's why, believe me, I'm not going to be the only person
[16:34] who shows up in the time.
[16:37] I'm not.
[16:38] We are going to collect the least information
[16:43] and soft that first beginning for persuasion.
[16:47] using towns like Lincoln to promote the fair sharing of the responsibility of the statewide
[16:57] product of homelessness. This is not a Lincoln product. Number two, we're going to educate
[17:01] you as the negative impact that you're going to take with a proposal. Again, you're going to push
[17:07] people in the poverty, you're going to push them into the criminality, you're going to force
[17:09] them for example, come up with, I don't know where this person came up with 200 bucks. If you can't
[17:14] forward, I sit as I wrote a single remark that you can't afford a living actually, you can't afford a
[17:19] night at one of our low-budget hotels in the area where in God's name we can come up with
[17:24] doing it for adults. You're going to break up in campus with few major Indian town of curious
[17:29] how things are problem this is. So it's just just a noble reaction from someone looking,
[17:34] I'll be able to crash, you're looking at modern boats amongst certain audiences within this town.
[17:41] It's a terrible object, it's anything, it's immoral and, frankly, I find the concept that
[17:51] it tells in English and I mean that, would go forward even though the conversation about
[17:56] proposal like this, to appeal to the very worst, the times like we can have thought.
[18:03] It's kind of wicked to step up, support and act responsibly towards this problem, and worry about that first before you criminalize people who have literally not.
[18:17] So I think I could just say one thing here.
[18:19] I didn't respond to this.
[18:20] What I can tell you is for one, and I pretty much believe everybody has a castle.
[18:25] I don't do anything for both.
[18:26] So you're the whole media, you vote me out with you, like what I do and not, so that's
[18:30] a little offensive to me, and secondly, you said, well, it could be a small problem.
[18:37] But don't you think it could also turn into a larger problem?
[18:40] I find some of it, I listen, I think this is a status you, I think it's a country issue,
[18:45] be honest with you.
[18:47] I don't think the little municipalities have the funds or the ability to do a child.
[18:53] I don't know, but I don't know why I'm not saying we dealt it on a bridge.
[18:59] And by the way, I'm not here to spend your first life.
[19:02] If I take a tone, it's because I'm offended that in the year 2026, a town like Lincoln,
[19:10] or a convertible for that person, will pursue such a long handed approach, before trying to unleash
[19:19] Emiliary, minimums, but rest, the problem.
[19:23] I don't see any purpose whatsoever in taking this any further unless your happens, at
[19:30] the same time, an honest conversation, is a statewide problem for look upon how the state
[19:36] of the panelists, whoop, he looked at, doesn't go on how they handle anything, and it's
[19:41] appalling to be honest.
[19:42] You're not going to get disagreeing here, but the principal issue is right now you have certain talents who are the unfairly canals, and they're still with a smile
[19:50] Doug, that there's a little grumble in the background, but again, if you're going to pass, I'm not going to decide if you wake up a day, you criminalize homelessness because that's what's happening.
[20:01] Where the questions should be, where do you want these people to go?
[20:06] I'm opening solutions.
[20:07] I think that's a, I respect what you're doing trust Matt, I don't want to see anybody homeless.
[20:12] I also think this is a matter I think.
[20:15] The municipalities, we just don't have the money to do this stuff.
[20:18] And if one socket's finding money, let's find out what how much this one is not possible.
[20:23] That's what I'm saying.
[20:24] So how much debt is one socket into now?
[20:25] So I'm just to believe that if you're already a debt,
[20:29] how do you give out low when you're already a debt?
[20:30] I don't think you can do that.
[20:32] will socket a suffered tremendously because of the influx of homelessness on its tax-based
[20:40] on the town stairs, they have become largely the holding pattern for folks who have nowhere
[20:46] else to go.
[20:47] Now, I am no objection to anything you've got to go to, or in this case, not going.
[20:51] Until you decide, I'm happy you haven't had to, you haven't been discussing it, I'm
[20:56] and preempting that, and believe it on a plate,
[21:00] and people who've exempted it, oh well,
[21:02] there's people out there starting,
[21:04] and there's, listen, put topic just last week,
[21:07] the lies across wonderful organizations,
[21:09] the order of over $50 million of goods to people
[21:12] since COVID.
