[Petrella]: 안녕하세요 여러분, 쇼의 또 다른 에피소드 인 Method Cappenings에 오신 것을 환영합니다. 저는 John Petrella입니다. 오늘의 쇼에는 George Scarpelli가 포함되어 있으며, Thought Six, Seven 및 8 인 Method의 다가오는 재정의 질문에 대한 진실, 사실 및 정보를 다룰 것입니다. 또한 이전 쇼에 출연해 주신 George에게 감사드립니다. 우리는 내가 참석 한 모든 Medford 회의에서 비디오 프레젠테이션을 받았습니다. 이것은 Joe Dimeo Creative의 Joe Dimeo가 녹음하고 제작했습니다. 비디오를 도와 주셔서 감사합니다. George Garpelli는 현재 Medford City Councilor이며 15 년 동안 근무했습니다. George는 Medford의 모든 시민을 대표합니다. 그는 Medford 시민들에게 세금 인상과는 반대로 실행 가능한 솔루션을 제안했습니다. 그는 시민의 챔피언입니다. 진실과 사실은 그의 아이디어를 주도하며, 그는 재정의와 부채 배제를지지하지 않습니다. 그러니 지금 비디오로 가자.
[Scarpelli]: Right now, for the November 5th ballot, we'll have question six, question seven, question eight. Question six is a debt exclusion, like I explained, is a tax that you'll be taxed until the project or the bond is complete, and then it comes off the tax. And that reads, That exclusion on fire stations shall the city of Medford be allowed to exempt from the provisions of proposition two and a half, so-called the amounts required to pay for the bonds issued in order to pay for costs of construction, a new fire station headquarters to be located at 120 Main Street in Medford, including the payment of all costs related design, the project equipping and furnishing, the project site improvements and all other costs incidental to related there too. So you'll vote no, because that's been a lot of people's questions. George, I thought you supported the firefighters. Well, when you hear it straight from the people that I think Danielle put it perfectly when she said, we don't want to sound like the angry people. Instead, look to see what our firefighters have gone through, what our men and women have gone through in the last year. and how they've been treated. And yet again, they're gonna stand up and say what? What you're offering was not transparent, was not inclusive, was a decision made in a box, and the funding is gonna hurt our residents. And they're willing to stand up and say what? We'd rather not have our residents of Medford hurt financially for an inferior product. So please do not vote for question six. Thank you, Danielle. Question seven is funding schools and street repairs. Shall the city of Medford be allowed to assess an additional 3.5 million in real estate and personal property taxes for FY25 general operations of the Medford Public Schools. $3 million includes but not limited to funding costs for teachers, literacy coaches, behavior specialists, administrative assistants, nurses, and for regular facility maintenance, and for FY25 general operations DPW, including but not limited to additional staff for road and sidewalk infrastructure repair for fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024. Okay, this question seven. $500,000, come on, for the roads and sidewalks. ARPA, when it was originally put forth, was directly supposed to go to infrastructure needs, roads and sidewalks. Not at all. So now we sit here and say we're going to give them $500. Thanks. This is an initiative that I put forth years ago. We try to put a sidewalk and hot tub crew together to save the city money because the mayor kept coming to us for $2.5 million bonds for sidewalks. And we never saw sidewalks being done. We could never catch up. And I know my colleagues say, see? See? We're right. We have no money. Not right. Wrong. And again, I love the dialogue. Public schools, teachers, literacy coaches, behavior specialists, nurses. The superintendent has already, the expert in the state has shared some amazing information. Have we been resourceful? Has the school committee and the school department been resourceful in creating revenue? No. I know my colleagues will say, again, he's not telling the truth because their social media sites tell you that. But I have shown everyone, very simple, meeting after meeting, and if you want to look up, watch them on YouTube, From step to step, we showed an avenue to come out of this without hurting kids or teachers or schools. We showed them that avenue through free cash. And what did they do? They imposed a rule to shut me up. So now we move forward. One of our members got a phone call from a school kid member. And that school kid member said, How dare you put a no sign on your lawn? Are you going to be happy when we lay off 40 teachers? Shame on that person. Because that's the same exact question I posed in the open meeting in front of everybody and said, why put the schools, the children, the teachers through this? Take the $5 million out of free cash. put the fear away, and then let's all get to the table and make the right decision for our community with an open and transparent process. So that, ladies and gentlemen, question seven, no. I like the drama behind this. Question 8 is intense. Question 8. This override will expand vocational programs and increase student access to the arts by giving us the funding to pay for new programming, staff to help students succeed, level and increase educator and paraprofessional compensation to ensure living in competitive wages. Doesn't that sound expensive? Vocational. I believe what it is, Roy you can help me if I'm wrong, is expanding the day, the school day, and the vocational day would kind of merge together. That's what we're asking for, right? What, I believe it's maybe through negotiations will be the biggest cost? Well, what we're looking at is nothing close to $4 million. Not even close. Not even close. Understand the trend here. Six, we heard. Seven and eight, education. Understand every single community that has fought for an override and their communities has used what? The children in the schools. Don't hurt our children, don't hurt our schools. Well, I asked my colleagues, and the people on the other side that's supporting this, where were you the meeting that you