Paul Coogan

Good afternoon, members of the Fall River Traffic and Parking Commission.

I want to thank the Mayor of Fall River, Paul Coogan, and the Director of Traffic and Parking, Stephanie McArthur, for the opportunity to speak this afternoon.

I'm speaking with you today to formally request that the Fall River Traffic Commission authorize a traffic study and approve the installation of a four-way stop sign at the intersection of Robeson and Maple Street.

I've lived at 870 Maple Street for 15 years and feel that the time has come to consider a four-way stop at this intersection.

I'd like to introduce Father Michael Racine for the opening prayer.

Heavenly Father, as we gather this evening in gratitude in the presence of our Fall River Fire Department, our Chief Bacon, Mayor Coogan, Governor Haley, and in the presence of our award recipients and their families.

As we honor the dedication and the courage and selfishness of our firefighters in recognition of their work of the Gabriel House Fire 15 months ago.

Thank you for calling these men and women to a life of service.

It's about the support that they're receiving.

It's about everybody in this room, the collective team that allows each and every one of us to do our jobs.

So, Governor Healey, Mayor Coogan, Senator Rodericks, Representatives Fiola, Willette, and Sylvia, members of the City Council's Public Safety Committee, Councilors Michael Canuel and Andrew Raposo, PFFM President Rich McKinnon, PFFM Secretary-Treasurer Billy Cabral, PFFM District Vice President Jason Burns, IFF District 3 Vice President Jake Holbert, and Local 1314 President Michael O'Regan.

Thank you all for being here tonight.

Ms. Stewart? Here.

Mayor Coogan?

Here.

Salute to the flag.

This recognition really reflects the incredible work happening in our classrooms and the willingness of our educators to share that work with others.

And there's nothing more important again than being, again, coming to a state level and sharing the success that you have with academics and the success of our students.

So last Tuesday, I was honored to join State Representative Carol Fiola, Mayor Paul Coogan, School Committee Member Chanel Stewart, Durfee Principal Dr. Jessica Stephenson, and other Fall River Public Schools staff as Rep. Fiola presented a ceremonial check representing 170,000 in fair share earmarks and an additional twenty nine hundred to the fall river public schools you'll hear i think a little bit about that later to out this evening but a hundred twenty thousand was for special education after school program transportation including the purchase of additional buses and vans fifty thousand for educational enrichment field trips helping make these experiences more expect accessible to our students and families and just a little over almost twenty nine hundred for prom preparation for durfee high school supporting here makeup alterations and Prometheia for our students.

We are grateful for the support for our students and schools, and again, I can't say it enough, we talked about advocacy with every one of our elected officials, whether it's, again, our senator, our state representatives, whether it's our federal representatives, whether it's our city council, our school committee.