Communications from Her Honor, The Mayor And Other City Officials

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▶ 3:49 Speaker 2: the mayor and other city officials.

▶ 3:56 Leila Migliorelli: None. Um, suspend the rules. Suspend the rules. Oh, sorry. Um, now since we have the mayor here with us and other city officials, I'd like to, um, uh, be motion

▶ 4:04 Speaker 1: by unanimous consent to suspend the rules.

▶ 4:10 Leila Migliorelli: Seeing no objection, the rules are now suspended, um,

▶ 4:14 Speaker 7: for members of the administration to make remarks. Mayor Greg, welcome. Thank

▶ 4:19 Jen Grigoraitis: You. Good evening everyone. Congratulations to you all. I'm joined by Lauren, M**k, my chief of staff. Um, I'll be very brief. I just as we begin this term, wanted to say that I look forward to working with you all. Um, I'm still learning, you know, my, the ins and outs of the building and getting things like laptops

▶ 4:37 Speaker 8: and phones, but also I'm hoping to use this section

▶ 4:38 Jen Grigoraitis: of the agenda to provide you all with some interim updates and items that don't necessarily require action by the council, but I think are helpful for you all to know as you move forward in your work. So, I was not able to get this in on time 'cause I just got electric letterhead today. But, um, so I have you have a hard copy memo that we'll add to the electronic record, but just going forward, it's a way to give you some updates on what's happening. Either myself or Lauren will be here for meetings so that if you so choose to hear from us, we will be available to answer questions. Um, and just wanted to flag the two items before you to that. I wanted to let you know tonight are that we did receive some reductions to earmarks we received in the state budget last year. One is for police radios and one is for work at the Milano Center. A third earmark, which is for work on the gazebo, has not been impacted. Those decisions are made at the state agency level and certain state agencies handle the governor's request for reductions in different ways. So we're, um, unfortunately gonna lose about $50,000 in state funding that we will be looking to make up either through ARPA or another funding source so that those projects can be completed. Tomorrow night is the governor's State of the Commonwealth where she will talk about her budget message

▶ 5:50 Speaker 9: and then we will be waiting later this month

▶ 5:53 Jen Grigoraitis: for her budget to come down. So we'll start to get the beginning building blocks of what the FY 25 budget will look like from the state. And we're happy to share as much of that information with you all. I know you also have information coming to you from MMA and other sources. Um, and then on a lighter note, I just wanted to let you all know, as I believe you do

▶ 6:13 Speaker 10: that Patrick LaRusso will be retiring from his service

▶ 6:15 Jen Grigoraitis: to the city after I think over 30 years as our CFO auditor, which is a huge watershed moment for this community. Um, we will be honoring him with a gathering for current and former city staff, um, later next week.

▶ 6:27 Speaker 9: So we'll get details of that to you all via email. So just be on the lookout.

▶ 6:31 Jen Grigoraitis: Um, and we're really appreciative

▶ 6:32 Speaker 9: of his service to this community.

▶ 6:35 Jen Grigoraitis: That's all. I'm happy to answer any questions or

▶ 6:39 Speaker 7: Any questions for the mayor.

▶ 6:43 Speaker 4: Thank you for having us. Thank you for joining us.