shut me up when we asked for free cash that we had? And you were there, and you still have it. So let's understand this. Now that you know the questions, let's go all the way back now. And let's make sure we get this and people can hear it, you can share with your friends. All Medford, at no time have we ever said, we're against an override. We do not want it, never. That was never said. What we said, was let's fix what's wrong now with that $5 million. Let's bring everybody together to the table. Let's have an open and transparent process. And let's work together to make sure we, if the need is there, that we fulfill it together. And don't divide the community. But this is what has happened now. Now we're dividing. Now it's yes or no. And I'll be honest with you. As a responsible member of this community, if I didn't think now that we're here, there's nothing we can do, we'd have to step away, I'd step away. But we have $34 million in free cash. $34 million in free cash that has not been used that can recover this funding and make sure that we do this process correctly. This is what we're talking about. And for those who don't know, Just a quick step-by-step so you understand, it's never quick with me. We had our budget meeting last year, the year before last. And my colleagues were in unison, Councilor Caraviello was there, Council President Beas was there. And we were all together in the process that we cannot support this budget. It's too dangerous. So we were all for it. Until the night of the meeting, Councilor Caraviello and I stood there, and our council leadership team came out and said, hey, we just met with the mayor behind closed doors, and we're going to vote for the budget. They've come to an agreement. What agreement? I didn't know what agreement it was. Councilor Caraviello, Councilor Mike didn't know what agreement it was, but there was some sort of agreement. Well, as this grew, we kind of realized what the agreement was. A financial task force was created. A school kid member, two city Councilors, the chief of staff, and the mayor. Five people with no background in financial battles. Nothing. At least not enough to lead us to the spot we need to be. So we move forward, this financial task force is meeting, we don't hear anything. There are no minutes, there's no information. We're told we're gonna get a meeting before we do anything. Well, you hear rumblings, so we call for a meeting. So we have our city council meeting, and I believe it was a week before we had a subcommittee meeting, and a very smart resident, very important, powerful question. They said, so if you ask for an override and it doesn't pass, what does that mean? That means devastation for the school department and our children. Imagine. So I came back the following week and I presented a plan that said what? Use our free cash. Let's come to the table and do the right thing for our community. and let's not leverage our kids in our schools. But guess what happened? It's called Rule 21. Counsel Scarpelli shut down, can't speak. And this is how we're getting messages. The Financial Task Force's plan was an override plan. That was what they came out with. We asked for the minutes, we asked for more information, how do we get there, who was involved? No answer. Now maybe the other side, because my friends are telling me, George, they're beating you up, they're beating you up. That's fine. But this is all true. This is all on tape. So, typical fashion, Friday we get emails from the mayor's office with $7.5 million. Tuesday we come to a meeting, we're gonna vote on it. As a responsible city councilor, I will now invoke our Rule 21, close the meeting, and ask for an open meeting with everybody to talk about this in more depth. Something that's unheard of, has never been heard of, never been done before, but council leadership suspends the rules of the meeting and imposes a vote to not invoke Rule 21. Done, you can't talk about it. But I will tell you, the council had five subcommittee meetings to talk about a city council newsletter. Five. And guess what that, that's free, nothing. But, the paper's adding up to $7.5 million and possibly more. They don't wanna talk about it. So, what do we do? We move on to the next meeting, and they said okay. I reach out to my state representative and I asked him, what is the plan? What can I do? And they said, okay, legal from the state said you can now invoke Mass General Law 43, section 22. That supersedes any method rule, shuts the meeting down. Well, we get to the next meeting. Our leadership team does the same exact thing. Suspends the rules. Says they cannot impose rule 21. I then invoke. Section 22, council leadership says, no, you can't do that. Against the rule, against the law. Because what was going to be said is this. And listen closely, because this is how real communities do it. In 2009, working in the city of Somerville, Mayor Joe Hurtatone was at a crossroads with his community. Big cuts looming. He convenes a group, a working group, a financial working group that consisted of financial minds from Tufts, MIT, Harvard, banking leaders. You had the Sloans from Century Bank. You had his financial team present. You had community leaders and business leaders all in a row. And they worked on a plan because they said you needed to figure out three things before you wanted to go to Novartis. One, how do we get there? We still don't know how we got here, at least publicly, there's nothing been mentioned. Two, how do we fix it? Three, how does this never happen again? That's what we were taught. Well, they came out and they said, okay, this is what we're going to do. We're going to look at traffic and parking fees. Not going to make people happy, but they're going to take that money. They're going to increase those fees. They're going to take that money, and that's going to be dedicated solely to the school department. Boom. Need taken away. Next. We need streets and sidewalks. How do we figure that out? The focus is fees and fines for trash and building. And boom. Developers paid for that. And then the third piece, the most important piece, they sat together and they said, well, what can we do so this never happens again? How do we bring Somerville out of this? Well, they started this little project called Assembly Row. And now, whether you like it or not, there's a lot of money coming into the city. Now, maybe you might question the growth, maybe question how they got there. