Good evening, everyone. Thanks for joining us. This is the Canadian City property. It is 05:32PM. The date is Wednesday, 06/03/2026.
Thank you all for joining us. Madam Chair, please call the call.
Chairman Gonzales? Present. Vice chair Andrew Boire is absent. Councilman Espinole? Present.
Councilwoman Graves? Yeah. And Councilwoman Peterson?
The court present, one absentee, we have a farm.
So I'd like to acknowledge everyone that's here tonight. Thank you for being here for the clerks for all we need to do. We've got the director of
Item number one, resolution transferring 64 Garfield Avenue to the Providence Redevelopment Agency.
Great. So thank you for joining us, director of real estate. Love to hear a little bit more about this, and then we'll have questions from
Thank you. Thank you, mister chairman, and members of the committee for giving this meeting... Having a meeting tonight. We have three items to cover. First one is the transfer of 64 Garfield Street, which is a 6,450 square foot city owned lot.
And the intention is to put it out there for affordable housing in accordance with the terms and conditions this committee has laid out.
Yeah. So it sounds like folks earning 80% of any money in the world. That's what this...
Yes. So I already spoke with the team on how we're gonna do that. We're gonna make a preference for affordable and then public listing. And, yeah, which would make that public solicitation.
Item number three, resolution authorizing the acquisition of 252 Jastram Street by the city.
Mister chairman, this isn't...
One second. Can we just put the exhibit in the testimony?
So we've got actually... We've got two things that All those opposed? The ayes have it. Second.
Thank you, Jim. So the city is using Brownell and Poplar Education funds to acquire this at a market sale is the appraised value that the seller is honoring, and the intention is to incorporate this into the Robert f Kennedy School to assist with a circulation issue with with student and pickup track.
I understand that that counselor is also supportive of this household. Yeah. Sure. Yes. So
being our pay is going to be... The the footing of the the private in and of itself rather the footprint is very small. And so understanding that we are going up in size and also the amount of students, I think the owner of the property is the only house on that particular side of the street. And the the idea was her her idea was understanding that this would substantially change her quality of life as well. She...
The family has decided to to move elsewhere. And while I'm really, really sad to see that family go there, really wonderful family that so many neighbors have raised as the development or the traffic started to develop over at Kennedy. So we we appreciate the sacrifice from the neighbor and the for RFK to have a little bit more of its the change of the landscape be supported in this.
Great. Thank you, pastor Peterson.
Questions from the new members? Actually, do you have one question? Yeah. Do you know... So the the owner of the property also had the lot that was in front, which is a commercial entity.
Do you know if... I wasn't sure if this was included in that or if there is something separate done after that.
It's not, and I do know that that's the husband of the Yeah. Of the owner of Jasper Street. We looked at potentially purchasing that as well, but we opted not to. There could be a funding issue there, but it's just they wanna sell the business in addition to the footprint.
That wasn't something we we ended up considering.
Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Okay.
