Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Today is Thursday, March 12th, 2026, at 7.02 P.M.

We are in the City Council Chamber.

The opening of the session is by myself, City Council President Ryan Pereira.

We are will be led tonight in prayer by Pastor Morgan Proudfoot of Grace Harbor Church.

Pastor.

Good evening.

James chapter one says if anyone lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives all generously and ungrudgingly to them.

So God, this evening, we pray and we ask for wisdom.

In days when it's confusing to lead, every side of the aisle has a view of how things should be done.

God, we pray specifically tonight for these civil un uh servants of our city.

We thank you for their faithfulness.

We thank you for the ways that they work tirelessly and effortlessly for the good and the welfare of our citizens, and we pray tonight, uh, even as James reminds us for wisdom.

In all the matters that would lie before City Council this evening, God, we pray that you would bestow wisdom on these men and women to lead our city into flourishing in every way.

And we pray this in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Maybe seated.

Thank you.

Uh tonight we are led in the Pledge of Allegiance by Counselor at Large Brian Gomes.

Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Councillor.

I would like to note that this meeting is being live streamed and recorded.

City Council and Committee meetings can be viewed on the City of New Bedford's homepage under quick links, then meetings.

I am joined tonight in the council chambers by my colleagues, Ward 2, City Councilor Scott Pemberton, Ward 1, City Councillor Leo Schocket, Ward 5, City Councillor Joseph Lopes, Councillor at Large, Brian Gomes, Councillor at Large, James Roy, Councillor at Large, Naomi Carney, Counselor of Ward 3, Sean Oliver, Counselor at Large and First Vice President Shane Burgo, and Councillor of Ward 4, Derek Baptiste.

I will ask the clerk at this time if there are any letters to be read into the record.

Mr.

President, we have one from Councillor Abreu, dear Council President Pereira, and honorable members of the Council.

I am writing to inform you that I will be unable to attend the City Council meeting on Thursday, March twelfth, 2026, due to a prior commitment.

Please read this letter into the record to make my colleagues and the public aware of the reason for my absence.

Sincerely, Ian Abrew, Counselor at Large.

A motion to receive, a motion to receive in place on file was made by Councillor Lopes, seconded by Councillor Burgo.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, the ayes have it.

Move on to our hearing section.

Without objection, the chair will entertain um a motion to take uh to open uh we well, we'll read the uh uh to take items one and two together.

I'll ask the clerk to read both of those together, please.

Mr.

President, item one is a hearing from NSTAR electric company doing business as Ever Source Energy for the location of approximately 215 feet of duct encase in concrete in Coffin Avenue.

This work is necessary to provide upgraded service to 2299 Coffin Avenue.

One A is the order.

And item two is also a hearing from N-Star Electric Company doing business as Ever Source Energy for the location of 58 feet of duct encased in concrete in Acushion Avenue.

This work is also necessary to provide upgraded service to 229 Coffin Avenue and 2A is the order.

Sorry.

Motion received in place of file, open the public hearing.

A motion to receive in place on file and open the public hearing made by Councillor Burgo, seconded by Councillor Carney.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Oppose the ayes have it.

Good evening.

Good evening, members of the city council.

Mr.

President as well.

Thank you for having me this evening.

Jessica Elder, representing EverSource.

Uh Eversource Energy is requesting permission to install approximately 58 feet of underground conduit.

And this is going on the right of way on a kushned av to connect underground electrical infrastructure associated with the installation of new electric service for 229 uh Coffin Avenue.

So the work will involve uh you know regular trenching and excavation, conduit install installation and uh restoration according to City of New Bedford's uh standards.

Uh construction is expected to take approximately, I mean, for both, we're working on, as I said, coffin av in a kush and av.

Should take one to two days.

Um, and of course, the detail will be uh requested.

Uh I'm sure it will be necessary for the safety of everyone.

Um on coffin av, we're uh we're requesting 158 feet of conduit, 57 feet conduit within the right-of-way on coffin av, uh and again to extend the uh electric service for 229.

And that's over by the old Sunbean bread area.

Okay.

Colleagues, any questions for Jessica at this time?

Councillor Oliver.

Thank you.

Um just uh uh approximately how long is this gonna take the project?

A couple of days.

Okay.

Yeah.

And you're gonna take a couple days.

You had said that there was um you uh definitely requested it is gonna be absolutely um so a couple of days.

Um is the entire street that section going to be blocked off or that will I think.

Um that's isn't it one section that's a one-way section?

It's a um it's a one-way street.

It's one way up.

