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--------- Good evening, everyone. Uh this is the April 22nd meeting of the Revere Election Commission. Um I am the chairman of the commission, Stephen Riordan. We have us with us today also

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Commissioner Elizabeth Dickson on to my left as well as Commissioner John Camera. And Commissioner Danielle Pietrantonio, who is the city employee in charge of the Election Commission. Uh we also have with us the city's

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attorney, uh Election Commission attorney, Michael D'Ortensio. Um first order of business, uh as I bring the uh meeting to order, is acceptance of the previous um meeting's minutes. Um

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I'll do the Do we have a meeting? Motion to accept. Second. Second. All in favor. I. I. That matter being taken care of, we'll move on to the uh business at hand.

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I want to make sure everybody understands this is this is being recorded. Uh this is being televised on Revere TV. Uh and uh this is a hearing regarding uh an objection to the residents

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of a a Mr. Alexander Atimi, who is a Ward 2 uh school committee member. Um and uh this hearing is being held in accordance with the uh General Laws chapter 51,

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section 47B, 48, and 49 uh to take evidence and consider challenges filed by the election commission so the residency of two people registered to vote in the city, Alexander Ralimi, and Sophia Ralimi, uh putatively of 34

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Highland Street in Revere, Massachusetts, both. I'm going to turn uh this matter over to Danielle, as secretary of the Board of Elections Commissioners, uh to uh start it, and we will be uh asking and having

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input from our attorney, Mr. DiTullio. Good afternoon, everyone. Um just going to give a quick overview of how we ended up here um today. So, since November of 2025, the election office has received multiple calls regarding the residency

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of Mr. Ralimi. However, all callers wish to remain anonymous. These reports triggered the commission to look further into the matter, at which time the attached evidence was gathered, including, but not limited to, a declaration of homestead for 90 Whitnav, exhibit seven, and a rental listing for

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the Highland Ave apartment, exhibit six. The evidence was compelling enough to justify a meeting of the commission to consider a residency hearing against Alexander and Sophia Ralimi, whose name was included in all of the same documentation. At that time, there was also a formal challenge submitted against another

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voter. However, prior to the hearing date, that voter self-removed themselves from the voter rolls, eliminating the need for further action. Prior to the March 23rd, 2026 Election Commission meeting, on March 12th, 2026, Mr. Ralimi sent an email to the election

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office, which included an attachment that consisted of signed census forms for 34 Highland Street apartment two, which included two separate family codes, and therefore two separate census forms. The email and census forms for 34 Highland Street number two are included

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in the evidence as exhibit 14, 15, and 16. This census form, signed under penalty of perjury, listed Alex and Sophia Ralimi as residents [snorts] of 34 Highland Street apartment two, dated February 9th, 2026. The commission reviewed all the evidence

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and determined that a hearing was warranted. An official challenge was issued to the residency of both Alexander and Sophia Ralimi on behalf of the Election Commission in adherence with all mass general laws and the commission's responsibility to uphold the validity of the city's voter rolls.

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In preparation for the hearing, and in accordance with MGL requirements, a constable, Mr. Bob Sweeney, was obtained to serve Mr. and Mrs. Ralimi with the official summons and evidence packet. Constable Sweeney first traveled to the 34 Highland Street address, since that

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is the address that the Ralimis listed on their voter registration and signed under the penalty of perjury >> [snorts] >> as their residence on their most recent census form. Again, exhibit 15. Mr. Sweeney contacted the office and informed us that no one answered at 34

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Highland Street apartment two. He then attempted to knock on the door of apartment one. A woman answered the door at apartment one and informed Constable Sweeney that Alex and Sophia Ralimi owned the property, but had moved out and no longer lived there. Constable Sweeney memorialized this

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exchange in his return of service documentation, labeled exhibit 21. This also aligns with the rental listing on apartments.com, posted in January 2026 for 34 Highland Street apartment two, which is exhibit six.

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The constable then traveled to 90 Whitnav, the property Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Ralimi filed as their homestead, as shown in exhibit seven. It was decided to visit both addresses in good faith to ensure the Ralimis were properly notified of the hearing date.

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>> [snorts] >> As the constable approached the door at 90 Whitnav, he observed an Amazon package in plain view on the porch bearing a shipping label addressed to Sophia Ralimi with 90 Whitnav listed as the address. A photograph of the package was taken

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and is included in the evidence as exhibit 23. Constable Sweeney was unable to make contact, but noted hearing a dog barking inside the house. He left the summons package at the residence at 90 Whitnav. To further ensure the summons reached Alex and Sophia Ralimi, a copy of the

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packet was sent via certified mail to each of them at 34 Highland Street. Copies of the certified mail tracking numbers are exhibit 24 and 25, and the certified mail was sent on April 16th. As of today, April 22nd, the certified

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mail could not be delivered cuz no one could be reached to sign for the package, exhibits 41 and 42. I did receive a notification just prior to the hearing that the package was picked up at the post office at 3:05 p.m. today, exhibits 43 and 44.

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Ultimately, the commission voted unanimously to bring a challenge against Alexander and Sophia Ralimi due to the inconsistencies in the evidence. A signed census form was submitted to the Election Commission office under penalty of perjury stating that 35 Highland Street is the Ralimis'

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residence, yet a declaration of homestead was also filed in July 2025 stating that 90 Whitnav was the Ralimis' residence. Additionally, the rental listing for the unit where the Ralimis are said to live, along with mortgage and other legal

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documentation, justified holding a hearing for further clarification. We will now go through the entirety of the evidence for each voter. All exhibits are listed on the residency complaints exhibit page, which can be referenced to follow along as we list evidence and corresponding exhibit numbers.