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is, that was an open process with financial minds that sat together to find a solution. What has happened here, both in the fire department and the school department, it's been done in a vacuum. Nobody knows. I know that a member of the community did file a FOIA request asking information for, we're waiting on that, hopefully we get that soon, that we can share with the community of what was shared, minutes, any notes, anything taken with this financial group? Who were the professionals they might have brought in that we don't know that could have helped them? Nobody. And here we are today, middle of September, people still don't know that there's an override vote. Like Councilor Caraviello said, he had explained to a person yesterday, why are we fighting it? $7.5 million for a new high school? That's great. But this is the problem. This is the problem. So people are saying, you know, but, you know, Councilor Scarpelli shouldn't be doing this. He's a city councilor. I don't give a shit. I'm gonna fight for what I think is right and so every citizen is heard. Because I will tell you, it's not that I'm new to this or I wouldn't do this or I wouldn't have the guts to do something like this because There were three former Councilors in this room, and only one of them, sorry Rick, only one of them put forth a debt exclusion that was probably put together by the best financial mind in Medford, an Aleesha Nunley, and we looked at the process of creating funding for a new main fire station on Main Street. And it was so simple. We would exclude senior citizens because you know what? You're hurting. Senior citizens are hurting. The vulnerable community, our disabled, our veterans, eliminate that group, those groups, and see what we can do. And I believe at the time it was $17 a month. We could swallow that, couldn't we? But that was with the process that gets started. Even with this process right now, nobody knows what's going on. We still don't know what's happening. Nothing's been posted. I know there's rumblings that money's already being spent from free cash out of the $34 million. Nothing's been done yet. So having this meeting tonight is so important. This fundraiser's so important. Because I tell you, I gotta thank so many people. The restaurants that donated. LaCasha's, Ronnie's Place, Richie Razzo's from Razzo's and Avellino's, always donate. Thank you so much. The thousands of dollars that were donated just the other day was amazing. And guess where that money's coming from? You. hard-working, method residents that want to do anything they can and fight. My neighbor, who's 84 years old, came to my house today and said, George, I can't come. He has $8. And I said, God, no, no, no. Because I tell you, what we do know is Kelly has done a great job with the real estate side and understanding the assessing side. We have Nate Merritt's been doing his deep dive into the calculator that they have on their site that says all you do is poke in these numbers, bam, it's always this much money, you can handle that. Bullshit. Because I'm gonna tell you straight up, $380 for a person might sound not a lot of money. But some of the people I've talked to, I keep saying it, I won't use her last name, but I love her dearly. I see Mrs. Jones. She said, George, help me understand this. I bought my house 50, 60 years ago. So $48,000, I believe she said. I think I tell people $50,000. But now my house is worth a million dollars. My husband died 15 years ago. I was a seamstress. My social security doesn't cover my taxes. So should I move? Some people want them to do that. Because I haven't heard one thing supporting our senior citizens. I haven't heard one thing how we're gonna help those homeowners that are struggling to stay in their homes. Cuz one of my council colleagues actually said to me is, if your house is worth a million dollars, just take a hundred out. That simple. The understanding of not understanding what a home equity line is, that's devastating. Devastating for residents. So we're not candy coating anything. I'm not hiding anything. Everything you see has been public. I have told my council colleagues what they're doing is dangerous to our community. We still don't see the information how we got here. The way they want to get out of it is by taxing. Here's the other piece. Hey, it's only this much money. If I hear that again from people, I'm going to lose my mind. Because understand this, and I'll end with this. What did we talk about one of our first meetings subcommittee? Rent control. Then we talked about a transfer tax. Then we talked about a registry fee. And then we talked about overrides. But it stops there, right? Oh no. Because my brother, I'll use my brother for example, just got his house assessed. An additional $400 a month. Now, he's a young man, works very hard, hopefully he can recover. But then, Kelly did some homework, and we found out his assessment in 20 to 24 that's starting now, he thinks it's over with the assessment side. But Kelly, what did we say, what are we hearing?
