MassVoter.com← Fall River City CouncilFall River · Committee on Finance · 6:00 p.m.
August 16, 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
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To waive the rules to allow the preseritation of citations
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to waive the rules to allow the preseritation of citations.”
Vice President Linda M. Pereira presented Kenneth C. Pacheco, Director of Buildings and Grounds a plague for' his dedicated service to the City of Fall River.
To take item number two out of order
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to take item number two out of order.”
2 Resolution — Discuss carport solar canopies with AMERESCO
To.referthe matter to the Administration
From the minutes
“Aftér sore discussion ahd on a further motion made seconded, it was unanimously voted to.referthe matter to the Administration.”
1 Transfers and appropriations
To refer order ##1 to the full Couneéil for action
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to refer order ##1 to the full Couneéil for action.”
To refer order #2 to the. full counail for action
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to refer order #2 to the. full counail for action.”
To refer order #3 to the full coufici for action:
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously voted to refer order #3 to the full coufici for action:.”
To adjourn at.8:15 p.m. List of documents and other exhibits used during the meeting:
From the minutes
“On a motion made and seconded, it was unanimously. voted to adjourn at.8:15 p.m. List of documents and other exhibits used during the meeting: — ,.”
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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