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Please note that there is one copy of the exhibits that will be used in both complaints. So, we have exhibit one, um which is the Suffolk County Register of Deeds cover page. Exhibit two is the mortgage documents for 90 Whitnav. Exhibit three is the signature page for

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those mortgage documents, dated August 15th, 2025. Exhibit four is the date that was notarized, August 15th, 2025. Exhibit five is the property description for 90 Whitnav Ave. Exhibit six is the rental listing for

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Highland for the 34 Highland Street apartment, which was posted on apartments.com in January of 2026. Exhibit seven is the declaration of homestead for 90 Whitnav, dated July 14th, 2025.

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Exhibit eight is the Register of Deeds cover page. Exhibit nine is the notary stamp dated August 15th, 2025 for that document. >> [snorts] >> Exhibit 10 is the Register of Deeds cover page uh regarding excise tax.

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Exhibit 11 is the quick claim quitclaim deed for 90 Whitnav. Exhibit 12 is the notarized page uh dated July 14th, 2025 pertaining to that quitclaim deed. Exhibit 13 is the Assessor's Office

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records pertaining to ownership of properties. Exhibit 14 is the email that was sent to the Election Commission office with the census attached, dated March 12th. >> [snorts] >> Exhibit 15 is the census form that was submitted on March 12th. The

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form is dated February 9th, 2026 for 34 Highland Street apartment two. Exhibit 16 is the second census form that was part of that attachment on March 12th, 2026. >> [snorts] >> Exhibit 17 is Alexander Ralimi's voter

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card. Exhibit 18 is uh Alexander Ralimi's voter change history. Exhibit 19 is Sophia Ralimi's voter card. Exhibit 20 is Sophia Ralimi's voter change history. Exhibit 21 is Constable Bob Sweeney's return of service for Alexander Ralimi.

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>> [snorts] >> Exhibit 22 is Constable Bob Sweeney's return of service regarding Sophia Ralimi. Exhibit 23 is the photo of the Amazon package on the porch for Sophia Ralimi. Exhibit 24 and 25 are the certified mail

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tracking numbers. Exhibit 41 and 42 are the certified mail tracking. Exhibit 43 and 44 is the notification that was received today that the packages were picked up at the post office at 3:05 p.m.

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Um the rest of the exhibits are the exhibits that the Ralimis submitted. Exhibit 26 um is a Should I go through those? Is a um Lowe's credit card bill uh for Alexander Ralimi for April of 2026. Exhibit 27 is a copy of Alexander

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Ralimi's voter registration. Exhibit 28 is the RMV vehicle registration for Alexander Ralimi. Exhibit 29 is Alexander Ralimi's vehicle insurance certificate. Exhibit 30 is Alexander Ralimi's

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Santander Consumer USA account. >> [snorts] >> Exhibit 31 is a copy of Alexander's mass license. Exhibit 32 is a copy of W-2 wage and tax statement for 2025 for Alexander Ralimi. Exhibit 33 is a 1040

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income tax return for 2025 um for Alexander Ralimi. Exhibit 34 is Alexander and Sophia Ralimi's PNC Bank mortgage statement. Exhibit 35 is Sophia Ralimi's license.

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Exhibit 36 is Sophia Ralimi's voter registration. Exhibit 37 is Sophia Ralimi's W-2 wage and tax statement for 2025. Exhibit 38 is a 1040 income tax return uh for 2025 for Sophia Ralimi.

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Exhibit 39 is a Citizens Bank account statement for March of 2026 for Sophia Ralimi. And exhibit 44 is a uh Bostonia magazine that has um Alexander Ralimi's name and >> [snorts]

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>> Thank you, um, Danielle. Um, where are we going from here? Mr. Chair, would it be helpful if I gave a little bit of context on the legal standard and the process for the rest of the afternoon? That's a good idea. Thank you. Uh, and good evening to

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everyone watching. Uh, Mr. Chairman, members of the commission, as the chair said, I'm Michael Dortenzio from KP Law. We are uh, counselor to the election commission and it's a pleasure to be here to work with you all this afternoon. So, what I thought would be helpful both for the commission and for the public

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would is to provide uh, an overview of two elements that are important to our hearing tonight. The first is the burden uh, and who has that burden and what must the case be proved by. And the second are the standards. What does it mean for somebody to live somewhere or

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to change their residence? So, that's what I'd like to briefly summarize now. And as you have questions during the hearing, of course, we can answer those at any time. So, to start with the exciting part, which is the legal standard, uh, we

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recognize and courts have said consistently that removal from a voter list is a serious action. And the board of registrars in Revere, called the election commission, has a serious responsibility to ensure that

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the voters list is accurate. And so, both of those are occurring at the same time. Here, as uh, Danielle had indicated, uh, the commission at a previous meeting under chapter 51, section 47B of the

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general laws, elected to bring this complaint tonight. And what that means is that the commission is the objector and has the burden of proof going forward. And so, you need to prove the allegations that you have brought by a preponderance of

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the evidence. That's a relatively low legal standard. What that means is that it has to be more likely than not what you're trying to prove, right? And the case here is, is it more likely than not that the two respondents on tonight's

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agenda live at the address that they are registered at or is it more likely than not that they live at another address within the city or outside of the city? That's the question that you have to answer tonight by what's called a preponderance of the evidence.

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More likely than not. If you uh, are able to make that case, the respondent has a chance to respond. And the respondent is able to provide all testimony that uh, he would like to share. I understand he has presented

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some exhibits already. Danielle has shared those and those are in front of you tonight. You'll also have a chance to ask questions of the respondent if you find that will be helpful in your fact-finding process. Uh, as a jury is in a case, you as the election

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commissioners are the fact-finders here. And so, what you have to do is apply the facts before you to the law and determine, is it more likely than not that the respondents live at the address on the register or somewhere else?