Yeah.

So you'll have you'll have a detail then at the bottom and at the top on the case.

I'll put in that request.

They didn't give me that information, but I certainly will pass that on, I'm sure.

Okay.

They've been doing this many times.

Coming up from North Front Street.

I believe it's north front.

Um North front, yep, because that's it right down the description.

And then obviously um that way uh uh just well, no, it's a one-way, so you won't need it on a cushion avenue.

So just on uh on North Front Street.

So thank you, Councillor Oliver.

Anyone else for Jessica?

Okay.

Seeing none from my colleagues.

For the general public, this is a public hearing.

Anyone who wishes to speak in favor?

To speak in favor of this item?

To be recorded in favor.

To be recorded in favor.

If anyone would like to speak in opposition.

To speak in opposition?

To be recorded in opposition.

Be recorded in opposition.

Okay.

Seeing no comment from the public, colleagues?

A motion to close the public hearing?

Made by counselor lopes, seconded by councillor Gomes.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Oppose the ayes have it.

Your pleasure?

Motion to adopt the orders made by Councillor Gomes, seconded by Councilor Lopes.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Oppose the ayes have it.

I will ask the clerk to read item number three, please.

Mr.

President, item three is a hearing from Nstor Electric Company, excuse me, doing business as Eversource Energy for the location of 118 feet of conduit and foley drive.

This work is necessary to provide service to lot 132 on Foley Drive and 3A is the order.

Motion to open the public hearing made by Councillor Oliver, seconded by Councillor Burgo.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Oppose the ayes have it.

Jessica?

Sure.

Uh so work order number two two seven eight nine four-one zero.

Uh Eversource Energy is requesting to install approximately 125 120 feet of underground conduit.

Um this is for the lot at 132 Foley Drive, which is actually number 32 Foley Drive.

Um, so it's uh Foley Drive is uh a cul-de-sac.

So um not real sure if a detail will be really necessary there.

Um but we're going from an existing manhole to uh custom install handhole, which is on private property.

Um Foley Street, of course, is off of Kushnidav.

Um, like I said, it's a cul-de-sac.

Um if you think that a detail will be necessary, I'll put in the request, but because of I you know driving by the street, I didn't think it was really too busy down that area.

Um, but there should not be any interruption in service for anybody in that location, and the work should take about a day.

Thank you.

Uh-huh.

Anyone on the question?

Chair recognizes Councillor Show Cat.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Mr.

President.

Um.

Just curious.

Uh what's the length of time you think that that will take place?

About a day, no more than two weather permitting.

Okay.

Yeah.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

All service.

Thank you, Mr.

Uh, Councillor Shocat.

Anyone else?

Okay.

Seeing no other question from my colleagues.

Make a motion to close the public hearing.

Oh, I gotta finish the public hearing first.

Sorry.

Sorry.

So uh ask anyone from the public who wishes to speak in favor.

If anyone would like to speak in favor.

If anyone would like to be recorded in favor, be recorded in favor.

If anyone would like to speak in opposition, speak in opposition.

Be recorded in opposition.

To be recorded in opposition.

A motion to close the public hearing has made been made by Councillor Lopes.

Second.

Seconded by Councillor Roy.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Opposed the ayes have it.

Colleagues, your pleasure.

Motion to adopt the order.

Motion to adopt the order made by Councillor Roy.

Seconded by Councillor Oliver.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Oppose the ayes have it.

Without objection, I will ask the clerk to take items M1 and M2 together.

Mr.

President, M1 is a communication from Mayor Mitchell to the City Council, submitting the appointment of Kendra Parker as acting administrative assistant to the Board of Assessors.

And M2 is a communication from the mayor to the council submitting a request for a waiver for the education and experience requirements for the position of administrative assistant to the board of assessors.

Motion to table.

Motion to table has been made by Councillor Burgo.

Motivation is placed on file and referred to.

Second by Councillor Baptiste.

Refer to A and B.

A motion has been made to refer to the committee on appointments and briefings.

Is there a second?

Hearing no second, the motion to table is before us.

All those in favor of tabling say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, the ayes have it.

The item is tabled.

I will ask the clerk to read.

M3, please.

Mr.

President, M3 is a communication from the mayor to the council submitting a loan order appropriating $13,787,624 for the purpose of paying the cost of replacing the roof and accessibility upgrades at the Alfred J.

Gomes Elementary School, located at 286 South 2nd Street.

M3A is the loan order.

Motion to be received and placed on file and grant the order.

And grant the loan order.