[21:13] They're out there, a city that's got a town that's got a soccer stadium
[21:17] with the 10 million dollars of tax guarantee,
[21:21] but you have bread lines, food lines,
[21:24] Senator, City Box law, I was there, why are you starting at 4th floor?
[21:29] There is a problem here, and I'm saying that the state, I don't think, I would imagine,
[21:34] and I'm a little bit tired, I'm not a family, all right?
[21:37] But I'll tell you this, do you want to address it on a town level more efficiently?
[21:42] On Super level, what, what's the state of the round of the very respondent, billions of dollars
[21:47] of voter sector, voter salaries, outrageous bureaucracies, and just overalmets?
[21:54] So, I care to, I care to, if you're going to penalize people who have nowhere to go,
[22:01] but simply can't be out on municipal, on public property, penalize them to severe.
[22:07] We can't have second-of-fetched $250.
[22:11] That's, I understand it to propose.
[22:13] But I have found in the 30-plus years of politics that can make proposals at the base,
[22:18] I can begin, before it gets a headstream, before it gets sick, and reading that, but I am
[22:26] the mention of the absence of any real sophisticated.
[22:30] As of storage, for these people's only belongings, if in fact, they're step-to-step by the police.
[22:36] And I look at my experience at police departments, they want no park, no park whatsoever, of acting in any capacity to locate the storage of people's personal belongings.
[22:45] They want no park, number one, there's a serious health issue there, in many cases, because folks are living on one road outside.
[22:52] I'm living literally on dirt, with no real facilities, even cleaner views.
[22:59] They want no part of that, so your proposal is going to touch in terms of how it handles
[23:06] storage of their phone's abandoned property.
[23:09] One of the big issues, the homeless is the fact that they lose their vacations, they lose
[23:13] their documentation, they lose any personal information that they have, constantly.
[23:18] And that can set that similar to that with no mail address, weeks, months even.
[23:23] Try to think, is anyone here trying to get a social care card there?
[23:26] There's a lot that you don't have 20 forms of weight, and I'm not thinking that you should.
[23:32] So I just, this is not an attacker, because this is a policy preemptive.
[23:37] And I'll say, I'll volunteer, and I'll volunteer my contacts to work with people to find a better solution.
[23:47] Again, none of us in our world, it's called Mutual Lady, they pay for it and we do it
[23:51] because we see the failures of garment, we see the failures of big institutions, they are
[23:56] cross-words, we're also going to cross it, wonderful organization, to see y'all make
[24:01] something forward with that emotion.
[24:02] It's insane.
[24:03] That makes sense.
[24:04] Pretty much.
[24:05] The United States, she makes two hundred seventy-five games.
[24:09] These are people who are saying, I'm not asking people to do the mother-to-recent
[24:13] But at the same time, my God, the greed, please don't go, go that way, I've got to do not start this process until you form some type of working group that's starting holises in life.
[24:28] And what I'll say in the final, this is Leslie, all I would say to you is I have no problem with you doing this in life like that, but I think when you approach someone you say, someone doing it for votes, that's insulting to me.
[24:41] and I don't actually have a word self-imposed.
[24:44] I'm just telling you guys after 10 o'clock, I'm not going back on a ball.
[24:47] I'm just saying sorry, I don't want to sound not saying to go back
[24:49] I'm just telling you, I'm just telling you.
[24:51] I guess what?
[24:52] I'll just whisper.
[24:54] It is.
[24:55] I'll just breathe different.
[24:58] I've been working in a round of programming as we have for decades.
[25:03] For different thing, my viewers and other viewers, people like us, is that we actually have sweat
[25:07] everywhere.
[25:08] That being said, I have rarely, except I've gotten anywhere without being a fester.
[25:15] I'm sorry, and I've really tried to tone it down to that because I need it.
[25:20] I think you've got, and I'm not trying to hate for that, as you were I said, I think you've got a wonderful time going.
[25:25] I have said to you, are they in a company that he should come over here and do it in a touch of it?
[25:30] Yeah, I've learned how it's done.
[25:32] Because I get, I'm guys doing a hell of a job.
[25:33] You do a great job with this.
[25:34] It was the one over well.
[25:36] Was that almost the one over well?
[25:38] It wasn't actually.
[25:39] Right, but I don't understand you played because I volunteered at the food market.
[25:42] No, no.
[25:43] Okay, so I didn't understand all of this.
[25:44] I'm just...
[25:45] You know, I'm preaching to the choir because the technical people were in this room right now.