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Let me pause there on the burden. Are there any questions on that? All right. Thank you. So, now let me turn to the legal standard. And and what does it really mean to live somewhere? Uh, so there is a helpful guide I'd like to uh, share some excerpts from from the

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secretary of the Commonwealth. Uh, and one of the key items here is that every person can have only one residence at a time for voting purposes and for holding elective office. And that's a uh, paramount rule throughout

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the Commonwealth. And what that means is that a person's residence is where their home or where they're physically present and intending it to be home for the time being. And so, that's an important element. It both has to be where the individual is

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and where they're intending, at least for some period of time, to remain. What makes your job more difficult is that there's no clear-cut definition of residency. There's not a flowchart or some sort of other test that we can

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apply. It really is weighing all the different facts that are out there in your capacity as election commissioners. One of the other things to be clear about is that residence is an objective

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concept and not a subjective one. And so, what that means is as the finders of fact, it may be that we hear testimony from the respondent or others who say, "I believe that I live here." But what you have to do is only to weigh

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the objective facts because according to the Commonwealth, what counts is not where somebody believes their residence is, but rather where the objective facts show that it is. And those facts uh, can be any set of

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evidence of a person's actions. Time spent in various places, residences and registrations, information from the Registry of Motor Vehicles, the Internal Revenue Service, bank accounts, telephone listings, places of

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employment, religious, social, political affiliations. All of that, all of those elements of a person's life are relevant. Uh, because what you are determining is where is the center of this individual's domestic, social, and civil

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life. That's the term that the courts use. And what you need to find is where that is, again, by a preponderance of the evidence. And that is your charge tonight. Uh, so before I close, Mr. Chair, I do just

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want to uh, note from the statute, which is chapter 51, section 49 of the general laws, uh, the options before the election commission relative to the two individuals on the agenda. Uh, you are empowered by the general laws to find uh, essentially three

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items. You can find that the individual is correctly registered as in the register of voters and that would be to dismiss the complaint. That's your first option. There are then two options to uphold the complaint.

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The first one is to find that the individual is registered in the city but is incorrectly registered in the particular ward. And in that case, you would vote to uh, change the place of residence

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on the register to the other ward where you believe the individual, again, by a preponderance of the evidence, actually resides. The third option is if you believe the individual does not reside in the city, you would strike their name from the register entirely. You would not

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re-register them anywhere else. The only power that this board has to change someone's registration is within the city of Revere. So, those are the three options before the board, again, by a preponderance of the evidence. Mr. Chair, will remain available to

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answer any questions throughout this. And if there's any questions now, I'm happy to answer them. Thank you. Does anybody have any questions of the city's attorney? Please. Approach the podium and speak into the microphone, kindly.

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I'm pointing at you. You you raised your hand. No, you don't have the floor. You have a question? We we don't salute the flag, no. We didn't salute the flag. I I'm trying to hear what you said. We don't have to salute the flag. No, we

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don't. Well, do you have a question? I understand that. Do you have a question? Do you have any questions? Sir. Sir. Do you have any questions?

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And state your name. You got to turn your microphone on, too. You have a microphone on. Okay, thank you. Thank you for speaking. Okay, where are we going next? At this point, we will take uh, some statements from the parties or any

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parties who would like to speak. I would like to hear from the respondent first and foremost, Mr. Rahimi. Sure. I don't Just the microphone, make sure you put that on. Is it on? I think it's on. Yeah. First of all, allow me to swear you in.

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Do you swear that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? >> Yes, sir. All right, you are now under oath, sir. Yep. This Alexander Rahimi, 34 Highland Street, Revere, Mass. Dear members of the election commission,

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I respectfully submit this response to the summons and complaint regarding my voter registration in the city of Revere. I affirm that I'm properly and legally registered to vote in ward two of the city of Revere. My domicile is located at 34 Highland

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Street, which is my true, fixed, and principal home. It is where I reside most of the time, where my daily life is centered, and where I intend to remain. My conduct consistently reflect my

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domicile in Ward 2. I reside at 34 Highland Street on regular and consistent basis, maintain my personal belonging there, and conduct my day-to-day life from that residence. It is also the address where I regularly

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receive my mail and packages. Further evidence that it is the center of my personal and domestic life. While I own a property in Ward 5, that property is not my primary residence. It is maintained for investment purposes

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and does not serve as my domicile. Ownership of additional property does not establish residency for voter purposes under Massachusetts law, which is based on domicile.

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I understand the commission has reviewed various property-related record. However, such record, while relevant to ownership, do not determine domicile. Massachusetts law is clear that domicile

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depend on physical presence and intent, as articulated in cases such Dane versus Board of Registrars of Voters in Concord and Hershcoff versus Registrars of Voters of Worcester. To support my my position,

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I'm providing documentation my domicile in Ward 2, including but not limited to driver's license reflecting my Ward 2 address, proof of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts voter registration, copy of 2025 Internal Revenue Service

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W-2 forms, copy of 2025 Internal Revenue Service 1040s, copy of recent bank account statement, copy of recent mortgage statement. These material collectively confirm that

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Ward 2 is the center of my domestic, personal, and civic life. I respectfully request that after review of the full facts and applicable law, my voter registration of Ward 2 be affirmed as valid.

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Thank you for your time and consideration. And I will submit this letter, by the way, with the files, too. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rahimi. Um do the commissioners have any questions of Mr. Rahimi?

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Um we reviewed one um the census was signed um under the penalty of perjury that you lived at 34 Highland Street, but then you transferred your homestead to 90 Winthrop, which was also signed under the penalty of perjury. So, that's kind of where my I you know, I'm I'm hung up

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on a little bit. Um and then the rental listing that the apartment is up to rent and available now. Um and that's supposed to be where where you're living. So, that's kind of where I I get a little thrown off. Thank you. Um It's something to do with the homestead law, I think, when I hired a lawyer,

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he said you have to have something to protect myself. So, my property lawyer, when we acquired a property for investment, he said he said he needs to I I still want to research that. I need to talk to him. Yeah, he's not supposed to transfer me. So, I need to

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talk to him. But, he he's mentioned about the homestead. Actually, I was going to be Yeah. Yeah, I I agree. And the second question was regarding Yeah, it's two units. If you can see