Motion has been made to grant the or loan order by Councillor Baptiste.

So the motion will be to pass to a second reading.

Pass to a second reading.

I'm sorry.

Motion to pass the item to a second reading has been made by Councillor Baptist.

Seconded by Councillor Schocat.

Any discussion on passing the item to a second reading?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, the ayes have it.

I will ask the clerk to read item M4, please.

Mr.

President M4 is a communication from the mayor to the council.

Submitting an ordinance amendment in Chapter 16, Article 8 for Stormwater Management.

M4A is the ordinance.

Motion to refer the item to the committee on ordinance made by Councillor Burgo.

Seconded by Councillor Lopes, I believe.

Anyone on this anyone on the question?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed the ayes have it.

I will ask the clerk to read item M5, please.

Mr.

President M five's communication from the mayor of the council submitting an ordinance amending chapter 9, Section 4100A, relative to municipal facility conversion M5A is the ordinance.

This is a chapter 9, so it would also have to go to the planning board.

That's okay.

So a motion to refer to the committee on ordinance and the planning board by Councillor Burgos, seconded by Councillor Carney.

Any on one on the discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Opposed, the ayes have it.

Mr.

President M6's communication from the mayor to the council.

This term will expire in April of 2027.

Motion referred to the Committee on Appointments and Briefings.

Motion to refer to the Committee on Appointments and Briefings made by Councillor Oliver.

Seconded by Councillor Burgo.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, the ayes have it.

I will ask the clerk to read item M7.

Mr.

President M7 is a communication from the mayor to the council.

Submitting the appointment of Virginia J.

Senna Davis of New Bedford to the Veterans Advisory Board, replacing William Andrews, whose term has expired.

This term will expire in December of 2028.

Motion to receive and place on file and grant the appointment waiting rules 38 and 40.

Motion to waive rules 38 and 40 and grant the appointment made by Councillor Burgo, seconded by Councillor Gomes.

Anyone on the question?

Chair recognizes Councillor Burgo.

So I I've spoken to you all about this uh situation previously when we've had an appointment to the Veterans Advisory Board earlier in the year.

Um this is not typical.

I would not ask this uh in any other circumstance.

They are still short.

I think now since we appointed someone previously, only two uh vacancies.

This is a board that has been hindered in meeting due to a quorum.

Um unfortunately, in very sad situations, they appoint someone, someone may die, someone may resign.

Um so they're trying to build back up the veterans advisory board.

Um, this is a person that many of us know.

She was uh recently uh the parade marshal.

Uh this is a disabled uh U.S.

Navy veteran who continues to volunteer for other disabled veterans.

She is uh battle tested, and I think that her resume speaks for herself.

So I would ask that you waive the screening uh for this candidate and approve this uh appointment, as I've asked you previously for someone just for this veterans advisory board, due to the fact that they are unable to meet due to the lack of quorum.

Thank you.

Thank you, Counselor.

Anyone else?

Okay.

Seeing none, at this time I'll ask the clerk to call the roll.

Council Baptist.

Yes, yes.

Council Burgo.

Yes, yes, Council Carney.

Yes.

Yes, Councilor Shoket.

Yes.

Yes, Council Gomes.

Yes.

Yes, Council Loops.

Yes.

Yes, Councilor Oliver.

Yes.

Yes, Council Pemberton.

Yes.

Yes, Council Pereira.

Yes.

Yes, Council Roy.

Yes.

Yes, passes 10 to 0, Mr.

President.

Item passes 10 to 0.

All right.

Now moving on to new business.

I will ask the clerk to read item number four.

Mr.

President, item four is a written motion from Council Gomes requesting that the committee on appointments and briefings meet with James Marshall, Director of Cable Access, for the purpose of discussing why the educational channel was changed from nine to ninety-six and why the government access channel was changed from 18 to 97.

And further requesting that cable access return the channels to their original listings, as this change has been very troubling to many cable access viewers.

Motion to refer the item to the committee on appointments and briefings made by Councillor Gomes.

Seconded by Councillor Lopes on the question.

Chair recognizes Councillor Gomes.

Thank you very much, Mr.

President.

Mr.

President, I've ran into several constituents.

I don't know if my colleagues have, who at first thought that uh cable access wasn't carrying the city council anymore.

I don't think number one did a good job of telling them that we were switching the channel.

Second of all, I went to the channel to see what was taking its place.

Absolutely nothing.

So I don't know what the plan is here, or is it to divert people or to divert people from especially the city council and government affairs or whatever?

