| Housing projects | 3 |
|---|---|
| Units in all | 212 |
| Proposed investment, about | $89,600,000 |
| Exemption of added assessed value, years 1 to 5 | 80% |
| Exemption of added assessed value, years 6 to 10 | 20% |
| Added real estate tax revenue the city expects over ten years, more than | $1,000,000 |
FALL RIVER Fall River's City Council approved tax increment exemptions for three housing developments Tuesday, Oct. 13, by a 5-3 vote on each, according to the city's video of the meeting. Councilors Shawn Cadime, Paul Hart, Linda Pereira and Andrew Raposo and Council President Cliff Ponte voted yes each time; Councilors Michael Canuel, Michelle Dionne and Christopher Peckham voted no. Councilor Joseph Camara did not vote.
The projects total 212 units and about $89,600,000 in proposed investment, the mayor's Oct. 7 letter says: 49 units on Hartwell Street, 147 in the Charlton Mill on Howe Street and 16 in the Connell School on Plymouth Avenue.
Each agreement exempts 80% of the added assessed value for five years, then 20% for five more. The letter says the city expects more than $1,000,000 in added real estate tax revenue over the ten years. It says the developers report the projects depend on the exemptions and on state tax credits.
The resolutions send each agreement to the state Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities for final project certification. The city's Tax Increment Financing Board approved all three Oct. 6, the resolutions say.
Label: Reported by us from the city's posted documents and meeting video.
How we verified this
The vote comes from the city's own video of the meeting. We transcribed the audio of the three roll calls (1:10:28 to 1:11:47) twice, with two different speech models given no names in advance, and compared both with the video's captions; the names and votes match on all three roll calls, and each name was matched to the city's 2026 list of councilors. Every other figure and date comes from the city's posted agenda packet, listed below. We kept a dated copy, read the key pages as images, and recomputed the arithmetic, dates and weekdays by script. A first-pass AI check and a separate check that had not seen the story tested 13 claims against the packet; all 13 match, and one wording was changed after the check. A human editor approved the story. Not heard: no one was contacted, and the mayor's office and the Council have not been asked about anything here.
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Sources
- Fall River City Council agenda packet, Oct. 13, 2026City of Fall River. 124-page PDF: the agenda (pages 1 and 2), the mayor's Oct. 7 letter (pages 18 and 19) and the three draft resolutions (pages 20 to 22). Retrieved Oct. 13, 2026, 6:11 a.m. ET. SHA-256 aa5644802ad3860a.
- Fall River City Council meeting video, Oct. 13, 2026Fall River Government TV, "10.13.2026 Fall River City Council," posted Oct. 13, 2026, 9:39 p.m. ET. Item 5, the three agreements, starts at 1:02:29; the three roll calls run from 1:10:28 to 1:11:47.