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that that's a two bedrooms. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Sorry. Um yeah, no, it was the the rental listing was for the the unit um that you allegedly uh the apartment that you live in and

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the the the person who lived in apartment one with the constable was there, which if it if I don't know who that was. Um I think it'd be a mother-in-law lives in apartment one if according to the census said that you um that you did own the house, but you moved out and no

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longer lived there. So, to me it's like they were just signed under the pains and penalty of perjury that you live in two different places. Um and that the you know, your mother-in-law saying that that you moved out um and that kind of you know, it it's just that

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brings the question to uh to my mind. I will answer that. My First of all, my mother-in-law does not speak English. Uh she's Moroccan background. And second, and I will submit this I don't think I had it when I gave you this. So, when Constable Sweeney came

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into my house, and I will show you this, uh my car was right outside. I don't think he submitted this, but he I have camera right there. My car is a Tesla, which is that you have there. I will submit this with the exhibit. He was there, and I think he took a picture of my license plate. It

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was right there. I was charging it actually that day while I went to work through the T because I had to charge it in my home, as you can see. Uh I don't think you have it there, but I'll submit it. Um second exhibit I'm going to submit to prove my residency is

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I'm still receiving packages right now. Um I have this package coming actually between April 21st to the 29th coming to 34 Highland Street, which is I will submit, too. This is an additional. And I will review that with the

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homestead because I did not know what's the legalities about the homestead when you own the second home as investment because I think you when you own the second home the investment, you still need to have a homestead to protect myself, I guess. I will relate that to my counsel, too.

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But, that's property law, too, I think. Yeah. But, shouldn't it be transferred, too? Thank you. My question was still on the homestead. Can you only have homestead act on one property? I yeah. That's it.

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Okay. Thank you. Any other questions from the commission? I have a question. Uh I think it's exhibit uh your mortgage. Are you familiar with your mortgage? Your Yeah, your mortgage for the

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Winthrop Street address. Mortgage, yes. Your mortgage that you you borrowed money to to buy the Winthrop Street property, which you're telling us is an investment property, correct? Do you know if that mortgage requires

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you to live in the residence? Uh no, it's an investment property. And you're sure of that? I am because when I bought it, I bought it as investment property when it was listed there. Well, there's a section of your mortgage that says that if you

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live someplace else, you need to notify the mortgage company. So, have you told the mortgage company that you live someplace else? When I hired the a property attorney when he represent me the closing, and I told him I'm buying a

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property as an investment property, and that's what we we applied as a mortgage for investment. That's how we were qualified, actually. The mortgage doesn't indicate that. The mortgage indicates that you're living there. Well, that's based on the attorney that I had. I had an attorney I bought >> your attorney?

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Um I didn't ask him to come >> he's not here to testify today, right? Yeah. And I'm That's what I'm going to ask him about actually that homestead thing because I did not intend to change to change my homestead. >> yeah, that's interesting, too, but

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this is a mortgage. You've been You can You can uh you can be uh foreclosed upon if you do not uh live in that property when you're supposed to be. Yeah, this is occupancy. This is section

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six of your mortgage. Borrower must occupy, establish, and use the property as borrower's principal residence. Yeah. So, you're telling me under oath right now that is not your principal residence. I'm not I was not intending to use it as as a residency. Whatever you intended,

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you signed a doc You signed a document, did you not, that says that that you need to live there. So, when I bought that property, I assure you I bought it as an investment property. You're saying that, but you signed a document that said you were

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going to live there. Yes. You also have a homestead on that. You can only have one homestead, and that is a separate document from the mortgage. These are two documents that say that you live on Winthrop Avenue.

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I will contact him tomorrow. That was not my intention to use the homestead or anything else. As you can see, >> by contacting him you can do anything to change the your signature on these documents. That's not going to change. As you know,

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when you close on a property, you get 200 pages of signatures. Right. You just sign and sign and sign and sign in front of the attorney. That's what most people when they buy a property, whether an investment or

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whether it's a residence. So, that property I can assure you when I bought it, I bought it as a investment property only. And like I said in my letter here and all evidence that I submitted to the commission election, I intend

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to keep 34 Highland as my residency, and that's where I remain. I seriously doubt you would have gotten this mortgage if you had told the mortgage company that. I will tell you also that I do real estate law. And when I have clients and I go over every single document they're signing, so they

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know what they're doing. I find it very surprising that you stand here before me with when I see signed documents here that said that essentially you lied to your mortgage company. I find that very disturbing.

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Does anybody else have any other questions? All right, thank you very much for your testimony. Thank you. Uh if anybody else would like to speak or give testimony on this matter, we will hear. Thank you.

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Okay. Uh then that concludes the hearing at this point. Um I have to uh read a disclosure uh regarding my uh uh

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relationship with Eventually, uh we should probably mention that you are a city uh school committee member in the city of Revere. Is that correct? Yes, and I would like to submit this uh to my fellow commissioners. Sure. Yeah, thank you.

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Okay. Excellent, thank you. Yeah, sure. These are other uh exhibits I want to show the commissioners. Do you think I should read this into the record? I know, cuz I think I think that the respondent read it or they're All right. Okay.

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Um So, at this point uh I do have a past relationship uh with the person. Apparently, uh if you are not uh living in the ward where you are a school committee person, uh that you are

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no longer qualified to be there if that's the way we vote this evening. Uh we don't have anything to do with that. The city uh the city clerk would have to take action on that. Um but that's the ultimate from what I understand uh uh result.