But um I like to see the channel go back to 17 and 18 where people will have been used to it for I I have to say decades now holding that channel, the council and and all of us.

Um it just didn't make sense.

And I would like an explanation from Jim Marshall, and I think the public deserves it because um those that follow uh government and and the educational channel uh are not finding the channel until uh someone has told them.

So I hope my colleagues will support this and we can get Jim in here.

And again, I'm gonna repeat gentlemen, go to your guide and see what is on that channel.

Absolutely nothing.

Infinity, whatever.

It's almost like a commercial.

Put the channels back where they were so the public knows where the government and educational channels are.

Thank you for the opportunity.

Thank you, Councillor Combs.

Chair recognizes Councillor Burgo.

Yeah, I just I want to piggyback on my colleague uh from uh Clare Street.

Oh, I was like uh never sorry.

Um I I had similar concerns uh from uh uh contrary to popular belief, there are many uh residents that do watch uh public access.

Um what I did come to find out though about this is that it's uh uh cable access in a federal uh whatever commission that uh dictates these channels, not necessarily cable access.

However, I do agree that we did not do a good enough job of alerting people to this.

They posted it on our Facebook page, but the people that were mostly affected by this do not have social media.

They're watching, if they're watching cable access, I'll tell you they don't have a Facebook account.

Um, and that's not a dig at any of our um golden citizens, as I sometimes refer to them as.

But um what I will say that we've had changes in the past.

For example, I remember back in when I was in high school, it was channel 17 before it was channel eighteen.

But as you can see, that's just a one-channel difference.

This is a huge drastic difference from nine to ninety-six, eighteen topics.

So if you are someone who might be flipping through the channels thinking, oh, I thought it was 17, then you click up, oh never mind, it is 18.

So I I would like to hear about a ways that we can maybe educate the population that is tuning in to try to stay in tune with their their government, how we can inform them of this change.

I don't know if there is ways to invite the actual powers that be that control these channels into office if we can look into that.

Um, and maybe a representative from the mayor's office.

I know that's like pulling teeth around here to come in and also figure out how we can notify the public of these changes when they happen, a smart way of doing it.

Um, but I I support this motion and helping people stay connected with their government.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Burgo.

Anyone else on there first?

On their second, Councillor Gomes.

Thank you.

By the way, Councillor Burgle, it is Cl Clara Street.

I just want to come back because Councillor, the good counselor that spoke just before me, talked about the federal regulations and whoever regulates these channels.

Let me tell you something.

We didn't even we didn't even negotiate this last contract with them.

I've seen cable take a complete 180, and many of you in this room have.

They took away our cable access news.

You know our news is limited in this city.

The information is limited.

The information that comes out of this council is limited to the media, which they pick and choose what they want to um publicize or run news stories.

I come from old here where they ran everything.

They almost ran everything.

They were at every committee meeting the following morning.

The people knew what was going on.

People who are not uh limited.

And for you to change this channel, I want to fight to get this channel back to where for its original um placing on the cable.

Um as I said, we went through a contract that was just signed.

We didn't get we don't get no Bennies, we don't get nothing from them anymore.

And we should have been fighting for the people, actually for lower rates and all that, and that's a whole different story, but we'll let that ride right now.

That falls on somebody else's back, not this city council, because if it came before the city council, I'm sure the city council would have fought for the people of the city.

With that said, I would hope that my colleagues would support this.

I would hope that we would find a way to put those channels back where they're easier to find for uh senior citizens and those that want to watch the city council.

It's that simple.

It was there forever, moving it.

I'm very suspicious of the move, and maybe the move was a there's a reason why.

But um, I'm suspicious of the move because I feel that the public is being neglected in this city as far as media coverage.

We don't have a newspaper like we used to.

We used to we'll be on the front page tomorrow morning if something uh of a magnitude that affected the people of the city.

We don't have that anymore.

We don't have anybody, as I said, given the real news of the city of New Bedford, they give the news with what they want, and I'm not gonna tolerate that.

I'd like to see the cable TV at least stay where it was, and as we continue to fight for good media coverage in this city.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councillor.

Anyone else?

Okay.

The motion has been made and duly second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Oppose the ayes have it.

I'll ask the clerk to read item five.

Mr.

President, item five is a written motion from Council Gomes requesting that the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods meet with DPI Commissioner Jamie Pont, Police Chief Jason Thhody, Fire Chief Brian Medeiros, Emergency Management Director Brian Nabriga, Cable Access Director James Marshall, and a representative from the mayor's office to recap the blizzard of 2026 and put a blizzard storm playbook together for future use in anticipation of another blizzard of this magnitude.