[Petrella]: 2025 년에는 부동산 시장의 절정이 집을 통과하기 때문에 2023 년의 판매 데이터를 얻을 것입니다.
[Scarpelli]: 다시 올라갑니다. 그래서 우리는 그들의 숙제에서 그 말을 들었습니까? 아니요. 그러나 그것은 단 $ 400입니다. 그러나 한 걸음 더 나아가 봅시다. 최소 2 억 달러의 개조 된 고등학교. 누가 그 청구서에 맞습니까? 너. 우리는 새로운 고등학교를 원합니다. 새로운 것. 새로운 고등학교로 가져 가십시오. 4 억 달러를보고 있습니다. 당신은 그 숫자가 무엇인지 이해하지 못합니다. 위험합니다. 무섭고 위험합니다. 그래서 나는 당신을 놀라게하기 위해 당신을 데려오고 싶지 않았지만, 나는 당신을 깨우기 위해 당신을 데려 왔습니다. 이 그룹은 재정의에 대해 거절하고 싶지 않았습니다. 그러나 우리는 내가 주변에있는 가장 똑똑한 교육적 마음에서 들었습니다. 우리는 충분한 창의성을 보지 못했고 충분한 정보를 보지 못했고,이를 필요로한다는 것을 보여줄 투명성은 없었습니다. 우리는 소방서와 이야기를 나 and으며 소방관들은 주민들을 해치지 말라고 말합니다. 상자를 확인하기 위해 무언가를 만들지 마십시오. 우리는 소방서를 원하지 않습니다. 완료. 그래서 그들이 말하고 있다면 그리고 나는 모두를 위해 그것을 철자했다. 지금은 매우 간단한 프로세스입니다. 무료 현금으로 5 백만 달러로 예산을 고정하십시오. 앞으로 나아가서 창의력을 발휘할 수있는 다양한 방법을 생각합시다. 충격을 받고 새로운 성장과 발전을 보자. 우리가 보지 못한 것. 내가 거짓말을하고있어, 리키? 우리는 얼마나 많은 40B 일자리를 잃었습니까? 셋째,이 세 프로젝트로 허가를받는 돈은 얼마입니까? 수백만 달러. 그리고 세금 수입. 당신은 그것에 숙제를했습니다. 얼마나 많이? 1,600 만 달러. 그래서 그것은 하나의 건물입니다. 다시, 이것들은 거짓말이 아닙니다. 이것들은 진정한 숫자입니다. 그리고 다시, 당신은 당신이 플랫폼을 가지고 있기를 바랍니다 그러나 나는 너무 쉽게 닥쳤다. 글쎄,이 포럼에서는 그렇지 않습니다. 그리고 당신은 내 목소리입니다. 당신은 우리가 지금 메시지를 전파하도록 돕고 있습니다. 이것이 바로 우리에게 필요한 것입니다. 우리는 지금 600 명 이상의 자원 봉사자 목록을 가지고 있습니다. 600 명의 자원 봉사자. 우리는 우리가 가진 눈에 띄는 선장이 있습니다. 60 ~ 80 명이 무엇입니까? 60 ~ 80 명이 이미 눈에 띄기 위해 가입했습니다. 나는 10 월 15 일, Zach, 당신이 나오고 싶다면 Hormel Stadium에서 만날 것입니다. 모두가 나올 것이고 우리는 우리의 메시지를받을 것이고 우리는 동네에 갈 것이고 우리는 문을 두드릴 것이며 우리는 사람들에게 도시의 어느 누구도 그들에게 이해를 돕기 위해주지 않은 정보를 줄 것입니다. 다른 사람들의 나머지 부분을 이해하고 두려워하지 마십시오. 학교 아이 회원이 문을 두드려 부끄러워하는 경우, 지금 정보가 있다고 무장하십시오. 그 외에도 당신은 진실을 알고 있습니다. 그래서 내일, 커피 숍에 가거나 내일 옆집에 가서 데이브와 대화하고 차가운 음료를 마시면 그와 함께 앉아서, 당신은 재정의에 대해 알고 있습니까? 불이 그것을 원하지 않기 때문에 교육적인 마음은 그것이 터무니 없다고 생각하고 사람들에게 상처를 줄 것입니다. 그리고 여기에 내가 잊어 버린 다른 작품이 있으며, 나는 이것을 잊고 싶지 않습니다. 