Providence Finance Committee Regular Meeting - October 28, 2025
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Providence Finance Committee Regular Meeting - October 28, 2025
The Committee on Finance met on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, at 5:31 PM. The committee addressed an appointment and entered executive session to discuss confidential matters. Actions included a denial without prejudice and indefinite continuances.
Discussion Items
- Appointment to Providence Public Building Authority: The committee considered the appointment of King Meet Branding (residence at 716 Mayor AR Street) as a member. Due to timing constraints that would prevent the appointment from being submitted to the full council by the next meeting (November 6, 2025), a motion was made to deny without prejudice, allowing the nominee to return at a regular scheduled meeting. The motion passed unanimously.
- Executive Session: The committee voted to combine items two through reading and enter executive session under R.I.G.L. 42-46-4 and 42-46-5(a) for discussion regarding the physical or mental health of a person. The motion was approved.
Key Outcomes
- Item Two: Approved during executive session.
- Items Three through Nine: Continued indefinitely.
- Motion to Adjourn: Passed.
Note: The transcript contains garbled sections; speaker names and some details are approximated. No public comments or consent calendar were identified.
Meeting Transcript
Yeah, I don't think it will have today though. Yeah, yeah, I thought it would happen. Welcome to the committee on finance regular meeting. Tuesday, October twenty-eighth, twenty twenty-five. Um it is just five thirty-one. Um we are joined this evening by our um student solicitor and is uh shaverity, thank you very much. Thank you. Um with us representing ten thirty-three and many of the matters that are before us. Um with that, Madam Hurt would you kindly read the role. Chairly mine. Present. Yeah. Santa. Let the record explain also joined by our speed in the auditing uh password. Okay. Uh item one. Can we read that into the record, please? We have patient comments, honor the mayor date September nineteenth, twenty twenty-five, informing the honorable members of the city council that pursuant to section three oh two B of the Providence Have Charter, nineteen eighty as an editing and public law as a matter of fact to fifty sections one through thirty-one, passion eighteen eighty-seven appointing the king, meet branding up one six to Mayor AR Street, Providence Rhode Island, oh two nine or six as a member of the Providence Public Building for a time to expire on January thirty third, two thousand and thirty. Okay, on this one, um committee members, I would like to ask um for a motion to deny without prejudice. This matter is actually the timing of it is such that um it will be out of time. Uh and we would uh before this meeting. It is five uh the time is such November fifth council meeting as November six, so we wouldn't be able to submit it. Um if we deny without prejudice, he can come back to us at a regular schedule meeting. So we'll have it on it. So maybe I have that motion to say um by chair to the second by Cosmone Sanchez, all in favor. I oppose I have a motion parents. Okay. Um now I'd like the motion that's a quiet to combine items two ways reading. Um ask the clerk to take us into executive session. Now I have that motion. Would you like to read that? Executive slash and question to R IGL forty two forty-six dash four and R I forty two dash forty-six dash five eight one specific to discussion regarding physical or mental health of a person, and we'll see to see other minutes of that executive session for the following matters. Okay, we have a motion by which chair tailor second five council member sent us to go into executive session on to the lines of nine and raise reading. All in favor, I had opposed that seven parents. So I know seriously we're walking out. Come to the next meeting with the black eye without nothing. I got to tell outside first morning. Okay, two seconds. Sorry. can't uh you know it's the opposite come to the next meeting with the black eye what happened nothing i gotta jump about side first marty okay well out the executive session okay to uh report to seal the amendment yes okay motion to seal the record sorry subject motion made by the vice chair the second by councilman sanchez all in favor aye and close as a records i see it now uh we need to report the vote that we took correct madam clerk yes okay so my records indicate and please correct me uh if i'm wrong we approved item two yes we continue to indefinitely items three four five six seven eight and nine do you have agreement on that everybody's in agreement okay um do i need to pass that yes motion to agree on what we voted on in the executive session made by vice chair tailor second by councilman says all in favor aye any opposed eyes have it carries um see there's no further business on this docket unless agenda so councilman tailor makes a motion we adjourn second by councilman sanchez all in favor aye any opposed ayes have it motion carry
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