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New Bedford City Council
July 20 @ 7:00 pm
The New Bedford City Council will meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 20 in city council chambers at City Hall.
On the agenda:
- A communication to change the layout of County Street from Scott Street to Union Street to widen it by 50 feet
- Petition from Eversource to locate 10 feet of conduit and two handholes on Sassaquin Ave
- Petition from Eversource to lay 290 feet of conduit and add one manhole on John Vertente Blvd
- Petition from Eversource to add multiple new streetlights on Samuel Barnet Blvd
- Petition from Eversource to lay 15 15 feet of conduit in Hillman Street and 44 feet and three manholes on County Street
- An order to obtain an appraisal for the Goodyear Site land
- An order to use a salary step other than the minimum for these positions: administrative assistant to the assessor, associate city solicitor, director of human resources, treasurer/collector
- A home rule petition authorizing the administrative assistant to the board of assessors be a non-resident
- Appointment of Robert Ekstrom as chief financial officer
- Re-appointment of Joseph C. Latimer as a constable
- An order to enter into a 99-year lease with the Zeiterion Theater for property at 684 Purchase Street (parking garage)
- An order to appropriate $2,607,730 from ordinary revenue and receipts to police salary and wages
- An order authorizing $25,000 from the EMS detail revolving fund be authorizing for fiscal year 2024
- An order authorizing $32,000 from the EMS training academy revolving fund be authorized for fiscal year 2024
- A loan order for $20 million to finance the city’s long term CSO control and capital improvement plan
- A loan order for $7.65 million to make critically needed repairs to city-owned buildings
- A recommendation to approve a memorial park bench and plaque at Buttonwood Park Zoo in memory of Beverly Almeida Souza
- A recommendation to approve at memorial park bench and plaque for William ‘Bud’ Montigny in the tennis grove area of Buttonwood Park
- A recommendation to approve at memorial park bench and plaque for Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Montigny in the tennis grove area of Buttonwood Park
- Renewal or new private livery licenses for Christopher Okafor, Khalil Arsanios, David Mattos and Chrisitan A. Cornejo
- Appointment of James E. Sullivan Jr. to the Council on Aging
- Appointment of James R. Gagnon to the Veterans Advisory Board
- A report on the closing of Commercial Street from Aug. 1 to Dec. 31, a five-month extension of the current street closing
- A report from the Licensing Board and Chief of Police on periodic checks
- Approval of the CPA annual budget for 2024
- Adoption of a five-year lease with All American Investment Group to purchase two equipped ambulances for $807,000, one transit van for $192,198 and one truck for $63,325
- A loan order for $4.054 million to replace windows, doors and storefront at Hathaway Elementary School
- A loan order for $3.7 million to replace the roof at Carter Brooks Elementary
- A motion to meet with Berklee College of Music to discuss locating an annex of the school in New Bedford
- A TIF application for a five-year agreement with Windward Power Systems Inc. and Superfly Enterprises LLC
- A motion to adopt three orders related to the annual consumer price index