Discussion can include what went right, what went wrong, and how we can improve our response time next time.

As well as snow removal equipment, the safety of our police, fire and EMS personnel, and the effects this storm had on the entire city as a whole.

Refer to the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods.

Second motion to refer the items to the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods made by Councillor Gomes, seconded by Councillor Carney.

Anyone on the question?

Chair recognizes Councillor Gomes.

Thank you very much, Mr.

President.

Let me start off first of all tonight.

Um and I I I believe can speak on behalf of most of the councillors.

If it can't, please rise.

Many of us that were out there when we could get out there, watch the work being done.

We took our phone calls, we heard the cries on the phone of everything from uh uh sick people that couldn't get out of certain areas to um people that had to get to work.

I realized that also uh let me first finish this.

Uh they did a magnificent job under the circumstances, and you had to know the circumstances that were out there.

There was snow that was drifted in some places six feet tall.

Some streets were just unpassable.

Um what what they did and continue to do with a limited amount of equipment that we had, I thought was um uh uh the best that we could do, uh assisting police, fire, all those emergency um services did the best job that they can, and I want to stand as public safety chairman tonight and thank them and thank them for everything and thank for the those that went out of their way to give services, whether it was police officers, firefighters, plow drivers, um um backhoe drivers that were pulling some of our equipment out, pulling regular people out.

The the city of New Bedford um uh it should be given given thanks.

Now to this here, the reason this motion is here, and it's funny because I put this, I had this thought about this motion.

Um me and you had had conversation prior to um not prior to the storm, but as the storm was re uh coming down on us and we were dealing with what we were dealing with.

I said they're going to get the public safety committee together, bring everybody together.

Let's put a playbook together so that when this happens again, at least we're ahead of the game in some places.

You know, I walked into a press conference in support of the mayor, and as I said to you that day, the gloves were off.

There's no arguing at this point with any issue or anything.

We had a city that was under duress, and we had to do something, and we had to stand together to do that.

And when it's like that, you you take the gloves off and you forget about them other things, and you take care of what's at hand.

When I said to put this together was because I feel that this could happen again, and we can make it better than last time.

Now I know the mayor has sent out or it came through in an email for us to provide any concerns we had by March 10th or whatever.

I wanted everybody to breathe a little.

Let's breathe a little.

Look at the snow's gone.

The past couple of days, the temperatures went up, you're seeing the grass again.

Let everybody take a breather on this because um I can I I I believe that I can speak on behalf of this council.

Council worked very hard.

Each and every counselor was receiving them calls.

You were taking my calls, you were taking my calls late at night.

The commissioner was taking the calls any given night time you call.

The phone might have rang a long time, but he answered or he got back to you.

And um I like to just bring everybody together, brainstorm, and what can we do to make sure that this does it next time we are better equipped to deal with a storm of that magnitude.

That day that we had the press conference, there was some questions I automatically asked.

I think you were right there.

I wanted to know where the Hummers were that we once had in this city that would have been very beneficial to the police department.

They were gone.

Where's the Jeeps?

They're gone.

Do we have any snowmobiles?

We don't have anything like that.

Have we put any back holes, the big back holes at some of the main stations and fire stations so that when them emergency calls came out, at least they could make a path to where they were going.

That was done.

That was done.

But I want I was asking those questions.

And as public safety chair, this isn't my first rodeo.

I've been through this many times, 2015, going back where it just didn't stop, streets in the same situation.

So uh basically I'm asking that we refer this to public safety.

We all brainstorm.

I don't know who submitted who to, and this is not a back slot on emergency management or Brian Nabriga or their administration.

This was something that I had thought about and I put forth to make sure that if it happens again, we're better equipped, and maybe we've got some great ideas that come from uh everybody, because success comes to uh everyone when you work together.

And this issue needed to be worked together.

Thank you very much, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Councillor.

Anyone else?

Okay.

On referral to public safety, all those in favor say aye.

I oppose the ayes have it.

I'll ask the clerk to read item six, please.

Mr.

President, item six is a written motion from Council Gomes, requesting on behalf of Pastor Harold Taylor of the United House of Prayer for All People at Emerson Street between Mill Street and Kempton Street in a north and south direction, be renamed Charles Manuel Bishop Daddy Grace Way in recognition of his contributions and historical significance to the City of New Bedford.

Refer to the special committee on memorials and dedications.

Refer to the special committee on memorials and dedications made by Councillor Gomes, seconded by Councillor Burgo.