[25:49] Are the very type of people who show up early themselves, stay late to clean up, and do a lot of work they've been hearing.
[25:56] That's the nature of folks who are in this room right now.
[25:58] But what I'm saying is you've got an issue that's coming heading like a virgin, and it's a whole discussion
[26:04] But again, I'll use the word, the interference, it's not meant to be quite criminalizing homelessness.
[26:11] That's, wait, it's again, it's a civil society.
[26:13] No, it's criminalizing homelessness.
[26:14] You're finding people who have nothing that to get.
[26:17] All mine's saying this, head off this process.
[26:21] Head off.
[26:22] Sit down and take a deep breath and approach it.
[26:26] It's a talent.
[26:28] Understand the problem.
[26:31] try to find and work with knowledgeable people and not just know to the people of there who have real solutions.
[26:39] Talk to and I believe in one of the realiest people in here, I really don't follow them.
[26:43] I wear church gentlemen. Talk to people who are listening to me.
[26:45] Talk to people at, as for example, proud council churches.
[26:49] They share the program by the way.
[26:51] And yes, very little money from the state where they turn three churches that's winter into homeless others.
[26:57] They call it that way, you see that.
[26:58] You want to face it, you don't not stand for no one dies,
[27:01] because people die, you die, you instruct them,
[27:04] die, you ask your parents.
[27:06] Two, a mother is sent die in their car, right outside of the hospital.
[27:11] And they weren't even identified or found for a week.
[27:14] They're dead.
[27:16] So that's offensive.
[27:18] And then nothing happens at anybody's record.
[27:22] The car is stated that the situation of policies
[27:24] and nothing short of it to say ashes.
[27:25] I'll be not keeping the point.
[27:28] I'm not a chef at the election time.
[27:30] I'll just say that.
[27:31] So again, just keeping head off the process, do the right thing,
[27:37] and take a deep breath before this turns out to be something
[27:42] less than half the color of that.
[27:44] I love you.
[27:45] I love you so much on these CEOs.
[27:47] But I think, I love you a lot on these CEOs.
[27:50] No CEO and a nonprofit should make over on the $1,000.
[27:52] There are organizations in the state that have a way to go to talk to any of you guys up on it.
[27:56] You might part of our model, other ways, we're not from the government, but actually you're there to help.
[28:01] That's our model.
[28:03] But you've got a number of organizations in the state of our model.
[28:07] Using non, basically, real state investment management companies, hiding behind non-profitable companies,
[28:12] which allows all that SD and money that you're supposed to pay in taxes and property taxes
[28:16] to you guys,
[28:22] right?
[28:22] They're not paying taxes, they're not paying taxes, they're not paying taxes, they're not paying their taxes,
[28:28] they're not paying their taxes, they're not paying their taxes, they're not paid their tax stocks,
[28:29] and that's what happens to a community like Musaki.
[28:33] Everybody's not caught. Everybody, you get a Habitabas, you get a TSA, you get a Tax Index, you get a Tax Index, you get your tax index, you get that.
[28:39] All right, that's the hand available.
[28:42] So, another way.
[28:45] I have another work for it, let's just say, I call it all over the country.
[28:52] I like most people who are going to get up to an impression.
[28:55] I'm offered my help.
[28:57] I'll tell you anyway, I can't.
[28:59] I don't think it operates at a very high level.
[29:02] I look at your schools and then I look at all of the schools.
[29:06] The community is to have the same money.
[29:08] And I see a town that can really effectively administer it in one-to-one time.
[29:12] Don't let this one fix.
[29:14] Yeah, I feel like that.
[29:15] Thank you.
[29:25] I would love to add on to that, basically reiterating everything, said, already, but I will say that for the next ordinance subcommittee meeting, because what I wanted to talk about was the memorial or nothing more of a walker blocks project.
[29:43] I was going to say this at the public hearing, but they're not here, so I figured I would continue with it anyway because it might inspire some questions.
[29:52] And I think it actually does hope tie into the conversation that was just starting about the cycle of life.
[30:02] So before, I know that we all know who you are, just identify yourself with, I can please.
[30:08] Can we go age?
[30:10] 67 rocker growth.
[30:12] I can choose the word, no problem.
[30:15] So before I get into my survey, it's really quickly
[30:18] to want to say, I am fully supported with the Walker
[30:20] loss project.