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Uh I have a relationship with the person or I had a relationship with the person who will eventually would assume that seat under the law, uh Mr. Feliciano. Mr. Felias Feliciano was a tenant of mine over 10 years ago uh on in uh

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living on the uh in Revere. Pardon? 15 Vic Yeah, on 15 Victoria Street, where I owned a home, and I rented that property to him. Uh he uh but I have not had any

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uh conversations with him in the last 10 years. I just want you to know he did live in the apartment at one one time when I owned the house. I don't own the house anymore, and he doesn't live there anymore, obviously. Uh so, that's uh for the uh for the sake of full disclosure, I am

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announcing that to everybody who might be interested in this matter at this point. Uh so, at this point uh we do have uh all the evidence before us. Uh Mr. uh Uh thank you, Mr. Chair. So, at this

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point uh of course, you are always free to turn back to the respondent or to the public if you have further questions or need further information. But at this point, as the election commissioners and as sort of the members of the jury who are weighing the facts, this is an opportunity for you to discuss among

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yourselves if you'd like to what the different facts are, the different elements that are persuasive or important to you. Uh and of course, any election commissioner is empowered to a motion at any time. And I remain here to answer questions.

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Very well, attorney. Um if I could ask the commissioners who would like like to uh make comments on this matter at this point. Do you want to deliberate for a minute? Yeah, we'll deliberate, but I just want to make sure the public if there are any public uh questions or comments at this

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point. All right, very good. Uh the commission will now deliberate on this matter. Okay. All right, very good. Do you want to break and deliberate in private or do I think at this point the commission is

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going to deliberate on this matter, um and uh we will be back. Does that Will Will that work or do we do it here? Uh I think we should We'll do it We'll do it here. >> Yeah, we'll do it here. So, again, Commissioner Dixon, what your your if your thoughts on this

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matter, deliberation-wise? But privately No, we'll do it We'll do it out loud. This is uh sort of like being in a a jury room, right? But uh the public gets to see the sausage getting made. So. I'll make a motion. Sure. Sure. And And you There can be more deliberation after

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the motion. It's >> All right. It's entirely up to the board, isn't I'll entertain a motion on this matter. All right, um I would like to make a motion to accept the challenge based on finding that the evidence submitted is sufficient to support the claim that Mr.

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Mrs. Ralaimi's domicile has legally changed from 34 Highland Street to 90 Winthrop. Therefore, I move to offer a motion to change Alexander and Sophia Ralaimi's voter registration address to 90 Winthrop in Revere.

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Uh any uh discussion on the motion? Any second? Second. And before you vote, Mr. Chair, I I would uh only cuz we'll we will produce a statement of decision and a statement of reasons uh that will be filed with the city clerk. And so, um

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uh in that in those two documents, we'll need to represent the thinking of the commission, which items were most persuasive or important to it. So, it would be helpful for each commissioner to just offer a couple of uh options. Again, generally, you know, as a jury, the public doesn't get to see the jury's

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deliberations, but but in this context, uh the open meeting law applies, and so so the public does. Therefore, I will entertain any uh comments that the commissioners would like to make. I have some comments as well. All right, um I think I decided to

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make that motion um because of the just the evidence as a whole. Um I think for me, the the homestead, the mortgage, and the rental listing was was a big one for me. Um we do have two conflicting uh

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under pains and penalties of perjury, they're saying two very different things. Um and I I think you'd be, you know, on your mortgage documents and and um things like that, you you'd be extra careful, you know, to make sure that that you weren't committing any type of

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fraud or signing anything um wrong. And then, just just with that plus the rental listing plus um what the constable um heard that uh they no longer lived there, I think just as a whole, to me, um it it that's that's

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what's that's what's pushing me in that direction um to make the change. Um I agree with um Danielle. My concern again is as hers are, the Homestead Act along with the principal residence

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mortgage. Um so, that would be why I would agree to um have the voter address changed to the 90 Winthrop. I also have to agree it's overwhelming evidence that the primary residence is Winthrop in Revere. And I would add uh also that I believe

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that the evidence here easily meets the preponderance of the uh evidence standard uh pointing out again legal documents, very important legal documents that were signed uh by the respondent. Um

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I can't believe it wasn't knowingly signed. I I I understand him saying, "Well, I didn't know every part of the mortgage, etc." But that's a very important part of the mortgage, because that would disqualify you from keeping the mortgage

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if you violated that. Uh and uh also, the homestead is a very very simple document, and it basically says clearly to anybody who signs it and reads it and should read it, that they

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are living in that home. Uh those two uh documents uh certainly uh allows us to uh reach that standard of preponderance of the evidence. There are other factors, obviously, involved, the fact that the

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person's living in the home uh had s- [snorts] stated that he does not live there anymore uh is is kind of pretty obviously an indication thereof. But at the same time, I think

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before us, what we have before us here, documentary evidence-wise, is enough to reach that standard, and I agree uh that uh that it has been met at this point. So, at this point, um we should vote on the uh we're uh going

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to vote on the uh the action that the commission would be commission would be taking today. >> So, uh this hearing was held uh to determine uh whether or not uh two parties, Alexander Rahimi and his

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spouse, Sophia Rahimi, uh are uh no no longer living at the address that they purported to be living uh and are now living at 90 Winthrop Ave in uh in Revere, which is

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not where they are registered to vote. Uh so, um we have uh we have a motion before us. Uh it's not specific, though I would ask

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that the mover determine whether or not uh of the three choices we have, uh which is that motion uh addressing. And that choice is no action, uh an address change, or removal from the

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voting uh the voting rolls. >> Um a motion to change uh address change in within the city of Revere from 34 Highland Street to 90 Winthrop Ave. All right. >> For Alexander and Sophia Rahimi. All right. So, [snorts] I am going to ask the commissioners uh one at a time

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to uh to uh give their uh action on the the vote on the uh on the motion to uh change the address of the uh respondents to 90 Winthrop Avenue in Revere from its current

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address. Elizabeth? Yes, change to 90 Winthrop Ave. John? Yes, change to 90 Winthrop Ave. Danielle? Yes. The chair votes yes, as well. Uh so, this that is a removal uh I'm

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sorry, an address change, not a removal. Uh and uh as of as of now, the voting uh address of the respondent is at 90 uh Winthrop Ave in Revere, Massachusetts. Uh thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh

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we as I mentioned earlier, we will prepare a statement of decision and a statement of reason that'll be filed uh with the city clerk's office and uh should the board be amenable, I'd ask that you uh uh designate uh take a vote to designate one of your individuals, perhaps Danielle, as the uh

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staff member uh to sign off on those documents. We'll look to prepare those tomorrow uh just in the interest of uh timeliness. >> I'll entertain a motion to appoint Danielle. I second. All in favor? I. >> I. I.