Anyone on the question?

Chair I can see Councillor Gomes.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Mr.

President, many of you are aware of uh where this location is.

The location on Emerson Street, there is no effects on any addresses.

Anyone on this uh sharp plaza of street, we've done this before.

I did July Gonzalez Way, I did um Manny Costa's way down at uh Buttman Park, Councillor Baptiste has done to Varsway, and we've done a few others in my time that have been here.

This will not affect the residents of the city, such as one that we did up the North End, where actually the family paid for each resident, if you remember Joe's shaking his head, paid for each resident so that we named it after uh a firefighter who we lost Eric's way under a very tragic accident in the in the city of New Bedford.

So uh again, um the the Daddy Grace Church has been a beacon within the city of New Bedford, within the West End.

I could stand to be corrected.

I think this is one of the first that um uh of the churches that were located here in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

The contributions of this church and and and the daddy grace um are phenomenal.

If you read some of the history, I'm not gonna sit here and go through it.

I just support the action they've requesting it, and I think it's way overdue and uh an opportunity for us to recognize uh a person uh and uh uh uh the Reverend uh Daddy Grace who did uh uh a lot for the people of the city, and that church continues to do a lot for the community and the city of New Bedford.

Thank you for the opportunity.

And if any of my colleagues would like to co-sponsor, I have no problem with that.

I did not send that out through the uh uh council, and I apologize for that.

If anyone would like to add their name, I see councillor Kearney, Lopes, Burgo, Baptiste, Roy.

Anyone else like to add the name?

Oliver, Choquette, Pemberton, Pereira.

Why don't we just say everybody?

All right, goodbye.

Everybody perfect.

The motion before us, um, made now by the entire city council has been uh has been made and duly second.

All those in favor of referral say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, the ayes have it.

I will ask the clerk to read item number seven, please.

Without it without objection, could you read seven, eight, and nine?

There are already nose.

Read that.

Just reading when motion to sever eight.

Okay.

I'll ask the clerk to read items seven and nine together, please.

Mr.

President, item seven is a communication from the clerk to the council sweet and application for the renewal of a private liberty license on behalf of Franklin Lobo at 2220 Akushina Avenue in New Bedford doing business as Frank's Transport Service at the same address.

This term of this license is July 1st of this year to June 30th of 27.

And item nine is also a communication from the clerk to the council regarding a renewal of a private liberty license on behalf of Isabel Gomez Hernandez at 92 Ruth Street in Department 1 in New Bedford, doing business as Jessica Correa's transportation at the same address, same term of license.

Motion was made by Councillor Carney to uh grant the renewals on item 7 and 9, seconded by Councilor Baptiste.

Anyone on the question?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed the ayes have it.

I'll ask the clerk to read item eight.

Mr.

President, item eight is a communication from the clerk to the council submitting an application for renewal of the private liberty license on behalf of Camille Taylor of 14 Beal Street, Apartment 1 in New Bedford, doing business as CT Live Your Best Life Transportation Incorporated at the same address.

The term of license is from July 1st of this year to June 30th of 2027.

Motion receive and place on file and sent to the committee on appointments and briefings.

Second.

Motion to refer to the committee on appointments and briefings made by Councillor Oliver.

Second.

Seconded by Councillor Carney.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, the ayes have it.

I'll ask the clerk to read item 10, please.

Mr.

President, item 10 is a communication from Janine DeSilva, the chairperson of the Community Preservation Committee, submitting the community preservation committee's FY26 project funding recommendations.

Motion for even place on file and refer to the committee on finance.

Second.

Motion to refer to the committee on finance made by Councillor Burgo, seconded by Councillor Oliver.

Any discussions?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, the ayes have it.

I'll ask the clerk to read item 11.

Mr.

President, item 11 is a communication from the clerk to the council.

Submitting a copy of a letter sent to the Office of the Attorney General and notifying them of two ordinances that were passed or amended regarding Chapter 9, comprehensive zoning in compliance with mass general law, Chapter 40A, Section 5.

Motion receive and place on file.

Second motion receive and place on file made by Councillor Burgo, seconded by Councillor Carney.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

The ayes have it.

Motion to take up and adopt consent.

Motion to take up and adopt consent made by Councillor Oliver.

Seconded by Councillor Burgo.

Any discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

The ayes have it.

Seeing no further business before us.

Motion to adjourn.

Motion to adjourn made by Councillor Burgo, seconded by Councillor Roy.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

The ayes have it.

We are adjourned at 7:35 p.m.