FALL RIVER Mayor Paul Coogan made his second State of the City address Tuesday in a joint session of the School Committee and City Council, marking the first in-person meeting for the council in 2021.
While the elected officials gathered in person for Coogan’s address, the public, like in many events in the last year, had to listen to the mayor’s speech remotely.
Here s five takeaways from the State of the City address:
City finances
Coogan acknowledged the disruption and uncertainty the city faced during the past year’s COVID-19 pandemic which shut down communities in the Commonwealth just a week before the mayor was due to give his first State of the City address last March.