나는 세입자와 함께 집에서 자랐습니다. 아빠는 우리가 세입자를 자부심과 존중으로 대했다고 확신했습니다. 그리고 우리는 임대료를 합리적으로 유지했습니다. 그래서 내 동생이 그것을 가져 갔고, 우리는 여전히 10 년 동안 그곳에 있었던 같은 가족이 있습니다. 그 가족은 Medford에서 4 개의 침실을 지불합니다. 그들은 $ 2,400를 지불합니다. 꽤 싸다. 우리 모두는 그것을 알고 있습니다. 그는 그 비율을 인상하지 않을 것입니다. 사람들이 이해해야 할 것은 이러한 세금이 발생하면 납세자는 스스로 처리 할 수 없습니다. 임차인에게 전달 될 것입니다. 그리고 임차인은 지붕을 통과 할 것입니다. 그래서 오늘 밤에 나와 주셔서 감사합니다. 내가 그리워 했어, 릭? 확실합니까? 그는 내 선장입니다. 릭이 말해 줄 것입니다. 다시 말하지만, 나는 당신에게 말할 것입니다. 우리는 이것에 대해 훌륭한 사람들이 일하고 있습니다. 나는 에너지에 너무 흥분합니다. 지금, 우리는 이미 길거리에 260 개의 표지판이 있습니다. 스티브가 사라졌습니다. 우리는 길거리에 260 개의 표지판이 있으며, 오늘 밤 200 개가 있습니다. 당신이 당신의 사인을 받는지 확인하십시오. 그러나 당신이 그것을 가져 갔다는 것을 알 수 있도록 당신의 이름과 주소를 남겨 두십시오. 이웃을 보여주고 전화를 줘. 재정의, 당신이 재정의에 투표하고 우리는 시장에 6 백만 달러를 주면 돈이 직업 학교 나 예술 프로그램에 갈 것이라고 말하지만 반드시 사실은 아닙니다. 돈은 시장의 재량에 익숙해지기 위해 일반 기금으로 들어갑니다. 좋아, 다시, 우리가 여기있는 이유가 있습니다. 무료 현금으로 9 백만 달러. 무료 현금이 무엇인지 간단하게 알고 싶어하는 사람들, 무료 현금은 시장이 사용하지 않는 예산에서 전년도에 승인 한 돈입니다. 그리고 그녀가 원하는 것을 할 수 있다는 점에 대해 설명합니다. 매우 간단합니다. 그래서 오늘 밤 우리가 정말로하고 싶었던 것은 어떤 사람들을 교육하고, 그들을 데려오고, 그들이 무슨 일이 일어나고 있는지 알기를 바랍니다. 우리는 당신이 두드러지면, 당신이 눈에 띄는 것에 가입하면, 우리는 문 노크를 할 것입니다. 그러나 큰 사람은 코넬 스타디움에서 10 월 15 일 토요일 9 시가 될 것입니다. 우리는 그곳에서 만날 것이고 우리 모두는 거리를 때릴 것입니다. 우리는 이웃으로 들어갈 것입니다. 우리는 문을 두드리고 이웃과 이야기하고, 이것이 투표되면 아이들에게 해를 끼치 지 않을 것임을 알려줄 것입니다. 시장은 단지 그녀가 돈을 돌려야 할 돈을 어디로 데려 가야하고, 우리 아이들을 돕고, 우리 학교를 돕고, 노인들과 주민들 이이 세금으로 살해 당하지 않도록 도와야합니다. 다시 한번, 오셔서 감사합니다. 안전한 타는 집으로 돌아 가면 곧 얘기하겠습니다.
[Petrella]: 그 프레젠테이션에 대해 조지 스카 펠리 (George Scarpelli) 의원에게 감사의 말씀을 전합니다. 방법 발생에 대한 자세한 내용은 Facebook 및 YouTube에서 Method Coneseings를 방문하거나 McNO2155.com의 Method Community Network를 방문하십시오. 에피소드를 보거나 자신의 쇼를하는 것이 궁금하다면 Methodtv.org를 방문하십시오. 방법이 발생하기 위해 저는 John Petrella이며 정보를 남겨주세요.