[30:23] While there are very much a gallon of critiques
[30:25] of the state's portal housing halls,
[30:29] and I'm not wanting to say that they are all great,
[30:31] because they're not all great.
[30:33] I do very much believe in e-commerce 101,
[30:35] supply demands, every new unit will help bring down costs, even if it's not the most optimal
[30:42] unit. But with that, I'm going to get into my little story. So a year ago, the town saw the
[30:50] finishing of the memorial school, affordable housing project. When that finished, I actually
[30:57] reached out in the fight for a unit because at the time, I had just transitioned into my new role as
[31:04] support very public school district in Massachusetts.
[31:08] I got an actual working class salary
[31:12] that would allow me to afford to even think about leaving the house, which I am very grateful
[31:17] for. I know many people my age cannot even think about that. And I thought that the memorial
[31:25] school was a great example of how we could do affordable housing great. So I reached out
[31:30] My sophomore information and the cost per unit for a studio at the time was 1475 a month.
[31:45] For a one bedroom it was 1675 a month and for a two bedroom it was 1875 a month.
[31:51] And because this was a quarter of a housing, there were income limits.
[31:57] So one person, their whole amount of income they can make per year was $64,000.
[32:05] $64,000 in $50.
[32:07] For two people, it was $73,200.
[32:10] And for three people, it was $82,350.
[32:15] So I'm not gonna ask you all to do all the math in your head up.
[32:17] have already.
[32:21] There are many levels of policy makers at the federal, state and local
[32:26] level of government and advocacy groups and think tanks that say the basis for affordability
[32:35] is spending no more than 30% of your income on housing costs. That includes a more
[32:39] advantage if you own rent, if you are rent or as well as any utilities.
[32:47] Now, for this long sale, I have a school building for a household of one with an income
[32:58] limit of $64,000, $64,000, $64,000. I mean that 30% of your income is $1600 and $1.25
[33:07] in twenty-five cents a month. Now that is less than the one bedroom rent at the Memorial
[33:18] School Project, which is supposed to be affordable, which means that even if you make the
[33:26] absolute top of the income limit, you could not afford to live at the Memorial School Project
[33:33] know one veteran unit. You can do it if you were a with a partner and you had that higher
[33:39] enrollment but a one person household cannot afford a one veteran unit. You would be spending
[33:46] more than 30% of your income and that's not including utilities. For a two household size that's
[33:53] a 30% that you're income is 1830 a month, which is less than a two veteran rent of 1875 a month.
[34:02] So what we ended up having was a project that while well-intentioned, and while I still think is good in the end,
[34:13] is falling short on providing real affordability.
[34:18] And when we are creating affordable units that require people to be housing cost burdened,
[34:24] we are kicking off the cycle of poverty that needs to people being homeless.
[34:28] because they can't find any word cheaper than this.
[34:33] 1675 or one veteran in the state of Rhode Island is amazing right now.
[34:38] But if you stay, you don't have plenty to pay off debt.
[34:43] If you end up in a car accident, you need to fix a car and can't afford to fix a car.
[34:48] If you end up in a medical accident, or you can't get in a state you can't afford your medical bills.
[34:53] And that cycle kicks off, because you can't find the better place to live, because there's no cheaper options, and you're still following behind.
[35:05] So, I know that there is a lot that we cannot control about state housing law, especially because it's also influenced by better old policy and the amount of requirements that we have to need for better old housing dollars.
[35:19] But I really hope that as we look at more affordable housing projects, the town council and other communities can ask these questions about
[35:32] Are these units, are we meeting the income level need is that people are not getting trapped in a cycle of poverty in these affordable projects?
[35:42] and hopefully influence state lawmakers, other policy makers.
[35:49] I mean, as was just mentioned,
[35:51] we know that they are not great on a lot of policy areas,
[35:55] but we have to hope and continue working
[35:59] that there will be a better policy in the future.
[36:02] And I hope that having these conversations
[36:03] of the local level will help keep that up.
[36:06] So when Walker walks next month,
[36:10] I hope that we can find a little bit more information
[36:12] about the cost of those units, the income needed to qualify to 11 those units and whether those
[36:19] numbers actually make sense for ensuring people do not end up being housing off burden
[36:26] and affordable housing projects.
[36:28] Thank you.
[36:30] Thank you.
[36:36] Say, we're going to be split three, seven, five, three, seven, five, five, five, five.
[36:41] I introduce myself to all of you with a rather of not just email, I'm going to be post,
[36:45] But I hope that you guys are going to be laughed like I've been troubled.