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And no further action in my opinion, Mr. Chair, that needs to be taken by the board. All right. Uh then I will entertain a motion I'm sorry. Told you. Thank you. Good. Uh Danielle has made a a helpful point uh and uh this is a a legal announcement I can share. So, this is uh chapter 51,

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section 49 of the general laws, which provides that if an individual is summoned to appear before the registrars, again, in Revere, it's the election commission, the statute uses the word registrars, fails to appear before the registrars,

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uh but shows sufficient cause for their failure to appear, the hearing shall be reopened and the matter decided on its merits as determined from the evidence presented on both sides. Uh so, under the statute, uh if you uh follow through on your summons and appear, you do get

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uh a small check of $6 and change, 15 cents, for uh being a witness. Uh that I understand has been provided by the city to the respondent who is here today. Uh the statute provides that if you fail to appear and demonstrate good cause, that the hearing can be reopened. That's not

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automatic, that's only if uh any uh request were to come in. So, uh absent any future requests, uh your decision uh will stand. Thank you. All right. With that, I will entertain a moment uh motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second.

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Second. Uh this meeting is of the Revere uh Election Commission is hereby adjourned. Thank you.

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Um, welcome. This is the parks and recre recreation commissions committee meeting. Um, we're going to start with roll call. So, we have Natalie, how do you say, Lesie? >> Natalia, >> sorry, Natalia.

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>> Artagna is present. Jaclyn Damiano present. >> Adriana Boreel filling in for Michael Hinosa. I'll get it right next time. I promise. Lily Martinez >> present. >> Shannon

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>> Bianke >> present. >> Um Nicholas >> Coane present. >> Coane present. And Wilson Karina >> Korea >> Koreah is on his way. All right. So, we're going to start with

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um opening statements. Do we have any opening statements? No. Okay. Um and then we're going to move into approval of the prior minutes that were passed out in the packet that you guys received. Um if everyone's in agreement with them.

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>> Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. And then we're going to move into um the correspondence. No correspondence. Okay. And then we're going to go into nomiation for our

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secretary. Um I'd like to nominate Shannon if there's anybody who seconds that. >> I'll second it. >> I second it. Okay, we're in agreement. >> Perfect. We're all in agreement. Shannon, welcome as secretary.

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>> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Um and then we're going to go into the next one which is the update of the parks and open space master list um which was provided for us. Is there anybody who'd like to touch on this?

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>> Sure. Thanks, Jacqueline. Um, so I was able to do some um, scouting on the rave.org website. Um, and what you have before you here,

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uh, it says parks and open space inventory. This comes from the, uh, Ravier open space and recreation plan, uh, the most recent one. Um, and it's on they started on their page 80 and it runs for a few pages and there's um

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quite an extensive list uh uh of all the different um city- owned, public owned and privately owned parks and open space areas throughout the city. Um it kind of gives uh an interesting feedback. Uh you

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can see you know gives the owner manager uh current use condition uh recreation potential. Uh it shows where the funds are used for each uh parcel. Uh gives the the zoning district level of protection

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um and public access. Um it also uh gives the u acreage for each parcel. uh just something for the commission to um refer to moving forward.

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Um and the last few pages, I think last three or four pages of it, starting on page 89 to 91, kind of gives an uh an explanation of what we're looking at. So, we could take that home and digest it. also

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Jacqueline if you know with with the handout u this now becomes part of our record part of our permanent record um and moving forward uh whenever we have something like this that we'd like to uh put in our record. I think we could do

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that by putting it simply on the website. So, we have a section of, you know, the river website for parks and rec commission. And I believe it would be a nice uh place to put these the these various things in PDF form. And so

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if you would like um I could make this into a PDF and send it up the up the chain and do what I can to get them to amend the website and put this on >> so that it becomes a part of the permanent record. >> Yeah, that'd be great for us. >> Okay, we'll do.

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>> All right. And Andrea, um for parks and racks, all the ones that have it, those are all facilities that you guys utilize. >> Yeah, so these are going to be you're going to see them May 1st actually in our summer flyer. than the back of the booklet minus I included the community center at the Garfield school and has health wellness center that's not in the

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summer flyer but these are the main parks that are utilized for like our summer activities um sports camp summer camp and programs like that so these are more of the ones that we kind of have entertainment so we highlight them in the summer flyer but the one that's in

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the booklet definitely has like all open spaces and stuff so that might be a better one to upload but I can provide this one as well if you wanted to upload it. >> It'd be nice to have both. Yeah, >> sure. >> Thank you. >> All right. And then, um, we're going to go into the discussion of the website,

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social media, and other communications. Um, I know this is something we talked about at the last meeting, um, and getting more. You guys were looking to get more input from parents and stuff like that. Um, maybe you can touch base on like what kind of surveys you guys did in the past.

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Um so we sent out a survey to families saying how can we get in more contact with you guys the number one thing that we got was communication going into schools. So we have been working with the liaison in the school department. um they've been having coffee hour I think

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it's like once a month and the um sorry not the fitness leaison the school leaison um are have been reaching out we've been sending them all flyers of things that we have going on um and on the last Monday of every month we've

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been attending the Paul rev school is having um an open gym type situation from 3:00 to 3:45 that welcomes parents and kids to come in and utilize things um in the gym and they also invited us as partners so we went there last month.

