Time for Joe Lopes to Be Heard on Hugh Dunn Case [OPINION] New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell will present his budget for the new fiscal year this week. Given the pandemic, the public demand to restore public safety cuts, and the ever-increasing cost of fixed expenses such as employee health care, it ought to be an interesting budget address for FY22 on Wednesday night. To complicate things even further for Mitchell's administration, the city's chief bean counter Ari Sky's last day on the job is Friday. He will be sorely missed. We don't know yet who the new chief financial officer will be.