[36:52] I genuinely hope that to take away from that is that there's something to learn from what
[36:58] happened with the blocks, stuff here, there's an intersection between how professional life
[37:03] and stuff to be exposed to, litigating, and what is going on with data collection in the state
[37:09] in the town.
[37:10] It is targeted to small municipalities by large targeted equity back interests so that you participate in collecting the surveillance on your constituents.
[37:22] I have packets of verified articles from why you're talking about the AI data tools that are in the operating block.
[37:28] There are articles from WWE.
[37:30] You are the clockwise in the city of Boston about where the data is going. It is not even accurate. It is not as use-in with us at one of the movies, just simply as the same thing has had in itself on this track in many ways. That's not how this works. It's about predictive policing. They are not simply taking a license plates. You need to be better than this. Because, as we continue in the 21st century, data collection in the constituents will cut across all spheres of what you are in that case.
[38:00] legislation about, it's not just policing tools, and you cannot wait for the state to show
[38:05] up and bear you up. You have every right and obligation as legislators for this town to enact
[38:12] common sense legislation. You can finance this crap or a surplus type, and if you aren't going
[38:18] to do that, you're an utter derogation of the duties to ask for the decisions. And genuinely,
[38:24] I cannot appreciate enough what people in this room do for our account.
[38:28] I'm a pain in the ass.
[38:30] That's what I plan to avoid.
[38:31] That's why I do this stuff.
[38:33] And he knows it too.
[38:35] But all of that means that people actually give a damn show up
[38:39] or what people use like this operating together.
[38:42] But you need to educate yourself about this.
[38:44] This isn't something spheres you hear.
[38:46] This isn't some crooked crap.
[38:49] Everything that goes into plot becomes not our data.
[38:52] is networked for other municipalities to work.
[38:56] And a lot of equipment police, it took my daughter
[38:59] when she had a seizure at the back of the car of my mother
[39:01] law, I had zero problems.
[39:04] They get kids in my five-class at one field across the street.
[39:07] But you are sharing our data and arm formation
[39:10] on AI-added algorithmic tools with everyone
[39:14] in the block system.
[39:17] And they're lying to me if you think of it.
[39:19] And so I genuinely do not want
[39:22] I'm sitting up here and sitting you guys are idiots for stupidity messed up, and I know that letter certainly implied that I feel that way.
[39:30] But be better, educate yourself.
[39:33] The town of Waltham, Artists may be a city that is enacting a self-study group to set up locked ordinances.
[39:41] The city is inventor now has draft ordinances.
[39:44] The ACLU has guidance on how to draft ordinance about this one.
[39:48] All of that is in the packet.
[39:49] I compare to each one of you and for the clerk, if the one who is in the need to put it into the public record,
[39:56] I'll put it on an agenda for October.
[40:00] It is simple. You can't sit around as we've seen from all this discussion, homelessness, and hope the state comes out for something.
[40:07] Because I will be honest with you many of them are lawyers in the legislature and many of them are idiots.
[40:13] So, it is simple.
[40:15] So, please do rise to one else's performance.
[40:18] That's what I do every day.
[40:20] Please rise to one else's performance.
[40:22] You look at it.
[40:23] Set up a working group.
[40:25] You can ban facial recognition and plot and run pictures of people through facial recognition
[40:30] to picture.
[40:32] You can ban predicted policing.
[40:35] But why don't you apply to the right ear meat?
[40:37] And again, I'm going to put it here.
[40:39] You can eat it.
[40:39] You're pissed off.
[40:40] You don't have to.
[40:41] We'll show you that this is about paying heat meds, with a flock subscription, thank you to the Chairman, where you drive.
[40:50] There are places on the TV and put in license plate and you can figure out if you've been flocked.
[40:54] They can figure out who you associate with, where you're driving, when you're driving.
[40:59] They can easily create a hot blister.
[41:02] He blitzed to determine whether or not that they should pay any duty extra scrutiny.
[41:06] Maybe if I twist out the cheap police enough with what without an alleged violation of my civil liberties,
[41:12] he could just simply follow me around the town of Lincoln, P.S. very, 12 pounds.
[41:16] And all of that is being interviewed with other AI policing tools and data collection.
[41:21] So, now I can experience this is how this works.
[41:24] So, I implore you.
[41:26] Set up a working room.
[41:28] Email me.