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Um they started in January but both of them were snow days so we missed out on those two but last month was our first one um and we were able to bring our summer camp flyer um our skills and drills program. So, now that we have the summer flyer almost 95% done, um we'll

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be able to put that as a resource. Um and just being in contact with as many people within the school department that we can just kind of be invited to things as vendors and hand it out. So, yeah. And what kind of um for the summer fire

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like what kind of things are you guys looking to do for >> Yeah. So we have our I think this summer is with the Fourth of July falls. It will be our longest week for the Fourth of July week. So we have seven weeks of summer camp, four weeks of sports camp.

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Um we have our summer basketball program that's down the stadium six nights a week with over 300 kids starting from um second grade to college. Um we have tennis camp, art camp, free entertainment um in the park including

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like moon bounce, um shows in the park, uh free barbecue, um princess coming to read a story and then they get a free book at the end if they sit there for it. Friday field trips. We actually just got our brand new screen delivered today. Um that will

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amplify our movie night. We got a grant for it. So it's wonderful. um we'll be able to start the movies earlier, hopefully get the little ones before they have to go to bed. Um so we're really excited for that addition. Um and then just our summer staples like our Fourth of July event, um end of the year

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color party and programs like that. >> Thank you. Um, and then as far as like promoting it, um, for like the people like the communication, um, because I've had a few people reach out with the same concerns of like, you know, it's really hard to get the information. Um,

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especially from like community pass. It's they said it's very difficult to navigate and has little to no information. Um, are you guys going to be using community pass or you guys have other sources now? >> So, I have been on about seven calls over the last two weeks. We are demoing

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different software. Um, we do not like Community Pass just as much as the residents. If there is a problem, it's impossible for support to get any support at all. So, we are on the hunt of changing our software. Unfortunately, the turnaround time to change it before

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the summer will be nearly impossible. Um, so we will have to stick with Community Pass for the summer, but by September, our contract is up with Community Pass and we're trying to work with a software company that I think that we're going to go to. I'm not 100%

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sure. They're going to help with the onboarding so people won't have to go and create new accounts. They'll take what we have from Community Pass and just switch it over. That will help alleviate, I hope, some of the frustration what people because we are just as frustrated as them. Um, but I

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what I try to tell people and you can I would love for you to pass the message along. If they get stuck with community pass, we're in the office 8 to 5 Monday through Thursday and Friday. We're there till 12:15. Have them call. As long as they have an account, we can do it right over the phone and help them.

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>> That's good to know. Um, does anybody else have any questions in regards to the website, social media or other communications? >> Sorry. Yeah, just a quick question. Um, what other software are we looking at right now? Like >> Sure. So we are looking at we met with

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um active net we have met with reces wreck tech um in easy facility um we had initial meetings with a couple of them um they kind of have to hear what our wants were and then we had to follow up um and do another demo. Our problem um I

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guess I shouldn't say problem but our difficulty is right now is we're paying for two softwares because easy facility is the best by far for all things rental and gym related. So um just to give you a quick background. So, easy facility

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shows us a schedule um that has all on the left hand side and I can send a screenshot um to you through email so that it's easy for a visual but on the lefthand sides all's our gymnasiums and um fields and then at the top it's basically a timeline. So, it starts at

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8:00 and it goes through the night. We put every rental um in this software and the janitors are able to see this. Um the school department's able to see this. DBW is able to see this as a view only. So they can go in and the um DBW can say, "All

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right, there's a high school lacrosse game today at 3:00. We got to make sure the bathrooms are open and stuff like that." So visually in the accessibility with how much gym rentals and turf space that we use, it is ideal. We have sat with every company and nothing matches

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that. When we first started with easy facility was when Michael started, so about 13 years ago. They just didn't have that user friendly for programming on the recreation side. I did meet with them um last Thursday and they showed me a whole

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new side. They have had updates. Um there is a way for you to sign in now as um a customer and register and put it in your cart. So that was one of the biggest features. So like for example, Lily, there's seven Martinezes. So if that her mom was going to go register

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her, she had to register her check out and pay, then register another sibling, check out and pay and so forth. So it was just not feasible for someone with multiple children or someone who was trying to sign up for multiple programming. That's why we liked Community Pass because there was a way

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for you to just add it to cart and it made it a little bit simpler. with the updates with easy facility. They have now changed that you are able to add it to cart. Um they like I said you now have a customer side. So the other side of easy facility was they had to call to

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register for anything. So I don't know if you know us but in the summer we are extremely busy and we're in a lot of different locations at one time. So when the phones are ringing off the hook, it just wasn't a good way for us to serve the community because we weren't able to

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get to all the phone calls. So changing over to community pass alleviated that cuz people were able to go through on their own. Now hopefully with the easy facility with the changes I think that it's going to be more helpful but Michael has to sit down on a call with

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them this week to just finalize and see if he likes the way that it looks from a customer service side. So >> just a quick question. So you're saying multiple departments can see the city um and also main is it possible for for the

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community to see it to see the scheduling of of the rentals and and and the question comes behind is because I get space is limited and when when some people reach out to us or or ask me like oh why is I ask for a rental and they

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say it's busy but I I go there and it's empty. is then a way to find out like who's renting it, why it's not being utilized. If somebody rented, okay, that's great. That is some income for for the department, but at the same time, it's not being utilized. Is there

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any way to have that option for the public to to see this and maybe follow up because there are kids that would like to use the space for coaching or or different activities and is is that possible? >> So, I would love to answer that, but that is definitely a Michael question.

