MassVoter.com← Fall River City CouncilFall River · Committee on Finance · 6:00 p.m.
May 10, 2016
7 recorded votes, 0 with disagreement.
Sources: Minutes (PDF, in the agenda packet where the council approved them)
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Attendance
Present: Shawn E. Cadime, Richard Cabeceiras, Joseph D. Camara, Steven A. Camara, Pamela S. Laliberte, Stephen R. Long, Raymond A. Mitchell, Linda M. Pereira, Cliff A. Ponte
Absent: None
Every vote, in order
recorded with audio or video and transmitted through any medium.
To waive the rules to allow citizen input to exceed thirty minutes
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to waive the rules to allow citizen input to exceed thirty minutes.”
Jordan Silvia, Barnaby Street — City Government Maria F. Rego, 80 Edmund Street ~ Windows Antonio Teixeira, 887 Cherry Street - DCM
To take a five minute recess at 6:40 p.m
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to take a five minute recess at 6:40 p.m. On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to reconvene at 6:41 p.m.”
2 Discussion re: elimination of Sanitation Enterprise Fund
To forward the matter to the full Couneil for action
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to forward the matter to the full Couneil for action.”
3 Discussion of Emergency Medical Services Enterprise Fund
To forward the matter to the full Council for action
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to forward the matter to the full Council for action.”
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To forward the matter to the full Council for action
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to forward the matter to the full Council for action.”
5 Administration and Corporation Counsel discuss privatization of trash removal contract
To adjourn
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to adjourn, On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to reconvene to allow David Robbins, Contract Coordinator for Teamsters Local 251 and Attorney Elizabeth Wiens, Counsel for Teamsters Local 251, 121 Brightridge Avenue, East Providence, RI 02914 to speak regarding the privatization of the trash removal contract.”
To adjourn at 11:18 p.m
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to adjourn at 11:18 p.m.”
From the official minutes kept by the Fall River City Clerk (agendas and minutes). The minutes are scanned documents; we read them with text recognition, check every vote count against the councilors named, and quote the exact sentence for each vote. MassVoter never grades officials; votes and attendance are shown exactly as the minutes record them. Councilor photos: the nine 2026–2027 councilors from the City of Fall River's official councilor photos (Contact the Council page, fallriverma.gov); earlier councilors cropped from the 2024–2025 council group photo and the 2022–2023 council group photo (as published by Fall River Reporter, September 2022). Trott Lee: from his campaign Facebook page (facebook.com/trottlee4cc). Ricky Tith: from Fall River Reporter (April 2025). 2018–2019 councilors (Steven A. Camara, Stephen R. Long, Derek R. Viveiros) and the 2018–2019 group photo: from the City of Fall River’s FY2019 budget book. Richard Cabeceiras, Raymond A. Mitchell and the 2016–2017 group photo: Herald News photo by Jack Foley (January 2016), provided by the Fall River City Clerk. The 2020–2021 and 2022–2023 group photos: provided by the Fall River City Clerk.
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