[41:29] I'll dump all the cracks even at the PDF.
[41:31] It's all printed out.
[41:32] There are a little bit of weak reactoryances that we can all feel like they were plagiarized and do something about this.
[41:38] I've got to go against that.
[41:39] Yeah, I've got to go against that.
[41:40] Yeah, I've got to go against that.
[41:41] And like, I know I keep it hot.
[41:44] But I certainly got to attend.
[41:46] And I hope to do something fun to that.
[41:47] Because we stand around and wait for the state to do this.
[41:50] Because if you pull up whose law of need to stay where I am,
[41:53] get used to that five laws.
[41:57] And once you put it, you need to define the terms.
[41:59] You'll learn about the different policing, about audio collection,
[42:04] and then every goddamn contract from outside business comes to it here.
[42:08] You need to read it and figure out who has our data.
[42:11] If you're making sure that they can classify it as something
[42:14] that David Fester will find, and it becomes their data.
[42:17] Please.
[42:18] That's all I asked him.
[42:21] So can I just answer one quick question?
[42:23] So you're not against block cameras, like I'm not against block cameras,
[42:26] but I would want some like guidelines and things that stop what you say because I don't
[42:35] I don't want to do that either, but I also think they have a purpose so am I just so
[42:41] I'm understanding you.
[42:42] You're not saying outlaw, you're saying I make sure you've got the mechanism around them
[42:47] so none of this stuff goes anywhere they're supposed to be.
[42:50] Two points.
[42:51] But you want to overwhelm your data.
[42:54] There is a study in the map.
[42:55] There are multiple studies by policing and justice in cities,
[42:58] occupying federal money,
[43:00] blocked as a crack for collecting cars.
[43:03] They're for collecting,
[43:04] splitting cars or whatever it is.
[43:06] No, there is not a verified data outside of the block universe,
[43:10] which establishes its effective policing tool.
[43:13] But if you want to pull from your website,
[43:15] every minute I've got,
[43:17] so yes, I don't think there should be block cameras.
[43:19] I don't think that anybody in this town
[43:21] know where to call a drive. What are you for that matter? But if you're going to somehow
[43:26] wait for a few seconds if that could be easy to control, you're better and read up on it,
[43:30] figure out how you can put guidelines and see it over a second. Because right now, we've already
[43:36] seen the company and it's that third, it's like a spousal, an infinite partner line, people stop
[43:41] and folks, people can create masks and keep masks and track your data in a way that this is
[43:47] for currently does not say it's a formative violation or evasion of privacy and they can track
[43:52] you around this time. Are you a fan of that? I'm just totally what I said. But I know also
[43:58] that, and I'm not gonna, I don't want to, I'm not gonna, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want
[44:03] to, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to, I just
[44:05] ask you, I just ask you about that, and you answer me, but all I'm saying is I know in district court
[44:12] I spent a lot of time there.
[44:13] I know there's eight, 10 cases a day that have
[44:17] flat camera involvement in prosecution
[44:20] to help the prosecution of a case.
[44:22] So I'm just some, I'm a guy that's saying,
[44:24] I'm not at totally against it.
[44:25] I think it should be used in a tool,
[44:27] but I also agree with you that that tool needs
[44:29] to be protected like a metal drum, like locked in.
[44:35] But again, if you will read this, and I know.
[44:38] And I want to get ready.
[44:39] like they like the city boss as to what the day you will share.
[44:43] They just straight up hide and the bossity boss has turned off data's dissemination, and it's still the storm.
[44:49] Like, I mean so, what you have to do is you have to change the contract, you have to enact ordinance to the non-vaccine domain, and that doesn't justify a plot of twice a decade.
[45:00] We can start information.
[45:05] What we are doing is we can be patient.
[45:06] How many are you waiting for?
[45:12] We're waiting for you to come and listen to our leaders and call it a live alarm.
[45:15] Give us a message.
[45:16] If you want to hear my name, please ask me a question.
[45:25] I want to give you the action in which you can respond to the remote control.
[45:29] But like they don't even know where I'm driving in my home town and that's correct. You're on the line and you should do
[45:35] No one needs to know that
[45:38] So with that I'll need the packets here and I'll be back to every public meeting put it on and join up to inform the peace of your people
[45:46] Thank you. Thank you for the information
[45:51] But it works. Anything else?
[45:53] Thank you. I'll let's take a motion to adjourn some of the second full favor