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um he will have a better answer to that. But tomorrow when I go in, I will follow up with him and see if he can send out an email to all you guys or we can save it for the next meeting. Whatever you want to do and put it on the agenda. >> Thank you so much. But it is I get that question a lot especially for kids

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trying to get space for soccer ma mainly. That's that was that's what they called me about and say what can be done and and they say or is empty. They say oh probably is rent if they didn't allow it. But thank you if you can find out. Thank you. Any

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other comments, questions? Okay, we'll close that one out. Um, and then we're going to move on to discussions for meeting style. Um, so this is um how we're going to run our meetings moving forward. I know Shannon has um provided a Robert's rule for us,

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so I'll let him speak on that. >> Uh, thank you. Um I right after the list of the parks and open space areas, you'll find the uh the second uh handout. Um

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I I assume that everyone is a little bit familiar with Robert's rules. Um I have been on other boards and I've seen a lot of other boards and commissions um run fairly rigid meetings. Um, I don't think that we will need that. Um, my it's my

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suggestion that um, if we ever have like a hearing that we kind of adopt this at that hearing, but if not, then we kind of go like we've been going. I think it works fine to have a more relaxed open

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uh, meeting. >> Any other comments, questions? Do you have >> I'm sorry I brought you. >> Thank you so much. >> So um before I left work today, Michael did want to say that he kind of agrees

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with the roundt meeting. Michael's, um a talker and he likes to feel more that like he's in a community setting and talking with friends than in a formal I should say meeting like this. He's open to the idea of it being televised. He's okay. But he said that he's more than

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welcome to utilize the rec center as a location where you guys could be in a more comfortable setting rather than trying to look left and right to see each other. So, um I think that he was going to talk with Rebeard TV, but he said he was more than willing to if we wanted to and have the same open um

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meeting regulations that we have to follow like the public's allowed to come and so forth and so on, but just so that might be a little bit easier for you guys to form a discussion. So, he did want me to put that out on the table. >> I like that idea. I really do.

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Um, I like that. I I like how we can, you know, when it comes to a bigger discussion, bring in Robert's rules so that we do stick to, you know, something that's going to keep it very simple, very justified. Um, as far as like just how we're meeting now, I'm okay with that. Um, I think it is good to have a

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communication and and the sense of like we're all here together for the same purpose. Um, anybody else? Do we have all in favor? I'll oppose that. I'm in favor. >> I was going to say the uh the pomp and circumstance of this room has always made me a little uncomfortable. So

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I I vote in favor as well. >> I'm in favor. >> In favor. >> Okay. So, we will adapt to um a little bit of a round table with Robert's rules when it comes to decision- making. Um

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and then we're going to move on to So, we'll close that out for now. We'll go on to public comment. Um there's no public a nice quiet room. Um one thing I did um want to put out is I had a parent reach

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out. um she did want to remain anonymous, but she did ask me to read um just her thoughts on the whole communication thing and everything. Um so her two main concerns were that the communication and technology um and then just the little bit of the decision-m

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regarding programming. So communication and parks and reccks department to the community at large um can be inconsistent at best. Information regarding events and programs will vary widely across Facebook, Instagram, the website, in-person flyers, and weekly emails. Um, flyers distributed in person

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will list one time in location while social media may have a different time in location posted. Um, and they were not very kind of your community pass, which it sounds like you guys are in the same way. Um, so and then the only other

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concern she had was some of the programming. So, I guess she signed up for the soccer recently and it has become a very popular thing. Um, and it seemed like that there was a lot of kids. So, they just asked if when you guys have programming and if you have a

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huge turnout if we could add more sessions to kind of break it up a little bit. Um, but it sounds like you guys are already in the works of getting a better programming for that. Um, any other public comment? Okay. Um, and then I think that's it for

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today. Anybody have any they want to add? >> Um, Jacqueline, did you want to speak about the budget at all or >> Um, I think we can save that one for the next one where they're still finishing up the programming um because I think it'd be good to kind of put those two and two together with um how you guys

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are budgeting for everything so that we can >> Okay, I'll carry that over on the next agenda. Um also moving forward um do you want to speak about um how we all get agenda items on the agenda?

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>> Yes. Um if you don't mind helping me through that one um as you've had experience before what you think the best approach would be for that. >> Sure. Um I think uh an easy way for us to do it would be to do to communicate directly with you. Um, and you know,

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also have like an email posted on the on our commission web page so that people could reach out to me. Uh, and maybe I could take a little bit of burden off of the correspondence. Um, and filter those

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to you. Um, if if we could set up something like that, like a contact email for the parks and recck commission and then those would go copy to you, copy to me, copy to the other officer. >> Yeah, that could work.

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Um, I just have one question um, regarding the budget. Was there something in specific that you guys wanted to talk about that I could send off to Michael? like I know it's on the agenda. I don't want to not but if I could try my best to try to um get an answer to Michael that way

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if you guys have something lingering rather than waiting two months for a response I could do my best. Um I can tell you that the money that is allocated for events um we try to use it we call them our big four. So, that is our Fourth of July event. Um, fright

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night, tree lighting, and I am missing one. It's going to come with me. Um, but that's where like a lot of our our money goes. Fourth of July alone costs over $10,000. Um, so he didn't want me to mention that. Um, and then field maintenance and

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stuff like that. So, our baseball fields, we actually have um three colleges now use our Griswald field complex as their home um fields, which is wonderful. That brings in a lot of revenue. But it's also cool to see our field in our city being used on the

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collegic level. Um and we also have our high school teams playing on those fields as well as Malden Catholic now uses that for their home softball field. So, um, he did want me to mention that, but if there's anything pressing that you guys want like for Michael to kind of reach out because he's sits in the

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budget meeting meetings with Rich Risque, I'd be more than happy to pass along any questions or messages for him. >> I just have a question. When when does the uh when is the budget meetings like what what month does that happen and and when would when would he need uh in

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input? >> Um, sure. So, I know that they started in March. Um, and they meet a couple of times. Um, I know that he had one two weeks ago. Um, so they have already started and they're in like the final

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process of their budget. Um, from what I have gathered, obviously it's between the auditor and the director. So, um, I'm not too keen on what is said, but I know that they do start pretty I want to say the first one might be in February, but it is definitely in March. Um and

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they are in the finalizing stages of the budget right now >> for next year. >> Um so our fiscal year is in July. So of July 1st. >> Okay. Great. And that's >> um any other questions, comments?

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Okay. Um then we call this parks and reccks commission um adjourned. Do I have a second? >> Thank you. >> Thank you. I second. Thank you.