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Paul Brodeur

On record 2019-11-26 to 2023-12-19. Derived from vote rosters and the minutes' attendance tables, not an official biography; the record of structured votes begins in 2012.

Service

BodySeatRoleFromToMeetings
School Committeemayor 2019-11-262023-12-1990

Votes

511 votes cast: 506 yes, 5 no, 0 abstain; 3 against the majority on 10 contested motions; moved 54, seconded 67; recorded absent for 50. All rows (JSON).

2023-12-19 · School Committee yes · ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] · Donations
2023-12-19 · School Committee yes · ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] · Surplus Materials
2023-12-19 · School Committee yes · PASSED [UNANIMOUS] · Records Access Officer (5 minutes) vote required
2023-12-19 · School Committee yes · PASSED [UNANIMOUS] · Warrants (5 minutes) vote required
2023-12-19 · School Committee yes · PASSED [UNANIMOUS] · Monthly Budget Summary/Grants/Revolving Accounts (5 minutes) vote required
2023-12-19 · School Committee yes · ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] · MHS/MVMMS Field Trip Request
2023-12-19 · School Committee yes · ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] · Personnel Report
2023-11-28 · School Committee yes · ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] · Concussion Report
2023-11-28 · School Committee yes · PASSED [UNANIMOUS] · FY25 School Year Calendar (10 minutes) vote required
2023-11-28 · School Committee yes · PASSED [UNANIMOUS] · Warrants (5 minutes) vote required
2023-11-14 · School Committee yes · ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] · MVMMS Field Trip Request - NYC
2023-11-14 · School Committee yes · ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] · Special Education Surplus Materials Request
2023-11-14 · School Committee yes · PASSED [UNANIMOUS] · Warrants (5 minutes) vote required
2023-11-14 · School Committee yes · PASSED [UNANIMOUS] · Monthly Budget Summary/Grants/Revolving Accounts (5 minutes) vote required
2023-11-14 · School Committee yes · ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] · Personnel Report
2023-10-24 · School Committee yes · PASSED [5 TO 0] · MHS Athletic Dept Waiver (5 minutes) vote required
2023-10-24 · School Committee yes · PASSED [6 TO 0] · Special Municipal Employees (10 minutes) vote required
2023-10-24 · School Committee yes · ADOPTED [6 TO 0] · MHS Field Trip Request - Spanish Exchange
2023-10-24 · School Committee yes · PASSED [6 TO 0] · Bullying Prevention and Intervention Plan (15 minutes) vote required
2023-10-24 · School Committee yes · PASSED [6 TO 0] · Warrants (5 minutes) vote required
2023-10-24 · School Committee yes · ADOPTED [6 TO 0] · Cafeteria Report
2023-10-10 · School Committee yes · PASSED [6 TO 0] · Warrants (5 minutes) vote required
2023-10-10 · School Committee yes · PASSED [UNANIMOUS] · Monthly Budget Summary/Revolving Accounts (5 minutes) vote required

On video

29 h 42 min of speech identified by voice across 347 recordings (3852 turns). Attribution is by voice match against this person's enrolled voice, not a human transcript; each clip links to the moment. All rows (JSON).

▶ 2025-12-01 Terrified to be here. It's good to see you all again. Um,
▶ 2025-12-01 Paul Broder, private citizen, 125, uh, Trenton Street. When I first heard about demo delay, it was in the context of, um, what we called at the time Oak Grove Village. There were some folks, um, that took their interest from that. At...
▶ 2025-12-01 those buildings from a layperson's point of view, old, dilapidated, basically failing, not doing much for the tax rolls, to be sure. Uh, and it took that building through
▶ 2025-12-01 original permitting being demo being blocked, 40B sale of the property, potential for calling out of 40B and then- and then back into 40B with some evidence along the way that quite frankly was a little bit suspect around some of the...
▶ 2025-12-01 a... I'm- I'm- I think the 1899 date is a good one for the reasons that Ms. Massa explained, uh, along the way. Um, but I'm thinking about
▶ 2025-12-01 the administrative piece because, well, the historic commission, while we're not recruited with the idea of administering this change, certainly has a skill set around evaluating historic properties. But as I understand the ordinance,...
▶ 2025-12-01 about that awesome property on Main Street. But the ordinance also says that that body is going to have to create applications and processes by which this will be administered. So I'm not sure, given the- the desire to be expedited,
▶ 2025-12-01 how, uh, how is that gonna work until that body has the opportunity to flesh out, you know, the draft regs, draft procedures to make that happen. Uh, and finally, since I know folks have talked a lot about with good reason how many...
▶ 2025-12-01 (clears throat) ... permanently, you need to intervene more aggressively kind of thing. You need to buy it, right? You ne- you, it, it's, it's almost too easy to say to a private property
▶ 2025-12-01 owner, "I got bad news for you. We have d- you, you've owned this for X amount of time.

Attendance

From the attendance tables in full minutes (2013 onward): 0 present, 0 absent, 0 remote, 0 late, 0 excused. All rows (JSON).